Population Surveillance

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "What the eyes don't see, the heart doesn't grieve over": epidemiology and risk factors for bloodstream infections following cardiac catheterization. 
  • A case-control study examining risk factors for invasive Haemophilus influenzae type b disease in Victoria, Australia 1988-90. 
  • A large, multiple-restaurant outbreak of infection with Shigella flexneri serotype 2a traced to tomatoes. 
  • A multi-center population-based case-control study of ovarian cancer in African-American women: the African American Cancer Epidemiology Study (AACES). 
  • A multicenter prospective evaluation of the clinical utility of F-18 FDG-PET/CT in patients with AJCC stage IIIB or IIIC extremity melanoma. 
  • A nationwide survey on perception, experience, and expectations of hybrid coronary revascularization among top-ranked US hospitals. 
  • A network to monitor antimalarial drug resistance: a plan for moving forward. 
  • A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood: a call for randomized trials of anticoagulation in end-stage renal disease. 
  • A population-based cohort study comparing laparoscopic and open cholecystectomies: research in the new millennium. 
  • A population-based cohort study of premorbid intellectual, language, and behavioral functioning in patients with schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, and nonpsychotic bipolar disorder. 
  • A prospective cohort study of retinal arteriolar narrowing and mortality. 
  • A spatio-temporal absorbing state model for disease and syndromic surveillance. 
  • A splicing variant of TERT identified by GWAS interacts with menopausal estrogen therapy in risk of ovarian cancer. 
  • A surveillance system for monitoring, public reporting, and improving minority access to cancer clinical trials. 
  • Active surveillance for early-stage prostate cancer: review of the current literature. 
  • Active surveillance for prostate cancer: can we modernize contemporary protocols to improve patient selection and outcomes in the focal therapy era? 
  • Active surveillance of birth defects among U.S. Department of Defense beneficiaries: a feasibility study. 
  • Addressing pediatric medical training needs in noncommunicable diseases. 
  • Adult adenovirus infections: loss of orphaned vaccines precipitates military respiratory disease epidemics. For the Adenovirus Surveillance Group. 
  • Affect and loneliness among centenarians and the oldest old: the role of individual and social resources. 
  • Airways obstruction among older construction and trade workers at Department of Energy nuclear sites. 
  • American Society of Clinical Oncology statement: achieving high-quality cancer survivorship care. 
  • Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis among 1991 Gulf War veterans: evidence for a time-limited outbreak. 
  • An integrated comprehensive occupational surveillance system for health care workers. 
  • An outbreak of Rift Valley fever in Northeastern Kenya, 1997-98. 
  • Antidiabetic drug therapy of African-American and white community-dwelling elderly over a 10-year period. 
  • Are health care providers still smoking? Data from the 2003 and 2006/2007 Tobacco Use Supplement-Current Population Surveys. 
  • Assessment of the psychometric properties of the Chinese Impact of Vision Impairment questionnaire in a population-based study: findings from the Singapore Chinese Eye Study. 
  • Association of Changes in Visual Acuity With Vision-Specific Functioning in the Singapore Malay Eye Study. 
  • Association of Vision Impairment and Major Eye Diseases With Mobility and Independence in a Chinese Population. 
  • Avian Influenza A(H7N9) virus antibodies in close contacts of infected persons, China, 2013-2014. 
  • Barrett's esophagus: a new look at surveillance based on emerging estimates of cancer risk. 
  • Barriers to influenza immunization in a low-income urban population. 
  • Baseline health-related quality of life and 10-year all-cause mortality among 1739 Chinese adults. 
  • Bayesian methods for correcting misclassification: an example from birth defects epidemiology. 
  • Benzodiazepine use and cognitive function among community-dwelling elderly. 
  • Birth defects prevalence among infants of Persian Gulf War veterans born in Hawaii, 1989-1993. 
  • Blood pressure, diabetes, and increased dietary salt associated with stroke--results from a community-based study in Pakistan. 
  • Body dissatisfaction and unhealthy weight-control practices among adolescents with and without chronic illness: a population-based study. 
