Journal of general internal medicine
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Controlled Clinical Trial
Impact of a Low-Intensity Resource Referral Intervention on Patients' Knowledge, Beliefs, and Use of Community Resources: Results from the CommunityRx Trial.
Connecting patients to community-based resources is now a cornerstone of modern healthcare that supports self-management of health. The mechanisms that link resource information to behavior change, however, remain poorly understood. ⋯ NCT02435511.
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Potential protective effects of nonpharmacological treatments (NPT) against long-term pain-related adverse outcomes have not been examined. ⋯ NPT provided in the MHS to service members with chronic pain may reduce risk of long-term adverse outcomes.
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Teaching hospitals typically pioneer investment in new technology and cultivate workforce characteristics generally associated with better quality, but the value of this extra investment is unclear. ⋯ Among Medicare patients admitted for common medical conditions, as admission risk of mortality increased, the absolute mortality benefit of treatment at teaching hospitals also increased, though accompanied by marginally higher cost. Major teaching hospitals appear to return good value for the extra resources used.