This month PRECISIONheor would like to highlight the work and expertise of Senior Director Steve Sison.

Steve specializes in:

• Analytic programming, methodology, and best practices
• Knowledge, feasibility assessment, and use of retrospective healthcare real-world data (RWD) in HEOR research including administrative claims, electronic medical records, public health survey and registry data, international health care data sources, medical coding ontologies
• Data management (extract, transformation, and loading) and governance (data access usage agreements and compliance)

Steve recently co-authored two insightful publication including:

• • Effect of discontinuing nebulizer maintenance bronchodilator therapy during the COVID-19 pandemic: A retrospective cohort study of elderly COPD patients residing in Long-Term Care facilities 
    • During the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a heightened concern of SARS-CoV-2 transmission among patients on nebulizers, causing some health care providers to discontinue nebulized maintenance therapy with long-acting bronchodilators among COPD patients in long-term care (LTC) facilities. The study objective was to compare health outcomes between COPD patients who discontinued nebulizer maintenance therapy versus those who did not.
      
  • US national payers analysis of the incremental healthcare burden among patients with treatment-resistant depression 
    • Treatment-resistant depression (TRD) affects an estimated 20-30% of patients with Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) and represents a critical unmet need in the management of the disease. This study compared the healthcare burden of patients with TRD versus non-TRD MDD covered by Commercial, Medicaid, and Medicare health plans.

To speak with Steve directly, contact him at steve.sison@precisionvh.com.