Health Services Needs and Demand

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "If I'm better than average, then I'm ok?": Comparative information influences beliefs about risk and benefits. 
  • A New Method of Identifying Characteristics of Needing Help to Take Medications in an Older Representative Community-Dwelling Population: The Older Adults Medication Assist Scale. 
  • A Qualitative Analysis of the Preoperative Needs of Patients With Papillary Thyroid Cancer. 
  • A decision exercise to engage cancer patients and families in deliberation about Medicare coverage for advanced cancer care. 
  • A demand-side view of risk adjustment. 
  • A global public health strategy for autism spectrum disorders. 
  • A necessity not a luxury: preparing advanced practice nurses to care for older adults. 
  • A pilot study of clinical agreement in cardiovascular preparticipation examinations: how good is the standard of care? 
  • A practical, theory-based approach to establishing school nutrition advisory councils. 
  • A prescription for unemployment? Recessions and the demand for mental health drugs. 
  • A public health perspective on healthy lifestyles and public-private partnerships for global childhood obesity prevention. 
  • A re-conceptualization of access for 21st century healthcare. 
  • A review of cardiovascular risk factors in US military personnel. 
  • A summary of the literature on global hearing impairment: current status and priorities for action. 
  • A survey of the medical needs of a group of small factories. 
  • A systematic review of barriers and interventions to improve appropriate use of therapies for sickle cell disease. 
  • A universal decision support system. Addressing the decision-making needs of patients, families, and clinicians in the setting of critical illness. 
  • ACC 2009 survey results and recommendations: Addressing the cardiology workforce crisis A report of the ACC board of trustees workforce task force. 
  • Access to care: eye care provider workforce considerations in 2020. 
  • Access to eye care: response of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and its members to societal needs now and in the future. 
  • Access to health for refugees in Greece: lessons in inequalities. 
  • Accessing timely rehabilitation services for a global aging society? Exploring the realities within Canada's universal health care system. 
  • Accuracy of standard measures of family planning service quality: findings from the simulated client method. 
  • Acute Care Pediatric Nurse Practitioner: The 2014 Practice Analysis. 
  • Acute Pain Medicine in the United States: A Status Report. 
  • Acute care pediatric nurse practitioner: a practice analysis study. 
  • Advancing healthcare transitions in the medical home: tools for providers, families and adolescents with special healthcare needs. 
  • Affinity Chart Analysis: A Method for Structured Collection, Aggregation, and Response to Customer Needs in Radiology. 
  • African American grandparents' and adolescent grandchildren's sexuality communication. 
  • Ageing populations: the challenges ahead. 
  • Agree on much, except it is time for change. 
  • Alcohol dependence and use of treatment services among women in the community. 
  • Alcohol use disorders and the use of treatment services among college-age young adults. 
  • American Society of Pediatric Nephrology position paper on linking reimbursement to quality of care. 
  • An educational initiative in response to identified PrEP prescribing needs among PCPs in the Southern U.S. 
  • An exploratory study of end-of-life prognostic communication needs as reported by widowed fathers due to cancer. 
  • Analysis of factors affecting demand for rehabilitation services in Ontario, Canada: a health-policy perspective. 
  • Analyzing strategies for developing a prenatal health care outreach program to reduce social and cultural barriers. 
  • Application of a partnership model for transformative and sustainable international development. 
  • Are We Ready for the Graying of the HIV Epidemic? 
  • Are acute stroke-ready hospitals ready? 
  • Are primary care services a substitute or complement for specialty and inpatient services? 
  • Arrow's concept of the health care consumer: a forty-year retrospective. 
  • Assessing surge capacity for radiation victims with marrow toxicity. 
  • Assessing the need for a medical respite: perceptions of service providers and homeless persons. 
  • At what cost? Stewardship of our most important resources. 
  • Autism Speaks Global Autism Public Health Initiative: Bridging gaps in autism awareness, research, and services around the world. 
  • Availability of post-hospital services supporting community reintegration for children with identified surgical need in Uganda. 
