Michigan

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • Acquisition of Clostridium difficile from the hospital environment. 
  • An intervention to decrease catheter-related bloodstream infections in the ICU. 
  • Assessing Geographic Variation in Strabismus Diagnosis among Children Enrolled in Medicaid. 
  • Assessing and improving safety climate in a large cohort of intensive care units. 
  • Association between Agent Orange and prostate cancer: a pilot case-control study. 
  • Association between pain, radiographic severity, and centrally-mediated symptoms in women with knee osteoarthritis. 
  • Beyond costs and benefits: understanding how patients make health care decisions. 
  • Blood pressure and skin color. 
  • Cancer treatment disparities in HIV-infected individuals in the United States. 
  • Collaborative quality improvement vs public reporting for percutaneous coronary intervention: A comparison of percutaneous coronary intervention in New York vs Michigan. 
  • Communicating side effect risks in a tamoxifen prophylaxis decision aid: the debiasing influence of pictographs. 
  • Comparison of lower urinary tract symptom severity and associated bother between community-dwelling black and white men: the Olmsted County Study of Urinary Symptoms and Health Status and the Flint Men's Health Study. 
  • Comparison of monocular autorefraction to comprehensive eye examinations in preschool-aged and younger children. 
  • Comparison of outcomes of ureteroscopy for ureteral calculi located above and below the pelvic brim. 
  • Continuity of care in the 80-hour workweek era? 
  • Creating high reliability in health care organizations. 
  • Daytime observed emotional expressions of people with dementia. 
  • Diabetes-specific emotional distress among African Americans and Hispanics with type 2 diabetes. 
  • Differences in sex-related bleeding and outcomes after percutaneous coronary intervention: insights from the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Cardiovascular Consortium (BMC2) registry. 
  • Disentangling measures of individual perceptions of community social dynamics: results of a community survey. 
  • Do corporate chains affect quality of care in nursing homes? The role of corporate standardization. 
  • Does Quitting Smoking Make a Difference Among Newly Diagnosed Head and Neck Cancer Patients? 
  • Effects of admission and treatment strategies of DWI courts on offender outcomes. 
  • Emergence of nosocomial methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and therapy of colonized personnel during a hospital-wide outbreak. 
  • Establishing a Regional Glaucoma Physician Collaborative to Improve Quality of Care. 
  • Evaluating long-term patient-centered outcomes following prostate cancer treatment: findings from the Michigan Prostate Cancer Survivor study. 
  • Existential relatedness in light of eudemonic well-being and religious coping among middle-aged and older cardiac patients. 
  • Extracorporeal life support for pediatric respiratory failure. 
  • Filling the waiting time in the clinic with education about glaucoma. 
  • Financial impact of surgical site infection after kidney transplantation: implications for quality improvement initiative design. 
  • Financial implications of pancreas transplant complications: a business case for quality improvement. 
  • Follow-up testing among children with elevated screening blood lead levels. 
  • Fruit and vegetable access differs by community racial composition and socioeconomic position in Detroit, Michigan. 
  • Genetic polymorphisms in CYP17, CYP3A4, CYP19A1, SRD5A2, IGF-1, and IGFBP-3 and prostate cancer risk in African-American men: the Flint Men's Health Study. 
  • Genetic variation in glutathione S-transferase omega-1, arsenic methyltransferase and methylene-tetrahydrofolate reductase, arsenic exposure and bladder cancer: a case-control study. 
  • Germ-line mutations of the macrophage scavenger receptor 1 gene: association with prostate cancer risk in African-American men. 
  • Happily hopeless: adaptation to a permanent, but not to a temporary, disability. 
  • Hazardous Drugs: Legislative and Regulatory Efforts to Improve Safe Handling
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  • Healthcare access and mammography screening in Michigan: a multilevel cross-sectional study. 
  • How making a risk estimate can change the feel of that risk: shifting attitudes toward breast cancer risk in a general public survey. 
  • Improving patient safety in intensive care units in Michigan. 
  • Institutional impact of a part-time faculty development fellowship program for osteopathic community-based physicians. 
  • Internet education of African American consumers on quality of care. 
  • Laser in infrapopliteal and popliteal stenosis 2 study (LIPS2): Long-term outcomes of laser-assisted balloon angioplasty versus balloon angioplasty for below knee peripheral arterial disease. 
  • Long-term Adjustment After Surviving Open Heart Surgery: The Effect of Using Prayer for Coping Replicated in a Prospective Design. 
  • Longitudinal changes in lower urinary tract symptoms among a cohort of black American men: the Flint Men's Health Study. 
  • MAHA: hospital liability and the volunteer. 
  • Maternal weathering and risk of preterm delivery. 
  • Misremembering colostomies? Former patients give lower utility ratings than do current patients. 
