Patients could not switch treatment areas once assigned, and providers only treated patients in the area to which the providers were assigned (other configurations are possible).The model demonstrates that there are settings where resources can be diverted to the FT without compromising care for higher acuity patients in the MTA.
Other benchmark data will be provided upon receiving data of the population of patient assigned to providers in the control group.
Compared to patients assigned to providers with 0 5 years of experience caring for HIV patients in the KP system, patients assigned to providers with >16 years of experience were more likely to initiate cART (HR = 1.31, 95% CI: 1.02 1.68).
The AirAsia statement said family members would be assigned care providers and an emergency call centre would be set up for those seeking information.
Patients at two clinics received both the point-of-care PRC and were assigned to providers receiving the enhanced PrRC.
As of index date, most patients were assigned to providers with the following characteristics: 12 or more years of HIV experience (55.3%) and HIV panel sizes greater than 100 (57.0%) (Table 2).
Our results suggest that within KP, ARV-naïve HIV patients assigned to providers with longer experience treating HIV patients may benefit from more appropriate pharmacotherapy such as earlier cART initiation.
Because the majority of Medicaid enrollees in the Philadelphia region are enrolled in managed care organizations which require an assigned primary care provider, patients should see that provider for all their primary care needs within a given period, which mitigates this underestimation.
In contrast, patients that do not visit the provider except in case of emergency will not be assigned to the provider under the Medicare Shared Savings Program, because emergency care is not part of the definition of 'primary care services' upon which assignment is based [ 42].
Planning process characteristics emphasized by the respondents included: assembling an interdisciplinary team, getting buy-in from administrators and clinical leaders, fitting the new process into providers' existing workflow, and providing value to providers assigned to key roles.
