Project APRED: A web-based data analytics platform for supporting community disaster resilience.

In this paper, we introduce the Analysis Platform for Risk, Resilience, and Expenditure in Disasters (APRED)-a disaster-analytic platform developed for crisis practitioners and economic developers across the United States (US). APRED provides practitioners with a centralized platform for exploring disaster resilience and vulnerability profiles of all counties across the US. The platform comprises five sections including: (1) Disaster Resilience Index, (2) Business Vulnerability Index, (3) Disaster Declaration History, (4) County Profile, and (5) Storm History sections.

Disproportionate effects of dementia on hospital discharge disposition in common hospitalization categories.

Background: The impact of dementia on hospitalization discharge dispositions (HDDs) in the United States has not been quantified, and dementia prevalence in various hospitalization categories has not been detailed in recent years.

Objective: To characterize hospitalizations prevalent with dementia, and to examine the relationship between dementia and HDDs.

Design: A retrospective cross-sectional study.

Age dependent sex disproportion in US asthma hospitalization rates, 2000-2010.

Background: Age-stratified sex differences in asthma hospitalizations rates have been reported to be most marked between the ages of 40 and 54 years in New York. It is not known whether age-dependent sex differences in asthma hospitalization rates also exist for the entire United States.

Objectives: To compare sex-specific hospitalization rates for asthma in adults in the United States and to describe the adjusted associations between female sex and age in the fifth to sixth decades of life.