  • Multidisciplinary patient education for total joint replacement surgery patients. 
  • Obesity, surgical site infection, and outcome following renal transplantation. 
  • Outcome of infants delivered between 24 and 28 weeks' gestation in women with severe pre-eclampsia. 
  • Paranasal sinus malignancies: an 18-year single institution experience. 
  • Patient comprehension of emergency department care and instructions: are patients aware of when they do not understand? 
  • Population Distributions of Thymic Function in Adults: Variation by Sociodemographic Characteristics and Health Status. 
  • Potential selection bias in a community-based study of PSA levels in African-American men. 
  • Predictors of obesity in Michigan Operating Engineers. 
  • Preschool vision screening in pediatric practices. 
  • Prescription patterns for children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis in Michigan Medicaid: a comparison by prescriber type. 
  • Presence of Spontaneous Pain and Comorbid Pain Conditions Identifies Vulvodynia Subgroups. 
  • Prevalence and correlates of vitamin and supplement usage among men with a family history of prostate cancer. 
  • Prospective tracking of pediatric urology consults: knowing is half the battle. 
  • Prostate cancer early detection practices among men with a family history of disease. 
  • Race-Ethnicity, Poverty, Urban Stressors, and Telomere Length in a Detroit Community-based Sample. 
  • Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH) Detroit partnership: improving diabetes-related outcomes among African American and Latino adults. 
  • Radiologic evaluation of blunt thoracic aortic injury in pediatric patients. 
  • Rate of contrast material extravasations and allergic-like reactions: effect of extrinsic warming of low-osmolality iodinated CT contrast material to 37 degrees C. 
  • Reducing the influence of anecdotal reasoning on people's health care decisions: is a picture worth a thousand statistics? 
  • Respiratory syncytial virus morbidity and mortality estimates in congenital heart disease patients: a recent experience. 
  • Results from a randomized trial of a web-based, tailored decision aid for women at high risk for breast cancer. 
  • Retrograde ureteral stents for extrinsic ureteral obstruction: nine years' experience at University of Michigan. 
  • Risk factors for cerebrovascular events following fontan palliation in patients with a functional single ventricle. 
  • Risk factors for lower urinary tract symptoms in a population-based sample of African-American men. 
  • Risk of acute kidney injury after percutaneous coronary interventions using radial versus femoral vascular access: insights from the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Cardiovascular Consortium. 
  • Semiparametric Bayesian modeling of random genetic effects in family-based association studies. 
  • Sex, race and age differences in muscle strength and limitations in community dwelling older adults: Data from the Health and Retirement Survey (HRS). 
  • Smokeless tobacco use among operating engineers. 
  • Social and physical environments and disparities in risk for cardiovascular disease: the healthy environments partnership conceptual model. 
  • Social inequalities, stressors and self reported health status among African American and white women in the Detroit metropolitan area. 
  • Spatial analysis of body mass index and smoking behavior among WISEWOMAN participants. 
  • Stressful politics: voters' cortisol responses to the outcome of the 2008 United States Presidential election. 
  • Student and faculty perceptions of effective clinical instructors in ADN programs. 
  • Sustaining reductions in catheter related bloodstream infections in Michigan intensive care units: observational study. 
  • Symptomatic subcapsular and perinephric hematoma following ureteroscopic lithotripsy for renal calculi. 
  • Teaching tomorrow's health care leaders. 
  • The Most Common Barriers to Glaucoma Medication Adherence: A Cross-Sectional Survey. 
  • The development, implementation, and process evaluation of the REACH Detroit Partnership's Diabetes Lifestyle Intervention. 
  • The incidence and significance of bacteremia in out of hospital cardiac arrest. 
  • The natural history of lower urinary tract symptoms in black American men: relationships with aging, prostate size, flow rate and bothersomeness. 
  • The relationship between social support, stress, and health among women on Detroit's East Side. 
  • Trends in breast cancer stage and mortality in Michigan (1992-2009) by race, socioeconomic status, and area healthcare resources. 
  • University of Michigan surgical experience with ureterolysis for retroperitoneal fibrosis: a comparison of laparoscopic and open surgical approaches. 
  • Unsuspected congenital heart disease in neonates receiving extracorporeal life support: a review of ninety-five cases from the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization Registry. 
  • Use of complementary and alternative medicine in men with family history of prostate cancer: a pilot study. 
  • Use of extracorporeal life support in patients with congenital heart disease. 
  • Using Web sites on quality health care for teaching consumers in public libraries. 
  • Using the Web to improve seniors' awareness of their role in preventing medical errors. 
  • Willingness of eye care practices to evaluate children and accept Medicaid. 
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  • Esclamado, Ramon Mitra, Richard Hall Chaney, Sr. Professor of Otolaryngology, Surgery, Head and Neck Surgery and Communication Sciences