Policy Making

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A SWOT analysis of the physiotherapy profession in Kuwait. 
  • A Story About People and Porpoises: Consensus-Based Decision Making in the Shadow of Political Action. 
  • A new policy on tobacco papers. 
  • A policy-based intervention for the reduction of communication breakdowns in inpatient surgical care: results from a Harvard surgical safety collaborative. 
  • AJT's response to the National Institutes of Health public access regulations. 
  • American College of Preventive Medicine Practice Policy Statement. Screening for elevated blood lead levels in children. 
  • Assessing applicability when comparing medical interventions: AHRQ and the Effective Health Care Program. 
  • Attribution of climate forcing to economic sectors. 
  • Benefit assessment of therapeutic products: the Centers for Education and Research on Therapeutics. 
  • Benefits of Population Segmentation Analysis for Developing Health Policy to Promote Patient-Centred Care. 
  • Best practices: comparing medication treatments in mental health: drug class reviews and policy challenges. 
  • Bringing molecular tools into environmental resource management: untangling the molecules to policy pathway. 
  • Can education and staff-based participatory research change nursing practice in an era of ED overcrowding? A focus group study. 
  • Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' decision on drug-coated balloons: No additional reimbursement despite higher cost and highest levels of scientific evidence. 
  • Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Decision to Reconsider Coverage Indications for ICDs: Where to Now? 
  • Consensus statement on transcultural issues in depression and anxiety from the International Consensus Group on Depression and Anxiety. 
  • Considerations for an obesity policy research agenda. 
  • Considerations of net present value in policy making regarding diagnostic and therapeutic technologies. 
  • Context matters in child and family policy. 
  • Cost utility of sequential adjuvant trastuzumab for HER2/Neu-positive breast cancer. 
  • Cost-effective models for flutamide for prostate carcinoma patients: are they helpful to policy makers? 
  • Current state of psychiatry in Saudi Arabia. 
  • Defining the spectrum of genome policy. 
  • Desegregation of hospitals and medical societies in North Carolina. 
  • Diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer disease and related disorders. Consensus statement of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, the Alzheimer's Association, and the American Geriatrics Society. 
  • Differential pricing of pharmaceuticals in the internet age. 
  • Disparities in breast carcinoma treatment in Asian/Pacific Islander women. A challenge to the provider. 
  • Distributing US health aid. 
  • Echocardiography in emergency medicine: a policy statement by the American Society of Echocardiography and the American College of Cardiology. The Task Force on Echocardiography in Emergency Medicine of the American Society of Echocardiography and the Echocardiography TPEC Committees of the American College of Cardiology. 
  • Ecological forecasts: an emerging imperative. 
  • Economic benefits of less restrictive regulation of advanced practice nurses in North Carolina. 
  • Economic implications of potential changes to regulatory and reimbursement policies for medical devices. 
  • Engaging Survivors of Critical Illness in Health Care Assessment and Policy Development. Ethical and Practical Complexities. 
  • Enhancing pediatric workforce diversity and providing culturally effective pediatric care: implications for practice, education, and policy making. 
  • Enriching the mix: incorporating structural factors into HIV prevention. 
  • Evidence-Based Policy Making: Assessment of the American Heart Association's Strategic Policy Portfolio: A Policy Statement From the American Heart Association. 
  • Evidence-based policymaking in global health - the payoffs and pitfalls. 
  • Evolving brand-name and generic drug competition may warrant a revision of the Hatch-Waxman Act. 
  • Factors influencing malaria control policy-making in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. 
  • Financing graduate medical education to meet the needs of children and the future pediatrician workforce. 
  • From classroom to Congress. My year on the legislative staff of the U.S. Senate. 
  • From classroom to Congress. My year on the legislative staff of the U.S. Senate. 
  • Geographic information systems (GIS): an emerging method to assess demand and provision for rehabilitation services. 
  • Geriatric rehabilitation: state of the art. 
  • Government continues to have an important role in promoting cardiovascular health. 
  • Health policy engagement among graduate nursing students in the United States. 
  • Helping poor mothers and children. 
  • Hospital infection control, seat belts and the national debt. 
  • Identifying barriers in the malaria control policymaking process in East Africa: insights from stakeholders and a structured literature review. 
  • Impact of a prior authorization policy for montelukast on clinical outcomes for asthma and allergic rhinitis among children and adolescents in a state Medicaid program. 
  • Impact of the model for end-stage liver disease allocation policy on the use of high-risk organs for liver transplantation. 
  • Influence of food companies' brand mascots and entertainment companies' cartoon media characters on children's diet and health: a systematic review and research needs. 
  • Influencing health policy: strategies for nursing education to partner with nursing practice. 
  • Insurance Expansions: Do They Hurt Those They Are Designed to Help? 
  • Integrated vector management for malaria control in Uganda: knowledge, perceptions and policy development. 
  • Integrating bioassessment and ecological risk assessment: an approach to developing numerical water-quality criteria. 
  • Joint policy statement--guidelines for care of children in the emergency department. 
  • Kidney Exchange to Overcome Financial Barriers to Kidney Transplantation 
  • Living donor liver transplantation: the historical and cultural basis of policy decisions and ongoing ethical questions. 
