Feb 20, 2018 | Journal Publications, Medicaid Working Group
Medicaid Working Group Member Rebecca Gorges, in collaboration with five scholars, examined the influence of spousal characteristics on the decision to use hospice services in end-of-life care. They examined data from the Health and Retirement Survey (HRS) from the...
Feb 13, 2018 | Journal Publications, Medicaid Working Group
Medicaid Working Group Member Chuanhong Liao was recently part of a team of researchers which studied the effectiveness of social media as a tool for increasing internal medicine residents’ antibiotic knowledge and awareness of the Antimicrobial Stewardship...
Feb 12, 2018 | Journal Publications
CHAS Fellow Olufunmilayo I. Olopade set out to evaluate the performance of existing breast cancer predictions models among women of African ancestry. Termed flip-flop (change in direction of the risk association), it means that a variant is risk factor in one...
Feb 2, 2018 | Journal Publications
Re-hospitalization after discharge for acute decompensated heart failure is a common problem among low-socioeconomic urban patients, who end up over-utilizing the Emergency Department (ED). Chicago Booth professor and CHAS Fellow Dan Adelman, in collaboration with...
Jan 30, 2018 | Journal Publications, Medicaid Working Group
CHAS Director Jeanne Marsh and Doctoral Research Awardees Clifford S. Bersamira, Yu-An Lin, and Keunhye Park examined past-year drug use among Asian Americans with respect to ethnic subgroup, acculturation, and gender differences using data collected from the National...
Jan 20, 2018 | Journal Publications, Medicaid Working Group
As the patient-centered medical home (PCMH) model is being implemented in numerous health centers serving vulnerable populations, CHAS Fellow Marshall Chin and Medicaid Working Group member Robert Nocon set out to identify specific characteristics associated with...
