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USC Receives Award to Improve Diversity and Efficiency of Alzheimer’s...
A USC initiative aimed at increasing access and reducing inequalities in clinical trials for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) has received a three-year, $3.5 million gift from Gates Ventures. Launched last...
View ArticleAmericans More Likely to Choose Vegan Food if Labeled ‘Healthy’ and...
Study highlights: Study participants were far more likely to choose food that is labeled “healthy” and/or “sustainable” than food labeled “vegan” or “plant-based.” The effect was most pronounced among...
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Want Safer Prescribing? Provide Doctors with a Plan for Helping Patients in Pain
Physicians who are notified that a patient has died of a drug overdose are more judicious in issuing controlled substances if the notification includes a plan for what to do during subsequent patient...
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USC Schaeffer and Aspen Institute Advisory Panel Provide Tips for Improving...
The COVID pandemic demonstrated the extraordinary dedication and resilience of the nation’s hospitals. But it also exacerbated longstanding financial pressures, workforce stability and shifts in the...
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Study: Dementia Diagnoses Increased after Medicare Risk Adjustment
Dementia diagnoses increased after Medicare Advantage (MA) began calculating plan payments to account for Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, according to a recent USC study. In 2020, the...
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This Common Medication Could Save Half a Million Children’s Lives Each Year....
Health care providers in developing countries know that oral rehydration salts (ORS) are a lifesaving and inexpensive treatment for diarrheal disease, a leading cause of death for children worldwide —...
View ArticleUSC Announces New Leonard D. Schaeffer Institute for Public Policy &...
Leonard and Pamela Schaeffer’s $59 million gift establishes a new institute that will address multiple public policy issues with evidence-based research and educate new generations of scholars to help...
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Medicare Part D Plans Increased Restrictions on Drug Coverage
Medicare Part D plans significantly increased restrictions on prescription drugs, excluding more compounds from coverage or subjecting more of them to review before patients could access the...
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USC Schaeffer Center Study Finds Few Hospitals Promoting Potentially...
Fifty million Americans are on a financing plan to pay off medical or dental bills, with one-quarter of those bearing some interest. Increasingly, medical payment products (MPPs) – which include...
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USC-Led Study Leverages Artificial Intelligence to Predict Risk of Bedsores...
Bedsores—also known as pressure injuries—are the fastest rising hospital-acquired condition, according to the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research in Quality, and as a result have become the second...
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