Poster Abstracts
Poster Session 1: Lusted Finalist
Poster Session 1: Lusted Finalist
Tuesday, October 19 | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EDT | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM UTC
Applied Health Economics (AHE)
Is Annual Screening for Chronic Kidney Disease among Diabetics Optimal? Evaluating All Policies for Cost-effectiveness
Presenter: Chou-Chun Wu
Shifting Hepatitis B Vaccination Timing from Adolescence to Birth in Ontario, Canada: A Cost-Utility Analysis
Presenter: John Kim
Projections of Economic Burden of HIV Antiretroviral Therapy in the United States: A Simulation Modeling Study
Presenter: Chi-Fang Wu
Economic and Health Impact of Pneumococcal Vaccination in Controlling the Growth of Antimicrobial Resistance in Ethiopia, China, and Indonesia
Presenter: Hui-Han Chen
Development and validation of DeciBHAL-US: a novel microsimulation model of hearing loss across the lifespan
Presenter: Ethan Borre
The cost-effectiveness of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis expansion depends on underlying epidemiological conditions: a modeling study in six US cities
Presenter: Emanuel Krebs
Cost-effectiveness of serial magnetic resonance imaging for active surveillance of prostate cancer
Presenter: Christopher Magnani
Cost-Effectiveness of Dapagliflozin for Non-Diabetic Chronic Kidney Disease
Presenter: Marika Cusick
Cost-effectiveness of injectable opioid agonist therapy for individuals with severe opioid use disorder
Presenter: Frances Simbulan
Cost-effectiveness of adding whole blood pathogen reduction to Ghana's blood safety program
Presenter: W. Alton Russell
Decision Psychology and Shared Decision Making (DEC)
Public health communications in a pandemic: developing and user testing new digital communications
Presenter: Doriane Etienne
Age and Worry About Others Predict Intentions to Vaccinate Against COVID-19 in the United States
Presenter: Jenna Rogers
A Test of Competing Predictions For College Student Risk Taking Involving Transmission of COVID-19
Presenter: Sarah Edelson
Identifying Subgroups at Risk for Non-Adherence to COVID-19 Preventive Measures Based on Risk Perceptions and Media Use: A Latent Profile Analysis
Presenter: Ruben Vromans
Explaining personalized risk information of treatment options: Does comparative information matter?
Presenter: Ruben Vromans
Development of a User-Friendly Tool for Massive Blood Transfusion Prediction in Trauma
Presenter: Anthony Nguyen
Does Mental Health cause Homelessness or Homelessness causes Mental health?: A Bayesian Decision Network Analysis
Presenter: Raghav Awasthi
Variability Of Prognostication for Critically Ill Neurologic Patients: A Multi-Center Mixed-Methods Study
Presenter: Connie Ge
Online patient decision aid for choice of early abortion method: User-centred design adaptation of a paper-based decision aid
Presenter: Kate Wahl
Systematic assessment of readability, understandability, actionability and quality of patient decision aids for breathlessness
Presenter: Anthony Sunjaya
Health Services, Outcomes and Policy Research (HSOP)
Impact of vaccination and relaxation of non-pharmaceutical interventions on controlling COVID-19 using agent-based simulation
Presenter: Serin Lee
Improving the validity and utility of local estimates of COVID-19 vaccination intentions using high-resolution survey data and predictive modeling
Presenter: Marissa Reitsma
Impact of age-based prioritization of COVID-19 vaccination on racial/ethnic disparities in mortality due to COVID-19 in the United States
Presenter: Marissa Reitsma
Effect of Increased Alcohol Consumption During COVID-19 Pandemic on Alcohol-related Liver Disease: A Modelling Study
Presenter: Jovan Julien
Outbreaks of Covid-19 Variants in Prisons: A Mathematical Modeling Analysis of Vaccination and Re-Opening Policies
Presenter: Theresa Ryckman
Effectiveness of Policies for Addressing the US Opioid Epidemic: A Model-Based Analysis
Presenter: Isabelle Rao
Clinical implications of wait-times for Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation in Ontario: a model-based analysis
