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AHRQ Series on Complex Intervention Systematic Reviews: Selecting Analytic Approaches

Reviewers may elect to revise their analytic approach based on new or changing considerations during the course of a systematic review, but they should guard against bias through transparency of reporting.

Aug 23, 2017

Meera Viswanathan, Melissa McPheeters, M. Hassan Murad, Mary Butler, Emily E. Devine, Michele P. Dyson, Jeanne-Marie Guise, Leila C. Kahwati, Jeremy N. V. Miles, Sally C. Morton
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Challenges to Teaming for Pain in Primary Care

Better understanding task distribution related to chronic pain assessment and management can help improve team-based pain care.

Aug 23, 2017

Karleen F. Giannitrapani, Sangeeta Ahluwalia, R. Thomas Day, Maura Pisciotta, Steven Dobscha, Karl Lorenz
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Barriers to HIV Testing, Linkage to Care, and Treatment Adherence: A Cross-Sectional Study from a Large Urban Center of Brazil

To comprehensively address the needs of people infected with HIV/AIDS, it is important to understand how risk factors for delays or interruptions in care are similar or different across the treatment continuum.

Aug 23, 2017

Sarah MacCarthy, Michael Hoffmann, Amy Nunn, Luis Augusto Silva, Ines Dourado
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A Community-Partnered, Participatory, Cluster-Randomized Study of Depression Care Quality Improvement: Three-Year Outcomes

A community coalition approach to depression care quality improvement may lead to better physical health-related quality of life and fewer behavioral health hospitalization nights.

Aug 23, 2017

Michael Ong, Loretta Jones, Wayne Aoki, Thomas R. Belin, Elizabeth Bromley, Bowen Chung, Elizabeth L. Dixon, Megan Johnson, Felica Jones, Paul Koegel, Dmitry Khodyakov, Craig M. Landry, Elizabeth Lizaola, Norma Mtume, Victoria K. Ngo, Judith F. Perlman, Esmeralda Pulido, Vivian Sauer, Cathy D. Sherbourne, Lingqi Tang, Ed Vidaurri, Yolanda Whittington, Pluscedia Williams, Aziza Lucas-Wright, Lily Zhang, Marvin Southard, Jeanne Miranda, Kenneth B. Wells
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Using All-Payer Claims Databases to Study Insurance and Health Care Utilization Dynamics

Switching insurance tends to be followed by an immediate spike in visits with new primary care and specialist physicians.

Aug 23, 2017

Michael Dworsky
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The Immediate Hardship of Unemployment: Evidence from the U.S. Unemployment Insurance Program

This paper uses a unique administrative database collected by the U.S. Department of Labor from 2002-09 to examine whether reservation wages fall as workers wait longer to apply for unemployment insurance (UI) benefits.

Aug 22, 2017

Mark Stater, Jeffrey B. Wenger
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Understanding mental health in the research environment: A Rapid Evidence Assessment

This study aimed to establish what is known about the mental health of researchers based on the existing literature. The literature identified focuses mainly on stress in the academic workforce and contributory factors in the academic workplace.

Aug 22, 2017

Susan Guthrie, Catherine A. Lichten, Janna Van Belle, Sarah Ball, Anna Knack, Joanna Hofman
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Open Science Monitoring: Methodological Note

The overarching objective of this study was to inform the European Commission's future engagement with open science.

Aug 22, 2017

Elta Smith, Salil Gunashekar, Sarah Parks, Catherine A. Lichten, Louise Lepetit, Molly Morgan Jones, Catriona Manville, Calum MacLure, Valentina Cilli, Maruca de Ramon, Vilma Zotou, Benoit Vandresse, Sebastiaan Peijl van der Peijl
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Effects of Mothers' Deaths on Children's Schooling in Matlab Subdistrict, Bangladesh

After controlling for selected socioeconomic variables, the completed levels of schooling of children whose mothers had died is appreciably lower compared to children whose mothers survived.

Aug 22, 2017

Abdur Razzaque, Julie DaVanzo, Shahabuddin Ahmed, Akhtar Hossain, Mohammad Mohammad Enamul Hoque, Nurul Alam, Abbas Bhuiya, Peter Kim Streatfield
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Commentary on Healthy School Start Times

Given the available evidence on the powerful and sustained benefits of later school start times for middle and high school students, "to do nothing is to do harm."

