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The Wharton Health Care Management
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In the Journal of Health Economics, Rachel Werner and colleagues find that hospitals that integrate with skilled nursing facilities see an increase in Medicare payments, and a reduction in rehospitalization rates. Research Brief
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In JAMA Internal Medicine, Elinore Kaufman, Douglas Wiebe, and colleagues find that states with strong gun laws had lower rates of firearm-related homicide and suicide than states with less regulation, with potential spillover effects across state lines.
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In JAMA, Amol Navathe and colleagues examine hospital savings and quality results for the first year of mandatory bundled payment for hip and knee surgery. They find that larger, higher-volume, and non-profit hospitals are more likely to achieve savings.
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In Milbank Quarterly, Lawton R. Burns and Mark Pauly provide a critical evaluation of recent value-based reforms, and argue that this latest version of health system transformation appears to be driven more by aspiration than evidence.
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As the Trump administration implements cuts to the 340B Drug Pricing Program, a study in The New England Journal of Medicine by Sunita Desai, a Penn LDI PhD alumna, and Michael McWilliams raises questions about the consequences of the program.
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The Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International, will recognize Patricia D'Antonio and Connie Ulrich for their contributions to nursing research, and for the impact their work has made on the nursing profession. News
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Two new perspective pieces examine how payment reform interacts with health disparities - one by Robert Burke and Said Ibrahim in JAMA, and the other by Krisda Chaiyachati, Jay Bhatt, and Jane Zhu in Annals of Internal Medicine.
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Benjamin Ukert and Elena Andreyeva, both post-docs at Wharton, are studying the decline in Australia's firearm deaths from 1997-2013 to determine how much of the decline can be attributed to the country's gun law reforms introduced in 1996.
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The wide range of expertise at Penn was on full display at the 7th annual Penn health policy retreat, as faculty discussed pressing issues like changes to the Medicaid program, payment reform, improving care delivery, and more. This event was co-sponsored by Penn LDI and the Department of Medical Ethics & Health Policy.
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Dr. Mandell is Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at Penn, where he also directs the Center for Mental Health Policy and Services Research. He studies the best ways to organize, finance and deliver services to individuals with psychiatric and developmental disabilities. The goal of his research is to improve the quality of care individuals with autism receive in their communities.
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The Use of Individual Provider Performance Reports by US Hospitals,
Journal of Hospital Medicine, February 2018, Joshua A. Rolnick and Kira L. Ryskina
Citywide Cluster Randomized Trial to Restore Blighted Vacant Land and Its Effects on Violence, Crime, and Fear,
PNAS, February 2018, Charles C. Branas, Eugenia South, Michelle C. Kondo, Bernadette C. Hohl, Philippe Bourgois, Douglas J. Wiebe and John M. MacDonald
Temporal Trends in Incidence, Sepsis-Related Mortality, and Hospital-Based Acute Care After Sepsis,
Critical Care Medicine, March 2018, Nathaniel Meyer, Michael O. Harhay, Dylan S. Small, Hallie C. Prescott, Kathryn H. Bowles, David F. Gaieski; Mark E. Mikkelsen
Implementation Strategies to Improve Cervical Cancer Prevention in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review,
Implementation Science, February 2018, Lauren G. Johnson, Allison Armstrong, Caroline M. Joyce, Anne M. Teitelman, and Alison M. Buttenheim
Comparative Effectiveness of Initial Treatment at a Trauma Center vs Neurosurgery-Capable Non-Trauma Center for Severe, Isolated Head Injury,
Journal of the American College of Surgeons, March 2018, Elinore J. Kaufman, Ashkan Ertefaie, Dylan S. Small, Daniel N. Holena, M. Kit Delgado
A Qualitative Exploration of Co-location as an Intervention to Strengthen Home Visiting Implementation in Addressing Maternal Child Health,
Maternal and Child Health Journal, February 2018, Katherine S. Kellom, Meredith Matone, Aderinola Adejare, Frances K. Barg, David M. Rubin, Peter F. Cronholm
The Association Between Obesity and Disability in Survivors of Joint Surgery: Analysis of the Health and Retirement Study,
British Journal of Anaesthesia, January 2018, Timothy G. Gaulton, Lee A. Fleisher, Mark D. Neuman
Exploring Opportunities to Prevent Cirrhosis Admissions in the Emergency Department: A Multicenter Multidisciplinary Survey,
Hepatology Communications, January 2018, Shazia Mehmood Siddique, Meghan Lane-Fall, Matthew J. McConnell, Neha Jakhete, James Crismale, Stefanie Porges, Vandana Khungar, Shivan J. Mehta, David Goldberg, Zhiping Li, Thomas Schiano, Linda Regan, Clinton Orloski, and Judy Shea
The Impact of AIDS Treatment on Savings and Human Capital Investment in Malawi,
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, January 2018, Victoria Baranov and Hans-Peter Kohler
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WHO WE ARE
Penn's center for research, policy analysis, and education on the medical, economics and social issues that influence how health care is organized, financed, managed and delivered across the U.S.
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