Health Services Research

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "It's medically proven!": Assessing the dissemination of religion and health research. 
  • "Not the 'grim reaper service'": an assessment of provider knowledge, attitudes, and perceptions regarding palliative care referral barriers in heart failure. 
  • A Health Services Research Agenda for Bariatric Surgery Within the Veterans Health Administration. 
  • A Novel Electronic Medical Record-Based Workflow to Measure and Report Colonoscopy Quality Measures. 
  • A community-based approach to non-communicable chronic disease management within a context of advancing universal health coverage in China: progress and challenges. 
  • A comparison of administrative versus clinical data: coronary artery bypass surgery as an example. Ischemic Heart Disease Patient Outcomes Research Team. 
  • A comparison of self-reported utilization of ophthalmic care for diabetes in managed care versus fee-for-service. 
  • A comparison of work-sampling and time-and-motion techniques for studies in health services research. 
  • A conceptual framework of outcomes for caregivers of assistive technology users. 
  • A cost-effectiveness analysis of hepatitis B vaccine in predialysis patients. 
  • A cost-minimisation analysis of lobectomy: thoracoscopic versus posterolateral thoracotomy. 
  • A framework for comparative analysis of health systems: experiences from the Asia Pacific Observatory on Health Systems and Policies. 
  • A framework for examining the function of digital health technologies for weight management. 
  • A framework to evaluate the cultural appropriateness of intervention research 
  • A latent variable model of evidence-based quality improvement for substance abuse treatment. 
  • A marginalized two-part model for longitudinal semicontinuous data. 
  • A marginalized two-part model with heterogeneous variance for semicontinuous data. 
  • A multicenter, retrospective pilot study of resource use and costs associated with severity of disease in glaucoma. 
  • A randomized study would answer the question. 
  • A strategy to advance the evidence base in palliative medicine: formation of a palliative care research cooperative group. 
  • A survey of current problems in meta-analysis. Discussion from the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research inter-PORT Work Group on Literature Review/Meta-Analysis. 
  • A systematic review of parental influences on the health and well-being of lesbian, gay, and bisexual youth: time for a new public health research and practice agenda. 
  • ACCF/HRS/AHA/ASE/HFSA/SCAI/SCCT/SCMR 2013 appropriate use criteria for implantable cardioverter-defibrillators and cardiac resynchronization therapy: a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation appropriate use criteria task force, Heart Rhythm Society, American Heart Association, American Society of Echocardiography, Heart Failure Society of America, Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography, and Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance. 
  • Academic physicians and complementary and alternative medicine: an institutional survey. 
  • Acceptance of repeat esophagogastroduodenoscopy to detect gastric cancer in a Chinese immigrant cohort. 
  • 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. 
  • Accuracy of self-reported stroke among elderly veterans. 
  • Adapting a clinical comorbidity index for use with ICD-9-CM administrative data: differing perspectives. 
  • Adaptive Designs for Clinical Trials: Application to Healthcare Epidemiology Research. 
  • Administrative characteristics of comprehensive prenatal case management programs. 
  • Advancing Alzheimer's disease diagnosis, treatment, and care: recommendations from the Ware Invitational Summit. 
  • Advancing Symptom Science Through Use of Common Data Elements. 
  • Advancing interdisciplinary health research: a synergism not to be denied. 
  • Advancing research at the intersection of two systems. 
  • Adverse events after pars plana vitrectomy among medicare beneficiaries. 
  • Adverse selection: does it preclude a competitive health insurance market? 
  • Age-related differences in care preferences, treatment decisions, and clinical outcomes of seriously ill hospitalized adults: lessons from SUPPORT. 
  • Aligning physician and hospital incentives: editorial comment. 
  • Allocating HIV-prevention resources: balancing efficiency and equity. 
  • Alternative models for academic family practices. 
  • Alternative pay-for-performance scoring methods: implications for quality improvement and patient outcomes. 
  • American Society of Pediatric Nephrology position paper on linking reimbursement to quality of care. 
  • An Analysis of Medicare Reimbursement to Ophthalmologists: Years 2012 to 2013. 
  • An Organizational Field Approach to Resource Environments in Healthcare: Comparing Entries of Hospitals and Home Health Agencies in the San Francisco Bay Region 
  • An agenda for clinical research in geriatrics. 
  • An economic analysis of a store and forward teledermatology consult system. 
  • An economic evaluation of prolonged mechanical ventilation. 
  • An evidence synthesis of care models to improve general medical outcomes for individuals with serious mental illness: a systematic review. 
  • An overview of variance inflation factors for sample-size calculation. 
  • Analytic considerations in economic evaluations of multinational cardiovascular clinical trials. 
  • Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors and angiotensin II receptor blockers for treatment of ischemic heart disease: Future research needs prioritization. 
  • Antecedents of hospital ownership conversions, mergers, and closures. 
  • Antihypertensive adherence and outcomes among community-dwelling Medicare beneficiaries: the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study. 
  • Applying Research to Advance Suicide Prevention in Women Veterans. 
  • Appropriate use of cardiovascular technology: 2013 ACCF appropriate use criteria methodology update: a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation appropriate use criteria task force. 
  • Are all health plans created equal? The physician's view. 