  • Barriers to Care for Transgender People: A Conversation With Dana Hines, PhD, MSN, RN. 
  • Barriers to accessing HIV/AIDS care in North Carolina: rural and urban differences. 
  • Barriers to mental health service use and preferences for addressing emotional concerns among lung cancer patients. 
  • Better tests, better care: improved diagnostics for infectious diseases. 
  • Building capacity and competency in conducting health disparities research. 
  • Building capacity in VA to provide emergency gynecology services for women. 
  • Building the science for nursing education: vision or improbable dream. 
  • Burden and Outcomes of Neonatal Surgery in Uganda: Results of a Five-Year Prospective Study. 
  • Burden of Surgical Conditions in Uganda: A Cross-sectional Nationwide Household Survey. 
  • Burden of illness and satisfaction with care among patients with headache seen in a primary care setting. 
  • COVID-19, Mental Health and Aging: A Need for New Knowledge to Bridge Science and Service. 
  • Can we understand population healthcare needs using electronic medical records? 
  • Canadian study of health and aging: study methods and prevalence of dementia. 
  • Cancer and the functional status of the elderly. 
  • Cancer control-planning and monitoring population-based systems. 
  • Caregiving-related needs of family caregivers of older Singaporeans. 
  • Challenges in evaluating psychosocial interventions for Autistic Spectrum Disorders. 
  • Changes in health, mortality, and disability and their impact on long-term care needs. 
  • Characteristics and treatment options of elderly Chinese patients with cancer as determined by Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA). 
  • Characteristics of adult primary care patients as predictors of future health services charges. 
  • Characterization of Young Adult Emergency Department Users: Evidence to Guide Policy. 
  • Children's mental health as a primary care and concern: a system for comprehensive support and service. 
  • Children's mental health service use across service sectors. 
  • Chronic care management for the elderly: an opportunity for gerontological nurse practitioners. 
  • Clinical faculty: major contributors to the education of new CRNAS--part 2. 
  • Coercion and compulsion in mental healthcare-an international perspective. 
  • Collaboration: the devil's in the detail. 
  • Comparing unmet needs between community-based palliative care patients with heart failure and patients with cancer. 
  • Comparison of three comorbidity measures for predicting health service use in patients with osteoarthritis. 
  • Competition among physicians, revisited. 
  • Concerns regarding the financial aspects of kidney transplantation: perspectives of pre-transplant patients and their family members. 
  • Conducting a needs assessment of university psychological services: a campaign of telephone and mail strategies. 
  • Connecting eHealth with 2-1-1 to reduce health disparities. 
  • Contraceptive service delivery in Kenya: A qualitative study to identify barriers and preferences among female sex workers and health care providers. 
  • Coping with critical drug shortages: an ethical approach for allocating scarce resources in hospitals. 
  • Current Gaps in Ovarian Cancer Epidemiology: The Need for New Population-Based Research. 
  • Current state of psychiatry in Saudi Arabia. 
  • Data Collection and Management in Community Engaged Research: Lessons Learned From Two Community-Based Participatory Research Partnerships. 
  • Deciding to institutionalize: why do family members cease caregiving at home? 
  • Defining core issues in utilizing information technology to improve access: evaluation and research agenda. 
  • Demand for Cancer Screening Services: Results From Randomized Controlled Discrete Choice Experiments. 
  • Demand for weight loss counseling after copayment elimination. 
  • Demand-based assessment of workforce requirements for orthopaedic services. 
  • Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance consensus statement on the unmet needs in diagnosis and treatment of mood disorders in late life. 
  • Depression in primary caregivers of patients listed for liver or kidney transplantation. 
  • Depression, ART Adherence, and Receipt of Case Management Services by Adults with HIV in North Carolina, Medical Monitoring Project, 2009-2013. 
  • Determining VA physician requirements through empirically based models. 
  • Differences in access to kidney transplantation between Hispanic and non-Hispanic whites by geographic location in the United States. 
