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Submissions from 2018

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Water Quality and the Perception of Risk: A Study of Georgia, USA, Beachgoers, Jeffery A. Jones, Asli Aslan, Rakhi Trivedi, Maria Olivas, and Mikayla Hoffmann

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Data on the risk perceptions of beach water safety in coastal Georgia, Jeffery A. Jones, Asli Aslan, Rakhi Trivedi, Maria I. Olivas, and Mikayla Hoffmann

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A Systems Approach to Person-Centric Health Economics, Linda Kimsey, Andrew Hoburg, Samuel T. Olaiya, Kenneth D. Jones II, and Patrick Richard

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Delay in initiation of DMARD or anti-inflammatory therapy in patients newly diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis: An analysis of United States Military Health System TRICARE beneficiaries, Linda Kimsey, Joel Weissman, Avni Patel, Alison Drew, Tracey Koehlmoos, and Jeffrey A. Sparks

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Impact of the Post-Transplant Lymphoproliferative Disorder Subtype on Survival: PTLD Subtype and Survival, Jean L. Koff, Jing-Xia Li, Xinyan Zhang, Jeffrey M. Switchenko, Christopher R. Flowers, and Edmund K. Waller

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Understanding the Executive Roles in Health Leadership, Gerald R. Ledlow and James H. Stephens

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Leadership Models in Practice, Gerald R. Ledlow, James H. Stephens, and David E. Schott

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Challenges of Today Requiring Health Leadership, Gerald R. Ledlow, James H. Stephens, David E. Schott, and William A. Mase

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Trends in Smoking and Smoking Cessation During Pregnancy from 1985 to 2014, Racial and Ethnic Disparity Observed from Multiple National Surveys, Hongxia Lian, Andrew R. Hansen, Zachary McGalliard, Laura Gover, Fei Yan, and Jian Zhang

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Increased Fisher's Information for Parameters of Association in Count Regression via Extreme Ranks, Daniel F. Linder, Jingjing Yin, Haresh Rochani, Hani M. Samawi, and Sanjay Sethi

A Resource Guide to Support Community Development Financial Institutions to Address Social Determinates of Health, Nandi Marshall, Charles F. Owens, Deborah Harvey, Michela Hizine, Oluwadamilola Onifade, and Angela Peden

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Disease Intervention Specialist Education for the Future: An Analysis of Public Health Curricula, William A. Mase, Andrew Hansen, Stacy W. Smallwood, Gulzar H. Shah, Angela Peden, Ted Mulherin, and Kaye Bender

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The Leader-Member Exchange Theory, William A. Mase and James W. Holsinger

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Identifying Factors Underlying the Decision for Sickle Cell Carrier Screening Among African Americans Within Middle Reproductive Age, Tilicia L. Mayo-Gamble, Susan E. Middlestadt, Hsien-Chang Lin, Jennifer Cunningham-Erves, Priscilla A. Barnes, and Pamela Braboy Jackson

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Identifying Factors Underlying the Decision for Sickle Cell Carrier Screening Among African Americans Within Middle Reproductive Age, Tilicia Mayo-Gamble, Susan E. Middlestadt, Hsien-Chang Lin, Jennifer Cunningham-Erves, Priscilla Barnes, and Braboy Jackson

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Excavating New Constructs for Family Stress Theories in the Context of Everyday Life Experiences of Black American Families, Velma McBride Murry, Sheretta T. Butler-Barnes, Tilicia Mayo-Gamble, and Misha N. Inniss-Thompson

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Risk Factors for In‐Hospital Mortality in Heart Failure Patients: Does Rurality, Payer or Admission Source Matter?, Preethy Nayar, Fang Yu, Aastha Chandak, Ge Lin Kan, Brian Lowes, and Bettye A. Apenteng

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Health Care Provider Support for Physical Activity in Women, Aged 20-44 Years, in Georgia: A Qualitative Study, Dziyana Nazaruk, Stuart H. Tedders, and Andrew R. Hansen

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Disparities in Emergency Department Wait Time Among Patients with Mental Health and Substance-Related Disorders, Samuel T. Opoku, Bettye A. Apenteng, Emmanuel A. Akowuah, and Soumitra Bhuyan

