The Latest Research, Commentary, And News From Health Affairs
Thursday, August 11, 2021
Dear John,
Research in the new August issue investigated infection control and possible applications of telehealth technology in primary care offices.
Airborne Transmission In Outpatient Settings
In an article in the August issue of Health Affairs, Hannah Neprash and coauthors explored rates of potential airborne disease transmission in medical office
settings.
They quantified whether "exposed patients (that is, those seen in a medical office after a patient with influenza-like illness) were more likely to return with a similar illness in the next two weeks compared with nonexposed patients seen earlier in the day."
They found that patients exposed to influenza-like illness in a primary care setting were more likely than nonexposed patients to revisit with a similar illness within two weeks.
According to the authors, "Compared with the baseline rate of return visit with
influenza-like illness for patients treated before an influenza-like illness visit, this change represented a 31.8 percent increase." For more articles on Primary Care, visit our website.
Also, Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, Elizabeth Fowler, Meena Seshamani, and Daniel Tsai from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) discuss how the incoming leaders at CMS have taken stock of lessons learned from the first ten years of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation’s operation and have begun to chart a path for the next ten years of value-based care.
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