  • Disease Burden Following Non-Cardioembolic Minor Ischemic Stroke or High-Risk TIA: A GWTG-Stroke Study. 
  • Disparities in surgical care for children across Brazil: Use of geospatial analysis. 
  • Disposable devices for RIRS: where do we stand in 2013? What do we need in the future? 
  • Economic benefits of less restrictive regulation of advanced practice nurses in North Carolina. 
  • Economic evaluation of access to musculoskeletal care: the case of waiting for total knee arthroplasty. 
  • Emergency department surveillance: an examination of issues and a proposal for a national strategy. 
  • Employee demand for health insurance and employer health plan choices. 
  • Ensuring global access to COVID-19 vaccines. 
  • Epidemiological, demographic, and social correlates of disability among the elderly. 
  • Epidemiology of pediatric surgical needs in low-income countries. 
  • Equity in access to healthcare among the urban elderly in China: does health insurance matter? 
  • Essential Long-Term Care Workers Commonly Hold Second Jobs and Double- or Triple-Duty Caregiving Roles. 
  • Essential surgery: key messages from Disease Control Priorities, 3rd edition. 
  • Estimating eye care workforce supply and requirements. 
  • Estimating the cost of unmet HIV-prevention needs in the United States. 
  • Evaluation of a Maryland fiscal incentive plan for placing state hospital patients in nursing homes. 
  • Exploring cancer support needs for older African-American men with prostate cancer. 
  • Eye care in the United States: do we deliver to high-risk people who can benefit most from it? 
  • Family resiliency during childhood cancer: the father's perspective. 
  • Feasibility of a tailored intervention to improve preventive care use in women. 
  • Federally-Assisted Healthcare Coverage among Male State Prisoners with Chronic Health Problems. 
  • Financing maternal and child health--what are the limitations in estimating donor flows and resource needs? 
  • Finding Health Care Prices Online-How Difficult Is It to Be an Informed Health-Care Consumer? 
  • Finding the "Right-Size" Physical Therapy Workforce: International Perspective Across 4 Countries. 
  • Focus on rural health. Preface. 
  • Foregone health care among adolescents. 
  • Foster care and Medicaid managed care. 
  • Future patterns of chronic disease incidence, disability, and mortality among the elderly. Implications for the demand for acute and long-term health care. 
  • Future requirements for and supply of ophthalmologists for an aging population in Singapore. 
  • Future trends in chronic disability and institutionalization: implications for long-term care needs. 
  • Gauging supply and demand: the challenging quest to predict the future physician workforce. 
  • Geospatial Analysis of Unmet Surgical Need in Uganda: An Analysis of SOSAS Survey Data. 
  • Geospatial analysis of unmet pediatric surgical need in Uganda. 
  • Gerontological nursing content in baccalaureate nursing programs: comparison of findings from 1997 and 2003. 
  • Giving birth at a health-care facility in rural China: is it affordable for the poor? 
  • Global Health. Paying the poor. 
  • Global Surgery 2030: Evidence and solutions for achieving health, welfare, and economic development. 
  • Global operating theatre distribution and pulse oximetry supply: an estimation from reported data. 
  • Healing With CAARE: An Oasis of Care in the Changing Landscape of Translational Science. 
  • Health Care System Factors Associated with Transition Preparation in Youth with Special Health Care Needs. 
  • Health diplomacy and the adaptation of global health interventions to local needs in sub-Saharan Africa and Thailand: evaluating findings from Project Accept (HPTN 043). 
  • Health education needs of intimate partner violence survivors: Perspectives from female survivors and social service providers. 
  • Health equity in transition from planned to market economy in China. 
  • Health insurance coverage and use of eye care services. 
  • Health seeking behavior among pregnant women in rural Haiti. 
  • Health-related quality of life and health service use among older adults with osteoarthritis. 
  • Helping the Demand Find the Supply: Messaging the Value of Specialty Palliative Care Directly to Those With Serious Illnesses. 
