Hospitals, Community

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A Multicenter Pragmatic Interrupted Time Series Analysis of Chlorhexidine Gluconate Bathing in Community Hospital Intensive Care Units. 
  • A Quality Improvement Initiative for Designing and Implementing a Military Service Screening Tool for a Community Emergency Department. 
  • A comparison between National Healthcare Safety Network laboratory-identified event reporting versus traditional surveillance for Clostridium difficile infection. 
  • A geographic information system analysis of the impact of a statewide acute stroke emergency medical services routing protocol on community hospital bypass. 
  • A knowledge-based approach to improving and homogenizing intensity modulated radiation therapy planning quality among treatment centers: an example application to prostate cancer planning. 
  • Administration of Oral Acetaminophen to Reduce Costs for the Hysterectomy Patient at a Community Hospital. 
  • Administration of thrombolytic therapy in the community hospital: established principles and unresolved issues. 
  • American College of Surgeons Oncology Group and the community surgeon. 
  • An empirical taxonomy of hospital governing board roles. 
  • Angiographic validation of the American College of Cardiology Foundation-the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Collaboration on the Comparative Effectiveness of Revascularization Strategies study. 
  • Antimicrobial stewardship programs in community hospitals: the evidence base and case studies. 
  • Assessing severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) preparedness in US community hospitals: A forgotten entity. 
  • Assessing the relative burden of hospital-acquired infections in a network of community hospitals. 
  • Association of Safety Culture with Surgical Site Infection Outcomes. 
  • Bloodstream infections in community hospitals in the 21st century: a multicenter cohort study. 
  • Breast conservation rates-barriers between tertiary care and community practice. 
  • Breastfeeding counseling by health care providers. 
  • Burden of healthcare-associated infections among hospitalized children within community hospitals participating in an infection control network. 
  • Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation in U.S. Community Practice--Results From Outcomes Registry for Better Informed Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation (ORBIT-AF). 
  • Challenges in Preparation of Cumulative Antibiogram Reports for Community Hospitals. 
  • Clinical Outcomes and Healthcare Utilization Related to Multidrug-Resistant Gram-Negative Infections in Community Hospitals. 
  • Co-infection or co-colonization with vancomycin-resistant enterococci and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a network of community hospitals. 
  • Community Obstetrical Units Less Likely than Academic Units to Have Universal COVID-19 Testing. 
  • Community hospital oversight of clinical investigators' financial relationships. 
  • Comparing unmet needs between community-based palliative care patients with heart failure and patients with cancer. 
  • Comparison of non-intensive care unit (ICU) versus ICU rates of catheter-associated urinary tract infection in community hospitals. 
  • Comparison of the burdens of hospital-onset, healthcare facility-associated Clostridium difficile Infection and of healthcare-associated infection due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in community hospitals. 
  • Complex surgical site infections and the devilish details of risk adjustment: important implications for public reporting. 
  • Consultation in university-based and community-based infectious disease practices: a prospective study. 
  • Creating a Community Radiology Division: An Academic Radiology Department's 3-Year Experience. 
  • Criteria for early discharge after acute myocardial infarction: validation in a community hospital. 
  • Culture counts--sustainable inpatient computerized surveillance across Duke University Health System. 
  • Delays in appropriate antibiotic therapy for gram-negative bloodstream infections: a multicenter, community hospital study. 
  • Depressive symptoms in elderly medical-surgical patients hospitalized in community settings. 
  • Developing Content for Pediatric Hospital Medicine Certification Examination Using Practice Analysis. 
  • Diarrhoeal disease in Bangladesh: epidemiology, mortality averted and costs at a rural treatment centre. 
  • Differences in patient characteristics between Veterans Administration and community hospitals. Implications for VA planning. 
  • Diffusion of surgical technology. An exploratory study. 
  • Does Fragmentation of Care in Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer Increase Patient Mortality? 
  • Effects of a Collaborative, Community Hospital Network for Antimicrobial Stewardship Program Implementation. 
  • Emergence of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli in community hospitals throughout North Carolina: a harbinger of a wider problem in the United States? 
  • Epidemiologic Trends in Clostridioides difficile Infections in a Regional Community Hospital Network. 
  • Epidemiology of Surgical Site Infection in a Community Hospital Network. 
  • Epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus pneumonia in community hospitals. 
  • Esophagectomy outcomes at low-volume hospitals: the association between systems characteristics and mortality. 
  • Evaluation of Risk Factors for Antipsychotic Polypharmacy in Inpatient Psychiatry Units of a Community Hospital: A Retrospective Analysis. 
  • Evaluation of a Hospital-Based Pneumonia Nurse Navigator Program. 
  • Evaluation of an Opioid-Free Anesthesia Protocol for Elective Abdominal Surgery in a Community Hospital. 
  • Evaluation of direct workers' compensation costs for musculoskeletal injuries surrounding interventions to reduce patient lifting. 
  • Fast-tracking ambulatory surgery patients following anesthesia. 
  • Favorable impact of an infection control network on nosocomial infection rates in community hospitals. 
  • Feasibility and Value of Developing a Regional Antibiogram for Community Hospitals. 
  • Feasibility of Core Antimicrobial Stewardship Interventions in Community Hospitals. 
  • First-trimester and second-trimester screening at a community hospital: experience from the first year of implementation. 
  • Genomic Analysis of Multidrug-Resistant Escherichia coli from North Carolina Community Hospitals: Ongoing Circulation of CTX-M-Producing ST131-H30Rx and ST131-H30R1 Strains. 
  • Heart Failure Clinical Trial Operations During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Results From a Multicenter Survey. 
  • Heart failure disease management program experience in 4,545 heart failure admissions to a community hospital. 
  • Hospital credentialing and quality of care. 
  • How bone density testing influenced osteoporosis treatment in a community hospital. 
  • Impact of FDA black box warning on fluoroquinolone and alternative antibiotic use in southeastern US hospitals. 
  • Impact of practice environment on procedures performed by U.S. Army general internists. 
  • Implementation and adoption of mechanical patient lift equipment in the hospital setting: The importance of organizational and cultural factors. 
  • Implementation of Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs in Small Community Hospitals: Recognizing the Barriers and Meeting the Challenge. 
  • Implementation of Continuous Video-Electroencephalography at a Community Hospital Enhances Care and Reduces Costs. 
  • Implementation of a smart pump champions program to decrease potential patient harm. 
  • Improving clinician performance of inpatient venous thromboembolism risk assessment and prophylaxis. 
  • Improving stroke education performance measures scores: the impact of a stroke nurse coordinator. 
  • Increasing Incidence of Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamase-Producing Escherichia coli in Community Hospitals throughout the Southeastern United States. 
  • Inpatient costs, length of stay, and mortality for cerebrovascular events in community hospitals. 
  • Integration of an academic medical center and a community hospital: the Brigham and Women's/Faulkner hospital experience. 
  • Is bariatric surgery safe in academic centers? 
  • Large-scale empirical optimisation of statistical control charts to detect clinically relevant increases in surgical site infection rates. 
  • Low rate of complications of cerebral angiography in routine clinical practice. 
  • Maximizing the functional status of geriatric patients in an acute community hospital setting. 
  • Minimal Impact of Implemented Early Warning Score and Best Practice Alert for Patient Deterioration. 
  • Minor depression and physical outcome trajectories in heart failure and pulmonary disease. 
  • Motivations, job procurement, and job satisfaction among current and former ultrasound fellows. 
  • Navigating reflex urine culture practices in community hospitals: Need for a validated approach. 
  • Non-small cell lung cancer clinical practice guidelines in oncology. 
  • Objective measures of adoption of patient lift and transfer devices to reduce nursing staff injuries in the hospital setting. 
  • Outcomes following elective percutaneous coronary intervention without on-site surgical backup in a community hospital. 
  • Patient-days: a better measure of incidence of occupational bloodborne exposures. 
  • Patterns of transfer for patients with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndrome from community to tertiary care hospitals. 
  • Patterns of use and cost for inappropriate radioactive iodine treatment for thyroid cancer in the United States: use and misuse. 
  • Performance of statistical process control methods for regional surgical site infection surveillance: a 10-year multicentre pilot study. 
  • Physician attire in the intensive care unit in Japan influences visitors' perception of care. 
  • Physiological and behavioural response patterns at work among hospital nurses. 
  • Poor functional status as a risk factor for surgical site infection due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. 
