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Sorra J., Zebrak K., Carpenter D., Famolaro T., Rauch J., Li J., Davis T., Nguyen H.Q., McIntosh M., Mitchell S., Hirschman K.B., Levine C., Clouser J.M., Brock J., and Williams M.V. (2021).

Development and psychometric properties of surveys to assess patient and family caregiver experience with care transitions.

BMC Health Services Research, 21.
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Treviño M., Zhu X., Lu Y.Y., Scheuer L.S., Passell E., Huang G.C., Germine L.T., and Horowitz. T.S. (2021).

How do we measure attention? Using factor analysis to establish construct validity of neuropsychological tests.

Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 6.
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Halenar M.J., Sargent J.D., Edwards K.C., Woloshin S., Schwartz L., Emond J., Tanski S., Pierce J.P., Taylor K.A., Lauten K., Goniewicz M.L., Niaura R., Anic G., Chen Y., Callahan-Lyon P., Gardner L.D., Thekkudan T., Borek N., Kimmel H.L., Cummings K.M., Hyland A., and Brunette M.F. (2021).

Validation of an index for functionally important respiratory symptoms among adults in the nationally representative Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health Study, 2014–2016.

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(18).
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Sorra J., Zebrak K., Yount N., Famolaro T., Gray L., Franklin M., Smith S.A., and Streagle S. (2021).

Development and pilot testing of survey items to assess the culture of value and efficiency in hospitals and medical offices.

BMJ Quality and Safety.
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Tucker J.D., Iwelunmor J., Abrams E., Donenberg G., Wilson E.C., Blachman-Demner D., Laimon L., Taiwo B.O., Kuhns K.M., John-Stewart G.C., Kohler P., Subramanian S., Ayieko J., Gbaja-Biamila T., Oladele D., Obiezu-Umeh C., Chima K.P., Jalil E.M., Falcao J., Ezechi O.C., and Kapogiannis B.G. (2021).

Accelerating adolescent HIV research in LMICs: The NICHD HIV prevention and treatment through a comprehensive care continuum (PATC3H) consortium.

AIDS.
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Taylor J.A., Salkever D.S., Frey W.D., Riley J., and Marrow J. (2021).

Enrollment in the Supported Employment Demonstration: An employment intervention for denied disability benefits applicants with a mental impairment.

Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research.
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Borger C., Weinfield N.S., Paolicelli C., Sun B., and May L. (2021).

Prenatal and postnatal experiences predict breastfeeding patterns in the WIC Infant and Toddler Feeding Practices Study-2.

Breastfeeding Medicine.
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Paolicelli C., Borger C., DeMatteis J., Gollapudi B., Machado J., Reat A., Ritchie L., Sun B., Whaley S., and Zimmerman T.P. (2021).

The WIC Infant and Toddler Feeding Practices Study-2 (WIC ITFPS-2) through age 5: What we've learned, what questions remain, and how you can use this longitudinal dataset.

Current Developments in Nutrition, 5(Supplement 2), 173.
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Kurunthachalam K., Stathis A., Mazzella M.J., Andra S.S, Barr D.B., Hecht S.S., Merrill L.S., Galusha A.L., and Parsons P.J. (2021).

Quality assurance and harmonization for targeted biomonitoring measurements of environmental organic chemicals across the Children's Health Exposure Analysis Resource laboratory network.

International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health, 234.
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Price S.M., O'Donoghue A.C., Rizzo L., Sapru S., and Aikin K.J. (2021).

Opioid education and prescribing practices.

Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, 34(4), 802-807.
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Mahoney M.C., Rivard C., Hammad H.T., Blanco C., Sargent J., Kimmel H.L., Wang B., Halenar M.J., Kang J.C., Borek N., Cummings K.M., Lauten K., Goniewicz M.L., Hatsukami D., Sharma E., Taylor K., and Hyland A. (2021).

Cardiovascular risk factor and disease measures from the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) Study.