  • High-risk populations for vision loss and eye care underutilization: a review of the literature and ideas on moving forward. 
  • Homelessness is not just a housing problem. 
  • Hospital readmission among older adults who return home with unmet need for ADL disability. 
  • How much eye care services do Asian populations need? Projection from the Singapore Epidemiology of Eye Disease (SEED) study. 
  • Human resources for health (and rehabilitation): Six Rehab-Workforce Challenges for the century. 
  • Humanitarian response following the earthquake in Haiti: reflections on unprecedented need for rehabilitation. 
  • Identifying an Education Gap in Wound Care Training in United States Dermatology. 
  • Impact of managed care on the treatment, costs, and outcomes of fee-for-service Medicare patients with acute myocardial infarction. 
  • Impact of physician assistant care on office visit resource use in the United States. 
  • Implementing survivorship care plans for colon cancer survivors 
  • Implications of a gap between demand and supply for rehabilitation in post-earthquake Haiti. 
  • Implications of changes in households and living arrangements for future home-based care needs and costs for disabled elders in China. 
  • Implications of long-term care capacity response policies for an aging population: a simulation analysis. 
  • Improvements in medical school wellness and career counseling: A comparison of one-on-one advising to an Advisory College Program. 
  • Improving the accuracy of intercensal estimates and postcensal projections of the civilian noninstitutional population: a parameterization of institutional prevalence rates. 
  • Improving the quality of rural nursing care. 
  • In our hands: responding to the IOM report on workforce needs for older adults with mental health and substance use disorders. 
  • Incorporating a built environment module into an accelerated second-degree community health nursing course. 
  • Increased risk for patient safety incidents in hospitalized older adults. 
  • Increasing awareness of clinical neuropsychology in the general public. 
  • Inequity in healthcare needs, health service use and financial burden of medical expenditures in China: results from a consecutive household monitoring study in Jiangsu Province. 
  • Influencing health policy: strategies for nursing education to partner with nursing practice. 
  • Informatics and operations--let's get integrated. 
  • Insurance mandates and trends in infertility treatments. 
  • Inter-disciplinary focus groups on telephone medicine: a quality improvement initiative. 
  • Is there a role for survivorship care plans in advanced cancer? 
  • Issues in quality measurement: target population, risk adjustment, and ratings. 
  • Key issues for global cardiovascular medicine. 
  • Known-groups validity of the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS(®)) in adolescents and young adults with special healthcare needs. 
  • Lessons learned from a Parkinson's disease caregiver intervention pilot study. 
  • Linking process to outcome: are we training pediatricians to meet evolving health care needs? 
  • Maelstrom of change: back to the future. 
  • Making the case for school-based health: where do we stand? 
  • Management of heart failure in cardiac amyloidosis using an ambulatory diuresis clinic. 
  • Marketing child survival. 
  • Medical comorbidity in bipolar disorder: re-prioritizing unmet needs. 
  • Medical device innovation: prospective solutions for an ecosystem in crisis. Adding a professional society perspective. 
  • Meeting Basic Needs: Social Supports and Services Provided by Hospice. 
  • Meeting an unmet need for family planning. 
  • Meeting the Needs for Radiation Protection: Diagnostic Imaging. 
  • Mental health and psychosocial support needs among people displaced by Boko Haram in Nigeria. 
  • Mental health and recovery in the Gulf Coast after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. 
  • Mental health care for older adults in the year 2020: a dangerous and avoided topic. 
  • Mental health need and access to mental health services by youths involved with child welfare: a national survey. 
  • Methods and issues in the projection of population health status. 
  • Modeling choice behavior for new pharmaceutical products. 
  • Need for eye care among older adults with diabetes mellitus in fee-for-service and managed Medicare. 
  • Needs and Lifestyle Challenges of Adolescents and Young Adults With Cancer: Summary of an Institute of Medicine and Livestrong Foundation Workshop. 
  • Needs and preferences for the prevention of intimate partner violence among Hispanics: a community's perspective. 
