Mindfulness meditation for chronic pain: systematic review and meta-analysis

L Hilton, S Hempel, BA Ewing, E Apaydin… - Annals of behavioral …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Background Chronic pain patients increasingly seek treatment through mindfulness
meditation. Purpose This study aims to synthesize evidence on efficacy and safety of …

[HTML][HTML] A systematic review of St. John's wort for major depressive disorder

EA Apaydin, AR Maher, R Shanman, MS Booth… - Systematic reviews, 2016 - Springer
Background This systematic review evaluated St. John's wort (SJW) for the treatment of
Major Depressive Disorder (MDD). The objectives of this review are to (1) evaluate the …

[HTML][HTML] Measuring success in health care value-based purchasing programs: findings from an environmental scan, literature review, and expert panel discussions

CL Damberg, ME Sorbero, SL Lovejoy… - Rand health …, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Value-based purchasing (VBP) refers to a broad set of performance-based payment
strategies that link financial incentives to health care providers' performance on a set of …

Meditation for posttraumatic stress: Systematic review and meta-analysis.

L Hilton, AR Maher, B Colaiaco, E Apaydin… - … , Practice, and Policy, 2017 - psycnet.apa.org
Objective: We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis that synthesized evidence
from randomized controlled trials of meditation interventions to provide estimates of their …

Efficacy of mindfulness meditation for smoking cessation: A systematic review and meta-analysis

MA Maglione, AR Maher, B Ewing, B Colaiaco… - Addictive …, 2017 - Elsevier
Background Smokers increasingly seek alternative interventions to assist in cessation or
reduction efforts. Mindfulness meditation, which facilitates detached observation and paying …

Health care costs and opioid use associated with high-impact chronic spinal pain in the United States

PM Herman, N Broten, TA Lavelle, ME Sorbero… - Spine, 2019 - journals.lww.com
Study Design. A descriptive analysis of secondary data. Objective. The aim of this study was
to estimate health care costs and opioid use for those with high-impact chronic spinal (back …

Care for veterans with mental and substance use disorders: good performance, but room to improve on many measures

KE Watkins, HA Pincus, S Paddock, B Smith… - Health …, 2011 - healthaffairs.org
In 2006 the Department of Veterans Affairs commissioned the Altarum Institute and the
RAND Corporation to do an evaluation of its mental health treatment system. We found that …

[BOOK][B] Outcome measures for effective teamwork in inpatient care

ME Sorbero, DO Farley, S Mattke, SL Lovejoy - 2008 - books.google.com
Addresses one step in the process of moving from teamwork training to teamwork practices
that improve outcomes of care: identifying outcomes that are most likely to be affected as …

Characteristics of chiropractic patients being treated for chronic low back and neck pain

PM Herman, M Kommareddi, ME Sorbero… - Journal of manipulative …, 2018 - Elsevier
Objectives Chronic low back pain (CLBP) and chronic neck pain (CNP) are the most
common types of chronic pain, and chiropractic spinal manipulation is a common …

Episode-based performance measurement and payment: making it a reality

PS Hussey, ME Sorbero, A Mehrotra, H Liu… - Health …, 2009 - healthaffairs.org
Proposals to use episodes of care as a basis for payment and performance measurement
are largely conceptual at this stage, with little empirical work or experience in applied …