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Overadjustment – an important bias hiding in plain sight

International Journal of Epidemiology Blog

To illustrate this, researchers highlighted the impact that overadjustment would have on their total effect of interest ( educational inequalities in health among people with chronic kidney disease ) by building various models with different levels of adjustment and explicitly comparing the results.

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Nursing Homes Fell Behind on Vaccinating Patients for Covid

KFF Health News

Children younger than that suffer the highest rates of hospitalization of any age group except people 75 or older. adults, age 70 and older. Sanford achieved this by leveraging the size of the health system to make delivering vaccines more efficient, said Jeremy Cauwels , Sanford’s chief medical officer. where some 1.2

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Why cutting sign-up days and navigator funds undermines ACA gains

Association of Health Care Journalists

These budget cuts limited the number of navigators available to help enrollees get the most savings from tax subsidies to help them pay their health insurance premiums. Even saying the United States had a health insurance system is a stretch because U.S. President Barack Obama signed that legislation into law on March 23, 2010, 48.6