  • Neighborhood deprivation and adverse birth outcomes among diverse ethnic groups. 
  • Neurosurgical workforce trends in the United States. 
  • New Medications Are Needed for Children With Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis. 
  • Nurses on the Front Lines: Improving Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health Across Health Care Settings. 
  • Nursing patient safety research in rural health care settings. 
  • Nursing research and the prevention of infectious diseases among vulnerable populations. 
  • Obesity prevention in schools: current role and future practice of school nurses. 
  • Obstetrician-gynecologist as primary care provider. 
  • One size does not fit all: geriatric health maintenance in the 21st century. 
  • Optimizing Care for Ugandans with Untreated Abdominal Surgical Conditions. 
  • Orthopaedic surgeon workforce and volume assessment for total hip and knee replacement in the United States: preparing for an epidemic. 
  • Out of the black box: expansion of a theory-based intervention to self-manage the uncertainty associated with active surveillance (AS) for prostate cancer. 
  • Overlooked and underserved: "action signs" for identifying children with unmet mental health needs. 
  • Overwhelming Need, Insufficient Health Care for Justice-involved North Carolinians 
  • PA job availability in primary care during 2014 and 2016. 
  • Pathologist workforce in the United States: I. Development of a predictive model to examine factors influencing supply. 
  • Patient expectations regarding eye care: focus group results. 
  • Patient perspectives on hypertension management in health system of Sri Lanka: a qualitative study. 
  • Patient-centered mental health care for female veterans. 
  • Patient-related predictors of rehabilitation use for community-dwelling older Americans. 
  • Pediatric brain tumor patients: their parents' perceptions of the hospital experience. 
  • Perceived acceptability of home-based couples voluntary HIV counseling and testing in Northern Tanzania. 
  • Perception of unmet basic needs as a predictor of physical functioning among community-dwelling older adults. 
  • Perceptions of disability among south Asian immigrant mothers of children with disabilities in Canada: implications for rehabilitation service delivery. 
  • Perceptions of tuberculosis and health seeking behaviour in rural Inner Mongolia, China. 
  • Personnel resources in physical therapy: an analysis of supply, career patterns, and methods to enhance availability. 
  • Physical Rehabilitation Needs Per Condition Type: Results From the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. 
  • Physician assistants and nurse practitioners: a missing component in state workforce assessments. 
  • Pilot Use of a Novel Tool to Assess Neurosurgical Capacity in Uganda. 
  • Pilot study of a population-based survey to assess the prevalence of surgical conditions in Uganda. 
  • Piloting the Affordable Medicines Facility-malaria: what will success look like? 
  • Policies and guidelines outside the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry: influencing oral health care for persons with special health care needs. 
  • Policy Changes Key To Promoting Sustainability And Growth Of The Specialty Palliative Care Workforce. 
  • Population segmentation based on healthcare needs: a systematic review. 
  • Post-earthquake Haiti: the critical role for rehabilitation services following a humanitarian crisis. 
  • Posttraumatic stress, mental health professionals, and the clergy: a need for collaboration, training, and research. 
  • Poverty as context for the parenting experience of low-income Lumbee Indian mothers with a medically fragile infant. 
  • Predicted patient demand for a new delivery system for glaucoma medicine. 
  • Predicted shortages of physicians might even disappear if we fully account for PAs and NPs. 
  • Predictive modeling the physician assistant supply: 2010-2025. 
  • Predictors of children's involvement in parents' treatment among homeless veterans in community residential care. 
  • Preliminary Outcomes from an Integrated Pediatric Mental Health Outpatient Clinic. 
  • Preserving stroke care during the COVID-19 pandemic: Potential issues and solutions. 
  • Prevalence and Characteristics of Urinary Incontinence in a Treatment Seeking Male Prospective Cohort: Results from the LURN Study. 
  • Prevalence of Pediatric Surgical Conditions Across Somaliland. 
  • Prevalence of Surgically Untreated Face, Head, and Neck Conditions in Uganda: A Cross-Sectional Nationwide Household Survey. 
