Patients

• 

  Subject Areas on Research

  • "Doctor, I hurt right here!" The single digit sign. 
  • "What should I do, doc?": Some psychologic benefits of physician recommendations. 
  • 'Well, It's the Risk of the Unknown… Right?': A Qualitative Study of Perceived Risks and Benefits of HIV Cure Research in the United States. 
  • A brief symptom index for advanced lung cancer. 
  • A fidelity measure for integrated management of depression in primary care. 
  • A multistage model of hospital bed requirements. 
  • A typology of preferences for participation in healthcare decision making. 
  • ASCPRO recommendations for the assessment of fatigue as an outcome in clinical trials. 
  • Addressing the unit of analysis in medical care studies: a systematic review. 
  • An analysis of the heterogeneity of U.S. nursing home patients. 
  • An economic and linear model of the hospital. 
  • Antidepressant use in elderly medical inpatients: lessons from an attempted clinical trial. 
  • Are gastroenterologists less tolerant of treatment risks than patients? Benefit-risk preferences in Crohn's disease management. 
  • Are tuberculosis patients adherent to prescribed treatments in China? Results of a prospective cohort study. 
  • Association of somatic symptoms with depression and anxiety in clinical patients of general hospitals in Guangzhou, China. 
  • Associations between the impact of terrorism and health perceptions of patients. 
  • Beliefs and communication practices regarding cognitive functioning among consumers and primary care providers in the United States, 2009. 
  • Characteristics and current practice of parenteral nutrition in hospitalized patients. 
  • Characteristics of cancer patients in internet cancer support groups. 
  • Chronic pain-associated behaviors in the nursing home: resident versus caregiver perceptions. 
  • Clinical Trial Participants With Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma Differ From Patients Treated in Real-World Practice. 
  • Code status discussions between attending hospitalist physicians and medical patients at hospital admission. 
  • Coding Error Resulting in Change in Secondary Outcome Scores in Trial of Safety and Benefit of Discontinuing Statin Therapy Among Terminally Ill Patients. 
  • Conceptual framework for patient-important treatment outcomes for pelvic organ prolapse. 
  • Construct and concurrent validation of the MG-QOL15 in the practice setting. 
  • Control Beliefs and Risk for Death, Stroke and Myocardial Infarction in Middle-aged and Older Adults: An Observational Study. 
  • Current indications for hand and face allotransplantation. 
  • Deciding for Others 
  • Depression may mediate the relationship between sense of coherence and quality of life in lung cancer patients. 
  • Depressive symptoms in elderly medical-surgical patients hospitalized in community settings. 
  • Designing and conducting randomized controlled trials in palliative care: A summary of discussions from the 2010 clinical research forum of the Australian Palliative Care Clinical Studies Collaborative. 
  • Development of validated disease activity and damage indices for the juvenile idiopathic inflammatory myopathies: I. Physician, parent, and patient global assessments. Juvenile Dermatomyositis Disease Activity Collaborative Study Group. 
  • Do patients participating in clinical trials want to know study results? 
  • Effect of patients' reasons for refusing treatment on implementing psychiatric advance directives. 
  • Effects of counseling techniques on patients' weight-related attitudes and behaviors in a primary care clinic. 
  • Enhancing communication between oncologists and patients with a computer-based training program: a randomized trial. 
  • Erosion in medical students' attitudes about telling patients they are students. 
  • Ethical Issues and Recommendations in Grateful Patient Fundraising and Philanthropy. 
  • Experiences of patients with chronic gastrointestinal conditions: in their own words. 
  • Factors associated with change in resuscitation preference of seriously ill patients. The SUPPORT Investigators. Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatments. 
  • Factors associated with do-not-resuscitate orders: patients' preferences, prognoses, and physicians' judgments. SUPPORT Investigators. Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatment. 
  • Factors considered important at the end of life by patients, family, physicians, and other care providers. 
  • Feasibility and acceptability to patients of a longitudinal system for evaluating cancer-related symptoms and quality of life: pilot study of an e/Tablet data-collection system in academic oncology. 
