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Molnupiravir And Risk Of Hospital Admission Or Death In Adults With Covid-19: Emulation Of A Randomized Target Trial Using Electronic Health Records, Yan Xie, Benjamin Bowe, Ziyad Al-Aly

2020-Current year OA Pubs

OBJECTIVE: To emulate a randomized target trial to estimate the association between the antiviral drug molnupiravir and hospital admission or death in adults with SARS-CoV-2 infection in the community during the omicron predominant era who were at high risk of progression to severe covid-19.

DESIGN: Emulation of a randomized target trial using electronic health records.

SETTING: US Department of Veterans Affairs.

PARTICIPANTS: 85 998 adults with SARS-CoV-2 infection between 5 January and 30 September 2022 and at least one risk factor for progression to severe covid-19: 7818 participants were eligible for and treated with molnupiravir and 78 180 received no …

College Administrator Experiences: A Phenomenological Study Of Higher Education Leadership In American Prisons, Donavan Bailey

Education Doctorate Dissertations

Higher education for the incarcerated (HEP) is a re-energized phenomenon in the age of criminal justice reform and social change. Following the 2015 Second Chance Pell Grant Experimental Initiative (SCP), which granted select colleges tuition funding for prisoners, HEP grew exponentially. The successes of the SCP laid the groundwork for the 2020 FASFA Simplification Act. In July 2023 the 2020 FSA begins, and all those imprisoned within America may access Pell Grant Funds for higher education. Despite momentous efforts to bring higher education to the incarcerated, HEP grapples with continued challenges and lacks unified, evidence-based competency equal to normative higher …

When Hay Was King: Energy History And Economic Nationalism In The Nineteenth-Century United States, Ariel Ron

History Faculty Publications

Hay was a linchpin of the early industrial energy regime. It was the primary fodder for working horses, who became more rather than less important over the 1800s. Though largely ignored by historians, hay was of comparable value to cotton and wheat in the nineteenth-century United States. The crop’s historiographical invisibility is partly due to its relatively informal and decidedly subglobal production and exchange patterns. Whereas cotton and wheat exports passed through customhouses and institutionalized exchanges that carefully recorded trade volumes, hay was almost never exported and often underwent no market transaction at all, instead being used as an intermediate …

Mining For Equitable Health: Assessing The Impact Of Missing Data In Electronic Health Records, Emily Getzen, Lyle Ungar, Danielle Mowery, Xiaoqian Jiang, Qi Long

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Electronic health records (EHR) are collected as a routine part of healthcare delivery, and have great potential to be utilized to improve patient health outcomes. They contain multiple years of health information to be leveraged for risk prediction, disease detection, and treatment evaluation. However, they do not have a consistent, standardized format across institutions, particularly in the United States, and can present significant analytical challenges- they contain multi-scale data from heterogeneous domains and include both structured and unstructured data. Data for individual patients are collected at irregular time intervals and with varying frequencies. In addition to the analytical challenges, EHR …

Content Analysis Of American Network News Coverage Of Prevention Strategies During The Initial Wave Of The Covid-19 Pandemic, Cary M Cain, Nipa Kamdar, Rachael Veldman, Shahereez Budhwani, Patrick O'Mahen

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

BACKGROUND: Broadcast media is a method to communicate health information to the general public and has previously been used in prior public health emergencies. Despite the current ubiquity of social media, traditional news programming retains relatively large audiences, which increased during the COVID-19 pandemic's early days. Viewership of broadcast media networks' evening news skews toward older groups (age 65 and up) which were vulnerable to health complications related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

OBJECTIVES: The current study explored the trends in American broadcast network news media coverage of prevention during the initial wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.

DESIGN: Quantitative content analysis …

Joint 2022 European Society Of Thoracic Surgeons And The American Association For Thoracic Surgery Guidelines For The Prevention Of Cancer-Associated Venous Thromboembolism In Thoracic Surgery, Yaron Shargall, Wojtek Wiercioch, Alessandro Brunelli, Sudish Murthy, Wayne Hofstetter, Jules Lin, Hui Li, Lori-Ann Linkins, Marc Crowther, Roger Davis, Gaetano Rocco, Gian Paolo Morgano, Finn Schünemann, Giovanna Muti-Schünemann, James Douketis, Holger J Schünemann, Virginia R Litle

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Background: Venous thromboembolism (VTE), which includes deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism, is a potentially fatal but preventable postoperative complication. Thoracic oncology patients undergoing surgical resection, often after multimodality induction therapy, represent among the highest risk groups for postoperative VTE. Currently there are no VTE prophylaxis guidelines specific to these thoracic surgery patients. Evidenced-based recommendations will help clinicians manage and mitigate risk of VTE in the postoperative period and inform best practice.

