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COVID-19 Testing in Schools: Perspectives of School Administrators, Teachers, Parents, and Students in Southern California
School-based COVID-19 testing is a potential strategy to facilitate the safe reopening of schools that have been closed due to the pandemic. This qualitative study assessed attitudes toward this strategy among four groups of stakeholders: school administrators, teachers, parents, and high school students.
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Do Liberal U.S. State Policies Maximize Life Expectancy?
Declines in U.S. life expectancy since 2014 have rightly garnered widespread attention from researchers (e.g., Woolf & Schoomaker, 2019), the media (e.g., Christensen, 2019), and policymakers (e.g., H.R. 7035, 2018), while less attention has been paid to the dynamic trends in life expectancy across U.S. states.
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Patient Frailty and Functional Use of Hemodialysis Vascular Access: A Retrospective Study of the US Renal Data System
Despite the high prevalence of frailty among dialysis patients, it is unknown whether frailty is associated with dialysis vascular access failure. This study examined the association between frailty and functional use of vascular access.
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Incidence of Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy and Other Neovascular Sequelae at 5 Years Following Diagnosis of Type 2 Diabetes
Research Design and Methods: Insured patients aged ≥18 years with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes and 5 years of continuous enrollment were identified from a nationwide commercial claims database containing data from 2007 to 2015. The incidences of PDR, TRD, and NVG were computed at 5 years following the index diagnosis of type 2 diabetes. Associations between these outcomes and demographic, socioeconomic, and medical factors were tested with multivariable logistic regression.
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Low Numeracy is Associated with Poor Financial Well-Being Around the World
A new Schaeffer Center analyses suggest that low numeracy is much more common in low-income countries, thus potentially threatening the financial well-being of the world’s poorest.
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Establishing a Research Informatics Program in a Public Healthcare System: A Case Report with Model Documents
As part of implementing an enterprise research governance framework, leaders in the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services established a research informatics program, including research data warehousing. The strategy is focused on high-priority, patient-centered research that leverages the investment in health IT and an efficient, sustained contribution from 2 affiliated Clinical Translational Sciences Institutes.
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Discrimination and Hypertension among Older African Americans and Caribbean Blacks: The Moderating Effects of John Henryism
Discrimination is a major contributor to health disparities between Black and White older adults. Although the health effects of discrimination are well established, less is known about factors that may intervene in the discrimination-health connection, such as coping strategies.
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Estimation of the Share of Net Expenditures on Insulin Captured by US Manufacturers, Wholesalers, Pharmacy Benefit Managers, Pharmacies, and Health Plans From 2014 to 2018
Recent US media and policy attention on insulin affordability has focused on the role of manufacturers in setting prices; however, the role of other drug distribution intermediaries in determining prices has received less attention.
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Untangling the Price of Insulin
Despite its discovery nearly 100 years ago, insulin’s list price has been going up, not down. New Schaeffer Center research analyzes the flow of money across all distribution system participants—manufacturers, wholesalers, pharmacies, pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), and health plans.
