North Carolina

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "Characteristics of Individuals Infected with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Provider Interaction inthe Predominantly Rural Southeast" 
  • "Notify your partners--it's the law": HIV providers and mandatory disclosure. 
  • "Reality surgery"--a research ethics perspective on the live broadcast of surgical procedures. 
  • "That Guy is Gay and Black. That's a Red Flag." How HIV Stigma and Racism Affect Perception of Risk Among Young Black Men Who Have Sex with Men. 
  • "Thin" malignant melanoma: risk factors and clinical management. 
  • "Una mujer trabaja doble aqui": Vignette-based focus groups on stress and work for Latina blue-collar women in eastern North Carolina. 
  • 'How many calories are in my burrito?' Improving consumers' understanding of energy (calorie) range information. 
  • 'What do they know about it?' How the North Carolina public views cancer clinical trials: implications for primary care doctors. 
  • 2012 Young Investigator Award winner: The distribution of body mass as a significant risk factor for lumbar spinal fusion postoperative infections. 
  • 5 competencies needed by new baccalaureate graduates. 
  • A 2-Year Holistic Health and Stress Intervention: Results of an RCT in Clergy. 
  • A 6-month observational study of the relationship between weight loss and behavioral symptoms in institutionalized Alzheimer's disease subjects. 
  • A Cohort Study of Patient-Reported Outcomes and Healthcare Utilization in Acute Myeloid Leukemia Patients Receiving Active Cancer Therapy in the Last Six Months of Life. 
  • A Day in the Life during COVID-19: Long-term Care Providers in Durham, North Carolina. 
  • A Decision Aid to Promote Appropriate Colorectal Cancer Screening among Older Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial. 
  • A Framework for Resident Participation in Population Health. 
  • A High-Resolution Time Series Reveals Distinct Seasonal Patterns of Planktonic Fungi at a Temperate Coastal Ocean Site (Beaufort, North Carolina, USA). 
  • A New Method of Identifying Characteristics of Needing Help to Take Medications in an Older Representative Community-Dwelling Population: The Older Adults Medication Assist Scale. 
  • A North Carolina service for those with questions about Alzheimer disease, other memory disorders, and family care. 
  • A Person-Centered Approach to Poststroke Care: The COMprehensive Post-Acute Stroke Services Model. 
  • A Pilot Study of Medical Misinformation Perceptions and Training Among Practitioners in North Carolina (USA). 
  • A Plan for Academic Biobank Solvency-Leveraging Resources and Applying Business Processes to Improve Sustainability. 
  • A Propensity-matched Survival Analysis: Do Simultaneous Liver-lung Transplant Recipients Need a Liver? 
  • A School-Based SARS-CoV-2 Testing Program: Testing Uptake and Quarantine Length After In-School Exposures. 
  • A Spatial Measure of Neighborhood Level Racial Isolation Applied to Low Birthweight, Preterm Birth, and Birthweight in North Carolina 
  • A Weighted Index of Elixhauser Comorbidities for Predicting 90-day Readmission After Total Joint Arthroplasty. 
  • A brief screening instrument to detect posttraumatic stress disorder in outpatient gynecology. 
  • A case-control study of community-associated Clostridium difficile infection: no role for proton pump inhibitors. 
  • A case-control study of nosocomial ampicillin-resistant enterococcal infection and colonization at a university hospital. 
  • A chartless record--is it adequate? 
  • A clinical economics workstation for risk-adjusted health care cost management. 
  • A clinical trial of a rehabilitation expert clinician versus usual care for providing manual wheelchairs. 
  • A community-based intervention increases physical activity and reduces obesity in school-age children in North Carolina. 
  • A comparative resident site visit project: a novel approach for implementing programmatic change in the duty hours era. 
  • A comparison of environmental contamination by patients infected or colonized with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus or vancomycin-resistant enterococci: a multicenter study. 
  • A comparison of the adoption of electronic health records in North Carolina and South Carolina HIV systems. 
  • A comparison of three health status measures in primary care outpatients. 
  • A cost-minimisation analysis of lobectomy: thoracoscopic versus posterolateral thoracotomy. 
  • A cross-sectional study of medical students' knowledge of patient safety and quality improvement. 
  • A curricular model for the training of physician scientists: the evolution of the Duke University School of Medicine curriculum. 
  • A decision exercise to engage cancer patients and families in deliberation about Medicare coverage for advanced cancer care. 
  • A digital collection of rare and endangered lemurs and other primates from the Duke Lemur Center. 
  • A discrete event simulation tool to support and predict hospital and clinic staffing. 
  • A framework for widespread replication of a highly spatially resolved childhood lead exposure risk model. 
  • A gene expression signature of confinement in peripheral blood of red wolves (Canis rufus). 
  • A geographic information system analysis of the impact of a statewide acute stroke emergency medical services routing protocol on community hospital bypass. 
  • A global partnership in medical education between Duke University and the National University of Singapore. 
  • A graph-theory framework for evaluating landscape connectivity and conservation planning. 
  • A groundless hypothesis, megaloblastic madness, and the founding of Duke University. 
  • A health literacy pilot intervention to improve medication adherence using Meducation® technology. 
  • A health promotion program for medical students. 
  • A history of the Department of Radiology at Duke University Medical Center. 
  • A large university medical center delivery system for therapeutic apheresis services. 
  • A linear models application of competing risks to multiple causes of death. 
  • A link to improve stroke patient care: a successful linkage between a statewide emergency medical services data system and a stroke registry. 
  • A longitudinal study on the relationship between weight loss, medical expenditures, and absenteeism among overweight employees in the WAY to Health study. 
  • A matched-cohort study of pediatric head injuries: collecting data to inform an evidence-based triage assessment. 
  • A mixed methods study of provider factors in buprenorphine treatment retention. 
  • A multifactor analysis of fungal and bacterial community structure in the root microbiome of mature Populus deltoides trees. 
  • A multimodal international collaborative clinical research training program in China. 
  • A multiple cause of death analysis of hypertension-related mortality in North Carolina, 1968-1977. 
  • A non-experimental study of oral anticoagulation therapy initiation before and after national patient safety goals. 
  • A novel approach for measuring residential socioeconomic factors associated with cardiovascular and metabolic health. 
  • A nurse-coordinated intervention for primary care patients with non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus: impact on glycemic control and health-related quality of life. 
  • A pilot study to examine maturation of body temperature control in preterm infants. 
  • A prescription for promoting social work research in a university hospital. 
  • A prospective study of transmission of Multidrug-Resistant Organisms (MDROs) between environmental sites and hospitalized patients-the TransFER study. 
  • A prospective, randomized comparison of thromboelastographic coagulation profile in patients receiving lactated Ringer's solution, 6% hetastarch in a balanced-saline vehicle, or 6% hetastarch in saline during major surgery. 
  • A prostate screening perspective. 
  • A protocol to evaluate the efficacy, perceptions, and cost of a cholesterol packaging approach to improve medication adherence. 
  • A qualitative analysis of career transitions made by internal medicine-pediatrics residency training graduates. 
  • A qualitative descriptive study of the work of adherence to a chronic heart failure regimen: patient and physician perspectives. 
  • A randomized clinical trial of clinical decision support in a rural community health network serving lower income individuals: study design and baseline characteristics. 
  • A randomized controlled trial of outpatient commitment in North Carolina. 
  • A randomized controlled trial to evaluate the effectiveness of CouPLES: a spouse-assisted lifestyle change intervention to improve low-density lipoprotein cholesterol. 
  • A randomized study of financial incentives to increase physical activity among sedentary older adults. 
  • A randomized trial of population-based clinical decision support to manage health and resource use for Medicaid beneficiaries. 
  • A retrospective assessment of the incidence of respiratory depression after neuraxial morphine administration for postcesarean delivery analgesia. 
  • A review of racial differences in geriatric depression: implications for care and clinical research. 
  • A role for maternal serum screening in detecting chromosomal abnormalities in fetuses with isolated choroid plexus cysts: a prospective multicentre study. 
  • A role for operational research in health care planning and management teams. 
  • A rubric for improving the quality of online courses. 
  • A statewide nurse training program for a hospital based infant abusive head trauma prevention program. 
  • A structural approach to examining prostate cancer risk for rural southern African American men. 
  • A study of anthropogenic and climatic disturbance of the New River Estuary using a Bayesian belief network. 
  • A surveillance system for monitoring, public reporting, and improving minority access to cancer clinical trials. 
  • A survey of current liver biopsy practice patterns. 
  • A tailored minimal self-help intervention to promote condom use in young women: results from a randomized trial. 
  • A technique to perfuse cadavers that extends the useful life of fresh tissues: the Duke experience. 
  • A theoretical model of the holistic health of United Methodist clergy. 
  • A unique form of mental retardation with a distinctive phenotype maps to Xq26-q27. 
  • A variance components approach to categorical data models with heterogeneous cell populations: analysis of spatial gradients in lung cancer mortality rates in North Carolina counties. 
  • A volunteer community mental health clinic. 
  • A+KIDS, a web-based antipsychotic registry for North Carolina youths: an alternative to prior authorization. 
  • APOE epsilon4 allele carriers: Biological, psychological, and social variables associated with cognitive impairment. 
  • APOE epsilon4 and low cholesterol as risks for depression in a biracial elderly community sample. 
  • Abdominal radiography in the emergency department: a prospective analysis. 
  • Aboveground sink strength in forests controls the allocation of carbon below ground and its [CO2]-induced enhancement. 
  • Absence of sex bias in the referral of patients for cardiac catheterization. 
  • Abstinence versus alcohol use among elderly rural Baptists: a test of reference group theory and health outcomes. 
  • Academic Outcomes in Children With Congenital Heart Defects: A Population-Based Cohort Study. 
  • Academic-Practice Partnership for Caregiver Training and Support: The Duke Elder Family/Caregiver Training (DEFT) Center. 
  • Academic-practice partnerships to promote evidence-based practice in long-term care: oral hygiene care practices as an exemplar. 
  • Accelerated epigenetic age as a biomarker of cardiovascular sensitivity to traffic-related air pollution. 
  • Acceptability and Feasibility of a Mindfulness-Based Intervention for Pain Catastrophizing among Persons with Sickle Cell Disease. 
  • Access to and Uptake of Cochlear Implantation Among Children in North Carolina. 
  • Access to care: a home visitation program that links public health nurses, physicians, mothers, and babies. 
  • Access to routine care and risks for 30-day readmission in patients with cardiovascular disease. 
  • Accidental communities: race, emergency medicine, and the problem of polyheme. 
  • Accumulation of environmental contaminants in wood duck (Aix sponsa) eggs, with emphasis on polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and polychlorinated dibenzofurans. 
  • Accuracy of self-reported stroke among elderly veterans. 
  • Achieving fire-safe cigarette legislation through coalition-based legislative advocacy. 
  • Achieving health for a lifetime: a community engagement assessment focusing on school-age children to decrease obesity in Durham, North Carolina. 
  • Achieving quality in cardiovascular imaging: proceedings from the American College of Cardiology-Duke University Medical Center Think Tank on Quality in Cardiovascular Imaging. 
  • Active Mothers Postpartum (AMP): rationale, design, and baseline characteristics. 
  • Acupuncture for the treatment or management of chronic pain. 
  • Acute HIV-1 infection in the Southeastern United States: a cohort study. 
  • Acute and long-term cost implications of coronary stenting. 
  • Acute cardiovascular hospitalizations and illness severity before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. 
  • Acute kidney injury after ex vivo lung perfusion (EVLP). 
  • Adaptation of an HIV prevention curriculum for use with older African American women 
  • Adaptations across clinical sites of an integrated treatment model for persons with HIV and substance abuse. 
  • Adaptive Challenges, Adaptive Work, and Adaptive Leadership Among Women Living With HIV in the Southern United States: Findings From a Qualitative Study. 
  • Adaptive leadership and person-centered care: a new approach to solving problems. 
  • Addressing Maternal Deaths in North Carolina: Striving to Reach Zero. 
  • Addressing the systems-based practice requirement with health policy content and educational technology. 
  • Adenocarcinoma of the stomach. Changing patterns over the last 4 decades. 
  • Adherence to explicit strategies for common medical conditions. 
  • Adherence to self-quarantine recommendations during an outbreak of norovirus infection. 
  • Adolescents' first tobacco products: Associations with current multiple tobacco product use. 
  • Adopting TMR for physician/nurse use. 
  • Adoptive transfer and specific active immunization of patients with malignant melanoma. 
  • Adult Functional Outcomes of Common Childhood Psychiatric Problems: A Prospective, Longitudinal Study. 
  • Adult Patients' Perspectives on the Benefits and Harms of Overused Screening Tests: a Qualitative Study. 
  • Adult mental health consequences of peer bullying and maltreatment in childhood: two cohorts in two countries. 
  • Adult vulnerability for psychiatric disorders: interactive effects of negative childhood experiences and recent stress. 
  • Advancing the HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Continuum: A Collaboration Between a Public Health Department and a Federally Qualified Health Center in the Southern United States. 
  • Adverse birth outcomes among nulliparous vs. multiparous women. 
  • Adverse impact of coercive treatments on psychiatric inpatients' satisfaction with care. 
  • Affecting perceptions of harm and addiction among college waterpipe tobacco smokers. 
  • Affective disorders in five United States communities. 
  • Affinity Chart Analysis: A Method for Structured Collection, Aggregation, and Response to Customer Needs in Radiology. 
  • African-American Fathers' Perspectives on Facilitators and Barriers to Father-Son Sexual Health Communication. 
  • African-American crack abusers and drug treatment initiation: barriers and effects of a pretreatment intervention. 
  • Age and functional correlations of markers of coagulation and inflammation in the elderly: functional implications of elevated crosslinked fibrin degradation products (D-dimers). 
  • Age at menarche, time to regular cycling, and breast cancer (North Carolina, United States). 
  • Age differences in life events: a multivariate controlled analysis. 
  • Age of first drunkenness and risks for all-cause mortality: A 27-year follow-up from the epidemiologic catchment area study. 
  • Alcohol abuse and dependence in the rural South. 
  • Alcohol consumption and blood pressure in black adults: the Pitt County Study. 
  • Alcohol consumption and breast cancer among black and white women in North Carolina (United States). 
  • Alcohol use among out-of-treatment crack using African-American women. 
  • Alcohol use and clinical manifestations of tuberculosis. 
  • Alcoholic beverage preference, diet, and health habits in the UNC Alumni Heart Study. 
  • Alteration in angiogenic and anti-angiogenic forms of vascular endothelial growth factor-A in skeletal muscle of patients with intermittent claudication following exercise training. 
  • Alternative Approaches to Valuing Intangible Health Losses: The Evidence for Multiple Sclerosis 
  • Alternative models for academic family practices. 
  • Alternative statistical approaches to identifying dementia in a community-dwelling sample. 
  • Alzheimer's disease and the family caregiver: the cost and who pays? 
  • Amygdala volume changes in posttraumatic stress disorder in a large case-controlled veterans group. 
  • An Anatomical Analysis of the Supratrochlear Artery: Considerations in Facial Filler Injections and Preventing Vision Loss. 
  • An Appraisal of School Nurse Health Services and Programs in North Carolina Public Schools, 2006-2016. 
  • An Infection Control Program for a 2009 influenza A H1N1 outbreak in a university-based summer camp. 
  • An Interrupted Time Series Analysis of the Dissemination of a Sickle Cell Vaso-Occlusive Episode Treatment Algorithm and a Case Management Referral Form for Individuals With Sickle Cell Disease in the Emergency Department. 
  • An advanced course in long term care for geriatric medicine fellows. 
  • An assessment of fecal indicator bacteria-based water quality standards. 
  • An economic analysis of a store and forward teledermatology consult system. 
  • An education-service collaboration to address a perceived graduate RN readiness gap. 
  • An educational initiative in response to identified PrEP prescribing needs among PCPs in the Southern U.S. 
  • An educational intervention to improve internal medicine interns' awareness of hazards of hospitalization in acutely ill older adults. 
  • An evaluation of a brief health status measure in elderly veterans. 
  • An exploratory model of the relationships between cancer-related trauma outcomes on quality of life in non-Hodgkin lymphoma survivors. 
  • An industrial study of the biological effects of cotton dust and cigarette smoke exposure. 
  • An interdepartmental division of geriatric medicine. 
  • An internet-based weight loss intervention initiated by a newspaper. 
  • An opportunistic study evaluating pharmacokinetics of sildenafil for the treatment of pulmonary hypertension in infants. 
  • An urgent need to understand and address the safety and well-being of hospital "sitters". 
  • Analgesic drug use and risk of ovarian cancer. 
  • Analysis of a chalcone synthase mutant in Ipomoea purpurea reveals a novel function for flavonoids: amelioration of heat stress. 
  • Analysis of an endotracheal intubation service provided by respiratory care practitioners. 
  • Analysis of complication rates following perioperative transfusion in shoulder arthroplasty. 
  • Analysis of geographic variations in the diagnosis and treatment of patients with aortic stenosis in North Carolina. 
  • Analysis of the North Carolina long-term care polypharmacy initiative: a multiple-cohort approach using propensity-score matching for both evaluation and targeting. 
  • Anorectal melanoma: clinical characteristics and the role of abdominoperineal resection. 
  • Antenatal haemoglobin A1c and risk of large-for-gestational-age infants in a multi-ethnic cohort of women with gestational diabetes. 
  • Antepartum or postpartum isoniazid treatment of latent tuberculosis infection. 
  • Anthropometric measurements and dietary intakes of Cherokee Indian teenagers in North Carolina. 
  • Anthropometric measurements and epithelial ovarian cancer risk in African-American and White women. 
  • Antidepressant medication use [corrected] and risk of ovarian cancer. 
  • Antidepressant medications and their association with invasive breast cancer and carcinoma in situ of the breast. 
  • Antidiabetic drug therapy of African-American and white community-dwelling elderly over a 10-year period. 
  • Antisocial and related disorders in a southern community. An application of grade of membership analysis. 
  • Apolipoprotein E alleles and sensorineural hearing loss. 
  • Apolipoprotein L1 gene variants in deceased organ donors are associated with renal allograft failure. 
  • Application of a partnership model for transformative and sustainable international development. 
  • Applying the Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound recommendations for fine-needle aspiration of thyroid nodules: effect on workup and malignancy detection. 
  • Appropriateness of medication prescribing in ambulatory elderly patients. 
  • Are Hospice Admission Practices Associated With Hospice Enrollment for Older African Americans and Whites? 
  • Are People Living Near Modern Swine Production Facilities at Increased Risk of Influenza Virus Infection? 
  • Are changes in positive mental health associated with increased likelihood of depression over a two year period? A test of the mental health promotion and protection hypotheses. 
  • Are discordant positron emission tomography and pathological assessments of the mediastinum in non-small cell lung cancer significant? 
  • Are we failing vulnerable workers? The case of black women in poultry processing in rural North Carolina. 
  • Are women worrying about heart disease? 
  • Area-based socioeconomic characteristics of industries at high risk for violence in the workplace. 
  • Arsenic poisoning seen at Duke Hospital, 1965-1998. 
  • Arthritis self-efficacy and self-efficacy for resisting eating: relationships to pain, disability, and eating behavior in overweight and obese individuals with osteoarthritic knee pain. 
  • Asbestos fibre dimensions and lung cancer mortality among workers exposed to chrysotile. 
  • Assessing Geographic Variation in Strabismus Diagnosis among Children Enrolled in Medicaid. 
  • Assessing TMDL effectiveness using flow-adjusted concentrations: a case study of the Neuse River, North Carolina. 
  • Assessing and Predicting Susceptibility to Waterpipe Tobacco Use Among College Students. 
  • Assessing and promoting physical activity in African American barbershops: results of the FITStop pilot study. 
  • Assessing exposure metrics for PM and birth weight models. 
  • Assessing housestaff diagnostic skills using a cardiology patient simulator. 
  • Assessing human fertility using several markers of ovulation. 
  • Assessing medical students' knowledge of IR at two American medical schools. 
  • Assessing the Impact of a Novel Integrated Palliative Care and Medical Oncology Inpatient Service on Health Care Utilization before Hospice Enrollment. 
  • Assessing the clinical and economic burden of coronary artery disease: 1986-1998. 
  • Assessing the economic attractiveness of coronary artery revascularization in chronic kidney disease patients. 
  • Assessing the potential economic value of health information technology interventions in a community-based health network. 
  • Assessing the relative burden of hospital-acquired infections in a network of community hospitals. 
  • Assessing trauma, substance abuse, and mental health in a sample of homeless men. 
  • Assessment of Clinical Palliative Care Trigger Status vs Actual Needs Among Critically Ill Patients and Their Family Members. 
  • Assessment of Clostridium difficile-associated disease surveillance definitions, North Carolina, 2005. 
  • Assessment of a patient-centered initiative to improve hypertension management for adults with comorbid type 2 diabetes at a free clinic in the rural south. 
  • Assessment of different threshold preoperative glomerular filtration rates as markers of outcomes in lung transplantation. 
  • Assessment of inorganic contamination of private wells and demonstration of effective filter-based reduction: A pilot-study in Stokes County, North Carolina. 
  • Assessment of out-of-hospital resuscitation. 
  • Assessment of primary hemostasis by PFA-100 analysis in a tertiary care center. 
  • Assessment of temporal trends in mortality with implementation of a statewide ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) regionalization program. 
  • Assisted early mobility for hospitalized older veterans: preliminary data from the STRIDE program. 
  • Association Between Choice of Radical Prostatectomy, External Beam Radiotherapy, Brachytherapy, or Active Surveillance and Patient-Reported Quality of Life Among Men With Localized Prostate Cancer. 
  • Association Between Pseudotumor Formation and Patient Factors in Metal-on-Metal Total Hip Arthroplasty Population. 
  • Association Between Staff Experience and Effective Tuberculosis Contact Tracing in North Carolina, 2008-2009. 
  • Association Of Unemployment With Medicaid Enrollment By Social Vulnerability In North Carolina During COVID-19. 
  • Association between adult and childhood socioeconomic status and prevalence of the metabolic syndrome in African Americans: the Pitt County Study. 
  • Association between bleomycin hydrolase and Alzheimer's disease in caucasians. 
  • Association between non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and invasive breast cancer and carcinoma in situ of the breast. 
  • Association between perceived life chaos and medication adherence in a postmyocardial infarction population. 
  • Association between preoperative respiratory support and outcomes in paediatric cardiac surgery. 
  • Association between satellite-based estimates of long-term PM2.5 exposure and coronary artery disease. 
  • Association between selective serotonin-reuptake inhibitor therapy and heart valve regurgitation. 
  • Association between smoking and retrospectively reported attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder symptoms in a large sample of new mothers. 
  • Association of Bystander and First-Responder Efforts and Outcomes According to Sex: Results From the North Carolina HeartRescue Statewide Quality Improvement Initiative. 
  • Association of Bystander and First-Responder Intervention With Survival After Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest in North Carolina, 2010-2013. 
  • Association of Epstein-Barr virus with systemic lupus erythematosus: effect modification by race, age, and cytotoxic T lymphocyte-associated antigen 4 genotype. 
  • Association of Lymph Node Ratio With Overall Survival in Patients With Metastatic Papillary Thyroid Cancer. 
  • Association of Public Health Initiatives With Outcomes for Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest at Home and in Public Locations. 
  • Association of Restrictive Housing During Incarceration With Mortality After Release. 
  • Association of Roadway Proximity with Fasting Plasma Glucose and Metabolic Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Disease in a Cross-Sectional Study of Cardiac Catheterization Patients. 
  • Association of SLC11A1 with tuberculosis and interactions with NOS2A and TLR2 in African-Americans and Caucasians. 
  • Association of autism with induced or augmented childbirth in North Carolina Birth Record (1990-1998) and Education Research (1997-2007) databases. 
  • Association of chorioamnionitis and its duration with neonatal morbidity and mortality. 
  • Association of family income supplements in adolescence with development of psychiatric and substance use disorders in adulthood among an American Indian population. 
  • Association of genetic polymorphisms with risk of renal injury after coronary bypass graft surgery. 
  • Association of interleukin-6 and other biologic variables with depression in older people living in the community. 
  • Association of long-term PM2.5 exposure with traditional and novel lipid measures related to cardiovascular disease risk. 
  • Association of neighborhood characteristics with incidence of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and rates of bystander-initiated CPR: implications for community-based education intervention. 
  • Association of patient and physician characteristics with follow-up of abnormal laboratory results. 
  • Association of peripheral vertical meniscal tears with anterior cruciate ligament tears. 
  • Association of race and other potential risk factors with nonvertebral fractures in community-dwelling elderly women. 
  • Association of single nucleotide polymorphisms in glycosylation genes with risk of epithelial ovarian cancer. 
  • Association of standard clinical and laboratory variables with red blood cell distribution width. 
  • Association of systemic lupus erythematosus with angiographically defined coronary artery disease: a retrospective cohort study. 
  • Associations Among Food Security, Diet Quality, and Dietary Intake During Pregnancy in a Predominantly African American Group of Women from North Carolina. 
  • Associations Between Residential Proximity to Traffic and Vascular Disease in a Cardiac Catheterization Cohort. 
  • Associations among family support, family stress, and personal functional health status. 
  • Associations among perceptions of social support, negative affect, and quality of sleep in caregivers and noncaregivers. 
  • Associations between BMI and home, school and route environmental exposures estimated using GPS and GIS: do we see evidence of selective daily mobility bias in children? 
  • Associations between daily screen time and sleep in a racially and socioeconomically diverse sample of US infants: a prospective cohort study. 
  • Associations between flame retardant applications in furniture foam, house dust levels, and residents' serum levels. 
  • Associations between pressure-pain threshold, symptoms, and radiographic knee and hip osteoarthritis. 
  • Associations between timing and quality of solid food introduction with infant weight-for-length z-scores at 12 months: Findings from the Nurture cohort. 
  • Associations of Despair With Suicidality and Substance Misuse Among Young Adults. 
  • Associations of Premenopausal Hysterectomy and Oophorectomy With Breast Cancer Among Black and White Women: The Carolina Breast Cancer Study, 1993-2001. 
  • Associations of depression, anxiety and antidepressants with histological severity of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. 
  • Asthma dissemination around patient-centered treatments in North Carolina (ADAPT-NC): a cluster randomized control trial evaluating dissemination of an evidence-based shared decision-making intervention for asthma management. 
  • Atrial fibrillation ablation using a closed irrigation radiofrequency ablation catheter. 
  • Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): Interaction between socioeconomic status and parental history of ADHD determines prevalence. 
  • Attitudes and behaviors that differentiate clergy with positive mental health from those with burnout 
  • Attitudes of physical therapy students toward patient-centered care, before and after a course in psychosocial aspects of care. 
  • Attitudes toward patients with sickle cell disease in a multicenter sample of emergency department providers. 
  • Autosomal dominantly inherited generalized basaloid follicular hamartoma syndrome: report of a new disease in a North Carolina family. 
  • Availability of Foods and Beverages in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program-Authorized Dollar Stores in a Region of North Carolina. 
  • Awareness and Use of the Sickle Cell Disease Toolbox by Primary Care Providers in North Carolina. 
  • Awareness and acceptability of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) among students at two historically Black universities (HBCU): a cross-sectional survey. 
  • Awareness, Knowledge, and Travel-Related Risk Factors for Zika Virus Among Latinas Attending a Federally Qualified Health Center in Rural North Carolina. 
  • BVS5000 support after cardiac transplantation. 
  • Back in the Day: Nostalgia Frames Rural Residents' Perspectives on Diet and Physical Activity. 
  • Bacterial contamination associated with estuarine shoreline development 
  • Barber-led sexual health education intervention for Black male adolescents and their fathers. 
  • Bariatric surgeries in north Carolina, 1990 to 2001: a gender comparison. 
  • Bariatric surgery in patients with bipolar spectrum disorders: Selection factors, postoperative visit attendance, and weight outcomes. 
  • Baroreceptor sensitivity at rest and during stress in women with posttraumatic stress disorder or major depressive disorder. 
  • Barriers and facilitators to care for individuals with sickle cell disease in central North Carolina: The emergency department providers' perspective. 
  • Barriers to accessing HIV/AIDS care in North Carolina: rural and urban differences. 
  • Barriers to and facilitators of clinical practice guideline use in nursing homes. 
  • Barriers to reporting child maltreatment: do emergency medical services professionals fully understand their role as mandatory reporters? 
  • Barriers to the adoption and implementation of preventive dental services in primary medical care. 
  • Barriers, facilitators, and access for wheelchair users: substantive and methodologic lessons from a pilot study of environmental effects. 
  • Bartonella species in blood of immunocompetent persons with animal and arthropod contact. 
  • Baseline Pulse Pressure, Acute Kidney Injury, and Mortality After Noncardiac Surgery. 
