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Ways to Improve Quality of Care Measurement from Electronic Health Records Identified
January 15, 2013 Health care providers and hospitals are being offered up to $27 billion in federal financial incentives to use electronic health records (EHRs) in ways that demonstrably improve the quality of ... > full story -
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Youth Attitudes About Guns: Sixty Percent of High School and College Students Consider Gun Ownership in Future
January 14, 2013 Sixty percent of high school and college students consider gun ownership in the future. Key findings revealed in poll based on personality traits, video games, gender, race, and political ... > full story -
Ozone Levels Have Sizeable Impact on Worker Productivity
December 18, 2012 Researchers assessed the impact of pollution on agricultural worker productivity using daily variations in ozone levels. Their results show that ozone, even at levels below current air-quality ... > full story -
More Similar Than They Think: Liberals and Conservatives Exaggerate Perceived Moral Views
December 12, 2012 Moral stereotypes about "typical" liberals and conservatives held by both groups are generally correct, but exaggerated both for their own group and the other, according to new ... > full story -
Economists Calculate True Value of 'Who' You Know, Rather Than 'What' in US Politics
December 12, 2012 Economists have calculated the true value of US political lobbyists, proving the old adage ‘it is not what you know, but who you ... > full story -
Conservatives Can Be Persuaded to Care More About Environmental Issues When Couched in Terms of Fending Off Threats to 'Purity'
December 10, 2012 When it comes to climate change, deforestation and toxic waste, the assumption has been that conservative views on these topics are intractable. But new research suggests that such viewpoints can be ... > full story -
Attitudes Towards Security Threats Uncovered
November 28, 2012 New research has revealed a significant gap between what the government claims are the biggest security threats facing the UK and the fears of the ... > full story -
Women in Congress Outperform Men on Some Measures
November 18, 2012 A professor has found congresswomen consistently outperform their male counterparts on several measures of job ... > full story -
Partisanship Shapes Views on Political, Non-Political Issues
November 12, 2012 A pre-election survey found that party affiliation alters how people react to political as well as non-political issues, including how individuals assess their own financial well-being. The results ... > full story -
Republicans and Democrats Can Agree on Some Moral Issues, Study Suggests
November 6, 2012 A new study that asked U.S. conservatives and liberals to rate the most influential historical figures of the 20th Century finds that the two sides of America's "culture wars" share a surprising ... > full story
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