Health Services

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "Death and taxes": a contrary view. 
  • "Learning health care" for patients and populations. 
  • "Predicting" parental longevity from offspring endophenotypes: data from the Long Life Family Study (LLFS). 
  • A multivariate analysis of disability and health, and its change over time in the National Channeling Demonstration data. 
  • A pragmatic 2 x 2 x 2 factorial cluster randomized controlled trial of educational outreach visiting and case conferencing in palliative care-methodology of the Palliative Care Trial [ISRCTN 81117481]. 
  • A randomized controlled trial to evaluate the effectiveness of CouPLES: a spouse-assisted lifestyle change intervention to improve low-density lipoprotein cholesterol. 
  • A trial of two strategies to modify the test-ordering behavior of medical residents. 
  • Access to medical care among persons with psychotic and major affective disorders. 
  • Access, equity and costs of induced abortion services in Australia: a cross-sectional study. 
  • Adherence to antipsychotics and cardiometabolic medication: association with health care utilization and costs. 
  • Advances in Hispanic Health Disparities Science: The Importance of Addressing Multiple Health Outcomes Through Family-Based Approaches. 
  • An intervention to increase coping and reduce health care utilization for school-age children and adolescents with sickle cell disease. 
  • Anti-cholinergic load, health care utilization, and survival in people with advanced cancer: a pilot study. 
  • Antidepressant use in the elderly: association with demographic characteristics, health-related factors, and health care utilization. 
  • Assessing quality and utilization patterns in health care delivery systems. 
  • Assessing the clinical and economic burden of coronary artery disease: 1986-1998. 
  • Asthma-related healthcare services utilization by African-Americans enrolled in West Virginia Medicaid. 
  • Barriers to medical care of Mexican-Americans: the role of social class, acculturation, and social isolation. 
  • Benefit of adherence with bisphosphonates depends on age and fracture type: results from an analysis of 101,038 new bisphosphonate users. 
  • Can Appealing to Patient Altruism Reduce Overuse of Health Care Services? An Experimental Survey. 
  • Can rural health insurance improve equity in health care utilization? A comparison between China and Vietnam. 
  • Case-mix adjusted analyses of service utilization for a Medicaid health insuring organization in Philadelphia. 
  • Cervical Cancer Stigma in Rural Kenya: What Does HIV Have to Do with It? 
  • Characteristics and Health Care Preferences Associated with Cardiovascular Disease Risk among Women Veterans. 
  • Characteristics of low-vision rehabilitation services in the United States. 
  • Children in dark times. 
  • Chronic disability trends in elderly United States populations: 1982-1994. 
  • Clinical Outcomes, Utilization, and Charges in Persons With Neck Pain Receiving Guideline Adherent Physical Therapy. 
  • Components and correlates of family burden in schizophrenia. 
  • Consumers who call the Anxiety Disorders Association of America: characteristics and satisfaction. 
  • Controlling for Informed Presence Bias Due to the Number of Health Encounters in an Electronic Health Record. 
  • Controlling risk in capitation payment. Multivariate definitions of risk groups. 
  • Correlates of fatigue in older adults with rheumatoid arthritis. 
  • Cost-effectiveness of ancrod treatment of acute ischaemic stroke: results from the Stroke Treatment with Ancrod Trial (STAT). 
  • Crossing the secular divide: government and faith-based organizations as partners in health. 
  • Daily mood and stress predict pain, health care use, and work activity in African American adults with sickle-cell disease. 
  • Declining rates of work-related overexertion back injuries among union drywall installers in Washington State, 1989-2008: Improved work safety or shifting of care? 
  • Design of VA Cooperative Study #591: CERV-PTSD, comparative effectiveness research in veterans with PTSD. 
  • Designating places and populations as medically underserved: a proposal for a new approach. 
  • Development of systems of care for ST-elevation myocardial infarction patients: evaluation and outcomes. 
  • Diabetes-related utilization and costs for inpatient and outpatient services in the Veterans Administration. 
  • Direct medical costs and resource use for treating central and branch retinal vein occlusion in commercially insured working-age and Medicare populations. 
  • Do older women use estrogen replacement? Data from the Duke Established Populations for Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly (EPESE) 
  • Economic analysis of a tailored behavioral intervention to improve blood pressure control for primary care patients. 
  • Economic outcomes of breast cancer survivorship: CALGB study 79804. 
