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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "E" book and its implications for family practice. 
  • A nationwide survey on perception, experience, and expectations of hybrid coronary revascularization among top-ranked US hospitals. 
  • A randomized controlled phase III trial of recombinant human granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (filgrastim) for treatment of severe chronic neutropenia. 
  • A standardized care plan is associated with shorter hospital length of stay in patients undergoing pancreaticoduodenectomy. 
  • ACUTE CHILDBIRTH MORBIDITY - ITS MEASUREMENT USING HOSPITAL CHARGES 
  • AHA/ACCF secondary prevention and risk reduction therapy for patients with coronary and other atherosclerotic vascular disease: 2011 update: a guideline from the American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology Foundation endorsed by the World Heart Federation and the Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association. 
  • Abdominal obesity, liver fat, and muscle composition in survivors of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia. 
  • Accuracy of the aristotle basic complexity score for classifying the mortality and morbidity potential of congenital heart surgery operations. 
  • Acute childbirth morbidity: its measurement using hospital charges. 
  • Acute kidney injury and cardiovascular outcomes in acute severe hypertension. 
  • Acute renal failure after lung transplantation: incidence, predictors and impact on perioperative morbidity and mortality. 
  • Addition of bevacizumab to irinotecan- and oxaliplatin-based preoperative chemotherapy regimens does not increase morbidity after resection of colorectal liver metastases. 
  • Ageing populations: the challenges ahead. 
  • Aging and risk of severe, disabling, life-threatening, and fatal events in the childhood cancer survivor study. 
  • Air pollution and morbidity: a further analysis of the Los Angeles student nurses data. 
  • American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery estimation of bariatric surgery procedures in the United States, 2011-2014. 
  • Analysing recurrent hospitalizations in heart failure: a review of statistical methodology, with application to CHARM-Preserved. 
  • Approaches to Sustainable Capacity Building for Cardiovascular Disease Care in Kenya. 
  • Association of hospital coronary artery bypass volume with processes of care, mortality, morbidity, and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons composite quality score. 
  • Association of preterm birth with long-term survival, reproduction, and next-generation preterm birth. 
  • Birthweight Extremes and Neonatal and Childhood Outcomes after Preterm Premature Rupture of Membranes. 
  • Body mass index, respiratory conditions, asthma, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. 
  • Brainstem stereotactic biopsy sampling in children. 
  • Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia and Perinatal Characteristics Predict 1-Year Respiratory Outcomes in Newborns Born at Extremely Low Gestational Age: A Prospective Cohort Study. 
  • Cardiovascular complications of diabetic kidney disease. 
  • Changes in morbidity and chronic disability in the U.S. elderly population: evidence from the 1982, 1984, and 1989 National Long Term Care Surveys. 
  • Changing concepts of morbidity and mortality in the elderly population. 
  • Check it, change it: a community-based, multifaceted intervention to improve blood pressure control. 
  • Childhood cancer survivors, late effects, and a new model for understanding survivorship. 
  • Children's respiratory morbidity prevalence in relation to air pollution in four Chinese cities. 
  • Children, obesity, and high blood pressure: Asian populations at high risk. 
  • Choledochoduodenostomy: influence of risk factors in post-operative morbidity. 
  • Clinical outcome endpoints in heart failure trials: a European Society of Cardiology Heart Failure Association consensus document. 
  • Clinical outcomes in very low birth weight infants with major congenital heart defects. 
  • Clostridium difficile infection among kidney transplant recipients: frequency, clinical presentation, and outcome. 
  • Collaborative strategies to reduce mortality and morbidity in patients with chronic intestinal failure including those who are referred for small bowel transplantation. 
  • Comparative effects of low and high doses of the angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor, lisinopril, on morbidity and mortality in chronic heart failure. ATLAS Study Group. 
  • Comparison of Frequency of Frailty and Severely Impaired Physical Function in Patients ≥60 Years Hospitalized With Acute Decompensated Heart Failure Versus Chronic Stable Heart Failure With Reduced and Preserved Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction. 
  • Comparison of gracilis and rectus abdominis myocutaneous flap neovaginal reconstruction performed during radical pelvic surgery: flap-specific morbidity. 
  • Comparison of laparoscopic versus open adrenalectomy: results from American College of Surgeons-National Surgery Quality Improvement Project. 
