Publications by authors named "Lisa Schoen"

Article Synopsis
  • - The COVID-19 pandemic emphasized the importance of using quantitative microbial risk assessment (QMRA) for enhancing public health protection through modeling infectious disease risks.
  • - A recent workshop gathered 41 QMRA experts to outline crucial research priorities such as improving methods, harmonizing environmental monitoring, and integrating different scientific approaches.
  • - Key recommendations include building a collaborative research community, enhancing data collection efforts, and ensuring sustainable funding to support the advancement of QMRA for global health policies.
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Importance: Adolescents and adults report that their sensory integration and processing differences affect their occupational performance and quality of life, thus requiring effective sensory-focused interventions. Researchers have yet to investigate this population's experience of occupational therapy interventions designed to remediate these challenges.

Objective: To explore the perceived experience of adolescents and adults with respect to (1) response to intervention, (2) strategies offered to manage sensory differences, and (3) need for services on completion of an intervention.

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Background: There is a need for a way to measure success in multi-modal pain therapy that researchers and clinicians can agree upon. According to developments in health services research, operationalizing success should take patient-reported outcomes into account. We will present a success criterion for pain therapy that combines different patient-reported variables and includes validity measures.

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