Hospitals, University

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A case-control study of nosocomial ampicillin-resistant enterococcal infection and colonization at a university hospital. 
  • A clinical economics workstation for risk-adjusted health care cost management. 
  • A comparative resident site visit project: a novel approach for implementing programmatic change in the duty hours era. 
  • A comparison of analgesic management for emergency department patients with sickle cell disease and renal colic. 
  • A cross-sectional study of anxiety and marital quality among women with breast cancer at a university clinic in western Saudi Arabia. 
  • A prescription for promoting social work research in a university hospital. 
  • A retrospective comparison of anesthetic management of robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy versus radical retropubic prostatectomy. 
  • A review of cases of posterior urethral valves seen at the University College Hospital, Ibadan (Nigeria). 
  • Absence of sex bias in the referral of patients for cardiac catheterization. 
  • Advances in pancreas transplantation: the University of Wisconsin experience. 
  • Antibiotic-resistant bacteria on personal devices in hospital intensive care units: Molecular approaches to quantifying and describing changes in the bacterial community of personal mobile devices. 
  • Are physicians aware of which of their patients have indwelling urinary catheters? 
  • Arsenic poisoning seen at Duke Hospital, 1965-1998. 
  • Assessing housestaff diagnostic skills using a cardiology patient simulator. 
  • Assessing the value of hospitalists to academic health centers: Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School. 
  • Assessment of primary hemostasis by PFA-100 analysis in a tertiary care center. 
  • Bacteremia in granulocytopenic patients in a tertiary-care general hospital. 
  • Bird-mite infestation in a university hospital. 
  • Blood culture contamination in Tanzania, Malawi, and the United States: a microbiological tale of three cities. 
  • Bolus Administration of Fentanyl and Midazolam for Colonoscopy Increases Endoscopy Unit Efficiency and Safety Compared With Titrated Sedation. 
  • Bony erosion patterns in patients with allergic fungal sinusitis. 
  • Breast conservation rates-barriers between tertiary care and community practice. 
  • Carboplatin with weekly docetaxel and ifosfamide in advanced head and neck cancers: a phase I Brown University Oncology Group dose escalation study (HN-93). 
  • Cerebral Microhemorrhages and Meningeal Siderosis in Infective Endocarditis. 
  • Comparative evaluation of radiometric tryptic soy broth versus radiometric tryptic soy broth with 10% sucrose for detection of bacteremia and fungemia in pediatric patients. 
  • Comparing proxy and patients' perceptions of patients' functional status: results from an outpatient geriatric clinic. 
  • Computer-based medical records: the centerpiece of TMR. 
  • Consultation in university-based and community-based infectious disease practices: a prospective study. 
  • Controlled clinical comparison of the BacT/ALERT FN and the standard anaerobic SN blood culture medium. 
  • Cost implications of selective preoperative risk screening in the care of candidates for peripheral vascular operations. 
  • Cost minimization in endoscopy center scheduling: a case-controlled study. 
  • Cost-based decision analysis of postreduction imaging in the management of mandibular fractures. 
  • Determinants of reoperation after 960 valve replacements with Carpentier-Edwards prostheses. 
  • Development and implementation of a hospital-based patient safety program. 
  • Development of a Pediatric Cardiac Mechanical Support Program. 
  • Does routine serial computed tomography of the head influence management of traumatic brain injury? A prospective evaluation. 
  • Donation after cardiac death: the University of Wisconsin experience with liver transplantation. 
  • Donation after cardiac death: the university of wisconsin experience with renal transplantation. 
  • Driving-impaired patients leaving the emergency department. The problem of inadequate instructions. 
  • Economic effects of beta-blocker therapy in patients with heart failure. 
  • Effect of institutional volume and academic status on outcomes of coronary interventions: the IMPACT-II experience. 
  • Effect of repair strategy on hospital cost for infants with tetralogy of Fallot. 
  • Effect of simultaneous didanosine administration on itraconazole absorption in healthy volunteers. 
  • Effects of Ideal Versus Total Body Weight Dosage of Rabbit Antithymocyte Globulin on Outcomes of Kidney Transplant Patients With High Immunologic Risk. 
  • Emergency medicine in the Veterans Health Administration-results from a nationwide survey. 
