University of Colorado Health

Prescriptive Target Matching Across Hearing Aid Technology Generations: A Real-Ear Insertion Gain Analysis

Background: Advances in hearing aid technology may improve prescriptive target matching, but whether newer devices better match targets remains unclear. This study compared prescriptive target matching across hearing aid technology generations. Methods: This secondary analysis in...

Assessing Emergency Clinicians' Needs From Trauma Clinical Guidance: A Mixed-Methods Study.

BACKGROUND: In the United States, emergency clinicians are often the first to care for injured patients in the hospital setting. Current trauma clinical guidance does not consistently meet the needs of emergency clinicians caring for this population. OBJECTIVES: To better underst...

From policy debate to empirical evidence: a proof-of-concept bibliometric and LLM-assisted abstract-level content analysis of OTC hearing aid research before and after FDA regulation

Objective To characterise temporal patterns in over-the-counter (OTC) hearing-aid research before and after U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) implementation of the OTC category (effective October 2022), using bibliometrics and large language model (LLM)–assisted abstract-le...

The Fertility Reduction Effects of the Colorado Family Planning Initiative by Age and Parity

ABSTRACT We use restricted‐access birth records from the National Vital Statistics System (NVSS) to document the full age and parity fertility effects of the Colorado Family Planning Initiative (CFPI). The CFPI provided access to every FDA approved method of contraception for fre...