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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"treatment intensity"”.
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The economics of medical treatment intensity
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1993.
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Intensive Treatment Near the End of Life in Advanced Cancer Patients
Many advanced cancer patients receive intensive treatment near the end of life (EOL). Intensive treatment near the EOL is often associated with worse outcomes, such as worse quality of life (QOL), greater distress in patients and caregivers, and higher health care costs. For cancers typically …
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Population ecology and management of the invasive plant, Lespedeza cuneata
… invasion in a native prairie site. Management treatments reduced local infestations, but failing to treat led to large increases of L. cuneata. Density-based models with even simple spatial information were more predictive than presence/absence models of untreated conditions. The effect of …
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Predictors of Outcome for Children with Autism Receiving a Behavioral Intervention
… within the literature. The heterogeneity in treatment outcome has been hypothesized as related to the heterogeneity of children included within the autism spectrum as well as differences related to treatment variables. The current study evaluated individual child characteristics and …
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Can Management Improve Productivity? Experimental Evidence from Education
… of 1.95 `Additional SD per $100 (PPP)'). The treatment intensity analysis (IV estimates) showed that the impact of increasing the school management by one score point (on a scale from one, worst management, to five, best management) was 0.680 (0.245) SD for reading and 0.714 (0.265) SD for …
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White Matter Microstructure and Emotional Functioning in Children Treated for Posterior Fossa Tumours
… 1) characterize outcomes related to decreases in treatment intensity, 2) objectively evaluate emotional functioning, and 3) examine the associations between WM microstructure and emotional functioning. It was found that treatment with the lowest intensity craniospinal irradiation protocol spared …
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Essays on political economy in Sub-Saharan Africa
… the campaign against vote-buying vary with local treatment intensity. We find that the campaign did not reduce the extent to which voters accepted cash and gifts from politicians, but that it had large effects on vote shares received by candidates. Consistent with these effects, we show that the …
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Three essays on Native American economic development
… non-gaming tribe generates spurious average treatment effects. When this tribe is removed from the data the average gains to bingo-area Indians in hours worked, income, and poverty status are plausible but insignificant. Using bingo revenue as a measure of treatment intensity I find modest …
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Neurocognitive outcomes in children experiencing seizures during treatment for acute lymphoblastic leukemia
… enrolled on the St. Jude frontline leukemia treatment protocol, Total Therapy 15 (TOTXV) - the first systematic investigation of intensified chemotherapy agents plus optimal intrathecal therapy without irradiation. Out of 498 children, 19 experienced therapy-related seizures. To increase the …
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Three Essays on Economics of Risky Behavior
… Difference-in-Differences (DiD) strategy with a treatment intensity approach. The analysis utilizes geographical variation in the fraction of pornographic users visiting the impacted website. The DiD estimates indicate that one-percentage-point increase in exposure to the supply shock is …
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Impact of novel thermal and non-thermal processing on nutritional value and overall quality of papaya and strawberry nectars and their respective blends
… relationships for antioxidant capacity. As treatment intensity increased, across all techniques, carotenoid concentration decreased followed by an observed increase in carotenoid concentration as well as an upward trend in antioxidant capacity due to nutrient release from the fruit matrix; …
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Essays on health and healthcare economics
… methods for obtaining causal estimates of treatment effects with an application to healthcare settings. In the first chapter I study geographic variation in health care utilization under two different insurance systems: traditional Medicare and employer-provided private insurance. For each …
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The Effects of Two Schedules of Instruction with Constant Time Delay on the Receptive Word Learning Skills of Preschool Children with Developmental Delays
… and a 3x/week schedule. An adapted alternating treatments design was used to evaluate the effects of the two schedules. The results indicated that both the 1x/week and 3x/week schedules were effective to teach two of the four children both target words and to teach one child one target word. …
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THE EFFECTS OF THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT ON PHARMACEUTICAL PRICES, DEMAND, AND INNOVATION
… framework with continuous treatment intensity. The identification strategy exploits plausibly exogenous variation in medical conditions’ exposure to different ACA provisions, arising from their differential prevalence across age groups.1 1 The major provisions of the ACA …
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Effects of Silvicultural Treatments and Soil Properties on the Establishment and Productivity of Trees Growing on Mine Soils in the Appalachian Coalfields
… pasture land through the use of silvicultural treatments, that mature stands of trees growing on surface mines will respond to treatment similarly to stands growing on native soils, and that mature stands growing on relcaimed surface mines have different soil properties controlling their growth …