Aug 22, 2017

Judith Owens, Wendy M. Troxel, Kyla Wahlstrom
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Commentary on Keller Et Al, 2017: The Problem with Interpreting Low Base Rate Behaviors

Some opponents of changing start times for high school students may be relying on results that could, with appropriate clarification and interpretation, actually support later start times for adolescents.

Aug 22, 2017

Wendy M. Troxel
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Getting To Outcomes® Guide for Community Emergency Preparedness

This Getting To Outcomes guide will help with the planning, implementation, evaluation, continuous quality improvement, and sustainability of community emergency preparedness programs. It includes instructions, completed examples, and blank tools.

Aug 21, 2017

Patricia A. Ebener, Sarah B. Hunter, Rachel M. Adams, David Eisenman, Joie D. Acosta, Matthew Chinman
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The Global Landpower Network: Recommendations for Strengthening Army Engagement

The U.S. Army's global landpower network concept integrates, sustains, and advances the Army's efforts to meet U.S. national security guidance emphasizing the importance of working closely with partner nations to achieve U.S. strategic objectives.

Aug 21, 2017

Angela O'Mahony, Thomas S. Szayna, Christopher G. Pernin, Laurinda L. Rohn, Derek Eaton, Elizabeth Bodine-Baron, Joshua Mendelsohn, Osonde A. Osoba, Sherry Oehler, Katharina Ley Best, Leila Bighash
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Report

Los Angeles County Juvenile Justice Crime Prevention Act: Fiscal Year 2015–2016 Report

This annual report to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors evaluates the Juvenile Justice Crime Prevention Act, which offers programs to high-need juvenile probationers and at-risk youths.

Aug 18, 2017

Terry Fain, Susan Turner
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Personality and Employment Transitions at Older Ages: Direct and Indirect Effects Through Non-Monetary Job Characteristics

We assess the extent to which personality traits are directly associated with labor force transitions at older ages and moderate the effect of non-monetary job characteristics on retirement decisions.

Aug 18, 2017

Marco Angrisani, Michael D. Hurd, Erik Meijer, Andrew Parker, Susann Rohwedder
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Assessing the Benefits of a Rising Tide: Educational Attainment and Increases in Neighborhood Socioeconomic Advantage

The finding neighborhood economic improvement is positively associated with educational attainment for adolescents of all races is consistent across two distinct analytic strategies and two different measures of educational attainment.

Aug 18, 2017

William R. Johnston
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Severe Food Insecurity Is Associated with Overweight and Increased Body Fat Among People Living with HIV in the Dominican Republic

We found severe food insecurity associated with increased BMI and body fat as well as higher odds of being overweight among PLHIV in the DR.

Aug 17, 2017

Kathryn Pitkin Derose, Israel Rios-Castillo, Maria Altagracia Fulcar, Denise Diaz Payan, Kartika Palar, Lisbeth Escala, Hugo Farias, Homero Martinez
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The Blended Retirement System: Retention Effects and Continuation Pay Cost Estimates for the Armed Services

This report assesses the effects of the Blended Retirement System on military retention and continuation pay cost for the Air Force, Army, Coast Guard, Marine Corps, and Navy and finds that retention can be sustained relative to the legacy system.

Aug 15, 2017

Beth J. Asch, Michael G. Mattock, James Hosek
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What Defines a High-Performing Health System: A Systematic Review

Lack of a consistent definition of a high-performing health system severely hampers our ability to compare delivery systems based on performance.

Aug 15, 2017

Sangeeta Ahluwalia, Cheryl L. Damberg, Marissa Rose Silverman, Aneesa Motala, Paul G. Shekelle
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Can Income Diversification Explain the Growing Entrepreneurship Gap by Age?

The key result of our analysis is that income diversification has become increasingly important in determining entrepreneurship, but that younger households became less likely over time to have income from multiple sources. At the same time, older households maintained their income diversification and their likelihood of working as entrepreneurs became more responsive to having substantial income from non-business sources such as capital income and Social Security benefits.

Aug 15, 2017

Christian E. Weller, Jeffrey B. Wenger

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