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Ending the 17-year gap–The Role of PubTrawlr
17 years. Research into the medical and social sciences indicates that it can take up to 17 years before a scientific finding makes its way into regular practice[1],[2],[3],[4],[5] This fact… Read More
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Evaluation in Health Services Settings: Reader’s Digest Version
Many years ago when the world was young, Drs. Victoria Scott and Kassy Alia-Ray and I wrote a book chapter on how to approach evaluation in community health improvement. That… Read More
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Shhh! It’s a secret.
Have you stumbled across this very short blog post? Well, lucky you! PubTrawlr is now live and in beta testing! Over the next few weeks, we’ll be trying out various… Read More
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101 Days of Community Psychology
I’m a community psychologist by training/degree, though like most quasi-academics, my portfolio and interests aren’t constrained to one field. This is the reality for community psychology. It is extremely broad… Read More
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Wouldn’t mama be proud? A sentiment analysis of Elliott Smith lyrics
I’ve been an Elliott Smith kick this past month. Although I was one of the lucky ones to see him live (back in 1998 at the now-defunct Trocadero in Philly),… Read More
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Making Sense of Data in Practical and Collaborative Settings
When working in community-based settings, there is often a reluctance to engage in evaluation. I generally try to emphasize three main points at the beginning of collaborations. Data is everywhere…. Read More
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The COVID Malaise: Sentiment Analysis Update
A few months ago, I analyzed IHI’s Stories of COVID for their emotional content. I was interested both in the emotional trends and what types of emotions were contained within… Read More
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101 Days of Implementation Science
It’s not quite Labor Day in the US, but the last days of summer are winding day. Last week, I took a look at the past few months on evaluation… Read More
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Not Another Implementation Barriers and Facilitation Post!
I think if I read another “barriers and facilitators” article about implementation, I might conk right out here at my desk. There was one just this morning! Hell, here’s one… Read More
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Fitter, Happier, More Productive. Some words on Weiner el al (2020)’s “Measuring Readiness for Implementation”
Stop the presses! A readiness-measure review paper came out this morning in Implementation Research and Practice, a brand new journal from the SIRC folks focusing on implementation issues in behavioral… Read More
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101 Days of Evaluation: August 25, 2020
Lately, I’ve been focused on better ways to synthesize the academic literature. Even when I was a graduate student (and the job description was pretty much 50% reading), I couldn’t… Read More
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Sentiment Analysis of Stories of COVID
COVID has been incredibly disruptive, not just to our lifestyles but to our mood as well. Passions have been inflamed by difference in how (or if) we should respond. The… Read More