The role and influence of exclusively online degree programs in higher education

JC Ortagus, R Hughes… - American Educational …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
This study leverages national data and a quasi-experimental design to examine the
influence of enrolling in an exclusively online degree program on students' likelihood of …

Association of Medicare Advantage Enrollment With Financial Burden of Care: A Retrospective Cohort Study

S Park, DJ Meyers, AN Trivedi - Annals of internal medicine, 2024 - acpjournals.org
Background: Compared with traditional Medicare (TM), Medicare Advantage (MA) plans
typically offer supplemental benefits and lower copayments for in-network services and must …

STEM doctorate recipients with disabilities experienced early in life earn lower salaries and are underrepresented among higher academic positions

F Castro, E Stuart, J Deal, V Varadaraj… - Nature Human …, 2024 - nature.com
There is paucity of data examining disparities in salary and representation for disabled
scientists, which is needed to advance inclusion and equity for people with disabilities in …

Incremental burden on health‐related quality of life, health service utilization and direct medical expenditures associated with cognitive impairment among non …

D Guan, MO Lewis, P Li, Y Zhang… - Diabetes, Obesity …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Aims To quantify the incremental health and economic burden associated with cognitive
impairment (CI) among non‐institutionalized people with diabetes≥ 65 years in the United …

Impact of Advanced Therapy Centers on Characteristics and Outcomes of Heart Failure Admissions

DY Lu, J Kanduri, I Yeo, P Goyal, U Krishnan… - Circulation: Heart …, 2024 - Am Heart Assoc
BACKGROUND: Although much attention has been paid to admission and transfer patterns
for cardiogenic shock, contemporary data are lacking on decompensated heart failure (HF) …

Estimating generalized propensity scores with survey and attrition weighted data

DF McCaffrey, BA Griffin, M Robbins… - Statistics in …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Prior work in causal inference has shown that using survey sampling weights in the
propensity score estimation stage and the outcome model stage for binary treatments can …

Associations between mental health & substance use treatment and alcohol use progression and recovery among US women drinkers

AS Young, BA Reboussin, K Riehm, R Mojtabai… - PloS one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Background Alcohol use has profound public health impact on women; however, modifiable
factors that may influence alcohol use progression/recovery, including health service …

On My Honor: A Quasi-Experimental Analysis of Honors Students' Perceptions of Workload and Cognitive Challenge

KC Culver, N Bray, J Braxton - Research in Higher Education, 2024 - Springer
The assumption that honors programs are more academically challenging is rarely
interrogated. Using multi-institutional, longitudinal quantitative data from a larger study, we …

Inequalities in mortality in the Asia-Pacific: A cross-national comparison of socioeconomic gradients

KQ Xu, JYH Aw, CF Payne - The Journals of Gerontology, Series …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Objectives Social inequalities in mortality are poorly studied in much of the Asia-Pacific.
Using data from harmonized nationally representative longitudinal health and aging surveys …

The impact of racism on subsequent healthcare use and experiences for adult New Zealanders: a prospective cohort study

R Harris, D Cormack, A Waa, R Edwards, J Stanley - BMC public health, 2024 - Springer
Background Racism is an important determinant of health and driver of racial/ethnic health
inequities. Experience of racism has been linked to negative healthcare use and …