  • Evaluation of an intensive strategy for follow-up and surveillance of primary breast cancer. 
  • Facilitating Institutional Oversight and Program Improvement Through Educational Competency Committees. 
  • Factors Associated with Symptomology of Celiac Artery Compression and Outcomes following Median Arcuate Ligament Release. 
  • Factors influencing morning report case presentations. 
  • Feasibility of point-of-care echocardiography by internal medicine house staff. 
  • Frontal fibrosing alopecia: a retrospective review of 19 patients seen at Duke University. 
  • Healthcare access and utilization by patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus: does gender matter? 
  • Hepatitis B virus vaccine. An analysis of its potential use in medical workers. 
  • History of the Department of Neurosurgery at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. 
  • Hospital infection control, seat belts and the national debt. 
  • Improving ICU-Based Palliative Care Delivery: A Multicenter, Multidisciplinary Survey of Critical Care Clinician Attitudes and Beliefs. 
  • Individual and center-level factors affecting mortality among extremely low birth weight infants. 
  • Inpatient Mobility Measures As Useful Predictors of Discharge Destination in Hospitalized Older Adults. 
  • Interaction exchange structure and patient satisfaction with medical interviews. 
  • Intestinal transplantation at the University of Nebraska Medical Center: 1990 to 2001. 
  • Intranasal Drainage for Pediatric Nasal Abscesses. 
  • Jehovah's Witnesses and cardiac surgery: a single institution's experience. 
  • Kidney disease other than renal crisis in patients with diffuse scleroderma. 
  • Lack of association between falciparum malaria parasitemia and acute diarrhea in Nigerian children. 
  • Latent transition models to study women's changing of dietary patterns from pregnancy to 1 year postpartum. 
  • Learning from 2523 trauma deaths in India- opportunities to prevent in-hospital deaths. 
  • Less is not more: underutilization of headache medications in a university hospital emergency department. 
  • Little science, big science: strategies for research portfolio selection in academic surgery departments. 
  • Liver transplantation at the University of Wisconsin. 
  • Liver transplantation in pediatric patients: twenty years of experience at the University of Wisconsin. 
  • Living related donor liver transplantation at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (1996). 
  • Local influenza-like illness surveillance at a university health system during the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic. 
  • Long-term follow-up of unsuccessful violent suicide attempts: risk factors for subsequent attempts. 
  • Lung transplantation at Duke University Medical Center. 
  • Lung transplantation at Duke University. 
  • Major congenital malformations among neonatal referrals to a Nigerian university hospital. 
  • Maternal near miss and mortality in a tertiary care hospital in Rwanda. 
  • Medication errors in hospitalized cardiovascular patients. 
  • Mortality after total hip and knee arthroplasty in a medium-volume university practice. 
  • Mortality-Associated Characteristics of Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury at the University Teaching Hospital of Kigali, Rwanda. 
  • Multiplex PCR to diagnose bloodstream infections in patients admitted from the emergency department with sepsis. 
  • Observing and improving hand hygiene compliance: implementation and refinement of an electronic-assisted direct-observer hand hygiene audit program. 
  • Optimization of operating room allocation using linear programming techniques. 
  • Outcome after splenic vein thrombosis in the pancreas allograft. 
  • Outcome of patients sustaining acute ischemic mitral regurgitation during myocardial infarction. 
  • PCA safety data review after clinical decision support and smart pump technology implementation. 
  • Pancreas transplantation at the University of Maryland. 
  • Pancreas transplantation at the University of Wisconsin. 
  • Pancreas transplantation: the Nebraska experience. 
  • Pastoral research in a hospital setting: a case study. 
  • Patient-related predictors of rehabilitation use for community-dwelling older Americans. 
  • Perceptions of safety culture vary across the intensive care units of a single institution. 
  • Perioperative Nurses' Work Experience With Robotic Surgery: A Focus Group Study. 
  • Physician attire in the intensive care unit in Japan influences visitors' perception of care. 
  • Poor functional status as a risk factor for surgical site infection due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. 
  • Positioning of double-lumen tubes based on the minimum peak inspiratory pressure difference between the right and left lungs in short patients: a prospective observational study. 
  • Practice patterns in the delivery of radiation therapy after mastectomy among the University of California Athena Breast Health Network. 