  • Prevalence of obesity and cardiovascular risk factors among manufacturing company employees in Kentucky. 
  • Primary Care: Meeting the Mental Health Care Needs of Adolescents With Depression. 
  • Private demand for a HIV/AIDS vaccine: evidence from Guadalajara, Mexico. 
  • Program design and evaluation strategies for the Special Projects of National Significance Outreach Initiative. 
  • Projection of young-old and old-old with functional disability: does accounting for the changing educational composition of the elderly population make a difference? 
  • Prospective trial of a video educational tool for radiation oncology patients. 
  • Psychiatric disorders among American Indian and white youth in Appalachia: the Great Smoky Mountains Study. 
  • Public behavioral health care reform in North Carolina: will we get it right this time around? 
  • Public's view of mental health services for the elderly: responses to Dear Abby. 
  • Racial variation in wanting and obtaining mental health services among women veterans in a primary care clinic. 
  • Refugee crisis in Greece: healthcare and integration as current challenges. 
  • Regarding "predicted shortage of vascular surgeons in the United States: population and workload analysis". 
  • Rehabilitation services after total joint replacement in Ontario, Canada: can 'prehabilitation' programs mediate an increasing demand? 
  • Relationship between coping and depression in heart transplant candidates and their spouses. 
  • Reliance on Veterans Affairs outpatient care by Medicare-eligible veterans. 
  • Resident Challenges With Pain and Functional Limitations in Chinese Residential Care Facilities. 
  • Responding to the immunoglobulin shortage: a case study. 
  • Rheumatic Heart Disease in the Twenty-First Century. 
  • Role of Health Services Research in Producing High-Value Rehabilitation Care. 
  • Rural and urban differences in treatment status among children with surgical conditions in Uganda. 
  • Rural/urban differences in barriers to and burden of care for children with special health care needs. 
  • Searching for "the dying point:" providers' experiences with palliative care in pediatric acute care. 
  • Second primary cancers in survivors of childhood cancer. 
  • Seeing Health Insurance and HealthCare.gov Through the Eyes of Young Adults. 
  • Service costs of caring for adolescents with mental illness in a rural community, 1993-2000. 
  • Serving the health needs of our military and veterans. 
  • Setting an agenda for comparative effectiveness systematic reviews in CKD care. 
  • Sexual orientation and sexual health care needs: a comparison of women beneficiaries in outpatient military health care settings. 
  • Should palliative care be a necessity or a luxury during an overwhelming health catastrophe? 
  • Should you close your waiting room? Addressing ED overcrowding through education and staff-based participatory research. 
  • Socioeconomic disparities, financial toxicity, and opportunities for enhanced system efficiencies for patients with cancer. 
  • Socioeconomic disparity in use of eye care services among US adults with age-related eye diseases: National Health Interview Survey, 2002 and 2008. 
  • Specialized palliative care services are associated with improved short- and long-term caregiver outcomes. 
  • Spiritual needs of couples facing pregnancy termination because of fetal anomalies. 
  • Statistical procedures for analyzing mental health services data. 
  • Strategies For Assessing Delivery System Innovations. 
  • Strategies for using assigned reading in nursing courses. 
  • Stroke center designation can be achieved by small hospitals: the Massachusetts experience. 
  • Stroke prevention in patients with atrial fibrillation: disease burden and unmet medical needs. 
  • Subspecialties in ophthalmology. 
  • Subspecialty distributions of ophthalmologists in the workforce. 
  • Substituted judgment in principle and practice: a national physician survey. 
  • Summing it up: an integrative review of studies of cancer survivorship care plans (2006-2013). 
  • Supplemental security income and social security disability insurance coverage among long-term childhood cancer survivors. 
  • Supporting self-management for patients with complex medical needs: recommendations of a working group. 
  • Surgeons OverSeas Assessment of Surgical Need (SOSAS) Uganda: Update for Household Survey. 
  • Surgical need among the ageing population of Uganda. 