  • Are primary care services a substitute or complement for specialty and inpatient services? 
  • Ascertainment of colonoscopy indication using administrative data. 
  • Assessing priorities for combination HIV prevention research for men who have sex with men (MSM) in Africa. 
  • Assessing quality of life and preferences in the seriously ill using utility theory. 
  • Association of Cognitive Impairment With Treatment and Outcomes in Older Myocardial Infarction Patients: A Report From the NCDR Chest Pain-MI Registry. 
  • Association of Vision Loss With Hospital Use and Costs Among Older Adults. 
  • Bankruptcy risk and state regulation of continuing care retirement communities. 
  • Behavioral Health Integration into Primary Care: a Microsimulation of Financial Implications for Practices. 
  • Beta-binomial regression and bimodal utilization. 
  • Beyond effectiveness: evaluating the public health impact of the WISEWOMAN program. 
  • Blending Quality Improvement and Research Methods for Implementation Science, Part I: Design and Data Collection. 
  • Blending Quality Improvement and Research Methods for Implementation Science, Part II: Analysis of the Quality of Implementation. 
  • Bringing research directly to families in the era of COVID-19. 
  • Building Bridges Between Evidence and Policy in Mental Health Services Research: Introducing the Policy Review Article Type. 
  • Building a primary care/research partnership: lessons learned from a telehealth intervention for diabetes and depression. 
  • Building capacity and competency in conducting health disparities research. 
  • Building interdisciplinary mental health services research teams: a case example. 
  • Bystander Ethics and Good Samaritanism: A Paradox for Learning Health Organizations. 
  • Can continuous quality improvement be assessed using randomized trials? [see comment]. 
  • Cancer outcomes research. 
  • Capacity of health-care facilities to deliver HIV treatment and care services, Northern Tanzania, 2004. 
  • Cardiovascular disease on a global scale: defining the path forward for research and practice. 
  • Care Transitions After Acute Myocardial Infarction for Transferred-In Versus Direct-Arrival Patients. 
  • Caregiver intervention research: an opportunity for collaboration between caregiving investigators and African-american faith communities. 
  • Case study research: the view from complexity science. 
  • Cataract prevalence varies substantially with assessment systems: comparison of clinical and photographic grading in a population-based study. 
  • Challenges in Preparation of Cumulative Antibiogram Reports for Community Hospitals. 
  • Changes and equity in use of maternal health care in China: from 1991 to 2003. 
  • Changing access to health services in urban China: implications for equity. 
  • Changing medical doctor productivity and its affecting factors in rural China. 
  • Characteristics of basic health units and detection of tuberculosis cases. 
  • Characteristics of low-vision rehabilitation services in the United States. 
  • Choice Experiments to Quantify Preferences for Health and Healthcare: State of the Practice. 
  • Clinical correlates of the initial and long-term cost of coronary bypass surgery and coronary angioplasty. 
  • Collaborative care management of late-life depression in the primary care setting: a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Collaborative planning for formative assessment and cultural appropriateness in the Girls health Enrichment Multi-site Studies (GEMS): a retrospection. 
  • Commentaries on health services research. 
  • Commentary on "Health care organizations as complex systems: new perspectives on design and management" by Reuben R. McDaniel, Dean J. Driebe, and Holly Jordan Lanham. 
  • Common design elements of the Girls health Enrichment Multi-site Studies (GEMS). 
  • Common methodological terms in health services research and their synonyms [correction of symptoms]. 
  • Community Health Workers Improve Linkage to Hypertension Care in Western Kenya. 
  • Comparative Effectiveness Research: Alternatives to "Traditional" Computed Tomography Use in the Acute Care Setting. 
  • Comparative effectiveness research in oncology: the need for clarity, transparency and vision. 
  • Competition among physicians, revisited. 
  • Conceptual and relational advances of the PARIHS and i-PARIHS frameworks over the last decade: a critical interpretive synthesis. 
  • Conceptualizing trust in community-academic research partnerships using concept mapping approach: A multi-CTSA study. 
  • Condition-Specific Standard Sets of Outcome Measures Critical for Clinical and Health Services Research. 
  • Conducting a needs assessment of university psychological services: a campaign of telephone and mail strategies. 
  • Connecting information to improve health. 
  • Consistency between trials presented at conferences, their subsequent publications and press releases. 
  • Consumer protection and the HMO backlash: are HMOs to blame for drive-through deliveries? 
  • Continuing the transformation: charting the path for the future delivery of Veteran emergency care. 
  • Continuity of medical care, health insurance, and nonmedical advice in the first 3 years of life. 
  • Contribution of the Veterans Health Administration in understanding racial disparities in access and utilization of health care: a spirit of inquiry. 
  • Cooperative studies in health services research in the Department of Veterans Affairs. 
  • Cost-effectiveness analysis alongside clinical trials II-An ISPOR Good Research Practices Task Force report. 
  • Cost-effectiveness of WISEWOMAN, a program aimed at reducing heart disease risk among low-income women. 
  • Cost-effectiveness of a cardiovascular disease risk reduction program aimed at financially vulnerable women: the Massachusetts WISEWOMAN project. 
  • Costing in Radiology and Health Care: Rationale, Relativity, Rudiments, and Realities. 