  • Body fat distribution, metabolic and inflammatory markers and retinal microvasculature in school-age children. The Generation R Study. 
  • Bridging the information gap between health and the environment in North Carolina. 
  • Brief report: diminishing geographic variability in autism spectrum disorders over time? 
  • Bronchiolitis management preferences and the influence of pulse oximetry and respiratory rate on the decision to admit. 
  • Cancer yield of mammography, MR, and US in high-risk women: prospective multi-institution breast cancer screening study. 
  • Candida guilliermondii, an opportunistic fungal pathogen with decreased susceptibility to fluconazole: geographic and temporal trends from the ARTEMIS DISK antifungal surveillance program. 
  • Candida rugosa, an emerging fungal pathogen with resistance to azoles: geographic and temporal trends from the ARTEMIS DISK antifungal surveillance program. 
  • Case-control association between CCT-associated variants and keratoconus in a Saudi Arabian population. 
  • Causes of death in long-term survivors of head and neck cancer. 
  • 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. 
  • Changes in Malaria Epidemiology in Africa and New Challenges for Elimination. 
  • Changes in health status among participants of the Framingham Heart Study from the 1960s to the 1990s: application of an index of cumulative deficits. 
  • Changes in morbidity and chronic disability in the U.S. elderly population: evidence from the 1982, 1984, and 1989 National Long Term Care Surveys. 
  • Changing trends of blindness: the initial harvest from translational public health and clinical research in ophthalmology. 
  • Characterization of Young Adult Emergency Department Users: Evidence to Guide Policy. 
  • Childhood cancer survivorship research in minority populations: A position paper from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study. 
  • Clinical response and outcome of infection with Salmonella enterica serotype Typhi with decreased susceptibility to fluoroquinolones: a United States foodnet multicenter retrospective cohort study. 
  • Cognitive performance and informant reports in the diagnosis of cognitive impairment and dementia in African Americans and whites. 
  • Colonoscopy withdrawal time and risk of neoplasia at 5 years: results from VA Cooperative Studies Program 380. 
  • Colorectal cancer screening in young patients with poor health and severe comorbidity. 
  • Commentary: cardiovascular risk factors--the next epidemic in Uganda: findings from the population-based HIV/AIDS rural surveillance cohort. 
  • Commentary: the injury proportion ratio: what's it all about? 
  • Communitywide laboratory-based influenza surveillance focused on older persons, 1989-1992. 
  • Comorbidity of five chronic health conditions in elderly community residents: determinants and impact on mortality. 
  • Comorbidity. 
  • Comparative effectiveness research in oncology: the need for clarity, transparency and vision. 
  • Comparing serologic response against enteric pathogens with reported diarrhea to assess the impact of improved household drinking water quality. 
  • Comparison of adverse events during 5-fluorouracil versus 5-fluorouracil/oxaliplatin adjuvant chemotherapy for stage III colon cancer: a population-based analysis. 
  • Comparison of residential geocoding methods in population-based study of air quality and birth defects. 
  • Competing risk of household expansion or institutionalization in late life. 
  • Complex surgical site infections and the devilish details of risk adjustment: important implications for public reporting. 
  • Conflict and mental health: a cross-sectional epidemiological study in Nepal. 
  • Consistency of primary brain tumor diagnoses and codes in cancer surveillance systems. 
  • Cost-effectiveness analysis of lead poisoning screening strategies following the 1997 guidelines of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 
  • Crowdsourcing--harnessing the masses to advance health and medicine, a systematic review. 
  • Culture and financing influence palliative care services, study populations, and generalizability of research findings. 
  • Deferred systemic therapy in patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma. 
  • Demographic surveillance and health equity in sub-Saharan Africa. 
  • Department of Defense Global Laboratory-Based Influenza Surveillance: 1998-2005. 
  • Descriptive epidemiology of malignant and nonmalignant primary spinal cord, spinal meninges, and cauda equina tumors, United States, 2004-2007. 
  • Detecting Germline PTEN Mutations Among At-Risk Patients With Cancer: An Age- and Sex-Specific Cost-Effectiveness Analysis. 