  • Bayesian inference for prevalence in longitudinal two-phase studies. 
  • Bayesian inference in two-phase prevalence studies. 
  • Bayesian variable selection for multivariate spatially varying coefficient regression. 
  • Bayesian variable selection for understanding mixtures in environmental exposures. 
  • Bedside computerization of the ICU, design issues: benefits of computerization versus ease of paper & pen. 
  • Beet the Best? 
  • Beginning a conversation on medical futility in North Carolina. 
  • Behavioral influences on preterm birth: integrated analysis of the pregnancy, infection, and nutrition study. 
  • Behind closed doors: management of patient expectations in primary care practices. 
  • Benefits of the uncertainty management intervention for African American and White older breast cancer survivors: 20-month outcomes. 
  • Benefits, Facilitators, Barriers, and Strategies to Improve Pesticide Protective Behaviors: Insights from Farmworkers in North Carolina Tobacco Fields. 
  • Benzodiazepine anti-anxiety agents: prevalence and correlates of use in a southern community. 
  • Between-site differences in the scale of dispersal and gene flow in red oak. 
  • Beyond Selenium: Coal Combustion Residuals Lead to Multielement Enrichment in Receiving Lake Food Webs. 
  • Beyond effectiveness: evaluating the public health impact of the WISEWOMAN program. 
  • Biologic hazards of double primary neoplasms among patients with genitourinary malignancy. 
  • Bird-mite infestation in a university hospital. 
  • Birthing and Parenting a Premature Infant in a Cultural Context. 
  • Black-white differences in risk of becoming disabled and recovering from disability in old age: a longitudinal analysis of two EPESE populations. 
  • Black-white disparity in disability: the role of medical conditions. 
  • Black/white differences in hypertension in the elderly: an epidemiologic analysis in central North Carolina. 
  • Blastomycosis. New treatment for an old friend of the Carolinas. 
  • Blood pressure and mortality risk in older people: comparison between African Americans and whites. 
  • Body image and body satisfaction differ by race in overweight postpartum mothers. 
  • Body mass index and depressive symptoms in older adults: the moderating roles of race, sex, and socioeconomic status. 
  • Body mass index charts: useful yet underused. 
  • Body size across the life course and risk of premenopausal and postmenopausal breast cancer in Black women, the Carolina Breast Cancer Study, 1993-2001. 
  • Body size and breast cancer risk in black women and white women: the Carolina Breast Cancer Study. 
  • Bolstering confidence in obesity prevention and treatment counseling for resident and community pediatricians. 
  • Bolus Administration of Fentanyl and Midazolam for Colonoscopy Increases Endoscopy Unit Efficiency and Safety Compared With Titrated Sedation. 
  • Borderline Estrogen Receptor-Positive Breast Cancers in Black and White Women. 
  • Bowel patterns among subjects not seeking health care. Use of a questionnaire to identify a population with bowel dysfunction. 
  • Breast cancer as heterogeneous disease: contributing factors and carcinogenesis mechanisms. 
  • Breast conservation rates-barriers between tertiary care and community practice. 
  • Breast-Related Quality of Life in Young Reduction Mammaplasty Patients: A Long-Term Follow-Up Using the BREAST-Q. 
  • Bridging the gap: leveraging business intelligence tools in support of patient safety and financial effectiveness. 
  • Bridging the information gap between health and the environment in North Carolina. 
  • Brief Report: Classifying Rates of Students with Autism and Intellectual Disability in North Carolina: Roles of Race and Economic Disadvantage. 
  • Brief report: diminishing geographic variability in autism spectrum disorders over time? 
  • Brominated flame retardants in breast milk and behavioural and cognitive development at 36 months. 
  • Build or remodel? Preparing facilities for today's and tomorrow's needs. 
  • Building geographic information system capacity in local health departments: lessons from a North Carolina project. 
  • Burden of childhood rotavirus disease on health systems in the United States. 
  • Business-success literature and the health care enterprise: the need to test "insights". 
  • COMPASS-CP: An Electronic Application to Capture Patient-Reported Outcomes to Develop Actionable Stroke and Transient Ischemic Attack Care Plans. 
  • CONNECT for better fall prevention in nursing homes: results from a pilot intervention study. 
  • COX-2 polymorphism, use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, and risk of colon cancer in African Americans (United States). 
  • CaPOW! Using Problem Sets in a Capstone Course to Improve Fourth-Year Medical Students' Confidence in Self-Directed Learning. 
  • Cadmium-induced apoptosis in oyster hemocytes involves disturbance of cellular energy balance but no mitochondrial permeability transition. 
  • Caffeine and miscarriage risk. 
  • Calling for collaboration: piloting smartphones to discover differences between users and devices. 
  • Can tailored interventions increase mammography use among HMO women? 
  • Cancelation of MRI guided breast biopsies for suspicious breast lesions identified at 3.0 T MRI: reasons, rates, and outcomes. 
  • Cancer and noncancer mortality among aluminum smelting workers in Badin, North Carolina. 
  • Cancer in pregnancy: cross-sectional oncologic imaging utilization at a tertiary care center with an algorithmic approach to imaging. 
  • Candidate gene analysis using imputed genotypes: cell cycle single-nucleotide polymorphisms and ovarian cancer risk. 
  • Cannabis Use and Disorder From Childhood to Adulthood in a Longitudinal Community Sample With American Indians. 
  • Canopy leaf area constrains [CO2]-induced enhancement of productivity and partitioning among aboveground carbon pools. 
  • Carbon monoxide poisoning in the aftermath of hurricane Fran. 
  • Cardiac catheterization within 1 to 3 days of proximal aortic surgery is not associated with increased postoperative acute kidney injury. 
  • Cardiac conduction abnormalities in endocarditis defined by the Duke criteria. 
  • Cardiac transplantation at Duke University Medical Center. 
  • Cardiopulmonary complications leading to premature deaths in adult patients with sickle cell disease. 
  • Care and outcomes of urban and non-urban out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients during the HeartRescue Project in Washington state and North Carolina. 
  • Care processes associated with quicker door-in-door-out times for patients with ST-elevation-myocardial infarction requiring transfer: results from a statewide regionalization program. 
  • Careers and professional activities of graduates of a Medical Scientist Training Program. 
  • Caregiver Burden as a Mediator Between Emotional Distress and Concentration Problems in Patients With Cancer. 
  • Caregiver Characteristics Associated With Cognitive Complaints in Women With Breast Cancer. 
  • Caregiver burden and psychological distress in partners of veterans with chronic posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • Caring for patients with sickle cell disease in North Carolina. 
  • Carolina critters: a collection of camera-trap data from wildlife surveys across North Carolina. 
  • Cascade iatrogenesis: a case-control study to detect postoperative respiratory failure in hospitalized older adults. 
  • Caspofungin for invasive candidiasis at a tertiary care medical center. 
  • Categorizing the effect of comorbidity: a qualitative study of individuals' experiences in a low-vision rehabilitation program. 
  • Causes of Death and Cardiovascular Comorbidities in Adults With Congenital Heart Disease. 
  • Causes of Death in Infants and Children with Congenital Heart Disease. 
  • Center for Child and Family Health-North Carolina. What is it? And why? 
  • Central line "attention" is their best prevention. 
  • Central line-associated infections as defined by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Hospital-acquired condition versus standard infection control surveillance: why hospital compare seems conflicted. 
  • Challenges and opportunities: recruitment and retention of African Americans for Alzheimer disease research: lessons learned. 
  • Change in plasma glutamate concentration during cardiac surgery is a poor predictor of cognitive outcome. 
  • Changes in Risk Profile and Outcomes of Patients Undergoing Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement From the Pre- to Post-Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Eras. 
  • Changes in blood lead levels associated with use of chloramines in water treatment systems. 
  • Changes in physical activity among postpartum overweight and obese women: results from the KAN-DO Study. 
  • Changing CHANGE: adaptations of an evidence-based telehealth cardiovascular disease risk reduction intervention. 
  • Changing rates of cesarean delivery: the Duke experience, 1978-1986. 
  • Changing trends in Black-White racial differences in surgical menopause: a population-based study. 
  • Characteristics and Delivery of Diabetes Shared Medical Appointments in North Carolina. 
  • Characteristics of adult primary care patients as predictors of future health services charges. 
  • Characteristics of antipsychotic medication prescribing on inpatient obstetric floors. 
  • Characteristics of men reporting for prostate cancer screening. 
  • Characteristics of socially isolated patients with coronary artery disease who are at elevated risk for mortality. 
  • Characteristics of the built environment and spatial patterning of type 2 diabetes in the urban core of Durham, North Carolina. 
  • Characteristics of third-party money management for persons with psychiatric disabilities. 
  • Characterization of Perinatal Risk Factors and Complications Associated With Nonsyndromic Craniosynostosis. 
  • Characterization of Retinal Microvascular and Choroidal Structural Changes in Parkinson Disease. 
  • Characterizing North Carolina's Deaf and Hard of Hearing Infants and Toddlers: Predictors of Vocabulary, Diagnosis, and Intervention. 
  • Characterizing participants in the North Carolina Breast and Cervical Cancer Control Program: A retrospective review of 90,000 women. 
  • Child μ-opioid receptor gene variant influences parent-child relations. 
  • Child-, adolescent- and young adult-onset depressions: differential risk factors in development? 
  • Childhood and adolescent psychiatric disorders as predictors of young adult disorders. 
  • Childhood bullying involvement predicts low-grade systemic inflammation into adulthood. 
  • Childhood psychiatric disorders and young adult crime: a prospective, population-based study. 
  • Childhood somatic complaints predict generalized anxiety and depressive disorders during young adulthood in a community sample. 
  • Children And The Opioid Epidemic: Age-Stratified Exposures And Harms. 
  • Children drinking private well water have higher blood lead than those with city water. 
  • Children's mental health service use across service sectors. 
  • Choosing among employer-sponsored health plans: what drives employee choices? 
  • Chronic disease management perspectives of colorectal cancer survivors using the Veterans Affairs healthcare system: a qualitative analysis. 
  • Church rosters: is this a viable mechanism for effectively recruiting African Americans for a community-based survey? 
  • Cigarette smoking in veteran women: the impact of job strain. 
  • Cigarette smoking, N-acetyltransferases 1 and 2, and breast cancer risk. 
  • Climate adaptation and policy-induced inflation of coastal property value. 
  • Clinical Outcomes and Healthcare Utilization Related to Multidrug-Resistant Gram-Negative Infections in Community Hospitals. 
  • Clinical and angiographic assessment of complex mammary artery bypass grafting. 
  • Clinical and economic results from a randomized trial of clinical decision support in a rural health network. 
  • Clinical and socio-economic predictors of work participation in adult CHD patients. 
  • Clinical decision making and views about psychiatric advance directives. 
  • Clinical experience of medical students in model family practices and private family practices. 
  • Clinical findings for residents near a polyurethane foam manufacturing plant. 
  • Clinical implications for patients on antithrombotic therapy while taking supplements. 
  • Clinical outcomes among stroke patients receiving tissue plasminogen activator therapy beyond the 3-hour time window. 
  • Clinical outcomes and costs due to Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia among patients receiving long-term hemodialysis. 
  • Clinical predictors and outcome implications of early readmission in lung transplant recipients. 
  • Clinical significance of ultrasonographically detected coincidental gallstones. 
  • Clinical skills acquired during a clerkship in family medicine. 
  • Clinical utilization of digital rectal examination and fecal occult blood testing upon hospital admission. 
  • Clinicians' attitudes regarding barriers to the implementation of psychiatric advance directives. 
  • Clopidogrel use After Myocardial Revascularization: Prevalence, Predictors, and One-Year Survival Rate. 
  • Closeness to God among those doing God's work: a spiritual well-being measure for clergy. 
  • Cluster of oseltamivir-resistant 2009 pandemic influenza A (H1N1) virus infections on a hospital ward among immunocompromised patients--North Carolina, 2009. 
  • Coagulation and activation of inflammatory pathways in the development of functional decline and mortality in the elderly. 
  • Cohort studies of health effects among people exposed to estuarine waters: North Carolina, Virginia, and Maryland. 
  • Collecting data on quality is feasible in community-based palliative care. 
  • College smokers' estimates of their probabilities of remaining a smoker in the near future. 
  • Colonization with small conidia Aspergillus species is associated with bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome: a two-center validation study. 
  • Combination Lorcaserin and Nicotine Patch for Smoking Cessation Without Weight Gain. 
  • Communications: a compact course in family medicine for preclinical medical students. 
  • Community SARS-CoV-2 Surge and Within-School Transmission. 
  • Community and treatment engagement for depressed African American youth: the AAKOMA FLOA pilot. 
  • Community pharmacists' experience with pharmacogenetic testing. 
  • Community-acquired MRSA infections in North Carolina children: prevalence, antibiotic sensitivities, and risk factors. 
  • Community-based HCV screening: knowledge and attitudes in a high risk urban population. 
  • Community-wide job loss and teenage fertility: evidence from North Carolina. 
  • Comorbidity of age-related macular degeneration with Alzheimer's disease: A histopathologic case-control study. 
  • Comorbidity of five chronic health conditions in elderly community residents: determinants and impact on mortality. 
  • Comparative analysis of breast cancer risk factors among African-American women and White women. 
  • Comparative analysis of environmental and clinical populations of Cryptococcus neoformans. 
  • Comparative effectiveness of i-SCAN™ and high-definition white light characterizing small colonic polyps. 
  • Comparing Self-Monitoring Strategies for Weight Loss in a Smartphone App: Randomized Controlled Trial. 
  • Comparing families and staff in nursing homes and assisted living: implications for social work practice. 
  • Comparing questionnaire-based methods to assess occupational silica exposure. 
  • Comparing the risk of urethrolysis for the treatment of voiding dysfunction between two retropubic mesh slings: a case-control study. 
  • Comparing unmet needs between community-based palliative care patients with heart failure and patients with cancer. 
  • Comparison of Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes of Patients With Versus Without Diabetes Mellitus and With Versus Without Angina Pectoris (from the Duke Databank for Cardiovascular Disease). 
  • Comparison of Clinical characteristics and long-term outcomes of patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy with versus without angina pectoris (from the Duke Databank for Cardiovascular Disease). 
  • Comparison of Incidence of Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction Among Patients With Left Bundle Branch Block Versus Those With Normal QRS Duration. 
  • Comparison of Patient Report and Medical Records of Comorbidities: Results From a Population-Based Cohort of Patients With Prostate Cancer. 
  • Comparison of aerobic versus resistance exercise training effects on metabolic syndrome (from the Studies of a Targeted Risk Reduction Intervention Through Defined Exercise - STRRIDE-AT/RT). 
  • Comparison of characteristics of fibroids in African American and white women undergoing premenopausal hysterectomy. 
  • Comparison of gene expression profiles induced by coarse, fine, and ultrafine particulate matter. 
  • Comparison of housestaff's estimates of their workday activities with results of a random work-sampling study. 
  • Comparison of lifetime psychiatric diagnoses in Premenstrual Syndrome Clinic and community samples. 
  • Comparison of safety of sotalol versus amiodarone in patients with atrial fibrillation and coronary artery disease. 
  • Comparison of team-focused CPR vs standard CPR in resuscitation from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: Results from a statewide quality improvement initiative. 
  • Comparison of the prognostic value of regadenoson and adenosine myocardial perfusion imaging. 
  • Comparison of three comorbidity measures for predicting health service use in patients with osteoarthritis. 
  • Competence to complete psychiatric advance directives: effects of facilitated decision making. 
  • Competency-based goals, objectives, and linked evaluations for rheumatology training programs: a standardized template of learning activities from the Carolinas Fellows Collaborative. 
  • Competition-interaction landscapes for the joint response of forests to climate change. 
  • Complementary roles of open and hybrid approaches to thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm repair. 
  • Complex cases in primary care: report of a CME-certified series addressing patients with multiple comorbidities. 
  • Compliance with acute stroke care quality measures in hospitals with and without primary stroke center certification: the North Carolina Stroke Care Collaborative. 
  • Compliance with referral for hepatitis C evaluation among veterans. 
  • Comprehensive genetic analysis of the platelet activating factor acetylhydrolase (PLA2G7) gene and cardiovascular disease in case-control and family datasets. 
  • Computed tomography utilization in the North Carolina Medicaid population with a focus on "high exposure" patients, 2007-2012. 
  • Computer-aided instruction in clinical neurology. 
  • Computer-based medical records: the centerpiece of TMR. 
  • Computer-prompted diagnostic codes. 
  • Computerized nursery discharge summary. 
  • Computerized prompts for cancer screening in a community health center. 
  • Concentrations of perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoate (PFOA) and their associations with human semen quality measurements. 
  • Concentrations of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) and 2,4,6-tribromophenol in human placental tissues. 
  • Concomitant injuries in patients with panfacial fractures. 
  • Concurrent chemoradiotherapy in resected extrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma. 
  • Configurations of common childhood psychosocial risk factors. 
  • Confusion about mammography: prevalence and consequences. 
  • Congestive heart failure patients' perceptions of quality of life: the integration of physical and psychosocial factors. 
  • Connection, regulation, and care plan innovation: a case study of four nursing homes. 
  • Consent for a minor's abortion. 
  • Consultation in university-based and community-based infectious disease practices: a prospective study. 
  • Consumer perceptions of involuntary outpatient commitment. 
  • Consumers who call the Anxiety Disorders Association of America: characteristics and satisfaction. 
  • Consumers' perceptions of the fairness and effectiveness of mandated community treatment and related pressures. 
  • Consumption of key food groups during the postpartum period in low-income, non-Hispanic black mothers. 
  • Consumption of obesogenic foods in non-Hispanic black mother-infant dyads. 
  • Contemporary Geographic Variation and Sociodemographic Correlates of Hysterectomy Rates Among Reproductive-Age Women. 
  • Continuing Medical Education and Firearm Violence Counseling. 
  • Continuity of antipsychotic medication management for Medicaid patients with schizophrenia. 
  • Continuous performance test performance in a normative epidemiological sample. 
  • Contraceptive use by obese women 1 year postpartum. 
  • Contributions of symptomatic osteoarthritis and physical function to incident cardiovascular disease. 
  • Controversies in medical ethics: training in abortion. 
  • Conversion vs Primary Total Hip Arthroplasty: Increased Cost of Care and Perioperative Complications. 
  • Copayment reductions generate greater medication adherence in targeted patients. 
  • Coping styles and personality domains related to menopausal stress. 
  • Coping styles in heart failure patients with depressive symptoms. 
  • Correlation of Virtual Reality Simulation and Dry Lab Robotic Technical Skills. 
  • Correlation of peripheral-blood gene expression with the extent of coronary artery stenosis. 
  • Correlation of tumor size and survival in patients with stage IA non-small cell lung cancer. 
  • Cost analysis of remifentanil and fentanyl for neurosurgical anesthesia. 
  • Cost implications of closure of atrial septal defect. 
  • Cost implications of selective preoperative risk screening in the care of candidates for peripheral vascular operations. 
  • Cost minimization analysis of a store-and-forward teledermatology consult system. 
  • Cost of invasive fungal infections in the era of new diagnostics and expanded treatment options. 
  • Cost-effectiveness of universal cystoscopy to identify ureteral injury at hysterectomy. 
  • Counseling of patients by pharmacists. Blessing or curse? 
  • Coupling direct collection of health risk information from patients through kiosks with decision support for proactive care management. 
  • Cracking Chests without a Scratch: A Review of Emergency Department Thoracotomy Outcomes and Injuries to Providers at a Level II Trauma Center. 
  • Cranberry use among pediatric nephrology patients. 
  • Crawl spaces as reservoirs for transmission of mold to the livable part of the home environment. 
  • Creating a Community Radiology Division: An Academic Radiology Department's 3-Year Experience. 
  • Criminal victimization of persons with severe mental illness. 
  • Criteria for early discharge after acute myocardial infarction: validation in a community hospital. 
  • Cross-linked fibrin degradation products (D-dimer), plasma cytokines, and cognitive decline in community-dwelling elderly persons. 
  • Cross-sectional association between perceived discrimination and hypertension in African-American men and women: the Pitt County Study. 
  • Cross-sectional survey of Good Samaritan behaviour by physicians in North Carolina. 
  • Cryptococcus deuterogattii VGIIa Infection Associated with Travel to the Pacific Northwest Outbreak Region in an Anti-Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor Autoantibody-Positive Patient in the United States. 
  • Cryptosporidium spread in a group residential home. 
  • Culturally-sensitive weight loss program produces significant reduction in weight, blood pressure, and cholesterol in eight weeks. 
  • Cumulative depression episodes predict later C-reactive protein levels: a prospective analysis. 
  • Cumulative exposure to traumatic events in older adults. 
  • Cumulative prevalence of psychiatric disorder in youths. 
  • Cyclin E overexpression in epithelial ovarian cancer characterizes an etiologic subgroup. 
  • Cyclooxygenase 2 polymorphism (Val511Ala), nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug use and breast cancer in African American women. 
  • Cytochrome P4501A (CYP1A) in killifish (Fundulus heteroclitus): heritability of altered expression and relationship to survival in contaminated sediments. 
  • DNA methylation profiling in the Carolina Breast Cancer Study defines cancer subclasses differing in clinicopathologic characteristics and survival. 
  • Data Collection and Management in Community Engaged Research: Lessons Learned From Two Community-Based Participatory Research Partnerships. 
  • Data mining methods find demographic predictors of preterm birth. 
  • Deaths from external causes of injury among construction workers in North Carolina, 1988-1994. 
  • Deaths from gallstones. Incidence and associated clinical factors. 
  • Deaths from violence in North Carolina, 2004: how deaths differ in females and males. 
  • Deciding to institutionalize: why do family members cease caregiving at home? 
  • Declining influence of race on the outcome of living-donor renal transplantation. 
  • Deconstructing racial differences: the effects of quality of education and cerebrovascular risk factors. 
  • Defining and applying a method for improving the sensitivity and specificity of an emergency department early event detection system. 
  • Defining and evaluating the umbrella species concept for conserving and restoring landscape connectivity. 
  • Defining and supporting the diverse information needs of community-based care using the web and hand-held devices. 
  • Defining emergency department asthma visits for public health surveillance, North Carolina, 2008-2009. 
  • Defining oppositional defiant disorder. 
  • Definitive Chemoradiotherapy for Vulvar Cancer. 
  • Deintensification of Treatment With Sulfonylurea and Insulin After Severe Hypoglycemia Among Older Adults With Diabetes. 
  • Delay in diagnosis of invasive surgical site infections following knee arthroplasty versus hip arthroplasty. 
  • Delirium is a robust predictor of morbidity and mortality among critically ill patients treated in the cardiac intensive care unit. 
  • Delivery of Community-Based Palliative Care: Findings from a Time and Motion Study. 
  • Delivery of an HIV prevention counseling program in an infectious diseases clinic: implementation process and lessons learned. 
  • Delta hepatitis in North Carolina: learning from a patient. 
  • Dementia and Alzheimer's disease in community-dwelling elders taking vitamin C and/or vitamin E. 
  • Dementia and cancer: a comparison of spouse caregivers. 
  • Democratizing health system data to impact social and environmental health contexts: a novel collaborative community data-sharing model. 
  • Demographic and Clinical Factors Associated With Nonsurgical Osteoarthritis Treatment Among Patients in Outpatient Clinics. 
  • Demographic and disease characteristics associated with non-hodgkin lymphoma survivors' quality of life: does age matter? 
  • Demographic characteristics of patients requiring full-thickness skin grafts for cicatricial ectropion at Duke Eye Center from 2000 to 2010. 
  • Demographic, clinical and occupational characteristics associated with early onset of delivery: findings from the Duke Health and Safety Surveillance System, 2001-2004. 
  • Demographic, maltreatment, and neurobiological correlates of PTSD symptoms in children and adolescents. 
  • Demographic-related variations in posterior segment ocular sarcoidosis. 
  • Demonstration of a sustainable community-based model of care across the palliative care continuum. 
  • Density-dependent mortality and the latitudinal gradient in species diversity. 
  • Dental Emergency Practice Characteristics Among North Carolina Pediatric and General Dentists. 
  • Dental visits to a North Carolina emergency department: a painful problem. 
  • Depression and anxiety disorder among older male inmates at a federal correctional facility. 
  • Depression in diabetes and obesity: racial/ethnic/gender issues in older adults. 
  • Depression in hospitalized older patients with congestive heart failure. 
  • Depression, ART Adherence, and Receipt of Case Management Services by Adults with HIV in North Carolina, Medical Monitoring Project, 2009-2013. 
  • Depression, disability days, and days lost from work in a prospective epidemiologic survey. 
  • Depressive symptoms among working women in rural North Carolina: a comparison of women in poultry processing and other low-wage jobs. 
  • Depressive symptoms and depressive diagnoses in a community population. Use of a new procedure for analysis of psychiatric classification. 
  • Depressive symptoms and survival of patients with coronary artery disease. 
  • Depressive symptoms in elderly medical-surgical patients hospitalized in community settings. 
  • Depressive symptoms in women working in a poultry-processing plant: a longitudinal analysis. 
  • Describing the epidemiology and associated age, gender and handicap comparisons of golfing injuries. 
  • Desegregation of hospitals and medical societies in North Carolina. 
  • Design and Evaluation of an Interdisciplinary Health Disparities Research Curriculum. 
  • Design of the North Carolina Prostate Cancer Comparative Effectiveness and Survivorship Study (NC ProCESS). 
  • Detection of illicit substance use among persons with schizophrenia by radioimmunoassay of hair. 
  • Detection of left ventricular thrombus by delayed-enhancement cardiovascular magnetic resonance prevalence and markers in patients with systolic dysfunction. 
  • Deterioration of regional wall motion immediately after coronary artery bypass graft surgery is associated with long-term major adverse cardiac events. 
  • Determinants of reoperation after 960 valve replacements with Carpentier-Edwards prostheses. 
  • Determining appropriate use of an air medical program. 
  • Developing a framework for conducting economic evaluations of community-based health information technology interventions. 
  • Development and Assessment of a Systematic Approach for Detecting Disparities in Surgical Access. 
  • Development and evaluation of a Computer-Assisted Management Protocol (CAMP): improved compliance with care guidelines for diabetes mellitus. 
  • Development and implementation of a hospital-based patient safety program. 
  • Development and initial testing of a computer-based patient decision aid to promote colorectal cancer screening for primary care practice. 
  • Development and modification of a required family medicine clerkship. 
  • Development of a Multi-Study Repository to Support Research on Veteran Health: The VA Cooperative Studies Program Epidemiology Center-Durham (CSPEC-Durham) Data and Specimen Repository. 
  • Development of a patient satisfaction survey for outpatient care: a brief report. 
  • Development of an adaptive multimedia program to collect patient health data. 
  • Development of an intervention to improve mental health for obstetric fistula patients in Tanzania. 
  • Development of substance use and psychiatric comorbidity in an epidemiologic study of white and American Indian young adolescents the Great Smoky Mountains Study. 
  • Developmental toxicity and DNA damage from exposure to parking lot runoff retention pond samples in the Japanese medaka (Oryzias latipes). 
  • Dexmedetomidine Pharmacokinetics and a New Dosing Paradigm in Infants Supported With Cardiopulmonary Bypass. 
  • Diagnosing HIV infection in primary care settings: missed opportunities. 
  • Dialysis Facility Profit Status and Early Steps in Kidney Transplantation in the Southeastern United States. 
  • Dialysis facility referral and start of evaluation for kidney transplantation among patients treated with dialysis in the Southeastern United States. 
  • Diet quality and weight change among overweight and obese postpartum women enrolled in a behavioral intervention program. 
  • Diet quality of overweight and obese mothers and their preschool children. 
  • Dietary carbohydrate intake and high-sensitivity C-reactive protein in at-risk women and men. 
  • Dietary nitrate supplementation enhances exercise performance in peripheral arterial disease. 
  • Dietary patterns, food groups, and rectal cancer risk in Whites and African-Americans. 
  • Differences in effectiveness of the active living every day program for older adults with arthritis. 
  • Differences in multijoint radiographic osteoarthritis phenotypes among African Americans and Caucasians: the Johnston County Osteoarthritis project. 
  • Differences in providers' beliefs about benefits and risks of hormone replacement therapy in managed care. 
  • Different Phenotypes of Osteoarthritis in the Lumbar Spine Reflected by Demographic and Clinical Characteristics: The Johnston County Osteoarthritis Project. 
  • Differential aerosol challenge studies in byssinosis. 
  • Differential prescribing of opioid analgesics according to physician specialty for Medicaid patients with chronic noncancer pain diagnoses. 
  • Diffusion of innovations in long-term care measurement battery. 
  • Digoxin toxicity: an evaluation in current clinical practice. 
