March 26, 2023
Winter 2023 Highlights from the CDRP (December 2022-March 2023)
The CommunityRx-Dementia trial team, led by Stacy Tessler Lindau and Elbert Huang, completed trial enrollment of 340 caregivers of patients with dementia–one of the largest trials of its kind
Tamara Konetzka and colleagues completed a longitudinal study of over 15,000 nursing homes linking higher rates of staff vaccination with lower rates of COVID-19 illness and death among residents
The Health Care Payment and Learning Action Network’s Health Equity Advisory Team (HEAT), cochaired by Marshall Chin, developed guidelines for social risk adjustment for an alternative payment model
Grants
Elizabeth Tung was awarded a C3EN Pilot Award for Legal Care to Mitigate Health Risks for Caregivers of Violently-Injured Youth
Valerie Press received an NIH K24 grant for SMART POR: Supporting and Mentoring Across Respiratory Topics in Patient Oriented Research to build tools to optimize and standardize data collection in patients with COPD
Awards
Valerie Press received the 2023 Excellence in Research Award from the Society for Hospital Medicine
Monica Peek received a UChicago Diversity Leadership Award for commitment to fostering justice and equality
Promotions
Stacy Tessler Lindau named Catherine Lindsay Dobson Professor in the Departments of Ob/Gyn and Medicine-Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at the University of Chicago
Diane S. Lauderdale was named the Louis Block Distinguished Service Professor of Public Health Sciences at the University of Chicago
Neda Laiteerapong was named an associate editor of Diabetes Care
In the Media
John Schneider discussed HIV care, physician-patient relationships, and solutions to medical racism on TheBodyPro podcast
Monica Peek and William F Parker discussed physician advocacy on the Clinical Excellence podcast
Neda Laiteerapong discussed takeaways for clinicians and care teams from the National Clinical Care Commission Report to Congress on diabetes, health equity, and access to health care in the February 20, 2023 Diabetes Care on Air podcast
Prachi Sanghavi’s study of the effect of fracking on cardiovascular disease was featured by UChicago Medicine
Neda Laiteerapong and colleagues were cited in the New York Times
Two papers from the CDRP’s FARA project were the top ten most read Milbank Quarterly articles of 2022! Read the papers: Estimating the Impact of Medicaid Expansion and Federal Funding Cuts on FQHC Staffing and Patient Capacity and Health Centers and Value-Based Payment: A Framework for Health Center Payment Reform and Early Experiences in Medicaid Value-Based Payment in Seven States
UChicago Pritzker medical student Michael Sun’s podcast on racial bias in electronic healthcare records is the #3 most listened-to Health Affairs podcast of 2022–read the paper, coauthored with Monica Peek and Elizabeth Tung
Arshiya Baig was interviewed on how group visits can improve medication adherence by the NIDDK
Elbert Huang and Arshiya Baig discussed racial disparities and diabetes on ABC7 Eyewitness News on 3/9 at 10PM
Selected Publications
Medicare Part D Coverage of Antiobesity Medications – Challenges and Uncertainty Ahead. Baig K, Dusetzina SB, Kim DD, Leech AA. N Engl J Med. 2023 Mar 16;388(11):961-963. doi: 10.1056/NEJMp2300516. Epub 2023 Mar 11. PMID: 36912541
Latent class analysis of medical mistrust and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among adults in the United States just prior to FDA emergency use authorization. Lamuda PA, Azar A, Taylor BG, Balawajder EF, Pollack HA, Schneider JA. Vaccine. 2023 Mar 13:S0264-410X(23)00263-3. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2023.03.016. Online ahead of print. PMID: 36933985
Data-driven classification of health status of older adults with diabetes: The diabetes and aging study. Huang ES, Liu JY, Lipska KJ, Grant RW, Laiteerapong N, Moffet HH, Schumm LP, Karter AJ. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2023 Mar 8. doi: 10.1111/jgs.18310. Online ahead of print. PMID: 36883732
Hospitalisations for cardiovascular and respiratory disease among older adults living near unconventional natural gas development: a difference-in-differences analysis. Trickey KS, Chen Z, Sanghavi P. Lancet Planet Health. 2023 Mar;7(3):e187-e196. doi: 10.1016/S2542-5196(23)00009-8. PMID: 36889860
Two concurrent randomized controlled trials of CommunityRx, a social care intervention for family and friend caregivers delivered at the point of care. Abramsohn EM, De Ornelas M, Borson S, Frazier CR, Fuller CM, Grana M, Huang ES, Jagai JS, Makelarski JA, Miller D, Schulman-Green D, Shiu E, Thompson K, Winslow V, Wroblewski K, Lindau ST. Res Sq. 2023 Mar 1:rs.3.rs-2464681. doi: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-2464681/v1. Preprint. PMID: 36909590
Integrating Medical and Social Care to Reduce Diabetes Inequities: Lessons from the Bridging the Gap Program. Williams JS, Walker RJ, Peek ME, Chin MH. J Gen Intern Med. 2023 Mar 2. doi: 10.1007/s11606-022-07977-5. Online ahead of print.
