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  • 'Rationing' health care. Not all definitions are created equal. 
  • 10 Best resources on… intersectionality with an emphasis on low- and middle-income countries. 
  • A Comparison of Outcomes and Resource Utilization Between Plastic Surgeons and General Surgeons in Implant-Based Breast Reconstruction. 
  • A Direct Observational Measure of Family Functioning for a Low-Resource Setting: Adaptation and Feasibility in a Kenyan Sample. 
  • A comparison of neural network models for the prediction of the cost of care for acute coronary syndrome patients. 
  • A multicenter, retrospective pilot study of resource use and costs associated with severity of disease in glaucoma. 
  • A rapid evidence assessment of bleed-related healthcare resource utilization in publications reporting the use of direct oral anticoagulants for non-valvular atrial fibrillation. 
  • A reevaluation of the costs of heart failure and its implications for allocation of health resources in the United States. 
  • A systematic review of capacity assessment tools in pediatric surgery: Global Assessment in Pediatric Surgery (GAPS) Phase I. 
  • A tool for assessing management capacity at the decentralized level in a fragile state. 
  • AIDS and global justice. 
  • Access to CKD Care in Rural Communities of India: a qualitative study exploring the barriers and potential facilitators. 
  • Access to care: beyond health insurance. 
  • Access to lifesaving medical resources for African countries: COVID-19 testing and response, ethics, and politics. 
  • Acute Care Resource Use After Elective Surgery in the United States: Implications During the COVID-19 Pandemic. 
  • Acute Kidney Injury in Low-Resource Settings: Barriers to Diagnosis, Awareness, and Treatment and Strategies to Overcome These Barriers. 
  • Adherence to TB preventive therapy for HIV-positive patients in rural South Africa: implications for antiretroviral delivery in resource-poor settings? 
  • Advancing successful implementation of task-shifted mental health care in low-resource settings (BASIC): protocol for a stepped wedge cluster randomized trial. 
  • An Organizational Field Approach to Resource Environments in Healthcare: Comparing Entries of Hospitals and Home Health Agencies in the San Francisco Bay Region 
  • An inventory of VHA emergency departments' resources and processes for caring for women. 
  • Anatomy of provincial level inequality in maternal mortality in China during 2004-2016: a new decomposition analysis. 
  • Antiretroviral treatment strategies in resource-limited settings. 
  • Assessing severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) preparedness in US community hospitals: A forgotten entity. 
  • Assessment of Research Capacity Among Nursing Faculty in a Clinical Intensive University in The Philippines. 
  • Assisted early mobility for hospitalized older veterans: preliminary data from the STRIDE program. 
  • Association Between Gastrointestinal Events and Health Care Resource Utilization Among Patients with Osteoporosis: Analysis of a U.S. Managed Care Population. 
  • Association between prodromal pain and the severity of acute herpes zoster and utilization of health care resources. 
  • Associations between hemoglobin level, resource use, and medical costs in patients with heart failure: findings from HF-ACTION. 
  • Associations between seattle heart failure model scores and medical resource use and costs: findings from HF-ACTION. 
  • Beyond the windshield: scavenging community data. 
  • COMParative Early Treatment Effectiveness between physical therapy and usual care for low back pain (COMPETE): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Cardiac Surgery-Enhanced Recovery Programs Modified for COVID-19: Key Steps to Preserve Resources, Manage Caseload Backlog, and Improve Patient Outcomes. 
  • Cardiac safety research consortium "shock II" think tank report: Advancing practical approaches to generating evidence for the treatment of cardiogenic shock. 
  • Cardiovascular events and hospital resource utilization pre- and post-transcatheter mitral valve repair in high-surgical risk patients. 
  • Challenges facing otolaryngologists in low- and middle-income countries during the COVID-19 pandemic. 
  • Characteristics of Acute Heart Failure Hospitalizations Based on Presenting Severity. 
  • Childhood immunization programs: an analysis of policy issues. 
  • Children's mental health service use across service sectors. 