Warm Springs Medical Center: Community Health Needs Assessment and Implementation Strategy, Samuel T. Opoku, Bettye A. Apenteng, Charles Owens, Linda Kimsey, and Angela Peden

Public Health Competency and Training Needs Assessment for the Coastal Health District, GA., Samuel T. Opoku, Bettye A. Apenteng, Angela Peden, and William A. Mase

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Different Reference Points, Different Conclusions: Time for a Common Reference Point for Severe Childhood Obesity Studies, Samuel T. Opoku, Andrew R. Hansen, and Jian Zhang

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On Inference of Multivariate Means Using Efficient Sampling Designs, Haresh Rochani, Daniel F. Linder, Hani M. Samawi, and Viral Panchal

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A Simpler Approach for Mediation Analysis for Dichotomous Mediators in Logistic Regression, Hani Samawi, Jingxian Cai, Daniel F. Linder, Haresh Rochani, and Jingjing Yin

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On Quantiles Estimation Based on Different Stratified Sampling With Optimal Allocation, Hani Samawi, Arpita Chatterjee, Jingjing Yin, and Haresh Rochani

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Reducing Sample Size Needed for Accelerated Failure Time Model Using More Efficient Sampling Methods, Hani M. Samawi, Amal Helu, Haresh Rochani, Jingjing Yin, Lili Yu, and Robert L. Vogel

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Notes on Kernel Density Based Mode Estimation Using More Efficient Sampling Designs, Hani M. Samawi, Haresh Rochani, Jingjing Yin, Daniel F. Linder, and Robert L. Vogel

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Local Health Departments’ Role in Non-Profit Hospitals’ Community Health Needs Assessment, Gulzar H. Shah

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Impact of Local Boards of Health on Local Health Department Accreditation, Community Health Assessment, Community Health Improvement Planning, and Strategic Planning, Gulzar H. Shah, Liza Corso, Sergey Sotnikov, and Carolyn Leep

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Local Boards of Health as Linkages Between Local Health Departments and Health Care and Other Community Organizations, Gulzar H. Shah and Carolyn J. Leep

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Roaches, Roach Motels, and Electronic Silos: The Role of Informatics in the Integration of Health Care and Public Health, Gulzar H. Shah, Kristie Cason Waterfield, Mark Renfro, and Zahid Butt

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Data Talks and Hearsay Walks: Health Informatics and Social Determinants of Health, Gulzar H. Shah and Wu Xu

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Tobacco Policies and Alcohol Sponsorship at Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Festivals: Time for Intervention, Jasmine Spivey, Joseph Lee, and Stacy Smallwood

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The Health System of the Russian Federation, James H. Stephens, Alexander V. Sergeev, and Elena A. Plantova

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Acknowledging Our Challenges, Priorities While Giving Thanks, Joseph Telfair

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Addressing Inequities – Poverty as a Health and Human Rights Issue, Joseph Telfair

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Advocating for an End to the Unjust Treatment of Immigrants, Joseph Telfair

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Building Your Public Health Career While Strengthening the Workforce, Joseph Telfair

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Collectively, we can overcome this time that tries our souls, Joseph Telfair

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Delivering rural health care a persistent public health challenge, Joseph Telfair

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Finding a Way to Work Together, Move Needle Toward Progress: Continuing to Advocate for Health, Joseph Telfair

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Focusing Our Priorities, Work and Resources to Address Health Inequities: Diverse Solutions for a Diverse Problem, Joseph Telfair

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More than Just a Job: Public Health Is a Calling, Chance to Make an Impact, Joseph Telfair

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Public Health Faces Challenges, but We Will Overcome Them: We Have Struggled, but Change is Coming, Joseph Telfair

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Child Public Health, Joseph Telfair, Rakhi Trivedi, Helen W. Bland, Valamar Reagon, and Jazzmin Williams

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The Epidemiology of Pedestrian Deaths in Georgia, USA: Opportunities for Public Health, McKinley Thomas and Jeffery A. Jones

