The U.S. health care system faces unprecedented challenges. Overall life expectancy has improved, but racial and socioeconomic disparities in mortality and health status have recently been widening.
Background: Older adults occasionally receive seizure prophylaxis in an acute ischemic stroke (AIS) setting, despite safety concerns.
How do media portrayals of potential policy beneficiaries’ identities sway public support for these policies in a public health setting?
A main research goal in various studies is to use an observational data set and provide a new set of counterfactual guidelines that can yield causal improvements.
There is a growing amount of evidence that machine learning (ML) algorithms can be used to develop accurate clinical risk scores for a wide range of medical conditions.
As a major public health crisis, the opioid epidemic caused over 556,000 deaths in the U.S. between 2000 and 2020.
The number of disability beneficiaries has doubled in the past two decades. It is difficult to determine how much is explained by changes in health, as we lack a counterfactual.
Health plans for the poor increasingly limit access to specialty hospitals. We investigate the role of adverse selection in generating this equilibrium among private plans in Medicaid.
Regulators of new products confront a tradeoff between speeding a new product to market and collecting additional product quality information.
We examine differences in mobility outcomes between residents of highest and lowest socio-economic index (SEI) at the Census block group (CBG) level in nine major US cities prior to and during the COV
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