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Financial Incentives and Other Nudges Do Not Increase COVID-19 Vaccinations among the Vaccine Hesitant
Can financial incentives, public health messages and other behavioral nudges –approaches deployed by state and local governments, employers, and health systems – increase SARS-CoV-2 vaccination rates among the vaccine hesitant in the US?
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Trends in Cannabis Involvement and Risk of Alcohol Involvement in Motor Vehicle Crash Fatalities in the United States, 2000‒2018
This study assesses To assess cannabis and alcohol involvement among motor vehicle crash (MVC) fatalities in the United States.
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Do Early-Life Social, Behavioral, and Health Exposures Increase Later-Life Arthritis Incidence?
New Schaeffer Center research shows that experiencing two or more childhood socioeconomic disadvantages is indirectly associated with osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis.
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Patient and Physician Perspectives On Engaging in Palliative and Healthcare Trials: A Qualitative Descriptive Study
Researchers are encountering increasing challenges in recruiting participants for palliative and healthcare research. This paper aims to understand challenges to and methods for engaging physicians and seriously ill patients and their caregivers in research studies.
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Sex Differences in the Association Between Metabolic Dysregulation and Cognitive Aging: The Health and Retirement Study
Dysregulation of some metabolic factors increases the risk of dementia. It remains unclear if overall metabolic dysregulation, or only certain components, contribute to cognitive aging and if these associations are sex specific.
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The Costs of Developing Treatments for Alzheimer’s Disease: A Retrospective Exploration
In over 26 years of research and development in Alzheimer’s disease, only six novel drugs have reached FDA approval.
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Early Transplantation Maximizes Survival in Severe Acute-On-Chronic Liver Failure: Results of a Markov Decision Process Model
The researchers create a Markov decision process model to maximize overall survival among patients listed for liver transplantation with grade three acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF-3) within the first 7 days of listing
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Claims-Based Measures of Prescription Opioid Utilization: A Practical Guide for Researchers
Given the increased attention to the opioid epidemic and the role of inappropriate prescribing, there has been a marked increase in the number of studies using claims data to study opioid use and policies designed to curb misuse.
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Measuring the COVID-19 Mortality Burden in the United States
A team from the USC Schaeffer Center undertook a full assessment of the first year of the pandemic’s mortality burden by measuring years of life lost and accounting for quality-of-life differences, factoring in age, sex, race/ethnicity and comorbidities.
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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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