Outpatient Clinics, Hospital

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A chartless record--is it adequate? 
  • A comparison of three health status measures in primary care outpatients. 
  • A controlled trial of geriatric evaluation. 
  • A controlled trial of inpatient and outpatient geriatric evaluation and management. 
  • A nurse-coordinated intervention for primary care patients with non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus: impact on glycemic control and health-related quality of life. 
  • Antibiotic overuse for acute respiratory tract infections in Sri Lanka: a qualitative study of outpatients and their physicians. 
  • Assessment of primary hemostasis by PFA-100 analysis in a tertiary care center. 
  • BP control. Improvement in a university medical clinic by use of a physician's associate. 
  • Blood lead concentrations in 1-3 year old Lebanese children: a cross-sectional study. 
  • Blood pressure control and awareness among patients with diabetes and hypertension attending a tertiary ophthalmic clinic. 
  • Breast conservation rates-barriers between tertiary care and community practice. 
  • Build or remodel? Preparing facilities for today's and tomorrow's needs. 
  • Can physician education lower the cost of prescription drugs? A prospective, controlled trial. 
  • Cannabis use history and characteristics of quit attempts: a comparison study of treatment-seeking and non-treatment-seeking cannabis users. 
  • Cigarette smoking and acute non-influenzal respiratory disease in military cadets. 
  • Cognitive function and acute care utilization. 
  • Computer-prompted diagnostic codes. 
  • Continuity of care in the 80-hour workweek era? 
  • Critical pathway for administering high-dose chemotherapy followed by peripheral blood stem cell rescue in the outpatient setting. 
  • Delivering heart failure disease management in 3 tertiary care centers: key clinical components and venues of care. 
  • Demand-based assessment of workforce requirements for orthopaedic services. 
  • Development of a patient satisfaction survey for outpatient care: a brief report. 
  • Effectiveness of automatic diagnostic test result feedback on outpatient laboratory and radiology testing in veterans. A controlled trial. 
  • Effects of educational intervention in waiting room on patient satisfaction. 
  • Effects of geriatric evaluation and management on adverse drug reactions and suboptimal prescribing in the frail elderly. 
  • Evaluation of the Department of Veterans Affairs community-based outpatient clinics. 
  • Follow-up study of a multidisciplinary pain center. 
  • Healthcare access and utilization by patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus: does gender matter? 
  • How well do clinic-based blood pressure measurements agree with the mercury standard? 
  • Impact of a multidisciplinary thoracic oncology clinic on the timeliness of care. 
  • Inertia in health care organizations: A case study of peritoneal dialysis services. 
  • Inpatient and outpatient patterns of psychotropic drug prescribing by nonpsychiatrist physicians. 
  • Interaction exchange structure and patient satisfaction with medical interviews. 
  • Internal Medicine Residents' Ambulatory Management of Core Geriatric Conditions. 
  • Is specialty care associated with improved survival of patients with congestive heart failure? 
  • Member Input: The Challenge of Staffing in Ambulatory Infusion Settings 
  • Metaanalysis and review of heart failure disease management randomized controlled clinical trials. 
  • Moderate consumption of white and fortified wine is associated with reduced odds of diabetic retinopathy. 
  • Mohs micrographic surgery vs traditional surgical excision: a cost comparison analysis. 
  • Nerve block induction rooms--physical plant setup, monitoring equipment, block cart, and resuscitation cart. 
  • Outcomes of videotape instruction in clinic waiting area. 
  • Outpatient anesthesia for augmentation mammaplasty and capsulotomy at Duke Hospital. 
  • Overcoming inertia: improvement in achieving target low-density lipoprotein cholesterol. 
  • Patient discourse on chronic kidney disease monitoring: a qualitative study at a Veterans Affairs Renal Clinic. 
  • Patient exposition and physician explanation in initial medical interviews and outcomes of clinic visits. 
  • Patient satisfaction in resident and attending ambulatory care clinics. 
  • Physiological and Metabolic Changes During the Transition from Hyperthyroidism to Euthyroidism in Graves' Disease. 
  • Prevalence of HIV infection in a general psychiatric outpatient population. 
  • Primary care for patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus: a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Primary health care in an academic medical center. 
  • Reporting of estimated GFR in the primary care clinic. 
  • Screening for diabetes in an outpatient clinic population. 
  • Sensitivity, specificity, and predictive values of screening tests for eye conditions in a clinic-based population. 
  • Strategies to reduce hospital readmissions: a review. 
  • Survey of Patch Test Business Models in the United States by the American Contact Dermatitis Society. 
  • Survey of long-term follow-up programs in the United States for survivors of childhood brain tumors. 
  • Teledermatology's impact on time to intervention among referrals to a dermatology consult service. 
  • The Effect of Clinical Care Location on Clinical Outcomes After Peripheral Vascular Intervention in Medicare Beneficiaries. 
  • The cost of auditing outpatient records. 
  • The digital divide phenomenon in a hand surgery outpatient clinic. 
  • The effects of California Proposition 187 on ophthalmology clinic utilization at an inner-city urban hospital. 
  • The effects of computerized medical records on provider efficiency and quality of care. 
  • The heart failure clinic: a consensus statement of the Heart Failure Society of America. 
  • The interaction among sex, hemoglobin and outcomes in a specialty heart failure clinic. 
  • Trends in hospital-physician integration in medical oncology. 
  • Use of outpatient care in Veterans Health Administration and Medicare among veterans receiving primary care in community-based and hospital outpatient clinics. 
  • VA community-based outpatient clinics: access and utilization performance measures. 
  • VA community-based outpatient clinics: cost performance measures. 
  • Wide clinic-level variation in adherence to oral diabetes medications in the VA. 
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  Keywords of People

  • O'Connor, Christopher Michael, Richard Sean Stack, M.D. Distinguished Professor, Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology
  • Olsen, Maren Karine, Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • Yancy Jr., William Samuel, Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, General Internal Medicine