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Touchpoints for Addressing Substance Use Issues in Home Visiting: Executive Summary of Phase 1 Final Report

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Published On :: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 19:23:00 Z

This report describes project findings around six touchpoints and four implementation system inputs through which home visiting programs can engage and support families to prevent, identify, and address substance use issues.

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Association of Organizational Factors and Physician Practices’ Participation in Alternative Payment Models

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Published On :: Thu, 02 Apr 2020 14:18:00 Z

Consolidation among physician practices and between hospitals and physician practices has accelerated in the past decade, resulting in higher prices in commercial markets.

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Emerging Findings from the 2012-2017 National Cross-Site Evaluation of the Regional Partnership Grant (RPG) Program (Summary)

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Published On :: Thu, 09 Apr 2020 18:29:14 Z

This summary presents emerging findings from the national cross-site evaluation for the Regional Partnership Grant program. The program supports partnerships between providers of child welfare and social services to improve the well-being of children impacted by substance abuse.

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Improving Effect Estimates by Limiting the Variability in Inverse Propensity Score Weights

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Published On :: Tue, 14 Apr 2020 18:10:35 Z

This study describes a novel method to reweight a comparison group used for causal inference, so the group is similar to a treatment group on observable characteristics yet avoids highly variable weights that would limit statistical power.

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COVID-19 Data Primer from Mathematica

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Published On :: Thu, 16 Apr 2020 17:31:12 Z

Mathematica continues to partner with our clients and groups like the National Association of Health Data Organizations (NAHDO) to respond to the evolving COVID-19 pandemic, particularly in the area of data analytics.

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Supporting Child Welfare Agencies During COVID-19

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Published On :: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 17:45:00 Z

Before the COVID-19 pandemic changed our daily lives, resource-constrained child welfare agencies across the country already faced challenges with implementing parts of the new Family First Prevention Services Act (FFPSA) of 2018.

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A COVID-19 Primer: Analyzing Health Care Claims, Administrative Data, and Public Use Files

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Published On :: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 17:08:00 Z

This primer is designed to help researchers, data scientists, and others who analyze health care claims or administrative data (herein referred to as “claims”) quickly join the effort to better understand, track, and contain COVID-19.

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Oakland’s Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Tax: Impacts on Prices, Purchases and Consumption by Adults and Children (Journal Article)

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Published On :: Fri, 01 May 2020 14:43:00 Z

In this paper, we estimate the impact of the tax on retail prices, product availability, purchases, and child and adult consumption of taxed beverages in Oakland, as well as of potential substitute beverages.

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