Massachusetts

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A dynamic analysis of chronic disease development: a study of sex specific changes in coronary heart disease incidence and risk factors in Framingham. 
  • A linear models application of competing risks to multiple causes of death. 
  • A theoretical model of the physiological dynamics of circulatory disease in human populations. 
  • Ability to generate patient registries among practices with and without electronic health records. 
  • Ability to perform registry functions among practices with and without electronic health records. 
  • Alterations in cholesterol absorption/synthesis markers characterize Framingham offspring study participants with CHD. 
  • Apolipoprotein B improves risk assessment of future coronary heart disease in the Framingham Heart Study beyond LDL-C and non-HDL-C. 
  • Are physicians' perceptions of healthcare quality and practice satisfaction affected by errors associated with electronic health record use? 
  • Assessing the value of hospitalists to academic health centers: Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School. 
  • Association of Patient and Visit Characteristics With Rate and Timing of Urologic Procedures for Patients Discharged From the Emergency Department With Renal Colic. 
  • Association of novel biomarkers of cardiovascular stress with left ventricular hypertrophy and dysfunction: implications for screening. 
  • Association of sex steroids, gonadotrophins, and their trajectories with clinical cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality in elderly men from the Framingham Heart Study. 
  • Associations between residence at birth and mental health disorders: a spatial analysis of retrospective cohort data. 
  • Beverage Consumption and Longitudinal Changes in Lipoprotein Concentrations and Incident Dyslipidemia in US Adults: The Framingham Heart Study. 
  • Body mass index, eating attitudes, and symptoms of depression and anxiety in pregnancy and the postpartum period. 
  • Body mass index, physical activity, and dietary behaviors among members of an urban community fitness center: a questionnaire survey. 
  • Can 360-Degree Reviews Help Surgeons? Evaluation of Multisource Feedback for Surgeons in a Multi-Institutional Quality Improvement Project. 
  • Case management decision making: goal transformation through discretion and client interpretation. 
  • Characteristics of Framingham offspring participants with long-lived parents. 
  • Characterization of Young Adult Emergency Department Users: Evidence to Guide Policy. 
  • Chest X-ray after tracheostomy is not necessary unless clinically indicated. 
  • Clinical correlates of sex steroids and gonadotropins in men over the late adulthood: the Framingham Heart Study. 
  • Clinicians' utilization of child mental health telephone consultation in primary care: findings from Massachusetts. 
  • Coital risk factors for cervical cancer. Sexual activity among white middle class women. 
  • Coronary risk associated with age and sex of parental heart disease in the Framingham Study. 
  • Correlates of electronic health record adoption in office practices: a statewide survey. 
  • Correlates of electronic health record adoption in office practices: a statewide survey. 
  • 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. 
  • Cross-sectional relations of lipid concentrations to left ventricular structural attributes. 
  • Depression precipitated by alcohol use in patients with co-occurring bipolar and substance use disorders. 
  • Did Massachusetts Health Reform Affect Veterans Affairs Primary Care Use? 
  • Diet quality and obesity in women: the Framingham Nutrition Studies. 
  • Early mobilization in critically ill patients: patients' mobilization level depends on health care provider's profession. 
  • Effect of Inpatient Palliative Care During Hematopoietic Stem-Cell Transplant on Psychological Distress 6 Months After Transplant: Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial. 
  • Effect of Massachusetts health reform on chronic disease outcomes. 
  • Effect of socioeconomic status on food availability and cost of the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) dietary pattern. 
  • Effect of switching to a high-deductible health plan on use of chronic medications. 
  • Effect of vitamin D supplementation on blood pressure in blacks. 
  • Effectiveness of health maintenance reminders provided directly to patients. 
  • Effects of an online personal health record on medication accuracy and safety: a cluster-randomized trial. 
  • Effects of maternal source and progeny microhabitat on natural selection and population dynamics in Alliaria petiolata. 
  • Effects of particulate matter gamma radiation on oxidative stress biomarkers in COPD patients. 
  • Electronic health records: which practices have them and how are clinicians using them? 
  • Electronic health records: which practices have them, and how are clinicians using them? 
  • Emotional distress in fifth-grade children ten months after a natural disaster. 
  • Empowering patients to improve the quality of their care: design and implementation of a shared health maintenance module in a US integrated healthcare delivery network. 
  • Endogenous sex hormones and cardiovascular disease incidence in men. 
  • Environmental biodegradability of [¹⁴C] single-walled carbon nanotubes by Trametes versicolor and natural microbial cultures found in New Bedford Harbor sediment and aerated wastewater treatment plant sludge. 
