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Use of a Computerized Decision Support System for Primary and Secondary Prevention of Work-Related MSD Disability
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Springer Science + Business Media, Inc., 2005-09)
The present study evaluates the effectiveness of a decision support system used to evaluate and control physical job stresses and prevent re-injury of workers who have experienced or are concerned about work-related ...
A shared random effects model for censored medical costs and mortality
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2006)
In this paper, we propose a model for medical costs recorded at regular time intervals, e.g. every month, as repeated measures in the presence of a terminating event, such as death. Prior models have related monthly medical ...
Semiparametric inferences for association with semi-competing risks data
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2005)
In many biomedical studies, it is of interest to assess dependence between bivariate failure time data. We focus here on a special type of such data, referred to as semi-competing risks data. In this article, we develop ...
Early Postpartum Parental Preoccupation and Positive Parenting Thoughts: Relationship with Parent–Infant Interaction
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc.Harper & Row, 2013-03)
Parenting behaviors and parent–infant emotional bonding during the early postpartum months play a critical role in infant development. However, the nature and progression of parental thoughts and their relationship with ...
Educational Advantage and Unintended Pregnancy.
(2015)
Unintended pregnancies constitute nearly half of total pregnancies in the United States. The concept of unintended pregnancy is considered essential to demographers, public health practitioners and scholars, and other ...
Methods for comparing center‐specific survival outcomes using direct standardization
(Wiley, 2014-05-30)
The evaluation of center‐specific outcomes is often through survival analysis methods. Such evaluations must account for differences in the distribution of patient characteristics across centers. In the context of censored ...
Three Essays on Finance and Health Care Organizations.
(2013)
This dissertation includes three essays that examine the interactions between financial arrangements and product market outcomes in the health care industry theoretically and empirically. Integrating finance and health ...
Multiple imputation of missing covariates for the Cox proportional hazards cure model
(John Wiley and Sons, Inc, 2016-11-20)
Public Trust in Health Information Systems: A Strong Fabric or the Emperor’s New Clothes?
(2014)
This dissertation evaluates a model of factors that influence public trust in health
information sharing in the context of a broadly defined health system. In the first of three
analytical papers, I consider characteristics ...