However, despite decades of utilization and reporting, it is still difficult to give any firm clinical recommendation in this setting.
In the mid 1980s concern about over utilization of CEA and reports of excessive perioperative stroke morbidity and mortality prompted the initiation of several multicenter, randomized trials designed to evaluate the efficacy of CEA.
The information collected included sociodemographic data, prescribed medications, health services utilization, and self-report of comorbidity, cognitive impairment, depression, social support, quality of life, activities of daily living (ADL), nutritional status, and frailty, which were assessed with the following instruments.
Finally, we constructed a series of logistic regression models to assess associations between USC and insurance status and the utilization of preventative services (Table 2) and reports of unmet health care need (Table 3), while simultaneously controlling for potential confounders.
The goal of this report is to describe the utilization and self reported efficacy of six CAM therapies (acupuncture, chiropractic manipulation, massage therapy, yoga, prolotherapy and herbs/supplements) by chronic pain patients receiving opioid therapy.
Some clinicians reported an implicit or explicit expectation that they updated the problem list, but none had received specific guidance or training on effective problem list utilization, and several reported uncertainty about ownership of and responsibility for the problem list.
9 Two studies were medication utilization reviews and reported the associated total costs of the medications concerned 18, 19 (Table 2).
Main outcome measures included health care utilization and expenditures, parent reports of parent- and child-quality of life [QOL (SF-36®, CPCHILD©, PedsQL™)], and family-centered care (MPOC-20®).
In addition, perceptions regarding data quality, benefits, utility, adoption, utilization and impact on workflow of reporting prior to and after the intervention will be collected during baseline and at 12-months after implementation of each form intervention.
Hospitals and primary care clinics report growing rates of utilization and high probabilities of acute events for the elderly.
