Recent Work
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Understanding Data Requirements of Retrospective Studies
This study characterize the types and patterns of data usage from electronic health records for clinical research.
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SimCoach Evaluation: A Virtual Human Intervention to Encourage Service-Member Help-Seeking for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Depression
This report describes RAND Corporation researchers’ assessment of SimCoach, a computer program featuring a virtual human that speaks and gestures in a video game-like interface, designed to encourage service members, especially those with signs or symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder or depression, to seek help to improve their psychological health, and found that, if SimCoach development is continued, greater attention to clinical processes and outcomes is needed so that the program can have its intended impact.
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Nudging Guideline-Concordant Antibiotic Prescribing: A Randomized Clinical Trial
This study found that displaying poster-sized commitment letters in examination rooms decreased inappropriate antibiotic prescribing for acute respiratory infections, and that the effect of this simple, low-cost intervention is comparable in magnitude to costlier, more intensive quality-improvement efforts.
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