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A Review of the Research Landscape for Treatment of Early Breast Cancer: Implications for future research, policy and practice

RAND Europe conducted a study on the societal impact of early breast cancer. This study was divided into three interconnected phases. The first phase was a mapping review on the published literature on the impacts of treatment of early breast cancer.

Jun 11, 2019

Ioana Ghiga, Camilla d'Angelo, Sarah King, Josephine Exley, Amelia Harshfield, Daniela Rodriguez-Rincon, Brandi Leach, Catriona Manville, Sonja Marjanovic
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Journal Article

Use of Complementary and Integrated Health: A Retrospective Analysis of U.S. Veterans with Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain Nationally

This article addresses the use of a variety of nonherbal CIH therapies among any large patient population having chronic pain by exploring the frequency and predictors of CIH therapy use among a national population of VHA users with chronic musculoskeletal pain.

Jun 11, 2019

Stephanie L. Taylor, Patricia M. Herman, Nell J. Marshall, Qing Zeng, Anita H. Yuan, Karen Chu, Yijun Shao, Craig Morioka, Karl Lorenz
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Journal Article

Characteristics of Chiropractic Patients Being Treated for Chronic Low Back and Neck Pain

This study describes the characteristics of a large sample of chronic low back pain and chronic neck pain patients in the United States who use chiropractic care for their chronic low back pain and chronic neck pain.

Jun 11, 2019

Patricia M. Herman, Mallika Kommareddi, Melony E. Sorbero, Carolyn M. Rutter, Ron D. Hays, Lara Hilton, Gery W. Ryan, Ian D. Coulter
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Journal Article

The Problematic Economics of Integrative Oncology

The economics of integrative oncology are problematic because of the lack of good studies, the lack of historic incentives for efficiency, and the high cost of cancer care and its financial toxicity on patients. However, these problems can be overcome, with help from one good economic evaluation at a time.

Jun 11, 2019

Patricia M. Herman
Research Brief

What Other States Can Learn from Louisiana's Ambitious Efforts to Reshape Its Education System

This brief highlights findings from a series of four reports that examine Louisiana's education policy strategies, how they are being implemented, and how those policy actions are related to successful student outcomes.

Jun 11, 2019

Matthew D. Baird, Jill S. Cannon, Shelly Culbertson, Laura S. Hamilton, Maggie Q. Hannan, Julia H. Kaufman, Sophie Meyers, Elizabeth D. Steiner
Journal Article

Journal Article

Randomized Controlled Dissemination Study of Community-to-Clinic Navigation to Promote CRC Screening: Study Design and Implications

The purpose of this study is to extend the pilot study in a group-randomized controlled trial to test the effectiveness of tailored messaging delivered by Community Health Navigators to guide individuals from especially hard-to-reach, multicultural, and underinsured communities into primary care clinics for referral for CRC screening (Phase I) and to continue navigation after referral to track effects of the intervention on completion of CRC screening (Phase II).

Jun 11, 2019

Linda Larkey, Laura Szalacha, Patricia M. Herman, Julie Gonzalez, Usha Menon
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Journal Article

Yoga Versus Education for Veterans With Chronic Low Back Pain: Study Protocol For a Randomized Controlled Trial

This study will help determine if yoga can become an effective treatment for Veterans with chronic low back pain and psychological comorbidities.

Jun 11, 2019

Robert B. Saper, Chelsey M. Lemaster, A. Rani Elwy, Ruth Paris, Patricia M. Herman, Dorothy N. Plumb, Karen J. Sherman, Erik J. Groessl, Susan V. Lynch, Shihwe Wang, Janice Weinberg
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Journal Article

Community Health Workers as Focus Group Facilitators: A Participatory Action Research Method to Improve Behavioral Health Services for Farmworkers in a Primary Care Setting

Since 1965, Federally Qualified Health Centers have provided a safety net for the uninsured and major source of care to those enrolled in public health insurance programs. The distinguishing characteristic of the program is the concept of community governance in achieving the main objective to provide holistic, comprehensive, and culturally competent primary care to low-income and medically underserved areas.

Jun 11, 2019

Maia Ingram, Lucy Murrieta, Jill de Zapien, Patricia M. Herman, Scott Carvajal
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Journal Article

Naturopathic Medicine for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease: A Randomized Clinical Trial

To evaluate the effectiveness of representative naturopathic approaches to reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease, we conducted a randomized clinical trial of a multimodality nutritional and physical activity intervention in a workplace setting.