Objective: These joint evidence-based guidelines from The American Association for Thoracic Surgery and the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons aim to inform clinicians and patients in decisions about …

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Global Epidemiology And Clinical Outcomes Of Carbapenem-Resistant Pseudomonas Aeruginosa And Associated Carbapenemases (Pop): A Prospective Cohort Study, Jinnethe Reyes, Lauren Komarow, Liang Chen, Lizhao Ge, Blake M Hanson, Eric Cober, Erica Herc, Thamer Alenazi, Keith S Kaye, Julia Garcia-Diaz, Lanjuan Li, Souha S Kanj, Zhengyin Liu, Jose M Oñate, Robert A Salata, Kalisvar Marimuthu, Hainv Gao, Zhiyong Zong, Sandra L Valderrama-Beltrán, Yunsong Yu, Paul Tambyah, Gregory Weston, Soraya Salcedo, Lillian M Abbo, Qing Xie, Karen Ordoñez, Minggui Wang, Martin E Stryjewski, Jose M Munita, David L Paterson, Scott Evans, Carol Hill, Keri Baum, Robert A Bonomo, Barry N Kreiswirth, Maria Virginia Villegas, Robin Patel, Cesar A Arias, Henry F Chambers, Vance G Fowler, Yohei Doi, David Van Duin, Michael J Satlin

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Background: Carbapenem-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa (CRPA) is a global threat, but the distribution and clinical significance of carbapenemases are unclear. The aim of this study was to define characteristics and outcomes of CRPA infections and the global frequency and clinical impact of carbapenemases harboured by CRPA.

Methods: We conducted an observational, prospective cohort study of CRPA isolated from bloodstream, respiratory, urine, or wound cultures of patients at 44 hospitals (10 countries) between Dec 1, 2018, and Nov 30, 2019. Clinical data were abstracted from health records and CRPA isolates were whole-genome sequenced. The primary outcome was 30-day mortality from the day …

Building The Foundation For A Community-Generated National Research Blueprint For Inherited Bleeding Disorders: Research Priorities To Transform The Care Of People With Hemophilia, Duc Q Tran, Craig C Benson, Judith A Boice, Meera Chitlur, Amy L Dunn, Miguel A Escobar, Kalpna Gupta, Jill M Johnsen, James Jorgenson, Scott D Martin, Suzanne Martin, Shannon L Meeks, Alfredo A Narvaez, Doris V Quon, Mark T Reding, Ulrike M Reiss, Brittany Savage, Kim Schafer, Bruno Steiner, Courtney Thornburg, Lena M Volland, Annette Von Drygalski

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

BACKGROUND: Decades of research have transformed hemophilia from severely limiting children's lives to a manageable disorder compatible with a full, active life, for many in high-income countries. The direction of future research will determine whether exciting developments truly advance health equity for all people with hemophilia (PWH). National Hemophilia Foundation (NHF) and American Thrombosis and Hemostasis Network conducted extensive inclusive all-stakeholder consultations to identify the priorities of people with inherited bleeding disorders and those who care for them.

RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS: Working group (WG) 1 of the NHF State of the Science Research Summit distilled the community-identified priorities for …

Direct Costs Of Second Aqueous Shunt Implant Versus Transscleral Cyclophotocoagulation (The Assists Trial), Jack X Ma, Alice Z Chuang, Robert M Feldman, Steve L Mansberger, Angelo P Tanna, Lauren S Blieden, Daniel Shoham, Nicholas P Bell, Ronald L Gross, Louis R Pasquale, David S Greenfield, Jeffrey M Liebmann, Robert N Weinreb

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

PRCIS: The cost of cyclophotocoagulation is less than the cost of a second glaucoma drainage device.

PURPOSE: To compare the total direct costs of implantation of a second glaucoma drainage device (SGDD) with transscleral cyclophotocoagulation (CPC) for patients with inadequately controlled intraocular pressure (IOP) reduction, despite the presence of a preexisting glaucoma drainage device in the ASSISTS clinical trial.