  • Detecting disease outbreaks using local spatiotemporal methods. 
  • Determinants of macular thickness using spectral domain optical coherence tomography in healthy eyes: the Singapore Chinese Eye study. 
  • Determinants of medical system delay in the diagnosis of colorectal cancer within the Veteran Affairs Health System. 
  • Diagnostic per-patient accuracy of an abbreviated hepatobiliary phase gadoxetic acid-enhanced MRI for hepatocellular carcinoma surveillance. 
  • Diet- and blood pressure-related knowledge, attitudes, and hypertension prevalence among African Americans: the KDBP Study. Knowledge of Diet and Blood Pressure. 
  • Disability as a function of social networks and support in elderly African Americans and Whites: the Duke EPESE 1986--1992. 
  • Disparities in viral load and CD4 count trends among HIV-infected adults in South Carolina. 
  • Does the use of a prescriptive clinical prediction rule increase the likelihood of applying inappropriate treatments? A survey using clinical vignettes. 
  • Early parental death and late-life dementia risk: findings from the Cache County Study. 
  • Editorial comment on: Development of a new method for monitoring prostate-specific antigen changes in men with localised prostate cancer: a comparison of observational cohorts. 
  • Effect of a fall in malaria transmission on morbidity and mortality in Kilifi, Kenya. 
  • Emergency department surveillance: an examination of issues and a proposal for a national strategy. 
  • Emergent strain of human adenovirus endemic in Iowa. 
  • Endemic cholera in rural Bangladesh, 1966-1980. 
  • Epidemiological personology: the unifying role of personality in population-based research on problem behaviors. 
  • Epidemiology and risk factors for endemic typhoid fever in Uzbekistan. 
  • Epidemiology of apathy in older adults: the Cache County Study. 
  • Epidemiology of respiratory syncytial virus in various regions within North Carolina during multiple seasons. 
  • Ethnic Differences in the Association Between Age-Related Macular Degeneration and Vision-Specific Functioning. 
  • Ethnic differences in the association between blood pressure components and chronic kidney disease in middle aged and older Asian adults. 
  • Evaluation of Selvester QRS score for use in presence of conduction abnormalities in a broad population. 
  • Excess salmonellosis in women in the United States: 1968-2000. 
  • Falls in residential carpentry and drywall installation: findings from active injury surveillance with union carpenters. 
  • Forecasting chronic disease risks in developing countries. 
  • Frequency and intensity of postoperative surveillance after curative treatment of pancreatic cancer: a cost-effectiveness analysis. 
  • From the national communicable disease center. Shigellosis in the United States. 1964-1968. 
  • Genetic counseling and testing for FMR1 gene mutations: practice guidelines of the national society of genetic counselors. 
  • Genetic mutations in African patients with atrial fibrillation: Rationale and design of the Study of Genetics of Atrial Fibrillation in an African Population (SIGNAL). 
  • Genetic testing and tumor surveillance for children with cancer predisposition syndromes. 
  • Genetic/Familial High-Risk Assessment: Colorectal Version 1.2016, NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology. 
  • Global infections: recognition, management, and prevention. 
  • Global prevalence of age-related macular degeneration and disease burden projection for 2020 and 2040: a systematic review and meta-analysis. 
  • Global self-ratings of health and mortality: hazard in the North Carolina Piedmont. 
  • HIV community viral load trends in South Carolina. 
  • HIV testing behaviors and attitudes among community recruited methamphetamine users in a South African township. 
  • HIV/AIDS in the Southern USA: a disproportionate epidemic. 
  • Health behaviors, medical care, and interventions to promote healthy living in the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study cohort. 
  • Heterogeneous vancomycin-intermediate susceptibility phenotype in bloodstream methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates from an international cohort of patients with infective endocarditis: prevalence, genotype, and clinical significance. 
  • History of chickenpox in glioma risk: a report from the glioma international case-control study (GICC). 
  • Hospital bloodborne pathogens programs: program characteristics and blood and body fluid exposure rates. 
  • Hospital workers bypass traditional occupational injury reporting systems when reporting patient and visitor perpetrated (type II) violence. 
