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Decoding the Mystery of American Pain Reveals a Warning for the Future
In America today, the elderly report less pain than those in midlife. This is the mystery of American pain.
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Details Matter: Predicting When Nudging Clinicians Will Succeed or Fail
Subtle implementation details can greatly influence the effectiveness of behavioural nudges because of their inherent subjective and social nature
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AJMC: Policies to Address Surprise Billing Can Affect Health Insurance Premiums
Policies to address surprise billing could reduce health insurance premiums by 1% to 5%.
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Know Your Epidemic, Know Your Response: Early Perceptions of COVID-19 and Self-Reported Social Distancing in the United States
we study individual’s perceptions on COVID-19 and social distancing during the week of March 10–16, 2020, a week when COVID-19 was officially declared to be a pandemic by WHO and when new infections in the US were more than doubling every three days.
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Georgia’s Latest 1332 Proposal Continues To Violate the ACA
Scholars from the USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy Georgia’s latest 1332 Proposal, analyzing its major analytical errors and procedural deficiencies that render it unapprovable.
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Improved Survival for Individuals with Common Chronic Conditions in the Medicare Population
It is well established that the United States lags behind peer nations in life expectancy, but it is less established that there is heterogeneity in life expectancy trends. We compared mortality trends from 2004 to 2014 for the United States with 17 high-income countries for persons under and over 65. The United States ranked last […]
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Incidence, Prevalence, and Risk Factors of Infectious Uveitis and Scleritis in the United States: A Claims-Based Analysis
Ocular inflammation causes significant visual morbidity in the United States, yet little is known about the epidemiology of infectious uveitis and scleritis. This study aims to evaluate the epidemiology of infectious uveitis/scleritis employing a large national medical claims database.
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Neighborhood Social Group Participation and Depressive Symptoms Among Mid-to-Late Life Black Americans: Does the Association Differ by Ethnicity?
This study examined how neighborhood social participation relates to depressive symptoms among middle-aged and older African Americans and Caribbean Blacks.
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Impacts on the U.S. Macroeconomy of Mandatory Business Closures in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
A mandatory business closure over three months results in a 20.3% decline of U.S. GDP on an annual basis, or $4.3 trillion, and an employment decline of 22.4%, representing 35.3 million workers.
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Is the Choice of Cost-Effectiveness Threshold in Cost-Utility Analysis Endogenous to the Resulting Value of Technology? A Systematic Review
This analysis highlights that most cost-utility analyses that cite high cost-effectiveness thresholds also result in greater incremental cost-effectiveness ratios for the novel interventions that they investigate.
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