  • Direct Transport to a Percutaneous Cardiac Intervention Center and Outcomes in Patients With Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest. 
  • Dirofilaria striata infection in a North Carolina child. 
  • Disability as a function of social networks and support in elderly African Americans and Whites: the Duke EPESE 1986--1992. 
  • Disability in geriatric depression. 
  • Discordance of databases designed for claims payment versus clinical information systems. Implications for outcomes research. 
  • Discrimination, Medical Distrust, Stigma, Depressive Symptoms, Antiretroviral Medication Adherence, Engagement in Care, and Quality of Life Among Women Living With HIV in North Carolina: A Mediated Structural Equation Model. 
  • Disease management of congestive heart failure. 
  • Disparities in Loss to Follow-Up Among Adults With Congenital Heart Disease in North Carolina. 
  • Disparities in air quality downscaler model uncertainty across socioeconomic and demographic indicators in North Carolina. 
  • Disparities in maternal hypertension and pregnancy outcomes: evidence from North Carolina, 1994-2003. 
  • Disparities in the use of antenatal corticosteroids among women with hypertension in North Carolina. 
  • Distribution and correlates of waist-to-hip ratio in black adults: the Pitt County Study. 
  • Diversifying the Research Workforce as a Programmatic Priority for a Career Development Award Program at Duke University. 
  • Diversity and phylogenetic affinities of foliar fungal endophytes in loblolly pine inferred by culturing and environmental PCR. 
  • Diversity and the Duke BME PhD program: then, now and moving forward. 
  • Dizziness in a community elderly population. 
  • Do Histopathology and Clinical Outcomes of Breast Atypia Vary by Race/Ethnicity? 
  • Do Maternity Care Coordination Services Encourage Use of Behavioral Health Treatment among Pregnant Women on Medicaid? 
  • Do Periarticular Joint Infections Present an Increase in Infection Risk? 
  • Do clinicians tell patients they have prehypertension? 
  • Do diabetic veterans use the Internet? Self-reported usage, skills, and interest in using My HealtheVet Web portal. 
  • Do older women use estrogen replacement? Data from the Duke Established Populations for Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly (EPESE). 
  • Do preparation and life completion discussions improve functioning and quality of life in seriously ill patients? Pilot randomized control trial. 
  • Do specialty courts achieve better outcomes for children in foster care than general courts? 
  • Do unmet expectations for specific tests, referrals, and new medications reduce patients' satisfaction? 
  • Documentation Status and Self-Rated Physical Health Among Latinx Young Adult Immigrants: the Mediating Roles of Immigration and Healthcare Stress. 
  • Documenting presence: A descriptive study of chaplain notes in the intensive care unit. 
  • Does Type 2 Diabetes Genetic Testing and Counseling Reduce Modifiable Risk Factors? A Randomized Controlled Trial of Veterans. 
  • Does Ultrasonographic Measurement of Gastric Content Influence Airway Management Decisions? 
  • Does childhood bullying predict eating disorder symptoms? A prospective, longitudinal analysis. 
  • Does contact by a family nurse practitioner decrease early school absence? 
  • Does determining serum alcohol concentrations in emergency department patients influence physicians' civil suit liability? 
  • Does involuntary outpatient commitment lead to more intensive treatment? 
  • Does lack of social support lead to more ED visits for older adults? 
  • Does participatory decision making improve hypertension self-care behaviors and outcomes? 
  • Does predation contribute to tree diversity? 
  • Does surgical approach in total hip arthroplasty affect rehabilitation, discharge disposition, and readmission rate? 
  • Does the multidisciplinary approach improve oncological outcomes in men undergoing surgical treatment for prostate cancer? 
  • Does the probability of DWI arrest fall following participation in DWI and hybrid drug treatment court programs? 
  • Dofetilide dose reductions and discontinuations in women compared with men. 
  • Domestic Violence and Families: Trauma-Focused Treatment Options. 
  • Dosing recommendations and prescribing patterns for depressed medically ill hospitalized older patients. 
  • Doublespeak in high places. 
  • Downwelling spectral irradiance during evening twilight as a function of the lunar phase. 
  • Drained coastal peatlands: A potential nitrogen source to marine ecosystems under prolonged drought and heavy storm events-A microcosm experiment. 
  • Dramatic variability of the carbonate system at a temperate coastal ocean site (Beaufort, North Carolina, USA) is regulated by physical and biogeochemical processes on multiple timescales. 
  • Driving-impaired patients leaving the emergency department. The problem of inadequate instructions. 
  • Drought-induced saltwater incursion leads to increased wetland nitrogen export. 
  • Drug Use Mediates the Relationship Between Depressive Symptoms and Adherence to ART Among Recently Incarcerated People Living with HIV. 
  • Drug use and validity of substance use self-reports in veterans seeking help for posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • Drug-use patterns among black and nonblack community-dwelling elderly. 
  • Duke Twins Study of Memory in Aging in the NAS-NRC Twin Registry. 
  • Duke University School of Medicine. 
  • Duke University School of Medicine. 
  • Duke's 3rd year: a 35-year retrospective. 
  • Dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI in head-and-neck cancer: the impact of region of interest selection on the intra- and interpatient variability of pharmacokinetic parameters. 
  • Dynamics of patient targeting for care management in Medicaid: a case study of the Durham Community Health Network. 
  • ECG myocardial scar quantification predicts reverse left ventricular remodeling and survival after cardiac resynchronization therapy implantation: A retrospective pilot study. 
  • Early Child Care and Weight Status in a Cohort of Predominantly Black Infants in the Southeastern United States. 
  • Early Pubertal Timing and Testosterone Associated With Higher Levels of Adolescent Depression in Girls. 
  • Early development of near-infrared spectroscopy at Duke University. 
  • Early experience with universal preprocedural testing for SARS-CoV-2 in a relatively low-prevalence area. 
  • Early predictors of in-hospital death in infective endocarditis. 
  • Echocardiographic Assessment of Right Ventricular Function and Response to Therapy in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension. 
  • Economic Analysis of Primary Care-Based Physical Activity Counseling in Older Men: The VA-LIFE Trial. 
  • Economic analysis of a tailored behavioral intervention to improve blood pressure control for primary care patients. 
  • Economic benefits of less restrictive regulation of advanced practice nurses in North Carolina. 
  • Economic effects of beta-blocker therapy in patients with heart failure. 
  • Economic grand rounds: Can states implement involuntary outpatient commitment within existing state budgets? 
  • Ecophysiological variation of transpiration of pine forests: synthesis of new and published results. 
  • Ecosystem impacts of three sequential hurricanes (Dennis, Floyd, and Irene) on the United States' largest lagoonal estuary, Pamlico Sound, NC. 
  • Ecosystem-based management for military training, biodiversity, carbon storage and climate resiliency on a complex coastal land/water-scape. 
  • Editorial: Data bank use in management of chronic disease. 
  • Educating future providers of personalized medicine. 
  • Educational attainment is associated with atrial fibrillation symptom severity. 
  • Educational classifications of autism spectrum disorder and intellectual disability among school-aged children in North Carolina: Associations with race, rurality, and resource availability. 
  • Educational status and active life expectancy among older blacks and whites. 
  • Effect of Direct Marketing for Uterine Artery Embolization on Rates of Leiomyomas, Incidental Findings, and Management After Pelvic MRI. 
  • Effect of Medicaid Policy Changes on Medication Adherence: Differences by Baseline Adherence. 
  • Effect of Promoting High-Quality Staff Interactions on Fall Prevention in Nursing Homes: A Cluster-Randomized Trial. 
  • Effect of a Community Agency-Administered Nurse Home Visitation Program on Program Use and Maternal and Infant Health Outcomes: A Randomized Clinical Trial. 
  • Effect of a Universal Postpartum Nurse Home Visiting Program on Child Maltreatment and Emergency Medical Care at 5 Years of Age: A Randomized Clinical Trial. 
  • Effect of a total work-site smoking ban on employee smoking and attitudes. 
  • Effect of an educational script on postpartum contraceptive use: a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Effect of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors, beta blockers, statins, and aspirin on C-reactive protein levels in outpatients with heart failure. 
  • Effect of breast-feeding on weight retention at 3 and 6 months postpartum: data from the North Carolina WIC Programme. 
  • Effect of breastfeeding on weight retention from one pregnancy to the next: results from the North Carolina WIC program. 
  • Effect of calories-only vs physical activity calorie expenditure labeling on lunch calories purchased in worksite cafeterias. 
  • Effect of daily charge feedback on inpatient charges and physician knowledge and behavior. 
  • Effect of directly observed antiretroviral therapy compared to self-administered antiretroviral therapy on adherence and virological outcomes among HIV-infected prisoners: a randomized controlled pilot study. 
  • Effect of environmental changes on noise in the NICU. 
  • Effect of facility on the operative costs of distal radius fractures. 
  • Effect of hysterectomy with ovarian preservation on ovarian function. 
  • Effect of increasing experience on dosimetric and clinical outcomes in the management of malignant pleural mesothelioma with intensity-modulated radiation therapy. 
  • Effect of nosocomial bloodstream infections on mortality, length of stay, and hospital costs in older adults. 
  • Effect of patients' reasons for refusing treatment on implementing psychiatric advance directives. 
  • Effect of race on cultural justifications for caregiving. 
  • Effect of repair strategy on hospital cost for infants with tetralogy of Fallot. 
  • Effect of smoking and sedentary behavior on the association between depressive symptoms and mortality from coronary heart disease. 
  • Effect of the Veterans Affairs Medical System on plastic surgery residency training. 
  • Effectiveness of a Statewide Abusive Head Trauma Prevention Program in North Carolina. 
  • Effectiveness of automatic diagnostic test result feedback on outpatient laboratory and radiology testing in veterans. A controlled trial. 
  • Effects of Ideal Versus Total Body Weight Dosage of Rabbit Antithymocyte Globulin on Outcomes of Kidney Transplant Patients With High Immunologic Risk. 
  • Effects of Tennessee Medicaid managed care on obstetrical care and birth outcomes. 
  • Effects of Virtual Exercise Rehabilitation In-Home Therapy Compared with Traditional Care After Total Knee Arthroplasty: VERITAS, a Randomized Controlled Trial. 
  • Effects of a Home-Based Telephone-Supported Physical Activity Program for Older Adult Veterans With Chronic Low Back Pain. 
  • Effects of a Rural Family Drug Treatment Court Collaborative on Child Welfare Outcomes: Comparison Using Propensity Score Analysis. 
  • Effects of a mammography decision-making intervention at 12 and 24 months. 
  • Effects of accumulated environmental, social and host exposures on early childhood educational outcomes. 
  • Effects of admission and treatment strategies of DWI courts on offender outcomes. 
  • Effects of counseling techniques on patients' weight-related attitudes and behaviors in a primary care clinic. 
  • Effects of educational materials concerning osteoporosis on women's knowledge, beliefs, and behavior. 
  • Effects of fire frequency on litter decomposition as mediated by changes to litter chemistry and soil environmental conditions. 
  • Effects of gender and ethnic group on blood pressure control in the elderly. 
  • Effects of long-term estrogen replacement therapy. I. Metabolic effects. 
  • Effects of long-term estrogen replacement therapy. II. Neoplasia. 
  • Effects of perceived racism and anger inhibition on ambulatory blood pressure in African Americans. 
  • Effects of urbanization and urban stream restoration on the physical and biological structure of stream ecosystems. 
  • Effects on Daily Spiritual Experiences of Religious Versus Conventional Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression. 
  • Efficacy and Safety of Low-Dose Iodine Plaque Brachytherapy for Juxtapapillary Choroidal Melanoma. 
  • Efficacy of a Preference-Based Decision Tool on Treatment Decisions for a First-Time Anterior Shoulder Dislocation: A Randomized Controlled Trial of At-Risk Patients. 
  • Efforts at the Frontlines: Implementing a Hepatitis C Testing and Linkage-to-Care Program at the Local Public Health Level. 
  • Electronic Cigarettes on Hospital Campuses. 
  • Elevated brain lesion volumes in older adults who use calcium supplements: a cross-sectional clinical observational study. 
  • Elevated preoperative fasting serum glucose levels increase the risk of postoperative mediastinitis in patients undergoing open heart surgery. 
  • 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? 
  • Emergency Department data for bioterrorism surveillance: electronic data availability, timeliness, sources and standards. 
  • Emergency department patterns in psychiatric visits during the holiday season. 
  • Emergency department visits among patients transported by law enforcement officers. 
  • Emergency department visits attributable to asthma in North Carolina, 2008. 
  • Emotion regulation skills mediate the effects of shame on eating disorder symptoms in women. 
  • Emotional arousal predicts observed social support in German and American couples talking about breast cancer. 
  • End-of-life care at an academic medical center: are attending physicians, house staff, nurses, and bereaved family members equally satisfied? Implications for palliative care. 
  • End-of-life care in nursing home settings: do race or age matter? 
  • Endovascular and Open Repair of Ruptured Infrarenal Aortic Aneurysms at a Tertiary Care Center. 
  • Engaging outreach workers in the development of a farmworker health research agenda. 
  • Engaging students in dedicated research and scholarship during medical school: the long-term experiences at Duke and Stanford. 
  • Enhanced root exudation induces microbial feedbacks to N cycling in a pine forest under long-term CO2 fumigation. 
  • Enrollment and Racial Disparities in Cancer Treatment Clinical Trials in North Carolina. 
  • Ensuring vitamin D supplementation in nursing home patients--a quality improvement project. 
  • Environmental Justice: the Economics of Race, Place, and Pollution. 
  • Environmental and anthropogenic controls over bacterial communities in wetland soils. 
  • Environmental contaminants and body fat distribution. 
  • Environmental contributors to the achievement gap. 
  • Environmental factors in relation to breast cancer characterized by p53 protein expression. 
  • Environmental factors in the etiology of rhabdomyosarcoma in childhood. 
  • Environmental risk factors associated with pulmonary isolation of nontuberculous mycobacteria, a population-based study in the southeastern United States. 
  • Epidemiologic Trends in Clostridioides difficile Infections in a Regional Community Hospital Network. 
  • Epidemiology of human immunodeficiency virus testing among patients with tuberculosis in North Carolina. 
  • Epidemiology of nontuberculous mycobacteria isolations among central North Carolina residents, 2006-2010. 
  • Epidemiology of persecutory ideation in an elderly population in the community. 
  • Epidemiology of psychiatric disability in childhood and adolescence. 
  • Epidemiology of respiratory syncytial virus in various regions within North Carolina during multiple seasons. 
  • Epidemiology of tuberculosis in North Carolina, 1966 to 1986: analysis of demographic features, geographic variation, AIDS, migrant workers, and site of infection. 
  • Epigenetic profiling identifies novel genes for ascending aortic aneurysm formation with bicuspid aortic valves. 
  • Epigenetic regulation of Newborns' imprinted genes related to gestational growth: patterning by parental race/ethnicity and maternal socioeconomic status. 
  • Equivalence of two screens of cognitive functioning: the Short Portable Mental Status Questionnaire and the Orientation-Memory-Concentration test. 
  • Ergonomic risk factors for low back pain in North Carolina crab pot and gill net commercial fishermen. 
  • Established populations for epidemiologic studies of the elderly: study design and methodology. 
  • Establishing a regional, multisite database for quality improvement and service planning in community-based palliative care and hospice. 
  • Establishing faculty needs and priorities for peer-mentoring groups using a nominal group technique. 
  • Estimated prevalence of dementia among elderly black and white community residents. 
  • Estimates of historical exposures by phase contrast and transmission electron microscopy for pooled exposure--response analyses of North Carolina and South Carolina, USA asbestos textile cohorts. 
  • Estimates of historical exposures by phase contrast and transmission electron microscopy in North Carolina USA asbestos textile plants. 
  • Estimating above-ground carbon biomass in a newly restored coastal plain wetland using remote sensing. 
  • Estimating increment-decrement life tables with multiple covariates from panel data: the case of active life expectancy. 
  • Estuary-associated syndrome in North Carolina: an occupational prevalence study. 
  • Ethnic and racial differences of baseline stroke knowledge in a "stroke belt" community. 
  • Ethnic and sex differences in serum levels of cartilage oligomeric matrix protein: the Johnston County Osteoarthritis Project. 
  • Ethnic differences in continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) adherence in veterans with and without psychiatric disorders. 
  • Etiology and Resource Use of Fever of Unknown Origin in Hospitalized Children. 
  • Etonogestrel-Releasing Contraceptive Implant for Postpartum Adolescents: A Randomized Controlled Trial. 
  • Evaluating Teach One Reach One-An STI/HIV Risk-Reduction Intervention to Enhance Adult-Youth Communication About Sex and Reduce the Burden of HIV/STI. 
  • Evaluating a Quality Improvement Initiative to Increase Anesthesia Providers' Use of and Understanding of Quantitative Neuromuscular Monitors. 
  • Evaluating ergonomic stresses in North Carolina commercial crab pot and gill net fishermen. 
  • Evaluating implementation fidelity in health information technology interventions. 
  • Evaluating participants' use of a hormone replacement therapy decision-making intervention. 
  • Evaluating short- and long-term impacts of a Medicaid "lock-in" program on opioid and benzodiazepine prescriptions dispensed to beneficiaries. 
  • Evaluating the Effectiveness of Community and Hospital Medical Record Integration on Management of Behavioral Health in the Emergency Department. 
  • Evaluating the impact of public health notification: Duke clopidogrel experience. 
  • Evaluating the yield of medical tests. 
  • Evaluation and treatment of dystonia. 
  • Evaluation of 3-methylcrotonyl-CoA carboxylase deficiency detected by tandem mass spectrometry newborn screening. 
  • Evaluation of Diabetic Retinal Screening and Factors for Ophthalmology Referral in a Telemedicine Network. 
  • Evaluation of MRI acquisition workflow with lean six sigma method: case study of liver and knee examinations. 
  • Evaluation of Selvester QRS score for use in presence of conduction abnormalities in a broad population. 
  • Evaluation of Women and Underrepresented Racial and Ethnic Group Representation in a General Cardiology Fellowship After a Systematic Recruitment Initiative. 
  • Evaluation of X-Linked Adrenoleukodystrophy Newborn Screening in North Carolina. 
  • Evaluation of a Medicaid Lock-in Program: Increased Use of Opioid Use Disorder Treatment but No Impact on Opioid Overdose Risk. 
  • Evaluation of a burn prevention program in a public school system. 
  • Evaluation of a cancer survivorship protocol: transitioning patients to survivors. 
  • Evaluation of a workplace hemochromatosis screening program. 
  • Evaluation of agreement between physicians' notation of 'no evidence of disease' (NED) and patients' report of cancer status. 
  • Evaluation of an audio mode of the automated medical history. 
  • Evaluation of an infrared/radiofrequency equipment-tracking system in a tertiary care hospital. 
  • Evaluation of associations between asthma exacerbations and distance to roadways using geocoded electronic health records data. 
  • Evaluation of emergency medical text processor, a system for cleaning chief complaint text data. 
  • Evaluation of private well contaminants in an underserved North Carolina community. 
  • Evaluation of skill level between trainees and community orthopaedic surgeons using a virtual reality arthroscopic knee simulator. 
  • Evaluation of specialist referrals at a rural health care clinic. 
  • Evaluation of the New North Carolina Burn Registry. 
  • Evaluation of the dofetilide risk-management program. 
  • Evidence for a black-white crossover in all-cause and coronary heart disease mortality in an older population: the North Carolina EPESE. 
  • Evolution of host range in Coleosporium ipomoeae, a plant pathogen with multiple hosts. 
  • Evolution of the coronary care unit: clinical characteristics and temporal trends in healthcare delivery and outcomes. 
  • Evolving practice pattern changes and outcomes in the era of hybrid aortic arch repair. 
  • Examination of Hydroxychloroquine Use and Hemolytic Anemia in G6PDH-Deficient Patients. 
  • Examining Health Care Access for Refugee Children and Families in the North Carolina Triangle Area. 
  • Examining the impact of genetic testing for type 2 diabetes on health behaviors: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Examining the role of serostatus disclosure on unprotected sex among people living with HIV. 
  • Excessive use of vancomycin: a successful intervention strategy at an academic medical center. 
  • Exercise behavior, functional capacity, and survival in adults with malignant recurrent glioma. 
  • Exercise to improve spinal flexibility and function for people with Parkinson's disease: a randomized, controlled trial. 
  • Exogenous hormone use, reproductive factors, and risk of intracranial meningioma in females. 
  • Expanding donor availability in lung transplantation: A case report of 5000 miles traveled. 
  • Expansion of a regional ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction system to an entire state. 
  • Expectations and outcomes of gastric feeding tubes. 
  • Experiences With Smoking Cessation Attempts and Prior Use of Cessation Aids in Smokers With HIV: Findings From a Focus Group Study Conducted in Durham, North Carolina. 
  • Experiences of COVID-19 infection in North Carolina: A qualitative analysis. 
  • Expert physician recommendations and current practice patterns for evaluating and treating men with osteoporotic hip fracture. 
  • Explaining rural/non-rural disparities in physical health-related quality of life: a study of United Methodist clergy in North Carolina. 
  • Exploration of a hypothesized independent association of a common 9p21.3 gene variant and ischemic stroke in patients with and without angiographic coronary artery disease. 
  • Exploration of work and health disparities among black women employed in poultry processing in the rural south. 
  • Exploring associations between physical activity and perceived and objective measures of the built environment. 
  • Exploring e-readers to support clinical medical education: two case studies. 
  • Exploring predictors of complication in older surgical patients: a deficit accumulation index and the Braden Scale. 
  • Exploring the impact of tablet computers on medical training at an academic medical center. 
  • Exposure to low-dose ambient fine particulate matter PM2.5 and Alzheimer's disease, non-Alzheimer's dementia, and Parkinson's disease in North Carolina. 
  • Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation and Interfacility Transfer: A Regional Referral Experience. 
  • Extrapulmonary tuberculosis, human immunodeficiency virus, and foreign birth in North Carolina, 1993 - 2006. 
  • FAK overexpression and p53 mutations are highly correlated in human breast cancer. 
  • FDDI information management system for centralizing interactive, computerized multimedia clinical experiences in pediatric rheumatology/Immunology. 
  • Facilitating Institutional Oversight and Program Improvement Through Educational Competency Committees. 
  • Facilitators and Barriers to Naloxone Kit Use Among Opioid-Dependent Patients Enrolled in Medication Assisted Therapy Clinics in North Carolina. 
  • Facing the challenge of HIV. Primary care physicians have an obligation to care for those infected. 
  • Factors Associated With Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infections Linked in Genetic Clusters But Disconnected in Partner Tracing. 
  • Factors Controlling the Risks of Co-occurrence of the Redox-Sensitive Elements of Arsenic, Chromium, Vanadium, and Uranium in Groundwater from the Eastern United States. 
  • Factors affecting increasing radiation dose for mammography in North Carolina from 1997 through 2001: an analysis of Food and Drug Administration annual surveys. 
  • Factors affecting the communication experiences of newly diagnosed colorectal cancer patients. 
  • Factors associated with condom use among at-risk women students and nonstudents seen in managed care. 
  • Factors associated with non-adherence to three hypertension self-management behaviors: preliminary data for a new instrument. 
  • Factors associated with paranoid symptoms in a community sample of older adults. 
  • Factors associated with patient-recalled smoking cessation advice in a low-income clinic. 
  • Factors associated with repeat mammography screening. 
  • Factors associated with suboptimal analgesic use in community-dwelling elderly. 
  • Factors improving survival in multisystem trauma patients. 
  • Factors influencing adherence to pre-dive checklists among recreational scuba divers. 
  • Factors influencing pursuit of hearing evaluation: Enhancing the health belief model with perceived burden from hearing loss on communication partners. 
  • Factors related to an effective referral and consultation process. 
  • Factors responsible for immunizations referrals to health departments in North Carolina. 
  • Factors that influence the timing of spontaneous labor at term. 
  • Familial clustering of intracerebral hemorrhage: a prospective study in North Carolina. 
  • Family diabetes matters: a view from the other side. 
  • Family medicine at Duke: excellence defined. 
  • Family physician acceptance of universal hepatitis B immunization of infants. 
  • Family planning intentions: a qualitative exploration of postpartum women of Mexican descent in North Carolina. 
  • Family risk as a predictor of initial engagement and follow-through in a universal nurse home visiting program to prevent child maltreatment. 
  • Family-based obesity prevention for infants: Design of the "Mothers & Others" randomized trial. 
  • Favorable impact of an infection control network on nosocomial infection rates in community hospitals. 
  • Favorable survival associated with microsatellite instability in endometrioid endometrial cancers. 
  • Fears of genocide among black Americans as related to age, sex, and region. 
  • Feasibility and Value of Developing a Regional Antibiogram for Community Hospitals. 
  • Feasibility and applicability of computer-assisted myocardial blush quantification after primary percutaneous coronary intervention for ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction. 
  • Feasibility of Core Antimicrobial Stewardship Interventions in Community Hospitals. 
  • Feasibility of a Clinic-Community Partnership to Treat Childhood Obesity. 
  • Feasibility of a tailored intervention to improve preventive care use in women. 
  • Feasibility of low-dose interleukin-2 therapy following T-cell-depleted nonmyeloablative allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation from HLA-matched or -mismatched family member donors. 
  • Feasibility of point-of-care echocardiography by internal medicine house staff. 
  • FenyMon: ferry-based monitoring and assessment of human and climatically driven environmental change in the Albemarle-Pamlico sound system. 
  • Financial comparative analysis of minimally invasive surgery to open surgery for localized prostate cancer: a single-institution experience. 
  • Finding the minimal intervention needed for sustained mammography adherence. 
  • Fine particulate matter and cardiovascular disease: Comparison of assessment methods for long-term exposure. 
  • Fine-root respiration in a loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) forest exposed to elevated CO2 and N fertilization. 
  • First evidence on the validity and reliability of the Safety Organizing Scale-Nursing Home version (SOS-NH). 
  • First reported case of Cryptococcus gattii in the Southeastern USA: implications for travel-associated acquisition of an emerging pathogen. 
  • Fish Consumption Patterns and Mercury Advisory Knowledge Among Fishers in the Haw River Basin. 
  • Fishing for food: Values and benefits associated with coastal infrastructure. 
  • Five-year trajectories of social networks and social support in older adults with major depression. 
  • Fluoride supplement prescribing and dental referral patterns among academic pediatricians. 
  • Fluorosis development in seven age cohorts after an 11-month break in water fluoridation. 
  • Fluoxetine versus placebo in advanced cancer outpatients: a double-blinded trial of the Hoosier Oncology Group. 
  • Focusing on Diversity: A Regional Internal Medicine Residency Viewpoint on Underrepresented Minority Support, Retention, and Mentoring. 
  • Foliage shedding in deciduous forests lifts up long-distance seed dispersal by wind. 
  • Folic acid supplementation before and during pregnancy in the Newborn Epigenetics STudy (NEST). 
  • Following unenhanced MRI assessment for local recurrence after surgical resection of mesenchymal soft tissue tumors, do additional gadolinium-enhanced images change reader confidence or diagnosis? 
  • Foods and Beverages Available at SNAP-Authorized Drugstores in Sections of North Carolina. 
  • For U.S. Black women, shift of hysterectomy to outpatient settings may have lagged behind White women: a claims-based analysis, 2011-2013. 
  • Fostering Radiation Oncology Physician Scientist Trainees Within a Diverse Workforce: The Radiation Oncology Research Scholar Track. 
  • Fostering creativity: how the Duke Graduate Medical Education Quasi-Endowment encourages innovation in GME. 
  • Four-decade responses of soil trace elements to an aggrading old-field forest: B, Mn, Zn, Cu, and Fe. 
  • Frailty and health-related quality of life in older women with breast cancer. 
  • Frailty and risk in proximal aortic surgery. 
  • Free visits: a strategy to retain patients and improve continuity in a residency program. 
  • Frequency of breast cancer attributable to BRCA1 in a population-based series of American women. 
  • From Research to Policy: Reopening K-12 Schools in North Carolina During the COVID-19 Pandemic. 
  • From classroom to Congress. My year on the legislative staff of the U.S. Senate. 
  • From concept to application: the impact of a community-wide intervention to improve the delivery of preventive services to children. 
  • From evidence to practice: using the RE-AIM framework to adapt the REACHII caregiver intervention to the community. 
  • Front line workers' attitudes towards psychiatric advance directives. 
  • Functional Impairments Mediate Association Between Clinical Fracture Risk and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Older Women. 
  • Functional coordination between leaf gas exchange and vulnerability to xylem cavitation in temperate forest trees. 
  • Functional disability among elderly blacks and whites in two diverse areas: the New Haven and North Carolina EPESE. Established Populations for the Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly. 