Presenter: Rafael Miranda
Population-based newborn screening for Li-Fraumeni syndrome: Cost-effectiveness, clinical benefits and value of additional information
Presenter: Natalia Kunst
Modeling Options for Ending the HIV Epidemic (EHE) Goals for San Diego County
Presenter: Anthony Nguyen
The Apolipoprotein L1 (APOL1) gene and the Long-term Risk of End-Stage Kidney Disease as Mediated by Proteinuria
Presenter: Anthony Nguyen
Patient and Stakeholder Preferences and Engagement (PSPE)
Deriving a Health State Classification System to Measure Health Utilities for Pediatric Populations Based on the PedsQL: A Confirmatory Factor Analysis
Presenter: Ellen Kim DeLuca
Developing the Breast Utility Instrument from the EORTC QLQC30 and BR45 using Rasch analysis for item selection
Presenter: Teresa Tsui
Patient-centered epidemiology: answering research questions developed by people living with diabetes
Presenter: Seyedmostafa Mousavi
Quantitative Methods and Theoretical Developments (QMTD)
Optimal Scheduling of a Multi-Clinic Healthcare Facility in the Course of a Pandemic
Presenter: Hossein Piri
Optimizing Social Distancing Policies for COVID-19: A Dynamic Programming Approach for Coupled High and Low Risk Populations
Presenter: Peng Dai
Using passive surveillance data to estimate HIV prevalence at the zip code level. A case of study in Atlanta, Georgia.
Presenter: Enrique Saldarriaga
Quasi-experimental versus observational methods for modeling blood pressure interventions when the change in blood pressure is known, but the effect on long-term outcomes is not
Presenter: Karen Smith
Validation of Risk Equations for Older Kidney Transplant Recipients
Presenter: Matthew Kaufmann
Impact of limited sample size and follow-up on single event survival extrapolation for health technology assessment: A simulation study
Presenter: Jaclyn Beca
External Validation and Calibration of Health Risk Models that Predict Readmission Risk in Patients with Heart Failure
Presenter: Meike Henricks
Evaluation of the Pareto Frontier approach for model calibration
Presenter: Paul Schneider
Enhancing Model Calibration to Time-Series Targets Using Recurrent Neural Network Metamodels
Presenter: Yifang Yan
Incorporating Adherence Behaviors in Optimal Screening Decisions: A Modified POMDP Approach
Presenter: Chou-Chun Wu
Poster Session 2
Tuesday, October 19 | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDT | 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM UTC
Title |
Presenter |
Category |
Atezolizumab-Bevacizumab Combination therapy Versus Sorafenib as First-line Treatment of Unresectable Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A Cost-Utility Analysis |
Osamah Al-Qaysi |
AHE |
Shifting Hepatitis B Vaccination Timing from Adolescence to Birth in Ontario, Canada: A Cost-Utility Analysis |
John Kim |
AHE |
Associating Health-Related Quality of Life with Time Use in the United States to Inform Productivity Measurement in Cost-Effectiveness Analysis |
Boshen Jiao |
AHE |
Pandemic-Related Childhood Pneumococcal Vaccination Decreases Unlikely to Make Vaccination Recommendations Economically Reasonable for General and Black Population Seniors |
Angela Wateska |
AHE |
Short-run Effects of COVID-19 Pandemic on the Labor Market Dynamics |
Diego Sánchez Rojas |
AHE |
A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Approaches to Identify Late Preterm and Term Infants at Risk for Early Onset Sepsis |
Grace Guan |
AHE |
Insertable Cardiac Monitoring in Unexplained Syncope Patients is Cost-Saving Compared to External ECG Monitoring Followed by Insertable Cardiac Monitor |
Sarah Rosemas |
AHE |
A cost-effectiveness analysis of dental caries prevention strategies in US children |
Angela Rose |
AHE |
Effect and cost-effectiveness of treatments for opioid use disorder |
Carolina Vivas |
AHE |
Financial stress due to the COVID-19 pandemic preferentially harms smaller cardiology practices |
Vigneshwar Subramanian |
AHE |
Association of Quantitative Information and Patient Knowledge about Prostate Cancer Outcomes |