  • Surrogates' perceptions about feeding tube placement decisions. 
  • Survey of the fragile X syndrome and the fragile X E syndrome in a special education needs population. 
  • Surviving the Silver Tsunami: Training a Health Care Workforce to Care for North Carolina's Aging Population. 
  • Survivorship care plans: is there buy-in from community oncology providers? 
  • Systematic review of women veterans' mental health. 
  • The 'longlong' population of Ialibu District, Southern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea: contact with health services and care in the village. 
  • The Age/Sex Register: estimation of the practice population. 
  • The Citizen Soldier Support Program: a case study. 
  • The Effects of Rate Regulation on Demand for Supplemental Health Insurance 
  • The Global Need for a Trastuzumab Biosimilar for Patients With HER2-Positive Breast Cancer. 
  • The Great Smoky Mountains Study of Youth. Functional impairment and serious emotional disturbance. 
  • The Impact of Increasing Surgical Capacity at a Tertiary Hospital in Southern Haiti. 
  • The Latino mental health project: a local mental health needs assessment. 
  • The Louisiana emergency department behavioral health challenge. 
  • The Pathologist Workforce in the United States: II. An Interactive Modeling Tool for Analyzing Future Qualitative and Quantitative Staffing Demands for Services. 
  • The aging veteran population: Promoting awareness to influence best practices. 
  • The cancer and leukemia group B cancer in the elderly committee: addressing a major cancer need. 
  • The challenge of measuring community values in ways appropriate for setting health care priorities. 
  • The current status of living donor liver transplantation. 
  • The demand for physicians' services in alternative practice settings: a multiple logit analysis. 
  • The development, validity, and reliability of the OARS multidimensional functional assessment questionnaire. 
  • The effect of rural residence on dental unmet need for children with special health care needs. 
  • The effect of the WIC program on the health of newborns. 
  • The effects of China's universal two-child policy. 
  • The faculty shortage in nursing: global implications. 
  • The genetics workforce and workload. 
  • The impact of a prospective payment system on psychosocial service delivery in the general hospital. 
  • The marketing of dissolvable tobacco: social science and public policy research needs. 
  • The need for psychodynamic principles in outreach to new combat veterans and their families. 
  • The need for transformative innovation in hypertension management. 
  • The needs for men undergoing active surveillance (AS) for prostate cancer: results of a focus group study. 
  • The organization, function, and outcomes of ST-elevation myocardial infarction networks worldwide: current state, unmet needs and future directions. 
  • The performance of administrative and self-reported measures for risk adjustment of Veterans Affairs expenditures. 
  • The precarious balance between 'supply' and 'demand' for health care: the increasing global demand for rehabilitation service for individuals living with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. 
  • The relationship between hospital charges and a modified Parsonnet risk score. 
  • The role of community-based and philanthropic organizations in meeting cancer patient and caregiver needs. 
  • The role of price, sociodemographic factors, and health in the demand for bariatric surgery. 
  • The tipping point: prolonged hospital course as a result of dental infection in a nonagenarian. 
  • The unmet need for addressing cardiac issues in intensive care research. 
  • The unmet need of information access for family members of ICU patients. 
  • The value of certification in HIV/AIDS nursing. 
  • Their Bodies, Our Conduct: How Society and Medicine Produce Persons Standing in Need of End-of-Life Care. 
  • Towards a common definition of global health. 
  • Trans-national scale-up of services in global health. 
  • Transitional Care Partners: a hospital-to-home support for older adults and their caregivers. 
  • Transitioning Pediatric Patients to Adult Health Care: A Quality Improvement Needs Assessment. 
  • Transparent sharing of digital health data: A call to action. 
  • Trauma, proximity, and developmental psychopathology: the effects of war and terrorism on children. 
  • Trends in health care resource use and expenditures in patients with newly diagnosed paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia in the United States. 
  • Trends in quality of care for patients with acute myocardial infarction in the National Registry of Myocardial Infarction from 1990 to 2006. 