  • Evaluation of a Physical Activity Regulation for Child Care in Massachusetts. 
  • Exogenous hormone use, reproductive factors, and risk of intracranial meningioma in females. 
  • Experience with a CT screening program for individuals at high risk for developing lung cancer. 
  • Exploring reproductive associations of serum polybrominated diphenyl ether and hydroxylated brominated diphenyl ether concentrations among women undergoing in vitro fertilization. 
  • Facility and Geographic Variation in Rates of Successful Community Discharge After Inpatient Rehabilitation Among Medicare Fee-for-Service Beneficiaries. 
  • Factors relating to the use of mental health services in a neighborhood health center. 
  • Fine-scale phylogenetic architecture of a complex bacterial community. 
  • Healthcare disparities contribute to missed follow-up visits after cataract surgery in the USA: results from the perioperative care for intraocular lens study. 
  • High-deductible health plans: are vulnerable families enrolled? 
  • Higher aldosterone and lower N-terminal proatrial natriuretic peptide as biomarkers of salt sensitivity in the community. 
  • How state-funded home care programs respond to changes in Medicare home health care: resource allocation decisions on the front line. 
  • Identifying transfer mechanisms and sources of decabromodiphenyl ether (BDE 209) in indoor environments using environmental forensic microscopy. 
  • Impact of ambulatory computerized physician order entry on clinicians' time. 
  • Impact of percutaneous coronary intervention performance reporting on cardiac resuscitation centers: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association. 
  • Incidence and remission of insomnia among elderly adults: an epidemiologic study of 6,800 persons over three years. 
  • Indications for adjuvant radiotherapy in extrapelvic colonic carcinoma. 
  • Influence of the initial level of consciousness on early, goal-directed mobilization: a post hoc analysis. 
  • Insulin resistance but not inflammation is associated with gestational hypertension. 
  • Integrating research training into residency: tools of human investigation. 
  • Interindividual variation in serum sodium and longitudinal blood pressure tracking in the Framingham Heart Study. 
  • Lessons learned from 118,970 multidetector computed tomographic intravenous contrast material administrations: impact of catheter dwell time and gauge, catheter location, rate of contrast material administration, and patient age and sex on volume of extravasate. 
  • Longitudinal tracking of left ventricular mass over the adult life course: clinical correlates of short- and long-term change in the framingham offspring study. 
  • Low-socioeconomic-status enrollees in high-deductible plans reduced high-severity emergency care. 
  • Lyme disease serology in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. 
  • Market-Based Solutions to Antitrust Threats-- The Rejection of the Partners Settlement 
  • Massachusetts health reform and Veterans Affairs health system enrollment. 
  • Medical paternalism or legal imperialism: not the only alternatives for handling Saikewicz-type cases. 
  • Methods and baseline characteristics of two group-randomized trials with multiracial and multiethnic working-class samples. 
  • Models of the interaction of mortality and the evolution of risk factor distribution: a general stochastic process formulation. 
  • Multisource Evaluation of Surgeon Behavior Is Associated With Malpractice Claims. 
  • No association between alpha 1-antichymotrypsin and familial Alzheimer's disease. 
  • Nursing revisited: profile Alice Howell Friedman. Interview by Ann Sheridan. 
  • Opioid tolerance--a predictor of increased length of stay and higher readmission rates. 
  • Parental intermittent claudication as risk factor for claudication in adults. 
  • Performance of a method for identifying the unique dietary patterns of adult women and men: the Framingham nutrition studies. 
  • Pericardial fat is associated with atrial conduction: the Framingham Heart Study. 
  • Personality profile of pediatric nurse practitioners associated with role change. 
  • Physical activity-related and weather-related practices of child care centers from 2 states. 
  • Physicians and electronic health records: a statewide survey. 
  • Physicians' use of key functions in electronic health records from 2005 to 2007: a statewide survey. 
  • Polymorphisms in the ACE and ADRB2 genes and risks of aging-associated phenotypes: the case of myocardial infarction. 
  • Predicting risk of cardiac events among ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction patients with conservatively managed non-infarct-related artery coronary artery disease: An analysis of the Duke Databank for Cardiovascular Disease. 
  • Predicting the 30-year risk of cardiovascular disease: the framingham heart study. 
  • Preparing Medical Students to Be Physician Leaders: A Leadership Training Program for Students Designed and Led by Students. 
  • Prevalence and predictors of multiple behavioral risk factors for colon cancer. 
  • Prevalence, clinical correlates, and prognosis of discrete upper septal thickening on echocardiography: the Framingham Heart Study. 
  • Quality improvement and clinical research: an important partnership. 
  • Quality of life after surgery for intracranial meningioma. 