  • Economic outcomes with prasugrel versus clopidogrel in acute coronary syndrome patients: observations from prasugrel users and matched clopidogrel users. 
  • Education and health: evidence on adults with diabetes. 
  • Effect of Comorbid Knee and Hip Osteoarthritis on Longitudinal Clinical and Health Care Use Outcomes in Older Adults With New Visits for Back Pain. 
  • Effect of cancer screening and desirable health behaviors on functional status, self-rated health, health service use and mortality. 
  • Effect of insurance and racial disparities on outcomes in traumatic brain injury. 
  • Effectiveness of geriatric evaluation and management: design of a study. 
  • Effects of cancer history and comorbid conditions on mortality and healthcare use among older cancer survivors. 
  • Effects of diagnosed dementia on Medicare and Medicaid program costs. 
  • Emergency Department Sickle Cell Assessment of Needs and Strengths (ED-SCANS), a focus group and decision support tool development project. 
  • Enhancing linkage and retention in HIV care: a review of interventions for highly resourced and resource-poor settings. 
  • Enrollment in clinical trials according to patients race: experience from the VA Cooperative Studies Program (1975-2000). 
  • Estimating leptospirosis incidence using hospital-based surveillance and a population-based health care utilization survey in Tanzania. 
  • Ethics. Fair benefits for research in developing countries. 
  • Exploring lack of trust in care providers and the government as a barrier to health service use. 
  • Exploring the factors that influence functional performance among nursing home residents. 
  • Eye care in the United States: do we deliver to high-risk people who can benefit most from it? 
  • Family practice in Virginia: a comparative analysis of two years' data. 
  • Fibromyalgia: patient perspectives on symptoms, symptom management, and provider utilization. 
  • Future Directions for Cost-effectiveness Analyses in Health and Medicine. 
  • Gaps in receipt of regular eye examinations among medicare beneficiaries diagnosed with diabetes or chronic eye diseases. 
  • Gender and race/ethnicity differences for initiation of alcohol-related service use among persons with alcohol dependence. 
  • Gender differences in immigrant health: the case of Mexican and Middle Eastern immigrants. 
  • Geriatric evaluation and management units in the care of the frail elderly cancer patient. 
  • Growth and health in children with moderate-to-severe cerebral palsy. 
  • HIV-specific health care utilization and mortality among tuberculosis/HIV coinfected persons. 
  • Health as the outcome of medical care. 
  • Health care and indemnity costs across the natural history of disability in occupational low back pain. 
  • Health care for childhood cancer survivors: insights and perspectives from a Delphi panel of young adult survivors of childhood cancer.. 
  • Health equity in transition from planned to market economy in China. 
  • Health service use and outcome: comparison of low charge, integrated, comprehensive services with usual health care. 
  • Health services use among Gulf War veterans and Gulf War era nondeployed veterans: a large population-based survey. 
  • Health status of children with moderate to severe cerebral palsy. 
  • Health-related quality of life and health service use among older adults with osteoarthritis. 
  • Healthcare utilization associated with dyspepsia in patients with arthritis. 
  • High users of outpatient mental health services, I: Definition and characteristics. 
  • High-risk populations for vision loss and eye care underutilization: a review of the literature and ideas on moving forward. 
  • Home health care and patterns of subsequent VA and medicare health care utilization for veterans. 
  • Identifying Predictors of Longitudinal Decline in the Level of Medical Care Received by Adult Survivors of Childhood Cancer: A Report from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study. 
  • Impact of geographic density of eye care professionals on eye care among adults with diabetes. 
  • Impact of inappropriate drug use on health services utilization among representative older community-dwelling residents. 
  • Importance of health system context for evaluating utilization patterns across systems. 
  • Improving Oncology Quality Measurement in Accountable Care: Filling Gaps with Cross-Cutting Measures. 
  • In-hospital worsening heart failure and associations with mortality, readmission, and healthcare utilization. 
  • Increased health burden associated with comorbid depression in older Brazilians with diabetes. 
  • Influence of provider volume on length of stay, operating room time, and discharge status for rotator cuff repair. 
  • Long term follow-up of a randomised controlled trial of services for urinary symptoms. 
  • Long-term healthcare and cost outcomes of disease management in a large, randomized, community-based population with heart failure. 
  • Longitudinal Predictors of Behavioral Intentions and HIV Service Use Among Men Who Have Sex with Men. 
  • Longitudinal rates of annual eye examinations of persons with diabetes and chronic eye diseases. 
