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Shedding light on research participation effects in behaviour change trials: a qualitative study examining research participant experiences

BMC Public Health, 2016
Background The sequence of events in a behaviour change trial involves interactions between research participants and the trial process. Taking part in such a study has the potential to influence the behaviour of the participant, and if it does, this can
Virginia MacNeill, Marian Foley, Alan Quirk, Jim McCambridge   +3 more
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Medical care epidemiology and unwarranted variation: the Israeli case

Israel Journal of Health Policy Research, 2017
In an article in this Journal, Mendlovic and colleagues report on regional variation in medical care across Israeli regions. This study joins a growing literature demonstrating generally high variation in the provision of health care services within ...
David C. Goodman, Andrew A. Goodman
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Unmet Primary Care Needs in Diabetic Patients with Multimorbidity in a Medically Underserved Area

Health Services Research & Managerial Epidemiology, 2017
Background: Diabetic patients with multimorbidity in medically underserved minority communities are less engaged in primary care and experience high emergency department (ED) utilization.
Bianca M. Jackson, Mary Lou Gutierrez, George E. Relyea, Erik L. Carlton, SangNam Ahn, Bonnie L. Binkley, James E. Bailey   +6 more
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Interaction between increasing body mass index and spinal cord injury to the probability of developing a diagnosis of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease

Obesity Science & Practice, 2023
Background The prevalence of obesity and comorbidities is high in the population with spinal cord injury (SCI). We sought to determine the effect of SCI on the functional form of the relationship between body mass index (BMI) and risk of developing ...
Dan Eisenberg, Katherine D. Arnow, Nicolas B. Barreto, Kristen Davis, Sherri L. LaVela, Susan M. Frayne, Andrea L. Nevedal, Justina Wu, Alex H. S. Harris   +8 more
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Improving monetary policy models [PDF]

Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2008
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OASI2: a cluster randomised hybrid evaluation of strategies for sustainable implementation of the Obstetric Anal Sphincter Injury Care Bundle in maternity units in Great Britain

Implementation Science, 2021
Background The Obstetric Anal Sphincter Injury (OASI) Care Bundle comprises four primary and secondary prevention practices that target the rising rates of severe perineal tearing during childbirth, which can have severe debilitating consequences for ...
Magdalena Jurczuk, Posy Bidwell, Dorian Martinez, Louise Silverton, Jan Van der Meulen, Daniel Wolstenholme, Ranee Thakar, Ipek Gurol-Urganci, Nick Sevdalis   +8 more
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Deep learning analysis of MRI to assess rectal cancer treatment

Frontiers in Oncology
IntroductionTraditional neoadjuvant therapy for locally advanced rectal cancer (LARC) results in pathologic complete response (pCR) in approximately 15% of patients, supporting non-operative strategies for those with clinical complete response (cCR). The
Heather M. Selby, Ashley Y. Son, Vipul R. Sheth, Todd H. Wagner, Todd H. Wagner, Erqi L. Pollom, Arden M. Morris   +6 more
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The One Nutrition in Complex Environments (ONCE) study protocol: a cluster-randomized multi-level multi-sectoral intervention to improve nutrition in Uganda

Trials, 2022
Objective To implement and measure the effects of a multi-level multi-sectoral social behavior change (SBC) intervention in Agago District of Northern Uganda and to determine the potential for scale-up.
Stacy P. Griswold, Anastasia Marshak, Merry Fitzpatrick, Daniele Lantagne, Kate Shoenmakers, Marlene Hebie, Anne Radday, Hugo De Groote, Saurabh Mehta, Greg Gottlieb, Patrick Webb, Shibani Ghosh   +11 more
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Geometry of Policy Improvement [PDF]

, 2017
We investigate the geometry of optimal memoryless time independent decision making in relation to the amount of information that the acting agent has about the state of the system. We show that the expected long term reward, discounted or per time step, is maximized by policies that randomize among at most $k$ actions whenever at most $k$ world states ...
Montufar, Guido, Rauh, Johannes
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A novel approach to agricultural policy analysis applied to crop diversification in Bangladesh

Discover Sustainability
Traditional approaches to policy analysis often provide only a partial understanding of the complexities of agricultural policies and their outcomes. This study addresses the important problem of how to evaluate such policies in a manner that captures ...
Ravi Nandi, Timothy J. Krupnik, Bhuvana Narayana Rao, Wais Kabir, Sreejith Aravindakshan, Avinash Kishore   +5 more
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