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| Ezetimibe 5 and 10 mg for Lowering LDL-C: Potential Billion-Dollar Savings With Improved Tolerability |
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| Lawrence Baruch, MD; Bhanu Gupta, MD; Sharon S. Lieberman-Blum, PharmD; Sanjay Agarwal, MD; and Calvin Eng, MD |
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| This retrospective study strongly suggests that splitting a 10-mg ezetimibe tablet yields a 5-mg dose that is clinically equivalent to the 10-mg dose. |
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| Health System Correlates of Receipt of Radiation Therapy After Breast-Conserving Surgery: A Study of Low-Income Medicaid-Enrolled Women |
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| Roger T. Anderson, PhD; Gretchen G. Kimmick, MD, MS; Fabian Camacho, MS; J. Timothy Whitmire, PhD; Carol Dickinson, CTR; Edward A. Levine, MD; Frank M. Torti, MD, MPH; and Rajesh Balkrishnan, PhD |
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| The Changing Effect of Managed Care on Physician Financial Incentives |
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| Hai Fang, PhD; and John A. Rizzo, PhD |
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| The effect of managed care on physician financial incentives to reduce services declined substantially from 2000-2001 to 2004-2005. |
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| Are Primary Care Physicians Ready to Practice in a Consumer-Driven Environment? |
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| Giridhar Mallya, MD; Craig Evan Pollack, MD, MHS; and Daniel Polsky, PhD |
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| National survey reveals primary care physicians have low knowledge of consumer-directed health plans and limited readiness to engage patients on issues of cost and quality. |
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| Bridges to Excellence—Recognizing High-Quality Care: Analysis of Physician Quality and Resource Use |
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| Meredith B. Rosenthal, PhD; Francois S. de Brantes, MBA; Anna D. Sinaiko, MPP; Matthew Frankel, MBA; Russell D. Robbins, MD, MBA; and Sara Young, MBA |
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| Physicians recognized as high quality by Bridges to Excellence performed better than their peers on claims based quality measures and, in some cases, on resource use measures. |
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| Medicare Capitation Model, Functional Status, and Multiple Comorbidities: Model Accuracy |
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| Katia Noyes, PhD, MPH; Hangsheng Liu, PhD; and Helena Temkin-Greener, PhD, MPH |
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| This study of financial implications of risk adjustment for Medicare payments to individuals with comorbidities and functional impairment demonstrates the importance of controlling for disability. |
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| Trends in Out-of-Pocket Healthcare Costs Among Older Community-Dwelling Medicare Beneficiaries |
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| Gerald F. Riley, MSPH |
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