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Technology Use and Preferences to Support Clinical Practice Guideline Awareness and Adherence in Individuals With Sickle Cell Disease, Amol Utrankar, Tilicia Mayo-Gamble, Whitney Allen, Laurie Novak, Adetola A. Kassim, Kemberlee Bonnet, David Schlundt, Velma M. Murry, Gretchen Purcell Jackson, Michael DeBaun, and Robert M. Cronin

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Response to Comments by Pablo Martínez-Camblor on “Notes on Overlap Measure as an Alternative to Youden Index: How Are They Related?”, Jingjing Yin, Hani M. Samawi, and Haresh Rochani

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Actual Body Weight or Perceived Body Weight? Comment on ‘Childhood Obesity and School Absenteeism: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis’, Jian Zhang, Andrew R. Hansen, Dustin T. Duncan, and Stuart H. Tedders

Submissions from 2017

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Geographic Variation in Medicare and the Military Healthcare System, Taiwo Adesoya, Linda G. Kimsey, Stuart R. Lipsitz, Louis L. Nguyen, Philip Goodney, Samuel Olaiya, and Joel S. Weissman

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Application of Mixed-methods Design in Community-engaged Research: Lessons Learned From an Evidence-based Intervention for Latinos With Chronic Illness and Minor Depression, Claudia X. Aguado Loi, Moya L. Alfonso, Isabella Chan, Kelsey Anderson, Dinorah Martinez-Tyson, Junius Gonzales, and Jaime Corvin

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Do Maternal Caregiver Perceptions of Childhood Obesity Risk Factors and Obesity Complications Predict Support for Prevention Initiatives Among African Americans?, Dayna S. Alexander, Moya L. Alfonso, Chunhua Cao, and Alesha Wright

Flex Financial and Operational Improvement Grant, Year Two Report, Bettye A. Apenteng, Kwabena G. Boakye, Mark Hanna, Linda G. Kimsey, William A. Mase, Samuel T. Opoku, Charles F. Owens, Angela Peden, and Stuart H. Tedders

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Racial Disparities in Emotional Distress among Cancer Survivors: Insights from the Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS), Bettye A. Apenteng, Andrew R. Hansen, Samuel T. Opoku, and William A. Mase

2017 Assessment of Employee Engagement at Crisp Regional Hospital, Bettye Apenteng, Emmanuel Akowuah, and Samuel T. Opoku

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Strategies for Improving Profitability of Rural Hospitals: Are Profitable Hospitals Doing Something Different?, Bettye Apenteng, Angela Peden, Raymona Lawrence, Emmanuel Akowuah, Samuel Opoku, James H. Stephens, and Bill Mase

Positioning Rural Hospitals for Financial Sustainability: A Descriptive Study of Georgia Rural Hospitals’ Efforts Toward Financial Sustainability, Bettye Apenteng, Angela Peden, Raymona H. Lawrence, Emmanuel Akowuah, James H. Stephens, and William A. Mase

What’s in Your Water: The State of Drinking Water Quality in Evans County, Asli Aslan, S. Barron, and R. Vogel

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An Exploratory Assessment of Weight Loss Videos on YouTube, Corey H. Basch, Chen Mo, Isaac Chun-Hai Fung, and Jingjing Yin

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TMJ Online: Investigating Temporomandibular Disorders as “TMJ” on YouTube, Corey H. Basch, Jingjing Yin, Nathan Walker, Aurea J. De Leon, and Isaac Fung

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On Stratified Ranked Set Sampling for Regression Estimators, Arpita Chatterjee, Hani Samawi, Lili Yu, Daniel F. Linder, Jingxian Cai, and Robert L. Vogel

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Increasing Breastfeeding Duration and Exclusivity in a Sample of Rural Women: A Pilot Study, Joanne Chopak-Foss and Felicia Yeboah

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Differentiating Instruction in Physical Education: Personalization of Learning, Gavin T. Colquitt, Tony A. Pritchard, Christine Johnson, and Starla McCollum

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A Review of Strategies to Increase Access to Oral Health Services, Breyana Davis and Sara S. Plaspohl

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Perceived Not Actual Overweight Is Associated With Excessive School Absenteeism Among U.S. Adolescents, Dustin T. Duncan, Andrew R. Hansen, Jennifer Woo Baidal, Rodney Lyn, Ashley Hill, and Jian Zhang

