Monday, June 27, 2022 | The Latest Research, Commentary, And News From Health Affairs
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Type 2 Diabetes
An estimated 37.3 million Americans have type 2 diabetes, an increase of more than 40 percent from a decade ago.
The July 2022 issue of Health Affairs, to be published next week, is devoted to papers discussing how we can prevent and improve care and outcomes for type 2 diabetes.
Despite a strong base of evidence supporting care management activities designed
to assist patients, Thomas Bodenheimer and Rachel Willard-Grace note significant barriers to wider use of these programs in primary care.
David Jiang and coauthors propose the adoption of new quality measures and modernization of existing ones, arguing for alignment of measures with the six
domains of quality as defined by the National Academy of Medicine.
Leonard Egede and coauthors conduct a systematic review of studies of nonmedical interventions for diabetes and find that “interventions with targeted, multicomponent designs that combine both medical and nonmedical approaches” can
improve outcomes.
Maria Alva and coauthors analyze national survey data and determine that 13.5 percent of the population has prediabetes, representing a 4.8 percentage point increase between 2010 and 2020.
Sabrina Wang and coauthors analyze alternative payment models for diabetes care and conclude that “the fragmented US health care system, with its myriad payers and payment models, is structurally at odds with the need for care continuity for chronic conditions such as diabetes.”
Today in Health Affairs
Forefront, Bruce Leff and Arnold Milstein write that although the Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver applied only to fee-for-service Medicare, hospitals and health systems have taken it as a sign that Hospital at Home care is entering the mainstream of health service delivery.
Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil discusses a session he recentl moderated at the Aspen Ideas Festival, featuring former Department of Health and Human Services Secretaries Donna Shalala and Alex Azar, entitled “HHS Secretaries: Looking Ahead, Looking Back.”
Charles Silver considers the history of the War on Drugs to predict the tactics that abortion opponents may use to prevent abortion access for pregnant people.
When we're not reading Health Affairs, we're looking at the headlines to keep track of how the health care and health policy space is changing. Here are some of the stories that caught our attention today.
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