Statistics on falls amongst adults with intellectual disabilities and possible ways to reduce them.

Pipeline Trends features concise, impartial data on drugs in development and their potential place in therapy.

The MassHealth Hospice Program: Overview and Analysis study employed mixed methods to conduct a descriptive analysis of primary and secondary data, using document review, key informant interviews, and MassHealth claims and enrollment data. This report explains the structure and implementation of the hospice benefit, examines the increase in hospice benefit utilization and expenditures, assesses member and family satisfaction with the benefit, and describes end of life services provided by Medicaid programs in five states.

This article describes the many initiatives of the MassAHEC Network program office at UMass Medical School and the AHEC of Southeastern MA (AHEC-SE) have engaged in to define and develop consumer engagement materials and activities. AHEC-SE has partnered with health professionals and AHECs to engage patients to identify their perspectives on the patient-centered medical home model.

This research brief presents further issues to consider in assessing the desirability of a State Basic Health Program (SBHP) in Connecticut and the optimal timing for implementing it.

The present paper discusses how features of ADHD, including inattention, reward sensitivity, and impulsivity, may impact obesity risk and have implications for the management of obesity.

The authors estimate the prospect of benefit loss effects on work participation and earnings of participants in four disability programs using a unique survey.

The results of a parent questionnaire about mealtimes that included households with children on the autism spectrum. It measured family meal structure, problematic child mealtime behaviors, use of food as reward, parentals concern about child diet, spousal stress related to child mealtime behavior, more.

This issue brief was presented to the Connecticut State Legislature on January 31, 2012. An update to this January 2012 Research Brief was published on April 4, 2012.

This study, which is related to another study the authors have done on the same subject, seeks to better understand how persons with mental health conditions from two cultural groups - Latinos and Deaf and Hard of Hearing (D/HH) - access recovery-based services.