Are patients assigned a new patient concierge more likely to proceed with treatment?

Are old-old patients with major depression more likely to relapse than young-old patients during continuation treatment with escitalopram?

BACKGROUND Escitalopram has shown efficacy and tolerability in the prevention of relapse in elderly patients with major depressive disorder (MDD). This post-hoc analysis compared time to relapse for young-old patients (n = 197) to that for old-old patients (n = 108). METHOD Relapse prevention: after 12-weeks open-label treatment, remitters (MADRS ≤12) were randomised to double-blind treatment...

Are generous people more likely to vote?

Policymakers in the Unites States and many other countries encourage charitable giving through various subsidies. In the United States, for instance, charitable contributions can be deducted from taxable income making the price of giving inversely related to the marginal tax rate. However, the net effects of such subsidies can be better understood by exploring the relationship between generosit...

Food Taxes: How Likely Are Likely Effects?

Improving Population Health Management Strategies: Identifying Patients Who Are More Likely to Be Users of Avoidable Costly Care and Those More Likely to Develop a New Chronic Disease.

OBJECTIVE To explore using the Patient Activation Measure (PAM) for identifying patients more likely to have ambulatory care-sensitive (ACS) utilization and future increases in chronic disease. DATA SOURCES Secondary data are extracted from the electronic health record of a large accountable care organization. STUDY DESIGN This is a retrospective cohort design. The key predictor variable, P...

Patients treated with a tumor necrosis factor-α inhibitor are more likely to develop extrapulmonary tuberculosis

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