  • Functional traits of the understory plant community of a pyrogenic longleaf pine forest across environmental gradients. 
  • Fundoplication after lung transplantation prevents the allograft dysfunction associated with reflux. 
  • Gallbladder abnormalities in children with metachromatic leukodystrophy. 
  • Gender Differences in the Link between Childhood Socioeconomic Conditions and Heart Attack Risk in Adulthood 
  • Gender differences in the impact of social support on crack use among African Americans. 
  • Generalized anxiety and C-reactive protein levels: a prospective, longitudinal analysis. 
  • Genetic Variants in Cyclooxygenase-2 Contribute to Post-treatment Pain among Endodontic Patients. 
  • Genetic evidence for hybridization in red oaks (Quercus sect. Lobatae, Fagaceae). 
  • Genetic variants associated with vein graft stenosis after coronary artery bypass grafting. 
  • Genetic variation in horizontally transmitted fungal endophytes of pine needles reveals population structure in cryptic species. 
  • Genetics of resistance to the rust fungus Coleosporium ipomoeae in three species of morning glory (Ipomoea). 
  • Genomic Analysis of Multidrug-Resistant Escherichia coli from North Carolina Community Hospitals: Ongoing Circulation of CTX-M-Producing ST131-H30Rx and ST131-H30R1 Strains. 
  • Geographic Disparities in Cytomegalovirus Infection During Pregnancy. 
  • Geographic Information Systems Mapping of Diabetic Retinopathy in an Ocular Telemedicine Network. 
  • Geographic differences in mortality from stroke in North Caroline. 1. Analysis of death certificates. 
  • Geographic information system-based screening for TB, HIV, and syphilis (GIS-THIS): a cross-sectional study. 
  • Geriatric Assessment as a Predictor of Tolerance, Quality of Life, and Outcomes in Older Patients With Head and Neck Cancers and Lung Cancers Receiving Radiation Therapy. 
  • Geriatric education: the Duke program. 
  • Geriatrics faculty and program development at Duke University. 
  • Gestational age at initiation of 17-alpha hydroxyprogesterone caproate and recurrent preterm birth. 
  • Gfeller-Waller Concussion Awareness Act. 
  • Glaucoma Blindness at a Tertiary Eye Care Center. 
  • Global self-ratings of health and mortality: hazard in the North Carolina Piedmont. 
  • Glutaric acidemia type 1 in patients of Lumbee heritage from North Carolina. 
  • Good to Great: Quality-Improvement Initiative Increases and Sustains Pediatric Health Care Worker Hand Hygiene Compliance. 
  • Grievances against physicians: 11 years' experience of a medical society grievance committee. 
  • Group diabetes self-management education in a primary care setting: a quality improvement project. 
  • Group treatment improves trunk strength and psychological status in older women with vertebral fractures: results of a randomized, clinical trial. 
  • Gun violence among young adults with a juvenile crime record in North Carolina: Implications for firearm restrictions based on age and risk. 
  • HIV Preexposure Prophylaxis Implementation at Local Health Departments: A Statewide Assessment of Activities and Barriers. 
  • HIV testing in North Carolina. 
  • HIV vaccine development at Duke University Medical Center. 
  • HIV-1 infected women and prenatal care utilization: barriers and facilitators. 
  • HIV-specific health care utilization and mortality among tuberculosis/HIV coinfected persons. 
  • Hand assisted laparoscopic training for postgraduate urologists: the role of mentoring. 
  • Hand hygiene noncompliance and the cost of hospital-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection. 
  • Handcuffs. 
  • Handoffs in the era of duty hours reform: a focused review and strategy to address changes in the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education Common Program Requirements. 
  • Hazardous Drugs: Legislative and Regulatory Efforts to Improve Safe Handling 
  • Health Care Use Among Latinx Children After 2017 Executive Actions on Immigration. 
  • Health Care Use and Spending Among Need-Based Subgroups of Medicare Beneficiaries With Full Medicaid Benefits. 
  • Health Care Utilization and Comorbidity History of North Carolina Medicaid Beneficiaries in a Controlled Substance "Lock-in" Program. 
  • Health Status of Children Enrolled in a Family Navigator Program to Eliminate Intergenerational Poverty. 
  • Health and the Environment in North Carolina. 
  • Health aspects of the North Carolina electronics industry. 
  • Health beliefs and desire to improve cholesterol levels among patients with hyperlipidemia. 
  • Health care providers' use of a drug information service for pregnancy-related inquiries. 
  • Health care--associated bloodstream infections in adults: a reason to change the accepted definition of community-acquired infections. 
  • Health literacy and adherence to glaucoma therapy. 
  • Health needs and barriers to healthcare of women who have experienced intimate partner violence. 
  • Health reform. Or not? 
  • Health services access and use among older adults in North Carolina: urban vs rural residents. 
  • Health system correlates of receipt of radiation therapy after breast-conserving surgery: a study of low-income Medicaid-enrolled women. 
  • Health-related quality of life among non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer survivors: a population-based study. 
  • Health-related quality of life differences between African Americans and non-Hispanic whites with head and neck cancer. 
  • HealthMpowerment.org: Building Community Through a Mobile-Optimized, Online Health Promotion Intervention. 
  • Healthcare access and utilization by patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus: does gender matter? 
  • Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: comparison of patients with and without angina pectoris (from the Duke Databank for Cardiovascular Disease). 
  • Heart matters: Gender and racial differences cardiovascular disease risk factor control among veterans. 
  • Heightened immigration enforcement impacts US citizens' birth outcomes: Evidence from early ICE interventions in North Carolina. 
  • Helicopter transport of patients during acute myocardial infarction. 
  • Helping nurse-midwives provide obstetrical care in rural North Carolina. 
  • Hemodialysis arteriovenous access: detection of stenosis and response to treatment by vascular access blood flow. 
  • Hemodynamics and Vascular Hypertrophy in African Americans and Caucasians With High Blood Pressure. 
  • Hepatitis B virus vaccine. An analysis of its potential use in medical workers. 
  • Hepatitis C Behind and Beyond Bars: Targeting the US Prison Population and Changing North Carolina Prisoner Health Policy. 
  • Hepatocellular carcinoma in a North American population: does hepatobiliary MR imaging with Gd-EOB-DTPA improve sensitivity and confidence for diagnosis? 
  • Heterothallic mating in Mucor irregularis and first isolate of the species outside of Asia. 
  • Hierarchical spatial modeling of uncertainty in air pollution and birth weight study. 
  • High Exposure to Organophosphate Flame Retardants in Infants: Associations with Baby Products. 
  • High blood pressure knowledge among primary care patients with known hypertension: a North Carolina Family Medicine Research Network (NC-FM-RN) study. 
  • High rates of obesity and chronic disease among United Methodist clergy. 
  • High variability in radiologists' reporting practices for incidental thyroid nodules detected on CT and MRI. 
  • High, usual and impaired functioning in community-dwelling older men and women: findings from the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Successful Aging. 
  • High-Density Lipoprotein Particle Subfractions in Heart Failure With Preserved or Reduced Ejection Fraction. 
  • High-dose chemotherapy with autologous stem-cell rescue in children and adults with newly diagnosed pineoblastomas. 
  • Higher medical morbidity burden is associated with external locus of control. 
  • Highly Cross-linked Polyethylene Provides Decreased Osteolysis and Reoperation at Minimum 10-Year Follow-Up. 
  • Hip and other osteoporotic fractures increase the risk of subsequent fractures in nursing home residents. 
  • Histoplasmosis Myocarditis in an Immunocompetent Host After a Recreational Mud Run. 
  • Home and community-based waivers for disabled adults: program versus selection effects. 
  • Homecare Encounters: An Organizational Response to Innovative Care for Patients Undergoing Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation During COVID-19. 
  • Hormonal risk factors for ovarian cancer in premenopausal and postmenopausal women. 
  • Hormone-related factors and risk of breast cancer in relation to estrogen receptor and progesterone receptor status. 
  • Hospice education about people with AIDS as terminally ill patients: coping with a new epidemic of death. 
  • Hospice in North Carolina: background and unanswered questions. 
  • Hospice. Care when there is no cure. 
  • Hospital credentialing and quality of care. 
  • Hospital credentialing for laparoscopic cholecystectomy: is stricter better? 
  • Hospital infection control, seat belts and the national debt. 
  • Hospital privileges of family physicians in North Carolina. 
  • Hospital workers bypass traditional occupational injury reporting systems when reporting patient and visitor perpetrated (type II) violence. 
  • Hospital-acquired complications in a randomized controlled clinical trial of a geriatric consultation team. 
  • Hospital-based palliative care units: answering a growing need. 
  • Hospitalizations and return visits after chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ED visits. 
  • Hostility during late adolescence predicts coronary risk factors at mid-life. 
  • How Arthroscope Orientation Affects Performance: Arthroscopy in the Perspective of the Viewer and Arthroscopy Opposite of the Viewer. 
  • How Medicaid and Managed Care Can Support Evidence-Based Treatment in North Carolina That is Informed by Adverse Childhood Experiences. 
  • How North Carolina Can Best Respond to Long-Term Services and Supports Needs. 
  • How North Carolina Hospitals, Health Systems, and Care Providers are Uniting to Fight the Opioid Epidemic. 
  • How bone density testing influenced osteoporosis treatment in a community hospital. 
  • How common is normal cerebrospinal fluid pressure in spontaneous intracranial hypotension? 
  • How complex do models need to be to predict dispersal of threatened species through matrix habitats? 
  • How do North Carolina prenatal care providers counsel and test pregnant women for HIV? Survey measures knowledge of HIV testing benefits. 
  • How do residents prioritize smoking cessation for young "high-risk" women? Factors associated with addressing smoking cessation. 
  • How does family drug treatment court participation affect child welfare outcomes? 
  • How much are patients willing to pay to avoid postoperative muscle pain associated with succinylcholine? 
  • How proxies make decisions about research for patients with Alzheimer's disease. 
  • How well do clinic-based blood pressure measurements agree with the mercury standard? 
  • Human T-cell lymphotropic virus I and adult T-cell leukemia: report of a cluster in North Carolina. 
  • Human visual function in the North Carolina clinical study on possible estuary-associated syndrome. 
  • Hurricane Florence and suicide mortality in North Carolina: a controlled interrupted time-series analysis. 
  • Hypertension Improvement Project (HIP) Latino: results of a pilot study of lifestyle intervention for lowering blood pressure in Latino adults. 
  • Hypertension and infant outcomes: North Carolina pregnancy risks assessment monitoring system data. 
  • Hypertension control among patients followed by cardiologists. 
  • Hypertension control in a rural southern community: medical care process and dropping out. 
  • Hypertension in the Young Adult Trauma Population: Rethinking the Traditional "Incidentaloma". 
  • Hypertensive patients' use of blood pressure monitors stationed in pharmacies and other locations: a cross-sectional mail survey. 
  • Hyponatremia and long-term outcomes in chronic heart failure--an observational study from the Duke Databank for Cardiovascular Diseases. 
  • Ice storm-related carbon monoxide poisonings in North Carolina: a reminder. 
  • Identification of Determinants and Implementation Strategies to Increase PrEP Uptake Among Black Same Gender-Loving Men in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina: The PrEP-MECK Study. 
  • Identification of novel risk factors for community-acquired Clostridium difficile infection using spatial statistics and geographic information system analyses. 
  • Identified themes of interactive visualizations overlayed onto EHR data: an example of improving birth center operating room efficiency. 
  • Identifying Moral Injury in Healthcare Professionals: The Moral Injury Symptom Scale-HP. 
  • Identifying Priorities to Improve the System of Care for Children With Complex Health Needs in North Carolina: Process and Outcomes of Systematic Stakeholder Engagement. 
  • Identifying Smoking Environments From Images of Daily Life With Deep Learning. 
  • Identifying Social Determinants of Health and Legal Needs for Children With Special Health Care Needs. 
  • If you build it will they come? Addressing social isolation within a technology-based HIV intervention for young black men who have sex with men. 
  • Imagine: compassion fatigue training for nurses. 
  • Immunology at Duke. 
  • Immunotherapy for malignant melanoma with a tumor cell vaccine. 
  • Impact of COVID-19-related School Closures on the Drivers of Child Health. 
  • Impact of Clinical Pharmacy Specialists on the Design and Implementation of a Quality Improvement Initiative to Decrease Inappropriate Medications in a Veterans Affairs Emergency Department. 
  • Impact of Gender on Satisfaction and Confidence in Cholesterol Control Among Veterans at Risk for Cardiovascular Disease. 
  • Impact of Medicaid preferred drug lists on therapeutic adherence. 
  • Impact of North Carolina's Early Childhood Programs and Policies on Educational Outcomes in Elementary School 
  • Impact of Obesity on Complications and 30-Day Readmission Rates After Cranial Surgery: A Single-Institutional Study of 224 Consecutive Craniotomy/Craniectomy Procedures. 
  • Impact of School Nurse Ratios and Health Services on Selected Student Health and Education Outcomes: North Carolina, 2011-2016. 
  • Impact of Smoking Ban on Passive Smoke Exposure in Pregnant Non-Smokers in the Southeastern United States. 
  • Impact of T status and N status on perioperative outcomes after thoracoscopic lobectomy for lung cancer. 
  • Impact of a routine, opt-out HIV testing program on HIV testing and case detection in North Carolina sexually transmitted disease clinics. 
  • Impact of a statewide ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction regionalization program on treatment times for women, minorities, and the elderly. 
  • Impact of anemia on mortality, cognition, and function in community-dwelling elderly. 
  • Impact of anemia on physical function and survival among patients with coronary artery disease. 
  • Impact of depressive symptoms on hospitalization risk in community-dwelling older persons. 
  • Impact of diabetes screening on quality of life. 
  • Impact of early surgery on survival of patients with severe mitral regurgitation. 
  • Impact of emergency department volume on registered nurse time at the bedside. 
  • Impact of endovascular simulator training on vascular surgery as a career choice in medical students. 
  • Impact of estrogen use on decline in cognitive function in a representative sample of older community-resident women. 
  • Impact of inappropriate drug use on mortality and functional status in representative community dwelling elders. 
  • Impact of outpatient commitment on victimization of people with severe mental illness. 
  • Impact of patient-specific factors, irradiated left ventricular volume, and treatment set-up errors on the development of myocardial perfusion defects after radiation therapy for left-sided breast cancer. 
  • Impact of radiology reports on timely tuberculosis diagnosis. 
  • Impact of using a telescoping-support catheter system for left ventricular lead placement on implant success and procedure time of cardiac resynchronization therapy. 
  • Impacts of Workplace Health Promotion and Wellness Programs on Health Care Utilization and Costs: Results From an Academic Workplace. 
  • Impaired but undiagnosed. 
  • Implantable left ventricular assist devices: new hope for patients with end-stage heart failure. 
  • Implementation and Quality Improvement of a Screening and Counseling Program for Unhealthy Alcohol Use in an Academic General Internal Medicine Practice. 
  • Implementation and refinement of the emergency severity index. 
  • Implementation of Changes to Medical Student Documentation at Duke University Health System: Balancing Education With Service. 
  • Implementation of a Pooled Surveillance Testing Program for Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infections on a College Campus - Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, August 2-October 11, 2020. 
  • Implementation of a billable transitional care model for stroke patients: the COMPASS study. 
  • Implementation of a responsible conduct of research education program at Duke University School of Medicine. 
  • Implementation of a statewide system for coronary reperfusion for ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction. 
  • Implementation of management strategies for diabetes and hypertension: from local to global health in cardiovascular diseases. 
  • Implementation of mandatory opioid prescribing limits in North Carolina: healthcare administrator and prescriber perspectives. 
  • Implementation of the ACR Dose Index Registry. 
  • Implementing a Prison Medicaid Enrollment Program for Inmates with a Community Inpatient Hospitalization. 
  • Implementing advanced access in a family medicine practice: a new paradigm in primary care. 
  • Implementing family health history risk stratification in primary care: impact of guideline criteria on populations and resource demand. 
  • Implications of early versus late onset of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder symptoms. 
  • Importance of a nanoscience approach in the understanding of major aqueous contamination scenarios: case study from a recent coal ash spill. 
  • Improved survival but marginal allograft function in patients treated with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation after lung transplantation. 
  • Improving Resident and Fellow Engagement in Patient Safety Through a Graduate Medical Education Incentive Program. 
  • Improving Well-Being Among Trainees: A Partnership to Reduce Barriers to Primary Care Services. 
  • Improving dementia care through behavioral interventions. 
  • Improving drug prescribing in a primary care practice. 
  • Improving patient flow in the emergency department by placing a family nurse practitioner in triage: a quality-improvement project. 
  • Improving preventive service delivery through office systems. 
  • Improving stroke education performance measures scores: the impact of a stroke nurse coordinator. 
  • Improving the Efficiency of Care for Pediatric Patients Hospitalized With Asthma. 
  • Improving the health of the community: Duke's experience with community engagement. 
  • Imputation of confidential data sets with spatial locations using disease mapping models. 
  • In search of microbial indicator taxa: shifts in stream bacterial communities along an urbanization gradient. 
  • In the wake of two retractions, a request for investigation. 
  • In-hospital outcomes of premature infants with severe bronchopulmonary dysplasia. 
  • Incidence and Secondary Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 Infections in Schools. 
  • Incidence and predictors of bleeding events after fibrinolytic therapy with fibrin-specific agents: a comparison of TNK-tPA and rt-PA. 
  • Incidence and predictors of cetuximab hypersensitivity reactions in a North Carolina academic medical center. 
  • Incidence and predictors of sudden cardiac death in patients with diastolic heart failure. 
  • Incidence and remission of insomnia among elderly adults in a biracial cohort. 
  • Incidence, Management, and Outcomes of Trauma in Patients with a Left Ventricular Assist Device in North Carolina. 
  • Incidental thyroid nodules on CT: evaluation of 2 risk-categorization methods for work-up of nodules. 
  • Income dividends and subjective survival in a Cherokee Indian cohort: a quasi-experiment. 
  • Incorporating a built environment module into an accelerated second-degree community health nursing course. 
  • Incorporating acupuncture in a university-based family medicine center: lessons learned. 
  • Incorporating gross anatomy education into radiation oncology residency: a 2-year curriculum with evaluation of resident satisfaction. 
  • Increase in Cesarean Operative Time Following Institution of the 80-Hour Workweek. 
  • Increase in tracheostomy for prolonged mechanical ventilation in North Carolina, 1993-2002. 
  • Increase in untreated cases of psychiatric disorders during the transition to adulthood. 
  • Increased Costs Associated with Bloodstream Infections Caused by Multidrug-Resistant Gram-Negative Bacteria Are Due Primarily to Patients with Hospital-Acquired Infections. 
  • Increased lung cancer mortality among chrysotile asbestos textile workers is more strongly associated with exposure to long thin fibres. 
  • Increased prevalence of advanced tuberculosis in rural low tuberculosis caseload counties in North Carolina. 
  • Increased sectioning of pathologic specimens with ductal carcinoma in situ of the breast: are there clinical consequences? 
  • Increases in the flux of carbon belowground stimulate nitrogen uptake and sustain the long-term enhancement of forest productivity under elevated CO₂. 
  • Increasing Access to State Psychiatric Hospital Beds: Exploring Supply-Side Solutions. 
  • Increasing HPV vaccination series completion rates via text message reminders. 
  • Increasing Nocardia Incidence Associated with Bronchiectasis at a Tertiary Care Center. 
  • Increasing Stroke Knowledge and Decreasing Stroke Risk in a Latino Immigrant Population. 
  • Increasing compliance with mammography recommendations: health assessment forms. 
  • Increasing obstetrical care access to the rural poor. 
  • Increasing utilization of computed tomography in the adult emergency department, 2000-2005. 
  • Increasing utilization of computed tomography in the pediatric emergency department, 2000-2006. 
  • Independent activities for student learning during community-based rotations. 
  • Independent prognostic value of echocardiography and N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide in patients with heart failure. 
  • Individual, Area, and Provider Characteristics Associated With Care Received for Stages I to III Breast Cancer in a Multistate Region of Appalachia. 
  • Individualized computer-aided education in mammography based on user modeling: concept and preliminary experiments. 
  • Individuals aged 1-64 years with documented congenital heart defects at healthcare encounters, five U.S. surveillance sites, 2011-2013. 
  • Inequities in Receipt of the North Carolina Medicaid Waiver Among Individuals with Intellectual Disability or Autism Spectrum Disorder. 
  • Infant birth weight among women with or at high risk for HIV infection: the impact of clinical, behavioral, psychosocial, and demographic factors. 
  • Infections diagnosed in the first year after pediatric stem cell transplantation. 
  • Influence of racial disparities in procedure use on functional status outcomes among patients with coronary artery disease. 
  • Informal social status among coworkers and risk of work-related injury among nurse aides in long-term care. 
  • Informed consent for AIDS testing. Or: whose vein is it anyway? 
  • Initial assessment of a new instrument to measure quality of life at the end of life. 
  • Injuries among teens employed in the homebuilding industry in North Carolina. 
  • Injuries from the 2002 North Carolina ice storm, and strategies for prevention. 
  • Inpatient care for elderly cancer patients: the role for Geriatric Evaluation and Management Units in fulfilling goals for care. 
  • Inpatient medication reconciliation at admission and discharge: A retrospective cohort study of age and other risk factors for medication discrepancies. 
  • Insights from the first putative biosynthetic gene cluster for a lichen depside and depsidone. 
  • Instituting a Surgical Skills Competition Increases Technical Performance of Surgical Clerkship Students Over Time. 
  • Insulin pump therapy in toddlers and preschool children with type 1 diabetes mellitus. 
  • Insurance Coverage, Costs, and Barriers to Care for Outpatient Musculoskeletal Therapy and Rehabilitation Services. 
  • Insurance Expansions: Do They Hurt Those They Are Designed to Help? 
  • Insurance-Based Differences in Time to Diagnostic Follow-up after Positive Screening Mammography. 
  • Integrated screening for tuberculosis and HIV in tuberculosis contact investigations: lessons learned in North Carolina. 
  • Integrating Surveillance Data to Estimate Race/Ethnicity-specific Hysterectomy Inequalities Among Reproductive-aged Women: Who's at Risk? 
  • Integrating routine HIV screening into a primary care setting in rural North Carolina. 
  • Integration of Contact Tracing and Phylogenetics in an Investigation of Acute HIV Infection. 
  • Integrative care: what the research shows. 
  • Intentions to maintain adherence to mammography. 
  • Inter-disciplinary focus groups on telephone medicine: a quality improvement initiative. 
  • Interaction exchange structure and patient satisfaction with medical interviews. 
  • Interactive effects of nocturnal transpiration and climate change on the root hydraulic redistribution and carbon and water budgets of southern United States pine plantations. 
  • Interchangeability of Licensed Nurses in Nursing Homes: Perspectives of Directors of Nursing. 
  • Interest in testing for genetic susceptibility to lung cancer among Black college students "at risk" of becoming cigarette smokers. 
  • Interlocking trajectories of loss-related events and depressive symptoms among elders. 
  • Interpersonal and self-reported hostility among combat veterans with and without posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • Interpreting the effectiveness of involuntary outpatient commitment: a conceptual model. 
  • Intersectionalities and the HIV continuum of care among gay Latino men living with HIV in North Carolina. 
  • Interstitial lung disease in a veterans affairs regional network; a retrospective cohort study. 
  • Intimate partner physical assault before and during pregnancy: how does it relate to women's psychological vulnerability? 
  • Intrahospital Transport of the Critically Ill Adult: A Standardized Evaluation Plan. 
  • Intramedullary screw fixation of Jones fractures. Analysis of failure. 
  • Intrinsic breast tumor subtypes, race, and long-term survival in the Carolina Breast Cancer Study. 
  • Investigating Associations Between Health-Related Quality of Life and Endocrine Therapy Underuse in Women With Early-Stage Breast Cancer. 
  • Invisible children. 
  • Involuntary outpatient commitment and homelessness in persons with severe mental illness. 
  • Irritable mood as a symptom of depression in youth: prevalence, developmental, and clinical correlates in the Great Smoky Mountains Study. 
  • Is There a Benefit to Highly Crosslinked Polyethylene in Posterior-stabilized Total Knee Arthroplasty? A Randomized Trial. 
  • Is an increased dwell time of a peripherally inserted catheter associated with an increased risk of bloodstream infection in infants? 
  • Is anybody out there? Integrating HIV services in rural regions. 
  • Is bigger really better? Obesity among high school football players, player position, and team success. 
  • Is implementation fidelity associated with improved access to care in a school-based Child and Family Team model? 
  • Is medication use by community-dwelling elderly people influenced by cognitive function? 
  • Is surgical excision of core biopsy proven benign papillomas of the breast necessary? 
  • Is there an estuary associated syndrome in North Carolina? Findings in a series of hotline callers. 
  • Ischemia change in stable coronary artery disease is an independent predictor of death and myocardial infarction. 
  • Issues involved in the phenotypic classification of orofacial clefts ascertained through a state birth defects registry for the North Carolina Cleft Outcomes Study. 
  • It's the amount of thought that counts: when ambivalence contributes to mammography screening delay. 
  • Job strain and blood pressure in African Americans: the Pitt County Study. 
  • Job stress and preeclampsia. 
  • Joint Bayesian analysis of birthweight and censored gestational age using finite mixture models. 
  • Joint effects of alcohol consumption and polymorphisms in alcohol and oxidative stress metabolism genes on risk of head and neck cancer. 
  • Joint hypermobility is not positively associated with prevalent multiple joint osteoarthritis: a cross-sectional study of older adults. 
  • Just for Us: an academic medical center-community partnership to maintain the health of a frail low-income senior population. 
  • Just for Us: in-home care for frail elderly and disabled individuals with low incomes. 
  • Just for us. 
  • Keen on teen vaccines: improvement of adolescent vaccine coverage in rural North Carolina. 
  • Kidney and pancreas transplantation at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. 
  • Kids and adults now! Defeat Obesity (KAN-DO): rationale, design and baseline characteristics. 
  • Kinship Care and Foster Care: A Comparison of Out-of-Home Placement From the Perspective of Child Abuse Experts in North Carolina. 
  • Knowledge and perceptions among overweight and obese employees about lifestyle-related health benefit changes. 
  • Knowledge and risks of human immunodeficiency virus transmission among veterans with severe mental illness. 
  • Knowledge of diet and blood pressure among African Americans: use of focus groups for questionnaire development. 
  • Knowledge, attitudes, and use of emergency contraception among rural western North Carolina women. 
  • LATIN-19: A Grassroots Coalition to Mitigate the Effect of COVID-19 on the Latinx Community in North Carolina. 
  • Lack of genetic differentiation between two geographically diverse samples of Candida albicans isolated from patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus. 
  • Lactation and breast cancer risk. 
  • Lactational exposure to polybrominated diphenyl ethers and its relation to social and emotional development among toddlers. 
  • Lactational exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls, dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, and dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene and infant neurodevelopment: an analysis of the pregnancy, infection, and nutrition babies study. 
  • Landscape characteristics of a stream and wetland mitigation banking program. 
  • Laparoscopic versus open Hartmann procedure for the emergency treatment of diverticulitis: a propensity-matched analysis. 
  • Late diagnosis of HIV infection: the role of age and sex. 
  • Leadership case study: Joyce Ann Clayton Thorpe Nichols, PA-C. 
  • Leaf-level gas-exchange uniformity and photosynthetic capacity among loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) genotypes of contrasting inherent genetic variation. 
  • Legacy source of mercury in an urban stream-wetland ecosystem in central North Carolina, USA. 
  • Legends in urology. 
  • Leiomyosarcoma of the somatic soft tissues. 
  • Length of Stay, Mortality, Cost, and Perceptions of Care Associated With Transition From an Open to Closed Staffing Model in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit. 
  • 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. 
  • Let's Work Together: Interprofessional Training of Health Professionals in North Carolina. 
  • Leveraging Big Data Towards Functionally-Based, Catchment Scale Restoration Prioritization. 
  • Leveraging Phylogenetics to Understand HIV Transmission and Partner Notification Networks. 
  • Life events, mental health functioning and the use of health care services by the elderly. 
  • Life history profiles for 27 strepsirrhine primate taxa generated using captive data from the Duke Lemur Center. 
  • Life table techniques for multiple-cause mortality. 
  • Life-course socioeconomic position and hypertension in African American men: the Pitt County Study. 
  • Life-course socioeconomic position and obesity in African American Women: the Pitt County Study. 
  • Life-threatening Cache Valley virus infection. 
  • Lifestyle intervention development study to improve physical function in older adults with cancer: outcomes from Project LEAD. 
