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ArticleAmerican journal of public health2015

Addressing the Challenges of Research With Small Populations.

Diane M Korngiebel, Maile Taualii, Ralph Forquera, Raymond Harris, Dedra Buchwald

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Article in American journal of public health, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Diane M KorngiebelDiane M. Korngiebel is with the Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education, University of Washington, Seattle. Maile Taualii is with Native Hawaiian and Indigenous Health, Office of Public Health Studies, University of Hawaii, Honolulu. Ralph Forquera is with the Seattle Indian Health Board, Seattle. Raymond Harris is with the Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle. Dedra Buchwald is with the Departments of Epidemiology and Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle.
Maile TaualiiDiane M. Korngiebel is with the Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education, University of Washington, Seattle. Maile Taualii is with Native Hawaiian and Indigenous Health, Office of Public Health Studies, University of Hawaii, Honolulu. Ralph Forquera is with the Seattle Indian Health Board, Seattle. Raymond Harris is with the Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle. Dedra Buchwald is with the Departments of Epidemiology and Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle.
Ralph ForqueraDiane M. Korngiebel is with the Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education, University of Washington, Seattle. Maile Taualii is with Native Hawaiian and Indigenous Health, Office of Public Health Studies, University of Hawaii, Honolulu. Ralph Forquera is with the Seattle Indian Health Board, Seattle. Raymond Harris is with the Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle. Dedra Buchwald is with the Departments of Epidemiology and Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle.
Raymond HarrisDiane M. Korngiebel is with the Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education, University of Washington, Seattle. Maile Taualii is with Native Hawaiian and Indigenous Health, Office of Public Health Studies, University of Hawaii, Honolulu. Ralph Forquera is with the Seattle Indian Health Board, Seattle. Raymond Harris is with the Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle. Dedra Buchwald is with the Departments of Epidemiology and Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle.
Dedra BuchwaldDiane M. Korngiebel is with the Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education, University of Washington, Seattle. Maile Taualii is with Native Hawaiian and Indigenous Health, Office of Public Health Studies, University of Hawaii, Honolulu. Ralph Forquera is with the Seattle Indian Health Board, Seattle. Raymond Harris is with the Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle. Dedra Buchwald is with the Departments of Epidemiology and Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle.

Funding

Training ProgramU54CA153498 · NCI · WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY · PI BUCHWALD, DEDRA S, HENDERSON, JEFFREY A · 2010 to 2015
$4.1M
NCI NIH HHS U54 CA153498NCI NIH HHS U54CA153498NCI NIH HHS U54CA153498-02S3
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Public health policy relies on accurate data, which are often unavailable for small populations, especially indigenous groups. Yet these groups have some of the worst health disparities in the United States, making it an ethical imperative to explore creative solutions to the problem of insufficient data. We discuss the limits of widely applied methods of data aggregation and propose a mixed-methods approach to data borrowing as a way to augment sample sizes. In this approach, community partners assist in selecting related populations that make suitable "neighbors" to enlarge the data pool. The result will be data that are substantial, accurate, and relevant to the needs of small populations, especially for health-related policy and decision-making at all levels.

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Health PolicyResearch DesignHumansIndians, North AmericanMinority GroupsPublic Health SurveillanceRacial GroupsSample SizeUnited States

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PMID26180955
PMCPMC4539838

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