Results We identified 791 veterans in the Oregon NVDRS data who had used VA healthcare services within the two years prior to death (Table 2). Of these, 92% had received primary care or mental healthcare from the VA; the remainder had used specialty or pharmacy services. Most decedents ...
Interpreting the macroinvertebrate community patterns across the datasets that were collected over 50 years apart and that used markedly different sampling methods and differing taxonomic resolution was a challenge. For example, each macroinvertebrate dataset included a site in the forested section of Soda ...
However, the discontinuities in lagged outcomes and student characteristics suggest caution about interpreting the results as causal. In the remaining columns, we provide further tests of whether manipulation in the forcing variable may be driving our results. Our primary concern is that schools may ...
A wide range of online interfaces and programs offered through, for instance, Zooniverse, [14] allow lay- people to assist with interpreting scientific datasets. These may provide images to the public in need of classification, ranging from galaxies (Einstein@home) [15] to tumour re- search (...
Providence Health and Services and Affiliates (PHSA) is an integrated not-for-profit US community health care system that provides care in urban and rural settings across 7 states: Alaska, California, Montana, Oregon, New Mexico, Texas, and Washington. PHSA service includes 52 hospitals, 1085 ...
When analyzing and interpreting the interviews, researchers aimed for “thick description,” that is, to provide a deeper, more nuanced understanding of the ways that individuals interpret events and phenomena in their social worlds. New participants were recruited and interviewed until no new ...
First, the constitutions of four states (Texas, Oregon, Indiana, and Tennessee) specify a two-thirds quorum requirement for a meeting of the legislature. No political party had two-thirds control of both houses of the legislature in any of these states in November of 2008. Thus, it would ...
services might be unethical, but governments in general and individual programs face countless situations in which they have no choice but to make cuts. These situations offer opportunities to develop evidence by assigning the cuts to a random subset, just as Oregon's circumstances invited its ...
of mothers’ education on birth weight. Increasing mothers’ education reduces the likelihood of low birth weight, even in a publically financed health care system. In interpreting these results it is important to keep in mind that we have examined only one channel, which is through birth weight...
Department of Health and Human Services NGT Nominal Group Technique NSSP National Syndromic Surveillance Program WHO World Health Organization Limitations This work is predominantly qualitative, so care should be exercised when interpreting our findings. Workgroup members were selected based on desired ...