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Exploring Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use on Elderly Patients in a General Medicine Ward Using 2023 AGS Beers Criteria

open access: yesAGING MEDICINE, EarlyView.
This study found that 54% of elderly inpatients were prescribed at least one potentially inappropriate medication (PIM) based on the 2023 AGS Beers Criteria. Among identified PIMs, 32.2% were medications to avoid, and 52.8% required cautious use. Polypharmacy and chronic kidney disease (CKD) were key predictors of PIM use.
Subash Karki   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Analyzing the demographic, spatial, and temporal factors influencing social contact patterns in U.S. and implications for infectious disease spread

open access: yesBMC Infectious Diseases, 2021
Background Diseases such as COVID-19 are spread through social contact. Reducing social contacts is required to stop disease spread in pandemics for which vaccines have not yet been developed.
Audrey M. Dorélien   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Mexican consumers' attitudes toward irradiated and imported apples

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract This study centers on analyzing Mexican consumers' willingness to pay (WTP) for imported US fresh apples subjected to irradiation, contrasting it with the more prevalent postharvest chemical treatments. We collect data using a survey tool in Qualtrics designed to explore the impact of information dissemination through two distinct narrative ...
André D. Murray   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Harnessing Administrative Records for Official Statistics on People and Households

open access: yesInternational Journal of Population Data Science, 2018
The availability and excessiveness of alternative (non-survey) data sources, collected on a daily, hourly, and sometimes second-by-second basis, has challenged the federal statistical system to update existing protocol for developing official statistics.
Misty L Heggeness
doaj   +1 more source

Electricity and the Census [PDF]

open access: yesScientific American, 1920
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openaire   +2 more sources

Spatially disaggregated population estimates in the absence of national population and housing census data

open access: yesProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2018
Population numbers at local levels are fundamental data for many applications, including the delivery and planning of services, election preparation, and response to disasters.
N. Wardrop   +9 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Who is willing to pay a premium for leafy greens produced by indoor agriculture? A comparative choice experiment with US consumers

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract Indoor agriculture (IA) presents a pathway to producing leafy greens more sustainably by strictly controlling the growing environment, increasing the efficiency of water and land resources use, reducing pesticide application, and enhancing quality characteristics.
Joseph Seong   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Inference with Pólya-Gamma Augmentation for US Election Law

open access: yesMathematics
Pólya-gamma (PG) augmentation has proven to be highly effective for Bayesian MCMC simulation, particularly for models with binomial likelihoods. This data augmentation strategy offers two key advantages.
Adam C. Hall, Joseph Kang
doaj   +1 more source

Product differentiation in the fruit industry: Lessons from trademarked apples

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract We derive price premiums for patented or trademarked apple varieties, also known as “club apples,” compared to open‐variety apples. We use an expansive retail scanner dataset, along with unique data on apple taste characteristics, to estimate monthly club apple premiums for 2008–2018.
Modhurima Dey Amin   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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