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Sep 30, 2024

Core Mental Health Clinician Capacity and Use Rates in the US Military

Active-duty service members in communities with no mental health clinicians at military treatment facilities were significantly less likely to receive treatment compared with those in communities with adequate core mental health capacity.

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Sep 20, 2024

Efficiency in Organizational Structure? Assessing Heterogeneous Effects in Hospital-Physician Integration

Using a 100% national sample of Medicare data, we estimate the impacts of hospital-physician integration using parametric and nonparametric quantile differences-in-differences approaches.

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Sep 20, 2024

Clinician Actions in Response to Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) Screening

This paper examined clinician responses to adverse childhood experience (ACE) screening at five California pediatric clinics in a large public health care system. Findings provide early information that ACE screening results are associated with patient care.

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Sep 19, 2024

Association Between Physician Age and Patterns of End-of-Life Care Among Older Americans

Using a nationally representative sample of Medicare beneficiaries, we examined the association between physician age and patterns of end of life (EOL) care with a broad range of EOL care measures.

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Sep 13, 2024

Assessing the Dynamics of PrEP Adoption in a National-Scale Physician Network

Through social network analysis, we measure low social thresholds for physicians to adopt prescribing prophylaxis against HIV infection, which are consistent with the hypothesis that slow PrEP adoption is a result of lack of knowledge.

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Sep 13, 2024

COVID-19 School Closures Were Associated With A Decline In Employment For Female Nurses With Young Children

This study combined labor-force participation data with measures of school closures to examine the association between local school closures and labor supply among female nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Aug 5, 2024

Understanding Uptake of Information About Innovations Among Emergency Department Clinicians During the COVID-19 Pandemic

We used focus groups to assess how emergency department clinicians learned about innovations and how they assessed them for credibility during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Jul 29, 2024

Geographic Variation in Shortfalls of Dementia Specialists in the U.S.

The availability of dementia specialists is limited and varies across the U.S. We estimated that 34% to 60% of the population aged 65 and older resided in areas with potential dementia specialist shortfalls.

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Jul 24, 2024

Testing an Intervention to Improve Health Care Worker Well-Being During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial

In this cluster randomized clinical trial (RCT), we aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of a tailored peer-to-peer support intervention for health care workers during the pandemic.

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Jun 28, 2024

United States Doula Programs and Their Outcomes: A Scoping Review to Inform State-Level Policies

We conducted a scoping review, across four academic databases and gray literature, to describe the landscape of literature on U.S. doula programs and their outcomes to inform state policy makers considering laws or programs related to doula care.

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Jun 12, 2024

Generosity of State Insurance Mandates and Growth in the Workforce for Autism Spectrum Disorder

We found mandate generosity was closely associated with the magnitude of increases in supply of board-certified behavioral analysts and--to a lesser extent--child psychiatrists.

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May 28, 2024

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Understanding Multilevel Factors Related to Retention Among the Direct Care Workforce: Incorporating Lessons Learned in Considering Innovative Interventions

This article explores how contextual factors may be influential in the retention of direct care workers in healthcare settings. We reflect on lessons learned from an evaluation of a multisite intervention to improve retention at three health systems.

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Core Mental Health Clinician Capacity and Use Rates in the US Military

Efficiency in Organizational Structure? Assessing Heterogeneous Effects in Hospital-Physician Integration

Clinician Actions in Response to Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) Screening

Association Between Physician Age and Patterns of End-of-Life Care Among Older Americans

Assessing the Dynamics of PrEP Adoption in a National-Scale Physician Network

COVID-19 School Closures Were Associated With A Decline In Employment For Female Nurses With Young Children

Understanding Uptake of Information About Innovations Among Emergency Department Clinicians During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Geographic Variation in Shortfalls of Dementia Specialists in the U.S.

Testing an Intervention to Improve Health Care Worker Well-Being During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial

United States Doula Programs and Their Outcomes: A Scoping Review to Inform State-Level Policies

Generosity of State Insurance Mandates and Growth in the Workforce for Autism Spectrum Disorder

Understanding Multilevel Factors Related to Retention Among the Direct Care Workforce: Incorporating Lessons Learned in Considering Innovative Interventions

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