Academic Medical Centers

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  • "The Patient Is Dying, Please Call the Chaplain": The Activities of Chaplains in One Medical Center's Intensive Care Units. 
  • "Thin" malignant melanoma: risk factors and clinical management. 
  • 'So you want to be a clinician-educator...': designing a clinician-educator curriculum for internal medicine residents. 
  • A Decision Aid to Promote Appropriate Colorectal Cancer Screening among Older Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial. 
  • A National Needs Assessment of Point-of-Care Ultrasound Training for Hospitalists. 
  • A New Community Health Center/Academic Medicine Partnership for Medicaid Cost Control, Powered by the Mega Teaching Health Center. 
  • A Pharmacy-Based Electronic Handoff Tool to Reduce Discharge Prescribing of Atypical Antipsychotics Initiated in the Intensive Care Unit: A Quality Improvement Initiative. 
  • A Pilot Study to Investigate the Relationship Between Interaural Differences in Temporal Bone Anatomy and Normal Variations in Caloric Asymmetry. 
  • A clinical clerkship collaborative program in Taiwan: Acquiring core clinical competencies through patient care responsibility. 
  • A clinical economics workstation for risk-adjusted health care cost management. 
  • A comparison of acute coronary syndrome care at academic and nonacademic hospitals. 
  • A comparison of environmental contamination by patients infected or colonized with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus or vancomycin-resistant enterococci: a multicenter study. 
  • A cross-site, comparative effectiveness study of an integrated HIV and substance use treatment program. 
  • A history of the Department of Radiology at Duke University Medical Center. 
  • A hub for bench-to-bedside pharmacogenomic-based research. 
  • A large university medical center delivery system for therapeutic apheresis services. 
  • A method for assembling a collaborative research team from multiple disciplines and academic centers to study the relationships between ECG estimation and MRI measurement of myocardial infarct size. 
  • A naturalistic, multi-site study of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation therapy for depression. 
  • A policy-based intervention for the reduction of communication breakdowns in inpatient surgical care: results from a Harvard surgical safety collaborative. 
  • A retrospective assessment of the incidence of respiratory depression after neuraxial morphine administration for postcesarean delivery analgesia. 
  • A roadmap for academic health centers to establish good laboratory practice-compliant infrastructure. 
  • A standard definition of major hepatectomy: resection of four or more liver segments. 
  • A survey of propofol abuse in academic anesthesia programs. 
  • A technique to perfuse cadavers that extends the useful life of fresh tissues: the Duke experience. 
  • A time for transformative leadership in academic health sciences. 
  • A view from the future: the challenge for academic medicine in northern California. 
  • Academic Health Systems' Third Curve: Population Health Improvement. 
  • Academic general internal medicine: a mission for the future. 
  • Academic medical centers: ripe for rapid-learning personalized health care. 
  • Academic medicine can transform health care through clinical research. 
  • Academic medicine: vision to reality. 
  • Academic-Practice Partnership for Caregiver Training and Support: The Duke Elder Family/Caregiver Training (DEFT) Center. 
  • Access and diversity in academic mentoring. 
  • Access to routine care and risks for 30-day readmission in patients with cardiovascular disease. 
  • Accuracy of international classification of diseases, ninth revision, clinical modification billing codes for common ophthalmic conditions. 
  • Achieving Quality in Cardiovascular Imaging II: proceedings from the Second American College of Cardiology -- Duke University Medical Center Think Tank on Quality in Cardiovascular Imaging. 
  • Achieving quality in cardiovascular imaging: proceedings from the American College of Cardiology-Duke University Medical Center Think Tank on Quality in Cardiovascular Imaging. 
  • Administrative Costs Associated With Physician Billing and Insurance-Related Activities at an Academic Health Care System 
  • Adopting TMR for physician/nurse use. 
  • Aligning the goals of community-engaged research: why and how academic health centers can successfully engage with communities to improve health. 
  • Alternative models for academic family practices. 
  • Analysis of an endotracheal intubation service provided by respiratory care practitioners. 
  • Analysis of site performance in academic-based and community-based centers in the IDEAL Study. 
  • Anesthetic Evolution in Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: Expert Perspectives From High-Volume Academic Centers in Europe and the United States. 
  • Anesthetic management and outcomes of parturients with dilated cardiomyopathy in an academic centre. 
  • Anorectal melanoma: clinical characteristics and the role of abdominoperineal resection. 
  • Application of the Seattle Heart Failure Model in ambulatory patients presented to an advanced heart failure therapeutics committee. 
  • Assessing and improving safety culture throughout an academic medical centre: a prospective cohort study. 
  • Assessing surge capacity for radiation victims with marrow toxicity. 
  • Assessing the economic attractiveness of coronary artery revascularization in chronic kidney disease patients. 