Ilona Fridman |
DEC |
“This is my decision!”—Older Women’s Views on Stopping Routine Breast Cancer Screening with Mammography: A Qualitative Study |
ilya ivlev |
DEC |
Impact of known versus unknown information about biologic therapy on motherhood choices in inflammatory arthritis |
Elizabeth Bruce |
DEC |
Impact of the Shared Decision-Making Process on Lung Cancer Screening Decisions |
Naomi Tan |
DEC |
Parent experiences with an expanded newborn screening research study using electronic consent and electronic return of results |
Katherine Porter |
DEC |
Prescribing a decision aid is not enough: Patients who reviewed a decision aid prior to major orthopedic surgery reported higher trust in their surgeon |
Suzanne Brodney |
DEC |
Lower perceived risk, worry, and trust in science are associated with more negative evaluations of the US COVID-19 guidelines and decreased compliance intentions. |
Sean Duan |
DEC |
Challenges faced by cancer care teams when discussing patient involvement in clinical trials and opportunities to improve shared decision-making. |
Konstantinos Leventakos |
DEC |
Shared decision-making among older adults with advanced chronic kidney disease |
Rebecca Frazier |
DEC |
Integrating Patients’ Voices in Health Professions Education: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial |
Ruth Ndjaboue |
DEC |
An Online Application to Explain Community Immunity with Personalized Avatars: A Randomized Controlled Trial |
Hina Hakim |
DEC |
Pregnancy Decision-Making During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Grounded Theory Investigation |
Sarah Munro |
DEC |
Influencers of the decision to vaccinate and engage in other COVID-19 protective behaviors |
Susann Thomas |
DEC |
“Choose the One That Sucks the Least”: Provider Challenges to Shared Decision-Making for Osteosarcoma Surgery in the Lower Limb |
Janet Panoch |
DEC |
National Estimate of Health Care Utilization among Childhood Cancer Survivors |
Van Nghiem |
HSOP |
Health-related quality of life of drinkers' family members: a secondary analysis of a US population dataset |
Benjamin Thornburg |
HSOP |
Unsupervised Clustering Analysis Of Trauma Centers Using Orthopedic Care Features |
Xiaonan Sun |
HSOP |
Balancing cohorts to improve performance of cost analysis using Generalized linear models with Gamma distribution and log link function |
Ling Zhang |
HSOP |
Use of Natural Language Processing to Analyze Free Text Clinical Data from the MIMIC-III Dataset |
Nathaniel Liu |
HSOP |
Impact of an Intensive Lifestyle Intervention on Prescription Drug Use, with a Focus on Diabetes-related Drugs, in Participants with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus |
Jeffrey Yu |
HSOP |
Exposure to Non-Chemotherapy Medications With Pharmacogenomic Risk In Medicare Patients Newly Diagnosed With Metastatic Colorectal Cancer |
Zachary Rivers |
HSOP |
The association between mitigation efforts and COVID-19 outcomes in the US |
Lin Zou |
HSOP |
Racial Differences in Police-Involved Fatal Shootings: Does Age Matter? |
Hossein Zare |
HSOP |
Adaptation and Reliability of the Newest Vital Sign as an Electronic and Self-Administered Health Literacy Screening Tool for US Adult Patients |
Olivia Lindly |
HSOP |
A real-time early alert system for potential outbreaks inside businesses based upon temporary work disabilities at the Mexican Institute of Social Security. |
Rodrigo Zepeda-Tello |
HSOP |
A Procedure for Eliciting Women’s Preferences for Breast Cancer Screening Frequency |
Emily Grayek |
PSPE |
Adaptation of the Western Ontario McMaster Universities (WOMAC) Osteoarthritis Index for use in a Patient Preference Study to Inform Regulatory Decision-Making |
Xinyi Ng |
PSPE |
The US Public’s Preference for Equity in Health: A Systematic Review |
Sara Khor |
PSPE |
The Feasibility and Potential of Pharmacogenetics in Nursing Home Residents to Reduce Adverse Drug Events |
Christine Kistler |
PSPE |
Decision making in pediatric neuromuscular scoliosis: the role of health-related quality of life in parent preferences and values |
Jody Lin |
PSPE |