METHODS: We compared the total direct cost per patient, including the initial study procedure, medications, additional procedures, and clinic visits during the study period. The relative costs for each procedure during the 90-day global period and the entire study period were …

Autism Spectrum Disorder Screening Practices In The United States And Mexico, Maria F. Valdez, Jessica R. Stewart, Ruth Crutchfield, Wan-Lin Chang, Ralph Carlson

Communication Sciences & Disorders Faculty Publications

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore screening practices for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in Mexico and the United States (U.S.).

Methods: Data from a larger study exploring the knowledge, screening, and diagnostic practices of healthcare practitioners from Mexico and the U.S. was used for the current study. The original survey was created by experts in ASD and consisted of 63 questions: 15 demographic questions, 20 questions relating to knowledge of ASD, 11 questions relating to screening practices, and 17 questions relating to diagnostic practices. All surveys were completed by professionals engaging in the screening and diagnosis of …

2022 American College Of Rheumatology Guideline For Vaccinations In Patients With Rheumatic And Musculoskeletal Diseases, Anne R Bass, Eliza Chakravarty, Elie A Akl, Clifton O Bingham, Leonard Calabrese, Laura C Cappelli, Sindhu R Johnson, Lisa F Imundo, Kevin L Winthrop, Reuben J Arasaratnam, Lindsey R Baden, Roberta Berard, S Louis Bridges, Jonathan T L Cheah, Jeffrey R Curtis, Polly J Ferguson, Ida Hakkarinen, Karen B Onel, Grayson Schultz, Vidya Sivaraman, Benjamin J Smith, Jeffrey A Sparks, Tiphanie P Vogel, Eleanor Anderson Williams, Cassandra Calabrese, Joanne S Cunha, Joann Fontanarosa, Miriah C Gillispie-Taylor, Elena Gkrouzman, Priyanka Iyer, Kimberly S Lakin, Alexandra Legge, Mindy S Lo, Megan M Lockwood, Rebecca E Sadun, Namrata Singh, Nancy Sullivan, Herman Tam, Marat Turgunbaev, Amy S Turner, James Reston

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

OBJECTIVE: To provide evidence-based recommendations on the use of vaccinations in children and adults with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMDs).

METHODS: This guideline follows American College of Rheumatology (ACR) policy guiding management of conflicts of interest and disclosures and the ACR guideline development process, which includes the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) methodology. It also adheres to the Appraisal of Guidelines for Research and Evaluation (AGREE) criteria. A core leadership team consisting of adult and pediatric rheumatologists and a guideline methodologist drafted clinical population, intervention, comparator, outcomes (PICO) questions. A review team performed a systematic literature review …

2022 American College Of Rheumatology Guideline For Vaccinations In Patients With Rheumatic And Musculoskeletal Diseases, Anne R Bass, Eliza Chakravarty, Elie A Akl, Clifton O Bingham, Leonard Calabrese, Laura C Cappelli, Sindhu R Johnson, Lisa F Imundo, Kevin L Winthrop, Reuben J Arasaratnam, Lindsey R Baden, Roberta Berard, S Louis Bridges, Jonathan T L Cheah, Jeffrey R Curtis, Polly J Ferguson, Ida Hakkarinen, Karen B Onel, Grayson Schultz, Vidya Sivaraman, Benjamin J Smith, Jeffrey A Sparks, Tiphanie P Vogel, Eleanor Anderson Williams, Cassandra Calabrese, Joanne S Cunha, Joann Fontanarosa, Miriah C Gillispie-Taylor, Elena Gkrouzman, Priyanka Iyer, Kimberly S Lakin, Alexandra Legge, Mindy S Lo, Megan M Lockwood, Rebecca E Sadun, Namrata Singh, Nancy Sullivan, Herman Tam, Marat Turgunbaev, Amy S Turner, James Reston

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Objective: To provide evidence-based recommendations on the use of vaccinations in children and adults with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMDs).

