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Optimal Treatment Allocation under Constraints [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv
In optimal policy problems where treatment effects vary at the individual level, optimally allocating treatments to recipients is complex even when potential outcomes are known. We present an algorithm for multi-arm treatment allocation problems that is guaranteed to find the optimal allocation in strongly polynomial time, and which is able to handle ...
arxiv  

“You're this person who's providing light”: Embodied responses to information loss and transition within LGBTQIA+ communities

open access: yesJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper reports on findings from 15 semi‐structured interviews with LGBTQIA+ individuals within the United States who have experienced the loss of one or more LGBTQIA+ information spaces. The paper specifically focuses on how such losses occurred and the information transitions experienced by the participants in response to this loss ...
Travis L. Wagner, Vanessa L. Kitzie
wiley   +1 more source

Individual and collective transitions: Changes in family information networks over time in life with chronic illness

open access: yesJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract Chronic illness represents a transition for both patients and their family members although transitions and information behavior changes have largely been explored from an individual perspective. Illness‐related transitions may be undertaken individually or collectively, but little is known about how family information networks change in the ...
Lindsay K. Brown, Tiffany C. Veinot
wiley   +1 more source

High Medicaid Nursing Homes: Organizational and Market Factors Associated With Financial Performance

open access: yesInquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 2019
High Medicaid nursing homes (85% and higher of Medicaid residents) operate in resource-constrained environments. High Medicaid nursing homes (on average) have lower quality and poorer financial performance.
Robert Weech-Maldonado PhD   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Alzheimer's disease and nursing homes.

open access: yesHealth Affairs, 2014
Close to two-thirds of all US nursing home residents have some type of cognitive impairment such as Alzheimer's disease, and the quality of care and quality of life of these people has long been called into question. In this overview we first clarify the
J. Gaugler, F. Yu, H. Davila, T. Shippee
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The woman researcher's tale: A review of bibliometric methods and results for studying gender in science

open access: yesJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract There has been a notable increase in bibliometric research studying gender in academia. This narrative review aims to organize and synthesize this extensive body of work to uncover new insights into gender disparities in science. We begin by analyzing key methodological elements, including gender assignment techniques, units of analysis, and ...
Elvira González‐Salmón   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The emotional experiences of elderly people living in nursing homes [PDF]

open access: yes
Background The promotion of health and economic status in all over the world resulted in increasing the older population. It's expected, at least 40% of the population over 75 years, need extensive health care services in the last parts of their ...
حسینی, حبیب اله   +4 more
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Nurses Involvement in Nursing Home Culture Change: Overcoming Barriers, Advancing Opportunities [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Summarizes discussions from a 2008 interdisciplinary panel convened to identify facilitators and barriers to nurses' involvement in culture change in nursing homes and actions to promote nurse competencies in resident-directed care.
Bonnie Kantor   +9 more
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