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CHAS Fellows, Committee Members, and speakers are multi-disciplinary experts stemming from the fields of social work, medicine, business, and more. In addition to CHAS-sponsored events and announcements, CHAS is also proud to showcase some of its fellows' recent contributions to healthcare administration knowledge in the news feed below. Sign Up for CHAS News
Determining Association Between Spousal Characteristics and Hospice Use
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...
Advancing Antimicrobial Stewardship through Social Media
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 Program...
Genetic Variants Demonstrating Flip-Flop Phenomenon and Breast Cancer Risk Prediction Among Women of African Ancestry
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...