Recent Work
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Rethinking the Value of Survival: Clinical Trials Should Measure Patient Preferences for Survival versus Quality of Life upon Entry to Trials
Though clinical trials most often rely on average survival rates as measures of value, these are not synonymous indicators. Research by the Schaeffer Center finds additional factors may weigh in patient’s treatment choice.
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Behavioral Interventions to Reduce Inappropriate Antibiotic Prescribing: A Randomized Pilot Trial
Behavioral interventions that appealed to doctors’ competitive spirits and desire to strengthen their reputations motivated them to significantly reduce unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions.
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Cognitive Reflection and Antibiotic Prescribing for Acute Respiratory Infections
Researchers found a “sweet-spot” of cognitive reflection for antibiotic prescribing for non-antibiotic-appropriate acute respiratory infections.
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Reducing Infections While Cutting Costs: Eliminating Antibiotic Overprescriptions
Low-cost nudges that reduce unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions can improve health outcomes, save resources and help guard against the rise in drug-resistant bacteria.
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A System to Build Distributed Multivariate Models and Manage Disparate Data Sharing Policies: Implementation in the Scalable National Network for Effectiveness Research
The authors implemented distributed multivariate models for federated networks in which patient-level data is kept at each site and data exchange policies are managed in a study-centric manner to implement massively parallel computation methods and a new policy management system to enable each study initiated by network participants to define the ways in which data may be processed, managed, queried, and shared.
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