Hospital Units

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A multidisciplinary approach to pediatric pain: an empirical analysis. 
  • Assessing the value of hospitalists to academic health centers: Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School. 
  • CON: Postoperative nausea and vomiting database research: limitations and opportunities. 
  • Care of the Patient with Chest Pain in the Observation Unit. 
  • Classifying general medicine readmissions. Are they preventable? Veterans Affairs Cooperative Studies in Health Services Group on Primary Care and Hospital Readmissions. 
  • Comparison of 30-day outcome, resource use, and coronary artery disease severity in patients with suspected coronary artery disease with and without diabetes mellitus assigned to chest pain units. 
  • Decreasing workplace incivility. 
  • Developing strategies to prevent inhospital cardiac arrest: analyzing responses of physicians and nurses in the hours before the event. 
  • Effects of geriatric evaluation and management on adverse drug reactions and suboptimal prescribing in the frail elderly. 
  • Effects of maternal depressive symptoms and infant gender on the interactions between mothers and their medically at-risk infants. 
  • Flight from autonomy: problems of social change on an adolescent inpatient unit. 
  • Geriatric evaluation and management units in the care of the frail elderly cancer patient. 
  • Glucagon in insulin coma therapy: its use in a small psychiatric unit of a general hospital. 
  • Hospital-based palliative care units: answering a growing need. 
  • Identification of chest pain patients appropriate for an emergency department observation unit. 
  • Impact of renal dysfunction on acute coronary syndrome evaluation in observation unit patients. 
  • Improving Congestive Heart Failure Care with a Clinical Decision Unit. 
  • Inpatient geriatric evaluation and management units: organization and care patterns in the Department of Veterans Affairs. 
  • Interdependence between the GI unit and inpatient nurses. 
  • Introducing a module for laboratory test order entry and reporting of results at a hospital ward: an evaluation study using a multi-method approach. 
  • Management of hyperglycemia in acute stroke: how, when, and for whom? 
  • Management of observation units. American College of Emergency Physicians. 
  • Masked depression in a combined medical-psychiatric unit. 
  • Maximizing the functional status of geriatric patients in an acute community hospital setting. 
  • Minding the stroke business. 
  • Nurse staffing and patient care costs in acute inpatient nursing units. 
  • Perspective: Autonomic care systems for hospitalized patients. 
  • Point-prevalence study of antimicrobial use in public hospitals in southern Sri Lanka identifies opportunities for improving prescribing practices. 
  • Prevalence of hand dermatitis in inpatient nurses at a United States hospital. 
  • Proposing short-term observation units for the management of decompression illness. 
  • Quantifying nursing workflow in medication administration. 
  • Relationship Between Labor and Delivery Unit Management Practices and Maternal Outcomes. 
  • Serological evidence of cross infection in a dialysis unit hepatitis-B epidemic. 
  • Special care units for people with Alzheimer's disease. Only for the privileged few? 
  • Statewide hospital-based stroke services in North Carolina: changes over 10 years. 
  • Strategies to reduce hospital readmissions: a review. 
  • Stroke center designation can be achieved by small hospitals: the Massachusetts experience. 
  • The cardiac diagnostic unit. A new approach to patient care. 
  • The combined medical specialties unit: an innovative approach to patient care. 
  • The medical-psychiatric unit and psychosocial education of internists. 
  • Thrombolysis in myocardial infarction risk score in an observation unit setting. 
  • Utility of observation units for young emergency department chest pain patients. 
  • Variation in safety culture dimensions within and between US and Swiss Hospital Units: an exploratory study. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Bettger, Janet Prvu, Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Duke Science & Society
  • Muir, Kelly Walton, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Ophthalmology, Glaucoma