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Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev
September 2025
University of Iowa Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center, Iowa City, IA, United States.
Background: Comorbidities may affect incidence and management of cancers. The burden of comorbidities among AIAN cancer patients and survivors is unknown.
Methods: Using SEER-Medicare, we identified AIAN people aged 66+ years diagnosed with female breast, lung, and colorectal cancers (2000-2019), with at least one year of Medicare coverage prior to diagnosis.
Ear Nose Throat J
September 2025
Department of Primary Care, Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, The Ohio University Diabetes Institute, Athens, OH, USA.
Background: Hearing loss is a significant public health issue in the United States, affecting an estimated 72.9 million people, or 22% of the population. Despite its prevalence and clinical impact, insurance coverage for hearing-related interventions remains inconsistent.
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September 2025
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
Importance: Hospitals have reported growing difficulty in discharging patients in a timely manner, often citing bottlenecks in postacute care. Medicare Advantage plans, now the dominant form of Medicare coverage, may contribute to these delays due to administrative and network constraints, yet national evidence is lacking.
Objective: To quantify changes in hospital length of stay for Medicare Advantage vs traditional Medicare beneficiaries.
JAMA Netw Open
September 2025
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
J Am Geriatr Soc
September 2025
Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies and Healthforce Center at UCSF, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA.
The National Dementia Workforce Study was designed to improve our understanding of the individuals and systems who care for people with dementia, but designing and implementing such a study is challenging due to the large number of patient care organizations, clinical and direct care roles, and locations in which care is provided. Specifically, developing a probability sample of organizations and staff caring for people with dementia is a complex and difficult process. While there are national sampling frames available for federally certified nursing homes (i.
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