  • Contemporary epidemiological trends in complex congenital genitourinary anomalies. 
  • Contemporary management and outcomes of acute type A aortic dissection: An analysis of the STS adult cardiac surgery database. 
  • Coping strategies in families of children with sickle cell disease. 
  • Corticosteroids and outcome in children undergoing congenital heart surgery: analysis of the Pediatric Health Information Systems database. 
  • Demographic trends for the aging female population. 
  • Dental care utilization among older adults with cognitive impairment in the USA. 
  • Diabetes mellitus increases short-term mortality and morbidity in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery. 
  • Diagnosis, staging, and risk factors: SIU/ICUD Consensus Meeting on Germ Cell Tumors (GCT), Shanghai 2009. 
  • Dietary carbohydrate intake and high-sensitivity C-reactive protein in at-risk women and men. 
  • Does preoperative atrial fibrillation increase the risk for mortality and morbidity after coronary artery bypass grafting? 
  • Does resident participation influence otolaryngology-head and neck surgery morbidity and mortality? 
  • Donor-site morbidity with use of vascularized autogenous fibular grafts. 
  • Dynamics of health changes in the oldest old: new perspectives and evidence. 
  • Effects of early treatment with statins on short-term clinical outcomes in acute coronary syndromes: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. 
  • Effects of treating depression and low perceived social support on clinical events after myocardial infarction: the Enhancing Recovery in Coronary Heart Disease Patients (ENRICHD) Randomized Trial. 
  • Equity of access to outpatient care and hospitalization among older community residents in Brazil. 
  • External beam radiation therapy after radical prostatectomy: efficacy and impact on urinary continence. 
  • Feeding jejunostomy during Whipple is associated with increased morbidity. 
  • Feeding jejunostomy tube placement in patients undergoing pancreaticoduodenectomy: an ongoing dilemma. 
  • Fibromatoses in childhood: the desmoid/fibromatosis complex. 
  • Five Reasons Why Global Health Matters to Cardiologists. 
  • From Bedside to Bench: summary from the American Geriatrics Society/National Institute on Aging Research Conference on Comorbidity and Multiple Morbidity in Older Adults. 
  • Gallstone ileus: revisiting surgical outcomes using National Surgical Quality Improvement Program data. 
  • Genetic analysis of durations: correlated frailty model applied to survival of Danish twins. 
  • Genetic mutations in African patients with atrial fibrillation: Rationale and design of the Study of Genetics of Atrial Fibrillation in an African Population (SIGNAL). 
  • Global Patterns in Health Burden of Uncorrected Refractive Error. 
  • Gulf War veterans and Iraqi nerve agents at Khamisiyah: postwar hospitalization data revisited. 
  • HIV-associated morbidity, mortality and diagnostic testing opportunities among inpatients at a referral hospital in northern Tanzania. 
  • Health differentials between blacks and whites: recent trends in mortality and morbidity. 
  • Health status and service needs of the oldest old: current patterns and future trends. 
  • Heart failure care in the outpatient cardiology practice setting: findings from IMPROVE HF. 
  • Hemodialysis Disparities in African Americans: The Deeply Integrated Concept of Race in the Social Fabric of Our Society. 
  • Hemodynamic Predictors of Heart Failure Morbidity and Mortality: Fluid or Flow? 
  • Heparin-associated antiplatelet antibodies increase morbidity and mortality in hemodialysis patients. 
  • Herpes Zoster. 
  • High blood pressure knowledge among primary care patients with known hypertension: a North Carolina Family Medicine Research Network (NC-FM-RN) study. 
  • Higher medical morbidity burden is associated with external locus of control. 
  • House call patterns of New Jersey family physicians. 
  • How individual age-associated changes may influence human morbidity and mortality patterns. 
  • Idiopathic systemic capillary leak syndrome (Clarkson's disease): the Mayo clinic experience. 
  • Impact of Smoking on 30-day Morbidity and Mortality in Adult Spinal Deformity Surgery. 
  • Impact of diabetes mellitus on clinical characteristics, management, and in-hospital outcomes in patients with acute myocardial infarction (from the NCDR). 
  • Impact of graft type on outcome in pediatric liver transplantation: a report From Studies of Pediatric Liver Transplantation (SPLIT). 