  • Assessing the effort associated with teaching residents. 
  • Assessing the value of hospitalists to academic health centers: Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School. 
  • Assessment and treatment of depression in patients with cardiovascular disease: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute working group report. 
  • Assessment of appropriateness of cataract surgery at ten academic medical centers in 1990. 
  • Assessment of multimodality therapy use for extremity sarcoma in the United States. 
  • Association Between Exercise Frequency and Health Care Costs Among Employees at a Large University and Academic Medical Center. 
  • Association between hospital process performance and outcomes among patients with acute coronary syndromes. 
  • Association of Histologic Disease Activity With Progression of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease. 
  • Association of an Active Surveillance and Decolonization Program on Incidence of Clinical Cultures Growing Staphylococcus aureus in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. 
  • Avoidance of primary post-tonsillectomy hemorrhage in a teaching program. 
  • Awareness of racial/ethnic disparities in surgical outcomes and care: factors affecting acknowledgment and action. 
  • Baseline Pulse Pressure, Acute Kidney Injury, and Mortality After Noncardiac Surgery. 
  • Blood lead concentrations in 1-3 year old Lebanese children: a cross-sectional study. 
  • Breast-Related Quality of Life in Young Reduction Mammaplasty Patients: A Long-Term Follow-Up Using the BREAST-Q. 
  • Build or remodel? Preparing facilities for today's and tomorrow's needs. 
  • Building Social Capital to Foster Interprofessional Education: The Interprofessional Educator Academy. 
  • Building a national research network for clinical investigations in otology and neurotology. 
  • COVID-19: Financial Stress Test for Academic Medical Centers. 
  • Can Academic Cardiology Divisions Survive? 
  • Can we keep the "academic" in academic medicine? 2009 American Society for Clinical Investigation Presidential Address. 
  • Cannabis use history and characteristics of quit attempts: a comparison study of treatment-seeking and non-treatment-seeking cannabis users. 
  • Cardiac transplantation at Duke University Medical Center. 
  • Cardiometabolic Assessment, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Chronic Medical Illnesses During an Inpatient Psychiatric Hospitalization: Colocated Medical Care Versus Treatment as Usual. 
  • Cardiopulmonary complications leading to premature deaths in adult patients with sickle cell disease. 
  • Cardiovascular risk factors predictive for survival and morbidity-free survival in the oldest-old Framingham Heart Study participants. 
  • Career characteristics of graduates of a Medical Scientist Training Program, 1970-1990. 
  • Caring for patients with sickle cell disease in North Carolina. 
  • Carotid endarterectomy trends in the patterns and outcomes of care at academic medical centers, 1990 through 1995. 
  • Cementless femoral prostheses cost more to implant than cemented femoral prostheses. 
  • Center variation in patient age and weight at Fontan operation and impact on postoperative outcomes. 
  • Changing rates of cesarean delivery: the Duke experience, 1978-1986. 
  • Characteristics of palliative care consultation at an academic level one trauma center. 
  • Children with deep space neck infections: our experience with 178 children. 
  • Clinical Computing: Clinical Management Research Information System (CRIS). 
  • Clinical Quality Improvement Curriculum for Faculty in an Academic Medical Center. 
  • Clinical experience of medical students with primary care career goals. 
  • Clinical outcomes after ureteroscopic lithotripsy in patients who initially presented with urosepsis: matched pair comparison with elective ureteroscopy. 
  • Clinical outcomes and costs due to Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia among patients receiving long-term hemodialysis. 
  • ClinicalTrials.gov reporting: strategies for success at an academic health center. 
  • Commentary: Per capita payments in clinical trials: reasonable costs versus bounty hunting. 
  • Commentary: Personalized health planning and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: an opportunity for academic medicine to lead health care reform. 
  • Communication practices on 4 Harvard surgical services: a surgical safety collaborative. 
  • Community Health Centers: a Key Partner to Achieve Medicaid Expansion. 
  • Community Obstetrical Units Less Likely than Academic Units to Have Universal COVID-19 Testing. 
  • Comparative analysis of vagotomy and drainage versus vagotomy and resection procedures for bleeding peptic ulcer disease: results of 907 patients from the Department of Veterans Affairs National Surgical Quality Improvement Program database. 
  • Comparison of Urologic Transfers to Academic Medical Centers: A Multi-institutional Perspective. 
  • Comparison of academic and nonacademic sites in multi-center clinical trials. 
  • Comparison of conflict of interest policies and reported practices in academic medical centers in the United States. 
  • Comparison of medicine resident diabetes care between Veterans Affairs and academic health care systems. 
  • Correlation of prostate needle biopsy and radical prostatectomy Gleason grade in academic and community settings. 