Jun 11, 2019

Dugald Seely, Orest Szczurko, Kieran Cooley, Heidi Fritz, Serenity Aberdour, Craig Herrington, Patricia M. Herman, Philip Rouchotas, David Lescheid, Ryan Bradley, Tara Gignac, Bob Bernhardt, Qi Zhou, Gordon Guyatt
Journal Article

Journal Article

Manipulation and Mobilization for Treating Chronic Nonspecific Neck Pain: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis for an Appropriateness Panel

The purpose of this systematic review was to evaluate the randomized controlled trials published from January 2000 through September 2017 on chronic nonspecific neck pain, comparing the effects of manipulation and/or mobilization as therapies to those of other active therapies (such as acupuncture, massage therapy, exercise, etc.) to sham or no treatment, and when combined with other therapies such as exercise or advice commonly seen in practice.

Jun 11, 2019

Ian D. Coulter, C. J. Crawford, Howard Vernon, Eric Hurwitz, Raheleh Khorsan, Marika Booth, Patricia M. Herman
Journal Article

Journal Article

Social-Behavioral Modeling for Complex Systems

This volume describes frontiers in social-behavioral modeling for diverse contexts. Recent advances have created great opportunities, but so also there are great scientific, technical, and ethical challenges.

Jun 11, 2019

Paul K. Davis, Angela O'Mahony, Johnathan Pfautz
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Journal Article

Ethical and Privacy Issues in Social-Behavioral Research

We discuss key ethical and privacy issues: meaningful user notice,assuring usable and accurate access control, anonymizing data, validating algorithms to avoid harms, addressing harms, and deterring abuse.

Jun 11, 2019

Rebecca Balebako, Angela O'Mahony, Paul K. Davis, Osonde A. Osoba
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Journal Article

Building on Social Science: Theoretic Foundations for Modelers

This chapter reviews social-scientific principles that modelers should be aware of as they attempt to describe social-behavioral systems.

Jun 11, 2019

Benjamin P. Nyblade, Angela O'Mahony, Katharine Sieck
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Journal Article

Improving Social-Behavioral Modeling

We identify priority challenges for SB modeling. These involve dealing with complex adaptive systems and deep uncertainty, but also cultural issues such as better relating data-driven and theory-driven research and seeking more coherent models.

Jun 11, 2019

Paul K. Davis, Angela O'Mahony
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Journal Article

Dealing with Culture as Inherited Information

Cultural inheritance is important but has been difficult to study (Galton's problem). This chapter illustrates use of new computational methods for doing so, although this will require gathering more cultural data than has been customary.

Jun 11, 2019

Luke J. Matthews
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Journal Article

An Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Perspective on Social Simulation: New Data and New Challenges

We review issues of data infrastructure and artificial intelligence for social and behavioral modeling. Among the newer machine learning methods,adversarial training and fuzzy cognitive maps have particular unrealized potential.

Jun 11, 2019

Osonde A. Osoba, Paul K. Davis
Journal Article

Journal Article

Causal Modeling with Feedback Fuzzy Cognitive Maps

Fuzzy cognitive maps model feedback causal relations. We describe FCMs, combined FCMs from multiple experts, and relationships to other dynamic methods. We illustrate the for two social-scientific problems.

Jun 11, 2019

Osonde A. Osoba, Bart Kosko
Journal Article

Journal Article

Panel Discussion: Moving Social-Behavioral Modeling Forward

This chapter describes panel discussion and debate relating to various multi-scale phenomena in social science, including emergence.

Jun 11, 2019

Angela O'Mahony, Paul K. Davis, Scott Appling, Matthew E. Brashears, Erica Briscoe, Kathleen M. Carley, Joshua M. Epstein, Luke J. Matthews, Theodore P. Pavlic, William Rand, Scott Neal Reilly, William B. Rouse, Samarth Swarup, Andreas Tolk, Raffaele Vardavas, Levent Yilmaz
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Journal Article

Homo Narratus (The Storytelling Species): The Challenge (and Importance) of Modeling Narrative in Human Understanding

This chapter describes narrative-related research for the US Marine Corps and then highlights corresponding challenges for social-behavioral modeling.

Jun 11, 2019

Christopher Paul
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Journal Article

Aligning Behavior with Desired Outcomes: Lessons for Government Policy from the Marketing World

This chapter draws on lessons from the use of social science in marketing research to suggest methods for governments to use in learning about how to use soft-power tactics to improve collaboration with communities and citizens alike.

Jun 11, 2019

Katharine Sieck

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