The American journal of managed care
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To evaluate the clinical and economic impact of positive airway pressure (PAP) among patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). ⋯ Among OSA patients in real-world practice, PAP users had significantly lower hospitalization risks and all-cause healthcare costs.
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Accurately measuring the quality of care that ambulatory care physicians provide is an important endeavor. Current measurement instruments, while offering useful information about care systems, remain suboptimal for the measurement of individual physician performance. We offer the quality care opportunities model of ambulatory care physician performance measurement, which may address issues with current instruments while also offering useful information about efficiency and productivity for individual physicians and delivery systems from a patient-centered perspective.
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To identify barriers encountered by case managers in hospitals, home care agencies, and nursing homes in the transition of the obese patient from the hospital to the community. ⋯ Transition of the obese patient presents major challenges. Further exploration is needed to identify the extent of problems and make policy recommendations toward a solution.