  • Costs of newly diagnosed neovascular age-related macular degeneration among medicare beneficiaries, 2004-2008. 
  • Coverage of intermittent prevention treatment with sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine among pregnant women and congenital malaria in Côte d'Ivoire. 
  • Critical care cardiology research: a call to action. 
  • Crowdsourcing Methods to Enhance HIV and Sexual Health Services: A Scoping Review and Qualitative Synthesis. 
  • Culture, status and context in community health worker pay: pitfalls and opportunities for policy research. A commentary on Glenton et al. (2010). 
  • Delivering heart failure disease management in 3 tertiary care centers: key clinical components and venues of care. 
  • Department of Veterans Affairs Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Centers: translating aging research into clinical geriatrics. 
  • Design and Implementation of a Career Development Program for Physician-Scientists: Lessons Learned. 
  • Developing a Research Agenda for Integrating Palliative Care into Critical Care and Pulmonary Practice To Improve Patient and Family Outcomes. 
  • Development of an interinstitutional collaboration to support community-partnered research addressing the health of emerging Latino populations. 
  • Development of level of institutionalization scales for health promotion programs. 
  • Disease Burden Following Non-Cardioembolic Minor Ischemic Stroke or High-Risk TIA: A GWTG-Stroke Study. 
  • Disease control and health systems in low- and middle-income countries: enhancing positive interrelation. 
  • Do targeted efforts for the rural underserved help kill comprehensive reform? 
  • Does Brussels listen? European health systems research in developing countries at the edge of extinction. 
  • Does an Otolaryngology-Specific Database Have Added Value? A Comparative Feasibility Analysis. 
  • Does decentralisation improve human resource management in the health sector? A case study from China. 
  • Does medication adherence following a copayment increase differ by disease burden? 
  • Does payment drive procedures? Payment for specialty services and procedure rate variations in 3 HMOs. 
  • Does prospective payment reduce inpatient length of stay? 
  • Dry eye medication use and expenditures: data from the medical expenditure panel survey 2001 to 2006. 
  • Economic evaluation of access to musculoskeletal care: the case of waiting for total knee arthroplasty. 
  • Education partnerships between GRECCs and other VA organizations, Non-VA governmental agencies, academic medical centers, and centers of excellence. 
  • Effect of dialysis center profit-status on patient survival: a comparison of risk-adjustment and instrumental variable approaches. 
  • Effect of hospital conversion on organizational decision making and service coordination. 
  • Effect of outpatient treatment of febrile neutropenia on the risk threshold for the use of CSF in patients with cancer treated with chemotherapy. 
  • Effect of provider volume on resource utilization for surgical procedures of the knee. 
  • Effect of switching to a high-deductible health plan on use of chronic medications. 
  • Effect of the Intelligent Health Messenger Box on health care professionals' knowledge, attitudes, and practice related to hand hygiene and hand bacteria counts. 
  • Effectiveness of automatic diagnostic test result feedback on outpatient laboratory and radiology testing in veterans. A controlled trial. 
  • Effects of educational intervention in waiting room on patient satisfaction. 
  • Effects of military experience on mental health problems and work behavior. 
  • Elderly suicide, mental health professionals, and the clergy: a need for clinical collaboration, training, and research. 
  • Emergency Department Sickle Cell Assessment of Needs and Strengths (ED-SCANS), a focus group and decision support tool development project. 
  • Emergency care research funding in the global health context: trends, priorities, and future directions. 
  • Emergency department triage: why we need a research agenda. 
  • Employee demand for health insurance and employer health plan choices. 
  • Enabling Healthful Aging for All - The National Academy of Medicine Grand Challenge in Healthy Longevity. 
  • Endoscopy unit efficiency: quality redefined. 
  • Engaging outreach workers in the development of a farmworker health research agenda. 
  • Enhanced access to primary care for patients with congestive heart failure. Veterans Affairs Cooperative Study Group on Primary Care and Hospital Readmission. 
  • Enrollment and Retention of Men and Women in Health Services Research and Development Trials. 
  • Establishing a regional, multisite database for quality improvement and service planning in community-based palliative care and hospice. 
  • Estimating eye care workforce supply and requirements. 
  • Ethical Challenges in Promoting the Implementation of Preventive Interventions: Report of the SPR Task Force. 
  • Etiology and Resource Use of Fever of Unknown Origin in Hospitalized Children. 
  • Evaluating long-term care demonstrations in real time with study design and plan performance interactions. 
  • Evaluation of Compliance for Treatment of Sudden Hearing Loss: A CHEER Network Study. 
  • Evaluation of consumer understanding of different front-of-package nutrition labels, 2010-2011. 
  • Evaluation of public health demonstration programs: the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of WISEWOMAN. 
  • Evidence-Based Medicine in Otolaryngology, Part XIII: Health Disparities Research and Advancing Health Equity. 
  • Evidence-based practice for mere mortals: the role of informatics and health services research. 
  • Examining emergency department communication through a staff-based participatory research method: identifying barriers and solutions to meaningful change. 
  • Examining the research base for child mental health services and policy. 
  • Exit interview-consultation for research validation and dissemination. 
  • Expert and stakeholder consensus on priorities for obesity prevention research in early care and education settings. 
  • Exploring outcomes associated with acupuncture. 