  • Clinical Outcomes and Healthcare Utilization Related to Multidrug-Resistant Gram-Negative Infections in Community Hospitals. 
  • Clinical microbiology in developing countries. 
  • Combating hepatitis B and C by 2030: achievements, gaps, and options for actions in China. 
  • Community-, facility-, and individual-level outcomes of a district mental healthcare plan in a low-resource setting in Nepal: A population-based evaluation. 
  • Conducting economic evaluations alongside multinational clinical trials: toward a research consensus. 
  • Cost analysis of aprotinin for coronary artery bypass patients: analysis of the randomized trials. 
  • Cost-effectiveness of community-based strategies for blood pressure control in a low-income developing country: findings from a cluster-randomized, factorial-controlled trial. 
  • Counting the costs of cancer care. 
  • Design and Rationale of the Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma (MaRCC) Registry: A Prospective Academic and Community-Based Study of Patients With Metastatic Renal Cell Cancer. 
  • Developing Process Maps as a Tool for a Surgical Infection Prevention Quality Improvement Initiative in Resource-Constrained Settings. 
  • Developing a family-based HIV prevention intervention in rural Kenya: challenges in conducting community-based participatory research. 
  • Diabetes association with self-reported health, resource utilization, and prognosis post-myocardial infarction. 
  • Diagnosis and management of surgical disease at Ethiopian health centres: cross-sectional survey of resources and barriers to care. 
  • Diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer disease and related disorders. Consensus statement of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, the Alzheimer's Association, and the American Geriatrics Society. 
  • Differences in one-year health outcomes and resource utilization by definition of prolonged mechanical ventilation: a prospective cohort study. 
  • Differences in treatment, outcomes, and quality of life among patients with heart failure in Canada and the United States. 
  • Disease burden of ageing, sex and regional disparities and health resources allocation: a longitudinal analysis of 31 provinces in Mainland China. 
  • Disparities in surgical care for children across Brazil: Use of geospatial analysis. 
  • Does influenza vaccination or RSV prophylaxis impact resource utilization for children after the diagnosis of airway disorders? 
  • Does intent matter? The medical and societal burden of self-inflicted injury. 
  • Drug susceptibility and resistance mutations after first-line failure in resource limited settings. 
  • Early Life Experiences and Trajectories of Cognitive Development. 
  • Economic analysis of endovascular repair versus surveillance for patients with small abdominal aortic aneurysms. 
  • Economic analysis of the Assessment of the Safety and Efficacy of a New Thrombolytic Regimen (ASSENT-3) study: costs of reperfusion strategies in acute myocardial infarction. 
  • Economic burden of herpes zoster among skilled nursing facility residents in the United States. 
  • Educating primary care physicians in geriatric rehabilitation. 
  • Effects of stroke on medical resource use and costs in acute myocardial infarction. GUSTO I Investigators. Global Utilization of Streptokinase and Tissue Plasminogen Activator for Occluded Coronary Arteries Study. 
  • Epidemiology of facial fracture injuries. 
  • Essential Resources and Strategies for Antibiotic Stewardship Programs in the Acute Care Setting. 
  • Estimating Resource Utilization in Congenital Heart Surgery. 
  • Evaluating capacity at three government referral hospital emergency units in the kingdom of Eswatini using the WHO Hospital Emergency Unit Assessment Tool. 
  • Evaluation of a Maryland fiscal incentive plan for placing state hospital patients in nursing homes. 
  • Evaluation of the Veterans Affairs Pharmacogenomic Testing for Veterans (PHASER) clinical program at initial test sites. 
  • Experiences and challenges in the health protection of medical teams in the Chinese Ebola treatment center, Liberia: a qualitative study. 
  • Eye and Vision Health for Tomorrow: From Recommendations to Coordinated Action. 
  • Eye care in the United States: do we deliver to high-risk people who can benefit most from it? 
  • Financing maternal and child health--what are the limitations in estimating donor flows and resource needs? 
  • Functionally and medically defined subgroups of nursing home populations. 