  • Cost of invasive fungal infections in the era of new diagnostics and expanded treatment options. 
  • Creating a Community Radiology Division: An Academic Radiology Department's 3-Year Experience. 
  • Cultural and organizational implications of academic managed-care networks. 
  • CureGN Study Rationale, Design, and Methods: Establishing a Large Prospective Observational Study of Glomerular Disease. 
  • Current state of information technologies for the clinical research enterprise across academic medical centers. 
  • Data and safety monitoring boards: academic credit where credit is due? 
  • Delay in diagnosis of invasive surgical site infections following knee arthroplasty versus hip arthroplasty. 
  • Demographic characteristics of patients requiring full-thickness skin grafts for cicatricial ectropion at Duke Eye Center from 2000 to 2010. 
  • Demographic, clinical and occupational characteristics associated with early onset of delivery: findings from the Duke Health and Safety Surveillance System, 2001-2004. 
  • Demystifying Spiritual Care: An Interprofessional Approach for Teaching Residents and Hospital Chaplains to Work Together. 
  • Depression as an independent predictor of postoperative delirium in spine deformity patients undergoing elective spine surgery. 
  • Depressive symptoms in elderly medical-surgical patients hospitalized in community settings. 
  • Design and Evaluation of an Interdisciplinary Health Disparities Research Curriculum. 
  • Determining benchmarks for evaluation and management coding in an academic division of general surgery. 
  • Developing a high-efficiency operating room for total joint arthroplasty in an academic setting. 
  • Developing and implementing core competencies for integrative medicine fellowships. 
  • Development and Validation of a Mortality Prediction Model for Patients Receiving 14 Days of Mechanical Ventilation. 
  • Development and implementation of a formalized geriatric surgery curriculum for general surgery residents. 
  • Development and initial testing of a computer-based patient decision aid to promote colorectal cancer screening for primary care practice. 
  • Development and preliminary assessment of a critical care ultrasound course in an adult pulmonary and critical care fellowship program. 
  • Development of a Tool to Assess Basic Competency in the Performance of Rigid Bronchoscopy. 
  • Development of a quality improvement program in a department of ophthalmology. 
  • Development of an intervention to improve mental health for obstetric fistula patients in Tanzania. 
  • Diabetes on a cardiovascular ward: adherence to current recommendations. 
  • Diagnosis of urinary tract infections: need for a reflective rather than reflexive approach. 
  • Diagnostic accuracy of serum antibodies to human papillomavirus type 16 early antigens in the detection of human papillomavirus-related oropharyngeal cancer. 
  • Diagnostic and Therapeutic Yield of Endoscopy in Patients with Elevated INR and Gastrointestinal Bleeding. 
  • Diagnostic evaluation for patients with ischemic stroke: are there sex differences? 
  • Disparities in access to left ventricular assist device therapy. 
  • Do Periarticular Joint Infections Present an Increase in Infection Risk? 
  • Do patients treated at academic hospitals have better longitudinal outcomes after admission for non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction? 
  • Documentation of conformance to preferred practice patterns in caring for patients with dry eye. 
  • Documentation patterns before cataract surgery at ten academic centers. 
  • Doulas in the Operating Room: An Innovative Approach to Supporting Skin-to-Skin Care During Cesarean Birth. 
  • ERCP and sphincterotomy in the context of laparoscopic cholecystectomy: academic and community practice patterns and results. 
  • Economics of MRI Operations After Implementation of Interpersonal Skills Training. 
  • Education partnerships between GRECCs and other VA organizations, Non-VA governmental agencies, academic medical centers, and centers of excellence. 
  • Effect of Facility on Operative Costs of Total Ankle Arthroplasties. 
  • Effect of a total work-site smoking ban on employee smoking and attitudes. 
  • Effect of bar-code technology on the safety of medication administration. 
  • Effect of facility on the operative costs of distal radius fractures. 
  • Effect of institutional volume and academic status on outcomes of coronary interventions: the IMPACT-II experience. 
  • Efficacy of Particulated Juvenile Cartilage Allograft Transplantation for Osteochondral Lesions of the Talus. 
  • Electronic patient-reported data capture as a foundation of rapid learning cancer care. 
  • Emergence of fluoroquinolone resistance among Bacteroides species. 
  • Emergency General Surgery-A Misnomer? 
  • Emotional responses of mothers of late-preterm and term infants. 
  • End-of-life care at an academic medical center: are attending physicians, house staff, nurses, and bereaved family members equally satisfied? Implications for palliative care. 
  • Establishing faculty needs and priorities for peer-mentoring groups using a nominal group technique. 
  • Evaluating Academic Scientists Collaborating in Team-Based Research: A Proposed Framework. 
  • Evaluating Endotracheal Tube Depth in Infants Weighing Less Than 1 Kilogram. 