  • Eye care in the United States: do we deliver to high-risk people who can benefit most from it? 
  • Factors associated with enrollment, satisfaction, and sustainability of the New Cooperative Medical Scheme program in six study areas in rural Beijing. 
  • Factors that influence the presence of a hospice in a rural community. 
  • Family support in children's mental health: a review and synthesis. 
  • For Third Enrollment Period, Marketplaces Expand Decision Support Tools To Assist Consumers. 
  • Frequent users of US emergency departments: characteristics and opportunities for intervention. 
  • From physician to consumer: the effectiveness of strategies to manage health care utilization. 
  • Future patterns of chronic disease incidence, disability, and mortality among the elderly. Implications for the demand for acute and long-term health care. 
  • Genetic and social environment interactions and their impact on health policy. 
  • Geographic variation in resource use for coronary artery bypass surgery. IHD Port Investigators. 
  • Geriatric oncology health services research: Cancer and Aging Research Group infrastructure core. 
  • Getting to proven: evaluating quality across all of palliative care. 
  • Glaucoma in the United States and europe: predicting costs and surgical rates based upon stage of disease. 
  • Guideline implementation research: exploring the gap between evidence and practice in the CRUSADE Quality Improvement Initiative. 
  • HIV Prevention in a Time of COVID-19: A Report from the HIVR4P // Virtual Conference 2021. 
  • HSR Commentary: Linking VA and Non-VA Data to Address Important US Veteran Health Services Research Issues. 
  • Health Preference Research in Europe: A Review of Its Use in Marketing Authorization, Reimbursement, and Pricing Decisions-Report of the ISPOR Stated Preference Research Special Interest Group. 
  • Health Services Research in Rehabilitation and Disability-The Time is Now. 
  • Health Services Research. 
  • Health Services Research: Not just retrospective chart reviews. 
  • Health care cost growth among the privately insured. 
  • Health insurance and mammography: would a Medicare buy-in take us to universal screening? 
  • Health insurance coverage and use of eye care services. 
  • Health policy and outcomes research 2004. 
  • Health policy in stroke: translating what we know into what we do. 
  • Health promotion interventions for disadvantaged women: overview of the WISEWOMAN projects. 
  • Health services access and use among older adults in North Carolina: urban vs rural residents. 
  • Health services research and how it can inform the current state of ophthalmology. 
  • Health services utilization after induced abortions in Ontario: a comparison between community clinics and hospitals. 
  • Home health and skilled nursing facility use: 1982-90. 
  • Hospital Ownership of Physicians: Hospital Versus Physician Perspectives. 
  • Hospital Readmission and Costs of Total Knee Replacement Surgery in 2009 and 2014: Potential Implications for Health Care Managers. 
  • Hospital Variation in Functional Recovery After Stroke. 
  • Hospital credentialing and quality of care. 
  • Hospital percutaneous coronary intervention appropriateness and in-hospital procedural outcomes: insights from the NCDR. 
  • How state-funded home care programs respond to changes in Medicare home health care: resource allocation decisions on the front line. 
  • Identification of patients with diabetic macular edema from claims data: a validation study. 
  • Identifying Priorities to Improve the System of Care for Children With Complex Health Needs in North Carolina: Process and Outcomes of Systematic Stakeholder Engagement. 
  • Identifying research needs for improving health care. 
  • Images of illness: how causal claims and racial associations influence public preferences toward diabetes research spending. 
  • Impact of Video Education on Patient Knowledge, Anxiety, and Satisfaction in Selective Laser Trabeculoplasty: A Pilot Study. 
  • Impact of a combined pediatric and adult pneumococcal immunization program on adult pneumonia incidence and mortality in Nicaragua. 
  • Impact of physician assistant care on office visit resource use in the United States. 
  • Implementation and testing of research infrastructure for practice-based research in hearing and communication disorders. 
  • Implementation of Complex Interventions: Lessons Learned From the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute Transitional Care Portfolio. 
  • Implementation of new clinical programs in the VHA healthcare system: the importance of early collaboration between clinical leadership and research. 
  • Implementation of surgical debriefing programs in large health systems: an exploratory qualitative analysis. 
  • Implementing a "free" tuberculosis (TB) care policy under the integrated model in Jiangsu, China: practices and costs in the real world. 
  • Implications of complex adaptive systems theory for interpreting research about health care organizations. 
  • Implications of complex adaptive systems theory for the design of research on health care organizations. 
  • Improving attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder treatment outcomes through use of a collaborative consultation treatment service by community-based pediatricians: a cluster randomized trial. 
  • Improving health care for adult survivors of childhood cancer: recommendations from a delphi panel of health policy experts. 
  • Improving the Validity of Stated-Preference Data in Health Research: The Potential of the Time-to-Think Approach. 
  • Incorporating societal concerns for fairness in numerical valuations of health programmes. 
  • Increase in tracheostomy for prolonged mechanical ventilation in North Carolina, 1993-2002. 
  • Increasing the pipeline and diversity of doctorally prepared nurses: Description and preliminary evaluation of a health disparities summer research program. 
  • Increasing the role of practice networks in medical research. 
  • Incremental cost-utility analysis of deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty compared with penetrating keratoplasty for the treatment of keratoconus. 
