Many patients offered, and those already participating in, care management are unaware of what care management is and that they have participated. Objectives: Care management (CM) in primary care aims ...

Personal factors explained significant variance in five of six participation outcomes (R² 13%–48%), while environmental factors added ~11% for satisfaction and ~11% for GPS-based activity. Perceived ...

Before a new treatment becomes available, researchers must recruit hundreds or thousands of patients to participate in clinical research trials. But finding these patients is often difficult. Many ...

Five (31%) of 16 patients were age ≥80 years, 11 (69%) had nonmetastatic breast cancer, and 14 (88%) were treated in an academic setting. Six (38%) of 16 caregivers were in the 50-59 age group, 10 (63 ...

Introduction The diversity of treatment options for diabetic retinopathy (DR) and the high uncertainty about the benefits and ...

Clinical trial attrition can be detrimental to clinical outcomes, patient well-being and the financial health of research programs. Clinical trial dropout rates, which range from 15% to 40%, greatly ...

Findings from the VA’s Diuretic Comparison Project show pragmatic trial designs can achieve strong provider participation when burden is minimized and patient care remains the primary focus.

The ongoing fight against COVID-19 has highlighted significant health care delivery disparities. Proximity to both academic research centers and provider clusters has become an even more important ...

This article is part of a Health Affairs Forefront short series, “Enhancing Value By Evaluating Health Care Services.” The series discusses ways to extend the use of tools for clinical and economic ...