  • Evaluating congenital syphilis in a reverse sequence testing environment. 
  • Evaluating the Effectiveness of Community and Hospital Medical Record Integration on Management of Behavioral Health in the Emergency Department. 
  • Evaluation and treatment of dystonia. 
  • Evaluation of an infrared/radiofrequency equipment-tracking system in a tertiary care hospital. 
  • Evaluation of endoscopic harmonic diverticulostomy. 
  • Evaluation of sexually abused and nonabused young girls for intravaginal human papillomavirus infection. 
  • Evaluation of the culture of safety: survey of clinicians and managers in an academic medical center. 
  • Evolution of the coronary care unit: clinical characteristics and temporal trends in healthcare delivery and outcomes. 
  • Excessive use of vancomycin: a successful intervention strategy at an academic medical center. 
  • Experiences with a clinical reasoning and evidence-based medicine course. 
  • Exploring interpersonal behavior and team sensemaking during health information technology implementation. 
  • Exploring patterns of health service use in older emergency department patients. 
  • Exploring the impact of tablet computers on medical training at an academic medical center. 
  • Factors influencing satisfaction and anticipated turnover for nurses in an academic medical center. 
  • Faculty diversity and inclusion program outcomes at an academic otolaryngology department. 
  • Family medicine in a private academic medical center. 
  • Fellowship Colonoscopy Training and Preparedness for Independent Gastroenterology Practice. 
  • Fluoride supplement prescribing and dental referral patterns among academic pediatricians. 
  • Forging stronger partnerships between academic health centers and patient-driven organizations. 
  • Fostering innovation in medicine and health care: what must academic health centers do? 
  • Frequency, nature, effects, and correlates of conflicts of interest in published clinical cancer research. 
  • Funds flow in academic neurology: A potential path to financial success. 
  • Gender and Radiology Publication Productivity: An Examination of Academic Faculty From Four Health Systems in the United States. 
  • General otolaryngology and the subspecialties: finding the balance. 
  • Generation X: implications for faculty recruitment and development in academic health centers. 
  • HIV vaccine development at Duke University Medical Center. 
  • Hand hygiene noncompliance and the cost of hospital-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection. 
  • Happily hopeless: adaptation to a permanent, but not to a temporary, disability. 
  • Health Optimization Program for Elders: Improving the Transition From Hospital to Skilled Nursing Facility. 
  • Health insurance and racial disparities in pulmonary hypertension outcomes. 
  • Heart Failure Clinical Trial Operations During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Results From a Multicenter Survey. 
  • Heart Failure Site-Based Research in the United States: Results of the Heart Failure Society of America Research Network Survey. 
  • Helmet Modification to PPE With 3D Printing During the COVID-19 Pandemic at Duke University Medical Center: A Novel Technique. 
  • Hemodynamic impact of dexmedetomidine administration in 15,656 noncardiac surgical cases. 
  • High-risk and intermediate-high-risk results from the ThyroSeq v2 and v3 thyroid genomic classifier are associated with neoplasia: Independent performance assessment at an academic institution. 
  • Higher Use of Surgery Confers Superior Survival in Stage I Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. 
  • Hospital arrival time and intravenous t-PA use in US Academic Medical Centers, 2001-2004. 
  • How well do clinic-based blood pressure measurements agree with the mercury standard? 
  • Immunology at Duke. 
  • Immunology at Duke: 2011. 
  • Immunotherapy for malignant melanoma with a tumor cell vaccine. 
  • Impact of Changes to the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) Definition on Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI) Rates in Intensive Care Units at an Academic Medical Center. 
  • Impact of automatic infectious diseases consultation on the management of fungemia at a large academic medical center. 
  • Implementation and testing of research infrastructure for practice-based research in hearing and communication disorders. 
  • Implementing a hybrid web-based curriculum for an elective medical student clerkship in a busy surgical intensive care unit (ICU): effect on test and satisfaction scores. 
  • Implementing evidence-based medication safety interventions on a progressive care unit. 
  • Improving Resident and Fellow Engagement in Patient Safety Through a Graduate Medical Education Incentive Program. 
  • Improving Well-Being Among Trainees: A Partnership to Reduce Barriers to Primary Care Services. 
  • Inappropriate Clostridium difficile Testing and Consequent Overtreatment and Inaccurate Publicly Reported Metrics. 
  • Incidence and predictors of cetuximab hypersensitivity reactions in a North Carolina academic medical center. 
  • Increased mortality at low-volume orthotopic heart transplantation centers: should current standards change? 
  • Increasing rates of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in academic hospitals: a result of active surveillance? 
  • Increasing the quality of medication histories in the ED with pharmacy students. 
  • Industrial collaboration. 