  • Impact of renal dysfunction on outcomes of coronary artery bypass surgery: results from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons National Adult Cardiac Database. 
  • Improved outcome of respiratory syncytial virus infection in a high-risk hospitalized population of Canadian children. Pediatric Investigators Collaborative Network on Infections in Canada. 
  • In regard to Ghaly et al., IJROBP 2003;55:1288-1293. 
  • Incident stressful and traumatic life events and human immunodeficiency virus sexual transmission risk behaviors in a longitudinal, multisite cohort study. 
  • Infectious morbidity in long-term survivors of allogeneic marrow transplantation is associated with low CD4 T cell counts. 
  • Influence of patient age and sex on delivery of guideline-recommended heart failure care in the outpatient cardiology practice setting: findings from IMPROVE HF. 
  • Initiation, Continuation, or Withdrawal of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors/Angiotensin Receptor Blockers and Outcomes in Patients Hospitalized With Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction. 
  • Insulin resistance is independently associated with significant hepatic fibrosis in Asian chronic hepatitis C genotype 2 or 3 patients. 
  • Intensity-modulated radiation therapy, proton therapy, or conformal radiation therapy and morbidity and disease control in localized prostate cancer. 
  • Internal Validation of the Sepsis in Obstetrics Score to Identify Risk of Morbidity From Sepsis in Pregnancy. 
  • Invited Commentary: Integrating Genomics and Social Epidemiology-Analysis of Late-Life Low Socioeconomic Status and the Conserved Transcriptional Response to Adversity. 
  • Isolated intestinal transplantation for intestinal failure. 
  • Laparoscopic colectomy for cancer: an oncologic feasible option. 
  • Laparoscopy is safe among patients with congestive heart failure undergoing general surgery procedures. 
  • Late morbidity and mortality in patients with Hodgkin's lymphoma treated during adulthood. 
  • Leukopenia, neutropenia, and reduced hemoglobin levels in healthy American blacks. 
  • Life-sustaining therapy. A model for appropriate use. 
  • Liver and small bowel transplantation: therapeutic alternatives for the treatment of liver disease and intestinal failure. 
  • Long-term effects of 4 popular diets on weight loss and cardiovascular risk factors: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials. 
  • Long-term outcomes and costs of ventricular assist devices among Medicare beneficiaries. 
  • Long-term survivors of childhood Ewing sarcoma: report from the childhood cancer survivor study. 
  • Los Angeles student nurse study. Daily symptom reporting and photochemical oxidants. 
  • Lung transplantation for lymphangioleiomyomatosis: role of imaging in the assessment of complications related to the underlying disease. 
  • Major congenital malformations among neonatal referrals to a Nigerian university hospital. 
  • Major review: Exfoliation syndrome; advances in disease genetics, molecular biology, and epidemiology. 
  • Mapping standard ophthalmic outcome sets to metrics currently reported in eight eye hospitals. 
  • Markers of Successful Extubation in Extremely Preterm Infants, and Morbidity After Failed Extubation. 
  • Maternal Super Obesity and Neonatal Morbidity after Term Cesarean Delivery. 
  • Maternal near miss and mortality in a tertiary care hospital in Rwanda. 
  • Medication adherence: a call for action. 
  • Men: good health and high mortality. Sex differences in health and aging. 
  • Midlife body mass index and hospitalization and mortality in older age. 
  • Minimally Invasive Versus Open Esophagectomy for Esophageal Cancer: A Comparison of Early Surgical Outcomes From The Society of Thoracic Surgeons National Database. 
  • Modification effects of coping on post-traumatic morbidity among earthquake rescuers 
  • Monitoring changes in the health of the U.S. elderly population: correlates with biomedical research and clinical innovations. 
  • Morbidity and healthcare costs of vascular anomalies: a national study. 
  • Morbidity and mortality after treatment of Ewing sarcoma: A single-institution experience. 
  • Morbidity and mortality of major pulmonary resections in patients with early-stage lung cancer: initial results of the randomized, prospective ACOSOG Z0030 trial. 
  • Morbidity and mortality risk among the "forgotten few": why are girls in the justice system in such poor health? 
  • Morbidity and prostate-specific antigen control of external beam radiation therapy plus low-dose-rate brachytherapy boost for low, intermediate, and high-risk prostate cancer. 