  • Low health literacy and health outcomes: an updated systematic review. 
  • Making numbers matter: present and future research in risk communication. 
  • Marketing child survival. 
  • Measurement of progress against cancer. Extramural Committee to Assess Measures of Progress Against Cancer. 
  • Medical services and prescription use for asthma and factors that predict inhaled corticosteroid use among African-American children covered by Medicaid. 
  • Medicare costs for neovascular age-related macular degeneration, 1994-2007. 
  • Mortality patterns in developed countries. 
  • Nursing home residents: a multivariate analysis of their medical, behavioral, psychosocial, and service use characteristics. 
  • Obsessive-compulsive disorder in callers to the Anxiety Disorders Association of America. 
  • Older adults in North Carolina. A demographic and health status profile. 
  • Optimizing veteran-centered prostate cancer survivorship care: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Outcomes of coronary artery bypass graft surgery in 24,461 patients aged 80 years or older. 
  • Pain characteristics and age-related pain trajectories in infants and young children with sickle cell disease. 
  • Parent perceptions of child vulnerability are associated with functioning and health care use in children with chronic pain. 
  • Parents' expectations regarding their children's eye care: interview results. 
  • Patient expectations regarding eye care: focus group results. 
  • Personalized health planning. 
  • Postacute rehabilitation quality of care: toward a shared conceptual framework. 
  • Posttraumatic stress disorder: epidemiology and health-related considerations. 
  • Practice patterns in the management of urinary lithiasis. 
  • Predictors of and health services utilization related to depressive symptoms among elderly Koreans. 
  • Prevalence, comorbidity, and correlates of DSM-5 proposed disruptive mood dysregulation disorder. 
  • Prices, infrastructure, household characteristics and child height. 
  • Primary care in Durham County: who gives care to whom? 
  • Private health insurance coverage and disability among older Americans. 
  • Program design and evaluation strategies for the Special Projects of National Significance Outreach Initiative. 
  • Proposal for fulfilling strategic objectives of the U.S. Roadmap for national action on clinical decision support through a service-oriented architecture leveraging HL7 services. 
  • Proxy response patterns among the aged: effects on estimates of health status and medical care utilization from the 1982-1984 long-term care surveys. 
  • Psychiatric diagnoses of medical service users: evidence from the Epidemiologic Catchment Area Program. 
  • Quality of life and health-services utilization in a population-based sample of military personnel reporting multiple chemical sensitivities. 
  • Quantifiable impact of the contract for health and wellness: health behaviors, health care costs, disability, and workers' compensation. 
  • Racial and ethnic differences in osteoarthritis: prevalence, outcomes, and medical care. 
  • Racial differences in glaucoma care: the longitudinal pattern of care. 
  • Racial, ethnic, and affluence differences in elderly patients' use of teaching hospitals. 
  • Regional variation in late preterm births in North Carolina. 
  • Relationship of nutritional status to health and societal participation in children with cerebral palsy. 
  • Relieving Pain in St. Joseph, Missouri: A Health Services Partnership for Changing the Way Pain is Perceived, Judged and Treated. 
  • Religiosity and decreased risk of substance use disorders: is the effect mediated by social support or mental health status? 
  • Safety-focused medication therapy management: a randomized controlled trial. 
  • School-age children's fears of medical experiences. 
  • Sedative, hypnotic, and antianxiety medication use in an aging cohort over ten years: a racial comparison. 
  • Service utilization comparison of South Carolina Medicaid fee-for-service (FFS), Physician Enhanced Plan (PEP) and Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) models. 
  • Social anxiety disorder in callers to the Anxiety Disorders Association of America. 
  • Social security health insurance for the informal sector in Nicaragua: a randomized evaluation. 
  • Socioeconomic disparity in use of eye care services among US adults with age-related eye diseases: National Health Interview Survey, 2002 and 2008. 
  • Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia in patients with prosthetic devices: costs and outcomes. 
  • Survival and health care utilization in elderly medical inpatients with major depression. 
  • Tackling the challenges to health equity in China. 
  • Telephone intervention to improve the mental health of community-dwelling women abused by their intimate partners: a randomised controlled trial. 
  • Tension-free inguinal hernia repair: the design of a trial to compare open and laparoscopic surgical techniques. 
  • Testicular cancer and Persian Gulf War service. 
  • The 'longlong' population of Ialibu District, Southern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea: contact with health services and care in the village. 
