A state-wide campaign called “Yojana Banao Abhiyan” undertaken to plan for NREGA implementation in Jharkhand has sensitized the people and authorities to the potential of the scheme and recharged local democratic institutions. Ankita Aggarwal reports.

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The conventional thinking is that social media conversations about brands are representative of broader consumer sentiment in the overall market. However a new study from Engagement Labs, appearing in the Journal of Advertising Research, finds online discussions and sentiment are not necessarily predictive of offline brand outcomes.

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Attending a KIPP school led to a 10-13 percentage point improvement in the likelihood of enrolling in college.

In the past two decades, many federal and state Medicaid initiatives have been designed to rebalance the long-term services and supports (LTSS) system by increasing access to home and community-based services (HCBS) in order to reduce the use of expensive institutional care.

Interested in learning how to build more evidence into philanthropic practice? Join Mathematica, The Wallace Foundation, and the Afterschool Alliance for a Grantmakers for Education webinar.

Mathematica disability policy expert Purvi Sevak joined a panel of experts at the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) to discuss how the agency is facilitating the collection and sharing of data that might help improve employment outcomes for people with disabilities.

Mathematica is partnering with The Health Collaborative, the Patient Advocate Foundation, and MediaAgility on a solution leveraging artificial intelligence and other industry-leading methods to achieve a number of goals to drive primary care transformation.

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For children and young adults with certain relapsed B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL), the immunotherapy drug blinatumomab is superior to standard chemotherapy, an NCI-sponsored Children’s Oncology Group trial shows.

Clinicians and their chronic myeloid leukaemia patients looking to switch to generic imatinib will see no change in outcomes or safety, while markedly reducing healthcare costs, say UK researchers.
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The authors document the earnings in the sixth calendar year after youths’ vocational rehabilitation (VR) applications and Social Security Administration (SSA) benefit outcomes during the six years after their VR applications.

Mathematica’s study helps Louisiana measure its public high schools’ contribution to student outcomes such as high school graduation, college enrollment, and eventual earnings.

Mathematica was contracted by Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC) to create an updated inventory of state- and territory-level Medicaid policies, programs, or initiatives that are designed to improve the access to, quality of, and outcomes of maternity care services.

Uninsured patients have decreased access to care, lower rates of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), and worse outcomes after acute myocardial infarction (AMI).

This prespecified secondary analysis of the MOMENTUM 3 randomized clinical trial aims to determine whether clinical outcomes of patients with 2 different left ventricular assist devices differed based on preoperative categories of bridge to transplant/bridge to candidacy vs destination therapy.

This cross-sectional study investigates whether hospital inpatient percutaneous coronary intervention volume is associated with rates of 30-day risk-adjusted mortality and hospital readmission after transcatheter aortic valve replacement and transcatheter mitral valve repair.

This Special Communication analyzes the conclusions drawn from effective regurgitant orifice area analysis and end-diastolic volume analysis from 2 randomized clinical trials to assess disparities in the different clinical outcomes.

Interview with Suzanne V. Arnold, MD, MHA, author of Association of Transcatheter Mitral Valve Repair With Quality of Life Outcomes at 30 Days and 1 Year: Analysis of the Transcatheter Valve Therapy Registry

Interview with Nitin Tandon, author of Analysis of Morbidity and Outcomes Associated With Use of Subdural Grids vs Stereoelectroencephalography in Patients With Intractable Epilepsy

Interview with George F. Sawaya, MD, author of Estimated Quality of Life and Economic Outcomes Associated With 12 Cervical Cancer Screening Strategies: A Cost-effectiveness Analysis, and Sarah Feldman, M.D. M.P.H., author of Screening Options for Preventing Cervical Cancer

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Interview with Stephen W. Waldo, MD, author of Association of Coronary Anatomical Complexity With Clinical Outcomes After Percutaneous or Surgical Revascularization in the Veterans Affairs Clinical Assessment Reporting and Tracking Program

Interview with Alexander Gelbard, MD, author of Comparative Treatment Outcomes for Patients With Idiopathic Subglottic Stenosis

Interview with Michael A. Vella, MD, and Mark J. Seamon, authors of Long-term Functional, Psychological, Emotional, and Social Outcomes in Survivors of Firearm Injuries

Interview with James S. Goodwin, MD, author of Association of the Work Schedules of Hospitalists With Patient Outcomes of Hospitalization

Interview with Tsuyoshi Kaneko, MD, and Sameer A Hirji, MD, authors of Utility of 90-Day Mortality vs 30-Day Mortality as a Quality Metric for Transcatheter and Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement Outcomes, and Michael J. Mack, MD, author of Ninety-Day Outcome Assessment After Transcatheter and Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement—Is the Juice Worth the Squeeze?

Interview with Jay Sengupta, MD, author of Outcomes Before and After the Recall of a Heart Failure Pacemaker, and David O. Arnar, MD PhD EMPH, author of Long-term Outcome of Implantable Cardioverter/Defibrillator Lead Failure

Interview with Nima Sharifi, M.D., author of HSD3B1 Genotype and Clinical Outcomes in Metastatic Castration-Sensitive Prostate Cancer

Interview with Ajita S. Prabhu, MD, and Michael J Rosen, MD, FACS, authors of Robotic Inguinal vs Transabdominal Laparoscopic Inguinal Hernia Repair: The RIVAL Randomized Clinical Trial

Interview with Ateev Mehrotra, MD, author of Trends Among Rural and Urban Medicare Beneficiaries in Care Delivery and Outcomes for Acute Stroke and Transient Ischemic Attacks, 2008-2017

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Interview with Mihai Gheorghiade, MD, author of Improving Postdischarge Outcomes in Patients Hospitalized for Acute Heart Failure Syndromes

Interview with Sunil V. Rao, MD, author of Prevalence and Outcomes of Same-Day Discharge After Elective Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Among Older Patients

Interview with Waldemar A. Carlo, MD, author of Association of Antenatal Corticosteroids With Mortality and Neurodevelopmental Outcomes Among Infants Born at 22 to 25 Weeks' Gestation

Interview with Eileen T. Lake, PhD, RN, author of Association Between Hospital Recognition for Nursing Excellence and Outcomes of Very Low-Birth-Weight Infants

Interview with David C. Mohr, PhD, author of Effect of Telephone-Administered vs Face-to-face Cognitive Behavioral Therapy on Adherence to Therapy and Depression Outcomes Among Primary Care Patients: A Randomized Trial

Interview with Björn Pasternak, MD, PhD, author of Risk of Adverse Fetal Outcomes Following Administration of a Pandemic Influenza A(H1N1) Vaccine During Pregnancy

Interview with Peter Cram, MD, MBA, author of Total Knee Arthroplasty Volume, Utilization, and Outcomes Among Medicare Beneficiaries, 1991-2010

Interview with Karen E. Joynt, MD, MPH, author of Association of Public Reporting for Percutaneous Coronary Intervention With Utilization and Outcomes Among Medicare Beneficiaries With Acute Myocardial Infarction