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Dissertations & Theses (Open Access)

Dissertations posted directly to DigitalCommons@TMC by UTHealth School of Public Health from 2018-current.

Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020

Hospital Market Analysis Using A Cohort Of Privately Insured Patients With Total Hip And Knee Replacement Procedures, Elifnur Yay Donderici

Identifying Risk Factors For Chronic Kidney Disease Of Unknown Origin In Six Central American Countries And Houston, Texas, Erika Figueroa-Solis

Impact Of Substance Use In Social Networks On Antiretroviral Therapy Adherence For Hiv-Positive Younger Men Who Have Sex With Men, Natascha Del Vecchio

Measuring Cultural Humility Of Community Health Workers, Nayeema Ahmed

Nudging Quality Improvement In Cancer Care: Influence Of A Clinical Decision Support System To Nudge Adherance To Evidence Based Guidelines In Adult Cancers, Debra Patt

Patient, Hospital And State-Level Policy Characteristics Associated With Prevalence Of Treating Opioid Use Disorder In United States Emergency Departments, Rafeek Adeyemi Yusuf

Pediatric Wound Care: What Can We Learn From A Systematic Review Of The Literature? Using A Systematic Review And A Clinical Consensus Group To Assess The Quality And Content Of Systematic Reviews Focusing On Pediatric Wound Care. Then Providing And Analytical Outline For Creation Of Pediatric Wound Care Guidelines For Evidence Based Clinical Practice, Ryan Krasnosky

Personalized Estimation And Causal Inference Via Deep Learning Algorithms, Yuanyuan Liu

Physician Burnout: Slowing The Burn Through Positive Deviance Strategies, Swapna Reddy

Physician Hospital Arrangement Influence On Nonprofit Hospital Quality,Financial Performance And Community Benefit Expenditures, Andrea Cervin

Predictors Of Kidney Transplant Receipt And Medicare Costs For Patients, Parisa Asgarisabet

Raft-Versus-Host Disease Occurrence Among Cord Blood Transplantation Recipients In Relation To Human Leukocyte Antigen Match Grade, Sarah Chowdhury

Safe Patient Handling – A Case For National Legislation, David O. Oba

Sample Size Calculations For Longitudinal Mediation Analysis With Continuous-Time Markov Chain Variables, Abigail Christine Sedory

Semiparametric Methods To Improve Risk Assessment And Dynamic Prediction, Wen Li

Shared Decision Making In The Care Of Post-Acute Psychiatric Individuals With Serious Mental Illness, Natalie J. Maples

Social Work Involvement In Hurricane Harvey Relief Efforts, Claire Crawford

Statistical Evaluation Of An Extension Of Linear Discriminant Analysis In Multiclass Settings With An Application For Detection Of Cervical Neoplasia, Frances A. Brito

Statistical Methods For Functional Annotation-Based Rare Variant Association Analysis, Yiding Ma

Survival Analysis Of Colorectal Cancer Patients With Liver Metastasis, Brandon O’Grady

The Association Between Assorted Hormonal Contraceptive Methods And Advanced-Stage Epithelial Ovarian Cancer: A Systematic Review, Cheng Cheng

The Comparative Effect Of Automated Reminders/Recalls Interventions On The Appointments Rate Of Adolescent Wellness Care Visit, Biai Dominique Elmir Digbeu

The Direct Primary Care Model: Practice Characteristics And Patient Experience, James David Miller

THe EFfect Of UNconventional GAs And OIl DRilling EMissions On ASthma And REspiratory DIseases In The BArnett SHale Of TExas, Stella A. Okoroafor

The Health And Wellness Characteristics Of Food And Beverage Service Industry Workers In Austin, Texas: A Participatory Cross-Sectional Survey, Alexandria Abbott