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Below is a listing of recent Sheps Center journal articles.  Search PubMed to find more Sheps Center articles.

  • Sheps Center publications from PubMed

    Healthy Live Births as Censoring Versus Competing Events in Studies of Prenatal Medication Use
    - Chase D Latour

    CONCLUSIONS: Censoring healthy live births resulted in overestimated risks as well as biased and imprecise total treatment effect estimates. Such inaccuracies about risks undermine informed patient-provider decision-making. [...]

    Framework for bias evaluation in large language models in healthcare settings
    - Tara Templin

    A critical gap in the adoption of large language models for AI-assisted clinical decisions is the lack of a standardized audit framework to evaluate models for accuracy and bias. Our framework introduces a five-step framework that guides practitioners through stakeholder engagement, model calibration to specific patient populations, and rigorous testing through clinically relevant scenarios. We provide open-access tools for stakeholder engagement and an example of an audit. As the regulation of [...]

    Embedding mental rehearsal in surgery: a comprehensive review of the evidence
    - Josephine Walshaw

    CONCLUSIONS: The preliminary findings suggest that MR may improve the performance of operators and operating teams as an efficient adjuvant to traditional surgical skills training methods. More work is needed to better understand how MR interventions can best be implemented to improve training, practice, and outcomes in routine surgical practice. [...]

    Postpartum Medicaid Use in Birthing Parents and Access to Financed Care
    - Jonas J Swartz

    CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: Results of this study suggest that extending Medicaid coverage for 12 months post partum was associated with expanded opportunities for greater access to Medicaid-financed medical and behavioral health care. Both prevention and ongoing treatment of chronic conditions may help mitigate key adverse outcomes. Findings may help policymakers and public health officials understand how extended coverage affects access to Medicaid-financed care. [...]

    Patient-Provider Communication among U.S. Adults with Food Insecurity
    - Sungchul Park

    CONCLUSIONS: These results underscore the complex health care needs of food-insecure populations and highlight the need to enhance communication strategies to effectively address these challenges. [...]