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“You don’t see them on the streets of your town”: challenges and strategies for serving unstably housed veterans in rural areas [PDF]
, 2020 Research on policy and programmatic responses to homelessness has focused largely on urban areas, with comparatively little attention paid to the rural context.
Byrne, Thomas +4 more
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A Functional Model for Structure Learning and Parameter Estimation in Continuous Time Bayesian Network: An Application in Identifying Patterns of Multiple Chronic Conditions [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 Bayesian networks are powerful statistical models to study the probabilistic relationships among set random variables with major applications in disease modeling and prediction. Here, we propose a continuous time Bayesian network with conditional dependencies, represented as Poisson regression, to model the impact of exogenous variables on the ...
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.Abstract The primary objective of this study was to investigate whether the cost of processing cotton using high‐speed roller gins is comparable to saw gins. The results from a “true” random effect model estimated using proprietary data voluntarily shared by cotton gins operating in Arizona and California showed that the average cost inefficiency for ...
Ram N. Acharya +4 more
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Mental health utilization among older Veterans with coexisting depression and dementia
SAGE Open Medicine, 2015 Objective: We compared mental health service utilization among older, depressed Veterans (60 years or older) with and without coexisting dementia. Methods: This retrospective study examined data from the 2010 Veterans Health Administration National ...
Elizabeth A DiNapoli +8 more
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Long-term results of the mucosal ablation of Barrett's esophagus: efficacy and recurrence
Endoscopy International Open, 2015 Background and study aims: It has been postulated that the endoscopic ablation of Barrett’s esophagus can lead to complete eradication of the disease.
Shreyas Saligram +12 more
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Predicting patient risk of readmission with frailty models in the Department of Veteran Affairs [PDF]
arXiv, 2014 Reducing potentially preventable readmissions has been identified as an important issue for decreasing Medicare costs and improving quality of care provided by hospitals. Based on previous research by medical professionals, preventable readmissions are caused by such factors as flawed patient discharging process, inadequate follow-ups after discharging,
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.Abstract Nucleus outgrower schemes are contractual arrangements where well‐resourced large‐scale farmers (nucleus farmers) are empowered by development support agencies to take charge of smallholder farmers, by providing them with market access and the necessary training on agronomic practices and farm inputs for production.
Dominic Tasila Konja, Awudu Abdulai
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Joint replacement surgery in homeless veterans
Arthroplasty Today, 2017 Total joint arthroplasty (TJA) in a homeless patient is generally considered contraindicated. Here, we report our known medical and social (housing and employment) results of homeless veterans who had TJA.
Chase G. Bennett, MD +3 more
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Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2019 Background Center‐based cardiac rehabilitation (CBCR) has been shown to improve outcomes in patients with heart failure (HF). Home‐based cardiac rehabilitation (HBCR) can be an alternative to increase access for patients who cannot participate in CBCR ...
Hafiz M. Imran +7 more
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Managing access to primary care clinics using robust scheduling templates [PDF]
arXiv, 2019 An important challenge confronting healthcare is the effective management of access to primary care. Robust appointment scheduling policies/templates can help strike an effective balance between the lead-time to an appointment (a.k.a. indirect waiting time, measuring the difference between a patient's desired and actual appointment dates) and waiting ...
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