  • Influence of projected complication rates on estimated appropriate use rates for carotid endarterectomy. Appropriateness Project Investigators. Academic Medical Center Consortium. 
  • Inpatient costs of specific cerebrovascular events at five academic medical centers. 
  • Institutional Conflict of Interest-Reply. 
  • Institutional review of outside cytology materials: a retrospective analysis of two institutions' experiences. 
  • Integration of an academic medical center and a community hospital: the Brigham and Women's/Faulkner hospital experience. 
  • Intrahospital Transport of the Critically Ill Adult: A Standardized Evaluation Plan. 
  • Is an increased dwell time of a peripherally inserted catheter associated with an increased risk of bloodstream infection in infants? 
  • Is bariatric surgery safe in academic centers? 
  • Is tenure irrelevant for academic clinicians? 
  • Issues for academic health centers to consider before implementing a balanced-scorecard effort. 
  • Just for Us: an academic medical center-community partnership to maintain the health of a frail low-income senior population. 
  • Kidney and pancreas transplantation at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. 
  • Laboratory Animal Bite Anaphylaxis: A National Survey: Part 2: Treatment Protocols. 
  • Laparoscopic adrenalectomy for pheochromocytoma. A comparison to aldosteronoma and incidentaloma. 
  • Latex allergy symptoms among health care workers: results from a university health and safety surveillance system. 
  • Lessons learned from implementation of a computerized application for pending tests at hospital discharge. 
  • Lipid management in patients with unstable angina pectoris and non-ST-segment elevation acute myocardial infarction (from CRUSADE). 
  • Literacy and blood pressure--do healthcare systems influence this relationship? A cross-sectional study. 
  • Living-unrelated renal transplantation at the University of Wisconsin. 
  • Lost in transition: resident and fellow training and experience caring for young adults with chronic conditions in a large United States' academic medical center. 
  • Low rate of complications of cerebral angiography in routine clinical practice. 
  • Making a home in the community for the academic medical center. 
  • Malignant melanoma and pregnancy. 
  • Managed care in California. Daunting new realities for dermatology and academic medicine. 
  • Management and long-term outcome of aortic dissection. 
  • Medical records and quality of care in acute coronary syndromes: results from CRUSADE. 
  • Men (and Women) in Academic Radiology: How Can We Reduce the Gender Discrepancy? 
  • Mentorship in Academic Medicine: A Catalyst of Talents. 
  • Meta-analysis of number needed to treat for diagnosis of melanoma by clinical setting. 
  • Minimal Impact of Implemented Early Warning Score and Best Practice Alert for Patient Deterioration. 
  • Models for delivering survivorship care. 
  • Models of cancer survivorship health care: moving forward. 
  • Morbidity and Mortality Conference for Percutaneous Coronary Intervention. 
  • More thoughts about residents' professionalism education in malpractice. 
  • Moving Radiology Workflow to the Electronic Health Record: Quantitative and Qualitative Experience From a Large Academic Medical Center. 
  • Nationwide trends and outcomes associated with neoadjuvant therapy in pancreatic cancer: An analysis of 18 243 patients. 
  • Neighborhood clinics: an academic medical center-community health center partnership. 
  • Nurses' satisfaction with medication administration point-of-care technology. 
  • Obesity and departments of family medicine. 
  • Older patients' understanding of emergency department discharge information and its relationship with adverse outcomes. 
  • Open versus laparoscopic portal lymphadenectomy in gallbladder cancer: is there a difference in lymph node yield? 
  • Opportunities for performance improvement in relation to medication administration during pediatric stabilization. 
  • Optimizing donor selection for public cord blood banking: influence of maternal, infant, and collection characteristics on cord blood unit quality. 
  • Optimizing the efficiency and quality of sipuleucel-T delivery in an academic institution. 
  • Optimizing the quality of breast cancer biomarker use at Duke Cancer Institute. 
  • Outpatient antibiotic prescribing patterns in pediatric academic and community practices. 
  • Outpatient diagnostic errors: unrecognized hyperglycemia. 
  • Oversight mechanisms for clinical research. 
  • Oversight of financial conflicts of interest in commercially sponsored research in academic and nonacademic settings. 
  • Partnerships between academic medical centers & rural communities. 
  • Patient reactions to confidentiality, liability, and financial aspects of informed consent in cardiology research. 
  • Patient satisfaction instruments used at academic medical centers: results of a survey. 
  • Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury: Families and Healthcare Team Interaction Trajectories During Acute Hospitalization. 
  • Pediatric tracheostomies: a recent experience from one academic center. 
  • Pediatric workforce: a look at pediatric endocrinology data from the American Board of Pediatrics. 
  • Pembrolizumab in advanced soft-tissue sarcoma and bone sarcoma (SARC028): a multicentre, two-cohort, single-arm, open-label, phase 2 trial. 
