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Changes in Spending, Risk Selection, and the Response of Frontline Clinicians: Understanding Performance Mechanisms in the Medicare Shared Savings Program
(2021)
Confronted by an increasingly expensive and fragmented health care system, public and private payers have established a series of reforms designed to lower costs and improve quality. A leading example is the Medicare Shared ...
Design and Testing Novel Wearable Instrumentation for Assessing Pelvic Floor Function and Exploring Continence Mechanisms
(2020)
Urinary incontinence (UI) and fecal incontinence (FI) affect 20% of North Americans, with a higher prevalence in women and the elderly. The prevention and treatment of these conditions unfortunately leaves much to be ...
Severe Illness Associated With Respiratory Viruses: Burden and Temporal Dynamics
(2020)
Acute lower respiratory tract infections (ALRI) are a substantial source of global morbidity and mortality, particularly among young children. Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and influenza are consistently observed to ...
Identifying Optimal Anemia Management Practices in Hemodialysis
(2019)
Optimal anemia management strategies for end-stage kidney disease patients treated with hemodialysis are unknown, with controversies over how best to utilize erythropoiesis-stimulating agents (ESA) and intravenous iron to ...
Hsp70 chaperone Proteins and their Interactions with Various Drugs as Studied by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance.
(2011)
Chaperone proteins and their cochaperones are perhaps one of the most intriguing systems for investigation. Ubiquitous in nature, they can be found in every organism and that perhaps is the reason that their sequence shows ...
Case studies in bias reduction and inference for electronic health record data with selection bias and phenotype misclassification
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2022-12-10)
Two-sample test with g-modeling and its applications
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2023-01-15)
Bayesian Learning of Structured Covariances, with Applications to Cancer Data
(2023)
The identification of scientifically-driven dependence structures is of interest across many biomedical domains. Examples include tree- and graph-based structures manifesting themselves in precision medicine and genomic ...
The impact of community midwives on maternal healthcare utilization
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc.Advancing Partners & Communities, 2023-03)
Globally 800 women die every day from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth. One of the major reasons for high maternal mortality ratios in many developing countries is the low proportion of births attended ...
The local health impacts of natural resource booms
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc.World Bank, 2023-02)
This paper uses novel micro-data on natural resources and administrative health data in Brazil to study how economic booms in minerals affect health at birth. By implementing a reduced-form estimation of shift-share research ...