  • Glaucoma patient expression of medication problems and nonadherence. 
  • Hereditary angioedema from the patient's perspective: A follow-up patient survey. 
  • Hospital workers bypass traditional occupational injury reporting systems when reporting patient and visitor perpetrated (type II) violence. 
  • How Should We Intervene on the Financial Toxicity of Cancer Care? One Shot, Four Perspectives. 
  • How do medical residents discuss resuscitation with patients? 
  • How much are patients willing to pay to avoid postoperative nausea and vomiting? 
  • How much do we gain by reducing time to reperfusion therapy? 
  • How should we implement psychiatric advance directives? Views of consumers, caregivers, mental health providers and researchers. 
  • How will we know patients are safer? An organization-wide approach to measuring and improving safety. 
  • IGNITE network: Response of patients to genomic medicine interventions. 
  • Improvements in Patient and Health System Outcomes Using an Integrated Oncology and Palliative Medicine Approach on a Solid Tumor Inpatient Service. 
  • Improving communication of drug risks to prevent patient injury: proceedings of a workshop. 
  • Improving patient comprehension and recall of discharge instructions by supplementing free texts with pictographs. 
  • In search of a good death: observations of patients, families, and providers. 
  • Indecision. 
  • Inferring genetic ancestry: opportunities, challenges, and implications. 
  • Integrative medicine research at an academic medical center: patient characteristics and health-related quality-of-life outcomes. 
  • Investigating patient characteristics on pain assessment using virtual human technology. 
  • Investigation momentum: the relentless pursuit to resolve uncertainty. 
  • Lack of association between patients' measured burden of disease and risk for hospital readmission. 
  • Latex allergy: a life-threatening epidemic for scientists, healthcare personnel, and their patients. 
  • Mispredictions and misrecollections: challenges for subjective outcome measurement. 
  • More on attachment behavior: t'was the night before changeover. 
  • Multidimensional success criteria and expectations for treatment of chronic pain: the patient perspective. 
  • Opening the black box: how do physicians communicate about advance directives? 
  • Optimizing linkage and retention to hypertension care in rural Kenya (LARK hypertension study): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Parents' and patients' perceptions of postoperative appearance in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis. 
  • Patient Attitudes Toward Telemedicine for Diabetic Retinopathy. 
  • Patient and family attitudes about an eye donation registry for research. 
  • Patient and physician attitudes regarding risk and benefit in streamlined development programmes for antibacterial drugs: a qualitative analysis. 
  • Patient and physician decision styles and breast cancer chemotherapy use in older women: Cancer and Leukemia Group B protocol 369901. 
  • Patient awareness of chronic kidney disease: trends and predictors. 
  • Patient behavior if given their surgeon's cellular telephone number. 
  • Patient beliefs and behaviors about genomic risk for type 2 diabetes: implications for prevention. 
  • Patient characteristics and critical care workflow affect paging frequency in neurocritical care. 
  • Patient characteristics associated with primary care PA and APRN roles. 
  • Patient comprehension of emergency department care and instructions: are patients aware of when they do not understand? 
  • Patient expectations of benefit from phase I clinical trials: linguistic considerations in diagnosing a therapeutic misconception. 
  • Patient perceptions on physician reimbursement in plastic surgery. 
  • Patient question-asking about glaucoma and glaucoma medications during videotaped medical visits. 
  • Patient risk perceptions for carotid endarterectomy: which patients are strongly averse to surgery? 
  • Patient safety, satisfaction, and quality of hospital care: cross sectional surveys of nurses and patients in 12 countries in Europe and the United States. 
  • Patient, Provider, and Practice Characteristics Associated With Sacubitril/Valsartan Use in the United States. 
  • Patient-Ventilator Interactions. 
  • Patient-centered outcomes composites: a glimpse of the future. 
  • Patients' views on surgeons' financial conflicts of interest. 
  • Pediatric fellows: perspectives on training and future scope of practice. 
  • Perceived Benefits and Barriers to Exercise for Recently Treated Adults With Acute Leukemia 