  • Influence of projected complication rates on estimated appropriate use rates for carotid endarterectomy. Appropriateness Project Investigators. Academic Medical Center Consortium. 
  • Institutional review board training for community practices: advice from the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality Practice-Based Research Network listserv. 
  • Insurance Expansions: Do They Hurt Those They Are Designed to Help? 
  • Integrated vector management for malaria control in Uganda: knowledge, perceptions and policy development. 
  • Integrative Review of Recruitment of Research Participants Through Facebook. 
  • Intermediate outcomes: diagnostic and therapeutic impact. 
  • International survey of nursing home research priorities. 
  • Is a third-trimester antibody screen in Rh+ women necessary? 
  • Is the target income hypothesis an economic heresy? 
  • It's an honor, it's a privilege. 
  • Item response theory and its applications to patient-reported outcomes measurement. 
  • Lessons learned in the Multisite Violence Prevention Project collaboration: Big questions require large efforts 
  • Life transitions and health insurance coverage of the near elderly. 
  • Long-term care, Medicaid, and impoverishment of the elderly. 
  • Longitudinal incidence of adverse outcomes of age-related macular degeneration. 
  • Longitudinal trends in resource use in an incident cohort of open-angle glaucoma patients: resource use in open-angle glaucoma. 
  • Making the case for laws that improve health: a framework for public health law research. 
  • Managing health care organizations: where professionalism meets complexity science. 
  • Manipulating perceptions of colorectal cancer threat: implications for screening intentions and behaviors. 
  • Matched-pair analysis of race or ethnicity in outcomes of head and neck cancer patients receiving similar multidisciplinary care. 
  • Maximizing the Yield of Small Samples in Prevention Research: A Review of General Strategies and Best Practices. 
  • Measuring activities in clinical trials using random work sampling: implications for cost-effectiveness analysis and measurement of the intervention. 
  • Measuring costs in multisite randomized controlled trials: lessons from the VA Cooperative Studies Program. 
  • Measuring end-of-life care outcomes prospectively. 
  • Measuring handoff quality in labor and delivery: development, validation, and application of the Coordination of Handoff Effectiveness Questionnaire (CHEQ). 
  • Measuring patient expectations: does the instrument affect satisfaction or expectations? 
  • Measuring use and cost of care for patients with mood disorders: the utilization and cost inventory. 
  • Medicare HMO penetration and mortality outcomes of ischemic stroke. 
  • Medicare costs for neovascular age-related macular degeneration, 1994-2007. 
  • Medicare pricing mechanisms for physician services: an overview of alternative approaches. 
  • Mental health services system research: the National Institute of Mental Health program. 
  • Methodological strategies to engage young black and Latino heterosexual couples in sexual and reproductive health research. 
  • Methodologies used in nursing research designed to improve patient safety. 
  • Methods for analyzing health care utilization and costs. 
  • Methods for the analysis and assessment of clinical databases: the clinician's perspective. 
  • Military and veteran health behavior research and practice: challenges and opportunities. 
  • Mobile health for non-communicable diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review of the literature and strategic framework for research. 
  • Modeling Semicontinuous Longitudinal Expenditures: A Practical Guide. 
  • Modeling bioterrorism and disaster preparedness: SMDM's recommendations for design and reporting. 
  • Modeling choice behavior for new pharmaceutical products. 
  • Modeling zero-modified count and semicontinuous data in health services research Part 1: background and overview. 
  • Modeling zero-modified count and semicontinuous data in health services research part 2: case studies. 
  • Mothers' perspectives on the quality of postpartum care in Central Shanghai, China. 
  • Multi-institutional Study of Voice Disorders and Voice Therapy Referral: Report from the CHEER Network. 
  • Multisite randomized controlled trials in health services research: scientific challenges and operational issues. 
  • Ménière's Disease: A CHEER Database Study of Local and Regional Patient Encounter and Procedure Patterns. 
  • National Institute of Mental Health Collaborative Multimodal Treatment Study of Children with ADHD (the MTA). Design challenges and choices. 
  • Neonatal intensive care unit safety culture varies widely. 
  • Neurological Critical Care: The Evolution of Cerebrovascular Critical Care. 
  • New horizons in stroke rehabilitation research. 
  • Nurse staffing and patient care costs in acute inpatient nursing units. 
  • Nursing administration research in hospitals and schools of nursing. 
  • Nursing home research: the first International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics (IAGG) research conference. 
  • Nutrition policy research that can lead to reduced childhood obesity in the U.S. 
  • Ocular complications after anti-vascular endothelial growth factor therapy in Medicare patients with age-related macular degeneration. 
  • On residents' satisfaction with community health services after health care system reform in Shanghai, China, 2011. 
  • Outcomes of physician job satisfaction: a narrative review, implications, and directions for future research. 
  • Outcomes research and emergency medical services for children: domains, challenges, and opportunities. 
  • Overcoming barriers to adopting and implementing computerized physician order entry systems in U.S. hospitals. 
  • Pastoral research in a hospital setting: a case study. 
  • Patient Outcomes Research Teams: contribution to outcomes and effectiveness research. 
  • Patient expectations regarding eye care: development and results of the Eye Care Expectations Survey (ECES). 
  • Patient expectations regarding eye care: focus group results. 