Clinician, patient, and surrogate caregiver perspectives about the use of Clinical Prediction Models for COVID-19 inpatient treatment decision making |
Melissa Basile |
PSPE |
The Oncofertility Barriers Scale: development and validation of a measure to assess cancer survivors’ decision-making experiences, barriers, and needs when considering motherhood after cancer. |
Aubri Hoffman |
PSPE |
Patient Preferences for Major Depression Treatment Outcomes |
Tara Lavelle |
PSPE |
The Dynamics of Respiratory Epidemics in Incarcerated and Free-Living Populations and Their Relevance for Forecasting and Control: A Simulation Modeling Study Using the Example of COVID-19 in California |
Christopher Weyant |
QMTD |
Simple Decision Rule for Evaluating Cost-effectiveness of Mass Prophylaxis for Epidemic Control: The Example of Plague |
Giovanni Malloy |
QMTD |
Optimal Sequential Allocation of Limited Vaccine to Control an Infectious Disease: The Example of COVID-19 |
Isabelle Rao |
QMTD |
Poster Session 3
Wednesday, October 20 | 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM EDT | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM UTC
TITLE |
Presenter |
Category |
Medication Adherence Impacts Lost Time, Productivity Costs and ER Visits in Employees with Diabetes, Depression, and Coronary Artery Disease |
Richard Brook |
AHE |
Cost-Effectiveness of Nivolumab Plus Ipilimumab in Patients with Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma Previously Treated with Sorafenib |
Cherry Chan |
AHE |
Evaluation of Survival Extrapolation in Cost-effectiveness Analyses of Immuno-Oncology Therapies |
Mingjun Rui |
AHE |
The Cost-Effectiveness of Laboratory Monitoring for Persons on Isotretinoin Acne Therapy |
Ethan Borre |
AHE |
Universal routine depression screenings for U.S. adolescents in primary care: a cost-effectiveness analysis |
Tran Doan |
AHE |
PAY-FOR-PERFORMANCE INCENTIVES FOR TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE IMPLANTATION IN ONTARIO |
John Peel |
AHE |
Economic Evaluation of Anti-Rabies Prophylaxis among children in India |
Abhishek Royal |
AHE |
Utility values for hearing loss: a scoping review |
Kamaria Kaalund |
AHE |
Cost-effectiveness of a Core Antigen Based Rapid Diagnostic Test for Hepatitis C |
huaiyang zhong |
AHE |
Economic value of introducing the mRNA BNT162b2 and ChAdOx1 nCov-19 vaccines in COVAX Advance Market Commitment Countries to address the COVID-19 pandemic: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis and Budget Impact Analysis |
Sarah Adler |
AHE |
Value of Information for Arthritis Hand Surgery |
David Hutton |
AHE |
Learning from online support groups: identifying concerns and information needs of patients from underrepresented populations diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer. |
Ilona Fridman |
DEC |
Willingness to come back for care: preferences of patients with delayed colonoscopies due to COVID-19 |
K.D. Valentine |
DEC |
Geriatrics-Focused Indicators Should Inform Decision Making in Older Adults Hospitalized with COVID-19 |
Liron Sinvani |
DEC |
Randomised trial of a health-literate CVD prevention decision aid with alternative risk communication formats |
Carissa Bonner |
DEC |
Effects of Psychological Interventions with Motivational Interviewing on Children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: A Systematic Review |
heqin yang |
DEC |
Exploring user behaviors on an electronic consent platform for research participation |
Martin Duparc |
DEC |
Development of complementary patient and encounter decision aids for stroke prevention in patients diagnosed with atrial fibrillation |
Madeleine McCarty |
DEC |
Effectiveness of Patient Decision Aids for Total Hip and Knee Arthroplasty Decision-Making: A systematic review |
Lissa Pacheco-Brousseau |
DEC |
Decision Making Roles in the Last Two Years of Life Among Metastatic Cancer Patients: A Longitudinal Study |
Semra Ozdemir |
DEC |
Measuring Shared Decision Making in Younger and Older Adults with Depression |
Suzanne Brodney |
DEC |