  • Making the case for laws that improve health: a framework for public health law research. 
  • Meeting the challenges facing clinical research: solutions proposed by leaders of medical specialty and clinical research societies. 
  • Mental illness and new gun law reforms: the promise and peril of crisis-driven policy. 
  • Mental illness and reduction of gun violence and suicide: bringing epidemiologic research to policy. 
  • Older Adults in Clinical Research and Drug Development: Closing the Geriatric Gap. 
  • On interdisciplinarity and why it matters ... A lesson from primary care. 
  • Oncology payment reform to achieve real health care reform. 
  • One Size Does Not Fit All--Regional Variation in the Impact of the Share 35 Liver Allocation Policy. 
  • Organ Transplantation in Greece. 
  • Overcoming barriers to adopting and implementing computerized physician order entry systems in U.S. hospitals. 
  • Patchy progress on obesity prevention: emerging examples, entrenched barriers, and new thinking. 
  • Precision Medicine: From Science To Value. 
  • Predictors of state legislators' intentions to vote for cigarette tax increases. 
  • Preterm birth: the role of knowledge transfer and exchange. 
  • Preventing tomorrow's sudden cardiac death today: part II: Translating sudden cardiac death risk assessment strategies into practice and policy. 
  • Preventive oral health intervention for pediatricians. 
  • Principles behind evaluations of national food and beverage taxes and other regulatory efforts. 
  • Prioritizing Surgical Care on National Health Agendas: A Qualitative Case Study of Papua New Guinea, Uganda, and Sierra Leone. 
  • Private and public choices in end-of-life care. 
  • Privatization and just healthcare. 
  • Projecting the effects of long-term care policy on the labor market participation of primary informal family caregivers of elderly with disability: insights from a dynamic simulation model. 
  • Public Health Impact of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Decision on Pass-Through Add-On Payments for Drug-Coated Balloons: A Call to Action. 
  • Public preferences for interventions to prevent emerging infectious disease threats: a discrete choice experiment. 
  • Quality of care for sudden cardiac arrest: Proposed steps to improve the translation of evidence into practice. 
  • Recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce in nursing: from evidence to best practices to policy. 
  • Reducing the global burden of Preterm Birth through knowledge transfer and exchange: a research agenda for engaging effectively with policymakers. 
  • Rehabilitation services after total joint replacement in Ontario, Canada: can 'prehabilitation' programs mediate an increasing demand? 
  • Shared Electronic Health Record Systems: Key Legal and Security Challenges. 
  • Social media use and cybercivility guidelines in U.S. nursing schools: A review of websites. 
  • Southeastern Center for Emerging Biologic Threats tabletop exercise: foodborne toxoplasmosis outbreak on college campuses. 
  • Standards of Evidence for Conducting and Reporting Economic Evaluations in Prevention Science. 
  • State school nutrition and physical activity policy environments and youth obesity. 
  • Strategic science with policy impact. 
  • Strategic thinking about gun markets and violence. 
  • System dynamics to model the unintended consequences of denying payment for venous thromboembolism after total knee arthroplasty. 
  • The Complex Relationship Between Diet And Health. 
  • The allocation of cadaver kidneys for transplantation in the United States: consensus and controversy. ASN Transplant Advisory Group. American Society of Nephrology. 
  • The assistant medical officer in Sri Lanka: mid-level health worker in decline. 
  • The epidemiology and hotspots of road traffic injuries in Moshi, Tanzania: An observational study. 
  • The general agreement on trade in services: implications for health policymakers. 
  • The state rate-setting model: long-range solution or short-term expedient? Reviews: an economist. 
  • Toward an Effective Innovation Agenda 
  • Toward policies and decision-making for dam removal. 
  • Use of antimicrobial drugs in adults before and after removal of a restriction policy. 
  • Using decision analysis to improve malaria control policy making 
  • Using research evidence to reframe the policy debate around mental illness and guns: process and recommendations. 
  • Vision and Public Health: Framing a Purpose for Our Work. 
  • What can decision analysis do for invasive species management? 
  • Where the most private becomes public: policy making for sexual health. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Balleisen, Edward J., Professor of History, Institutes and Provost's Academic Units
  • Dodge, Kenneth A., Pritzker Professor of Early Learning Policy Studies, Duke Science & Society
  • Landry, Michel Daniel, Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Orthopaedics, Physical Therapy
  • Newell, Richard G., Adjunct Professor, Environmental Sciences and Policy
  • Owen, Jennifer Weinreb, Lecturer, Senior in the Sanford School of Public Policy, Sanford School of Public Policy
  • Pizer, Billy, Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke Science & Society
  • Reed, Shelby Derene, Professor in Population Health Sciences, Duke Science & Society
  • Shindell, Drew Todd, Nicholas Professor of Earth Science, Earth and Ocean Sciences
  • Sorenson, Corinna, Assistant Professor in Population Health Sciences, Duke Science & Society
  • Sreenivasan, Gopal, Crown University Professor in Ethics, Duke Science & Society
  • Strand de Oliveira, Justine, Professor Emeritus in Family Medicine and Community Health, Community and Family Medicine