  • Type 1 diabetes patients' experiences of, and need for, social support after attending a structured education programme: a qualitative longitudinal investigation. 
  • Undermet needs for assistance in personal activities of daily living among community-dwelling oldest old in China from 2005 to 2008. 
  • Underuse of oral anticoagulants in privately insured patients with atrial fibrillation: A population being targeted by the IMplementation of a randomized controlled trial to imProve treatment with oral AntiCoagulanTs in patients with Atrial Fibrillation (IMPACT-AFib). 
  • Unmet needs and depression among carers of people newly diagnosed with cancer. 
  • Unpredictable drug shortages: an ethical framework for short-term rationing in hospitals. 
  • Use of health services by medically ill depressed elderly patients after hospital discharge. 
  • Use of outpatient care in VA and Medicare among disability-eligible and age-eligible veteran patients. 
  • User fees for health services. Norwegian perspective on copayments. 
  • Using Propensity Score Methods to Create Target Populations in Observational Clinical Research. 
  • Using data to increase the national presence of psychiatric mental health nursing. 
  • Using epidemiologic survey data to plan geriatric mental health services. 
  • Using private demand studies to calculate socially optimal vaccine subsidies in developing countries. 
  • Utilizing Evidence to Address the Health and Health Care Needs of Veterans. 
  • Vectoring for true north: building a research base on family support. 
  • Web citations in the nursing literature: how accurate are they? 
  • What are the barriers to scaling up health interventions in low and middle income countries? A qualitative study of academic leaders in implementation science. 
  • When "need plus supply" does not equal demand: challenges in uptake of depression treatment in HIV clinical care. 
  • Where You Are Born Really Does Matter: Why Birth Hospital and Quality of Care Contribute to Racial/Ethnic Disparities. 
  • Which single intervention would do the most to improve the health of those living on less than $1 per day? Interview by Gavin Yamey. 
  • Who gets treated? Factors associated with referral in children with psychiatric disorders. 
  • Who searches the internet for health information? 
  • Why gerontologists should care about empirical research on religion and health: transdisciplinary perspectives. 
  • Why have surgeons moved to the country? 
  • Why there will be little or no physician surplus between now and the year 2000. 
  • Widow cleansing and inheritance among the Luo in Kenya: the need for additional women-centred HIV prevention options. 
  • Willingness to pay for telemedicine assessed by the double-bounded dichotomous choice method. 
  • Work force planning in the 90s, Part I: Efficiency, economy and political will--the need for a new approach. 
  • Workforce Projections 2010-2020: Annual Supply and Demand Forecasting Models for Physical Therapists Across the United States. 
  • Workforce projections for hepato-pancreato-biliary surgery. 
  • Workshop on immunizations in older adults: identifying future research agendas. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Bettger, Janet Prvu, Associate Professor in Orthopaedic Surgery, Duke Science & Society
  • Brancu, Mira, Associate Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Social and Community Psychiatry
  • Gottfried, Oren N, Professor of Neurosurgery, Neurosurgery
  • Gwyer, Janet Lynn, Professor Emeritus of Orthopaedic Surgery, Orthopaedics, Physical Therapy
  • McConnell, Eleanor Schildwachter, Associate Professor in the School of Nursing, with tenure, School of Nursing
  • Morgan, Perri Anne, Professor in Family Medicine and Community Health, Family Medicine and Community Health
  • Olsen, Maren Karine, Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • Orlando, Lori Ann, Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, General Internal Medicine
  • Preminger, Glenn Michael, James F. Glenn, M.D. Distinguished Professor of Urology, Surgery
  • Strand de Oliveira, Justine, Professor Emeritus in Family Medicine and Community Health, Family Medicine and Community Health, Physician Assistant Program
  • Wu, Li-Tzy, Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medicine, General Internal Medicine
  • Yancy Jr., William Samuel, Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, General Internal Medicine
  • Zafar, Syed Yousuf, Associate Professor of Medicine, Duke Science & Society