  • Morbidity associated with sickle cell disease in pregnancy. 
  • Morbidity, mortality, and health care costs for patients undergoing spine surgery following the ACGME resident duty-hour reform: Clinical article. 
  • Morbidity, mortality, and weight loss outcomes after reoperative bariatric surgery in the USA. 
  • Mortality and morbidity remain high despite captopril and/or Valsartan therapy in elderly patients with left ventricular systolic dysfunction, heart failure, or both after acute myocardial infarction: results from the Valsartan in Acute Myocardial Infarction Trial (VALIANT). 
  • Near miss maternal mortality in a multiethnic population. 
  • Neoadjuvant radiation therapy does not increase perioperative morbidity among patients undergoing gastrectomy for gastric cancer. 
  • Network-Based Integration of GWAS and Gene Expression Identifies a HOX-Centric Network Associated with Serous Ovarian Cancer Risk. 
  • Novel Biomarkers for the Risk Stratification of Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction. 
  • Observational cohort study of HIV-infected African children. 
  • Occupational and environmental lung disease. 
  • Orbital peripheral nerve sheath tumors. 
  • Outcomes of Preterm Infants following Discussions about Withdrawal or Withholding of Life Support. 
  • Past and future life expectancy increases at later ages: their implications for the linkage of chronic morbidity, disability, and mortality. 
  • Patterns of tobacco use and tobacco-related psychiatric morbidity and substance use among middle-aged and older adults in the United States. 
  • Postoperative morbidity and mortality following total knee arthroplasty with computer navigation. 
  • Predictors of anastomotic leak after esophagectomy: an analysis of the society of thoracic surgeons general thoracic database. 
  • Preoperative anxiety as a predictor of mortality and major morbidity in patients aged >70 years undergoing cardiac surgery. 
  • Preoperative beta-blocker use and mortality and morbidity following CABG surgery in North America. 
  • Preoperative exercise Vo2 measurement for lung resection candidates: results of Cancer and Leukemia Group B Protocol 9238. 
  • Prevalence and repair of intraoperatively diagnosed patent foramen ovale and association with perioperative outcomes and long-term survival. 
  • Preventive health services received by minority women aged 45-64 and the goals of healthy people 2000. 
  • Primary coronary angioplasty vs thrombolysis for the management of acute myocardial infarction in elderly patients. 
  • Prognostic models of thirty-day mortality and morbidity after major pulmonary resection. 
  • Prospective analysis of pneumonectomy: risk factors for major morbidity and cardiac dysrhythmias. 
  • Psychiatric morbidity during the early phase of coronary care for myocardial infarction: association with cardiac diagnosis and outcome. 
  • Racial disparities in outcomes after appendectomy for acute appendicitis. 
  • Rationale and design of the Acute Study of Clinical Effectiveness of Nesiritide in Decompensated Heart Failure Trial (ASCEND-HF). 
  • Recent progress in metabolic signaling pathways regulating aging and life span. 
  • Rectus abdominis myocutaneous and myoperitoneal flaps for neovaginal reconstruction after radical pelvic surgery: comparison of flap-related morbidity. 
  • Reduced transfusion requirements during major hepatic resection with use of intraoperative isovolemic hemodilution. 
  • Regional anaesthesia versus general anaesthesia, morbidity and mortality. 
  • Relationship of patient and medical characteristics to health status in children and adolescents after the Fontan procedure. 
  • Relationship of preoperative antiendotoxin core antibodies and adverse outcomes following cardiac surgery. 
  • Reliability and validity of self and proxy reporting of morbidity data: a case study from Beirut, Lebanon. 
  • Resident duty-hour reform associated with increased morbidity following hip fracture. 
  • Respiratory Tract Infection Clinical Trials from 2007 to 2012. A Systematic Review of ClinicalTrials.gov. 
  • Risk factors for morbidity after lobectomy for lung cancer in elderly patients. 
  • Risk stratification for arrhythmic events in patients with asymptomatic pre-excitation: A systematic review for the 2015 ACC/AHA/HRS guideline for the management of adult patients with supraventricular tachycardia: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Clinical Practice Guidelines and the Heart Rhythm Society. 
  • Self reported morbidity and awareness regarding common cancers in elderly women. 
