# overview
My research  focuses on the data science of using massive secondary datasets to address specific questions in social, beharvioural, economic, and health sciences. Some refer to this relatively new field as population informatics.

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Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act

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Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act

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Networking And Information Technology R&d

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8.1 Organisation And Delivery Of Services

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8 Health And Social Care Services Research

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Decision Making, Education Of Patients, Electronic Health Record, Computer Graphics, Clinical Laboratory Information Systems

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Health Insurance Portability And Accountability Act

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Networking And Information Technology R&d (nitrd)

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Outcome And Process Assessment, Health Care

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Maternal And Perinatal Care And Outcomes

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Networking And Information Technology R&d

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Networking And Information Technology R&d

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Health Insurance Portability And Accountability Act

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Knowledge Discovery And Data Mining (KDD)

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Privacy Preserving Interactive Record Linkage (PPIRL)

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Knowledge Discovery And Data Mining (KDD)

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Networking And Information Technology R&d (nitrd)

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8.3 Policy, Ethics, And Research Governance

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8 Health And Social Care Services Research

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Clinical Trials And Supportive Activities

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4.2 Evaluation Of Markers And Technologies

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4.1 Discovery And Preclinical Testing Of Markers And Technologies

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Networking And Information Technology R&d

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - (Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States)

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - (Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States)

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Yonsei University - (Seoul, South Korea)

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - (Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States)

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The Effects of Chronic Disease on Ambulatory Care-Sensitive Hospitalizations for Children or Youth.

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Post-acute care referral in United States of America: a multiregional study of factors associated with referral destination in a cohort of patients with coronary artery bypass graft or valve replacement.

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Patient perspectives on the linkage of health data for research: Insights from an online patient community questionnaire.

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Predictors of Multiple Emergency Department Utilization Among Frequent Emergency Department Users in 3 States.

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ApproxMAP: Approximate mining of consensus sequential patterns

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Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Mobile Health: App Investigation and Scoping Literature Review.

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Healthcare Costs for Medicare Patients With Hepatocellular Carcinoma in the United States.

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A Descriptive Model of the Current PTSD Care System: Identifying Opportunities for Improvement

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The effect of expanded insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act on emergency department utilization in New York.

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Measuring Opinion Relevance in Latent Topic Space

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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Health services utilization, out-of-pocket expenditure, and underinsurance among insured non-elderly cancer survivors in the United States, 2011-2015.

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Sa1407: SURVEILLANCE WITH CT OR MRI IS ASSOCIATED WITH IMPROVED SURVIVAL COMPARED TO ULTRASOUND IN PATIENTS WITH HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA

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Effects of maternity care coordination on pregnancy outcomes: propensity-weighted analyses.

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Real-World Adherence and Effectiveness of Remote Patient Monitoring Among Medicaid Patients With Diabetes: Retrospective Cohort Study (Preprint)

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Emergency Department Utilization by Adolescents Experiencing Homelessness in Massachusetts.

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HEALTHCARE COSTS AND EXPENDITURES FOR PATIENTS WITH HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA IN THE UNITED STATES

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Post-acute care for children with special health care needs.

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Balancing Privacy and Information Disclosure in Interactive Record Linkage with Visual Masking

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Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

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SURVEILLANCE WITH CT OR MRI IS ASSOCIATED WITH IMPROVED SURVIVAL COMPARED TO ULTRASOUND IN PATIENTS WITH HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA

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Achieving scalable parallel molecular dynamics using dynamic spatial domain decomposition techniques

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Improving the Understanding of Test Results by Substituting (Not Adding) Goal Ranges: Web-Based Between-Subjects Experiment.

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A Study of Publicly Available Resources Addressing Legal Data-Sharing Barriers: Systematic Assessment.

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Predictors of Colorectal Cancer Screening: Does Rurality Play a Role?

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Privacy-by-Design: Understanding Data Access Models for Secondary Data.

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Sequential pattern mining in multi-databases via multiple alignment

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Post-acute Care for Children and Youth in Texas, 2011-2014.