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(14).
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Hark L.A., Kresch Y.S., De Moraes C.G., Horowitz J.D., Park L., Auran J.D., Gorroochurn P., Stempel S., Maruri S.C., Stidham E.M., Banks A.Z., Saaddine J.B., Lambert B.C., Pizzi L.T., Sapru S., Price S., Williams O.A., Cioffi G.A., and Liebmann J.M. (2021).

Manhattan Vision Screening and Follow-up Study in Vulnerable Populations (NYC-SIGHT): Design and methodology.

Journal of Glaucoma, 30(5), 388-394.
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Hark L.A., Tan C.S., Kresch Y.S., De Moraes C.G., Horowitz J.D., Park L., Auran J.D., Gorroochurn P., Stempel S., Maruri S.C., Besagar S., Saaddine J.B., Lambert B.C., Pizzi L.T., Sapru S., Price S., Williams O.A., Cioffi G.A., and Liebmann J.M. (2021).

Manhattan Vision Screening and Follow-up Study in Vulnerable Populations: 1-Month feasibility results.

Current Eye Research, 46(10), 1597-1604.
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Marker D.A., Brock S., Steiger D., DeMatteis J., and Popick H. (2021).

Jewish community studies in the twenty-first century.

Contemporary Jewry.
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Gearing M., Lewis M., Wilson C., Bozzolo C., and Hansen D. (2021).

Barriers that constrain the adequacy of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) allotments: In-depth interview findings.

Washington, DC: Food and Nutrition Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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Price S.M., O'Donoghue A.C., Rizzo L., Sapru S., and Aikin K.J. (2021).

What influences healthcare providers' prescribing decisions? Results from a national survey.

Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy.
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Soule E., Bansal-Travers M., Grana R., McIntosh S., Price S., Unger J.B., and Walton K. (2021).

Electronic cigarette use intensity measurement challenges and regulatory implications.

Tobacco Control.
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Stone M., Di Germanio C., Wright D.J., Sulaeman H., Dave H., Fink R.V., Notari E.P., Green V., Strauss D., Kessler D., Destree M., Saa P., Williamson P.C., Simmons G., Stramer S.L., Opsomer J., Jones J.M., Kleinman S., and Busch M.P. (2021).

Use of U.S. blood donors for national serosurveillance of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 antibodies: Basis for an expanded national donor serosurveillance program.

Clinical Infectious Diseases.
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Owens V. and Saw H.W. (2021).

Black Americans demonstrate comparatively low levels of depression and anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic.

PLoS One, 16(6).
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Liu S.T., Newsome J., Castleman V., Poonai K., Creamer M.R., Kimmel H.L., and Zandberg I. (2021).

Qualitative insights on how adult e-cigarette users describe quantity of e-cigarettes used — PATH Study 2018.

Preventive Medicine Reports, 23.
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Aikin K.J., Sullivan H.W., Berktold J., Stein K.L., and Hoverman V.J. (2021).

Consumers' experience with and attitudes toward direct-to-consumer prescription drug promotion: A nationally representative survey.

Health Marketing Quarterly, 38(1), 1-11.
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Johnson M.C., Liu H., Sorra J., Brock J., Gass B., Li J., Clouser J.M., Hirschman K., Carpenter D., Nguyen H.Q., and Williams M.V. (2021).

Development and psychometric properties of surveys to assess provider perspectives on the barriers and facilitators of effective care transitions.

BMC Health Services Research, 21.
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Viet S.M., Falman J.C., Merrill L.S., Faustman E.M., Savitz D.A., Mervish N., Barr D.B., Peterson L.A., Wright R., Balshaw D., and O'Brien B. (2021).

Human Health Exposure Analysis Resource (HHEAR): A model for incorporating the exposome into health studies.

International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health, 235.
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Riley J., Drake R.E., Frey W., Goldman H.H., Becker D.R., Salkever D., Marrow J., Borger C., Taylor J., Bond G.R., and Karakus M. (2021).

Helping people denied disability benefits for a mental health impairment: The Supported Employment Demonstration.