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#GlobalHealth Twitter Conversations on #Malaria, #HIV, #TB, #NCDS, and #NTDS: A Cross-Sectional Analysis, Isaac Chun-Hai Fung, Ashley M. Jackson, Jennifer Ahweyevu, Jordan H. Grizzle, Jingjing Yin, Zion Tsz Ho Tse, Hai Liang, Juliet N. Sekandi, and King-Wa Fu

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Twitter and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, South Korea, 2015: A Multi-lingual Study, Isaac Chun-Hai Fung, Jing Zeng, Chung-Hong Chan, Hai Lung, Jingjing Yin, Zhaochong Liu, Zion Tsz Ho Tse, and King-Wa Fu

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Coliphage as an Indicator of the Quality of Beach Water to Protect the Health of Swimmers in Coastal Georgia, Javier Gallard-Gongora, Kathryn McGowan Munck, Jeffery A. Jones, and Asli Aslan

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Physician Attitudes Toward the Ethics of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP): Cost, Safety, and Resource Allocation, Jessica Grippo, Stacy W. Smallwood, Katherine Pincura, Tamara Wright, and William A. Mase

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On Marginal Distributions Under Progressive Type II Censoring: Similarity/Dissimilarity Properties, Amal Helu and Hani Samawi

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Using Ranked Auxiliary Covariate as a More Efficient Sampling Design for ANCOVA Model: Analysis of a Psychological Intervention to Buttress Resilience, Rajai Jabrah, Hani Samawi, Robert Vogel, Haresh Rochani, and Daniel Linder

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It Is a Painful Somatic Symptom, Not the History of Cancer/Malignancy That Is Associated With Depression: Findings From Multiple National Surveys, Krystina Johnson, Maria D. Politis, Andrew R. Hansen, Lindsey E. McKenzie, Dustin T. Duncan, and Jian Zhang

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Commentaries on Health Services Research, Jeffery A. Jones

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Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Healthcare Supply Chains: A Case Study in Outfitting a New Hospital Facility, Jeffery A. Jones, Michelle Ellington, and Andrew Blues

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Operational and Financial Performance of Georgia’s Critical Access Hospitals, Linda G. Kimsey, Bettye A. Apenteng, William A. Mase, Samuel T. Opoku, Mark D. Hanna, Kwabena G. Boakye, Lisa Carhuff, Charles Owens, Angela Peden, Stuart H. Tedders, and Patricia Whaley

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Geographic Variation Within the Military Health System, Linda G. Kimsey, Samuel Olaiya, Chad Smith, Andrew Hoburg, Stuart R. Lipsitz, Tracey Koehlmoos, Louis L. Nguyen, and Joel S. Weissman

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A User-friendly Assessment Tool as a Means to Improved Curriculum Mapping and Student Learning Evaluation, Linda Kimsey, David Schott, and Gerald R. Ledlow

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The Imperative for a Health Systems Approach to Global Health Engagement, Tracey Koehlmoos, Linda G. Kimsey, David Bishai, and David Lane

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Measuring Compatibility Gaps in Relationships and Business Models That Influence Strategy, Gerald R. Ledlow, James H. Stephens, and David E. Schott

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Data, Staff, Money: Leadership Reflections on the Future of Public Health Informatics, Jonathon P. Leider, Gulzar H. Shah, Akrati Gupta, Karmen S. Williams, and Brian C. Castrucci

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Radical Prostatectomy Innovation and Outcomes at Military and Civilian Institutions, Jeffrey J. Leow, Joel S. Weissman, Linda G. Kimsey, Andrew Hoburg, Lorens A. Helmchen, Wei Jiang, Nathanael Hevelone, Stuart R. Lipsitz, Louis L. Nguyen, and Steven L. Chang

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Impact of State Reporting Laws on Central Line–Associated Bloodstream Infection Rates in U.S. Adult Intensive Care Units, Hangsheng Liu, Carolyn T. A. Herzig, Andrew Dick, E. Yoko Furuya, Elaine Larson, Julie Reagan, Monika Pogorzelska-Maziarz, and Patricia W. Stone

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Salud es Vida: A Cervical Cancer Screening Intervention for Rural Latina Immigrant Women, John S. Luque, Yelena N. Tarasenko, Claudia Reyes-Garcia, Moya L. Alfonso, Norma Suazo, Laura Rebing, and Daron Ferris

