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Strategic prioritization of sewersheds to mitigate combined sewer overflows under climate change Open

Justine Petrucci, Jonathan Jalbert, Philip S. Brenner, Natasha McQuaid, Françoise Bichai · 2025

The impact of combined sewer overflows (CSOs) on water bodies is well documented: they pose severe threats to water quality, ecosystems, and public health. Exposure to contaminants from overflows can lead to waterborne diseases, emphasizin…

Automation of on-site microbial water quality monitoring from source to tap: Challenges and perspectives Open

Jean‐Baptiste Burnet, Katalin Demeter, Philip S. Brenner, Andreas H. Farnleitner, Frederik Hammes , et al. · 2025

Ensuring the provision of safe drinking water necessitates thorough monitoring of microbial water quality. While traditional culture-based enumeration of bacterial indicators has served as the gold standard in compliance monitoring since t…

Sources of Inconsistency in the Measurement of Religious Affiliation: Evidence from a Survey Experiment and Cognitive Interviews Open

Philip S. Brenner, J.-F. Laplante, Tracy L. Reed · 2023

Research has argued that estimates of the percentage of Americans without a religious affiliation may be influenced by a measurement artifact caused by the poor reliability of conventional survey questions. Using a question-order experimen…

Testing a Planned Missing Design to Reduce Respondent Burden in Web and SMS Administrations of the CAHPS Clinician and Group Survey (CG-CAHPS) Open

Philip S. Brenner, J. Lee Hargraves, Carol Cosenza · 2022

We test a planned missing design to reduce respondent burden in Web and SMS administrations of the CAHPS Clinician and Group Survey (CG-CAHPS), a survey of patient experiences widely used by health care providers. Members of an online nonp…

How responding in Spanish affects CAHPS results Open

Floyd J. Fowler, Philip S. Brenner, Carol Cosenza, Paul D. Cleary · 2022

Comparing Web and Mail Protocols for Administering Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems Surveys Open

Floyd J. Fowler, Philip S. Brenner, J. Lee Hargraves, Paul D. Cleary · 2021

Objective: The objective of this study was to compare results of using web-based and mail (postal) Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) data collection protocols. Research Design: Patients who had been …

104 Associations between Neighborhood Disadvantage Measures and COVID-19 Case Clusters Open

Margaret Samuels‐Kalow, Philip S. Brenner, Rebecca E. Cash, Sangit Dutta, Bret White , et al. · 2020

131 A Novel Mobile Integrated Health Program for COVID-19 Response Open

Philip S. Brenner, Lucas C. Carlson, Avital DeSharone, Ryan Thompson, Chengyi Pu , et al. · 2020

The Effects of Nonresponse and Sampling Omissions on Estimates on Various Topics in Federal Surveys: Telephone and IVR Surveys of Address-Based Samples Open

Floyd J. Fowler, Philip S. Brenner, Anthony Roman, J. Lee Hargraves · 2020

With declining response rates and challenges of using RDD sampling for telephone surveys, collecting data from address-based samples has become more attractive. Two approaches are doing telephone interviews at telephone numbers matched to …

Telephone health survey estimates: Effects of nonresponse and sample limitations Open

Floyd J. Fowler, Philip S. Brenner, Trent D. Buskirk, Anthony Roman · 2019

Objective The objective of this study was to assess nonresponse error in telephone health survey data based on an address‐based sample. Data Sources Telephone and in‐person interviews in Greater Boston. Study Design/Data Collection Intervi…

Does Survey Nonresponse Bias Estimates of Religious Service Attendance? Evidence from an Address-Based Sample from the Boston Area Open

Philip S. Brenner · 2018

This study investigates what role, if any, nonresponse plays in inflating survey estimates of religious behavior, using a multimode survey designed to allow estimation of nonresponse bias. A sample of 3,000 Boston-area households drawn fro…

Lies, Damned Lies, and Survey Self-Reports? Identity as a Cause of Measurement Bias Open

Philip S. Brenner, John DeLamater · 2016

Explanations of error in survey self-reports have focused on social desirability: that respondents answer questions about normative behavior to appear prosocial to interviewers. However, this paradigm fails to explain why bias occurs even …

Cross-National Trends in Religious Service Attendance: Table 1. Open

Philip S. Brenner · 2016

The nature of religious change and the future of religion have been central questions of social science since its inception. But empirical research on this question has been quite American-centric, encouraged by the conventional wisdom tha…

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