Psychiatric Services.
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Borger C., Marrow J., Drake R.E., and Taylor J. (2021).

Characteristics of enrollees in the Supported Employment Demonstration.

Psychiatric Services.
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Edwards H.A., Huang J., Jansky L., and Mullins C.D. (2021).

What works when: Mapping patient and stakeholder engagement methods along the ten-step continuum framework.

Journal of Comparative Effectiveness Research.
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Chin H.B., Kelly A., Adgent M.A., Patchel S.A., James K., Vesper H.W., Botelho J.C., Chandler D.W., Zemel B.S., Schall J.I., Ford E.G., Darge K., Stallings V.A., Baird D.D., Rogan W.J., and Umbach D.M. (2021).

Reproductive hormone concentrations and associated anatomical responses: Does soy formula affect minipuberty in boys?.

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.
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Landi M.T., Synnott N.C., Rosenbaum J., Zhang T., Zhu B., Shi J., Zhao W., Kebede M., Sang J., Choi J., Mendoza L., Pacheco M., Hicks B., Caporaso N.E., Abubakar M., Gordenin D.A., Wedge D.C., Alexandrov L.B., Rothman N., Lan Q., Garcia-Closas M., and Chanock S.J. (2021).

Tracing lung cancer risk factors through mutational signatures in never-smokers: The Sherlock-Lung Study.

American Journal of Epidemiology, 190(6), 962-976.
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Yan T. (2021).

Consequences of asking sensitive questions in surveys.

Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application, 8, 109-127.
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Johnson M.C., Fishbein H.A., Birch R.J., Yu Q., Mardon R., Pace W., Ritchie N., Carroll J.K., and Meeker D. (2021).

HbA1c evidence for a prediabetes diagnosis delays onset of type 2 diabetes.

Journal of Endocrinological Science, 3(1).
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Patel R.M., Hendrickson J.E., Nellis M.E., Birch R., Goel R., Karam O., Karafin M.S., Hanson S.J., Sachais B.S., Hauser R.G., Luban N.L.C., Gottschall J., Josephson C.D., and Sola-Visner M. (2021).

Variation in neonatal transfusion practice.

Journal of Pediatrics.
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Hoehne J. K., Lenzner T., Neuert C., and Yan T. (2021).

Re-examining the middle means typical and the left and top means first heuristics using eye-tracking methodology.

Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology, 9(1), 25-50.
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Jaurretche M., Levy M., Castel A.D., Powers Happ L., Monroe A.K., and Wyche K.F. (2021).

Factors influencing successful recruitment of racial and ethnic minority patients for an observational HIV cohort study in Washington, DC.

Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities.
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Ng D., Gallaway M.S., Huang G.C., Famolaro T., Boehm J., Stachon K., and Rohan E.A. (2021).

Partnering with healthcare facilities to understand psychosocial distress screening practices among cancer survivors: Pilot study implications for study design, recruitment, and data collection.

BMC Health Services Research, 21.
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Viet S.M., Heikkinen M.S.A., and Dellarco M. (2021).

Considerations for stability of environmental samples in storage for long-term studies.

In A. N. Srivastva (Ed.), Analytical chemistry - Advancement, perspectives and applications. London: IntechOpen Limited.
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Barr D.B., Kannan K., Cui Y., Merrill L., Petrick L.M., Meeker J.D., Fennell T.R., and Faustman E.M. (2021).

The use of dried blood spots for characterizing children's exposure to organic environmental chemicals.

Environmental Research, 195.
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Shams-White M.M., D'Angelo H., Perez L.G., Dwyer L.A., Stinchcomb D.G., and Oh A.Y. (2021).

A national examination of neighborhood socio-economic disparities in built environment correlates of youth physical activity.

Preventive Medicine Reports, 22.
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Piesse A., Opsomer J., Dohrmann S., DiGaetano R., Morganstein D., Taylor K., Carusi C., and Hyland A. (2021).

Longitudinal uses of the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health Study.

