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This retrospective cohort study evaluated baseline demographics, clinical characteristics, and treatment patterns of US patients with asthma who newly initiated single- or multiple-inhaler triple therapy.

Naturally occurring variations in appointment frequencies do not appear to have a major impact on clinical outcomes, but they significantly affect waiting times.

Medicare coverage did not necessarily lead to increased diagnosis of chronic conditions.

This analysis uses claims and electronic health records from 2021 to examine racial and ethnic variations in immune-mediated inflammatory diseases in the United States.

This article compares cardiovascular disease risk management in community clinics during the COVID-19 pandemic among patients for whom primary care was delivered mostly in person vs mostly virtually.

This study found that the dramatic shift from face-to-face posthospital transitional care to telehealth did not affect 30-day readmission or mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Patients’ motivations for telehealth use require further investigation to develop appropriate policies.

Compared with in-person appointments, virtual care appointments were associated with higher completion rates, shorter time to appointment, increased hemoglobin A1c documentation, and decreased blood pressure documentation.

The American Journal of Managed Care provides insights into the latest news and research in managed care across multimedia platforms.

The authors developed and validated an accurate, well-calibrated, easy-to-implement COVID-19 hospitalized patient deterioration index to identify patients at high or low risk of clinical deterioration.