  • Postoperative infection in spine surgery: does the month matter? 
  • Prospective analysis of uncemented and hybrid primary porous coated anatomic total hip arthroplasties in a community setting. 
  • Pulmonary CT angiography to evaluate for pulmonary embolism in children visiting adult-centered community hospitals. 
  • Rationale and design of the MASS COMM trial: A randomized trial to compare percutaneous coronary intervention between MASSachusetts hospitals with cardiac surgery on-site and COMMunity hospitals without cardiac surgery on-site. 
  • Rationale and strategies for implementing community-based transfer protocols for primary percutaneous coronary intervention for acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction. 
  • Relationship between community hospital versus pre-hospital location of randomisation and clinical outcomes in ST-elevation myocardial infarction patients: insights from the Stream study. 
  • Religion and depression in older medical inpatients. 
  • Reperfusion strategies in acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: a comprehensive review of contemporary management options. 
  • Retrospective analysis of community hospital red blood cell recovery procedures: improved utilization needed for effectiveness. 
  • Rising rates of carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae in community hospitals: a mixed-methods review of epidemiology and microbiology practices in a network of community hospitals in the southeastern United States. 
  • Risk factors for gram-negative bacterial surgical site infection: do allergies to antibiotics increase risk? 
  • Severe surgical site infection in community hospitals: epidemiology, key procedures, and the changing prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. 
  • Short Operative Duration and Surgical Site Infection Risk in Hip and Knee Arthroplasty Procedures. 
  • Surgical site infection trends in community hospitals from 2013 to 2018. 
  • Surgical site infections after laparoscopic and open cholecystectomies in community hospitals . 
  • Surgical site infections following bariatric surgery in community hospitals: a weighty concern? 
  • Surgical volume and the risk of surgical site infection in community hospitals: size matters. 
  • Surgical-site infection due to Staphylococcus aureus among elderly patients: mortality, duration of hospitalization, and cost. 
  • Survival among Veterans Obtaining Dialysis in VA and Non-VA Settings. 
  • Tailoring your heart failure project for success in rural areas. 
  • Teaching sensitivity to cultural issues in women's health care in a community hospital setting. 
  • The Disproportionate Impact of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic on Healthcare-Associated Infections in Community Hospitals: Need for Expanding the Infectious Disease Workforce. 
  • The epidemiology of ventilator-associated pneumonia in a network of community hospitals: a prospective multicenter study. 
  • The future of the hospital: an economist's perspective. 
  • The impact of TennCare on patient satisfaction with care. 
  • The impact of depth of infection and postdischarge surveillance on rate of surgical-site infections in a network of community hospitals. 
  • 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 surgical-site infections in the 1990s: attributable mortality, excess length of hospitalization, and extra costs. 
  • The multidisciplinary approach to adenocarcinoma of the prostate at Moore Regional Hospital. 
  • The network approach for prevention of healthcare-associated infections: long-term effect of participation in the Duke Infection Control Outreach Network. 
  • The use of patient mix-adjusted control charts to compare in-hospital costs of care. 
  • Therapeutic value of eptifibatide at community hospitals transferring patients to tertiary referral centers early after admission for acute coronary syndromes. PURSUIT Investigators. 
  • Thrombolysis plus aortic counterpulsation: improved survival in patients who present to community hospitals with cardiogenic shock. 
  • Treatment with tissue plasminogen activator and inpatient mortality rates for patients with ischemic stroke treated in community hospitals. 
  • Underresourced hospital infection control and prevention programs: penny wise, pound foolish? 
  • Usefulness of combining necrosis and platelet markers in triaging patients presenting with chest pain to the emergency department. 
  • Utilization of a Preemptive, Multimodal Analgesic Regimen in Adult Ambulatory Septoplasty Patients: A Quality Improvement Project. 
  • Whither infection control in community hospitals? Musings about the near future. 
  • Widespread dissemination of CTX-M-15 genotype extended-spectrum-β-lactamase-producing enterobacteriaceae among patients presenting to community hospitals in the southeastern United States. 
  • With widespread adoption of MIS colectomy for colon cancer, does hospital type matter? 
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  Keywords of People

  • Moehring, Rebekah, Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Infectious Diseases
  • O'Connor, Christopher Michael, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine, Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology