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Â鶹ƵµÀStats: Services Used by People With High Expenses

Among people in the top 5 percent of healthcare expenditure tier in 2021, ambulatory events were the most common type of service, accounting for 38.5 percent of services used. Dental and other medical expenses were the least common, accounting for 3.7 percent. (Source: Â鶹ƵµÀMedical Expenditure Panel Survey Statistical Brief #556, .)

Today's Headlines:

• Â鶹ƵµÀViews: Arm in Arm With AcademyHealth, Â鶹ƵµÀIs Poised To Build on Successes in Health Services Research.
• Extending Medicaid Eligibility Reduced Number of Uninsured New Mothers.
• Â鶹ƵµÀAwards Additional Grants To Expand Access to Care for People With Long COVID.
• Register Now for Â鶹ƵµÀWebinars on Improving Primary Care, Advancing Patient and Workforce Safety.
• New Interactive Tool Allows Users To Explore Declines in Dental Visits During COVID-19.
• Highlights From ´¡±á¸é²Ï’s Patient Safety Network.
• Â鶹ƵµÀin the Professional Literature.

Â鶹ƵµÀViews: Arm in Arm With AcademyHealth, Â鶹ƵµÀIs Poised To Build on Successes in Health Services Research

Â鶹ƵµÀDirector Robert Otto Valdez, Ph.D., M.H.S.A., cites examples of how ´¡±á¸é²Ï’s ongoing work in data and analytics, health systems research and practice improvement continue to resonate with patients, health system leaders, clinicians, researchers, caregivers and others in the third and final installment in a series of blog posts commemorating ´¡±á¸é²Ï’s 35th anniversary. The blog post also highlights ´¡±á¸é²Ï’s participation in AcademyHealth’s recent , and Dr. Valdez expresses his enthusiasm to work with new AcademyHealth president and CEO Aaron Carroll, M.D., M.S. Access the full blog post, along with previous anniversary blogs: Â鶹ƵµÀCommemorates 35 Years as an Independent Science Agency and Continuing a 35-Year History, Â鶹ƵµÀPursues Vital Pathways to Improve Patient Care. To receive all blog posts, .

Extending Medicaid Eligibility Reduced Number of Uninsured New Mothers

Extending Medicaid eligibility during the COVID-19 pandemic significantly reduced the number of uninsured new mothers, according to a new AHRQ-funded study has found. The policy, which allowed beneficiaries to keep Medicaid coverage beyond the usual 60 days after childbirth, led to a 40 percent reduction in uninsurance among new mothers, according to the study, which was published in JAMA Health Forum. Despite reducing uninsurance, the extended coverage did not change rates of postpartum doctor visits, contraceptive use, breastfeeding or depression at about four months after birth, researchers found. The authors said their results highlight the immediate benefits of extended Medicaid but suggested more research is needed to understand its long-term effects. Access the .

Â鶹ƵµÀAwards Additional Grants To Expand Access to Care for People With Long COVID

New grant awards from Â鶹ƵµÀwill fund three multidisciplinary Long COVID clinics to implement and evaluate models for delivering comprehensive, coordinated, person-centered care to people with Long COVID and support primary care clinicians in Long COVID management. The investments expand ´¡±á¸é²Ï’s Long COVID Care Network, established in September 2023, to expand access to care for people with Long COVID, particularly underserved, rural, vulnerable and minority populations that are disproportionately impacted by the condition. It is part of the Biden-Harris administration's whole-of-government effort to accelerate scientific progress and provide support and services to individuals with Long COVID. The new grantees are University of Southern California; University of California, San Francisco; and Johns Hopkins University. Access more information about the Â鶹ƵµÀLong COVID Care Network, sign up for and learn about ´¡±á¸é²Ï’s overall efforts to address the condition.

Register Now for Â鶹ƵµÀWebinars on Improving Primary Care, Advancing Patient and Workforce Safety

• July 11, 4 to 5 p.m. ET: . Presenters from a variety of Practice-Based Research Networks (PBRNs) will share examples from their own experience on ways that PBRNs contribute to improving the delivery of primary care. This is the second webinar in the PBRN Learning Series, sponsored by ´¡±á¸é²Ï’s National Center for Excellence in Primary Care Research, which highlights the work of a variety of PBRNs and includes information on managing and growing PBRNs, building new PBRNs, and demonstrating the value and impact of their work.
• July 16, noon to 1 p.m. ET: . The National Action Alliance for Patient and Workforce Safety, established by Â鶹ƵµÀon behalf of HHS, will highlight strategies to reduce burden, enhance efficiency and improve safety using engineering and human-centered design principles. The National Action Alliance is a public-private collaboration that strives to improve safety across all healthcare settings. Experts at ECRI, the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the American Medical Association will offer tools and strategies for making safety a cornerstone of process design. Learn more about previous and future webinars, access tools and resources for advancing patient and workforce safety and sign up for the National Action Alliance .

New Interactive Tool Allows Users To Explore Declines in Dental Visits During COVID-19

AHRQ's latest interactive data visualization allows users to explore how dental visits were substantially reduced early in the COVID-19 pandemic compared with prepandemic trends. The tool offers data insights on dental service utilization, expenditures and both office and emergency department dental visits. Data can be explored by age, year and other factors. The data visualization is based on two Â鶹ƵµÀstatistical briefs from ´¡±á¸é²Ï’s  and . Access the data visualization, Dental Visits and Costs During the Pandemic, and additional Â鶹ƵµÀdata visualizations.

Highlights From ´¡±á¸é²Ï’s Patient Safety Network

´¡±á¸é²Ï’s highlights journal articles, books and tools related to patient safety. Articles featured this week include:

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Review additional new publications in PSNet’s , including recent cases and commentaries and ´¡±á¸é²Ï’s WebM&M (Morbidity and Mortality Rounds on the Web).

Â鶹ƵµÀin the Professional Literature

Horizontal and vertical equity and public subsidies for private health insurance in the U.S. Jacobs PD, Hill SC. Soc Sci Med 2024 Jun;351:116994. Epub 2024 May 18. Access the on PubMed®.

Provider-to-provider telehealth for sepsis patients in a cohort of rural emergency departments. Mohr NM, Young T, Vakkalanka JP, et al. Acad Emerg Med 2024 Apr;31(4):326-38. Epub 2024 Jan 24. Access the on PubMed®.

Risk of bleeding with concomitant use of oral anticoagulants and aspirin: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Ghule P, Panic J, Malone DC. Am J Health Syst Pharm 2024 Jun 11;81(12):494-508. Access the on PubMed®.

Multidisciplinary proactive e-consults to improve guideline-directed medical therapies for patients with diabetes and chronic kidney disease: an implementation study. Rikin S, Bauman L, Arnaoudova I, et al. BMJ Open Diabetes Res Care 2024 May 6;12(3):004155. Access the on PubMed®.

Narrative comments about pediatric inpatient experiences yield substantial information beyond answers to closed-ended CAHPS survey questions. Quigley DD, Elliott MN, Slaughter ME, et al. J Pediatr Nurs 2024 May-Jun;76:e126-e31. Epub 2024 Mar 2. Access the on PubMed®.

Improving outcomes in emergency general surgery: construct of a collaborative quality initiative. Hemmila MR, Neiman PU, Hoppe BL, et al. J Trauma Acute Care Surg 2024 May;96(5):715-26. Epub 2024 Jan 8. Access the on PubMed®.

Kidney transplantation in patients with tuberous sclerosis complex. Goedken AM, Ismail WW, Barrett LDG, et al. Pediatr Transplant 2024 Jun;28(4):e14765. Access the on PubMed®.

Patterns of interactions among ICU interprofessional teams: a prospective patient-shift-level survey approach. Ratliff HC, Yakusheva O, Boltey EM, et al. PLoS One 2024 Apr16;19(4):e0298586. Access the on PubMed®.