  • Patient outcomes used by advanced practice psychiatric nurses to evaluate effectiveness of practice. 
  • Patient-related predictors of rehabilitation use for community-dwelling older Americans. 
  • Patterns of care for open-angle glaucoma in managed care. 
  • Pay-for-performance: toxic to quality? Insights from behavioral economics. 
  • Physicians' stated trade-off preferences for chronic hepatitis B treatment outcomes in Germany, France, Spain, Turkey, and Italy. 
  • Place-Based Initiatives to Improve Health in Disadvantaged Communities: Cross-Sector Characteristics and Networks of Local Actors in North Carolina. 
  • Political perspectives on uncertified home care agencies. 
  • Potential bias in medication adherence studies of prevalent users. 
  • Poverty, process of care, and outcome in acute coronary syndromes. 
  • Practice-based Research Network Research Good Practices (PRGPs): Summary of Recommendations. 
  • Predictors of nursing home admission in a biracial population. 
  • Prepare for landing: a student orientation for international clinical rotations. 
  • Prevalence and risk factors for refractive errors in the Singapore Malay Eye Survey. 
  • Prevalence and risk factors of ocular trauma in an urban south-east Asian population: the Singapore Malay Eye Study. 
  • Prevention and health services delivery. 
  • Primary care: is there enough time for prevention? 
  • Psychiatric health service areas in the southeast. 
  • Public health interventions for addressing childhood overweight: analysis of the business case. 
  • Public health research: lost in translation or speaking the wrong language? 
  • Qualitative analysis of Web-based refractive surgery information sessions. 
  • Quality Enhancement Research Initiative in stroke: prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation. 
  • Quality in Australian Health Care Study. 
  • Quality of clinical reports on behavioral interventions for hypertension. 
  • Race and Sex Differences in Management and Outcomes of Patients After ST-Elevation and Non-ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarct: Results From the NCDR. 
  • Race/ethnicity and the intensity of medical monitoring under 'watchful waiting' for prostate cancer. 
  • Racial variation in treatment for transient ischemic attacks: impact of participation by neurologists. 
  • Racial variations in postoperative outcomes of carotid endarterectomy: evidence from the Veterans Affairs National Surgical Quality Improvement Program. 
  • Rates of glaucoma medication utilization among persons with primary open-angle glaucoma, 1992 to 2002. 
  • Rates, amounts, and determinants of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring claim reimbursements among Medicare beneficiaries. 
  • Realizing the dream. 
  • Rectangularization of the survival curve: implications of an ill-posed question. 
  • Regional systems of care demonstration project: Mission: Lifeline STEMI Systems Accelerator: design and methodology. 
  • Regression to the Mean: A Commonly Overlooked and Misunderstood Factor Leading to Unjustified Conclusions in Pediatric Obesity Research. 
  • Relationship between physician specialty and the selection and outcome of ischemic stroke patients. 
  • Relationship between surgeon caseload and sphincter preservation in patients with rectal cancer. 
  • Relationship of clinical case management to hospitalization and service delivery for seriously mentally ill clients. 
  • Relevant Journals for Identifying Implementation Science Articles: Results of an International Implementation Science Expert Survey. 
  • Religion, spirituality and medicine in Australia: research and clinical practice. 
  • Reply: To PMID 23978500. 
  • Representativeness of participants in the cancer care outcomes research and surveillance consortium relative to the surveillance, epidemiology, and end results program. 
  • Research Methods in Healthcare Epidemiology and Antimicrobial Stewardship-Mathematical Modeling. 
  • Research Methods in Healthcare Epidemiology and Antimicrobial Stewardship. 
  • Research Methods in Healthcare Epidemiology and Antimicrobial Stewardship: Randomized Controlled Trials. 
  • Research Priorities to Advance the Health and Health Care of Older Adults with Multiple Chronic Conditions. 
  • Research and policy recommendations from the SOTA XVI: State of the Art Conference on VA Emergency Medicine. 
  • Research on field-based services: models for reform in the delivery of mental health care to populations with complex clinical problems. 
  • Research translation for military and veteran health: research, practice, policy. 
  • Research versus quality improvement: distinct or a distinction without a difference? A case study comparison of two studies. 
  • Resource use and costs associated with diabetic macular edema in elderly persons. 
  • Restore the US lead in biomedical research. 
  • Results of a randomized controlled trial of intervention to implement smoking guidelines in Veterans Affairs medical centers: increased use of medications without cessation benefit. 
  • Rethinking randomized clinical trials for comparative effectiveness research: the need for transformational change. 
  • SMFM Special Report: Putting the "M" back in MFM: Addressing education about disparities in maternal outcomes and care. 
  • Sampling patients within physician practices and health plans: multistage cluster samples in health services research. 
  • Scaling up global health interventions: a proposed framework for success. 
  • Scheduled telephone visits in the veterans health administration patient-centered medical home. 
  • 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. 
  • Setting an agenda for comparative effectiveness systematic reviews in CKD care. 
  • Setting the stage: Research to inform interventions, practice and policy to improve women veterans' health and health care. 
  • Shared Decision Making to Improve the Emergency Care of Older Adults: A Research Agenda. 
  • Shortages of rural mental health professionals. 
  • Should you close your waiting room? Addressing ED overcrowding through education and staff-based participatory research. 
  • Social/health maintenance organization and fee-for-service health outcomes over time. 
  • Special care unit research: ethical issues. 
  • Special care units for people with Alzheimer's disease. Only for the privileged few? 
  • Statistical methods in SUPPORT. 
  • Statistical procedures for analyzing mental health services data. 
  • Strategies for developing biostatistics resources in an academic health center. 
  • Strategies to reduce hospital readmissions: a review. 
  • Stroke: working toward a prioritized world agenda. 
  • Structure, process, and outcomes in stroke rehabilitation. 
  • Studying complexity is complex. 
  • Subspecialties in ophthalmology. 
  • Subspecialty distributions of ophthalmologists in the workforce. 
  • Surgeons' economic profiles: can we get the "right" answers? 
  • Synonyms in health services research methodology. 
  • Systems for grading the quality of evidence and the strength of recommendations I: critical appraisal of existing approaches The GRADE Working Group. 
  • Systems of care for ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction: a report From the American Heart Association's Mission: Lifeline. 
  • Systems science and childhood obesity: a systematic review and new directions. 
  • Tailoring biomedical interventions for key populations. 
  • Taking healthcare interventions from trial to practice. 
  • Teaching yourself about structural racism will improve your machine learning. 
  • Testing efficacy with detection controlled estimation: an application to telemedicine. 
  • Texas Medication Algorithm Project, phase 3 (TMAP-3): clinical results for patients with a history of mania. 
  • Texas Medication Algorithm Project, phase 3 (TMAP-3): rationale and study design. 
  • The 'longlong' population of Ialibu District, Southern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea: contact with health services and care in the village. 
  • The 'offset effect' of mental health treatment on ambulatory medical care utilization and charges. Month-by-month and grouped-month analyses of a five-year study. 
  • The 1984 Hunter Oration. 
  • The Childhood Obesity Data Initiative: A Case Study in Implementing Clinical-Community Infrastructure Enhancements to Support Health Services Research and Public Health. 
  • The Edgecombe County High Blood Pressure Control Program: The Process of Medical Care and Blood Pressure Control 
  • The Impact of Hospital Health Network Affiliation on Discharge Communication Preferences of Primary Care Providers. 
  • The Multisite Violence Prevention Project: Background and overview 
  • The Otology Data Collection project: report from the CHEER network. 
  • The Rising Rate of Rural Hospital Closures. 
  • The Role of Communities in Mental Health Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Meta-Review of Components and Competencies. 
  • The Safety Attitudes Questionnaire as a tool for benchmarking safety culture in the NICU. 
  • The Safety Attitudes Questionnaire: psychometric properties, benchmarking data, and emerging research. 
  • The cost of inefficiency in US hospitals, 1985-1997. 
  • The cost-effectiveness of routine office-based identification and subsequent medical treatment of primary open-angle glaucoma in the United States. 
  • The development, validity, and reliability of the OARS multidimensional functional assessment questionnaire. 
  • The economic burden of major adult visual disorders in the United States. 
  • The effect of managed care penetration on the treatment of AMI in the fee-for-service Medicare population. 
  • The ethical challenges of a randomized controlled trial of involuntary outpatient commitment. 
  • The evaluation of screening methods to identify medically unnecessary hospital stay for patients with pneumonia. 
  • The hazards of stroke case selection using administrative data. 
  • The impact of medication use in a multicomponent intervention: results from the WISEWOMAN program. 
  • The impact of primary health care on malaria morbidity--defining access by disease burden. 
  • The impact of statistical adjustment on economic profiles of interventional cardiologists. 
  • The impact of surgical-site infections following orthopedic surgery at a community hospital and a university hospital: adverse quality of life, excess length of stay, and extra cost. 
  • The impact of urban health insurance reform on hospital charges: a case study from two cities in China. 
  • The magnitude and nature of risk selection in employer-sponsored health plans. 
  • The marketing of dissolvable tobacco: social science and public policy research needs. 
  • The natural life of policy indices: geographical problem areas in the U.S. and U.K. 
  • The perceived coerciveness of involuntary outpatient commitment: findings from an experimental study. 
  • The return on investment in health care: from 1980 to 2000. 
  • The role of psychiatric and behavioral factors in the practice of medicine. 
  • The role of the principal clinical coordinator in the Health Care Financing Administration's Health Care Quality Improvement Initiative. 
  • The unit of analysis error in studies about physicians' patient care behavior. 
  • The use of linear instrumental variables methods in health services research and health economics: a cautionary note. 
  • The use of patient mix-adjusted control charts to compare in-hospital costs of care. 
  • The use of the case-crossover design in studying illicit drug use. 
  • Thyroid Disease and Surgery in CHEER: The Nation's Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Practice-Based Network. 
  • Tonsillectomy Bleed Rates across the CHEER Practice Research Network: Pursuing Guideline Adherence and Quality Improvement. 
  • Toward a national framework for the secondary use of health data: an American Medical Informatics Association White Paper. 
  • Toward a redefinition of psychiatric emergency. 
  • Toward the development of national telehealth services: the role of Veterans Health Administration and future directions for research. 
  • Transcending differences to study the transcendent: an exploratory study of researchers' and chaplains' reflections on interdisciplinary spiritual care research collaboration. 