  • Perceptions of patients' self-efficacy for managing pain and lung cancer symptoms: correspondence between patients and family caregivers. 
  • Pharmacists' knowledge of infusion devices. 
  • Physicians who report health insurance fraud and their practice type: health maintenance organization vs fee-for-service. 
  • Physicians' Religious Characteristics and Their Perceptions of the Psychological Impact of Patient Prayer and Beliefs at the End of Life: A National Survey. 
  • Pre-exercise participation cardiovascular screening in a heterogeneous cohort of adult cancer patients. 
  • Preoperative risk factors for carotid endarterectomy. 
  • Preparing for the end of life: preferences of patients, families, physicians, and other care providers. 
  • Prioritizing culture change in nursing homes: perspectives of residents, staff, and family members. 
  • Prospective trial of a video educational tool for radiation oncology patients. 
  • Providing research results to participants: attitudes and needs of adolescents and parents of children with cancer. 
  • Quality of life after pediatric intestinal transplantation: the perception of pediatric recipients and their parents. 
  • Rationing HIV medications: what do patients and the public think about allocation policies? 
  • Reasons for discontinuation and continuation of antipsychotics in the treatment of schizophrenia from patient and clinician perspectives. 
  • Religion, spirituality, and medicine: research findings and implications for clinical practice. 
  • Risk stratification for adverse economic outcomes in cardiac surgery. 
  • Risks, reactions, regulations, and reality. Health care workers with HIV infection. 
  • SAPs: a different perspective. 
  • Sample size in obesity trials: patient perspective versus current practice. 
  • Sexual concerns in cancer patients: a comparison of GI and breast cancer patients. 
  • Sharing the care of mechanical circulatory support: collaborative efforts of patients/caregivers, shared-care sites, and left ventricular assist device implanting centers. 
  • Sounding Boards. The case of bedside rounds. 
  • Special care unit research: ethical issues. 
  • Spinocerebellar ataxia: patient and health professional perspectives on whether and how patents affect access to clinical genetic testing. 
  • Surgeons' Perspectives of Contralateral Prophylactic Mastectomy. 
  • Tailoring "best-of-breed" safety classification for patient fall voluntary reporting. 
  • The complexity of chronic disease at later ages: practical implications for prospective payment and data collection. 
  • The correlation between patient characteristics and expectations of benefit from Phase I clinical trials. 
  • The financial toxicity of cancer treatment: a pilot study assessing out-of-pocket expenses and the insured cancer patient's experience. 
  • The medical student as patient. 
  • The use of Grade of Membership analysis to evaluate and modify diagnosis-related groups. 
  • Third-party reproduction in the Internet Age: the new, patient-centered landscape. 
  • Treatment of Lung Cancer in Medically Compromised Patients. 
  • Triadic treatment decision-making in advanced cancer: a pilot study of the roles and perceptions of patients, caregivers, and oncologists. 
  • Trust in managed care organizations. 
  • Under-representation of women in high-impact published clinical cancer research. 
  • Understanding racial/ethnic differences in breast cancer-related physical well-being: the role of patient-provider interactions. 
  • Use of handheld wireless technology for a home-based sickle cell pain management protocol. 
  • Validation of the PROMIS physical function measures in a diverse US population-based cohort of cancer patients. 
  • Was This Readmission Preventable? Qualitative Study of Patient and Provider Perceptions of Readmissions. 
  • What are physicians' and patients' beliefs about diet, weight, exercise, and smoking cessation counseling? 
  • When praise is worth considering in a difficult conversation. 
  • Would you terminate a pregnancy affected by sickle cell disease? Analysis of views of patients in Cameroon. 
• 

  Keywords of People

  • Barfield, Raymond Carlton, Professor of Pediatrics, Duke Science & Society
  • Grambow, Steven C., Assistant Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • McConnell, Eleanor Schildwachter, Associate Professor in the School of Nursing, with tenure, School of Nursing
  • Muir, Kelly Walton, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Ophthalmology, Glaucoma
  • Yancy Jr., William Samuel, Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, General Internal Medicine
  • Zafar, Syed Yousuf, Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Medical Oncology