  • Perceptions of 24/7 in-hospital intensivist coverage on pediatric housestaff education. 
  • Performance of a Machine Learning Classifier of Knee MRI Reports in Two Large Academic Radiology Practices: A Tool to Estimate Diagnostic Yield. 
  • Performance of kidney injury molecule-1 and liver fatty acid-binding protein and combined biomarkers of AKI after cardiac surgery. 
  • Perpetrator, worker and workplace characteristics associated with patient and visitor perpetrated violence (Type II) on hospital workers: a review of the literature and existing occupational injury data. 
  • Personality differences between surgery residents, nonsurgery residents, and medical students. 
  • Perspective: Prospective health care and the role of academic medicine: lead, follow, or get out of the way. 
  • Perspective: global medicine: opportunities and challenges for academic health science systems. 
  • Pharmacist-managed international normalized ratio patient self-testing is associated with increased time in therapeutic range in patients with left ventricular assist devices at an academic medical center. 
  • Philanthropy for Science: Is It a Viable Option? 
  • Physician knowledge and practices in the evaluation of coagulopathies in stroke patients. 
  • Policies of academic medical centers for disclosing financial conflicts of interest to potential research participants. 
  • Post-Katrina stabilization of the LSU/Ochsner Psychiatry Residency Program: caveats for disaster preparedness. 
  • Posterior Pole Vascular Changes Before Treatment of Retinopathy of Prematurity. 
  • Postoperative hyperglycemia after 4- vs 8-10-mg dexamethasone for postoperative nausea and vomiting prophylaxis in patients with type II diabetes mellitus: a retrospective database analysis. 
  • Postoperative prostate-specific antigen nadir improves accuracy for predicting biochemical recurrence after radical prostatectomy: Results from the Shared Equal Access Regional Cancer Hospital (SEARCH) and Duke Prostate Center databases. 
  • Practice and quality improvement: successful implementation of TeamSTEPPS tools into an academic interventional ultrasound practice. 
  • Practice patterns in academic otolaryngology 2006: a tool for the future. 
  • Practice patterns in imaging of the pregnant patient with abdominal pain: a survey of academic centers. 
  • Practice patterns in percutaneous image-guided intraabdominal abscess drainage: survey of academic and private practice centers. 
  • Pre- and postoperative anemia, acute kidney injury, and mortality after coronary artery bypass grafting surgery: a retrospective observational study. 
  • Predictors of an academic career on radiology residency applications. 
  • Predictors of short-term mortality in patients undergoing percutaneous dilatational tracheostomy. 
  • Preoperative Renal Insufficiency: Underreporting and Association With Readmission and Major Postoperative Morbidity in an Academic Medical Center. 
  • Prevalence of renal anomalies after urinary tract infections in hospitalized infants less than 2 months of age. 
  • Prevalence, characteristics, and management of swallowing disorders following cerebellopontine angle surgery. 
  • Procedure Delegation by Attending Surgeons Performing Concurrent Operations in Academic Medical Centers: Balancing Safety and Efficiency. 
  • Prognosis in cardiogenic shock after acute myocardial infarction in the interventional era. 
  • Project PLACE: Enhancing community and academic partnerships to describe and address health disparities. 
  • Promotion as a clinician educator in academic radiology departments: guidelines at three major institutions. 
  • Propensity matched comparison of outcomes in older and younger patients after coronary artery bypass graft surgery. 
  • Prospective tracking of pediatric urology consults: knowing is half the battle. 
  • Provider and patient drivers of ototopical antibiotic prescription variability. 
  • Providers' attitudes towards treating depression and self-reported depression treatment practices in HIV outpatient care. 
  • Psychopharmacology curriculum field test. 
  • Quality Control Practices for Chemistry and Immunochemistry in a Cohort of 21 Large Academic Medical Centers. 
  • Quality management of potential chemotherapy-induced neutropenic complications: evaluation of practice in an academic medical center. 
  • Quantitative Imaging Features and Postoperative Hepatic Insufficiency: A Multi-Institutional Expanded Cohort. 
  • Radiation exposure in the acute and short-term management of urolithiasis at 2 academic centers. 
  • Randomized trial in malignant biliary obstruction: plastic vs partially covered metal stents. 
  • Randomized trials of coronary artery bypass surgery: impact on clinical practice at Duke University Medical Center. 
  • Recent advances in hepatic transplantation at the University of Pittsburgh. 
  • Reflections from a chair: Leadership of a clinical department at an academic medical center. 
  • Reflective Writing for Medical Students on the Surgical Clerkship: Oxymoron or Antidote? 
  • Relative impact of surgeon and center volume on early mortality after the Norwood operation. 
