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Autor:
Nicole Jepeal, Daren Anderson, Tamim Ahmed, Giuseppe Maci, Victor G. Villagra, Anthony Porto, Bridget Teevan, Emil Coman
Publikováno v:
Health Affairs. 37:2031-2036
Specialty care accounts for a significant and growing portion of year-over-year Medicaid cost increases. Some referrals to specialists may be avoided and managed more efficiently by using electronic consultations (eConsults). In this study a large, m
Autor:
Nora Horick, Victor G. Villagra, Kevin Houck, Stephanie B. Wheeler, Gary H. Lyman, Jeffrey Peppercorn, Julia Rabin
Publikováno v:
Cancer. 123:2506-2515
BACKGROUND Rural US women experience disparities in breast cancer screening and outcomes. In 2006, a national rural health insurance provider, the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA), eliminated out-of-pocket costs for screening m
Publikováno v:
The American journal of managed care. 25(3)
To measure Connecticut's Affordable Care Act qualified health plan enrollees' health insurance literacy (HIL) by race, ethnicity, and language preference.Statewide landline and cell phone telephonic survey.Geographically balanced cohort that oversamp
Publikováno v:
Journal of General Internal Medicine. 25:1116-1122
Diabetes outcomes are worse for underserved patients from certain ethnic/racial minority populations. Telephonic disease management is a cost-effective strategy to deliver self-management services and possibly improve diabetes outcomes for such patie
Autor:
Adane F. Wogu, Gary H. Lyman, Victor G. Villagra, Jeffrey Peppercorn, Stephanie B. Wheeler, Kevin Houck, Nina Beri
Publikováno v:
Breast cancer research and treatment. 153(3)
Women living in rural areas of the U.S. face disparities in screening mammography and breast cancer outcomes. We sought to evaluate utilization of mammography, awareness of screening guidelines, and attitudes towards screening among rural insured U.S
Autor:
Victor G. Villagra, Tamim Ahmed
Publikováno v:
Journal of Consumer Policy. 29:263-278
Disease management programs provide highly personalized self- management support to consumers afflicted with chronic illnesses. Program interventions include the provision of health information, ongoing motivation, and support for behavior change, ad
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Disease Management. 8:86-92
Diabetes disease management programs (DDMP) are proliferating, but their overall impact in improving quality of care using Health Employer Data and Information Set (HEDIS) quality metrics has not been well studied. Furthermore, DDMPs are usually ongo
Autor:
Don Fetterolf, Kenneth Mcdonough, John Haughton, Joel Hoffman, David Plocher, Matt Stiefel, Victor G. Villagra, Karen Fitzner, Warwick Charlton, Warren Todd, Michael S. Cousins, Ian Duncan, David S. Krause, Kathe Fox, Edward Eisenberg, Jaan Sidorov, Iver Juster, David Wennberg, Allen Woolf
Publikováno v:
Disease Management. 7:191-201
Disease management (DM) is rapidly becoming an important force in the late 20th and early 21st century as a strategy for managing the chronic illness of large populations. Given the increasing visibility of DM programs, the clinical, economic and fin
Autor:
Victor G. Villagra
Publikováno v:
Health Affairs. 23:W4-281
Managed care introduced disease management as a replacement strategy to utilization management. The focus changed from influencing treatment decisions to sup- porting self-care and compliance. Disease management rendered operational many ele- ments o
Autor:
Joe V. Selby, Jeff Beich, Dennis P. Scanlon, Patricia Salber, Victor G. Villagra, Jennifer Elston Lafata
Publikováno v:
The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Safety. 29:491-499
Article-at-a-Glance Background Increasing prevalence, rising costs, and persisting deficiencies in quality of care for chronic diseases pose economic and policy challenges to providers and purchasers. Disease management (DM) programs may address thes