LDI Health Economist

HSR 'State of the Union' Report Highlights Funding and National Coordination Issues

Penn Participants Discuss the 'Very Imposing Challenges' for Scientists Who Study Health Care Delivery

LDI Implementation Science Working Group Expands Into Major Initiative

Seven Years After Founding, High Level of Interest and Results Drive Growth

Mountain Top Behavioral Economics: 2018 Roybal Retreat Photo Page

Ten Dozen Penn and CMU Scientists Gather for 10th Anniversary in the Poconos

LDI's Polsky, Werner and Domchek Named to National Academy of Medicine

Cited for 'Major Contributions to the Advancement of the Medical Sciences'

Health Policy$ense Blog

Cost-effectiveness of two opioid use disorder treatments

A direct comparison

When Increases in Coverage Increase Out-of-Pocket Spending—The Case of Autism Insurance Mandates

Improving End of Life Care – Ask the Nurses

Quality care linked to nurse work environment

LDI In The News

Scott Halpern-Led Penn Research Team Wins $11 Million PCORI Grant

Funds Largest-Ever Study of Smoking Cessation Strategies for Lung Cancer Screening Patients

Penn Nursing's Rising Guru of Women's Mobile Health

Anne Teitelman's 'EverHealthier Women' and 'NowIknow' Apps Gain More National Attention

Ezekiel Emanuel's Assessment of the Insurance Exchanges' Health

Washington Post Op-Ed Piece Says They're Doing Surprisingly Well

LDI Research Summaries

American Journal of Public Health

California’s Senate Bill 277: Local Health Jurisdictions’ Experiences With the Elimination of Nonmedical Vaccine Exemptions

Journal of Intensive Care Medicine

Intensive Care Unit Capacity Strain and Outcomes of Critical Illness in a Resource-Limited Setting: A 2-Hospital Study in South Africa

Addiction Science & Clinical Practice

Closing the gaps in opioid use disorder research, policy and practice: conference proceedings

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association

Using a Decision Support Algorithm for Referrals to Post-Acute Care

Issue & Data Briefs

Changes to Racial Disparities in Readmission Rates After Medicare’s Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program Within Safety-Net and Non-Safety-Net Hospitals

Hospital-based financial incentives may exacerbate disparities

Detecting BS in Health Care

Disclosure: This presentation contains no BS. Moreover, it was not composed in any facility manufacturing BS.

Cost Impact of The Transitional Care Model for Hospitalized Cognitively Impaired Older Adults

Use of advanced practice nurses can lower postacute care use and costs

Calendar

Fri Jan 18

Fri, January 18

LDI Event, Policy Seminar

LDI Health Policy Seminar with Kara Odom Walker, MD, MPH, MSHS

Talk Title TBA

Jan. 18, 2019 12:00pm to 1:20pm

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Colonial Penn Center Auditorium, 3641 Locust Walk

Fri Jan 25

Fri, January 25

LDI Event, Research Seminar

LDI Research Seminar with David Grabowski, PhD

Talk Title TBA

Jan. 25, 2019 12:00pm to 1:20pm

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Colonial Penn Center Auditorium, 3641 Locust Walk

LDI Event Report

News From Elsewhere

Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology

ICU Physicians' Stethoscopes Have Highest Level of Bacterial Contamination

Normal Cleaning Methods Found Only 'Partially Successful'
Advisory Board

National Health Measures Report: Hawaii is Healthiest State

Massachusetts is Number Two
CNN

U.S. Gun Deaths Hit Highest Level in 40 Years

CDC Data Also Shows 2017 as Highest Number of Gun Suicides in 18 Years
National Academies Press

Understanding Disparities in Access to Genomic Medicine: Proceedings of a Workshop

The Gap Between High-Tech, High-Cost Therapies and Low-Income Populations That Need Them

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LDI Health Policy Seminar with Kara Odom Walker, MD, MPH, MSHS

LDI Research Seminar with David Grabowski, PhD

Research to Improve the Nation's Health System:

Theory driven.

Data tested.

Policy focused.