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Infectious diseases can spread quickly through nursing homes, leading to high morbidity and mortality in this vulnerable population. The COVID-19 pandemic underscored this, causing over 1.7 million SARS-CoV-2 cases and almost 168,000 deaths among nursing…

Track PCC uses public health surveillance to learn more about the effects and burden of Long COVID among diverse populations.

The nation’s ability to identify and respond to outbreaks relies on access to high-quality and timely data for disease surveillance.

Changes in the complex prospective payment system (PPS) for home health agencies (HHAs) may have led to HHA behavior changes that thwarted the modifications’ goals. As a result, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) wanted an assessment of…

Two small tests of a college-based version of the Year Up program found a general need for improvements and identified a strategy that may address this need.

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…

This blog explains Abt’s approach to identifying the core components of effective programs and translating those core components into practice recommendations.