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Georgia’s Critical Access Hospitals: Financial Performance and Process Improvement, William A. Mase, Bettye A. Apenteng, Lisa Carhuff, Mark D. Hanna, Kwabena G. Boakye, Linda G. Kimsey, Samuel T. Opoku, Charles Owens, Stuart H. Tedders, and Patricia Whaley

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After-Action Review of the 2009-10 H1N1 Influenza Outbreak Response: Ohio’s Public Health System’s Performance, William A. Mase, Beth Bickford, Casey L. Thomas, Shamika D. Jones, and Michael Bisesi

Disease Intervention Specialist Education for the Future, William A. Mase, Andrew Hansen, Stacy W. Smallwood, Gulzar H. Shah, and Angela Peden

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Assessing Training Needs and Competency Gaps in Food Protection Staff, William A. Mase, Bobbie J. Newell, H. Pamela Pagano, and Jessica Arrazola

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2484: Establishment of the Tennessee-sickle cell disease network as a mechanism for engaging a rare disease population in patient centered outcomes research, Tilicia Mayo-Gamble, Velma McBride Murry, and Michael R. Debaun

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Patient Centered Outcomes Research Tennessee Sickle Cell Disease Network: An Operational Manual for Engaging Sickle Cell Patient Families in Patient Centered Outcomes Research, Tilicia Mayo-Gamble, Velma McBride Murry, Trevor K. Thompson, Nabilah Lari, Jennifer Cunningham-Erves, Alexis Gorden, Lametra Scott, Vanessa Steele, Janice Reed, Justin Flowers, and Alexandria Thompson

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Solo Practice Physicians in Georgia, Fedelis Mutiso, Emmanuel A. Akowuah, Samuel T. Opoku, and Bettye A. Apenteng

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Needs Assessment for Behavioral Health Workforce: A State-Level Analysis, Preethy Nayar, Bettye A. Apenteng, Ahn T. Nguyen, Kelly Shaw-Sutherland, Diptee Ojha, and Marlene Deras

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Provider-Induced Demand in the Treatment of Carotid Artery Stenosis: Variation in Treatment Decisions Between Private Sector Fee-for-Service vs Salary-Based Military Physicians, Louis L. Nguyen, Ann D. Smith, Rebecca E. Scully, Wei Jiang, Peter A. Learn, Stuart R. Lipsitz, Joel S. Weissman, Lorens A. Helmchen, Tracey Koehlmoos, Andrew Hoburg, and Linda G. Kimsey

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Number Needed to Treat in Multiple Sclerosis Clinical Trials, Macaulay Okwuokenye, Annie Zhang, Amy Pace, and Karl E. Peace

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Temporal Trends and Rural-Urban Differences in Hospital Length of Stay for Alzheimer Disease and Related Disorders, Samuel T. Opoku, Bettye A. Apenteng, and Ge Lin

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Intrapartum Obstetric Care in the U.S. Military: Comparison of Military and Civilian Care Systems within TRICARE, Anju Ranjit, Wei Jiang, Tiannan Zhan, Linda G. Kimsey, Bart Staat, Catherine T. Witkop, Sarah E. Little, Adil H. Haider, and Julian N. Robinson

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Markov Chain Monte-Carlo Methods for Missing Data Under Ignorability Assumptions, Haresh Rochani and Daniel F. Linder

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Estimates for Cell Counts and Common Odds Ratio in Three-Way Contingency Tables by Homogeneous Log-Linear Models with Missing Data, Haresh Rochani, Robert L. Vogel, Hani M. Samawi, and Daniel Linder

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Improving the Efficiency of the Monte-Carlo Methods Using Ranked Simulated Approach, Hani M. Samawi

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On Kernel Density Estimation Based on Different Stratified Sampling With Optimal Allocation, Hani M. Samawi, Arpita Chatterjee, Jingjing Yin, and Haresh Rochani

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More Efficient Logistic Analysis Using Moving Extreme Ranked Set Sampling, Hani M. Samawi, Haresh Rochani, Daniel F. Linder, and Arpita Chatterjee