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Cost-effectiveness of a Digital Health Intervention for Acute Myocardial Infarction Recovery
Acute myocardial infarction is a common cause of hospital admissions, readmissions, and mortality worldwide. Digital health interventions that promote self-management, adherence to guideline-directed therapy, and cardiovascular risk reduction may improve health outcomes in this population.
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Changes in Emergency Department Encounters for Vomiting After Cannabis Legalization in Colorado
Cannabis hyperemesis syndrome is an emerging clinical issue associated with cannabis use. Legalization of cannabis has led to an increase in vomiting-related illnesses in health care settings.
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Opioid-Related Deaths Before and After COVID-19 Stay-At-Home Orders in Los Angeles County
A new Schaeffer Center study partnered with the LA County Medical Examiner-Coroner’s Office to investigate whether the stay-at-home orders impacted opioid-related fatal overdoses.
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Citizenship Status and Mortality Among Latinos: Analyses of the US National Health Interview Survey Linked Mortality Files
Forty million Latino adults reside in the United States, including eleven million who do not possess US citizenship. Noncitizens disproportionately experience poverty, segregation, and inadequate access to healthcare—pathogenic mechanisms that adversely impact health.
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Lower-Risk Cannabis Use Guidelines (LRCUG) for Reducing Health Harms From Non-Medical Cannabis Use: A Comprehensive Evidence and Recommendations Update
Cannabis use is common, especially among young people, and is associated with risks for various health harms. Some jurisdictions have recently moved to legalization/regulation pursuing public health goals. Evidence-based ‘Lower Risk Cannabis Use Guidelines’ (LRCUG) and recommendations were previously developed to reduce modifiable risk factors of cannabis-related adverse health outcomes; related evidence has evolved substantially since.
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Prevalence and Distribution of High-Risk Prescription Opioid Use in the United States, 2011–2016
Abstract Purpose Despite the efforts of many stakeholders to reduce the risk of opioid overdose, there is limited information on the prevalence of high-risk prescription opioid use in the US. Methods Descriptive analysis of a nationally representative 5% random sample of anonymized, longitudinal, individual-level prescription claims from IQVIA LRx between January 1, 2011 and December […]
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Assessment of Recreational Cannabis Dispensaries’ Compliance With Underage Access and Marketing Restrictions in California
A new study in JAMA Pediatrics coauthored by USC Schaeffer Center Senior Fellow Rosalie Liccardo Pacula evaluates 700 licensed cannabis dispensaries in California to determining if they are properly screening minors from entering retail locations and being exposed to cannabis marketing and products.
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Spatial Transmission of the Economic Impacts of COVID-19 Through International Trade
While most of the attention to COVID-19 is being focused on the physical transmission of the virus across country borders, there is also an analogous spatial transmission of economic impacts through international trade and global supply chains. This paper presents an analysis of the extent to which the economic shocks of mandatory closures to mitigate […]
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Clinical Outcome Measure Crosswalks in Alzheimer’s Disease: A Systematic Review
A key challenge in studies that model outcomes, disease progression, and cost-effectiveness of existing and emerging dementia treatments is the lack of conversion criteria to translate, or ‘crosswalk’, scores on multiple measurement scales.
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