José J. Escarce

TL;DR: It is suggested that the race and sex of a patient independently influence how physicians manage chest pain.

TL;DR: It is found that, overall, immigrants have lower rates of health insurance, use less health care, and receive lower quality of care than U.S. populations; however, there are differences among subgroups.

TL;DR: The use of medications such as antihistamines and NSAIDs, which are taken intermittently to treat symptoms, was sensitive to co-payment changes, and other medications--antihypertensive, antiasthmatic, antidepressant, antihyperlipidemic, antiulcerant, and antidiabetic agents--also demonstrated significant price responsiveness.

TL;DR: Survival varied substantially according to diagnosis, even after adjustment for age and co-existing conditions, and it was longest for those with chronic lung disease, those with dementia, and those with breast cancer, while patients at for-profit, larger, outpatient, or newer hospices lived longer after enrollment than those in other types of hospice programs.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated the effectiveness of telemonitoring in reducing 180-day all-cause readmissions among a broad population of older adults hospitalized with heart failure in 6 academic medical centers in California.