  • Gender differences in knowledge and perceptions of HIV resources among individuals living with HIV in the Southeast. 
  • Gender differences in resources and negotiation among highly motivated physician-scientists. 
  • Glaucoma in the United States and europe: predicting costs and surgical rates based upon stage of disease. 
  • Global Mental Health: Five Areas for Value-Driven Training Innovation. 
  • Global Need for Physical Rehabilitation: Systematic Analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. 
  • Global Survey of Outcomes of Neurocritical Care Patients: Analysis of the PRINCE Study Part 2. 
  • HIV self-testing: South African young adults' recommendations for ease of use, test kit contents, accessibility, and supportive resources. 
  • Health care utilization in HIV-infected patients: assessing the burden of hepatitis C virus coinfection. 
  • Health insurance coverage and use of eye care services. 
  • Health resource utilization of labor induction versus expectant management. 
  • Healthcare Economics of Hydrocephalus After Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage in the United States. 
  • Healthcare Resource Availability, Quality of Care, and Acute Ischemic Stroke Outcomes. 
  • Healthcare resource use among solid organ transplant recipients hospitalized with COVID-19. 
  • How stable are people's preferences for giving priority to severely ill patients? 
  • I-CARE randomized clinical trial integrating depression and acute coronary syndrome care in low-resource hospitals in China: Design and rationale. 
  • Impact of cuts in acute beds on services for patients. 
  • Impact of geographic density of eye care professionals on eye care among adults with diabetes. 
  • Impact of perioperative blood pressure variability on health resource utilization after cardiac surgery: an analysis of the ECLIPSE trials. 
  • Improving health status of homeless patients at a nurse-managed clinic in the Midwest USA. 
  • In-Hospital Complications and Resource Utilization Following Lumbar Spine Surgery in Patients with Parkinson Disease: Evaluation of the National Inpatient Sample Database. 
  • In-hospital resource use and medical costs in the last year of life by mode of death (from the HF-ACTION randomized controlled trial). 
  • Inappropriate prescribing and health outcomes in elderly veteran outpatients. 
  • Increasing incidence of the neonatal abstinence syndrome in U.S. neonatal ICUs. 
  • Individual utilities are inconsistent with rationing choices: A partial explanation of why Oregon's cost-effectiveness list failed. 
  • Infrastructure resources for clinical research in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. 
  • Innovating through "interesting times" in global health. 
  • Insights from the Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists on antimicrobial stewardship guidelines from the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. 
  • Integrating spirituality into the care of older adults. 
  • International Comparison of Poststroke Resource Use: A Longitudinal Analysis in Europe. 
  • Interprovincial Differences in Canadian Coronary Care Unit Resource Use and Outcomes. 
  • Intimate partner violence, depression, and resource availability among a community sample of Hispanic women. 
  • Is early too early? Effect of shorter stays after bypass surgery. 
  • Is the Economic Impact and Utilization of Imaging Studies for Pediatric Urolithiasis Across the United States Increasing? 
  • Ischemic Stroke with Troponin Elevation: Patient Characteristics, Resource Utilization, and In-Hospital Outcomes. 
  • Lockdown During COVID-19: The Greek Success. 
  • Long-term Cost-effectiveness in the Veterans Affairs Open vs Endovascular Repair Study of Aortic Abdominal Aneurysm: A Randomized Clinical Trial. 
  • Long-term costs and resource use in elderly participants with congestive heart failure in the Cardiovascular Health Study. 
  • Longer Delay From Chronic Pain to Spinal Cord Stimulation Results in Higher Healthcare Resource Utilization. 
  • Longitudinal medical resources and costs among type 2 diabetes patients participating in the Trial Evaluating Cardiovascular Outcomes with Sitagliptin (TECOS). 
  • Longitudinal trends in resource use in an incident cohort of open-angle glaucoma patients: resource use in open-angle glaucoma. 
  • Lopinavir/ritonavir monotherapy after virologic failure of first-line antiretroviral therapy in resource-limited settings. 
