Pennsylvania

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A claims data approach to defining an episode of care. 
  • A criterion-referenced examination in cardiovascular disease. 
  • A genetic association study of the mu opioid receptor and severe opioid dependence. 
  • A multistate model of fecundability and sterility. 
  • A three-decade review of thermal injuries among the elderly at a regional burn centre. 
  • A time-series analysis of air pollution and preterm birth in Pennsylvania, 1997-2001. 
  • Achromobacter xylosoxidans bacteremia. 
  • Acute hemodynamic changes after rapid intravenous bolus dosing of dexmedetomidine in pediatric heart transplant patients undergoing routine cardiac catheterization. 
  • An outbreak of Escherichia coli O157:H7 infections among visitors to a dairy farm. 
  • Association between smoking and retrospectively reported attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder symptoms in a large sample of new mothers. 
  • Beliefs about breast cancer risk and use of postmenopausal hormone replacement therapy. 
  • Benefits, risk, and uncertainty: preferences of antiretroviral-naïve African Americans for HIV treatments. 
  • Blood Pressure Trajectory, Gait Speed, and Outcomes: The Health, Aging, and Body Composition Study. 
  • Can we build an efficient response to the prescription drug abuse epidemic? Assessing the cost effectiveness of universal prevention in the PROSPER trial. 
  • Cardiac implantable electronic device lead extraction in patients with underlying infection using open thoracotomy or percutaneous techniques. 
  • Catastrophizing and anxiety sensitivity mediate the relationship between persistent pain and emotional eating. 
  • Change in intrathoracic impedance measures during acute decompensated heart failure admission: results from the Diagnostic Data for Discharge in Heart Failure Patients (3D-HF) Pilot Study. 
  • Child psychiatric disorders and their correlates: a primary care pediatric sample. 
  • Colorectal cancer screening in older men and women: qualitative research findings and implications for intervention. 
  • Communication practices in physician decision-making for an unstable critically ill patient with end-stage cancer. 
  • Comparative effectiveness of antiarrhythmic drugs for rhythm control of atrial fibrillation. 
  • Complete diagnostic evaluation in colorectal cancer screening: research design and baseline findings. 
  • Contemporary results of open repair of ruptured abdominal aortoiliac aneurysms: effect of surgeon volume on mortality. 
  • Context-dependent categorical perception in a songbird. 
  • Daytime observed emotional expressions of people with dementia. 
  • Defining geographic markets for hospital care. 
  • Developing a financial framework for academic service partnerships: models of the United States and Europe. 
  • Disease gravity and urgency of need as guidelines for liver allocation. 
  • Distributing scarce livers: the moral reasoning of the general public. 
  • Do peers' parents matter? A new link between positive parenting and adolescent substance use. 
  • Effect of recipient race on waiting time for renal transplantation at the University of Pittsburgh. 
  • Effects of PROSPER on the influence potential of prosocial versus antisocial youth in adolescent friendship networks. 
  • Efficacy of hepatitis B screening in a private obstetrical population. 
  • Employee exposure to (222)Rn and (220)Rn in three fish culture stations in Pennsylvania. 
  • Estimating West Nile virus transmission period in Pennsylvania using an optimized degree-day model. 
  • Expanding the role of endovenous laser therapy: results in large diameter saphenous, small saphenous, and anterior accessory veins. 
  • Extraction of defibrillator leads recalled for cable externalization and failure. 
  • Factors That Predict Satisfaction With Medical Care: Data From 27,212 Injured Workers Surveyed for 14 Years. 
  • Factors determining the rate of referral, transplantation, and survival on dialysis in women with ESRD. 
  • Failure-free survival of the Durata defibrillator lead. 
  • Fears of genocide among black Americans as related to age, sex, and region. 
  • Geochemical evidence for possible natural migration of Marcellus Formation brine to shallow aquifers in Pennsylvania. 
  • Health care and indemnity costs across the natural history of disability in occupational low back pain. 
  • Health-related quality of life among older adults with arthritis. 
  • History of the Department of Neurosurgery at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. 
  • How stable are people's preferences for giving priority to severely ill patients? 
  • Hypernatremia in hospitalized patients. 
  • Impact of obesity on perioperative morbidity and mortality after pancreaticoduodenectomy. 
  • Impact of the fast track prevention program on health services use by conduct-problem youth. 
  • Impacts of shale gas wastewater disposal on water quality in western Pennsylvania. 
  • Implementing a comprehensive program for the prevention of conduct problems in rural communities: the Fast Track experience. The Conduct Problems Prevention Research Group. 
  • Individual, Area, and Provider Characteristics Associated With Care Received for Stages I to III Breast Cancer in a Multistate Region of Appalachia. 
  • Job satisfaction of nursing home administrators and turnover. 
  • Kidney disease other than renal crisis in patients with diffuse scleroderma. 
  • Late abdominal aortic aneurysm enlargement after endovascular repair with the Excluder device. 
  • Legionnaires' Disease--the Benidorm episode. 
  • Major liver resection in elderly patients: a multi-institutional analysis. 
  • Male mental health problems, psychopathy, and personality traits: key findings from the first 14 years of the Pittsburgh Youth Study. 
  • Management and outcomes of dialysis access-associated steal syndrome. 
  • Maternal intimate partner violence exposure, child cortisol reactivity and child asthma. 
  • Maternal weathering and risk of preterm delivery. 
  • Measuring nursing care time and tasks in long-term services and supports: one size does not fit all. 
  • Mechanisms of inappropriate defibrillator therapy in a modern cohort of remotely monitored patients. 
  • Metabolic phenotype in the brothers of women with polycystic ovary syndrome. 
  • Mortality risk of long-term amiodarone therapy for atrial fibrillation patients without structural heart disease. 
