Featured Research

image Comparing retrospective informant assessments to prospectively collected cognitive measures in the Health and Retirement Study

Using generalized estimating equations, Dr. Hamedani's team compared informant-reported change in memory and daily functioning to prospectively collected delayed word recall and instrumental activities of daily living (iADL) in the 10 years preceding Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol (HCAP). Read more.

 Ali G Hamedani, Dylan Thibault, Katya Rascovsky, Allison W Willis, Kenneth M Langa
image Predictors of successful initiation of buprenorphine in enriched enrollment randomized withdrawal clinical trials in both opioid experienced and naïve participants: a participant-level meta-analysis

No prediction models exist for the success for buprenorphine initiation in opioid-naïve patients or in transition from other opioids in patients treated for chronic pain. Drs Farrar and Bilker and their team set out to create such a prediction model. Read more.

 Andrew Conroy, Warren B Bilker, Christopher J Miller, Charles E Argoff, Russell Bell, Jennifer Haythornthwaite, Jennifer S Gewandter, Ian Gilron, Katherine N Theken, John T Farrar
image Challenging the Continued Usefulness of Social Media Recruitment for Surveys of Hidden Populations of People Who Use Opioids

In this viewpoint paper, we assessed social media recruitment for people who use opioids and described challenges and potential solutions for effective recruitment.

 Elizabeth D Nesoff, MPH, PhD ; Joseph J Palamar, PhD ; Qingyue Li, MSSP ; Wenqian Li, MSSP ; Silvia S Martins, MD, PhD.
image Development of the Lee Symptom Scale-Skin Sclerosis for chronic GVHD-associated sclerosis

As Dr. Emily Baumrin noticed, patient voices have been absent in the measurement of skin sclerosis from chronic graft-versus-host disease (cGVHD) and how it severely impacts quality of life. Read more.

 Emily Baumrin, Joseph Pidala, Sandra A Mitchell, Lynn Onstad, Stephanie J Lee
image Lower Child Opportunity Index is associated with increased health care utilization following pediatric liver transplantation

To elucidate the relationship between social determinants of health and health care utilization among children (<18 y old at the time of LT) who have undergone LT, Dr Bittermann and her team performed a retrospective study merging data from the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) and the Pediatric Health Information System (PHIS) database. Read more.

 Bennett, Aaron D.; Morales, Knashawn H.; Huang, Yuan-Shung V.; Tam, Vicky; Shah, Amit; Loomes, Kathleen M.; Serper, Marina; Bittermann, Therese
image The Adolescent Suicide Prevention in Routine clinical Encounters (ASPIRE) trial

Dr. Kristin Linn was awarded a methodological supplement to an ongoing R01 led by Dr. Rinad Beidas at Northwestern University.
Abstract figure Real-World Effectiveness of BNT162b2 Against Infection and Severe Diseases in Children and Adolescents

Using electronic health record data from a national collaboration of pediatric health systems, this study examined the effectiveness of BNT162b2 vaccines for preventing COVID-19 infections and severe disease among previously uninfected children and adolescents.

 Qiong Wu, PhD*; Jiayi Tong, MS*; Bingyu Zhang, MS; Dazheng Zhang, MS; Jiajie Chen, PhD; Yuqing Lei, MS; Yiwen Lu, BS; Yudong Wang, PhD; Lu Li, BA; Yishan Shen, MS; Jie Xu, PhD; L. Charles Bailey, MD, PhD; Jiang Bian, PhD; Dimitri A. Christakis, MD, MPH; Megan L. Fitzgerald, PhD; Kathryn Hirabayashi, MPH; Ravi Jhaveri, MD; Alka Khaitan, MD; Tianchen Lyu, MS; Suchitra Rao, MBBS, MSCS; Hanieh Razzaghi, PhD, MPH; Hayden T. Schwenk, MD, MPH; Fei Wang, PhD; Margot I. Gage Witvliet, PhD; Eric J. Tchetgen Tchetgen, PhD; Jeffrey S. Morris, PhD; Christopher B. Forrest, MD, PhD; and Yong Chen, PhD.