The purpose of this study is to describe how meals were served through federal child nutrition programs during the COVID-19 school closures. This study involves interviews with child nutrition directors who will also have the opportunity to submit video diaries about their programs. A goal of this research is to provide information that can inform future improvements to policy and practice related to federal child nutrition programs and identify innovative approaches to running these programs that occurred during the crisis but can be sustained when normalcy resumes.
The purpose of this study is to understand the planning and implementation process of the Summer EBT program in Rhode Island and North Carolina.
To develop an artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) process focused on physicians' variability during the pre-treatment peer review processes and assess the impact of the process in the RT work system on patient safety.
This study is meant to test how effective the Laguna system is at treating pulmonary embolism.
Analyze how usage of a visualization tool that provides data quality analysis can affect a data scientist's workflow during data preprocessing
The purpose of this research study is to follow new parents with cystic fibrosis for 5 years to learn more about how their health changes when they become parents. The information we gather in this study will be used to inform future interventions to help people with CF successfully prepare for and transition into parenthood
We want to learn why and how some people on dialysis form blood clots in the dialysis machine or in their fistula. Most patients on dialysis receive a blood thinner called heparin to prevent these clots, but heparin can sometimes cause bleeding. We would like to know if safer medications could work in preventing these clots. This study is only about learning more information from blood samples and does not involve treatment.
I am providing the first description of a language related to Italian from the south of Italy. This language is in danger of disappearing.
Some people living with HIV can have chronic lung and breathing issues. We want to learn if the immune system of the nose may lead to these problems. We will collect a sample from the nose using a small strip of paper put in the nose for two minutes. This sample will be tested for inflammation and bacteria. We will do this test in 150 people with HIV and 100 without HIV. We will ask 100 people to come back in 6 months to do the sample again.
This is a study evaluating whether the use of an electronic web-based tool containing surveys could support patients and doctors make better treatment decisions together. New patients, 60 years or older, will be randomized to either receive the tool or not. Surveys will be collected from patients about their experience in making treatment decisions to evaluate whether the tool was beneficial.