Current projects

Health Care

Outcomes of Monoclonal Antibody Use in Patients with COVID-19 - a propensity-matched comparison of the effect of monoclonal antibodies on 28-day rehospitalization and mortality in 21,139 outpatients who presented with mild-to-moderate COVID-19 infections to Seattle area emergency departments from 2021 to 2022

Predicting Mortality in Patients with Necrotizing Fasciitis: A Machine Learning Study - Unsupervised and supervised models to predict mortality in 158 Boston area inpatients diagnosed with necrotizing fasciitis (flesh-eating bacterial infections) from 2008 to 20191

Predicting Mortality in Heart Failure Patients Admitted to ICU - a logistic regression analysis of mortality in 1,177 adult heart failure (HF) patients admitted to a Boston hospital from 2008 to 2019

Religion

Retention, Transition, and Disaffiliation from American Christianity: Trend Data from the General Social Survey, 1972-2018 - A tool for exploring trends in the religious affiliation of American adults, based on pooled cross-sections of data from the General Social Survey, 1973 to 2018.

America’s Changing Religious Traditions - A Sankey diagram visualization of data from the Pew Research Center’s 2015 America’s Changing Religious Landscape Study

In-progress

Validity Evidence for the Spiritual Harm and Abuse Scale (SHAS) - Koch and Edstrom (2022) developed a scale of spiritual harm and abuse by religious leaders. Here I plan to use the Rating Scale Model to examine the technical quality of the scale for use in research.

Validity of a Scale of Spiritual Well-Being - The Pew Research Center 2015 Changing Religious Landscape Survey included four items that could form a scale of spiritual well-being. I plan to use classical test theory and item response theory to assess the technical quality of this scale for use in research.

Coping during the COVID-19 Pandemic - An analysis of coping strategies during the COVID-19 pandemic based on data from Wave VI of the Baylor Religion Survey

A Closer Look at Glossolalia - an exploratory analysis of “speaking in tongues” among self-identified Christians in data from the Pew Research Center 2015 Changing Religious Landscape Study

Footnotes

  1. Based on data from the Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care (MIMIC), a repository of publicly accessible de-identified clinical data for medical research. It offers data on patients admitted to critical care units at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston from 2008 to 2019.↩︎