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The Wharton Health Care Management
Alumni Association
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The latest brief from Penn LDI and CHERISH reviews the status and characteristics of prescription drug monitoring programs, their use, and evidence of their effectiveness.
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A JAMA Internal Medicine study finds that clinicians did not change their ordering of lab tests when Medicare allowable fees were displayed in the electronic health record.
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LDI's four-part ACA Impact Series summarizes the effects of the Affordable Care Act on key areas of our health and economic systems. Clifford Marks, Janet Weiner and Dan Polsky presented the findings on the Health Affairs blog.
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In a Perspective in the New England Journal of Medicine, Joshua Rolnick, David Asch, and Scott Halpern suggest that an advance directive should be understood primarily as a clinical document, rather than a legal one. Blog
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The winning paper in Epidemiology mapped the activities of urban youth over a 24-hour period to quantify the risk factors for violent assault. News
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Three Senior Fellows, Zachary Meisel, Jeanmarie Perrone, and Michael Ashburn, participated in Mayor James Kenney's task force, which issued its final report and recommendations in May.
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Guest speaker Lisa Simpson, CEO of AcademyHealth, presented longitudinal data on sources of funding and funding levels for health services research, and what the future may hold. Blog
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Penn LDI's Summer Minority Undergraduate Research Program (SUMR), now in its 18th year, introduces underrepresented minorities to the field of health services research. Twenty undergraduate scholars from 13 schools comprise this year's cohort. Look for them at AcademyHealth's Annual Research Meeting in New Orleans. eMagazine
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A 1989 NEJM study by the late Alan Hillman and colleagues Mark Pauly and Joseph Kerstein was one of the first to demonstrate that physicians respond to financial incentives. 50@50
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Discriminative Accuracy of Physician and Nurse Predictions for Survival and Functional Outcomes 6 Months after an ICU Admission - JAMA; Michael E. Detsky, Michael O. Harhay, Dominique F. Bayard, Aaron M. Delman, Anna E. Buehler, Saida A. Kent, Isabella V. Ciuffetelli, Elizabeth Cooney, Nicole B. Gabler, Sarah J. Ratcliffe, Mark E. Mikkelsen, Scott D. Halpern
Comparative Effectiveness of Prostate Cancer Treatments for Patient-Centered Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis- Medicine; Ravishankar Jayadevappa, Sumedha Chhatre, Yu-Ning Wong, Marsha N. Wittink, Ratna Cook, Knashawn H. Morales, Neha Vapiwala, Diane K. Newman, Thomas Guzzo, Alan J. Wein, Stanley B. Malkowicz, David I. Lee, Jerome S. Schwartz, and Joseph J. Gallo
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Join Penn LDI at AcademyHealth
Attending the AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting in New Orleans next week? Stop by the LDI booth #106 in the exhibit hall and check out all our presentations and posters!
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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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