  • Lifetime Risk of Symptomatic Hand Osteoarthritis: The Johnston County Osteoarthritis Project. 
  • Limiting damages for "pain and suffering" in medical malpractice. 
  • Linkage analysis in familial Alzheimer disease: description of the Duke and Boston data sets. 
  • Linking clinical and public health approaches to improve access to health care for socially disadvantaged mothers and children. A feasibility study. 
  • Literacy and blood pressure--do healthcare systems influence this relationship? A cross-sectional study. 
  • Literacy and laryngectomy: how should one treat head and neck cancer in patients who cannot read or write? 
  • Liver function tests: inadequate screening modality for detection of liver metastasis in head and neck carcinoma. 
  • Liver transplantation. Initiation of the first program in North Carolina. 
  • Local access to subspecialty care influences the chance of receiving a liver transplant. 
  • Local cost structures and the economics of robot assisted radical prostatectomy. 
  • Local failure in resected N1 lung cancer: implications for adjuvant therapy. 
  • Local interaction strategies and capacity for better care in nursing homes: a multiple case study. 
  • Log2Lose: Development and Lessons Learned From a Mobile Technology Weight Loss Intervention. 
  • Long-Term Outcomes of Lobectomy for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer After Definitive Radiation Treatment. 
  • Long-acting reversible contraception: Assessment of knowledge and interest among college females. 
  • Long-term care in North Carolina. 
  • Long-term changes in watershed nutrient inputs and riverine exports in the Neuse River, North Carolina. 
  • Long-term clinical outcomes following coronary stenting. 
  • Long-term dynamics of death rates of emphysema, asthma, and pneumonia and improving air quality. 
  • Long-term psychosocial effects of childhood exposure to parental problem drinking. 
  • Long-term results of endovascular repair for descending thoracic aortic aneurysms. 
  • Long-term survival of patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy treated by coronary artery bypass grafting versus medical therapy. 
  • Longitudinal effects of SafeTalk, a motivational interviewing-based program to improve safer sex practices among people living with HIV/AIDS. 
  • Longitudinal pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) acceptability, initiation and adherence among criminal justice-involved adults in the USA: the Southern PrEP Cohort Study (SPECS) protocol. 
  • Loop ileostomy closure at an ambulatory surgery facility: a safe and cost-effective alternative to routine hospitalization. 
  • Low educational attainment, John Henryism, and cardiovascular reactivity to and recovery from personally relevant stress. 
  • Low lead one ratio predicts clinical outcomes in left bundle branch block. 
  • Lower hemoglobin concentration decreases time to death in severely anemic patients for whom blood transfusion is not an option. 
  • Lower stroke-related mortality in counties with stroke centers: North Carolina Stroke Facilities Survey. 
  • Lung Cancer Risk Associated with Regulated and Unregulated Chrysotile Asbestos Fibers. 
  • Lung cancer in North Carolina. 
  • Lung cancer mortality and fibre exposures among North Carolina asbestos textile workers. 
  • Lung cancer mortality in North Carolina and South Carolina chrysotile asbestos textile workers. 
  • Lung transplantation at Duke University Medical Center. 
  • Lung transplantation at Duke University Medical Center. 
  • Lung transplantation at Duke University. 
  • Lung transplantation using allografts with more than 8 hours of ischemic time: A single-institution experience. 
  • Lyme disease. Pitfalls in diagnosis. 
  • M. Stephen Mahaley, Jr., M.D., Ph.D., 1932-1992. 
  • Major liver resection in elderly patients: a multi-institutional analysis. 
  • Making a home in the community for the academic medical center. 
  • Making epidemiologic studies responsive to the needs of participants and communities: the Carolina Breast Cancer Study experience. 
  • Malignant melanoma and pregnancy. 
  • Malignant melanoma in black Americans. A trend toward improved survival. 
  • Managed behavioral health care: a Medicaid carve-out for youth. 
  • Management and long-term outcome of aortic dissection. 
  • Management of a Pediatric Snake Envenomation After Presentation With a Tight Tourniquet. 
  • Management of cardiovascular risk in the usual care of Medicaid recipients. 
  • Management of lawnmower injuries to the lower extremity in children and adolescents. 
  • Managing Prostate Cancer Surgical Patients during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Brief Report of the Duke Cancer Institute's Initial Experience. 
  • Mandatory reporting of occupational health problems. A new surveillance program in North Carolina. 
  • Manganese superoxide dismutase Ala-9Val polymorphism and risk of breast cancer in a population-based case-control study of African Americans and whites. 
  • Manipulating perceptions of colorectal cancer threat: implications for screening intentions and behaviors. 
  • Mapping for prevention: GIS models for directing childhood lead poisoning prevention programs. 
  • Marginal structural models for analyzing causal effects of time-dependent treatments: an application in perinatal epidemiology. 
  • Marked differences in antidepressant use by race in an elderly community sample: 1986-1996. 
  • Masculinity beliefs predict psychosocial functioning in African American prostate cancer survivors. 
  • Masking Adherence in K-12 Schools and SARS-CoV-2 Secondary Transmission. 
  • Mass-casualty victim "surge" management. Preparing for bombings and blast-related injuries with possibility of hazardous materials exposure. 
  • Massive transfusion exceeding 50 units of blood products in trauma patients. 
  • Maternal Dietary Patterns are Associated with Lower Levels of Cardiometabolic Markers during Pregnancy. 
  • Maternal age, birth order, and race: differential effects on birthweight. 
  • Maternal obesity, psychological factors, and breastfeeding initiation. 
  • Maternal predictors of infant beverage consumption: results from the Nurture cohort study. 
  • Maternal prenatal depressive symptoms, nicotine addiction, and smoking-related knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors. 
  • Maternal super obesity and risk for intensive care unit admission in the MFMU Cesarean Registry. 
  • Maternal vitamin D receptor genetic variation contributes to infant birthweight among black mothers. 
  • Maximizing Use of Social Media to Improve Member Engagement in a Professional Organization. 
  • Maximizing oyster-reef growth supports green infrastructure with accelerating sea-level rise. 
  • Mean canopy stomatal conductance responses to water and nutrient availabilities in Picea abies and Pinus taeda. 
  • Measurement of dietary intake in the UNC Alumni Heart Study. University of North Carolina. 
  • Measurement of flame retardants and triclosan in municipal sewage sludge and biosolids. 
  • Measuring Patterns of Surgeon Confidence Using a Novel Assessment Tool. 
  • Measuring quality of life at the end of life: validation of the QUAL-E. 
  • Measuring the process of preventive service delivery in primary care practices for children. 
  • Mebane on the move: a community-based initiative to reduce childhood obesity. 
  • Medicaid Coverage Disruptions Among Children Enrolled in North Carolina Medicaid From 2016 to 2018. 
  • Medical Providers and Harm Reduction Views on Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis for HIV Prevention Among People Who Inject Drugs. 
  • Medical disability assessment of the back pain patient for the Social Security Administration: the weighting of presenting clinical features. 
  • Medical malpractice and the potential for alternative dispute resolution. 
  • Medical origins of Duke University? 
  • Medical student perceptions of diagnostic radiology. Influence of a senior radiology elective. 
  • Medication acquisition and self-reported adherence in veterans with hypertension. 
  • Medication adherence changes following value-based insurance design. 
  • Medication adherence practices of HIV/AIDS case managers: a statewide survey in North Carolina. 
  • Medication barriers and anti-hypertensive medication adherence: the moderating role of locus of control. 
  • Medication documentation in a primary care network serving North Carolina medicaid patients: results of a cross-sectional chart review. 
  • Medication errors in hospitalized cardiovascular patients. 
  • Medication monitoring and drug testing ethics project. 
  • Medication taking behaviors in the high- and low-functioning elderly: MacArthur field studies of successful aging. 
  • Medication use patterns among demented, cognitively impaired and cognitively intact community-dwelling elderly people. 
  • Medulloblastoma and birth date: evaluation of 3 U.S. datasets. 
  • Meeting Medicare requirements for transitional care: Do stroke care and policy align? 
  • Memory complaint as a predictor of cognitive decline: a comparison of African American and White elders. 
  • Menopausal hormones and breast cancer in a biracial population. 
  • Mental Health Among Military Personnel and Veterans. 
  • Mental Health and Substance Use Among Patients in a North Carolina HIV Clinic. 
  • Mental health care in North Carolina: challenges on the road to reform. 
  • Mental health issues among female clients of domestic violence programs in North Carolina. 
  • Mental stress and coronary disease. The Smart-Heart Study. 
  • Menthol preference among smokers: association with TRPA1 variants. 
  • Mentoring physician-scientists: fear of the unknown and scientific opportunity. 
  • Metabolic profiles predict adverse events after coronary artery bypass grafting. 
  • Methods for the analysis of mortality risks across heterogeneous small populations: examination of space-time gradients in cancer mortality in North Carolina counties 1970-75. 
  • Metoclopramide Reduces Fluoroscopy and Procedure Time during Gastrojejunostomy Tube Placement: A Placebo-Controlled Trial. 
  • Midpregnancy Marriage and Divorce: Why the Death of Shotgun Marriage Has Been Greatly Exaggerated 
  • Midterm results with thoracic endovascular aortic repair for chronic type B aortic dissection with associated aneurysm. 
  • Milestone-Based Assessments Are Superior to Likert-Type Assessments in Illustrating Trainee Progression. 
  • Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction for Newly Graduated Registered Nurses. 
  • Minimal Impact of Implemented Early Warning Score and Best Practice Alert for Patient Deterioration. 
  • Minor depression in family practice: functional morbidity, co-morbidity, service utilization and outcomes. 
  • Mitral gradients and frequency of recurrence of mitral regurgitation after ring annuloplasty for ischemic mitral regurgitation. 
  • Mitral valve prolapse. Disease or illness? 
  • Modeling plant composition as community continua in a forest landscape with LiDAR and hyperspectral remote sensing. 
  • Modeling seed dispersal distances: implications for transgenic Pinus taeda. 
  • Modeling the impact of Trichomonas vaginalis infection on HIV transmission in HIV-infected individuals in medical care. 
  • Moderate chronic pain, weight and dietary intake in African-American adult patients with sickle cell disease. 
  • Moderating Effects of Prior Social Resources on the Hospitalizations of Elders Who Become Widowed 
  • Modifiable patient-reported factors associated with cancer-screening knowledge and participation in a community-based health assessment. 
  • Modifying attributions of colorectal cancer risk. 
  • Modifying the Environment and Policy Assessment and Observation (EPAO) to better capture feeding practices of family childcare home providers. 
  • Molecular characterization of Rickettsia rickettsii infecting dogs and people in North Carolina. 
  • Molecular signatures of epithelial ovarian cancer: analysis of associations with tumor characteristics and epidemiologic risk factors. 
  • Monitoring and improving acute stroke care: The North Carolina Stroke Care Collaborative. 
  • Monitoring indoor exposure to organophosphate flame retardants: hand wipes and house dust. 
  • Moral Injury: An Intersection for Psychological and Spiritual Care. 
  • Morbidity and Mortality Conference for Percutaneous Coronary Intervention. 
  • 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. 
  • Morphological and genetic differentiation and reproductive isolation among closely related taxa in the Ipomoea series Batatas. 
  • Mortality among North Carolina construction workers, 1988-1994. 
  • Mortality and Health Outcomes in North Carolina Communities Located in Close Proximity to Hog Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations. 
  • Mortality before or during treatment among tuberculosis patients in North Carolina, 1993-2003. 
  • Mortality in patients treated with flecainide and encainide for supraventricular arrhythmias. 
  • Mortality risk associated with ejection fraction differs across resting nuclear perfusion findings. 
  • Mothers and fathers in the criminal justice system and children's child protective services involvement. 
  • Mothers' Psychological Distress and Feeding of Their Preterm Infants. 
  • Movement Matters, and So Does Context: Lessons Learned From Multisite Implementation of the Movement Matters Activity Program for Stroke in the Comprehensive Postacute Stroke Services Study. 
  • Moving beyond disclosure: women's perspectives on barriers and motivators to seeking assistance for intimate partner violence. 
  • Moving care forward: prehospital emergency cardiac systems. 
  • Multicenter review of preoperative risk factors for carotid endarterectomy in patients with ipsilateral symptoms. 
  • Multidisciplinary Approach to Clostridium difficile Infection in Adult Surgical Patients. 
  • Multidisciplinary training in the College Mental Health Service. 
  • Multiple nosocomial infections. An incidence study. 
  • Multiyear drought-induced morbidity preceding tree death in southeastern U.S. forests. 
  • Musculoskeletal Health: Addressing the Leading Causes of Disability. 
  • Musculoskeletal symptoms among commercial fishers in North Carolina. 
  • Musculoskeletal symptoms among poultry processing workers and a community comparison group: Black women in low-wage jobs in the rural South. 
  • Mycobacterium avium pseudo-outbreak associated with an outpatient bronchoscopy clinic: Lessons for reprocessing. 
  • NURTURE: development and pilot testing of a novel parenting intervention for mothers with histories of an eating disorder. 
  • Nail gun injuries among construction workers. 
  • Native coronary disease progression exceeds failed revascularization as cause of angina after five years in the Bypass Angioplasty Revascularization Investigation (BARI). 
  • Natural history and clinical effect of aortic valve regurgitation after left ventricular assist device implantation. 
  • Natural selection on a leaf-shape polymorphism in the ivyleaf morning glory (Ipomoea hederacea). 
  • Natural selection on extrafloral nectar production in Chamaecrista fasciculata: the costs and benefits of a mutualism trait. 
  • Near miss maternal mortality in a multiethnic population. 
  • Necrotizing enterocolitis and the use of loop diuretics in very low birth weight neonates. 
  • Necrotizing fasciitis and myositis caused by group A streptococci. Epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment of "flesh-eating bacteria". 
  • Neighborhood and Family Environment of Expectant Mothers May Influence Prenatal Programming of Adult Cancer Risk: Discussion and an Illustrative DNA Methylation Example. 
  • Neighborhood clinics: an academic medical center-community health center partnership. 
  • Neurocognitive changes after lung transplantation. 
  • Neurodevelopmental outcome of infants with unilateral or bilateral periventricular hemorrhagic infarction. 
  • New destinations, new trajectories? The educational progress of Hispanic youth in North Carolina. 
  • New models of care: building medical homes in empowered communities. 
  • Newborn screening for sickle cell disease and other hemoglobinopathies. Techniques' comparison and report of the North Carolina experience. 
  • Nicotine replacement and behavioral therapy for smoking cessation in pregnancy. 
  • Nicotine-mecamylamine treatment for smoking cessation: the role of pre-cessation therapy. 
  • No Hugs Allowed: Isolation and Inequity in North Carolina Long-term Services and Supports During COVID-19. 
  • No relationship between ovarian cancer risk and progesterone receptor gene polymorphism in a population-based, case-control study in North Carolina. 
  • Non-A, non-B hepatitis and chronic dialysis--another dilemma. 
  • Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug use, hormone receptor status, and breast cancer-specific mortality in the Carolina Breast Cancer Study. 
  • Nonfatal myocardial infarction and long-term outcomes in coronary artery disease. 
  • Noninvasive measurement of mucosal immunity in a free-ranging baboon population. 
  • Nonspecialty Nurse Education: Evaluation of the Oncology Intensives Initiative, an Oncology Curriculum to Improve Patient Care 
  • Nonurban male homosexuals: epidemiologic, immunologic and virologic characteristics. 
  • Normal structures in the intracranial dural sinuses: delineation with 3D contrast-enhanced magnetization prepared rapid acquisition gradient-echo imaging sequence. 
  • Normative Irritability in Youth: Developmental Findings From the Great Smoky Mountains Study. 
  • North Carolina Medicaid recipient management lock-in program: the pharmacist's perspective. 
  • North Carolina Specialty Courts, Treatment Access, and the Substance Use Crisis: A Promising but Underfunded Model. 
  • North Carolina hospitals' policies on medical futility. 
  • North Carolina macular dystrophy: exclusion map using RFLPs and microsatellites. 
  • North Carolina medical curiosities. 
  • North Carolina medical legacy. 
  • North Carolina public school teachers' contact patterns and mask use within and outside of school during the prevaccine phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. 
  • North Carolina stroke prevention and treatment facilities survey: rtPA therapy for acute stroke. 
  • North Carolina's multi-institutional pharmacogenomics efforts with the North Carolina Precision Health Collaborative. 
  • Nosocomial methicillin-resistant and methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus primary bacteremia: at what costs? 
  • Notes from the Field: Contact Investigation for an Infant with Congenital Tuberculosis Infection - North Carolina, 2016. 
  • Novel CenterCross and MultiCross devices for the treatment of infrainguinal chronic total occlusions: initial single-centre experience. 
  • Novel congenital myopathy locus identified in Native American Indians at 12q13.13-14.1. 
  • Nurse administered telephone intervention for blood pressure control: a patient-tailored multifactorial intervention. 
  • Nursing advocacy in North Carolina. 
  • Nutrition and physical activity randomized control trial in child care centers improves knowledge, policies, and children's body mass index. 
  • Nutritional Quality of Meals and Snacks Served and Consumed in Family Child Care. 
  • Obesity and workers' compensation: results from the Duke Health and Safety Surveillance System. 
  • Obesity as a predictor of poor antibody response to hepatitis B plasma vaccine. 
  • Obesity-related coagulation changes in pregnancy. 
  • Observational study in ten beauty salons: results informing development of the North Carolina BEAUTY and Health Project. 
  • Observed and self-reported pesticide protective behaviors of Latino migrant and seasonal farmworkers. 
  • Observing and improving hand hygiene compliance: implementation and refinement of an electronic-assisted direct-observer hand hygiene audit program. 
  • Obstructive sleep apnea is associated with increased rotor burden in patients undergoing focal impulse and rotor modification guided atrial fibrillation ablation. 
  • Occupational injuries among aides and nurses in acute care. 
  • Occupational risk factors for the development of systemic lupus erythematosus. 
  • Ocular motility in North Carolina autosomal dominant ataxia. 
  • Of hogs and men. Does North Carolina's hog industry raise the risk of infectious disease? 
  • Office preparedness for pediatric emergencies: a randomized, controlled trial of an office-based training program. 
  • Older adults in North Carolina. A demographic and health status profile. 
  • Olfactory and gustatory sensory changes to tobacco smoke in pregnant smokers. 
  • On the modulation and maintenance of hibernation in captive dwarf lemurs. 
  • One state's response to the malpractice insurance crisis: North Carolina's Rural Obstetrical Care Incentive Program. 
  • One-time screening to define the problem: Legionella exposure in an electric power company. 
  • One-year follow-up study of blood pressure and dietary patterns in dietary approaches to stop hypertension (DASH)-sodium participants. 
  • One-year trajectories of care and resource utilization for recipients of prolonged mechanical ventilation: a cohort study. 
  • Open access in primary care: results of a North Carolina pilot project. 
  • Operating Room-to-ICU Patient Handovers: A Multidisciplinary Human-Centered Design Approach. 
  • Opioid Overdose Deaths Among Formerly Incarcerated Persons and the General Population: North Carolina, 2000‒2018. 
  • Opt-Out HIV Testing of Inmates in North Carolina Prisons: Factors Associated with not Wanting a Test and not Knowing They Were Tested. 
  • Optimal body temperature in transitional extremely low birth weight infants using heart rate and temperature as indicators. 
  • Optimizing donor selection for public cord blood banking: influence of maternal, infant, and collection characteristics on cord blood unit quality. 
  • Optimizing the efficiency and quality of sipuleucel-T delivery in an academic institution. 
  • Optimizing the quality of breast cancer biomarker use at Duke Cancer Institute. 
  • Oral contraceptives and breast cancer: a case-control study with hospital and community controls. 
  • Orbital cellulitis in children. 
  • Organizational- and employee-level recruitment into a worksite-based weight loss study. 
  • Osteoarthritis and sleep: the Johnston County Osteoarthritis Project. 
  • Osteoarthritis physical activity care pathway (OA-PCP): results of a feasibility trial. 
  • Osteoporosis in lung transplant candidates compared to matched healthy controls. 
  • Out-of-hospital stroke screen accuracy in a state with an emergency medical services protocol for routing patients to acute stroke centers. 
  • Outbreak of bacteremia due to Burkholderia contaminans linked to intravenous fentanyl from an institutional compounding pharmacy. 
  • Outcome of patients sustaining acute ischemic mitral regurgitation during myocardial infarction. 
  • Outcome of urgent and elective percutaneous coronary interventions after pharmacologic reperfusion with tenecteplase combined with unfractionated heparin, enoxaparin, or abciximab. 
  • Outcomes following elective percutaneous coronary intervention without on-site surgical backup in a community hospital. 
  • Outcomes of Conversion Total Hip Arthroplasty From Free Vascularized Fibular Grafting. 
  • Outcomes of Reoperation After Acute Type A Aortic Dissection: Implications for Index Repair Strategy. 
  • Outcomes of older cognitively impaired individuals with current and past depression in the NCODE study. 
  • Outpatient diagnostic errors: unrecognized hyperglycemia. 
  • Ovarian Cancer in Women of African Ancestry (OCWAA) consortium: a resource of harmonized data from eight epidemiologic studies of African American and white women. 
  • Ovarian cancer risk factors in African-American and white women. 
  • Overall diet quality and age-related macular degeneration. 
  • Overcoming a travel burden to high-volume centers for treatment of retroperitoneal sarcomas is associated with improved survival. 
  • Overcoming inertia: improvement in achieving target low-density lipoprotein cholesterol. 
  • Oversight mechanisms for clinical research. 
  • Overwhelming Need, Insufficient Health Care for Justice-involved North Carolinians 
  • PA prototype-the legacy of Buddy Treadwell. 
  • PCA safety data review after clinical decision support and smart pump technology implementation. 
  • PREPARED Study: A Study of Shared Decision-Making for Coronary Artery Disease. 
  • Pain catastrophizing and pain-related fear in osteoarthritis patients: relationships to pain and disability. 
  • Pain medication management in nursing homes and nursing scope of practice. 
  • Pairing nurses and social workers in schools: North Carolina’s school-based child and family support teams. 
  • Palliative Care Planner: A Pilot Study to Evaluate Acceptability and Usability of an Electronic Health Records System-integrated, Needs-targeted App Platform. 
  • Palliative care and the search for value in health reform. 
  • Paramedic transtelephonic communication to cardiologist of clinical and electrocardiographic assessment for rapid reperfusion of ST-elevation myocardial infarction. 
  • Parasites enhance resistance to drought in a coastal ecosystem. 
  • Parent-focused change to prevent obesity in preschoolers: results from the KAN-DO study. 
  • Parental Perceptions of Weight Status in Preterm Compared with Term Infants. 
  • Partial uptake of varicella vaccine and the epidemiological effect on varicella disease in 11 day-care centers in North Carolina. 
  • Participant evaluation of a telephone-based osteoarthritis self-management program, 2006-2009. 
  • Participation rates in a case-control study: the impact of age, race, and race of interviewer. 
  • Particulate matter exposure, prenatal and postnatal windows of susceptibility, and autism spectrum disorders. 
  • Pastoral research in a hospital setting: a case study. 
  • Pathways into and through mental health services for children and adolescents. 
  • Patient Anxiety Before and Immediately After Imaging-Guided Breast Biopsy Procedures: Impact of Radiologist-Patient Communication. 
  • Patient acceptance of two health status measures: the Medical Outcomes Study Short-form General Health Survey and the Duke Health Profile. 
  • Patient characteristics associated with receipt of lifestyle behavior advice. 
  • Patient compliance in mobile screening mammography. 
  • Patient education and provider decision support to control blood pressure in primary care: a cluster randomized trial. 
  • Patient experiences with communication about sex during and after treatment for cancer. 
  • Patient exposition and physician explanation in initial medical interviews and outcomes of clinic visits. 
  • Patient perspectives on having multiple versus single prescribers of chronic disease medications: results of a qualitative study in a veteran population. 
  • Patient preferences of cosmesis for abdominal incisions in gynecologic surgery. 
  • Patient-centered care. A collaborative approach. 
  • Patient-centered medical homes and oral anticoagulation therapy initiation. 
  • Patient-reported frequency of taking aspirin in a population with coronary artery disease. 
  • Patterns and predictors of smoking cessation in an elderly cohort. 
  • Patterns of medical and nursing staff communication in nursing homes: implications and insights from complexity science. 
  • Patterns of opioid analgesic prescription among patients with osteoarthritis. 
  • Patterns of relapse after successful completion of initial therapy in primary central nervous system lymphoma: a case series. 
  • Patterns of tumor spread and risk of fracture and epidural impingement in metastatic vertebrae. 
  • Pay-for-Performance Incentives: Holy Grail or Sippy Cup? 
  • Payer database and geospatial analysis to evaluate practice patterns in treating allergy in North Carolina. 
  • Paying for Palliative Care in Medicare: Evidence From the Four Seasons/Duke CMMI Demonstration. 
  • Pediatric chronic kidney disease in North Carolina. 
  • Pediatrician approach to dysphonia. 
  • Pedicure-associated rapidly growing mycobacterial infection: an endemic disease. 
  • Peer standing and substance use in early-adolescent grade-level networks: a short-term longitudinal study. 
  • Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in Dust Collected from Residential Homes and Fire Stations in North America. 
  • Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in river discharge: Modeling loads upstream and downstream of a PFAS manufacturing plant in the Cape Fear watershed, North Carolina. 
  • Perceived Benefits and Barriers to Exercise for Recently Treated Adults With Acute Leukemia 
  • Perceived and actual stroke risk among men with hypertension. 
  • Perceived discrimination and reported delay of pharmacy prescriptions and medical tests. 
  • Perceived racial/ethnic bias in healthcare in Durham County, North Carolina: a comparison of community and national samples. 
  • Perceived racial/ethnic harassment and tobacco use among African American young adults. 
  • Perceptions about use of a patient Internet portal among Medicaid beneficiaries. 
  • Perceptions of African-American culture and implications for clinical trial design. 
  • Perceptions of Medicaid beneficiaries regarding the usefulness of accessing personal health information and services through a patient Internet portal. 
  • Percutaneous coronary interventions and cardiovascular outcomes for patients with chronic total occlusions. 
  • Percutaneous intervention, surgery, and medical therapy: a perspective from the Duke Databank for Cardiovascular Diseases. 
  • Performance evaluation of a full-scale innovative swine waste-to-energy system. 
  • Performance of a Machine Learning Classifier of Knee MRI Reports in Two Large Academic Radiology Practices: A Tool to Estimate Diagnostic Yield. 
  • Performance of elderly African American and White community residents on the CERAD Neuropsychological Battery. 
  • Perinatal HIV infection and the effect of zidovudine therapy on transmission in rural and urban counties. 
  • Perioperative Antibiotic Choice in Labored versus Unlabored Cesareans and Risk of Postcesarean Infectious Morbidity. 
  • Perpetrator, worker and workplace characteristics associated with patient and visitor perpetrated violence (Type II) on hospital workers: a review of the literature and existing occupational injury data. 
  • Persistence of antibody in healthcare workers vaccinated against hepatitis B. 
  • Persistent Depressive Symptoms in a Population With High Levels of Occupational Stress: Trajectories Offer Insights Into Both Chronicity and Resilience. 
  • Persistent N2 disease after neoadjuvant chemotherapy for non-small-cell lung cancer. 
  • Persistent eosinophilia and Strongyloides infection in Montagnard refugees after presumptive albendazole therapy. 
  • Person-Directed Care Planning in Nursing Homes: Resident, Family, and Staff Perspectives. 
  • Personality at midlife: stability, intrinsic maturation, and response to life events. 
  • Personality differences between surgery residents, nonsurgery residents, and medical students. 
  • Personality factors differentially predict exercise behavior in men and women. 
  • Perspectives and Practices of Athletic Trainers and Team Physicians Implementing the 2010 NCAA Sickle Cell Trait Screening Policy. 
  • Pertussis immunization in eight-month-old children in North Carolina. 
  • Pesticide Use and Age-Related Macular Degeneration in the Agricultural Health Study. 
  • Phase I trial of intratumoral PVSRIPO in patients with unresectable, treatment-refractory melanoma. 
  • Philanthropy Profile: Protecting North Carolina's Health by Investing in a Healthy Environment. 
  • Phobic anxiety, depression, and risk of ventricular arrhythmias in patients with coronary heart disease. 
  • Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviors of Children in Family Child Care Homes: Are There Opportunities for Improvement? 
  • Physical activity and NIDDM in African-Americans. The Pitt County Study. 
  • Physical activity and hypertension in black adults: the Pitt County Study. 
  • Physical activity and magnetic field exposure in pregnancy. 
  • Physical activity at age 12 and adult breast cancer risk (United States). 
  • Physical activity calorie expenditure (PACE) labels in worksite cafeterias: effects on physical activity. 