  • Transfer times and outcomes in patients with ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction undergoing interhospital transfer for primary percutaneous coronary intervention: APEX-AMI insights. 
  • Treatment patterns for neovascular age-related macular degeneration: analysis of 284 380 medicare beneficiaries. 
  • Trends in Children's Mental Health Services Research Funding by the National Institute of Mental Health From 2005 to 2015: A 42% Reduction. 
  • Trends in utilization of coronary artery bypass surgery and associated outcomes: Alberta, Manitoba, and Nova Scotia. 
  • Trust in insurers and access to physicians: associated enrollee behaviors and changes over time. 
  • Understanding interobserver agreement: the kappa statistic. 
  • Understanding the critical importance of diagnosis in the measurement of quality of care. 
  • Undertriage of Trauma-Related Deaths in U.S. Emergency Departments. 
  • Update on the Health Services Research Doctoral Core Competencies. 
  • Use of deceptive tactics in physician practices: are there differences between international and US medical graduates? 
  • Use of health care claims data to study patients with ophthalmologic conditions. 
  • Use of substance abuse treatment services by persons with mental health and substance use problems. 
  • Uses of ambulatory health/mental health utilization data in organized health care settings. 
  • Using Medicare claims for outcomes research. 
  • Using surgical appropriateness criteria to examine outcomes of total knee arthroplasty in a United States sample. 
  • Value in Healthcare Initiative: Summary and Key Recommendations. 
  • Variation in Hospital Risk-Adjusted Mortality Rates Following Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement in the United States: A Report From the Society of Thoracic Surgeons/American College of Cardiology Transcatheter Valve Therapy Registry. 
  • Variation in the Use of Vestibular Diagnostic Testing for Patients Presenting to Otolaryngology Clinics with Dizziness. 
  • Variations in and correlates of length of stay in academic hospitals among patients with heart failure resulting from systolic dysfunction. 
  • Vectoring for true north: building a research base on family support. 
  • Walk-in clinics: patient expectations and family physician availability. 
  • Welfare reform and Latinas' use of perinatal health care. 
  • What are the barriers to scaling up health interventions in low and middle income countries? A qualitative study of academic leaders in implementation science. 
  • What drives outcomes for emotional and behavioral disorders in children and adolescents? 
  • When money is saved by reducing healthcare costs, where do US primary care physicians think the money goes? 
  • When should functional neuroimaging techniques be used in the diagnosis and management of Alzheimer's dementia? A decision analysis. 
  • Whose satisfaction? 
  • Wide clinic-level variation in adherence to oral diabetes medications in the VA. 
  • Women and outpatient mental health services: use by black, Hispanic, and white women in a national insured population. 
  • Working group recommendations: research on content and efficacy of geriatric evaluation and management interventions. 
  • Worse outcomes in patients undergoing urgent surgery for left-sided diverticulitis admitted on weekends vs weekdays: a population-based study of 31 832 patients. 
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  • Anderson, Ruth A., Professor Emerita in the School of Nursing, School of Nursing
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  • Bradford, Daniel William, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychiatry, Child & Family Mental Health & Community Psychiatry
  • Bradford, William Dalton, Professor of Pathology, Pathology
  • Check, Devon Karnes, Assistant Professor in Population Health Sciences, Duke Cancer Institute
  • Cho, Alex Han, Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, General Internal Medicine
  • Cohen, Seth Morris, Professor of Head and Neck Surgery & Communication Sciences, Head and Neck Surgery & Communication Sciences
  • Coles, Theresa Marie, Assistant Professor in Population Health Sciences, Population Health Sciences
  • Crego, Nancy, Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing, School of Nursing
  • Crowley, Matthew Janik, Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Nutrition
  • Curtis, Lesley H., Professor in Population Health Sciences, Medicine, General Internal Medicine
  • DeLong, Elizabeth Ray, Professor Emeritus of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • Gellad, Ziad F., Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Gastroenterology
  • Grambow, Steven C., Associate Professor of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • Horn, Maggie Elizabeth, Assistant Professor in Orthopaedic Surgery, Orthopaedic Surgery, Physical Therapy
  • Hung, Anna, Assistant Professor in Population Health Sciences, Population Health Sciences
  • LeBlanc, Thomas William, Associate Professor of Medicine, Duke Cancer Institute
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  • Lewinski, Allison A., Assistant Research Professor in the School of Nursing, School of Nursing
  • Morgan, Perri Anne, Professor in Family Medicine and Community Health, Family Medicine and Community Health, Physician Assistant Program
  • Mruthyunjaya, Prithvi, Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Ophthalmology, Ophthalmology, Vitreoretinal Diseases & Surgery
  • Muhlbaier, Lawrence H., Associate Professor Emeritus of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • Muir, Kelly Walton, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Ophthalmology, Glaucoma
  • Muiruri, Charles, Assistant Professor of Population Health Sciences, Duke Global Health Institute
  • Myers, Evan Robert, Walter L. Thomas Distinguished Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology in the School of Medicine, Duke Cancer Institute
  • O'Connor, Christopher Michael, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine, Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology
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  • Olson, Steven Arthur, Goldner Jones Distinguished Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Orthopaedic Surgery
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