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Predictors of Pediatric Frequent Emergency Department Use Among 7.6 million Pediatric Patients in New York.

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Changes in North Carolina maternal health service use and outcomes among medicaid-enrolled pregnant women during state budget cuts.

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Establishing an International Data Linkage Repository Workgroup Toward a Benchmarking Repository

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Racial, Ethnic, and Socioeconomic Disparities in Treatment Delay Among Patients With Hepatocellular Carcinoma in the United States.

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Crash narrative classification: Identifying agricultural crashes using machine learning with curated keywords.

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Felonious Arrests of Former Foster Care and TANF-Involved Youth

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Adherence to Telemonitoring Therapy for Medicaid Patients With Hypertension: Case Study (vol 23, e29018, 2021)

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Does Maternity Care Coordination Influence Perinatal Health Care Utilization? Evidence from North Carolina.

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Supporting real-time collaboration over wide area networks

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Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

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Informing child welfare policy and practice: using knowledge discovery and data mining technology via a dynamic Web site.

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VIEW: a framework for organization level interactive record linkage to  support reproducible data science

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Incremental Interactive Record Linkage using Human Intelligence Tasks (HITs)

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DO CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS RECEIVING CARE COORDINATION HAVE GREATER ACCESS TO PRIMARY CARE?

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A Position Statement on Population Data Science: The Science of Data about People.

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US Privacy Laws Go Against Public Preferences and Impede Public Health and Research: Survey Study.

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16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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Case study on communicating with research ethics committees about minimizing risk through software: an application for record linkage in secondary data analysis.

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Privacy preserving interactive record linkage (PPIRL).

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Corrigendum to "Patient perspectives on the linkage of health data for research: Insights from an online patient community questionnaire" [Int. J. Med. Inform. 127 (2019) 9-17].

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Growth and Disparities in Mental Health, Telemedicine, and Telemedicine Mental Health Usage between 2013 and 2018 among Disabled Medicaid Clients in Urban, Suburban, and Rural Texas Counties: A Cohort Study (Preprint)

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US Privacy Laws Go Against Public Preferences and Impede Public Health and Research: Survey Study (Preprint)

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COMPARISON OF DATA TO DECISION MODELS FOR A DATA CONSORTIA

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Modeling dynamic load balancing in molecular dynamics to achieve scalable parallel execution

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Characteristics and predictors of adult frequent emergency department users in the United States: A systematic literature review.

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Prediagnostic CT or MRI Utilization and Outcomes in Hepatocellular Carcinoma: SEER-Medicare Database Analysis

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American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)

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Decoupled Data for Privacy Preserving Record Linkage with Error Management

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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Barriers to Remote Health Interventions for Type 2 Diabetes: A Systematic Review and Proposed Classification Scheme.

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Assessing the Effect of Clinical Inertia on Diabetes Outcomes: a Modeling Approach.

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Factors associated with unrecognized cirrhosis in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma.

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The Korean Association for the Study of the Liver

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Increasing Transparent and Accountable Use of Data by Quantifying the  Actual Privacy Risk in Interactive Record Linkage

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Social Genome: Putting Big Data to Work for Population Informatics

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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Frequency-based load shedding over a data stream of tuples

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A semi-automated tool for identifying agricultural roadway crashes in crash narratives.

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HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA SCREENING IS UNDERUSED IN AT-RISK PATIENTS

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Adult Cancer-Related Emergency Department Utilization: An Analysis of Trends and Outcomes From Emergency Departments in Maryland and New York.

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American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)

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Intelligent sequential mining via alignment: Optimization techniques for very large DB

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Association of Sociodemographics with Out-of-Pocket Expenditure and Underinsurance in Skin Cancer Survivors

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Actual and perceived E-cigarettes behaviors among a national sample of U.S. college students.

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Transitioning to Patient-Centered Medical Homes: Associations With Appointment Availability.

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K-Anonymity Based Privacy Risk Budgeting System for Interactive Record Linkage

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Hepatocellular Carcinoma Screening Is Associated With Increased Survival of Patients With Cirrhosis.

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Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease-Associated Hepatocellular Carcinoma in the United States.