  • Physical assault among nursing staff employed in acute care. 
  • Physical assault, physical threat, and verbal abuse perpetrated against hospital workers by patients or visitors in six U.S. hospitals. 
  • Physical health functioning among United Methodist clergy. 
  • Physician Preceptor Satisfaction and Productivity Across Curricula: A Comparison Between Longitudinal Integrated Clerkships And Traditional Block Rotations. 
  • Physician allocation of Medicare resources for patients with advanced cancer. 
  • Physician assistants. A young profession celebrates the 35th anniversary of its birth in North Carolina. 
  • Physician assistants. Last bastion of primary care--or will they follow physicians into specialized practice? 
  • Physician knowledge and practices in the evaluation of coagulopathies in stroke patients. 
  • Physician-assisted suicide and advance directives concerning life support. 
  • Physicians' assurances of confidentiality and time spent alone with adolescents during primary care visits. 
  • Physicians' attitudes and practices regarding treatment of HIV-infected patients. 
  • Physiological arousal among women veterans with and without posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of a Novel Smoking Cessation App Designed for Individuals With Co-Occurring Tobacco Use Disorder and Serious Mental Illness. 
  • Pilot and feasibility study: prospective proteomic profiling of mammary epithelial cells from high-risk women provides evidence of activation of pro-survival pathways. 
  • Pilot study of massage in veterans with knee osteoarthritis. 
  • Pilot to policy: statewide dissemination and implementation of evidence-based treatment for traumatized youth. 
  • Pioneers in biomedical optics: special section honoring professor Frans F. Jobsis of Duke University. 
  • Pivoting to Value-Based Care in North Carolina. 
  • Place-Based Initiatives to Improve Health in Disadvantaged Communities: Cross-Sector Characteristics and Networks of Local Actors in North Carolina. 
  • Plasma omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids and survival in patients with chronic heart failure and major depressive disorder. 
  • Platelet Counts, Acute Kidney Injury, and Mortality after Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Surgery. 
  • Pneumococcal Carriage and Vaccine Coverage in Retirement Community Residents. 
  • Pollutant particles induce arginase II in human bronchial epithelial cells. 
  • Polymorphism in the IL18 gene and epithelial ovarian cancer in non-Hispanic white women. 
  • Polymorphisms in BRCA1 and BRCA2 and risk of epithelial ovarian cancer. 
  • Polyphasic characterization of four soil-derived phenanthrene-degrading Acidovorax strains and proposal of Acidovorax carolinensis sp. nov. 
  • Poor functional status is an independent predictor of surgical site infections due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in older adults. 
  • Population health initiatives for primary care at Duke University School of Medicine. 
  • Population-based burden of COPD-related visits in the ED: return ED visits, hospital admissions, and comorbidity risks. 
  • Positive Emotions During Infant Feeding and Postpartum Mental Health. 
  • Post-traumatic stress disorder in the community: an epidemiological study. 
  • Post-traumatic stress outcomes in non-Hodgkin's lymphoma survivors. 
  • Postintervention Patency Rates and Predictors of Patency after Percutaneous Interventions on Intragraft Stenoses within Failing Prosthetic Arteriovenous Grafts. 
  • Postoperative handoff communication: a simulation-based training method. 
  • Postoperative prostate-specific antigen nadir improves accuracy for predicting biochemical recurrence after radical prostatectomy: Results from the Shared Equal Access Regional Cancer Hospital (SEARCH) and Duke Prostate Center databases. 
  • Postpartum Medicaid enrollment and churn in North Carolina. 
  • Postrelease mortality among persons hospitalized during their incarceration. 
  • Posttraumatic stress without trauma in children. 
  • Posttraumatic symptomatology in children and adolescents after an industrial fire. 
  • Potential Cost-effectiveness of Early Identification of Hospital-acquired Infection in Critically Ill Patients. 
  • Potential effect of physical activity calorie equivalent labeling on parent fast food decisions. 
  • Potential trade-off between vocal ornamentation and spatial ability in a songbird 
  • Poverty as context for the parenting experience of low-income Lumbee Indian mothers with a medically fragile infant. 
  • Poverty, race/ethnicity, and psychiatric disorder: a study of rural children. 
  • Practice and quality improvement: successful implementation of TeamSTEPPS tools into an academic interventional ultrasound practice. 
  • Practice profile. Community collaboration to improve care and reduce health disparities. 
  • Pre-Pregnancy Weight and Symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Executive Functioning Behaviors in Preschool Children. 
  • Pre-counseling education materials for BRCA testing: does tailoring make a difference? 
  • Prediagnostic Smoking Is Associated with Binary and Quantitative Measures of ER Protein and ESR1 mRNA Expression in Breast Tumors. 
  • Predicting Length of Hospice Stay: An Application of Quantile Regression. 
  • Predicting Persistent, Limited, and Delayed Problematic Cannabis Use in Early Adulthood: Findings From a Longitudinal Study. 
  • Predicting persistent alcohol problems: a prospective analysis from the Great Smoky Mountain Study. 
  • Predicting polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons using a mass fraction approach in a geostatistical framework across North Carolina. 
  • Predicting pressure ulcer risk: a multisite study of the predictive validity of the Braden Scale. 
  • Prediction from low birth weight to female adolescent depression: a test of competing hypotheses. 
  • Prediction of HIV Transmission Cluster Growth With Statewide Surveillance Data. 
  • Prediction of death and nonfatal myocardial infarction in high-risk patients: a comparison between the Duke treadmill score, peak exercise radionuclide angiography, and SPECT perfusion imaging. 
  • Predictors of Chronic Opioid Use: A Population-Level Analysis of North Carolina Cancer Survivors Using Multi-Payer Claims. 
  • Predictors of Prolonged Breast Milk Provision to Very Low Birth Weight Infants. 
  • Predictors of adoption of mammography in women under age 50. 
  • Predictors of an academic career on radiology residency applications. 
  • Predictors of attrition from a clinical pediatric obesity treatment program. 
  • Predictors of breastfeeding in overweight and obese women: data from Active Mothers Postpartum (AMP). 
  • Predictors of disability in the final year of life. 
  • Predictors of failed trial of labor among women with an extremely obese body mass index. 
  • Predictors of family violence in North Carolina following initial COVID-19 stay-at-home orders. 
  • Predictors of massive transfusion with thoracic aortic procedures involving deep hypothermic circulatory arrest. 
  • Predictors of measurement error in energy intake during pregnancy. 
  • Predictors of nursing home admission in a biracial population. 
  • Predictors of nutritional supplement use by the elderly. 
  • Predictors of pain experienced by women during percutaneous imaging-guided breast biopsies. 
  • Predictors of partial remission in older patients treated for major depression: the role of comorbid dysthymia. 
  • Predictors of perioperative major bleeding in patients who interrupt warfarin for an elective surgery or procedure: Analysis of the BRIDGE trial. 
  • Predictors of postpartum weight change among overweight and obese women: results from the Active Mothers Postpartum study. 
  • Predictors of two-year post-hospitalization mortality among elderly veterans in a study evaluating a geriatric consultation team. 
  • Predictors of urinary flame retardant concentration among pregnant women. 
  • Preexposure Prophylaxis Outcomes in an Urban Community in North Carolina: Discontinuation of Care and Sexually Transmitted Infections. 
  • Pregnancy Medicaid Improvements in a Nonexpansion State After the Affordable Care Act. 
  • Pregnancy in rheumatoid arthritis: a retrospective study. 
  • Pregravid body mass index is associated with early introduction of complementary foods. 
  • Prehospital notification by emergency medical services reduces delays in stroke evaluation: findings from the North Carolina stroke care collaborative. 
  • Prehospital spinal immobilization and the backboard quality assessment study. 
  • Prehospital system delay in ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction care: a novel linkage of emergency medicine services and in hospital registry data. 
  • Preliminary Data from the Caring for Older Adults and Caregivers at Home (COACH) Program: A Care Coordination Program for Home-Based Dementia Care and Caregiver Support in a Veterans Affairs Medical Center. 
  • Preliminary evidence on retention rates of primary care physicians in rural and urban areas. 
  • Preliminary observations of the use of high-frequency jet ventilation as rescue therapy in infants with congenital diaphragmatic hernia. 
  • Premenopausal gynecologic surgery and survival among black and white women with breast cancer. 
  • Premenstrual symptoms in black and white community samples. 
  • Prenatal and postpartum smoking abstinence a partner-assisted approach. 
  • Prenatal exposure to organophosphate esters and behavioral development in young children in the Pregnancy, Infection, and Nutrition Study. 
  • Preoperative chemotherapy versus preoperative chemoradiotherapy for stage III (N2) non-small-cell lung cancer. 
  • Preoperative determinants of postoperative costs associated with coronary artery bypass graft surgery. 
  • Preoperative radiation therapy in the surgical management of gastric and junctional adenocarcinoma: Should lymph node retrieval guidelines be altered? 
  • Preoperative weight gain does not predict failure of weight loss or co-morbidity resolution of laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass for morbid obesity. 
  • Preparing BSN Students for Population-Focused Nursing Care. 
  • Preparing to lead... the NCNA Leadership Academy embarks. 
  • Preprocedural three-dimensional planning aids in transcatheter ductal stent placement: A single-center experience. 
  • Prescription and nonprescription drug use among black and white community-residing elderly. 
  • Preserving David C Sabiston Jr's legacy in medical students' surgical education. 
  • Preterm premature rupture of membrane management--inpatient versus outpatient: a retrospective review. 
  • Prevalence and Childhood Precursors of Opioid Use in the Early Decades of Life. 
  • Prevalence and Outcomes of Left-Sided Valvular Heart Disease Associated With Chronic Kidney Disease. 
  • Prevalence and Predictors of Moral Injury Symptoms in Health Care Professionals. 
  • Prevalence and clinical characteristics associated with left atrial appendage thrombus in fully anticoagulated patients undergoing catheter-directed atrial fibrillation ablation. 
  • Prevalence and clinical correlates of neuropsychiatric symptoms in dementia. 
  • Prevalence and correlates of heavy smoking in Vietnam veterans with chronic posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • Prevalence and development of psychiatric disorders in childhood and adolescence. 
  • Prevalence and predictors of mechanical dyssynchrony as defined by phase analysis in patients with left ventricular dysfunction undergoing gated SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging. 
  • Prevalence and predictors of multiple behavioral risk factors for colon cancer. 
  • Prevalence and spectrum of p53 mutations associated with smoking in breast cancer. 
  • Prevalence of HIV infection in a general psychiatric outpatient population. 
  • Prevalence of High Weight Status in Children Under 2 Years in NHANES and Statewide Electronic Health Records Data in North Carolina and South Carolina. 
  • Prevalence of Low Energy Availability in Competitively Trained Male Endurance Athletes. 
  • Prevalence of Meibomian Gland Atrophy in a Pediatric Population. 
  • Prevalence of psychiatric disorders among incarcerated women. II. Convicted felons entering prison. 
  • Prevalence of renal anomalies after urinary tract infections in hospitalized infants less than 2 months of age. 
  • Prevalence of sleep apnea in patients with keratoconus. 
  • Prevalence, comorbidity, and correlates of DSM-5 proposed disruptive mood dysregulation disorder. 
  • Preventing and treating obesity: pediatricians' self-efficacy, barriers, resources, and advocacy. 
  • Prevention and treatment of childhood obesity: care received by a state medicaid population. 
  • Primary Care Providers And Specialists Deliver Comparable Buprenorphine Treatment Quality. 
  • Primary and secondary allergies to laboratory animals. 
  • Primary care approach to dysphonia. 
  • Primary care for patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus: a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Primary care providers. The view from where I stand. 
  • Primary health care in an academic medical center. 
  • Primary peritoneal and ovarian cancers: an epidemiological comparative analysis. 
  • Prior breast cancer and tamoxifen exposure does not influence outcomes in women with uterine papillary serous carcinoma. 
  • Private colleges and university nursing programs in North Carolina. 
  • Proactive population health management in the context of a regional health information exchange using standards-based decision support. 
  • Probability samples of area births versus clinic populations for reproductive epidemiology studies. 
  • Problems meeting basic needs moderate the association between the APOE epsilon4 allele and cognitive decline. 
  • Process evaluation of a statewide abusive head trauma prevention program. 
  • Prognosis in cardiogenic shock after acute myocardial infarction in the interventional era. 
  • Prognostic Implications of Long-Chain Acylcarnitines in Heart Failure and Reversibility With Mechanical Circulatory Support. 
  • Prognostic importance of social and economic resources among medically treated patients with angiographically documented coronary artery disease. 
  • Prognostic significance of early pulmonary function changes after onset of chronic lung allograft dysfunction. 
  • Prognostic value of the cadmium-zinc-telluride camera: A comparison with a conventional (Anger) camera. 
  • Program preferences to reduce stress in caregivers of patients with brain tumors. 
  • Project CAPE: a high-fidelity, in situ simulation program to increase Critical Access Hospital Emergency Department provider comfort with seriously ill pediatric patients. 
  • Project LIFE--Learning to Improve Fitness and Function in Elders: methods, design, and baseline characteristics of randomized trial. 
  • Promoting collaborative interdisciplinary research at the Duke Center for Systems Biology. 
  • Promoting community practitioners' use of evidence-based approaches to increase breast cancer screening. 
  • Prospective Associations Between Depressive Symptoms and the Metabolic Syndrome: the Spirited Life Study of Methodist Pastors in North Carolina. 
  • Prospective randomized trial of early initiation and hospital discharge on a liquid diet following elective intestinal surgery. 
  • Prospective study of incident injuries among southeastern United States commercial fishermen. 
  • Prostate cancer in North Carolina. 
  • Prostate cancer: demographic and behavioral correlates of stage at diagnosis among blacks and whites in North Carolina. 
  • Protecting off-site populations and site workers from vapor discharges during shallow soil mixing at the North Carolina State University National Priorities List Site. 
  • Protocol for implementation of family health history collection and decision support into primary care using a computerized family health history system. 
  • Provider and patient drivers of ototopical antibiotic prescription variability. 
  • Provider characteristics and mammography recommendation among women in their 40s and 50s. 
  • Provider-Oriented Interventions and The Management of Hypertension 
  • Providing support to IPV victims in the emergency department: vignette-based interviews with IPV survivors and emergency department nurses. 
  • Provision and Utilization of Team- and Community-Based Operative Care for Patients With Cleft Lip/Palate in North Carolina. 
  • Proximal psychiatric risk factors for suicidality in youth: the Great Smoky Mountains Study. 
  • Psychiatric diagnoses of previous suicide attempters, first-time attempters, and repeat attempters on an adolescent inpatient psychiatry unit. 
  • Psychiatric disorders in adult children of alcoholics: data from the Epidemiologic Catchment Area project. 
  • Psychiatric disorders in primary care patients receiving complementary medical treatments. 
  • Psychiatric disorders. A rural/urban comparison. 
  • Psychometric Evaluation of PROMIS Sexual Function and Satisfaction Measures in a Longitudinal Population-Based Cohort of Men With Localized Prostate Cancer. 
  • Psychometric evaluation and design of patient-centered communication measures for cancer care settings. 
  • Psychosocial risk factors and urban/rural differences in the prevalence of major depression. 
  • Psychosocial stress and 13-year BMI change among blacks: the Pitt County Study. 
  • Psychotropic drugs on general medical and surgical wards of a teaching hospital. 
  • Public Awareness of HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis in Durham, North Carolina: Results of a Community Survey. 
  • Public behavioral health care reform in North Carolina: will we get it right this time around? 
  • Public health clinical demonstration project for smoking cessation in american veterans who served since september 11, 2001. 
  • Public health costs for tuberculosis suspects in Wake County, North Carolina, United States. 
  • Public knowledge of and attitudes toward genetics and genetic testing. 
  • Public perspectives on returning genetics and genomics research results. 
  • Public perspectives regarding data-sharing practices in genomics research. 
  • Public school choice and integration evidence from Durham, North Carolina. 
  • Pulmonary function and adverse cardiovascular outcomes: Can cardiac function explain the link? 
  • Pulmonary function, bronchial reactivity, and epithelial permeability are response phenotypes to ozone and develop differentially in healthy humans. 
  • Pulmonary hypertension and elevated transpulmonary gradient in patients with mitral stenosis. 
  • Putting prevention in their pockets: developing mobile phone-based HIV interventions for black men who have sex with men. 
  • Quality Improvement Implementation: Improving Reproducibility in the Echocardiography Laboratory. 
  • Quality improvement initiative for chronic pain assessment and management in the nursing home: a pilot study. 
  • Quality of anticoagulation management among patients with atrial fibrillation: results of a review of medical records from 2 communities. 
  • Quality of life after surgery for intracranial meningioma. 
  • Quality of pharmacotherapy and outcomes for older veterans discharged from the emergency department. 
  • Quantification and statistical modeling--part I: breathing-zone concentrations of monomeric and polymeric 1,6-hexamethylene diisocyanate. 
  • Quantification and statistical modeling--part II: dermal concentrations of monomeric and polymeric 1,6-hexamethylene diisocyanate. 
  • Quantifying the utility of taking pills for preventing adverse health outcomes: a cross-sectional survey. 
  • Quiet time: a nursing intervention to promote sleep in neurocritical care units. 
  • Race Differences in Interventions and Survival After Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest in North Carolina, 2010 to 2014. 
  • Race and residence: intercounty variation in black-white differences in hospice use. 
  • Race, Menopausal Hormone Therapy, and Invasive Breast Cancer in the Carolina Breast Cancer Study. 
  • Race, anthropometric factors, and stage at diagnosis of breast cancer. 
  • Race, wealth, and solid waste facilities in North Carolina. 
  • Racial Differences in AKI Incidence Following Percutaneous Coronary Intervention. 
  • Racial and Ethnic Differences in Acceptability of Urine and Cervico-Vaginal Sample Self-Collection for HPV-Based Cervical Cancer Screening. 
  • Racial and Ethnic Differences in Psychotropic Prescription Receipt Among Pediatric Patients Enrolled in North Carolina Medicaid. 
  • Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Colon Cancer Screening in North Carolina. 
  • Racial and ethnic disparities in pediatric tuberculosis in North Carolina. 
  • Racial and psychosocial risk factors for herpes zoster in the elderly. 
  • Racial differences in blood pressure control: potential explanatory factors. 
  • Racial differences in cognitive decline in a sample of community-dwelling older adults: the mediating role of education and literacy. 
  • Racial differences in health care utilization among patients with osteoarthritis. 
  • Racial differences in health concern. 
  • Racial differences in hepatitis B and hepatitis C and associated risk behaviors in veterans with severe mental illness. 
  • Racial differences in long-term survival among patients with coronary artery disease. 
  • Racial differences in next-of-kin participation in an ongoing survey of satisfaction with end-of-life care: a study of a study. 
  • Racial differences in physician recommendation of hormone replacement therapy. 
  • Racial differences in self-reported pain and function among individuals with radiographic hip and knee osteoarthritis: the Johnston County Osteoarthritis Project. 
  • Racial differences in sleep medication use: a cross-sectional study of the Johnston County Osteoarthritis Project. 
  • Racial differences in the effect of a telephone-delivered hypertension disease management program. 
  • Racial differences in the prevalence of monoclonal gammopathy in a community-based sample of the elderly. 
  • Racial differences in use of cancer prevention services among older Americans. 
  • Racial disparities in elevated prenatal depressive symptoms among black and white women in eastern north Carolina. 
  • Racial disparities in health between white and African American family practice patients: clinical implications. 
  • Racial disparities in trajectories of dental caries experience. 
  • Racial variation in the use of coronary-revascularization procedures. Are the differences real? Do they matter? 
  • Racial, Socioeconomic, and Gender Disparities in the Presentation, Treatment, and Outcomes of Adult Chiari I Malformations. 
  • Racial/ethnic variation in perceptions of medical information sources in Durham County, North Carolina. 
  • Radiology resident mammography training: interpretation difficulty and error-making patterns. 
  • Ralph Snyderman, MD. CAM and the role of the academic health center. Interview by Bonnie Horrigan. 
  • Randomized Controlled Trial of Octyl Cyanoacrylate Skin Adhesive versus Subcuticular Suture for Skin Closure after Implantable Venous Port Placement. 
  • Randomized Controlled Trial of an Intervention to Maintain Suppression of HIV Viremia After Prison Release: The imPACT Trial. 
  • Randomized Trial of Population-Based Clinical Decision Support to Facilitate Care Transitions. 
  • Randomized controlled trial of Family Connects: Effects on child emergency medical care from birth to 24 months. 
  • Randomized controlled trial of universal postnatal nurse home visiting: impact on emergency care. 
  • Randomized trial to improve fracture prevention in nursing home residents. 
  • Randomized trials of coronary artery bypass surgery: impact on clinical practice at Duke University Medical Center. 
  • Ranolazine reduces atrial fibrillatory wave frequency. 
  • Rapid brain autopsy. The Joseph and Kathleen Bryan Alzheimer's Disease Research Center experience. 
  • Rapid diagnosis of phenylketonuria by quantitative analysis for phenylalanine and tyrosine in neonatal blood spots by tandem mass spectrometry. 
  • Rapid reporting of cancer incidence in a population-based study of breast cancer: one constructive use of a central cancer registry. 
  • Rate and predictors of glycemic testing of nondiabetic patients in a managed care population. 
  • Rated helpfulness and partner-reported smoking cessation support across the pregnancy-postpartum continuum. 
  • Rates and predictors of aftercare services among formerly hospitalized adolescents: a prospective naturalistic study. 
  • Rates of cardiac catheterization cancelation for ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction after activation by emergency medical services or emergency physicians: results from the North Carolina Catheterization Laboratory Activation Registry. 
  • Reactions of pediatricians to a new Centers for Disease Control recommendation for universal immunization of infants with hepatitis B vaccine. 
  • Reactions to framing of cessation messages: insights from dual-smoker couples. 
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  • Readiness to change smoking behavior in a community health center population. 
  • Readmission Patterns and Effectiveness of Transitional Care Among Medicaid Patients With Schizophrenia and Medical Comorbidity. 
  • Real-world outcomes in metastatic renal cell carcinoma: insights from a Joint Community-Academic Registry. 
  • Reasons for cesarean and medically indicated deliveries in pregnancies in women with systemic lupus erythematosus. 
  • Reasons for quitting smoking among low-income African American smokers. 
  • Reasons for tanning bed use: a survey of community college students in North Carolina. 
  • Receipt of public assistance during childhood and hypertension risk in adulthood. 
  • Recent changes in vaccination guidelines. An update on vaccines and target population initiatives. 
  • Reclassification of cardiovascular risk using integrated clinical and molecular biosignatures: Design of and rationale for the Measurement to Understand the Reclassification of Disease of Cabarrus and Kannapolis (MURDOCK) Horizon 1 Cardiovascular Disease Study. 
  • Reconsidering Our Domestic Violence System. 
  • Recreational physical activity and ovarian cancer risk and survival. 
  • Rectal mucosal ornithine decarboxylase activity is not a useful marker of risk for colorectal neoplasia. 
  • Recurrent malignant melanoma: the identification of prognostic factors to predict survival. 
  • Reduced frequency of sedation of young children with multisection helical CT. 
  • Reducing Inappropriate Antibiotic Prescribing for Adults With Acute Bronchitis in an Urgent Care Setting: A Quality Improvement Initiative. 
  • Reducing Opioid Misuse: Evaluation of a Medicaid Controlled Substance Lock-In Program. 
  • Reducing barriers to completing psychiatric advance directives. 
  • Reducing central line-associated bloodstream infections in North Carolina NICUs. 
  • Reducing infant mortality in North Carolina. 
  • Reducing misclassification in assignment of timing of events during pregnancy. 
  • Reducing violence risk in persons with schizophrenia: olanzapine versus risperidone. 
  • Reduction in heart failure events by the addition of a clinical pharmacist to the heart failure management team: results of the Pharmacist in Heart Failure Assessment Recommendation and Monitoring (PHARM) Study. 
  • Regulated and unregulated halogenated disinfection byproduct formation from chlorination of saline groundwater. 
  • Rehabilitation of Combat-Related Injuries in the Veterans Administration: A Web of Support. 
  • Relations of a marker of endothelial activation (s-VCAM) to function and mortality in community-dwelling older adults. 
  • Relationship Between Cancer and Cardiovascular Outcomes Following Percutaneous Coronary Intervention. 
  • Relationship between Background Parenchymal Enhancement on High-risk Screening MRI and Future Breast Cancer Risk. 
  • Relationship between coping and depression in heart transplant candidates and their spouses. 
  • Relationship between depressive symptoms and long-term mortality in patients with heart failure. 
  • Relationship between disease-free interval and survival in patients with recurrent melanoma. 
  • Relationship between nephrologist care and progression of chronic kidney disease. 
  • Relationship between physician specialty and the selection and outcome of ischemic stroke patients. 
  • Relationship of depression to death or hospitalization in patients with heart failure. 
  • Relationship of health and demographic characteristics to Mini-Mental State examination score among community residents. 
  • Relationships among breast cancer concern, risk perceptions, and interest in genetic testing for breast cancer susceptibility among African-American women with and without a family history of breast cancer. 
  • Relationships between poverty and psychopathology: a natural experiment. 
  • Relative effectiveness of reappraisal and distraction in regulating emotion in late-life depression. 
  • Relative frequency of nosocomial pathogens at a university hospital during the decade 1980 to 1989. 
  • Relative prognostic value of baseline Q wave and time from symptom onset among men and women with ST-elevation myocardial infarction undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention. 
  • Reliability and One-Year Stability of the PIN3 Neighborhood Environmental Audit in Urban and Rural Neighborhoods. 
  • Reliability and validity of the SF-12 health survey among people with severe mental illness. 
  • Religion and depression in older medical inpatients. 
  • Religion, spirituality, and health in medically ill hospitalized older patients. 
  • Religious Involvement and Telomere Length in Women Family Caregivers. 
  • Religious activity and depression among community-dwelling elderly persons with cancer: the moderating effect of race. 
  • Religious affiliation and major depression. 
  • Religious affiliation and psychiatric disorder among Protestant baby boomers. 
  • Religious attendance and mortality: implications for the black-white mortality crossover. 
  • Religious beliefs and practices in family medicine. 
  • Religious perspectives of doctors, nurses, patients, and families. 
  • Religious practices and alcoholism in a southern adult population. 
  • Removing a major barrier to universal hepatitis B immunization in infants. 
  • Renal Angina Is a Sensitive, but Nonspecific Identifier of Postcardiac Surgery Acute Kidney Injury. 
  • Renal artery stenosis: prevalence and associated risk factors in patients undergoing routine cardiac catheterization. 
  • Renal transplantation in the American black. 
  • Repeated autologous umbilical cord blood infusions are feasible and had no acute safety issues in young babies with congenital hydrocephalus. 
  • Reperfusion of acute myocardial infarction in North Carolina emergency departments (RACE): study design. 
  • Replication of breast cancer susceptibility loci in whites and African Americans using a Bayesian approach. 
  • Report of the substudy assessing the impact of neurocognitive function on quality of life 5 years after cardiac surgery. 
  • Reported cessation advice given to African Americans by health care providers in a community health clinic. 
  • Reproducibility of self-reported pap test utilization in middle-aged African-American women. 
  • Reproductive factors in relation to breast cancer characterized by p53 protein expression (United States). 
  • Research and Operations: Joining Forces to Improve Care for Veterans. 
  • Research management team (RMT): a model for research support services at Duke University. 
  • Resident Physician Experiences With and Responses to Biased Patients. 
  • Residential Racial Isolation and Spatial Patterning of Hypertension in Durham, North Carolina. 
  • Residential Racial Isolation and Spatial Patterning of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Durham, North Carolina. 
  • Residential Solar PV Systems in the Carolinas: Opportunities and Outcomes. 
  • Residential smoking therapy. 
  • Resistant enterococci: a prospective study of prevalence, incidence, and factors associated with colonization in a university hospital. 
  • Resolving Malpractice Disputes: Imaging the Jury's Shadow 
  • Resource center for occupational and environmental medicine. 
  • Resource use and cost of initial coronary revascularization. Coronary angioplasty versus coronary bypass surgery. 
  • Respiratory syncytial virus outbreak in a long-term care facility detected using reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction: an argument for real-time detection methods. 
  • Response rates to a mailed survey targeting childhood cancer survivors: a comparison of conditional versus unconditional incentives. 
  • Responses of mud snails from low and high imposex sites to sex pheromones. 
  • Restarting the cycle: incidence and predictors of first acute care use after nursing home discharge. 
  • Results from a pilot promotora program to reduce depression and stress among immigrant Latinas. 