Tobacco Regulatory Science, 7(1), 3-16.
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Levi S., Lee H., Ren W., Polson A., and McCloskey S. (2020).

Awareness and availability of child passenger safety information resources.

(DOT HS 813 035). Washington, DC: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation.
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Levi S., Lee H., Ren W., McCloskey S., and Polson A. (2020).

Reducing child restraint misuse: National survey of awareness and use of inspection stations.

Traffic Injury Prevention, 21(7), 453-458.
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Harrison S.P., Schoen R., Atcitty D., Fiegener R., Goodhue R., Havens K., House C.C., Johnson R.C., Leger E., Lesser V., Opsomer J.D., Shaw N., Soltis D.E., Swinton S.M., Toth E., and Young S.A. (2020).

Preparing for the need for a supply of native seed.

Ecological Restoration, 38(4), 203-206.
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Kalton G., Flores Cervantes I., Arieira C., Kwanisai M., Radin E., Saito S., De A., McCracken S., and Stupp P. (2020).

Dealing with inaccurate measures of size in two-stage probability proportional to size sample designs: Applications in African household surveys.

Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology.
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Van de Kerchkove W., Krenzke T., and Mohadjer L. (2020).

Addressing outcome-related nonresponse through a doorstep interview.

JSM Proceedings, Survey Research Methods Section (pp. 715-724). Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association.
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Metcalfe J. and Drake R.E. (2020).

National levels of human development and number of mental hospital beds.

Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences, 29(e167).
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Gray L. and Lewis L. (2020).

Teachers’ use of technology for school and homework assignments: 2018–19.

(NCES 2020-048). Washington, DC: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education.
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Troppe P., Isenberg E., Milanowski A., Garrison-Mogren R., Rizzo L., Gill B.P., Ross C., Dillon E., and Li A. (2020).

The transition to ESSA: State and district approaches to implementing Title I and Title II-A in 2017–18.

(NCEE 2021-002). Washington, DC: National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance.
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Stanton C.A., Sharma E., Edwards K.C., Halenar M.J., Taylor K.A., Kasza K.A., Day H., Anic G., Gardner L.D., Hammad H.T., Bansal-Travers M., Limpert J., Borek N., Kimmel H.L., Compton W.M., and Hyland A. (2020).

Longitudinal transitions of exclusive and polytobacco electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) use among youth, young adults and adults in the USA: Findings from the PATH Study Waves 1-3 (2013-2016).

Tobacco Control, 29(Suppl 3), s147-s154.
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Hyland A., Kasza K.A., Borek N., Kimmel H.L., Taylor K.A., Compton W.M., Day H., Donaldson E.A., Sharma E., Anic G., Edwards K.C., Halenar M.J., Hull L.C., Kissin W.B., Limpert J., Seaman E.L., Bansal-Travers M., Gardner L.D., Hammad H.T., and Stanton C.A. (2020).

Overview of tobacco use transitions for population health.

Tobacco Control, 29(Suppl 3), s134-s138.
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Pearson J.L., Sharma E., Rui N., Halenar M.J., Johnson A.L., Cummings K.M., Hammad H.T., Kaufaman A.R., Tworek C., Coniewicz M.L., Kimmel H.L., Tanski S., Compton W.M., Day H., Ambrose B.K., Bansal-Travers M., Silveira M.L., Abrams D., Limpert J., Traver M.J., Borek N., Hyland A.J., and Stanton C.A. (2020).

Association of electronic nicotine delivery system use with cigarette smoking progression or reduction among young adults.

JAMA Network Open, 3(11), e2015893.
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Travers M.J., Rivard C., Sharma E., Retzky S., Yucesoy B., Goniewicz M.L., Stanton C.A., Chen J., Callahan-Lyon P., Kimmel H.L., Xia B., Wang Y., Sosnoff C.S., De Jesús V.R., Blount B.C., Hecht S.S., and Hyland A. (2020).

Biomarkers of exposure among USA adult hookah users: Results from Wave 1 of the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) study (2013-2014).

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(17), 6403.
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