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    Development and differentiability of three brief interventions for risky alco...

    Background While brief intervention (BI) for risky alcohol use generally yields positive effects among those identified by screening, effect sizes are small and there is...
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    Veteran-centered barriers to VA mental healthcare services use.

    Background Some veterans face multiple barriers to VA mental healthcare service use. However, there is limited understanding of how veterans’ experiences and meaning systems...
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    Sustainability of health information systems: a three-country qualitative stu...

    Background: Health information systems are central to strong health systems. They assist with patient and program management, quality improvement, disease surveillance, and...
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    Language-concordant automated telephone queries to assess medication adherenc...

    Background Clinicians have difficulty accurately assessing medication non-adherence within chronic disease care settings. Health information technology (HIT) could offer novel...
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    Predictors of lung function decline in scleroderma-related interstitial lung ...

    Background The extent of lung involvement visualized by high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) is a predictor of decline in forced vital capacity (FVC) in...
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    Key traveller groups of relevance to spatial malaria transmission: a survey o...

    Background As malaria prevalence declines in many parts of the world due to widescale control efforts and as drug-resistant parasites begin to emerge, a quantitative...
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    Countdown to 2015 country case studies: what have we learned about processes ...

    Background: Countdown to 2015 was a multi-institution consortium tracking progress towards Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) 4 and 5. Case studies to explore factors...
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    Reliability and validity of an internalizing symptom scale based on the adole...

    Background: The Semi-Structured Assessment for the Genetics of Alcoholism (SSAGA) is an interview that assesses psychiatric symptoms and diagnoses, including substance use...
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    Measures of organizational characteristics associated with adoption and/or im...

    Background This paper identifies and describes measures of constructs relevant to the adoption or implementation of innovations (i.e., new policies, programs or practices) at...