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  • Come see us at the AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting, part 1

      05/30/2019
      Austin Frakt

    My colleagues and I have a lot going on at the AcademyHealth ARM this year. Below is a list of posters to be presented by or sessions that include me or (far more often) my colleagues from the Boston University School of Public Health Ph.D in Health Services Research program and from the Partnered Evidence-Based Policy Resource Center at the VA Boston Healthcare System.

    Sunday, June 2

    12:15PM ET Poster Session

    Yingzhe Yuan: Use of Integrated Health Record Viewer Reduces Duplicate Imaging – A-229

    Taeko Minegishi: Opioid Discontinuation in the Veterans Health Administration – A-351

    Monday, June 3

    8:00AM ET Poster Session 

    Aigerim Kabdiyeva: Physician Turnover and Productivity in the Veterans Health Administration – B-309

    Yingzhe Yuan: Veteran-Directed Care: Supporting the Family Workforce and Seriously Ill Patients – B-114

    Megan Price: The Relationship between Routine Follow-up Appointments and Access to Primary Care – B-336

    Kyle Barr: A New Method to Evaluate Clinician Productivity: Population Health-Based Approach – B-280

    Taeko Minegishi: The Trade-Off between Productivity and Quality of Care in Primary Care Services – B-318

    1:15PM ET Poster Session

    Kevin Griffith: Changes in Health Care Access, Behaviors, and Self-Reported Health Among Low-Income U.S. Adults: Through the Fourth Year of the Affordable Care Act – C-58

    Kevin Griffith:  Changes in Coverage, Access to Care, and Disparities in 2017 – C-174

    Yevgeniy Feyman: Poor Quality in HIV/AIDS Care in High Income Countries, Where Does the U.S. Stand? – C-356

    Tuesday, June 4

    8:00AM ET

    Austin Frakt (Chair): Publication of the Year: Effect of Peer Comparison Letters for High-Volume Primary Care Prescribers in Quetiapine in Older and Disabled Adults: A Randomized Clinical Trial – Marriott Marquis Washington D.C., Independence E

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    Kevin Griffith (Chair): Estimating the Effects of Various Health Insurance Programs and Policies – Walter E. Washington Convention Center Room 147A

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