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JAMA Psychiatry
December 2024
Institute for Biomedical Informatics, College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington.
Importance: Whether state implementation of medical and recreational cannabis laws is associated with increased cannabis use disorder (CUD) and/or cannabis poisoning among adults is not evident.
Objective: To examine state-level medical and recreational cannabis laws' associations with CUD and cannabis poisoning, overall and by sex and age subgroups.
Design, Setting, And Participants: In this longitudinal cohort study, state-level CUD and cannabis poisoning diagnoses from January 2011 to December 2021 were examined across all 50 US states and the District of Columbia before and after the implementation of medical and recreational cannabis laws (MCLs and RCLs, respectively) using a staggered adoption difference-in-differences approach.
Int J Audiol
December 2024
Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.
Objectives: The purpose of this study was to investigate a policy-related factor and patient-related factors that might affect hearing aid adoption for adults, specifically price unbundling, and demographic and audiologic factors, respectively.
Design: Retrospective data from hearing aid consultation appointments in an audiology clinic in a medical centre were examined. Appointments were conducted between 2019 and 2023, capturing visits when services and devices were charged using a model that was bundled (2019-2022) and unbundled (2023).
JAMA Netw Open
December 2024
Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.
Importance: Access to appropriate postpartum care is essential for improving maternal health outcomes and promoting maternal health equity.
Objective: To analyze the impact of the Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP) home visiting program on use of routine and emergency postpartum care.
Design, Setting, And Participants: This study was a secondary analysis of a randomized clinical trial that enrolled eligible participants between 2016 and 2020 to receive NFP or usual care from a South Carolina Medicaid program.
Importance: Little is known about the spatial accessibility to dental clinics across the US.
Objective: To map the spatial accessibility of dental clinics nationally and to examine the characteristics of counties and US Census block groups with dental care shortage areas.
Design, Setting, And Participants: Cross-sectional study of US dental clinics in 2023 using data from the IQVIA national practitioners' database, which includes 205 762 active dentists.
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