  • Religion and depression in older medical inpatients. 
  • Religion, spirituality, and health in medically ill hospitalized older patients. 
  • Renal transplantation at the University of Wisconsin in the cyclosporine era. 
  • Reply to "Reducing Gender Discrepancies in Academic Radiology". 
  • Rescue therapy in adult and pediatric patients with pH1N1 influenza infection: a tertiary center intensive care unit experience from April to October 2009. 
  • Research in academic medical centers: two threats to sustainable support. 
  • Residents' and nurses' perceptions of team function in the medical intensive care unit. 
  • Response. 
  • Resting-State Functional Connectivity and Cognition After Major Cardiac Surgery in Older Adults without Preoperative Cognitive Impairment: Preliminary Findings. 
  • Retooling institutional support infrastructure for clinical research. 
  • Ripple effect: Shared governance and nurse engagement. 
  • Risk factors for Burkholderia cepacia complex bacteremia among intensive care unit patients without cystic fibrosis: a case-control study. 
  • Roles of Academic and Public Health Systems in Advancing Population Health--Reply. 
  • Safety culture and hand hygiene: linking attitudes to behavior. 
  • Safety of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor use prior to coronary artery bypass grafting. 
  • Safety-focused medication therapy management: a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Securing a Network for a Research-Intensive, Referral Academic Medical Center: University of Kentucky HealthCare as a Case Study. 
  • September 11, 2001, revisited: a review of the data. 
  • Seriously ill hospitalized adults: do we spend less on older patients? Support Investigators. Study to Understand Prognoses and Preference for Outcomes and Risks of Treatments. 
  • Sexual abuse of human immunodeficiency virus-positive children. Outcomes for perpetrators and evaluation of other household children. 
  • Should academic medical centers conduct clinical trials of the efficacy of intercessory prayer? 
  • Should an academic radiation oncologist be allowed to "opt out" of medicare? 
  • Should you close your waiting room? Addressing ED overcrowding through education and staff-based participatory research. 
  • Simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation at the University of Wisconsin. 
  • Spinal anesthesia for orthopedic surgery: a detailed video assessment of quality. 
  • Spontaneous spinal epidural abscess in patients 50 years of age and older: a 15-year institutional perspective and review of the literature: clinical article. 
  • Stanford University Network for Diagnosis of Retinopathy of Prematurity (SUNDROP): 24-month experience with telemedicine screening. 
  • Stanford University network for diagnosis of retinopathy of prematurity (SUNDROP): 36-month experience with telemedicine screening. 
  • Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia after median sternotomy: clinical utility of blood culture results in the identification of postoperative mediastinitis. 
  • Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia at 5 US academic medical centers, 2008-2011: significant geographic variation in community-onset infections. 
  • Steroid Use for Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss: A CHEER Network Study. 
  • Stroke center designation can be achieved by small hospitals: the Massachusetts experience. 
  • Successful computer-based learning center. 
  • Suitability of capillary blood glucose analysis in patients receiving vasopressors. 
  • Supervisor, Colleague, or Assistant: General Surgery Resident Perceptions of Advanced Practitioners. 
  • Support for investigator-initiated clinical research involving investigational drugs or devices: the Clinical and Translational Science Award experience. 
  • Surgeon volume and adequacy of thyroidectomy for differentiated thyroid cancer. 
  • Surgical-site infection due to Staphylococcus aureus among elderly patients: mortality, duration of hospitalization, and cost. 
  • Survey of Patch Test Business Models in the United States by the American Contact Dermatitis Society. 
  • Survival Comparison in Patients with Stage IV Lung Cancer in Academic versus Community Centers in the United States. 
  • Talk the game, then play the game. 
  • Tb in a global health exchange program. 
  • Temporal trends and current practice patterns for intraoperative ventilation at U.S. academic medical centers: a retrospective study. 
  • The Association of ASA Class on Total Knee and Total Hip Arthroplasty Readmission Rates in an Academic Hospital. 
  • The Duke University Arthritis Center. 
  • The Effects of Family Functioning on the Development of Posttraumatic Stress in Children and Their Parents Following Admission to the PICU. 
  • The Emergence of Population Health in US Academic Medicine: A Qualitative Assessment. 
  • The History of Duke Thoracic Surgery. 
  • The IAIMS at Duke University Medical Center: transition from model testing to implementation. 
  • The Impact of 2015 NHSN Catheter-associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI) Definition Change on Central Line-associated Bloodstream Infection (CLABSI) Rates and CLABSI Prevention Efforts at an Academic Medical Center. 
  • The Internet as a communication tool for academic orthopaedic surgery departments in the United States. 
  • The Junior Faculty Laboratory: an innovative model of peer mentoring. 
