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Debacle: Trump’s Response to the COVID-19 Emergency
(2020-08-26)
Why did the United States, ranked as the world's best prepared country, fail so dramatically in its response to the COVID-19 pandemic? Part of the reason is the backdrop of a fragmented and largely market-driven health ...
“Making Moves” in a Cardiac ICU: An Epistemology of Rhythm, Data Richness, and Process Certainty
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc.University of Chicago Press, 2020-09)
Ethnographers of clinical rationality often assume that the goal of biomedical practice is to eliminate uncertainty to produce definitive diagnoses. In this ethnography of an academic cardiac intensive care unit (CCU) in ...
How well do doctors know their patients? Evidence from a mandatory access prescription drug monitoring program
(Stata PressWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2020-09)
Many opioid control policies target the prescribing behavior of health care providers. In this paper, we study the first comprehensive state‐level policy requiring providers to access patients’ opioid history before making ...
Examining Insomnia During Intensive Treatment for Veterans with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Does it Improve and Does it Predict Treatment Outcomes?
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc.Dell, 2020-08)
Previous research has demonstrated that sleep disturbances show little improvement with evidence- based psychotherapy for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD); however, sleep improvements are associated with PTSD treatment ...
A copula‐based approach for dynamic prediction of survival with a binary time‐dependent covariate
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc.CRC Press, 2021-10-15)
Dynamic prediction methods incorporate longitudinal biomarker information to produce updated, more accurate predictions of conditional survival probability. There are two approaches for obtaining dynamic predictions: (1) ...
Bayesian hierarchical models for high‐dimensional mediation analysis with coordinated selection of correlated mediators
(RoutledgeWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2021-11-30)
Clinical validation of the parent‐report Toronto Obsessive–Compulsive Scale (TOCS): A pediatric open‐source rating scale
(Western Psychological ServicesWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2021-12)
BackgroundThere is a need to develop a multipurpose obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) measure that is useful for cross disorder research and as a reliable clinical rating scale. The current study examined the psychometric ...
Optimal diagnostic test allocation strategy during the COVID‐19 pandemic and beyond
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc., 2022-01-30)
Timely diagnostic testing for active SARS‐CoV‐2 viral infections is key to controlling the spread of the virus and preventing severe disease. A central public health challenge is defining test allocation strategies with ...