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Trends in Health Service Utilization After Enrollment in an Interdisciplinary Primary Care Clinic for Veterans with Addiction, Social Determinants of Health, or Other Vulnerabilities

Interdisciplinary primary care models can help reduce acute care use for individuals with histories of high emergency department use, homelessness, or substance use disorder.

Peer-Reviewed Article

February 2022

Care Management for Serious Mental Illness: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Care management interventions demonstrated improvements in mental health, quality of life, and patient satisfaction as well as reduced psychiatric inpatient days for people with serious mental illness.

Peer-Reviewed Article

February 2022

The Potential for Bias in Machine Learning and Opportunities for Health Insurers to Address It

Health insurers can implement strategies to address bias in machine learning and predictive modeling used in care management to help reduce health inequities and racial disparities.

Peer-Reviewed Article

February 2022

The ASAM Criteria Assessment Interview Guide

This free, paper-based version of the nationally-recognized ASAM Criteria assessment is available to clinicians to increase the quality and consistency of patient assessments and treatment recommendations for adults with substance use disorder.

Implementation Tool

February 2022

Recovery Coaching In and Out of Emergency Departments: an Overview of the Connecticut Community for Addiction Recovery’s (CCAR) Emergency Department Recovery Coaching Program

A hospital-based program showed that peer recovery coaching can be seamlessly integrated into the workflow of busy emergency departments to address the longer-term needs of people with substance use disorders.

Case Example

February 2022

Serious Illness Strategies: Driving Value in High-Need Populations

This guide describes key strategies for health plans, accountable care organizations, and health systems to improve care for people with serious illness.

Implementation Tool

February 2022

The Need for Data Transparency in Skilled Nursing Facilities

Policy recommendations to improve accuracy and accessibility of skilled nursing facility regulatory data.

Brief/Report

February 2022

Health Plan Perspectives on Using Medicare Advantage Supplemental Benefits to Support Family Caregivers

Highlights the efforts of two Medicare Advantage plans ― UCare in Minnesota and UPMC Health Plan in Pennsylvania ― to provide supplemental benefits to family caregivers.

Blog

January 2022

Negative Patient Descriptors Documenting Racial Bias In The Electronic Health Record

Medical notes about Black patients were more than twice as likely to contain stigmatizing language compared to white patients.

Peer-Reviewed Article

January 2022

Applying Research Evidence to Support Complex Care Program Design: Seven Lessons from the Field

Shares key themes from a panel discussion that explored how to translate research findings into decision making for complex care program design and improvements.

Blog

January 2022

Care Ecosystem: Supporting Dementia Patients and their Caregivers at Home through Phone-Based Guidance from Care Navigators

Profiles the Care Ecosystem program, developed at the University of California, San Francisco, that is using care team navigators to support older adults with dementia who are living at home and their caregivers.

Blog

January 2022

Rush Caregiver Intervention: Advancing Age-Friendly Health Systems by Prioritizing Family Caregivers

Profiles the Rush Caregiver Intervention at Rush University Medical Center, that is working to transform how the health care system interacts with family caregivers, while providing programs and services that support caregivers and their family members.

Blog

January 2022

Supporting Family Caregivers

Curates recent evidence behind programs that support family caregivers and explores practical tools and case studies to learn considerations for better supporting caregivers providing complex care.

Collection

January 2022

Methods and Emerging Strategies to Engage People with Lived Experience

Toolkit offers lessons for engaging people with lived experience in human services initiatives.

Implementation Tool

January 2022

ACO and Social Service Organization Partnerships: Payment, Challenges, and Perspectives

Accountable care organization leaders share perspectives on payment mechanisms used with social service organizations, challenges experienced, and the impacts of these partnerships.

Peer-Reviewed Article

January 2022

Mechanisms for Community Health Worker Action on Patient-, Institution-, and Community-Level Barriers to Primary Care in a Safety-Net Setting

Patients and community health workers (CHWs) share perspectives on the impact of CHW services provided within a primary care setting to address barriers to equitable care.

Peer-Reviewed Article

January 2022

Redesign of Opioid Use Disorder Screening and Treatment in the Emergency Department

A participatory design approach created a nurse-driven screening process to better identify and treat people with opioid use disorder in the emergency department.

Case Example

January 2022

Cost and Utilization Impacts of a Medicaid Managed Care Organization’s Behavioral Health Wraparound Program

Behavioral health wraparound program led to reduced utilization and costs in first month after an emergency department or behavioral health admission, but mixed results occurred in subsequent months.

Peer-Reviewed Article

January 2022

The Arizona Coalition Model: Home- and Community-Based Palliative Care for the Seriously Ill

Describes the core elements and evidence base behind a home- and community-based palliative care model that was designed by stakeholders to support the health needs of people with serious illness.

Implementation Tool

January 2022

Inpatient Addiction Medicine Consultation Service Impact on Post-Discharge Patient Mortality: A Propensity-Matched Analysis

Inpatient addiction medicine consultation services reduced 90-day mortality for patients with substance use disorder after a hospital discharge, but showed mixed results on acute care utilization.

Peer-Reviewed Article

January 2022

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Trends in Health Service Utilization After Enrollment in an Interdisciplinary Primary Care Clinic for Veterans with Addiction, Social Determinants of Health, or Other Vulnerabilities

Care Management for Serious Mental Illness: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

The Potential for Bias in Machine Learning and Opportunities for Health Insurers to Address It

The ASAM Criteria Assessment Interview Guide

Recovery Coaching In and Out of Emergency Departments: an Overview of the Connecticut Community for Addiction Recovery’s (CCAR) Emergency Department Recovery Coaching Program

Serious Illness Strategies: Driving Value in High-Need Populations

The Need for Data Transparency in Skilled Nursing Facilities

Health Plan Perspectives on Using Medicare Advantage Supplemental Benefits to Support Family Caregivers

Negative Patient Descriptors Documenting Racial Bias In The Electronic Health Record

Applying Research Evidence to Support Complex Care Program Design: Seven Lessons from the Field

Care Ecosystem: Supporting Dementia Patients and their Caregivers at Home through Phone-Based Guidance from Care Navigators

Rush Caregiver Intervention: Advancing Age-Friendly Health Systems by Prioritizing Family Caregivers

Supporting Family Caregivers

Methods and Emerging Strategies to Engage People with Lived Experience

ACO and Social Service Organization Partnerships: Payment, Challenges, and Perspectives

Mechanisms for Community Health Worker Action on Patient-, Institution-, and Community-Level Barriers to Primary Care in a Safety-Net Setting

Redesign of Opioid Use Disorder Screening and Treatment in the Emergency Department

Cost and Utilization Impacts of a Medicaid Managed Care Organization’s Behavioral Health Wraparound Program

The Arizona Coalition Model: Home- and Community-Based Palliative Care for the Seriously Ill

Inpatient Addiction Medicine Consultation Service Impact on Post-Discharge Patient Mortality: A Propensity-Matched Analysis