Research
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Development of High-Risk Geriatric Polypharmacy Electronic Clinical Quality Measures and a Pilot Test of EHR Nudges Based on These Measures
USC researchers developed measures of high-risk polypharmacy and pilot tested novel electronic health record (EHR)-based nudges grounded in behavioral science to promote deprescribing.
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Substance Use Disorders Among Older Populations: What Role Do Race and Ethnicity Play in Treatment and Completion?
Researchers provide historical investigation of admissions and discharges for treatment episodes over the past two decades across race, ethnicity, gender, and age.
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Cognitive Decline at Middle Age
Schaeffer Center researchers quantified the population with fast rates of cognitive decline at middle age, explored the distribution of cognitive trajectories, and investigated demographic, health, and socioeconomic factors associated with cognitive deterioration for Americans.
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Cannabis Flower Prices and Transitions to Legal Sources After Legalization in Canada, 2019–2020
Schaeffer experts analyze if consumers in Canada are purchasing through the legal market or still purchasing from other sources.
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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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Microsimulation Projections of Obesity Interventions on Cardiometabolic Health Disparities in the United States
Schaeffer Center researchers simulate how health education implemented in the United States throughout 2019 to 2049 would lead to changes in adult BMI and consequent hypertension and type 2 diabetes.
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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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The Protocol of the Application of Economics & Social Psychology to Improve Opioid Prescribing Safety trial 2 (AESOPS-2): Availability of Opioid Harm
The objective of Trial 2 of the Application of Economics & Social psychology to improve Opioid Prescribing Safety (AESOPS-2) is to dampen the intensity and frequency of opioid prescribing in accordance with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendation to “go low and slow”.
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The Impact of the COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution on Mental Health Outcomes
USC researchers use We use data from U.S. Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey merged to state-level COVID-19 vaccination eligibility data to estimate the secondary benefits of COVID-19 vaccination on mental health outcomes
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