  • Results of a pilot test of a brief computer-assisted tailored HIV prevention intervention for use with a range of demographic and risk groups. 
  • Retrograde ascending aortic dissection as an early complication of thoracic endovascular aortic repair. 
  • Retrospective review of Duke men's basketball eye care: annual screenings and traumatic injuries. 
  • Retrospective review of amphotericin B use in a tertiary-care medical center. 
  • Return to jeopardy: the fate of pediatric burn patients who are victims of abuse and neglect. 
  • Revolution at the Library Service Desk 
  • Rickettsia rickettsii transmission by a lone star tick, North Carolina. 
  • Rickettsialpox in North Carolina: a case report. 
  • Rising CO2 levels and the fecundity of forest trees. 
  • Risk Factors and Outcomes of Opioid Users with and Without Concurrent Benzodiazepine Use in the North Carolina Medicaid Population. 
  • Risk Prediction Model for Major Adverse Outcome in Proximal Thoracic Aortic Surgery. 
  • Risk factors associated with overweight and obesity in college students. 
  • Risk factors for 1-year mortality after thoracic endovascular aortic repair. 
  • Risk factors for Burkholderia cepacia complex bacteremia among intensive care unit patients without cystic fibrosis: a case-control study. 
  • Risk factors for and estimated incidence of community-associated Clostridium difficile infection, North Carolina, USA. 
  • Risk factors for gram-negative bacterial surgical site infection: do allergies to antibiotics increase risk? 
  • Risk factors for group B streptococcal disease in neonates of mothers with negative antenatal testing. 
  • Risk factors for ineffective therapy in patients with bloodstream infection. 
  • Risk factors for infection after orthopaedic spine surgery at a high-volume institution. 
  • Risk factors for morbidity after lobectomy for lung cancer in elderly patients. 
  • Risk factors for mortality in lung transplant recipients aged ≥65 years: A retrospective cohort study of 5,815 patients in the scientific registry of transplant recipients. 
  • Risk factors for post-operative wound infection in the setting of chorioamnionitis and cesarean delivery. 
  • Risk factors for suicide among older adults with cancer. 
  • Risk factors for surgical site infection complicating laminectomy. 
  • Risk factors for surgical site infections in older people. 
  • Risk of atrioesophageal fistula formation with contact force-sensing catheters. 
  • Risk of napping: excessive daytime sleepiness and mortality in an older community population. 
  • Risk of sharp device-related blood and body fluid exposure in operating rooms. 
  • Risk stratification for adverse economic outcomes in cardiac surgery. 
  • Risks and Realities of Delayed Splenic Bleeding. 
  • Risks, reactions, regulations, and reality. Health care workers with HIV infection. 
  • Robotic thyroidectomy for cancer in the US: patterns of use and short-term outcomes. 
  • Rocky mountain spotted fever in childhood. 
  • Role of Matrix Metalloproteinases-1 and -2 in Interleukin-13-Suppressed Elastin in Airway Fibroblasts in Asthma. 
  • Role of cardiac evaluation before thoracic endovascular aortic repair. 
  • Role of flow cytometry to define unacceptable HLA antigens in lung transplant recipients with HLA-specific antibodies. 
  • Role of physician's assistant and the plastic surgeon. 
  • Running the Numbers Capitalize on the Moment: Leveraging the COVID-19 Experience to Spur Low-Value Care Reduction in North Carolina: A Periodic Feature to Inform North Carolina Health Care Professionals About Current Topics in Health Statistics. 
  • Running the Numbers: County Level Dynamics of Heroin Mortality in North Carolina. 
  • Rural Community Engagement for Health Disparities Research: The Unique Role of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). 
  • Rural-urban blood lead differences in North Carolina children. 
  • Rural-urban outcome differences associated with COVID-19 hospitalizations in North Carolina. 
  • SARS-CoV-2 Infections and Incidence at a North Carolina Pre-Kindergarten-12 School During In-Person Education: August 2020 to January 2021. 
  • SafeTalk: Training Peers to Deliver a Motivational Interviewing HIV Prevention Program. 
  • Safety and Efficacy of Radiation Therapy in Advanced Melanoma Patients Treated With Ipilimumab. 
  • Safety of 2 months of rifampin and pyrazinamide for treatment of latent tuberculosis. 
  • Safety of an intercostal approach for imaging-guided percutaneous drainage of subdiaphragmatic abscesses. 
  • Safety of hyperbaric oxygen therapy for management of central airway stenosis after lung transplant. 
  • Safety of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor use prior to coronary artery bypass grafting. 
  • Say what you mean to say: improving patient handoffs in the operating room and beyond. 
  • Scheduled telephone visits in the veterans health administration patient-centered medical home. 
  • Screening Commercial Vehicle Drivers for Obstructive Sleep Apnea: Tools, Barriers, and Recommendations. 
  • Screening extremely obese pregnant women for obstructive sleep apnea. 
  • Screening for depression in hospitalized elderly medical patients: taking a closer look. 
  • Screening for diabetes in an outpatient clinic population. 
  • Screening the elderly. A brief instrumental activities of daily living measure. 
  • Search for Campylobacter spp. Reveals High Prevalence and Pronounced Genetic Diversity of Arcobacter butzleri in Floodwater Samples Associated with Hurricane Florence in North Carolina, USA. 
  • Seasonal Incidence of Emergent Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Surgery. 
  • Seasonal variations in air pollution particle-induced inflammatory mediator release and oxidative stress. 
  • Second-generation modular acetabular components provide fixation at 10 to 16 years. 
  • Secondary Transmission of COVID-19 in K-12 Schools: Findings From 2 States. 
  • Sedative, hypnotic, and antianxiety medication use in an aging cohort over ten years: a racial comparison. 
  • Segment Length in Cine Strain Analysis Predicts Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Outcome Beyond Current Guidelines. 
  • Selecting an electronic medical record system for small physician practices. 
  • Selection through female fitness helps to explain the maintenance of male flowers. 
  • Selective reactions to different killer whale call categories in two delphinid species. 
  • Selenium Ecotoxicology in Freshwater Lakes Receiving Coal Combustion Residual Effluents: A North Carolina Example. 
  • Self-Reported and objectively measured physical activity among a cohort of postpartum women: the PIN Postpartum Study. 
  • Self-compassion in patients with persistent musculoskeletal pain: relationship of self-compassion to adjustment to persistent pain. 
  • Self-efficacy and pain catastrophizing in systemic lupus erythematosus: relationship to pain, stiffness, fatigue, and psychological distress. 
  • Self-perceptions of stability and change in personality at midlife: the UNC Alumni Heart Study. 
  • Self-rated depressive symptoms in medical inpatients: age and racial differences. 
  • Self-report versus ultrasound measurement of uterine fibroid status. 
  • Self-reported delay in seeking care has poor validity for predicting adverse outcomes. 
  • Self-reported health parameters compared with clinician measurements: methods in practice-based research. 
  • Sensitivity and specificity of standardized screens of cognitive impairment and dementia among elderly black and white community residents. 
  • Sequential emergence of antibiotic resistance in enterococcal bloodstream isolates over 25 years. 
  • Sequential psychological and pharmacological therapies for comorbid and primary insomnia: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Serious superficial incisional surgical site infections (SSISSIs): A proposed surveillance definition. 
  • Serum PBDEs in a North Carolina toddler cohort: associations with handwipes, house dust, and socioeconomic variables. 
  • Serum perfluoroalkyl acids (PFAAs) and associations with behavioral attributes. 
  • Service costs of caring for adolescents with mental illness in a rural community, 1993-2000. 
  • Severe surgical site infection in community hospitals: epidemiology, key procedures, and the changing prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. 
  • Sexual abuse of human immunodeficiency virus-positive children. Outcomes for perpetrators and evaluation of other household children. 
  • Sexual assault and psychiatric disorders among a community sample of women. 
  • Sexual function in women with urinary incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse. 
  • Sexuality talk during adolescent health maintenance visits. 
  • Sexuality, sexual practices, and HIV risk among incarcerated African-American women in North Carolina. 
  • Shale gas extraction in North Carolina: research recommendations and public health implications. 
  • Shift in Emergency Department Provider Attitudes Toward Patients With Sickle Cell Disease. 
  • Short-term effects of fine particulate matter and ozone on the cardiac conduction system in patients undergoing cardiac catheterization. 
  • Shortness of breath as a predictor of depressive symptoms in a community sample of older adults. 
  • Should college health providers use e-mail to communicate with their patients? Two points of view. 
  • Should your practice participate in a quality-reporting program? 
  • Sickle-Cell Disease Co-Management, Health Care Utilization, and Hydroxyurea Use. 
  • Sidebar: Serious Illness Care for Children and Adolescents in North Carolina. 
  • Single versus multiple internal mammary artery grafting for coronary artery bypass: 15-year follow-up of a clinical practice trial. 
  • Sleeve lobectomy for non-small cell lung cancer with N1 nodal disease does not compromise survival. 
  • Smoke-Free Home Rules and Association with Child Secondhand Smoke Exposure among Mother-Child Dyad Relationships. 
  • Smokeless tobacco use in an outpatient veteran population. 
  • Smoking and use of hair treatments in relation to risk of developing systemic lupus erythematosus. 
  • Smoking in Vietnam combat veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder. 
  • Smoking withdrawal symptoms are more severe among smokers with ADHD and independent of ADHD symptom change: results from a 12-day contingency-managed abstinence trial. 
  • Snakebite in the tarheel state. Guidelines for first aid, stabilization, and evacuation. 
  • Social outcomes related to age of onset among psychiatric disorders. 
  • Social phobia and separation anxiety symptoms in community and clinical samples of children and adolescents. 
  • Social stratification, oral hygiene, and trajectories of dental caries among old Americans. 
  • Social support and hypertension among blacks and whites in a rural, southern community. 
  • Social support and mortality in an elderly community population. 
  • Social support and religiosity as coping strategies for anxiety in hospitalized cardiac patients. 
  • Social support modifies the relationship between personality and depressive symptoms in older adults. 
  • Social support, stress, and blood pressure in black adults. 
  • Sociodemographic and clinical correlates of number of previous depressive episodes in the depressed elderly. 
  • Socioecologic stress and hypertension related mortality rates in North Carolina. 
  • Socioeconomic and behavioral correlates of body mass index in black adults: the Pitt County Study. 
  • Socioeconomic status and electrolyte intake in black adults: the Pitt County Study. 
  • Socioeconomic status and risk of multiple myeloma. 
  • Socioeconomic status and the Black-White mortality crossover. 
  • Socioeconomic status, John Henryism, and blood pressure in black adults. The Pitt County Study. 
  • Sociotropy, autonomy, and personality disorder criteria in psychiatric patients. 
  • Somatic complaints and psychopathology in children and adolescents: stomach aches, musculoskeletal pains, and headaches. 
  • Somatization symptoms in the community: a rural/urban comparison. 
  • Source of parental reports of child height and weight during phone interviews and influence on obesity prevalence estimates among children aged 3-17 years. 
  • Sources of variability in John Henryism. 
  • Spatial analysis of body mass index and smoking behavior among WISEWOMAN participants. 
  • Spatial modeling for groundwater arsenic levels in North Carolina. 
  • Specialty distribution of physician assistants and nurse practitioners in North Carolina. 
  • Spirituality and depressive symptoms in a racially diverse US sample of community-dwelling adults. 
  • Spirituality and religion in outpatients with schizophrenia: a multi-site comparative study of Switzerland, Canada, and the United States. 
  • Spirituality, Coping, and Resilience Among Rural Residents Living with Chronic Kidney Disease. 
  • Staff Duress Alarms for Workplace Violence in the Emergency Department: A Mixed-Methods Evaluation. 
  • Staged total abdominal debranching and thoracic endovascular aortic repair for thoracoabdominal aneurysm. 
  • Stagnant perceptions of nursing among high school students: results of a shadowing intervention study. 
  • Standardization and Scaling of a Community-Based Palliative Care Model. 
  • Standardizing inpatient colonoscopy preparations improves quality and provider satisfaction. 
  • Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia after median sternotomy: clinical utility of blood culture results in the identification of postoperative mediastinitis. 
  • State Legislators' Attitudes and Voting Intentions about Tobacco Control Legislation 
  • State legislators' perceptions of lobbyists and lobbying on tobacco control issues. 
  • State study of pyrotechnics-related injuries and property damage. 
  • Statewide assessment of a behavioral intervention to reduce cigarette smoking by pregnant women. 
  • Statewide assessment of hospital-based stroke prevention and treatment services in North Carolina: changes over the last 5 years. 
  • Statewide costs of health care-associated infections: estimates for acute care hospitals in North Carolina. 
  • Statewide hospital-based stroke services in North Carolina: changes over 10 years. 
  • Steady thoughts. Reflections of Eugene Stead in action. 
  • Stigma and Mobile App Use Among Young Black Men Who Have Sex With Men. 
  • Stimulant treatment for children: a community perspective. 
  • Strategies for building a multidisciplinary academic program in women's health. 
  • Strategies to Address Individual Level Social Determinants of Health Designed to Cultivate the Next Generation of Minority Nurse Leaders Committed to Health Equity. 
  • Stream transport of iron and phosphorus by authigenic nanoparticles in the Southern Piedmont of the U.S. 
  • Stress and placental resistance measured by Doppler ultrasound in early and mid-pregnancy. 
  • Stress questionnaires and stress biomarkers during pregnancy. 
  • Stress-related anhedonia is associated with ventral striatum reactivity to reward and transdiagnostic psychiatric symptomatology. 
  • Stressful life events and the onset of a generalized anxiety syndrome. 
  • Stressful politics: voters' cortisol responses to the outcome of the 2008 United States Presidential election. 
  • Strobilurin fungicides in house dust: is wallboard a source? 
  • Stroke-related knowledge among uninsured Latino immigrants in Durham County, North Carolina. 
  • Student-Faculty Lunch Program to Increase Mentoring and Facilitate Cross-Program Relationships in School of Nursing. 
  • Study of Individualization and Bias in Nursing Home Fall Prevention Practices. 
  • Studying the epidemiology of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder: screening method and pilot results. 
  • Substance abuse consultation in a teaching hospital. 
  • Substance use treatment needs among recent veterans. 
  • Subtotal colectomy for familial polyposis. A clinical series and review of the literature. 
  • Success of a Resident-Led Safety Council: A Model for Satisfying CLER Pathways to Excellence Patient Safety Goals. 
  • Successful implementation of a universal 3/2 radiology curriculum. 
  • Successful use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for pH1N1-induced refractory hypoxemia in a child with hypoplastic left heart syndrome. 
  • Succession, regression and loss: does evidence of saltwater exposure explain recent changes in the tree communities of North Carolina's Coastal Plain? 
  • Sudden death due to coronary artery disease. A clinical, hemodynamic, and angiographic profile. 
  • Suicide and Additional Homicides Associated with Intimate Partner Homicide: North Carolina 2004-2013. 
  • Suicide attempts among formerly hospitalized adolescents: a prospective naturalistic study of risk during the first 5 years after discharge. 
  • Summary of the Proceedings of the Basic Science of Uterine Fibroids Meeting: New Developments February 28, 2020. 
  • Support for tobacco control policies among youth in North Carolina. 
  • Surface Contamination With Antineoplastic Drugs on Two Inpatient Oncology Units. 
  • Surgical Procedure Characteristics and Risk of Sharps-Related Blood and Body Fluid Exposure. 
  • Surgical Team Stability and Risk of Sharps-Related Blood and Body Fluid Exposures During Surgical Procedures. 
  • Surgical trainees in the Duke Physician's Associate program. 
  • Surgical-site infection due to Staphylococcus aureus among elderly patients: mortality, duration of hospitalization, and cost. 
  • Surrogates' perceptions about feeding tube placement decisions. 
  • Surveillance of musculoskeletal injuries and disorders in a diverse cohort of workers at a tertiary care medical center. 
  • Survey of on-call systems in hospital social work departments informs change in compensation. 
  • Survey on the Contemporary Management of Intraoperative Urethral Injuries During Penile Prosthesis Implantation. 
  • Survival of coronary artery disease patients with stable pain and normal left ventricular function treated medically or surgically at Duke University. 
  • Survival of lung transplant patients with cystic fibrosis harboring panresistant bacteria other than Burkholderia cepacia, compared with patients harboring sensitive bacteria. 
  • Surviving Hurricane Fran and remembering lessons for daily living. 
  • Surviving the Silver Tsunami: Training a Health Care Workforce to Care for North Carolina's Aging Population. 
  • Sustained Reduction in Bloodstream Infections in Infants at a Large Tertiary Care Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. 
  • Sustained effects of atmospheric [CO2] and nitrogen availability on forest soil CO2 efflux. 
  • Symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Transmission in Youth and Staff Attending Day Camps. 
  • Symptoms of depression among community-dwelling elderly African-American and white older adults. 
  • Symptoms, Mobility and Function, and Quality of Life in Adults With Acute Leukemia During Initial Hospitalization. 
  • Synergistic effects of exposure to concentrated ambient fine pollution particles and nitrogen dioxide in humans. 
  • Syringe Decriminalization Advocacy in Red States: Lessons from the North Carolina Harm Reduction Coalition. 
  • Systemic loxoscelism in a nonendemic area: a diagnostic challenge for the unsuspecting physician. 
  • Tailoring "best-of-breed" safety classification for patient fall voluntary reporting. 
  • Tailoring health programming to clergy: findings from a study of United Methodist clergy in North Carolina. 
  • Take Control of Your Blood Pressure (TCYB) study: a multifactorial tailored behavioral and educational intervention for achieving blood pressure control. 
  • Targeted investment improves access to hospice and palliative care. 
  • Tea intake and risk of colon cancer in African-Americans and whites: North Carolina colon cancer study. 
  • Tea with Dr Oliver Smithies, 2007 Nobel laureate in physiology and medicine. Interview by Dr. Anthony Viera. 
  • Teaching cardiovascular examination skills: results from a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Teaching crucial skills: An electrocardiogram teaching module for medical students. 
  • Teaching pediatric pathology in a core curri curriculum. 
  • Teaching population health: a competency map approach to education. 
  • Teaching the anatomy of oncology: evaluating the impact of a dedicated oncoanatomy course. 
  • Teaching the quality improvement process to nursing students. 
  • Teledermatology's impact on time to intervention among referrals to a dermatology consult service. 
  • Telephone Problem Solving for Service Members with Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: A Randomized, Clinical Trial. 
  • Temporal variability in (13)C of respired CO(2) in a pine and a hardwood forest subject to similar climatic conditions. 
  • Ten years of respiratory cytopathology at Duke University Medical Center. I. The cytopathologic diagnosis of lung cancer during the years 1970 to 1974, noting the significance of specimen number and type. 
  • Terra incognita: The unknown risks to environmental quality posed by the spatial distribution and abundance of concentrated animal feeding operations. 
  • Test Accuracy of Human Papillomavirus in Urine for Detection of Cervical Intraepithelial Neoplasia. 
  • Test-induced priming of false memories. 
  • Test-of-Cure After Treatment of Pharyngeal Gonorrhea in Durham, North Carolina, 2021-2022. 
  • Testing the effects of four urbanization filters on forest plant taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity. 
  • The Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) Horizon Study: An AYA Cancer Survivorship Cohort. 
  • The American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program Surgical Risk Calculator Has a Role in Predicting Discharge to Post-Acute Care in Total Joint Arthroplasty. 
  • The Antimicrobial Scrub Contamination and Transmission (ASCOT) Trial: A Three-Arm, Blinded, Randomized Controlled Trial With Crossover Design to Determine the Efficacy of Antimicrobial-Impregnated Scrubs in Preventing Healthcare Provider Contamination. 
  • The Balance protocol: a pragmatic weight gain prevention randomized controlled trial for medically vulnerable patients within primary care. 
  • The Burden of Burnout. 
  • The Carolina Breast Cancer Study: integrating population-based epidemiology and molecular biology. 
  • The Case for Medicaid Expansion in North Carolina. 
  • The Citizen Soldier Support Program: a case study. 
  • The Co-occurrence of Daily Smoking, Binge Drinking and IPV Among Latino Expectant Fathers. 
  • The Duke University Arthritis Center. 
  • The Duke-NICHE program: an academic-practice collaboration to enhance geriatric nursing care. 
  • The Duke-UNC Health Profile: an adult health status instrument for primary care. 
  • The Durham Family Initiative: a preventive system of care. 
  • The Edgecombe County (NC) High Blood Pressure Control Program: II. Barriers to the use of medical care among hypertensives. 
  • The Edgecombe County High Blood Pressure Control Program: I. Correlates of uncontrolled hypertension at baseline. 
  • The Edgecombe County High Blood Pressure Control Program: III. Social support, social stressors, and treatment dropout. 
  • The Edgemont Community Clinic: Durham's student-operated free clinic begins its second decade. 
  • The Effects of Short-Term Variation in Abortion Funding on Pregnancy Outcomes 
  • The Effects of Two Workplace Weight Management Programs and Weight Loss on Health Care Utilization and Costs. 
  • The Emerging Chronic Sequelae of COVID-19 and Implications for North Carolina. 
  • The FIBROID Registry: symptom and quality-of-life status 1 year after therapy. 
  • The Fierce Urgency of Now: Addressing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Serious Illness Care. 
  • The Glaxo Wellcome health promotion program: the contract for health and wellness. 
  • The Great Smoky Mountains Study of Youth. Functional impairment and serious emotional disturbance. 
  • The Great Smoky Mountains Study: developmental epidemiology in the southeastern United States. 
  • The HPV vaccine: are dosing recommendations being followed? 
  • The Haw River syndrome: dentatorubropallidoluysian atrophy (DRPLA) in an African-American family. 
  • The Health Impacts of Environmental Policy: The North Carolina Clean Smokestacks Act. 
  • The History of Duke Thoracic Surgery. 
  • The Impact of Hospital Health Network Affiliation on Discharge Communication Preferences of Primary Care Providers. 
  • The Impact of the Affordable Care Act on North Carolinian Breast Cancer Patients Seeking Financial Support for Treatment. 
  • The Implementation of Communication Didactics for OB/GYN Residents on the Disclosure of Adverse Perioperative Events. 
  • The Kate B. Reynolds smoking education lifestyle fitness improvement program: Preventing and reducing chronic disease in low-income North Carolina communities. 
  • The Latino Health Project: pilot testing a culturally adapted behavioral weight loss intervention in obese and overweight Latino adults. 
  • The MD-MPH program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 
  • The Management Academy for Public Health: transforming the business of healthcare. 
  • The Model Health Care Provider Liability Reform Act. A summary and commentary. 
  • The National Cancer Data Base report on prostate cancer. 
  • The National Children's Study in North Carolina: a study of the effect of the environment on children's health, growth, and development. 
  • The Natural Course of Adolescent Depression Treatment in the Primary Care Setting. 
  • The North Carolina Community Preceptor Experience: Third Study of Trends Over 12 Years. 
  • The North Carolina Experience with Mucopolysaccharidosis Type I Newborn Screening. 
  • The North Carolina Medical Journal and its peers. 
  • The North Carolina Medical Journal finds itself in the vanguard of progressive medical journalism or, the deputy editor finds his fifteen minutes of fame. 
  • The North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, Dr. Clyde Henry Donnell, and the health education of blacks. 
  • The North Carolina Physician Assistant Program Directors Council-Collaboration, Collegiality, and Scholarship. 
  • The Obesity and Heart Failure Epidemics Among African Americans: Insights From the Jackson Heart Study. 
  • The Opioid Epidemic in NC: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities. 
  • The Prevalence, Correlates, and Impact on Cardiac Mortality of Right Ventricular Dysfunction in Nonischemic Cardiomyopathy. 
  • The Primary Care Leadership Track at the Duke University School of Medicine: creating change agents to improve population health. 
  • The Prognostic Value of Diastolic and Systolic Mechanical Left Ventricular Dyssynchrony Among Patients With Coronary Heart Disease. 
  • The Relationship Between BMI and Work-Related Musculoskeletal (MSK) Injury Rates is Modified by Job-Associated Level of MSK Injury Risk. 
  • The Relationship of HIV-related Stigma and Health Care Outcomes in the US Deep South. 
  • The Reproducibility of Racial Differences in Ambulatory Blood Pressure Phenotypes and Measurements. 
  • The Role of Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Patients With Resectable Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma-An Institutional and National Analysis. 
  • The Role of Pharmacists in the Opioid Epidemic: An Examination of Pharmacist-Focused Initiatives Across the United States and North Carolina. 
  • The Role of Reconstructive Surgery After Skeletal and Soft Tissue Sarcoma Resection. 
  • The Role of Technology in Newborn Screening. 
  • The Senior Mentor Program at Duke University School of Medicine. 
  • The Spatial Factor, Rather than Elevated CO(2), Controls the Soil Bacterial Community in a Temperate Forest Ecosystem 
  • The Spiritual History Scale in four dimensions (SHS-4): validity and reliability. 
  • The Surprise Question and Identification of Palliative Care Needs among Hospitalized Patients with Advanced Hematologic or Solid Malignancies. 
  • The Three Cs of a Scientific Autobiography: Curiosity, Circumstance, and Colleagues. 
  • The Veterans Learning to Improve Fitness and Function in Elders Study: a randomized trial of primary care-based physical activity counseling for older men. 
  • The WORD (wholeness, oneness, righteousness, deliverance): a faith-based weight-loss program utilizing a community-based participatory research approach. 
  • The YMCA Healthy, Fit, and Strong Program: a community-based, family-centered, low-cost obesity prevention/treatment pilot study. 
  • The anatomy of radiation oncology residency training. 
  • The aorta wall of patients presenting to the emergency department with acute myocardial infarction by cardiac magnetic resonance. 
  • The application of official policy. Prophylaxis recommendations for patients with mitral valve prolapse. 
  • The association between depression and chronic kidney disease and mortality among patients hospitalized with congestive heart failure. 
  • The association between depressive symptoms and mortality among older participants in the Epidemiologic Catchment Area-Piedmont Health Survey. 
  • The association between race and prostate cancer risk on initial biopsy in an equal access, multiethnic cohort. 
  • The association between self-rated health and mortality in a well-characterized sample of coronary artery disease patients. 
  • The association between serum copper and anaemia in the adult Second National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES II) population. 
  • The association of age and depression among the elderly: an epidemiologic exploration. 
  • The association of alcohol consumption patterns with self-rated physical health and psychiatric distress among Afghanistan- and Iraq-era U.S. veterans. 
  • The association of depression and mortality in elderly persons: a case for multiple, independent pathways. 
  • The association of exercise with both erectile and sexual function in black and white men. 
  • The association of perceived and objectively measured crime with physical activity: a cross-sectional analysis. 
  • The association of sexual assault and attempted suicide within the community. 
  • The associations of adolescent cigarette smoking, alcoholic beverage consumption, environmental tobacco smoke, and ionizing radiation with subsequent breast cancer risk (United States). 
  • The benefit of implementing a heart failure disease management program. 
  • The changing epidemiology of mechanical ventilation: a population-based study. 
  • The combined medical specialties unit. After five years. 
  • The complex association between religious activities and functional limitations in older adults. 
  • The contribution of baseline weight and weight gain to blood pressure change in African Americans: the Pitt County Study. 
  • The cost of auditing outpatient records. 
  • The deadly sins and diabetes. 
  • The delivery of immunizations and other preventive services in private practices. 
  • The design and implementation of an open-source, data-driven cohort recruitment system: the Duke Integrated Subject Cohort and Enrollment Research Network (DISCERN). 
  • The development of a primary care curriculum for obstetrics/gynecology residents. 
  • The development of substance-abuse curricular content by five North Carolina schools. 
  • The dyadic nature of social information processing in boys' reactive and proactive aggression. 
  • The economics of race and eugenic sterilization in North Carolina: 1958-1968. 
  • The effect of a "maintain, don't gain" approach to weight management on depression among black women: results from a randomized controlled trial. 
  • The effect of a weight gain prevention intervention on moderate-vigorous physical activity among black women: the Shape Program. 
  • The effect of comorbid illness on receipt of cancer screening by older people. 
  • The effect of numeracy level on completeness of home blood pressure monitoring. 
  • The effect of palliative care on patient functioning. 
  • The effect of prior pneumonectomy or lobectomy on subsequent lung transplantation. 
  • The effect of the PREMIER interventions on insulin sensitivity. 
  • The effect of weight loss on health, productivity, and medical expenditures among overweight employees. 
  • The effects of a break in water fluoridation on the development of dental caries and fluorosis. 
  • The effects of aging on activities and attitudes. 
  • The effects of nutrition-related factors on four-year mortality among a biracial sample of community-dwelling elders in the North Carolina piedmont. 
  • The effects of participation level on recidivism: a study of drug treatment courts using propensity score matching. 