  • Low doses vs. high doses of the angiotensin converting-enzyme inhibitor lisinopril in chronic heart failure: a cost-effectiveness analysis based on the Assessment of Treatment with Lisinopril and Survival (ATLAS) study. The ATLAS Study Group. 
  • Lying to insurance companies: the desire to deceive among physicians and the public. 
  • Maji: a new tool to prevent overhydration of children receiving intravenous fluid therapy in low-resource settings. 
  • Making epidemiologic studies responsive to the needs of participants and communities: the Carolina Breast Cancer Study experience. 
  • Management guided by brain tissue oxygen monitoring and outcome following severe traumatic brain injury. 
  • Management of Cardiovascular Disease Patients With Confirmed or Suspected COVID-19 in Limited Resource Settings. 
  • Management of adolescents and adults with febrile illness in resource limited areas. 
  • Maternal mental health priorities, help-seeking behaviors, and resources in post-conflict settings: a qualitative study in eastern Uganda. 
  • Medicaid Insurance Correlates With Increased Resource Utilization Following Total Hip Arthroplasty. 
  • Medical care for the poor: finite resources, infinite need. 
  • Medical resource use, costs, and quality of life in patients with acute decompensated heart failure: findings from ASCEND-HF. 
  • Medicare utilization, screening, and costs among participants in the Southeastern Diabetes Initiative: A population-based evaluation. 
  • Multidisciplinary care results in similar maternal and perinatal mortality rates for women with and without SCD in a low-resource setting. 
  • Multilevel perspectives on diffusing a physical activity promotion program to reach diverse older adults. 
  • Multinational economic evaluation of valsartan in patients with chronic heart failure: results from the Valsartan Heart Failure Trial (Val-HeFT). 
  • Myocardial infarction following coronary artery bypass graft surgery increases healthcare resource utilization. 
  • NEIBank: genomics and bioinformatics resources for vision research. 
  • Newer drugs and earlier treatment: impact on lifetime cost of care for HIV-infected adults. 
  • On-pump versus off-pump coronary-artery bypass surgery. 
  • One-year trajectories of care and resource utilization for recipients of prolonged mechanical ventilation: a cohort study. 
  • Optimal Resources for Children's Surgical Care: Executive Summary. 
  • Outcome of acute myocardial infarction according to the specialty of the admitting physician. 
  • Outcomes and health care resource utilization in super-elderly trauma patients. 
  • PENTAZOCINE VERSUS PENTAZOCINE WITH RECTAL DICLOFENAC FOR POSTOPERATIVE PAIN RELIEF AFTER CESAREAN SECTION- A DOUBLE BLIND RANDOMIZED PLACEBO CONTROLLED TRIAL IN A LOW RESOURCE AREA. 
  • Partnership-driven Resources to Improve and Enhance Research (PRIMER): a survey of community-engaged researchers and creation of an online toolkit. 
  • Past, Present, and Future of Neurosurgery in Uganda. 
  • Patient flow analysis in resource-limited settings: a practical tutorial and case study. 
  • Patient risk or physician practice: what factors drive resource use in unstable angina? 
  • Pediatric Cancer in Northern Tanzania: Evaluation of Diagnosis, Treatment, and Outcomes. 
  • Pediatric emergency and essential surgical care in Zambian hospitals: a nationwide study. 
  • Postdoctoral Opportunities for Nursing PhD Graduates: A Resource Guide. 
  • Practice pattern variability for myocardial revascularization: impact on resource use across 24 centers. 
  • Pre- Versus Post-Procedure Health Care Resource Utilization in Patients Undergoing Commercial Transcatheter Mitral Valve Repair. 
  • Predicting 10-year care requirements for older people with suspected Alzheimer's disease. 
  • Predicting Mortality for Adolescent and Adult Patients with Fever in Resource-Limited Settings. 
  • Predicting the Individual Treatment Effect of Neurosurgery for Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury in the Low-Resource Setting: A Machine Learning Approach in Uganda. 
