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Abt’s Program Theory Playbook: Six Visual Strategies That Will Change Your Evaluation Game

Abt’s Program Theory Playbook: Six Visual Strategies That Will Change Your Evaluation Game

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Abt’s developed a playbook that illustrates six different types of program theories to help program developers and evaluators visualize program theories.
ATSDR Toxicological Profiles

ATSDR Toxicological Profiles

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The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) wants to better understand the characteristics of chemicals with a range of potential health effects—including cancer, endocrine, neurological, hematological, hepatic, and renal—found on the…
Tracking COVID-19 in High-Risk Workers

Tracking COVID-19 in High-Risk Workers

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From the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, CDC needed timely information on COVID-19 illness characterization and vaccine effectiveness in this highly exposed cohort. CDC also needed data on rates of symptomatic and asymptomatic infection and re-infection…
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Evaluation of Indigenous Family Wellbeing Services

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Abt’s evaluation found that FWS help reduce Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children’s entry into the child protection system.
Home Health Prospective Payment System, Hospice and Home Infusion

Monitoring Medicare’s Home Health, Hospice, and Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Benefits

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) home health, hospice, home infusion therapy, home IVIG, and IRF benefits require constant monitoring of payment policy—and revisions, as needed—to ensure they are working as intended. This enables…
Study of COVID-19 in Retirement Villages

Study of COVID-19 in Retirement Communities

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Older adults are among those with the highest risk for medically attended COVID-19. From early in the COVID-19 pandemic, CDC needed data to characterize risk factors and clinical epidemiology of COVID-19 among older adults. The information would inform…
Infectious Diseases Impact Healthcare Workers

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…
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Promoting Early Literacy Skills

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Abt Global was subcontracted by RMC Research to help the National Institute for Literacy promote the findings and recommendations of the National Early Literacy Panel. The Panel synthesized research on the teaching of literacy and literacy-related skills…
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Assessing the Massachusetts Education Evaluation Framework

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From 2012-2015, Abt helped assess the implementation of Massachusetts’s new educator evaluation framework. The purpose of the research was to provide the Commonwealth and districts with real-time, usable feedback to support implementation of the…
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Abt to Help Massachusetts Extract, Review and Analyze Opioid Overdose Data

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Identifying opioid overdose events in administrative records is not always straightforward. Not all people who overdose are taken to hospitals, and some overdoses are reversed by administering naloxone (Narcan), which can be done by first responders,…