Elucidating the genetic and environmental etiology of effortful control (mother and father report at two time points), attentional control (observer reports) and their associations with internalizing and externalizing symptoms (mother and father report) is the central focus of this paper. With a sample of twins in middle childhood participating in the Wisconsin Twin Project, broad sense heritability for parental report effortful control ranged from 68–79%, with a slightly higher heritability estimate of 83% for observer report attentional control, and no influence of the shared environment on either trait. Further, measures of control were negatively correlated with internalizing and externalizing symptoms longitudinally, concurrently, and across reporters. Importantly, shared additive genetic influence accounted for the covariation between the control variables and symptoms of psychopathology. These results encourage identification of common genes that affect both effortful control and symptoms, and environmental triggers that uniquely influence symptoms of psychopathology.
423 Background:Optum’s Cancer Guidance Program promotes value-based care by ensuring that treatments follow evidence-based guidelines and encouraging the use of cancer therapy pathways. Criteria for selection of treatments for pathways include efficacy, toxicity and cost so Pathways could be expected to decrease emergency room utilization and hospitalizations that result from adverse events of therapy. We conducted this study to evaluate the impact of Pathways adherence (on vs. off Pathways) on hospital inpatient and emergency department utilization among commercially insured members with breast cancer. Methods: This cross-sectional matched case-control study used medical claims and prior authorization data to evaluate 12 months of program experience (11/1/2019 – 10/31/2020). Individuals were included if they were 19+ years old, enrolled in the health plan, had actively treated breast cancer (breast cancer diagnosis and 1+ cancer related treatment procedure), and had a cancer drug therapy prior authorization during the study period. On Pathway cases were matched to off Pathway controls with propensity score and outcomes were measured using generalized linear models. The propensity score was estimated using demographic characteristics, cost/utilization preceding the prior authorization request, and clinical indicators (HER2 status, advanced disease, adjuvant vs neoadjuvant therapy, multiple lines of therapy, ECOG /Karnofsky, regimen emetic risk). Outcomes were measured across the member’s treatment episode from first month of active cancer treatment to 3 months after last month of active cancer treatment. Results: Compared to those who were off Pathway (n = 1,001), patients treated with a Pathways regimen (n = 1,001) had 18% lower (p-value = 0.03) all-cause inpatient admissions, 14% lower (p-value = 0.10) cancer-related inpatient admissions, 18% lower (p-value = 0.11) all-cause emergency department visits, no difference in (p-value = 1.00) cancer-related inpatient bed days, 8% lower (p-value = 0.31) all-cause emergency department visits, and 1% lower (p-value = 0.92) cancer-related emergency department visits. Conclusions: Treatment with a Pathway regimen was associated with fewer all-cause and cancer-related visits to inpatient hospitalizations and fewer all-cause inpatient bed days.
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