COVID-19 Reveals Longstanding Health Inequities and Discrimination Against Americans With Disabilities. Johnston KJ, Pollack HA. Med Care. 2023 Feb 1;61(2):55-57. doi: 10.1097/MLR.0000000000001810. Epub 2022 Dec 12. PMID: 36630556
Understanding the role of financial capacity in the delivery of opioid use disorder treatment. Guerrero EG, Amaro H, Kong Y, Khachikian T, Marsh JC. BMC Health Serv Res. 2023 Feb 16;23(1):166. doi: 10.1186/s12913-023-09179-z. PMID: 36797752
2022 Clinical Practice Guideline Update for Diabetes Management of Chronic Kidney Disease: An Important First Step, More Work to Do. Saunders M, Laiteerapong N. Ann Intern Med. 2023 Mar;176(3):417-418. doi: 10.7326/M22-3635. Epub 2023 Jan 10. PMID: 36623285
Care Quality for Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in the Readmission Penalty Era. Rojas JC, Chokkara S, Zhu M, Lindenauer PK, Press VG. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2023 Jan 1;207(1):29-37. doi: 10.1164/rccm.202203-0496OC. PMID: 35916652
What Should Antiracist Payment Reform Look Like? Singletary KA, Chin MH. AMA J Ethics. 2023 Jan 1;25(1):E55-65. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2023.55. PMID: 36623305
Identifying gender differences in risk profiles and in opioid treatment outcomes in Los Angeles County. Amaro H, Kong Y, Marsh JC, Khachikian T, Guerrero EG. Eval Program Plann. 2023 Jan 16;97:102240. doi: 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2023.102240. Online ahead of print. PMID: 36702006
Demographic and HIV Status Diversities as Mechanisms of Social Integration and Segregation Among Black Sexual and Gender Minorities Enrolled in a Community-Based Social Network Intervention. Young LE, Tang JL, Schneider JA. Soc Networks. 2023 May;73:51-61. doi: 10.1016/j.socnet.2022.12.006. Epub 2023 Jan 4. PMID: 36684039
Association of Hospital Quality and Neighborhood Deprivation With Mortality After Inpatient Surgery Among Medicare Beneficiaries. Diaz A, Lindau ST, Obeng-Gyasi S, Dimick JB, Scott JW, Ibrahim AM. JAMA Netw Open. 2023 Jan 3;6(1):e2253620. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.53620. PMID: 36716028
Association of Staffing Instability With Quality of Nursing Home Care. Mukamel DB, Saliba D, Ladd H, Konetzka RT. JAMA Netw Open. 2023 Jan 3;6(1):e2250389. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.50389. PMID: 36626170
Association of COVID-19 Vaccination Rates of Staff and COVID-19 Illness and Death Among Residents and Staff in US Nursing Homes. Sinha S, Konetzka RT. JAMA Netw Open. 2022 Dec 1;5(12):e2249002. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.49002. PMID: 36580329