  • Preparing for an influenza pandemic: are some people more equal than others? 
  • Preserving stroke care during the COVID-19 pandemic: Potential issues and solutions. 
  • Prevalence and resource utilization for vocal fold paralysis/paresis after esophagectomy. 
  • Prevalence, healthcare resource utilization and overall burden of fungal meningitis in the United States. 
  • Prevention of sudden cardiac death in the young: Developing a rational, reliable, and sustainable national health care resource. A report from the Cardiac Safety Research Consortium. 
  • Proposed 'grant-and-access' program with price caps could stimulate development of drugs for very rare diseases. 
  • Provider Practice Competition and Adoption of Medicare's Oncology Care Model. 
  • Qualitative Analysis of Palliative Care for Pediatric Patients With Cancer at Bugando Medical Center: An Evaluation of Barriers to Providing End-of-Life Care in a Resource-Limited Setting. 
  • Racial disparities in the impact of chronic pruritus: A cross-sectional study on quality of life and resource utilization in United States veterans. 
  • Racial, ethnic, and affluence differences in elderly patients' use of teaching hospitals. 
  • Rationing HIV medications: what do patients and the public think about allocation policies? 
  • Readmission after major surgery: effect of the postdischarge environment. 
  • Recommendations for improving the quality of care through stroke centers and systems: an examination of stroke center identification options: multidisciplinary consensus recommendations from the Advisory Working Group on Stroke Center Identification Options of the American Stroke Association. 
  • Reframing infection control approaches in low-resource health care settings: A nod to the emic perspective. 
  • Regional Variation in 30-Day Ischemic Stroke Outcomes for Medicare Beneficiaries Treated in Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Hospitals. 
  • Relationship between anemia and health care costs in heart failure. 
  • Reply: Taking surgical advancements in the developing world to heart-a case for trickle-up innovation? 
  • Resource Use in the Last Year of Life Among Patients Who Died With Versus of Prostate Cancer. 
  • Resource use and cost of initial coronary revascularization. Coronary angioplasty versus coronary bypass surgery. 
  • Resource use and costs associated with diabetic macular edema in elderly persons. 
  • Resource use and costs of treatment with anticoagulation and antiplatelet agents: results of the WATCH trial economic evaluation. 
  • Resource use in the last 6 months of life among medicare beneficiaries with heart failure, 2000-2007. 
  • Resource use in the last 6 months of life among patients with heart failure in Canada. 
  • Resource use trajectories for aged medicare beneficiaries with complex coronary conditions. 
  • Resource use, costs, and quality of life among patients in the multinational Valsartan in Acute Myocardial Infarction Trial (VALIANT). 
  • Resource use, costs, and utility estimates for patients with cystic fibrosis with mild impairment in lung function: analysis of data collected alongside a 48-week multicenter clinical trial. 
  • Resource utilization and quality of life associated with congenital ichthyoses. 
  • Response to Letter to the Editor on "Medicaid Insurance Correlates With Increased Resource Utilization Following Total Hip Arthroplasty". 
  • Reverse Translation in Advancing Pharmacotherapy in Pediatric Rheumatology: A Logical Approach in Rare Diseases with Limited Resources. 
  • Saving neonatal lives by improving infection prevention in low-resource units: tools are needed. 
  • Sepsis Resuscitation in Resource-Limited Settings. 
  • Sex differences in the association of psychosocial resources with prevalent type 2 diabetes among African Americans: The Jackson Heart Study. 
  • Shared Ventilation: Toward Safer Ventilator Splitting in Resource Emergencies. 
  • Should palliative care be a necessity or a luxury during an overwhelming health catastrophe? 
  • Sight-Threatening Ocular Diseases Remain Underdiagnosed Among Children Of Less Affluent Families. 
  • Somatization disorder in the community. A study of diagnostic concordance among three diagnostic systems. 
  • Surgery for spinal stenosis: long-term reoperation rates, health care cost, and impact of instrumentation. 