  • 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. 
  • Red blood cell distribution width and 1-year mortality in acute heart failure. 
  • Reduced ejection fraction, sudden cardiac death, and heart failure death in the mode selection trial (MOST): implications for device selection in elderly patients with sinus node disease. 
  • Reference ranges for testosterone in men generated using liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry in a community-based sample of healthy nonobese young men in the Framingham Heart Study and applied to three geographically distinct cohorts. 
  • Relation of circulating liver transaminase concentrations to risk of new-onset atrial fibrillation. 
  • Relation of visceral adiposity to circulating natriuretic peptides in ambulatory individuals. 
  • Relations of matrix remodeling biomarkers to blood pressure progression and incidence of hypertension in the community. 
  • Relationship between use of electronic health record features and health care quality: results of a statewide survey. 
  • Reproductive outcomes associated with flame retardants among couples seeking fertility treatment: A paternal perspective. 
  • Retrospective analysis of the incidence of epidural haematoma in patients with epidural catheters and abnormal coagulation parameters. 
  • Revealing and resolving patient safety defects: the impact of leadership WalkRounds on frontline caregiver assessments of patient safety. 
  • Risk of type 2 diabetes and cumulative excess weight exposure in the Framingham Offspring Study. 
  • Sampling out: regulatory avoidance and the Total Coliform Rule. 
  • Segment-specific association between plasma homocysteine level and carotid artery intima-media thickness in the Framingham Offspring Study. 
  • Sex hormone-binding globulin, but not testosterone, is associated prospectively and independently with incident metabolic syndrome in men: the framingham heart study. 
  • Sex-specific differences in the predictive value of cholesterol homeostasis markers and 10-year cardiovascular disease event rate in Framingham Offspring Study participants. 
  • Socioeconomic disparities in the prevalence of work-related injuries among adolescents in the United States. 
  • Spatial analysis of learning and developmental disorders in upper Cape Cod, Massachusetts using generalized additive models. 
  • Spillover Effects of Massachusetts Health Reform on Mental Health Use by VA and Medicare Dual Enrollees. 
  • Stroke center designation can be achieved by small hospitals: the Massachusetts experience. 
  • Supratherapeutic dosing of acetaminophen among hospitalized patients. 
  • 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 Association between High-Deductible Health Plan Transition and Contraception and Birth Rates. 
  • The Latino mental health project: a local mental health needs assessment. 
  • The Worcester Venous Thromboembolism study: a population-based study of the clinical epidemiology of venous thromboembolism. 
  • The association between urinary concentrations of phosphorous-containing flame retardant metabolites and semen parameters among men from a fertility clinic. 
  • The association of urinary phosphorous-containing flame retardant metabolites and self-reported personal care and household product use among couples seeking fertility treatment. 
  • The impact of depressive symptomatology on physical disability: MacArthur Studies of Successful Aging. 
  • The impact of health insurance status on the stage of cervical cancer diagnosis at a tertiary care center in Massachusetts. 
  • The next generation: the need to expand upon traditional risk factors for stroke. 
  • The relationship between mandated community treatment and perceived barriers to care in persons with severe mental illness. 
  • Time dependence of arrhythmias in ICD patients. 
  • Trends in Stranding and By-Catch Rates of Gray and Harbor Seals along the Northeastern Coast of the United States: Evidence of Divergence in the Abundance of Two Sympatric Phocid Species? 
  • Trends in all-cause and cardiovascular disease mortality among women and men with and without diabetes mellitus in the Framingham Heart Study, 1950 to 2005. 
  • Trends in primary care clinician perceptions of a new electronic health record. 
  • Trends in the incidence of type 2 diabetes mellitus from the 1970s to the 1990s: the Framingham Heart Study. 
  • Trophic cascades in rocky shore tide pools: distinguishing lethal and nonlethal effects. 
  • Unconventional Cell Division Cycles from Marine-Derived Yeasts. 
  • Unrealized potential and residual consequences of electronic prescribing on pharmacy workflow in the outpatient pharmacy. 
  • Urinary Concentrations of Organophosphate Flame Retardant Metabolites and Pregnancy Outcomes among Women Undergoing in Vitro Fertilization. 
  • Use of features in electronic health records and health care quality: How are they related? 
  • Usefulness and consequences of cardiac resynchronization therapy in dialysis-dependent patients with heart failure. 
  • Uses of ambulatory health/mental health utilization data in organized health care settings. 
  • Variation in Postpartum Glycemic Screening in Women With a History of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus. 
  • Vulvar adnexal lesions: a 32-year, single-institution review from Massachusetts General Hospital.