Maria Brucato

Person Knowledge Is Independently Encoded by Allocentric and Egocentric Reference Frames Within Separate Brain Systems - Robert S. Chavez, Taylor D. Guthrie, Jack M. Kapustka, 2025 Knowing the similarities among others is critical for navigating our social environments and building relationships. However, people can evaluate the similarity...

Very proud to finally share our latest paper "Person Knowledge is Independently Encoded by Allocentric and Egocentric Reference Frames within Separate Brain Systems," officially out at Psych Science.
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5) HCUP Databases: national stats on injuries/ medical conditions treated, procedures performed, populations served, quality of care, cost of treatment, and more across a variety of healthcare settings nationwide. The data are easily accessible and and anyone to generate their own reports online

4) CAHPS: collects and reports standardized data on patients’ experiences with healthcare. It’s one of the most widely used tools in the U.S. for capturing the patient voice in health services researchers and is used to identify strengths and gaps in care, design interventions, and track progress.

3)ProjectRED: patient-centered discharge guides to reduce hospital readmissions. Including bilingual staff to reduce language barriers, consideration of culturally relevant nutrition in discharge plans, working with patients religious observances to make adjustments to medication regimens, and more!

2) Advisory Board Starter Kit: a collection of 14 templates designed to help organizations and researchers start advisory boards. These advisory boards engage patients and families in evaluation & research for improving healthcare quality and safety. www.ahrq.gov/patient-safe...

1) TeamSTEPPS: teamwork training for healthcare professionals to prevent *avoidable* errors that impact patient safety and mortality, and help retain our rapidly declining healthcare workforce.

Since 1999, AHRQ has funded patient-centered research, generating vital data and tools that improve patient outcomes.
HSS is dismantling it “to create the Office of Strategy to enhance research that informs the Secretary’s policies”

I hope AHRQ resources stay public—here’s a thread my favorites.

Nice comment on the state of measurement in psychology. People just keep piling on new constructs and new questionnaires. How can we clean up the mess that this creates? Feat. respectful operationalism and epistemic iteration

New tutorial @ AMPPS on how to plan your sample sizes for item-response-theory studies.

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