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Ensuring Making Health Care Safer III Lives up to Its Name
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The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s (AHRQ) Making Health Care Safer (MHCS) reports have had an important role in reducing harm and improving the safety and quality of care for patients.
Infectious Diseases Impact Healthcare Workers
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Healthcare workers (HCWs) are a pivotal part of controlling the spread of infectious diseases and are at the forefront of the response to emerging pathogens. However, HCWs themselves are at high risk of exposure to these infectious diseases. To protect…
Tradeoffs in Habitat Value to Maximize Natural Resource Benefits From Coastal Restoration in a Rapidly Eroding Wetland: Is Monitoring Land Area Sufficient?
Publication
This article compares the benefits of shallow open water areas to emergent restored wetlands in Coastal Louisiana to explore restoration ecosystem benefits.
Supporting Development, Dissemination and Implementation of the CDC Opioid Prescribing Guideline
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Nearly 50,000 persons died of opioid overdoses in 2017, which contributed to the first-ever decline in working-age Americans’ life expectancy. A 2012 Abt Global study found wide geographic variation in opioid prescribing in the United States, indicating…
Integrated Care for Kids (InCK) Model Evaluation: Report 1
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Abt is evaluating CMS’s InCK Model to understand how the program helps healthcare providers improve integrated services to kids with complex health challenges.
Risk-Screening Environmental Indicators Project
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To streamline emissions data, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Risk-Screening Environmental Indicators (RSEI) is a modelling tool that helps policy makers, researchers, and communities explore data on releases of toxic substances from…
Bayesian Estimation of Human Population Toxicokinetics of PFOA, PFOS, PFHxS and PFNA from Studies of Contaminated Drinking Water
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Abt experts co-authored a study explaining how stakeholders—including individual citizens—can better estimate PFAS blood levels from water concentrations.
Building More Evidence in Reemployment Services for Unemployment Claimants
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In 2018, Congress permanently authorized the RESEA program, which aims to help Unemployment Insurance (UI) claimants return to work more quickly. As a result, RESEA now requires that states use evidence to demonstrate the effectiveness of their programs.