Psychological well-being and decision making experiences of parents with a fetus diagnosed with a severe congenital heart defect |
Alistair Thorpe |
DEC |
Kidney Failure Treatment Decision-Making During Uncertain Times: A qualitative study of Patients, Carepartners and Clinicians during the COVID-19 pandemic |
Thalia Porteny |
DEC |
The Use of Explicit Health Benefits Packages Increases Support for Universal Health Care for People with High Objective Numeracy |
Sean Duan |
DEC |
Informed/Shared Decision Making for Prostate Cancer Screening Among Members of the World Trade Center Health Program |
Michael Diefenbach |
DEC |
Do the effects of risk communication and decision support interventions differ between people of different sexes, ages, and racial/ethnic identities? |
Ruth Ndjaboue |
DEC |
Considering breast reconstruction after mastectomy patient decision aid video and workbook: randomized controlled trial of efficacy, dissemination feasibility, and effectiveness compared to the standard educational booklet. |
Aubri Hoffman |
DEC |
Prioritizing Quality Measures in Acute Stroke Care – A Cost-effectiveness Framework |
Jinyi Zhu |
HSOP |
Are Pandemics Predictable? Lessons learned from COVID-19 |
Kevin Smith |
HSOP |
Overdiagnosis of Urinary Tract Infections in Nursing Home Residents by Nursing Home Primary Care Providers and Nurses compared to a Clinical Guideline |
Christine Kistler |
HSOP |
Metastatic Colorectal Cancer Treatment in the Medicare Population: An analysis to inform preemptive germline pharmacogenomic testing |
Zachary Rivers |
HSOP |
Integrated Data Models Outperform Direct Claims Only Models in Predicting New Mental Health Cases |
Richard Brook |
HSOP |
Dyslipidemia Management in Coronary Heart Disease Patients at King Faisal Cardiac Center Over a Period of Two Years |
Malak BinShihon |
HSOP |
Review of processes in use to inform policy-making on the expansion of newborn bloodspot screening programmes |
Susan Spillane |
HSOP |
Modeling the Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic-Driven Increases in Alcohol Consumption on Health Outcomes and Hospitalization Costs |
Carolina Barbosa |
HSOP |
Pandemic shifts in elective cancer care: lessons learned from patient- and hospital-driven changes in care |
Aubri Hoffman |
HSOP |
Association Between Income Inequality and Racial Disparities on Obesity in US Men: 1999-2016 |
Hossein Zare |
HSOP |
VALUING THE EQ-5D-5L USING A COMPOSITIONAL APPROACH: A NEW TOOL FOR ELICITING PERSONAL UTILITY FUNCTIONS ONLINE |
Paul Schneider |
PSPE |
Addressing COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy among Young Adults: Information Needs and Research Priorities |
Gleb Donin |
PSPE |
Identification of Model Attributes for Patient-Centered Value Assessment of Treatments for Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) |
Julia Slejko |
PSPE |
Health Utilities in People with Hepatitis C Virus Infection in Ontario, Canada: A Study Using Real-world Population-level Data |
Yasmin Saeed |
PSPE |
Understanding women’s preferences for information when making the decision to have non-invasive prenatal testing in Sweden: a discrete choice experiment |
Garima Dalal |
PSPE |
Using risk prediction models to improve risk communication in diabetes? |
Ruth Ndjaboue |
PSPE |
Women's use of a decision aid containing a decision analysis model to support the shared decision-making process regarding thromboprophylaxis during pregnancy: DASH-TOP pilot study |
MONTSERRAT LEON GARCIA |
PSPE |
Simulating Study Data to Support Expected Value of Sample Information Calculations |
Anna Heath |
QMTD |
Methodological guidance for evaluating and updating clinical prediction models: a systematic review |
Mary Ann Binuya |
QMTD |
Development of a user-friendly tool to interpret the shape of Value of Information curves: the relationship between incremental cost-effectiveness and value of Information results |
Edward Wilson |
QMTD |
Development of a spatial microsimulation modeling tool for improved naloxone distribution at the community level |
Xiao Zang |
QMTD |
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