Background: Adjustment for comorbidities is common in performance benchmarking and risk
prediction. Despite the exponential upsurge in the number of articles citing or comparing …

Objectives To conduct a systematic review of studies reporting on the development or
validation of comorbidity indices using administrative health data and compare their ability to …

As artificial intelligence (AI) applications become more pervasive, it is critical to understand
how knowledge workers with different levels and types of experience can team with AI for …

Importance Prior pandemics have disparately affected socially vulnerable communities.
Whether regional variations in social vulnerability to disasters influence COVID-19 outcomes …

Context Critical access hospitals (CAHs) play a crucial role in the US rural safety net.
Current policy efforts have focused primarily on helping these small, isolated hospitals …

Importance To our knowledge, no effective treatments exist for Alzheimer disease, and new
molecules are years away. However, several drugs prescribed for other conditions have …

Objective To determine the impact of the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing (HVBP) program—
the US pay for performance program introduced by Medicare to incentivize higher quality …

Objective: Using a comprehensive inpatient electronic medical record, we sought to develop
a risk-adjustment methodology applicable to all hospitalized patients. Further, we assessed …

Psoriasis is a common chronic inflammatory disorder, primarily of the skin. Despite an aging
population, knowledge of the epidemiology of psoriasis and its treatments among the elderly …

Importance For patients discharged from the emergency department (ED), timely outpatient
in-person follow-up is associated with improved mortality, but the effectiveness of telehealth …