  • Sentinel lymph node biopsy results in less postoperative morbidity compared with axillary lymph node dissection for breast cancer. 
  • Serum albumin in older persons: relationship with age and health status. 
  • Simulation-based morbidity and mortality conference: new technologies augmenting traditional case-based presentations. 
  • Simultaneous resections of colorectal cancer and synchronous liver metastases: a multi-institutional analysis. 
  • Skin and soft tissue infections in older adults. 
  • Social context and self-assessments of health among the elderly. 
  • Society of Chest Pain Centers recommendations for the evaluation and management of the observation stay acute heart failure patient-parts 1-6. 
  • Socioeconomic status and morbidity and mortality in hypertensive blacks. 
  • Soldier Readiness Processing: Time for a New Paradigm in Managing Musculoskeletal Injuries After Deployment? 
  • Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia in the surgical patient: a prospective analysis of 73 postoperative patients who developed Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia at a tertiary care facility. 
  • State of the evidence. 
  • Statistics for hospital epidemiology. General design and analysis questions. 
  • Stent-assisted coiling versus balloon remodeling of wide-neck aneurysms: comparison of angiographic outcomes. 
  • Stroke after primary percutaneous coronary intervention in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: timing, characteristics, and clinical outcomes. 
  • Suboptimal prescribing in older inpatients and outpatients. 
  • Survivors of childhood cancer in the United States: prevalence and burden of morbidity. 
  • Ten years and 100,000 participants later: occupational and other factors influencing participation in US Gulf War health registries. 
  • The GUSTO trial and the open artery theory. 
  • The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Isolated Aortic Valve Replacement (AVR) Composite Score: a report of the STS Quality Measurement Task Force. 
  • The cancer is over, now what?: Understanding risk, changing outcomes. 
  • The effect of giving global coronary risk information to adults: a systematic review. 
  • The global impact of noncommunicable diseases: estimates and projections. 
  • The health care burden of unstable angina. 
  • The incidence of donor-site morbidity after transverse cervical artery vascularized lymph node transfers: the need for a lymphatic surgery national registry. 
  • The magnitude of the global problem of acute diarrhoeal disease: a review of active surveillance data. 
  • The postwar hospitalization experience of Gulf War veterans participating in U.S. health registries. 
  • The relationship between meteorological conditions and index acute coronary events in a global clinical trial. 
  • The rising tide of asthma. Trends in the epidemiology of morbidity and mortality from asthma. 
  • The value in musculoskeletal care: summary and recommendations. 
  • Thirty-Day Morbidity After Single-Level Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion: Identification of Risk Factors and Emphasis on the Safety of Outpatient Procedures. 
  • Transport time and care processes for patients transferred with ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction: the reperfusion in acute myocardial infarction in Carolina emergency rooms experience. 
  • Trends in the pattern of blindness and major ocular diseases in Singapore and Asia. 
  • Trials of nonoperative management exceeding 3 days are associated with increased morbidity in patients undergoing surgery for uncomplicated adhesive small bowel obstruction. 
  • Untangling the paradox: Obesity as prognostic marker in prevalent cardiovascular disease. 
  • Update on medical complications involving the lungs. 
  • Uric acid level and allopurinol use as risk markers of mortality and morbidity in systolic heart failure. 
  • Use of general medical care services by persons with mental disorders. 
  • Use of health services by hospitalized medically ill depressed elderly patients. 
  • Valuing morbidity: an integration of the willingness-to-pay and health-status index literatures. 
  • Venous thromboembolism: a public health concern. 
  • What do we really know about allografts? 
  • [Central health indicators for municipalities and countries. Examples from the USA]. 
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  • Berchuck, Andrew, James M. Ingram Professor of Gynecologic Oncology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Gynecologic Oncology
  • Curtis, Lesley H., Professor in Population Health Sciences, Medicine, General Internal Medicine
  • Koontz, Bridget Fey, Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology, Radiation Oncology
  • Milano, Carmelo Alessio, Professor of Surgery, Surgery, Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery
  • Odgers, Candice L., Research Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy, Psychology and Neuroscience
  • Routh, Jonathan Charles, Paul H. Sherman, M.D. Associate Professor of Surgery, Pediatrics
  • Wu, Li-Tzy, Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medicine, General Internal Medicine