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The Effect of the Medicaid Expansion on Frequent Emergency Department Use in New York.

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Medicaid Expansion Resulted in Decreased Odds of Frequent Emergency Department Use Among Medicaid Beneficiaries and the Uninsured in New York

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Privacy-Preserving Data Integration Using Decoupled Data

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The Interrelationships between the length of stay, readmission, and post-acute care referral in cardiac surgery patients

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ECONOMIC EVALUATION OF EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR - TYROSINE KINASE INHIBITOR (EGFR-TKI) DRUGS IN NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER (NSCLC) TREATMENT: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF RECENT STUDIES

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Adherence to Telemonitoring Therapy for Medicaid Patients With Hypertension: Case Study.

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Correction: Adherence to Telemonitoring Therapy for Medicaid Patients With Hypertension: Case Study.

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American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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Sociometric methods for relevancy analysis of Long Tail Science Data

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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Identifying and prioritizing benefits and risks of using privacy-enhancing software through participatory design: a nominal group technique study with patients living with chronic conditions.

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PCN133 ECONOMIC EVALUATION OF EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR - TYROSINE KINASE INHIBITOR (EGFR-TKI) DRUGS IN NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER (NSCLC) TREATMENT: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF RECENT STUDIES

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Data privacy laws in the US protect profit but prevent sharing data for public good – people want the opposite

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Determinants of persistent, multi-year, frequent emergency department use among children and young adults in three US states.

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Former foster youth: Employment outcomes up to age 30

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Out-of-pocket expenditure, probability of underinsurance and health services utilization among non-elderly cancer survivors

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American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)

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Enhancing Privacy through an Interactive On-demand Incremental Information Disclosure Interface: Applying Privacy-by-Design to Record Linkage

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Real-World Adherence and Effectiveness of Remote Patient Monitoring Among Medicaid Patients With Diabetes: Retrospective Cohort Study.

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Communicating With Patients About Software for Enhancing Privacy in Secondary Database Research Involving Record Linkage: Delphi Study.

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Data Sharing in a Decentralized Public Health System: Lessons From COVID-19 Syndromic Surveillance.

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Financial Toxicities Persist for Cancer Survivors Irrespective of Current Cancer Status: An Analysis of Medical Expenditure Panel Survey.

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American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)

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Correction: Adherence to Telemonitoring Therapy for Medicaid Patients With Hypertension: Case Study (Preprint)

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Comparative study of sequential pattern mining models

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Communicating With Patients About Software for Enhancing Privacy in Secondary Database Research Involving Record Linkage: Delphi Study (Preprint)

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Using big data for evidence based governance in child welfare

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16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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An effective privacy enhanced interface to support record linkage decisions

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Supporting self-evaluation in local government via Knowledge Discovery and Data mining

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Secure Decoupled Linkage (SDLink) System for Building a Social Genome

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment Receipt in the United States: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

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Racial, Ethnic, and Socioeconomic Disparities in Curative Treatment Receipt and Survival in Hepatocellular Carcinoma.

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Data Sharing in a Decentralized Public Health System: Lessons from COVID-19 Syndromic Surveillance (Preprint)

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Benchmarking the effectiveness of sequential pattern mining methods

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Racial, Ethnic and Socioeconomic Disparities in Curative Treatment Receipt and Survival for Patients with HCC

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Military Deployments and Mental Health Utilization Among Spouses of Active Duty Service Members.

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Adherence to Telemonitoring Therapy for Medicaid Patients With Hypertension: Case Study (Preprint)

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JA:2021-33. Logging Truck Crashes in the SW Agricultural Region: Examining Severity and Associated Factors

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Tu1445 - Hepatocellular Carcinoma Screening is Underused in at-Risk Patients

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Self-Reported Quality, Health, and Cost-Related Outcomes of Care Coordination Among Patients with Complex Health Needs.

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EAGER:  Collaborative Research: A Benchmark Data Linkage Repository (DLRep)

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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Texas A&M Health Science Center; Health Policy And Management; 1266 TAMUS