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CRNAs provide anesthesia for surgeries that utilize ionizing radiation daily and must possess the knowledge to protect themselves from the negative biological sequelae th[...]

This research investigates the intersection of applied statistics, machine learning, and healthcare to leverage the quantitative approaches as a means of improving patien[...]

Opioid overdose deaths have increased substantially over the past fifteen years. However, the position and beliefs of the medical community regarding opioids over time ha[...]

African American men who have sex with men (MSM) and Trans Women have been considered the highest sexual risk group with new cases of HIV for over a decade. The purpose [...]

Obesity and morbid obesity represent one of the major public health problems in the United States (U.S.) that affects nearly one-third of the adult American population. G[...]

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College students are one of the top at-risk groups for chronic sleep loss and poor sleep quality, therefore research devoted to the identification of cognitive, attitudin[...]

Stress contributes to poor health outcomes; importantly, a stress reaction begins with the negative appraisal of a situation. The ability to use cognitive reappraisal, an[...]

Transfer to utility (TTU) or mapping methodology allows researchers to estimate a health utility from a disease-specific measure and calculate quality adjusted life years[...]