  • The effects of race and criminal justice involvement on access to atypical antipsychotic medications among persons with schizophrenia. 
  • The effects of state psychiatric hospital waitlist policies on length of stay and time to readmission. 
  • The epidemiology of health problems in returning Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom veterans. A national and North Carolina-based summary. 
  • The estrogen receptor-alpha A908G (K303R) mutation occurs at a low frequency in invasive breast tumors: results from a population-based study. 
  • The ethical challenges of a randomized controlled trial of involuntary outpatient commitment. 
  • The evaluation of the Fort Bragg Demonstration Project: an alternative interpretation of the findings. 
  • The evolution of volunteerism and professional staff within hospice care in North Carolina. 
  • The fall of the house of medicine? 
  • The family child care home environment and children's diet quality. 
  • The footprint of old syphilis: using a reverse screening algorithm for syphilis testing in a U.S. Geographic Information Systems-Based Community Outreach Program. 
  • The future of nursing in North Carolina. 
  • The geography of mercury and PCBs in North Carolina's local seafood. 
  • The growing importance of non-device-associated healthcare-associated infections: a relative proportion and incidence study at an academic medical center, 2008-2012. 
  • The health burden of diabetes for the elderly in four communities. 
  • The healthcare experiences of Koreans living in North Carolina: a mixed methods study. 
  • The heaviest man on record. 
  • The impact of Assertive Community Treatment on utilization of primary care and other outpatient health services: the North Carolina experience. 
  • The impact of TennCare on patient satisfaction with care. 
  • The impact of a measurement and feedback intervention on blood pressure control in ambulatory cardiology practice. 
  • The impact of a statewide pre-hospital STEMI strategy to bypass hospitals without percutaneous coronary intervention capability on treatment times. 
  • The impact of abnormal mammograms on psychosocial outcomes and subsequent screening. 
  • The impact of an elective curriculum in pathology. 
  • The impact of ancillary services on primary care use and outcomes for HIV/AIDS patients with public insurance coverage. 
  • The impact of borderline personality disorder on post-traumatic stress in the community: a study of health status, health utilization, and functioning. 
  • The impact of cancer and quality of life for post-treatment non-Hodgkin lymphoma survivors. 
  • The impact of coal combustion residue effluent on water resources: a North Carolina example 
  • The impact of depressive symptomatology on physical disability: MacArthur Studies of Successful Aging. 
  • The impact of heat exposure on reduced gestational age in pregnant women in North Carolina, 2011-2015. 
  • The impact of post-transplant diabetes mellitus on liver transplant outcomes. 
  • The impact of statistical adjustment on economic profiles of interventional cardiologists. 
  • The impact of supervised exercise on the psychological well-being and health status of older veterans. 
  • 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 impact of tailored interventions on a community health center population. 
  • The impact of work rewards on radiographers' organizational commitment. 
  • The importance of screening for healthy weight and recommending healthy lifestyles in pediatric patients. 
  • The incidence of ehrlichial and rickettsial infection in patients with unexplained fever and recent history of tick bite in central North Carolina. 
  • The increasing impact of human immunodeficiency virus infections, sexually transmitted diseases, and viral hepatitis in Durham County, North Carolina: a call for coordinated and integrated services. 
  • The incremental value of medical nutrition therapy in weight management. 
  • The independent effects of obesity and body fat distribution on blood pressure in black adults: the Pitt County study. 
  • The influence of cardiograph design and automated algorithms on the incidence and detection of electrode cable reversals in an academic electrocardiogram laboratory. 
  • The influence of health literacy level on an educational intervention to improve glaucoma medication adherence. 
  • The introduction of human immunodeficiency virus into the North Carolina pediatric population. 
  • The long-term effects of lifestyle change on blood pressure: One-year follow-up of the ENCORE study. 
  • The medical record: a comprehensive computer system for the family physician. 
  • The more things change, the more they stay the same? When is trait variability important for stability of ecosystem function in a changing environment. 
  • The multidisciplinary approach to adenocarcinoma of the prostate at Moore Regional Hospital. 
  • The need for quick computer response with minimal input: development of an ED computer system. 
  • The new "normal" blood pressure: what are the implications for family medicine? 
  • The orientation period: essential for new registered nurses' adaptation. 
  • The perceived coerciveness of involuntary outpatient commitment: findings from an experimental study. 
  • The perceived influence of cost-offset community-supported agriculture on food access among low-income families. 
  • The perceived racism scale: a multidimensional assessment of the experience of white racism among African Americans. 
  • The prevalence and 3-year incidence of dementia in older Black and White community residents. 
  • The prevalence of potentially modifiable functional deficits and the subsequent use of occupational and physical therapy by older adults with cancer. 
  • The preventive surgical site infection bundle in colorectal surgery: an effective approach to surgical site infection reduction and health care cost savings. 
  • The professionalism disconnect: do entering residents identify yet participate in unprofessional behaviors? 
  • The prognostic value of mechanical left ventricular dyssynchrony defined by phase analysis from gated single-photon emission computed tomography myocardial perfusion imaging among patients with coronary heart disease. 
  • The race to eliminate tuberculosis. 
  • The relation between childhood proactive and reactive aggression and substance use initiation. 
  • The relationship between early childhood blood lead levels and performance on end-of-grade tests. 
  • The relationship between glycemic control and health-related quality of life in patients with non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. 
  • The relationship between leisure, walking, and transportation activity with the natural environment. 
  • The relationship between mandated community treatment and perceived barriers to care in persons with severe mental illness. 
  • The relationship between religious activities and blood pressure in older adults. 
  • The relationship between self-rated health and health care service use among women veterans in a primary care clinic. 
  • The relationship between spirituality and depressive symptoms: testing psychosocial mechanisms. 
  • The relationship of APOE genotype to cognitive functioning in older African-American and Caucasian community residents. 
  • The relationship of religious involvement indicators and social support to current and past suicidality among depressed older adults. 
  • The right to privacy and the duty to protect. 
  • The risk of subsequent fractures in community-dwelling men and male veterans with hip fracture. 
  • The role of CARE (Comprehensive Autopsy Review and Evaluation) in a prenatal diagnosis program. 
  • The role of bystanders, first responders, and emergency medical service providers in timely defibrillation and related outcomes after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: Results from a statewide registry. 
  • The role of dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging in the diagnosis and management of patients with vascular malformations. 
  • The role of multi-modality adjuvant chemotherapy and radiation in women with advanced stage endometrial cancer. 
  • The role of soluble components in ambient fine particles-induced changes in human lungs and blood. 
  • The role of the built environment in the disablement process. 
  • The roles and supply of nurse-midwives, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants in North Carolina. 
  • The science of climbing the academic ladder. Interview by Barbara Kantrowitz and Holly Peterson. 
  • The seasonal timing of warming that controls onset of the growing season. 
  • The shifting subtypes of ADHD: classification depends on how symptom reports are combined. 
  • The short-term impact of tailored mammography decision-making interventions. 
  • The significant places of African American adults and their perceived influence on cardiovascular disease risk behaviors. 
  • The social-environmental context of violent behavior in persons treated for severe mental illness. 
  • The spatial distribution of known predictors of autism spectrum disorders impacts geographic variability in prevalence in central North Carolina. 
  • The tandem mass spectrometry newborn screening experience in North Carolina: 1997-2005. 
  • The unbuilt environment: culture moderates the built environment for physical activity. 
  • The use of marihuana, ethanol, and other drugs among drivers killed in single-vehicle crashes. 
  • The value of diagnostic medical imaging. 
  • The veterans' study to improve the control of hypertension (V-STITCH): design and methodology. 
  • Therapeutic Hypothermia for Patients with Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest in North Carolina. 
  • Therapeutic and prognostic considerations of head and neck melanoma. 
  • Thickness of subcutaneous fat as a risk factor for infection in cervical spine fusion surgery. 
  • Thin malignant melanomas of the head and neck. 
  • Thinking about the past and future in daily life: an experience sampling study of individual differences in mental time travel. 
  • Third-Grade Academic Performance and Episodes of Cardiac Care Among Children with Congenital Heart Defects. 
  • Thoracic endovascular aortic repair for chronic DeBakey IIIb aortic dissection. 
  • Thoracoscopic approach to lobectomy for lung cancer does not compromise oncologic efficacy. 
  • Thyroid Receptor Antagonism of Chemicals Extracted from Personal Silicone Wristbands within a Papillary Thyroid Cancer Pilot Study. 
  • Thyroid cancers incidentally detected at imaging in a 10-year period: how many cancers would be missed with use of the recommendations from the Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound? 
  • 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. 
  • Time to cancer treatment and reproductive outcomes after fertility preservation among adolescent and young adult women with cancer. 
  • Time-Driven, Activity-Based Costing of Presurgical Infant Orthopedics: A Critical Component of Establishing Value of Latham Appliance and Nasoalveolar Molding. 
  • Timeliness of emergency department diagnoses for syndromic surveillance. 
  • Timing and Number of Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinomas in Transplant Recipients. 
  • Timing of tracheostomy after anterior cervical spine fixation. 
  • To Be a CLABSI or Not to Be a CLABSI-That is the Question: The Epidemiology of BSI in a Large ECMO Population. 
  • To heal and restore broken bodies: a retrospective, descriptive study of the role and impact of pastoral care in the treatment of patients with burn injury. 
  • Tobacco smoking in patients with heart failure and coronary artery disease: A 20-year experience at Duke University Medical Center. 
  • Toddler's behavior and its impacts on exposure to polybrominated diphenyl ethers. 
  • Torsemide versus furosemide in heart failure patients: insights from Duke University Hospital. 
  • Total medical record: an automated medical information system. 
  • Toward population impact from early childhood psychological interventions. 
  • Toward vocabulary control for chief complaint. 
  • Towards a more comprehensive understanding of cancer burden in North Carolina: priorities for intervention. 
  • Towards prenatal biomonitoring in North Carolina: assessing arsenic, cadmium, mercury, and lead levels in pregnant women. 
  • Track: A randomized controlled trial of a digital health obesity treatment intervention for medically vulnerable primary care patients. 
  • Tracking biocultural pathways in population health: the value of biomarkers. 
  • Tradition, tradition. 
  • Trained and supervised physician assistants can safely perform diagnostic cardiac catheterization with coronary angiography. 
  • Trait space of rare plants in a fire-dependent ecosystem. 
  • Trajectory classes of body mass index in a representative elderly community sample. 
  • Transcatheter aortic valve replacement for patients with severe bicuspid aortic stenosis. 
  • Transforming growth factor beta receptor I polyalanine repeat polymorphism does not increase ovarian cancer risk. 
  • Transitional care from skilled nursing facilities to home: study protocol for a stepped wedge cluster randomized trial. 
  • Transitions in Care for Infants with Trisomy 13 or 18. 
  • Transjugular biopsy results in the transplanted liver: comparison of two surgical hepatic venous anastomotic configurations in 269 consecutive biopsies over a 14-year period. 
  • Translating concern into action: HIV care providers' views on counseling patients about HIV prevention in the clinical setting. 
  • Translating evidence-based falls prevention into clinical practice in nursing facilities: Results and lessons from a quality improvement collaborative. 
  • Transmission of human immunodeficiency virus to sexual partners of hemophiliacs. 
  • Transmitted antiretroviral drug resistance among acute and recent HIV infections in North Carolina from 1998 to 2007. 
  • 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. 
  • Treating pediatric obesity in the primary care setting to prevent chronic disease: perceptions and knowledge of providers and staff. 
  • Treatment and Outcomes of Women With Large Locally Advanced Breast Cancer. 
  • Treatment options, selection, and satisfaction among African American and white men with prostate carcinoma in North Carolina. 
  • Treatment regimen determines the relationship between depression and glycemic control. 
  • Trends in Drug Use-Associated Infective Endocarditis and Heart Valve Surgery, 2007 to 2017: A Study of Statewide Discharge Data. 
  • Trends in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) counseling, testing, and antiretroviral treatment of HIV-infected women and perinatal transmission in North Carolina. 
  • Trends in interventions to reduce perinatal human immunodeficiency virus type 1 transmission in North Carolina. 
  • Trends in neurosurgical care in Western Uganda: an interrupted time series analysis. 
  • Trends in surgical treatment of early-stage breast cancer reveal decreasing mastectomy use between 2003 and 2016 by age, race, and rurality. 
  • Trends in the indications for penetrating keratoplasty, 1980-2001. 
  • Trends in the use of diagnostic coronary angiography, percutaneous coronary intervention, and coronary artery bypass graft surgery across North Carolina. 
  • Trends in the use of feeding tubes in North Carolina hospitals. 
  • Trends in up-to-date status in colorectal cancer screening, North Carolina, 1998-2002. 
  • Trends of gonorrhea and chlamydial infection during 1985-1996 among active-duty soldiers at a United States Army installation. 
  • Triggers of uncertainty about recurrence and long-term treatment side effects in older African American and Caucasian breast cancer survivors. 
  • Trinucleotide repeat polymorphisms in the androgen receptor gene and risk of ovarian cancer. 
  • Tuberculosis in hospital personnel. 
  • Tuberculosis knowledge and attitudes among physicians who treat young children in North Carolina, USA. 
  • Tuberculosis knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs among North Carolinians at increased risk of infection. 
  • Tumor characteristics in African American and white women. 
  • Tunneled internal jugular hemodialysis catheters: impact of laterality and tip position on catheter dysfunction and infection rates. 
  • Tunneled peritoneal drainage catheter placement for refractory ascites: single-center experience in 188 patients. 
  • Twenty-eight cases of Mycobacterium marinum infection: retrospective case series and literature review. 
  • Two-week postpartum intrauterine contraception insertion: a study of feasibility, patient acceptability and short-term outcomes. 
  • Type A behavior pattern and coronary atherosclerosis. 
  • UNC Health Systems and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina patient-centered medical home collaborative. 
  • Ultimate publication rate of unpublished manuscripts listed on radiology residency applications at one institution. 
  • Uncertainty intervention for watchful waiting in prostate cancer. 
  • Understanding African American men's perceptions of racism, male gender socialization, and social capital through photovoice. 
  • Understanding breastfeeding initiation and continuation in rural communities: a combined qualitative/quantitative approach. 
  • Understanding racial differences in health-related quality of life in a population-based cohort of breast cancer survivors. 
  • Understanding the state of pharmacogenomic testing for thiopurine methyltransferase within a large health system. 
  • Underuse of aspirin in a referral population with documented coronary artery disease. 
  • Unified medical language system coverage of emergency-medicine chief complaints. 
  • Unique Geospatial Accumulations of Uveal Melanoma. 
  • United Airway Disease Among Crop Farmers. 
  • Universal hepatitis B immunization of infants: reactions of pediatricians and family physicians over time. 
  • Universal masking is an effective strategy to flatten the severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) healthcare worker epidemiologic curve. 
  • Unmet spiritual care needs impact emotional and spiritual well-being in advanced cancer patients. 
  • Upper extremity musculoskeletal symptoms and disorders among a cohort of women employed in poultry processing. 
  • Upper-extremity musculoskeletal symptoms and physical health related quality of life among women employed in poultry processing and other low-wage jobs in northeastern North Carolina. 
  • Urban-Soil Pedogenesis Drives Contrasting Legacies of Lead from Paint and Gasoline in City Soil. 
  • Urban-rural differences in excess mortality among high-poverty populations: evidence from the Harlem Household Survey and the Pitt County, North Carolina Study of African American Health. 
  • Urinary follicle-stimulating hormone as a measure of natural fertility in a community cohort. 
  • Urinary metabolites of organophosphate flame retardants and their variability in pregnant women. 
  • Use and Perceived Risk of Electronic Cigarettes Among North Carolina Middle and High School Students. 
  • Use of Adjuncts Reduces Cardiopulmonary Bypass Time During Minimally Invasive Aortic Valve Replacement. 
  • Use of Assistive Devices to Lift, Transfer, and Reposition Hospital Patients. 
  • Use of North Carolina Medicaid Collaborative Care Billing Codes After Statewide Approval for Reimbursement. 
  • Use of Preprocedural MDCT for Cardiac Implantable Electric Device Lead Extraction: Frequency of Findings That Change Management. 
  • Use of a handheld computer observational tool to improve communication for care planning and psychosocial well-being. 
  • Use of a human-centered design approach to adapt a nurse-led cardiovascular disease prevention intervention in HIV clinics. 
  • Use of antiarrhythmic drug therapy and clinical outcomes in older patients with concomitant atrial fibrillation and coronary artery disease. 
  • Use of home blood pressure monitoring by hypertensive patients in primary care: survey of a practice-based research network cohort. 
  • Use of hospital services, religious attendance, and religious affiliation. 
  • Use of human fibrinogen concentrate during proximal aortic reconstruction with deep hypothermic circulatory arrest. 
  • Use of inappropriate prescription drugs by older people. 
  • Use of nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs and distal large bowel cancer in whites and African Americans. 
  • Use of nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs and risk of colon cancer in a population-based, case-control study of African Americans and Whites. 
  • Use of optimised dual statistical process control charts for early detection of surgical site infection outbreaks. 
  • Use of psychotropic medications by youths in therapeutic foster care and group homes. 
  • Use of qualitative methods to map job tasks and exposures to occupational hazards for commercial fishermen. 
  • Use of spatial analysis to support environmental health research and practice. 
  • Use of telepsychiatry to improve care for people with mental illness in rural North Carolina. 
  • Use of the ThinPrep method in bile duct brushings: analysis of morphologic parameters associated with malignancy and determination of interobserver reliability. 
  • Use of traditional Indian foods by Cherokee youths in Cherokee, North Carolina. 
  • Using Clinical Characteristics and Patient-Reported Outcome Measures to Categorize Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Subtypes. 
  • Using Clinical Scenarios to Understand Preventability of Clostridium difficile Infections by Inpatient Antibiotic Stewardship Programs. 
  • Using Google Trends to Predict Pediatric Respiratory Syncytial Virus Encounters at a Major Health Care System. 
  • Using Participatory Methods to Assess PrEP Interest and Uptake Among Young People Living in the Southeastern US: A Mixed Methods Assessment. 
  • Using Transitional Year Milestones to Assess Graduating Medical Students' Skills During a Capstone Course. 
  • Using a short food frequency questionnaire to estimate dietary calcium consumption: a tool for patient education. 
  • Using college alumni populations in epidemiologic research: the UNC Alumni Heart Study. 
  • Using community-based participatory research methods to reach women with health messages: results from the North Carolina BEAUTY and Health Pilot Project. 
  • Using effort-reward imbalance theory to understand high rates of depression and anxiety among clergy. 
  • Using electronic health record data for substance use Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment among adults with type 2 diabetes: Design of a National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network study. 
  • Using emergency department-based inception cohorts to determine genetic characteristics associated with long term patient outcomes after motor vehicle collision: methodology of the CRASH study. 
  • Using epidemiologic survey data to plan geriatric mental health services. 
  • Using tailored interventions to enhance smoking cessation among African-Americans at a community health center. 
  • Using telemetry to mitigate the by-catch of long-lived marine vertebrates 
  • Using the ARCC Model to Implement the 2015 ANCC COA Criteria: A North Carolina Public Health Nursing Project. 
  • Using the Social-Ecological Model of HIV Prevention to Explore HIV Testing Behaviors of Young Black College Women. 
  • Using the jigsaw cooperative learning method to teach medical students about long-term and postacute care. 
  • Uterine Cancer Mortality in White and African American Females in Southeastern North Carolina. 
  • Utility of concomitant tricuspid valve procedures for patients undergoing implantation of a continuous-flow left ventricular device. 
  • Utility of predictive tools for risk stratification of elderly individuals with all-cause acute respiratory infection. 
  • Utilizing Evidence to Address the Health and Health Care Needs of Veterans. 
  • Vaccine Hesitancy in North Carolina: The Elephant in the Room? 
  • Vaginal bleeding during pregnancy and preterm birth. 
  • Validation of the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program Risk Model for Patients Undergoing Panniculectomy. 
  • Validity of the Personality Assessment Inventory Aggression scales and Violence Potential index in veterans with PTSD. 
  • Validity rates of the Personality Assessment Inventory and the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 in a VA Medical Center Setting. 
  • Value of Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status in Predicting Risk of Outcomes in Studies That Use Electronic Health Record Data. 
  • Value-based insurance design program in north Carolina increased medication adherence but was not cost neutral. 
  • Valve-in-Valve Transcatheter Valve Implantation in the Nonaortic Position. 
  • Vancomycin-resistant enterococci: risk related to the use of intravenous vancomycin in a university hospital. 
  • Vaping cannabis among adolescents: prevalence and associations with tobacco use from a cross-sectional study in the USA. 
  • Variability in Radiation Dose From Repeat Identical CT Examinations: Longitudinal Analysis of 2851 Patients Undergoing 12,635 Thoracoabdominal CT Scans in an Academic Health System. 
  • Variability of sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence according to stand age-related processes in a managed loblolly pine forest. 
  • Variation in the type and frequency of postoperative invasive Staphylococcus aureus infections according to type of surgical procedure. 
  • Variation in toxicity of copper pyrithione among populations and families of the barnacle, Balanus amphitrite. 
  • Varicella during pregnancy. Maternal and fetal effects. 
  • Varicella prevalence in day-care centers. 
  • Varicella vaccination in a primary care pediatric practice. 
  • Vascular surgery collaboration during pancreaticoduodenectomy with vascular reconstruction. 
  • Verbal response mode profiles of patients and physicians in medical screening interviews 
  • Video-Based Preconception Counseling for Women Living With HIV. 
  • Violence and psychiatric disorder in the community: evidence from the Epidemiologic Catchment Area surveys. 
  • Violent behavior preceding hospitalization among persons with severe mental illness. 
  • Violent crime exposure classification and adverse birth outcomes: a geographically-defined cohort study. 
  • Visual complications after stent-assisted endovascular embolization of paraophthalmic and suprasellar variant superior hypophyseal aneurysms: the Duke Cerebrovascular Center experience in 57 patients. 
  • Vitamin D receptor polymorphisms and prostate cancer. 
  • Vitamin supplement use and breast cancer in a North Carolina population. 
  • Voice disorders in primary school teachers and barriers to care. 
  • Voices of Women Facing HIV-Related Stigma in the Deep South. 
  • WIC Recipients in the Retail Environment: A Qualitative Study Assessing Customer Experience and Satisfaction. 
  • Wake Forest University long-term follow-up of type 2 myocardial infarction: The Wake-Up T2MI Registry. 
  • Was This Readmission Preventable? Qualitative Study of Patient and Provider Perceptions of Readmissions. 
  • Watch me grow: a garden-based pilot intervention to increase vegetable and fruit intake in preschoolers. 
  • Watershed urbanization alters the composition and function of stream bacterial communities. 
  • Weekly low-dose paclitaxel and carboplatin in the treatment of advanced or recurrent cervical and endometrial cancer. 
  • Weight changes in obese adults 6-months after discontinuation of double-blind zonisamide or placebo treatment. 
  • Weight loss after diagnosis with gestational diabetes and birth weight among overweight and obese women. 
  • Weight-Related Behaviors of Children with Obesity during the COVID-19 Pandemic. 
  • West African crystalline maculopathy. 
  • What are Hospice Providers in the Carolinas Doing to Reach African Americans in Their Service Area? 
  • What do childhood anxiety disorders predict? 
  • What mothers say about why poor children fall behind on immunizations. A summary of focus groups in North Carolina. 
  • What motivates residents to teach? The Attitudes in Clinical Teaching study. 
  • What symptoms of depression predict mortality in community-dwelling elders? 
  • What works. Surgeons generate "clean bills" from the point of care. 
  • Wheelchair use by veterans newly prescribed a manual wheelchair. 
  • Wheelchair users are not necessarily wheelchair bound. 
  • Which domains of spirituality are associated with anxiety and depression in patients with advanced illness? 
  • Who gets treated? Factors associated with referral in children with psychiatric disorders. 
  • Who trusts healthcare institutions? Results from a community-based sample. 
  • Why do cancer patients die in the emergency department?: an analysis of 283 deaths in NC EDs. 
  • Why do patients with cancer visit emergency departments? Results of a 2008 population study in North Carolina. 
  • Why healthy elders move to a continuing care retirement community. 
  • Widespread dissemination of CTX-M-15 genotype extended-spectrum-β-lactamase-producing enterobacteriaceae among patients presenting to community hospitals in the southeastern United States. 
  • Will Changes to Medicare Payment Rates Alter Hospice's Cost-Saving Ability? 
  • Willingness of Patients to Use Computers for Health Communication and Monitoring Following Myocardial Infarction. 
  • Winston-Salem State University and Duke University's Bridge to the Doctorate Program. 
  • With "big data" comes big responsibility: outreach to North Carolina Medicaid patients with 10 or more computed tomography scans in 12 months. 
  • Work hazards and workplace safety violations experienced by adolescent construction workers. 
  • Work related injuries in small scale commercial fishing. 
  • Workers' compensation experience of North Carolina residential construction workers, 1986-1994. 
  • Working with licensed cosmetologists to promote health: results from the North Carolina BEAUTY and Health Pilot Study. 
  • World peace, to be a millionaire, and hoop dreams: adolescent wishes on health screening surveys. 
  • Worsening heart failure during hospitalization for acute heart failure: Insights from the Acute Study of Clinical Effectiveness of Nesiritide in Decompensated Heart Failure (ASCEND-HF). 
  • Young children's exposure to phenols in the home: Associations between house dust, hand wipes, silicone wristbands, and urinary biomarkers. 
  • Young worker safety in construction: do family ties and workgroup size affect hazard exposures and safety practices? 
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  • Alexander, John Hunter Peel, Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Cardiology
  • Anderson, Ruth A., Professor Emerita in the School of Nursing, School of Nursing
  • Andolsek, Kathryn Marijoan, Professor in Family Medicine and Community Health, School of Medicine
  • Berchuck, Andrew, James M. Ingram Distinguished Professor of Gynecologic Oncology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Gynecologic Oncology
  • Bradford, Daniel William, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychiatry, Child & Family Mental Health & Community Psychiatry
  • Clotfelter, Charles T., Z. Smith Reynolds Distinguished Professor of Public Policy Studies, Economics
  • Craciunescu, Oana, Professor of Radiation Oncology, Radiation Oncology
  • Curtis, Lesley H., Professor in Population Health Sciences, Medicine, General Internal Medicine
  • Dodge, Kenneth A., William McDougall Distinguished Professor of Public Policy Studies, Duke Science & Society
  • Freemark, Michael Scott, Robert C. Atkins, M.D. and Veronica Atkins Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics, in the School of Medicine, Pediatrics, Endocrinology
  • Gold, Deborah T., Professor Emeritus in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychiatry, Child & Family Mental Health & Community Psychiatry
  • Grambow, Steven C., Associate Professor of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • Ladd, Helen F., Susan B. King Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Public Policy, Economics
  • Laskowitz, Daniel Todd, Professor of Neurology, Duke Science & Society
  • McConnell, Eleanor Schildwachter, Associate Professor in the School of Nursing, School of Nursing
  • McLendon, Roger Edwin, Professor of Pathology, Pathology
  • Milano, Carmelo Alessio, Joseph W. and Dorothy W. Beard Distinguished Professor of Experimental Surgery, Surgery, Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery
  • Moehring, Rebekah, Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Infectious Diseases
  • Moorman, Patricia Gripka, Professor Emeritus in Family Medicine and Community Health, Duke Cancer Institute
  • Morgan, Perri Anne, Professor in Family Medicine and Community Health, Family Medicine and Community Health, Physician Assistant Program
  • Muir, Kelly Walton, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Ophthalmology, Glaucoma
  • O'Connor, Christopher Michael, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine, Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology
  • Olsen, Maren Karine, Professor of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • Orlando, Lori Ann, Professor of Medicine, Medicine, General Internal Medicine
  • Patz Jr., Edward F., James and Alice Chen Distinguished Professor of Radiology, Pathology
  • Preminger, Glenn Michael, James F. Glenn, M.D. Distinguished Professor of Urology, Surgery, Urology
  • Sampson, John Howard, Robert H., M.D. and Gloria Wilkins Professor of Neurosurgery, in the School of Medicine, Biomedical Engineering
  • Schwartz-Bloom, Rochelle D., Professor Emeritus of Pharmacology & Cancer Biology, Duke Science & Society
  • Stinnett, Sandra Sue, Associate Professor of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • Strand de Oliveira, Justine, Professor Emeritus in Family Medicine and Community Health, Family Medicine and Community Health, Physician Assistant Program
  • Tsalik, Ephraim, Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine, Medicine, Infectious Diseases
  • Urban, Dean L., Professor of Environmental Sciences and Policy, Environmental Sciences and Policy
  • Yancy Jr., William Samuel, Professor of Medicine, Medicine, General Internal Medicine