Did the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program Increase or Decrease Mortality?
A note on conflicting studies
Research & Policy Updates
New Penn CICADA Research Center Focuses on Elder Health Care
5-Year P30 Grant Funds Recruitment and Development of Minority HSR Scientists
Penn LDI’s Top 10 Reads of 2018
What caught our readers’ attention
Cost-effectiveness of two opioid use disorder treatments
A direct comparison
Improving End of Life Care – Ask the Nurses
Quality care linked to nurse work environment
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
Strengthening Medicaid Waiver Evaluations
A call for incorporating randomization
LDI Implementation Science Working Group Expands Into Major Initiative
Seven Years After Founding, High Level of Interest and Results Drive Growth
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
Transportation and Medicaid: Breaking Through the Gridlock
Too early to cut benefits