  • Pre-Lap-Band group education in Medicaid population: does it really make a difference? 
  • Predictors of extraventricular drain-associated bacterial ventriculitis. 
  • Predictors of stage at presentation and outcomes of head and neck cancers in a university hospital setting. 
  • Preoperative determinants of postoperative costs associated with coronary artery bypass graft surgery. 
  • Primary care for patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus: a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Proposed checklist of hospital interventions to decrease the incidence of healthcare-associated Clostridium difficile infection. 
  • Quality of pharmacotherapy and outcomes for older veterans discharged from the emergency department. 
  • Racial differences in next-of-kin participation in an ongoing survey of satisfaction with end-of-life care: a study of a study. 
  • Racial variation in the use of coronary-revascularization procedures. Are the differences real? Do they matter? 
  • Rate and predictors of glycemic testing of nondiabetic patients in a managed care population. 
  • Reasons for nonenrollment in a clinical trial of acute lung injury. 
  • Relation of Elevated Heart Rate in Patients With Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction to One-Year Outcomes and Costs. 
  • Relationship between disease-free interval and survival in patients with recurrent melanoma. 
  • Relative frequency of nosocomial pathogens at a university hospital during the decade 1980 to 1989. 
  • Residents' perspectives on the use of the Internet to improve infectious disease reporting. 
  • Retrograde ureteral stents for extrinsic ureteral obstruction: nine years' experience at University of Michigan. 
  • Risk factors for surgical site infection complicating laminectomy. 
  • Severe cutaneous hypersensitivity reactions during treatment of tuberculosis in patients with HIV infection in Tanzania. 
  • Sleeve lobectomy for non-small cell lung cancer with N1 nodal disease does not compromise survival. 
  • Standardizing postoperative PICU handovers improves handover metrics and patient outcomes. 
  • Staphylococcus aureus endocarditis: The Grady Memorial Hospital Experience. 
  • Steps to Health employee weight management randomized control trial: short-term follow-up results. 
  • Survey of on-call systems in hospital social work departments informs change in compensation. 
  • Targeted interventions improve shared agreement of daily goals in the pediatric intensive care unit. 
  • The Impact of 2015 NHSN Catheter-associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI) Definition Change on Central Line-associated Bloodstream Infection (CLABSI) Rates and CLABSI Prevention Efforts at an Academic Medical Center. 
  • The clinical and prognostic importance of positive blood cultures in adults. 
  • The combined medical specialties unit. After five years. 
  • The effects of protocolized use of recombinant factor VIIa within a massive transfusion protocol in a civilian level I trauma center. 
  • The impact of hyperglycemia and obesity on hospitalization costs and clinical outcome in general surgery patients. 
  • 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. 
  • Time analysis of a general medicine service: results from a random work sampling study. 
  • Time of day effects on the incidence of anesthetic adverse events. 
  • Transfusion of fresh frozen plasma in critically ill surgical patients is associated with an increased risk of infection. 
  • Treatment pathways and quality improvement for patients with acute myocardial infarction at a tertiary care center. 
  • Twenty-eight cases of Mycobacterium marinum infection: retrospective case series and literature review. 
  • University of Michigan surgical experience with ureterolysis for retroperitoneal fibrosis: a comparison of laparoscopic and open surgical approaches. 
  • Use of hospital services, religious attendance, and religious affiliation. 
  • Usefulness of spironolactone in a specialized heart failure clinic. 
  • Using a computerized provider order entry system to meet the unique prescribing needs of children: description of an advanced dosing model. 
  • Utility of fine-needle aspiration in the diagnosis of primary osteosarcoma. 
  • Validation of the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program Risk Model for Patients Undergoing Panniculectomy. 
  • Vancomycin-resistant enterococci: risk related to the use of intravenous vancomycin in a university hospital. 
  • What can we learn from a decade of database audits? The Duke Clinical Research Institute experience, 1997--2006. 
  • What works. Surgeons generate "clean bills" from the point of care. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Alexander, John Hunter Peel, Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Cardiology
  • Moehring, Rebekah, Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Infectious Diseases
  • Tsalik, Ephraim, Associate Professor of Medicine, Molecular Genetics and Microbiology