Methods: This guideline follows American College of Rheumatology (ACR) policy guiding management of conflicts of interest and disclosures and the ACR guideline development process, which includes the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) methodology. It also adheres to the Appraisal of Guidelines for Research and Evaluation (AGREE) criteria. A core leadership team consisting of adult and pediatric rheumatologists and a guideline methodologist drafted clinical population, intervention, comparator, outcomes (PICO) questions. A review team performed a systematic literature review …

Global Epidemiology And Clinical Outcomes Of Carbapenem-Resistant Pseudomonas Aeruginosa And Associated Carbapenemases (Pop): A Prospective Cohort Study, Jinnethe Reyes, Lauren Komarow, Liang Chen, Lizhao Ge, Blake M Hanson, Eric Cober, Erica Herc, Thamer Alenazi, Keith S Kaye, Julia Garcia-Diaz, Lanjuan Li, Souha S Kanj, Zhengyin Liu, Jose M Oñate, Robert A Salata, Kalisvar Marimuthu, Hainv Gao, Zhiyong Zong, Sandra L Valderrama-Beltrán, Yunsong Yu, Paul Tambyah, Gregory Weston, Soraya Salcedo, Lillian M Abbo, Qing Xie, Karen Ordoñez, Minggui Wang, Martin E Stryjewski, Jose M Munita, David L Paterson, Scott Evans, Carol Hill, Keri Baum, Robert A Bonomo, Barry N Kreiswirth, Maria Virginia Villegas, Robin Patel, Cesar A Arias, Henry F Chambers, Vance G Fowler, Yohei Doi, David Van Duin, Michael J Satlin

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

BACKGROUND: Carbapenem-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa (CRPA) is a global threat, but the distribution and clinical significance of carbapenemases are unclear. The aim of this study was to define characteristics and outcomes of CRPA infections and the global frequency and clinical impact of carbapenemases harboured by CRPA.

METHODS: We conducted an observational, prospective cohort study of CRPA isolated from bloodstream, respiratory, urine, or wound cultures of patients at 44 hospitals (10 countries) between Dec 1, 2018, and Nov 30, 2019. Clinical data were abstracted from health records and CRPA isolates were whole-genome sequenced. The primary outcome was 30-day mortality from the day …

Predictors Of Emergency Room Visits After Ambulatory Breast Cancer Surgery In The Medicare Population, Susie X Sun, Zhigang Duan, Henry M Kuerer, Sarah M Desnyder, Carrie Cunningham, Hui Zhao, Sharon H Giordano

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Background: Emergency department (ED) overuse is a large contributor to healthcare spending in the USA. We examined the rate of and risk factors for ED visits following outpatient breast cancer surgery.

Patients and methods: Using linked data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) program and Medicare, we identified women who underwent curative breast cancer surgery between 2003 and 2015. Our outcome of interest was ED visits within 30 days of surgery. Multivariate regression was used to evaluate the odds of ED visit while controlling for clinical and socioeconomic variables. Secondary analyses assessed admission from the ED as well …

What Are Risk Factors For And Outcomes Of Late Amputation After Treatment For Lower Extremity Sarcoma: A Childhood Cancer Survivor Study Report, Erik J Geiger, Wei Liu, Deo Kumar Srivastava, Nicholas M Bernthal, Brent R Weil, Yutaka Yasui, Kirsten K Ness, Kevin R Krull, Robert E Goldsby, Kevin C Oeffinger, Leslie L Robison, Bryan V Dieffenbach, Christopher B Weldon, Mark C Gebhardt, Rebecca Howell, Andrew J Murphy, Wendy M Leisenring, Gregory T Armstrong, Eric J Chow, Rosanna L Wustrack

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Background: Although pediatric lower extremity sarcoma once was routinely treated with amputation, multiagent chemotherapy as well as the evolution of tumor resection and reconstruction techniques have enabled the wide adoption of limb salvage surgery (LSS). Even though infection and tumor recurrence are established risk factors for early amputation (< 5 years) after LSS, the frequency of and factors associated with late amputation (≥ 5 years from diagnosis) in children with sarcomas are not known. Additionally, the resulting psychosocial and physical outcomes of these patients compared with those treated with primary amputation or LSS that was not complicated by subsequent amputation are not well studied. Studying these outcomes is critical to enhancing the quality of life of patients with sarcomas.

Questions/purposes: (1) How have treatments changed over time in patients with lower extremity sarcoma who are included in the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study (CCSS), and did primary treatment with amputation or LSS affect overall survival at 25 years among patients who had survived at least 5 years from diagnosis? (2) What …

Aapm Medical Physics Practice Guideline 13a: Hdr Brachytherapy, Part A, Susan L Richardson, Ivan M Buzurovic, Gil'ad N Cohen, Wesley S Culberson, Claire Dempsey, Bruce Libby, Christopher S Melhus, Robin A Miller, Daniel J Scanderbeg, Samantha J Simiele

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

The American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) is a nonprofit professional society whose primary purposes are to advance the science, education, and professional practice of medical physics. The AAPM has more than 8000 members and is the principal organization of medical physicists in the United States. The AAPM will periodically define new practice guidelines for medical physics practice to help advance the science of medical physics and to improve the quality of service to patients throughout the United States. Existing medical physics practice guidelines (MPPGs) will be reviewed for the purpose of revision or renewal, as appropriate, on their …

Medicaid Expansion And Postoperative Mortality In Women With Gynecologic Cancer: A Difference-In-Difference Analysis, Sarah P Huepenbecker, Shuangshuang Fu, Charlotte C Sun, Hui Zhao, Kristin M Primm, Sharon H Giordano, Larissa A Meyer

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

BACKGROUND: The association between Medicaid expansion and postoperative mortality after surgery for gynecologic cancer is unknown. Our objective was to compare 30- and 90-day postoperative mortality after gynecologic cancer surgery before and after 2014 in states that did and did not expand Medicaid.

METHODS: We searched the National Cancer Database for women aged 40-64 years old between 2010 and 2016 who underwent surgery for a primary gynecologic malignancy. We used pre/post and quasi-experimental difference-in-difference (DID) multivariable logistic regressions to evaluate mortality pre-2014 (2010-2013) and post-2014 (2014-2016) for states that did and did not expand Medicaid in January 2014. We completed …

Systemic Lupus Erythematosus And Mortality In Elderly Patients With Early Breast Cancer, Sebastian Bruera, Xiudong Lei, Xerxes Pundole, Hui Zhao, Sharon H Giordano, Surabhi Vinod, Maria E Suarez-Almazor

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Objective: Patients with cancer and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) may have worse outcomes than those without SLE, given their comorbidities. We examined survival in elderly women with breast cancer (BC) and SLE and hypothesized that survival would be decreased compared with women with BC but without SLE.

Methods: We identified patients with BC and SLE and patients with BC without SLE in the Texas Cancer Registry and Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results, linked to Medicare claims. Overall survival (OS) was estimated after matching (age and cancer stage) and in multivariable Cox proportional hazards models adjusting for other cancer characteristics, treatment, …

Higher Doses Of Tisagenlecleucel Are Associated With Improved Outcomes: A Report From The Pediatric Real-World Car Consortium., Heather E. Stefanski, Anne Eaton, Christina Baggott, Jenna Rossoff, Michael R. Verneris, Snehit Prabhu, Holly L. Pacenta, Christine L. Phillips, Julie-An Talano, Amy Moskop, Steven P. Margossian, Douglas Myers, Nicole A. Karras, Patrick A. Brown, Muna Qayed, Michelle Hermiston, Prakash Satwani, M Christa Krupski, Amy K. Keating, Rachel Wilcox, Cara A. Rabik, Vanessa A. Fabrizio, Vasant Chinnabhandar, A Yasemin Goksenin, Kevin J. Curran, Crystal L. Mackall, Theodore W. Laetsch, Liora M. Schultz

Manuscripts, Articles, Book Chapters and Other Papers

Remarkable complete response rates have been shown with tisagenlecleucel, a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy targeting CD19, in patients up to age 26 years with refractory/relapsed B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia; it is US Food and Drug Administration approved for this indication. Currently, patients receive a single dose of tisagenlecleucel across a wide dose range of 0.2 to 5.0 × 106 and 0.1 to 2.5 × 108 CAR T cells per kg for patients ≤50 and >50 kg, respectively. The effect of cell dose on survival and remission is not yet well established. Our primary goal was to determine if …

Consolidated Reports Of Condition And Income For A Bank With Domestic And Foreign Offices - Ffiec 031 (First Republic 2023), United States: Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council

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Care Of Bullet-Related Injuries: A Cross-Sectional Study Of Instructions And Prescriptions Provided On Discharge From The Emergency Department, Jane M. Hayes, L J. Punch, Kristen L. Mueller

2020-Current year OA Pubs

INTRODUCTION: There are more than 80,000 emergency department (ED) visits for non-fatal bullet-related injuries (BRI) per year in the United States. Approximately half of these patients are discharged home from the ED. Our objective in this study was to characterize the discharge instructions, prescriptions, and follow-up plans provided to patients discharged from the ED after BRI.

METHODS: This was a single-center, cross-sectional study of the first 100 consecutive patients who presented to an urban, academic, Level I trauma center ED with an acute BRI beginning on January 1, 2020. We queried the electronic health record for patient demographics, insurance status, …

Impact Of Timing To Initiate Adjuvant Therapy On Survival Of Elderly Glioblastoma Patients Using The Seer-Medicare And National Cancer Databases, Ping Zhu, Xianglin L Du, Lu-Yu Hwang, David Lairson, Ruosha Li, Yoshua Esquenazi, Jay-Jiguang Zhu

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

The optimal time to initiate adjuvant therapy (AT) in elderly patients with glioblastoma (GBM) remains unclear. We investigated the impact of timing to start AT on overall survival (OS) using two national-scale datasets covering elderly GBM populations in the United States. A total of 3159 and 8161 eligible elderly GBM patients were derived from the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER)-Medicare linked dataset (2004-2013) and the National Cancer Database (NCDB) (2004-2014), respectively. The intervals in days from the diagnosis to the initiation of AT were categorized based on two scenarios: Scenario I (quartiles), ≤ 15, 16-26, 27-37, and ≥ 38 …

A Pilot Study Of Training Peer Recovery Specialists In Behavioral Activation In The United States: Preliminary Outcomes And Predictors Of Competence, Morgan S. Anvari, Mary B. Kleinman, Dwayne Dean, Alexandra L. Rose, Valerie D. Bradley, Abigail C. Hines, Tolulope M. Abidogun, Julia W. Felton, Jessica F. Magidson

Center for Health Policy and Health Services Research Articles

BACKGROUND: The peer recovery specialist (PRS) workforce has rapidly expanded to increase access to substance-use disorder services for underserved communities. PRSs are not typically trained in evidence-based interventions (EBIs) outside of motivational interviewing, although evidence demonstrates the feasibility of PRS delivery of certain EBIs, such as a brief behavioral intervention, behavioral activation. However, characteristics that predict PRS competency in delivering EBIs such as behavioral activation remain unknown, and are critical for PRS selection, training, and supervision if the PRS role is expanded. This study aimed to explore the outcomes of a brief PRS training period in behavioral activation and identify …

Fima Repo Facility Faqs (Updated), Federal Reserve Board Of Governors (Frb)

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What Both Sides Of The Abortion Fight Can Learn From Antonin Scalia, Bruce Ledewitz

Newspaper Columns

Collected biweekly contributions to the Pennsylvania Capital-Star, a nonpartisan, nonprofit news site.

State Variation In Squamous Cell Carcinoma Of The Anus Incidence And Mortality, And Association With Hiv/Aids And Smoking In The United States, Haluk Damgacioglu, Yueh-Yun Lin, Ana Patricia Ortiz, Chi-Fang Wu, Zahed Shahmoradi, Shiang Shiuan Shyu, Ruosha Li, Alan G Nyitray, Keith Sigel, Gary M Clifford, Naomi Jay, Vivian Colon Lopez, Gregory M Barnell, Elizabeth Y Chiao, Elizabeth A Stier, Karen J Ortiz-Ortiz, Jeslie M Ramos-Cartagena, Kalyani Sonawane, Ashish A Deshmukh

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

PURPOSE: Squamous cell carcinoma of the anus (SCCA) incidence and mortality rates are rising in the United States. Understanding state-level incidence and mortality patterns and associations with smoking and AIDS prevalence (key risk factors) could help unravel disparities and provide etiologic clues.

METHODS: Using the US Cancer Statistics and the National Center for Health Statistics data sets, we estimated state-level SCCA incidence and mortality rates. Rate ratios (RRs) were calculated to compare incidence and mortality in 2014-2018 versus 2001-2005. The correlations between SCCA incidence with current smoking (from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System) and AIDS (from the HIV Surveillance …

Michigan Unemployment Insurance: Background For Planning Analysis, Christopher J. O'Leary

Presentations

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Why I Am No Longer A Jew, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals.

Ofr Financial Stress Index, United States: Department Of The Treasury: Office Of Financial Research (Ofr)

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