  • Taking societal cost into clinical consideration: U.S. physicians' views. 
  • Temporal trends in early clinical outcomes and health care resource utilization for liver transplantation in the United States. 
  • The Impact of Increasing Surgical Capacity at a Tertiary Hospital in Southern Haiti. 
  • The clinical and economic impact of a sustained program in global plastic surgery: valuing cleft care in resource-poor settings. 
  • The efficacy and resource utilization of remifentanil and fentanyl in fast-track coronary artery bypass graft surgery: a prospective randomized, double-blinded controlled, multi-center trial. 
  • The high frequency of healthcare use in patients one year prior to a sarcoidosis diagnosis. 
  • The impact of country and culture on end-of-life care for injured patients: results from an international survey. 
  • The impact of glaucoma coding in a large claims database. 
  • The impact of morbid obesity on resource utilization after renal transplantation. 
  • The public health resource utilization impact of airway foreign bodies in children. 
  • Timing of end-of-life care discussion with performance on end-of-life quality indicators in ovarian cancer. 
  • Transitional care of older adults in skilled nursing facilities: A systematic review. 
  • Treatment Outcomes and Health Care Resource Utilization in Patients With Newly Diagnosed Multiple Myeloma Receiving Lenalidomide-only Maintenance, Any Maintenance, or No Maintenance: Results from the Connect MM Registry. 
  • Treatment patterns, health care resource utilization, and costs in U.S. patients diagnosed with chronic hepatitis C infection who received telaprevir or boceprevir. 
  • Treatment, Not Terror: Time for Unique Problem-Solving Partnerships for Cancer Care in Resource-Challenged Environments. 
  • Trends in breast cancer stage and mortality in Michigan (1992-2009) by race, socioeconomic status, and area healthcare resources. 
  • Tuberculosis-associated immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome: case definitions for use in resource-limited settings. 
  • Use of an inverted On-X mitral valve in the aortic position in a resource limited setting. 
  • Use of health care claims data to study patients with ophthalmologic conditions. 
  • Use of medical resources and quality of life after acute myocardial infarction in Canada and the United States. 
  • Use of quantitative molecular diagnostic methods to assess the aetiology, burden, and clinical characteristics of diarrhoea in children in low-resource settings: a reanalysis of the MAL-ED cohort study. 
  • Use of quantitative molecular diagnostic methods to investigate the effect of enteropathogen infections on linear growth in children in low-resource settings: longitudinal analysis of results from the MAL-ED cohort study. 
  • Using digital health to facilitate compliance with standardized pediatric cancer treatment guidelines in Tanzania: protocol for an early-stage effectiveness-implementation hybrid study. 
  • Utilization of spinal cord stimulation in patients with failed back surgery syndrome. 
  • Variability in cost of coronary bypass surgery in New York State: potential for cost savings. 
  • Variability in resource use: diagnosing colorectal cancer. 
  • What Contributes Most to High Health Care Costs? Health Care Spending in High Resource Patients. 
  • What are the barriers to scaling up health interventions in low and middle income countries? A qualitative study of academic leaders in implementation science. 
  • Who Should Ration? 
  • Within-Trial Evaluation of Medical Resources, Costs, and Quality of Life Among Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Participating in the Exenatide Study of Cardiovascular Event Lowering (EXSCEL). 
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  • Berchuck, Andrew, James M. Ingram Distinguished Professor of Gynecologic Oncology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Gynecologic Oncology
  • Curtis, Lesley H., Professor in Population Health Sciences, Medicine, General Internal Medicine
  • Grambow, Steven C., Associate Professor of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • Levy, Jerrold Henry, Professor of Anesthesiology, Anesthesiology, Cardiothoracic
  • Moorman, Patricia Gripka, Professor Emeritus in Family Medicine and Community Health, Duke Cancer Institute
  • Murdoch, David Martin, Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine
  • O'Connor, Christopher Michael, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine, Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology
  • Reed, Shelby Derene, Professor in Population Health Sciences, Duke Science & Society