MULTIPLE IMPUTATION PROCEDURE FOR RECORD LINKAGE AND CAUSAL INFERENCE TO ESTIMATE THE EFFECTS OF HOME-DELIVERED MEALS

Multiple imputation Procedure for Record Linkage and Causal Inference to Estimate the Effects of home-delivered meals

To assess the impact of home-delivered meals programs offered by Meals on Wheels (MOW) a dataset that includes enrollment into MOW and healthcare utilization is required.Because of confidentiality restrictions this data is dispersed over MOW programs internal systems and Medicare claims.In the absence of unique identifying identifiers, MOW benefici

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Ebola exposure, illness experience, and Ebola antibody prevalence in international responders to the West African Ebola epidemic 2014-2016: A cross-sectional study.

BackgroundHealthcare and other front-line workers are at particular risk of infection with Ebola virus (EBOV).Despite the large-scale deployment of international responders, few cases of Ebola virus disease have been diagnosed in this group.Since asymptomatic or pauci-symptomatic infection has been described, it is plausible that infections have oc

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Proteins with complex architecture as potential targets for drug design: a case study of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

Lengthy co-evolution of Homo sapiens and Mycobacterium Display Frame tuberculosis, the main causative agent of tuberculosis, resulted in a dramatically successful pathogen species that presents considerable challenge for modern medicine.The continuous and ever increasing appearance of multi-drug resistant mycobacteria necessitates the identificatio

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