  • The Role of a Division of Quantitative Sciences Division in Enhancing Academic Productivity of a Department of Pediatrics. 
  • The SUPPORT prognostic model. Objective estimates of survival for seriously ill hospitalized adults. Study to understand prognoses and preferences for outcomes and risks of treatments. 
  • The U.S. Thrombosis and Hemostasis Centers pilot sites program. 
  • The Value of Motion: Patient-Reported Outcome Measures Are Correlated With Range of Motion in Total Ankle Replacement. 
  • The changing relationship between health care professionals and the pharmaceutical industry. 
  • The clinical presentation and treatment of MOG antibody disease at a single academic center: A case series. 
  • The contribution of hypertension to black-white differences in likelihood of coronary artery disease detected during elective angiography. 
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  • The growing importance of non-device-associated healthcare-associated infections: a relative proportion and incidence study at an academic medical center, 2008-2012. 
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  • The thrombotic microangiopathy Registry of North America: A United States multi-institutional TMA network. 
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  • Total duration of antimicrobial therapy resulting from inpatient hospitalization. 
  • Toward a harmonized and centralized conflict of interest disclosure: progress from an IOM initiative. 
  • Transforming academic health centers for an uncertain future. 
  • Transfusion practices for patients with sickle cell disease at a major academic medical center. 
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  • Translating research into practice: organizational issues in implementing automated decision support for hypertension in three medical centers. 
  • Translation of academic discovery into societal benefit: proposal for a balanced approach--part 1. 
  • Translation of academic discovery into societal benefit: proposal for a balanced approach--part 2. 
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  • Trends in spinal pain management injections in academic radiology departments. 
  • Two decades of disseminated tuberculosis at a university medical center: the expanding role of mycobacterial blood culture. 
  • Use of Assistive Devices to Lift, Transfer, and Reposition Hospital Patients. 
  • Use of Telehealth Screening to Detect Diabetic Retinopathy and Other Ocular Findings in Primary Care Settings. 
  • Using and teaching evidence-based medicine: the Duke University child and adolescent psychiatry model. 
  • Using electronic health records data to assess comorbidities of substance use and psychiatric diagnoses and treatment settings among adults. 
  • Utility of Daily Mobile Tablet Use for Residents on an Otolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery Inpatient Service. 
  • Utilization of intravenous tissue plasminogen activator for ischemic stroke: are there sex differences? 
  • Variability in Radiation Dose From Repeat Identical CT Examinations: Longitudinal Analysis of 2851 Patients Undergoing 12,635 Thoracoabdominal CT Scans in an Academic Health System. 
  • Variations in and correlates of length of stay in academic hospitals among patients with heart failure resulting from systolic dysfunction. 
  • Ventilator Bundle Compliance and Risk of Ventilator-Associated Events. 
  • Weekend and holiday exercise testing in patients with chest pain. 
  • What are the pathology education requirements for all nonpathology ACGME-accredited programs in an academic center? 
  • Which IO model best simulates the real thing? 
  • Who is going to make the wise choice? 
  • Will the clinicians support the researchers and teachers? Results of a salary satisfaction survey of 947 academic surgeons. 
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  • Attarian, David Edward, Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Orthopaedics
  • Bettger, Janet Prvu, Associate Professor in Orthopaedic Surgery, Duke Science & Society
  • Bradford, William Dalton, Professor of Pathology, Pathology
  • Cho, Alex Han, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Medicine, General Internal Medicine
  • Dominguez, Jennifer Estrella, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Anesthesiology, Women's
  • Esclamado, Ramon Mitra, Professor Emeritus of Head and Neck Surgery and Communication Sciences, Head and Neck Surgery & Communication Sciences
  • Grambow, Steven C., Assistant Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • Krangel, Michael S., George Barth Geller Distinguished Professor of Immunology, Immunology
  • Lee, Walter T, Associate Professor of Head and Neck Surgery and Communication Sciences, Radiation Oncology
  • Milano, Carmelo Alessio, Professor of Surgery, Surgery, Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery
  • Moehring, Rebekah, Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Infectious Diseases
  • Muhlbaier, Lawrence H., Associate Professor Emeritus of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • O'Connor, Christopher Michael, Richard Sean Stack, M.D. Distinguished Professor, Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology
  • Preminger, Glenn Michael, James F. Glenn, M.D. Distinguished Professor of Urology, Surgery
  • Reed, Shelby Derene, Professor in Population Health Sciences, Duke Science & Society
  • Roy Choudhury, Kingshuk, Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • Sampson, John Howard, Robert H., M.D. and Gloria Wilkins Professor of Neurosurgery, in the School of Medicine, Immunology
  • Turner, David Ashley, Consulting Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Pediatrics, Critical Care Medicine
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  • Wu, Li-Tzy, Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medicine, General Internal Medicine
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