  • Native coronary disease progression exceeds failed revascularization as cause of angina after five years in the Bypass Angioplasty Revascularization Investigation (BARI). 
  • Natural Gas Residual Fluids: Sources, Endpoints, and Organic Chemical Composition after Centralized Waste Treatment in Pennsylvania. 
  • New tracers identify hydraulic fracturing fluids and accidental releases from oil and gas operations. 
  • No association between polymorphisms in the serotonin transporter gene and susceptibility to cocaine dependence among African-American individuals. 
  • Noble gases identify the mechanisms of fugitive gas contamination in drinking-water wells overlying the Marcellus and Barnett Shales. 
  • Nosocomial influenza A (H1N1) infection. 
  • Occupational impairment and disability among applicants for Social Security disability benefits in Pennsylvania. 
  • Outcome of kidney transplantation in African-Americans using tacrolimus. 
  • Pediatric kidney transplantation at the University of Pittsburgh. 
  • Pennsylvania's Focus on Heart Attack--grading the scorecard. 
  • Pennsylvania's voluntary benefits program: evaluating an innovative proposal for increasing organ donation. 
  • Perceptions of safety culture vary across the intensive care units of a single institution. 
  • Performance of a dangerous answer subtest within a subspecialty certifying examination. 
  • Performance of elderly African American and White community residents on the CERAD Neuropsychological Battery. 
  • Physician intention to recommend complete diagnostic evaluation in colorectal cancer screening. 
  • Predictive value of the clinical diagnosis of lower genital tract infection in women. 
  • Prevalence and psychosocial correlates of food addiction in persons with obesity seeking weight reduction. 
  • Prevalence of atrial fibrillation and warfarin use in older patients receiving hemodialysis. 
  • Prevalence of hand dermatitis in inpatient nurses at a United States hospital. 
  • Psychiatric co-morbidity in caregivers and children involved in maltreatment: a pilot research study with policy implications. 
  • Psychiatric disorders in pediatric primary care. Prevalence and risk factors. 
  • Public health implications of voters' attitudes regarding statewide tobacco policy. 
  • Public perceptions of the importance of prognosis in allocating transplantable livers to children. 
  • Racial differences in severe perineal lacerations after vaginal delivery. 
  • Radium and barium removal through blending hydraulic fracturing fluids with acid mine drainage. 
  • Rationing HIV medications: what do patients and the public think about allocation policies? 
  • Recent advances in hepatic transplantation at the University of Pittsburgh. 
  • Residents' perspectives on the use of the Internet to improve infectious disease reporting. 
  • Sedimentary nonylphenol contamination in an urbanized, industrialized segment of the Delaware River estuary, USA. 
  • Self-collection of vaginal swabs for the detection of Chlamydia, gonorrhea, and trichomoniasis: opportunity to encourage sexually transmitted disease testing among adolescents. 
  • Short-, intermediate-, and long-term outcomes of Pennsylvania's continuum of tobacco education pilot project. 
  • Social responsibility, personal responsibility, and prognosis in public judgments about transplant allocation. 
  • Strategies to encourage mammography use among women in senior citizens' housing facilities. 
  • Support for physician deception of insurance companies among a sample of Philadelphia residents. 
  • Test-retest reliability of the Pittsburgh sleep quality index in nursing home residents. 
  • The Pipeline Embolization Device: learning curve and predictors of complications and aneurysm obliteration. 
  • The centralization phenomenon and fear-avoidance beliefs as prognostic factors for acute low back pain: a preliminary investigation involving patients classified for specific exercise. 
  • The effect of cisatracurium and rocuronium on lung function in anesthetized children. 
  • The effect of direction and reaction on the neuromuscular and biomechanical characteristics of the knee during tasks that simulate the noncontact anterior cruciate ligament injury mechanism. 
  • The efficacy and equity of retransplantation: an experimental survey of public attitudes. 
  • The epidemiology of observed temperament: Factor structure and demographic group differences. 
  • The impact of a physical geographic barrier on the dynamics of measles. 
  • The impact of high fidelity human simulation on self-efficacy of communication skills. 
  • The scoring and reproducibility of an essay test of clinical judgment. 
  • The stability of psychopathy across adolescence. 
  • The validity of an essay test of clinical judgment. 
  • Total energy expenditure in captive capuchins (Sapajus apella). 
  • Transfusion of fresh frozen plasma in critically ill surgical patients is associated with an increased risk of infection. 
  • Treatment outcome of aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage in patients aged 70 years and older. 
  • Treatment strategies of arterial steal after arteriovenous access. 
  • Trends in surgical management for type II odontoid fracture: 20 years of experience at a regional spinal cord injury center. 
  • Twenty-year depressive trajectories among older women. 
  • Typical versions of learned swamp sparrow song types are more effective signals than are less typical versions. 
  • Understanding breastfeeding initiation and continuation in rural communities: a combined qualitative/quantitative approach. 
  • Use of cancer susceptibility testing among primary care physicians. 
  • Value measurement in cost-utility analysis: explaining the discrepancy between rating scale and person trade-off elicitations. 
  • Video-Only Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Education for High-Risk Families Before Hospital Discharge: A Multicenter Pragmatic Trial. 
  • Wallace H. Clark, Jr., M.D.: a biography and annotated bibliography. 
  • Weight loss competitions at the work site: impact on weight, morale and cost-effectiveness. 
  • What factors are associated with having an advance directive among older adults who are new to long term care services? 
  • Why are you calling me? How study introductions change response patterns. 
  • Youth therapeutic alliance in intensive treatment settings. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Dodge, Kenneth A., Pritzker Professor of Early Learning Policy Studies, Duke Science & Society