Multi-stakeholder initiatives (MSIs) establish metrics and collect farm-level data to measure sustainability in the food system. Rooted private sector, MSIs advance goals that were once responsibility of state. To make sense this trend, we distinguish three ideal types accountability systems United States agrifood system: community-based, state-led, private-ordering systems. We explore implicat...

1. To increase diversity among the ASCB members 2. To bring issues related to minorities in science to the attention of ASCB members 3. To assist in the professional development of minority scientists and in the education of minority science students 4. To provide opportunities for faculty members at minorityserving institutions (MSIs) not only to advance their research and teaching effectivene...

BACKGROUND Disabled multiple sclerosis (MS) patients often need intervention of multiple specialists, resulting in a complex organization of care. How this multidisciplinary care should be organized and structured has not been studied. OBJECTIVE The objective of this article is to address the effectiveness of an integrated multidisciplinary approach versus usual care in MS patients. METHODS...

The MAX Medicaid policy issue brief series highlights the essential role MAX data can play in analyzing the Medicaid program. MAX is a set of annual, person-level data files on Medicaid eligibility, service utilization, and payments that are derived from state reporting of Medicaid eligibility and claims data into the Medicaid Statistical Information System (MSIS). MAX is an enhanced, researchf...

The Norwegian Surveillance System for Communicable Diseases (MSIS) includes variables related to travel for clinicians to fill when notifying travel-associated infections. We measured the completeness and validated the travel-history information for salmonellosis, campylobacteriosis, giardiasis and shigellosis reported in 2009-2010. Of all 8,978 selected infections in MSIS, 8,122 (91%) were rep...

In 2006 an inter-agency team of researchers was assembled to address the Medicaid undercount issue in the Current Population Survey (CPS). Records on enrollment in 2000-2001 were compiled from the Medicaid Statistical Information System (MSIS) and matched to the CPS survey data covering the same years. Assuming the MSIS data reflected “true” Medicaid status, the matched dataset was used to exam...