Publications by authors named "Yaowei Deng"
Article Synopsis
- Human trafficking is a big problem for young people in the U.S., and many of them go to emergency rooms for help.
- A study looked at how many trafficked young people were identified in children's emergency departments before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- They found that the number of identified trafficked young people went up almost two times at the start of the pandemic, but then it decreased over time, showing the need for better awareness and support for these kids during emergencies.
Importance: Commercial healthcare claims datasets represent a sample of the US population that is biased along socioeconomic/demographic lines; depending on the target population of interest, results derived from these datasets may not generalize. Rigorous comparisons of claims-derived results to ground-truth data that quantify this bias are lacking.
Objectives: (1) To quantify the extent and variation of the bias associated with commercial healthcare claims data with respect to different target populations; (2) To evaluate how socioeconomic/demographic factors may explain the magnitude of the bias.
Article Synopsis
- A clinical trial was conducted at Stanford University to test the effectiveness of a 15-day treatment with nirmatrelvir-ritonavir for Post-Acute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC) in adults who have experienced moderate to severe symptoms for over 3 months.!* -
- The study involved 155 participants who were randomly assigned to receive either the treatment or a placebo, with the main focus on measuring the severity of six key PASC symptoms after 10 weeks.!* -
- Results indicated no significant improvement in symptom severity between the treatment and placebo groups, suggesting that nirmatrelvir-ritonavir may not effectively alleviate PASC symptoms in the tested population.!*