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Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

Definitions, 2020
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA; Kennedy–Kassebaum Act, or Kassebaum–Kennedy Act) consists of 5 Titles.Questions To ConsiderWhy was the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) established?Whom ...
Peter F. Edemekong, Pavan Annamaraju, M. Haydel   +2 more
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‘Ghost Accounts’, ‘Joki Accounts’ and ‘Account Therapy’

The Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies, 2021
This article shows how motorcycle taxi drivers in Yogyakarta, Indonesia deal with labour insecurity, tighter competition, minimum social welfare, decreased tariff and bonuses and longer working hours. The article finds that drivers employ diverse strategies to obtain more orders and therefore also more income.
Amalinda Savirani, Wening Mustika
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Metaevaluation in Practice

Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation, 2009
This paper examines the practice of metaevaluation as indicated by the Metaevaluation standard of the Program Evaluation Standards, as the evaluation of a specific evaluation to inform stakeholders about the evaluation’s strengths and weaknesses. The
Leslie J. Cooksy, Valerie J. Caracelli
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Nonpartisan advice for the U.S. Congress matters

TATuP – Zeitschrift für Technikfolgenabschätzung in Theorie und Praxis, 2020
As in all democratically constituted states, scientific policy advice to the legislature in the U. S. is faced with the challenges of this time: What can good advice look like given the rapidly developing new technologies and their far-reaching ...
Constanze Scherz, Timothy M. Persons
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The Global Fund: why anti-corruption, transparency and accountability matter

Globalization and Health, 2021
Background The creation of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, also known as the Global Fund, was prompted by the lack of a timely and effective global response, and the need for financing to fight against three devastating diseases:
Zhihao Chang, Violet Rusu, Jillian C. Kohler   +2 more
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Fair Labor Standards Act: The Department of Labor Should Adopt a More Systematic Approach to Developing Its Guidance [PDF]

, 2013
The FLSA sets federal minimum wage and overtime pay requirements applicable to millions of U.S. workers and allows workers to sue employers for violating these requirements.
U.S. Government Accountability Office
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KRAS and GNAS mutations in cell‐free DNA and in circulating epithelial cells in patients with intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms—an observational pilot study

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
This study demonstrates that KRAS and GNAS mutations are more prevalent in patients with resected intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms (IPMN) compared to those under clinical surveillance. GNAS mutations significantly differ between the two patient cohorts, indicating that their absence may serve as a potential biomarker to support conservative ...
Christine Nitschke, Marie Tölle, Philipp Walter, Kira Meißner, Mara Goetz, Jolanthe Kropidlowski, Andreas W. Berger, Jakob R. Izbicki, Felix Nickel, Thilo Hackert, Klaus Pantel, Harriet Wikman, Faik G. Uzunoglu   +12 more
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Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: Estimates of the Effect on the Prevalence of Employer-Sponsored Health Coverage [PDF]

, 2012
The share of employers offering health coverage has generally declined in the last decade. Researchers believe that certain provisions of PPACA could affect employers’ future willingness to offer health coverage, such as the availability of subsidized ...
Government Accountability Office
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Constraining Governments: New Indices of Vertical, Horizontal, and Diagonal Accountability

American Political Science Review, 2020
Accountability—constraints on a government’s use of political power—is one of the cornerstones of good governance. However, conceptual stretching and a lack of reliable measures have limited cross-national research on this concept.
Anna Lührmann, Kyle L. Marquardt, Valeriya Mechkova   +2 more
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Circulating tumor DNA monitoring and blood tumor mutational burden in patients with metastatic solid tumors treated with atezolizumab

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
In patients treated with atezolizumab as a part of the MyPathway (NCT02091141) trial, pre‐treatment ctDNA tumor fraction at high levels was associated with poor outcomes (radiographic response, progression‐free survival, and overall survival) but better sensitivity for blood tumor mutational burden (bTMB).
Charles Swanton, Russell W. Madison, Candice Francheska B. Tambaoan, Funda Meric‐Bernstam, Christopher J. Sweeney, Razelle Kurzrock, Howard A. Burris III, David R. Spigel, Hanna Tukachinsky, Jason Hughes, Julia Malato, Bongin Yoo, Tania Szado, Cheryl Schwab, Lincoln W. Pasquina, Amaya Gasco, Katja Schulze, Claire F. Friedman   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source