  • The 1984 Hunter Oration. 
  • The Age/Sex Register: estimation of the practice population. 
  • The Effects of Two Workplace Weight Management Programs and Weight Loss on Health Care Utilization and Costs. 
  • The London Fibromyalgia Epidemiology Study: direct health care costs of fibromyalgia syndrome in London, Canada. 
  • The NIMH Epidemiologic Catchment Area program. Historical context, major objectives, and study population characteristics. 
  • The School Enrollment-Based Health Insurance program: socioeconomic factors in enrollees' use of health services. 
  • The Sepulveda GEU Study revisited: long-term outcomes, use of services, and costs. 
  • The U.S. Thrombosis and Hemostasis Centers pilot sites program. 
  • The birth of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. 
  • The clinical course of palpitations in medical outpatients. 
  • The cost implications of an early versus delayed invasive strategy in Acute Coronary Syndromes: the TIMACS study. 
  • The economic burden of major adult visual disorders in the United States. 
  • The efficacy of a multimedia educational campaign to increase the use of eye care services. 
  • The general agreement on trade in services: implications for health policymakers. 
  • The health burden of diabetes for the elderly in four communities. 
  • The impact of depressive symptomatology on physical disability: MacArthur Studies of Successful Aging. 
  • The impact of infectious and allergic diseases on the quality of life. 
  • The impact of posttraumatic stress disorder on quality of life and health service utilization among veterans who have schizophrenia. 
  • The importance of age in allocating health care resources: does intervention-type matter? 
  • The medicalization of society: is there a way to turn back? 
  • The potential role of ophthalmology as an entry point to the healthcare system. 
  • The relationship between obesity and injuries among U.S. adults. 
  • The steps to health employee weight management randomized control trial: rationale, design and baseline characteristics. 
  • Toward an Effective Innovation Agenda 
  • Trauma and posttraumatic stress in users of the Anxiety Disorders Association of America Web site. 
  • Trauma: prevalence, impairment, service use, and cost. 
  • Treatment patterns for neovascular age-related macular degeneration: analysis of 284 380 medicare beneficiaries. 
  • Unmet need for routine and specialty care: data from the National Survey of Children With Special Health Care Needs. 
  • Upper respiratory tract infections in children--why do parents seek medical consultation? 
  • Use of eye care services among the 1991 Medicare population. 
  • Use of health services by hospitalized medically ill depressed elderly patients. 
  • Use of psychiatric and medical health care by veterans with severe mental illness. 
  • Value Promotion in Health Care: The Importance of Symmetry. 
  • Veterans' Preferences for Receiving Information About VA Services: Is Getting the Information You Want Related to Increased Health Care Utilization? 
  • What are the barriers to scaling up health interventions in low and middle income countries? A qualitative study of academic leaders in implementation science. 
  • Why do people with an anxiety disorder utilize more nonmental health care than those without? 
  • Worksite medical home: health services use and claim costs. 
  • [Electronic information bank for health services in Norway]. 
  • [Health and health care in New Zealand]. 
  • [Health services in Canada and Norway. Looked at from the psychiatric point of view]. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Allen, Kelli Dominick, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine, Medicine, General Internal Medicine
  • Bradford, Daniel William, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Social and Community Psychiatry
  • Curtis, Lesley H., Professor in Population Health Sciences, Medicine, General Internal Medicine
  • Dement, John McCray, Professor Emeritus in Family Medicine and Community Health, Family Medicine & Community Health,Occupational & Environmental Medicine
  • Dinan, Michaela Ann, Associate Professor in Population Health Sciences, Medicine, Medical Oncology
  • Goode, Adam Payne, Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Orthopaedics, Physical Therapy
  • Mentz, Robert John, Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Cardiology
  • Mruthyunjaya, Prithvi, Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Ophthalmology, Ophthalmology, Vitreoretinal Diseases & Surgery
  • Olsen, Maren Karine, Associate Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • Orlando, Lori Ann, Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, General Internal Medicine
  • Reed, Shelby Derene, Professor in Population Health Sciences, Duke Science & Society
  • Sreenivasan, Gopal, Crown University Professor in Ethics, Duke Science & Society
  • Van Houtven, Courtney Harold, Professor in Population Health Sciences, Population Health Sciences
  • Yancy Jr., William Samuel, Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, General Internal Medicine
  • Zigler, Christina Kelsey, Assistant Professor in Population Health Sciences, Population Health Sciences