  • Human immunodeficiency virus and AIDS. 1993 update. 
  • Human metapneumovirus, Peru. 
  • Humans and cattle: a review of bovine zoonoses. 
  • Identification of a W variant outbreak of Mycobacterium tuberculosis via population-based molecular epidemiology. 
  • Identification of independent association signals and putative functional variants for breast cancer risk through fine-scale mapping of the 12p11 locus. 
  • Identification of novel risk factors for community-acquired Clostridium difficile infection using spatial statistics and geographic information system analyses. 
  • Impact of Diabetes Mellitus on Head and Neck Cancer Patients Undergoing Surgery. 
  • Impact of Visual Impairment and Eye diseases on Mortality: the Singapore Malay Eye Study (SiMES). 
  • Impact of a routine, opt-out HIV testing program on HIV testing and case detection in North Carolina sexually transmitted disease clinics. 
  • Impact of change to molecular testing for Clostridium difficile infection on healthcare facility-associated incidence rates. 
  • Impact of estrogen use on decline in cognitive function in a representative sample of older community-resident women. 
  • Impact of self-reported data on the acquisition of multi-generational family history and lifestyle factors among women seen in a high-risk breast screening program: a focus on modifiable risk factors and genetic referral. 
  • Impact of the 1993 CDC surveillance definition of AIDS in Texas, 1991-1994. 
  • Implementation of health risk assessments with family health history: barriers and benefits. 
  • Improving preventive service delivery through office systems. 
  • In-theater hospitalizations of US and allied personnel during the 1991 Gulf War. 
  • Incidence and survival of hospitalized acute decompensated heart failure in four US communities (from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study). 
  • Increased Risk of Cerebrovascular Disease Among Patients With Neurofibromatosis Type 1: Population-Based Approach. 
  • Increased case-fatality rate associated with outbreaks of Neisseria meningitidis infection, compared with sporadic meningococcal disease, in the United States, 1994-2002. 
  • Increasing rates of breast cancer and cardiac surveillance among high-risk survivors of childhood Hodgkin lymphoma following a mailed, one-page survivorship care plan. 
  • Influenza surveillance in community-dwelling elderly compared with children. 
  • Interindividual variation in serum sodium and longitudinal blood pressure tracking in the Framingham Heart Study. 
  • Introduction to issues and implications of screening, surveillance, and reporting of children's BMI. 
  • Is Corneal Arcus Independently Associated With Incident Cardiovascular Disease in Asians? 
  • Is there a Persian Gulf War syndrome? Evidence from a large population-based survey of veterans and nondeployed controls. 
  • Issues and implications of screening, surveillance, and reporting of children's BMI. 
  • It May Be Time to Abandon Urine Tests for Bladder Cancer. 
  • It is better to light a candle ... than to repeat the opinions of experts. 
  • Joint Effects of Intraocular Pressure and Myopia on Risk of Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma: The Singapore Epidemiology of Eye Diseases Study. 
  • Knowledge, attitudes, and use of emergency contraception among rural western North Carolina women. 
  • Knowledge, beliefs, and prior screening behavior among blacks and whites reporting for prostate cancer screening. 
  • Long-term survivors of childhood Ewing sarcoma: report from the childhood cancer survivor study. 
  • Low-risk and very-low-risk prostate cancer: is there a role for focal therapy in the era of active surveillance? Yes, the two approaches complement each other. 
  • Lower urinary connective tissue growth factor levels and incident CKD stage 3 in the general population. 
  • Major congenital malformations among neonatal referrals to a Nigerian university hospital. 
  • Male/female ratio in centenarians: a possible role played by population genetic structure. 
  • Management of child and adolescent obesity: attitudes, barriers, skills, and training needs among health care professionals. 
  • 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. 
  • Measuring illness uncertainty in men undergoing active surveillance for prostate cancer. 
  • Medicare HMO penetration and mortality outcomes of ischemic stroke. 
  • Medication, reperfusion therapy and survival in a community-based setting of hospitalised myocardial infarction. 
  • Mental health in Sumatra after the tsunami. 
  • Metabolic Syndrome and the Risk of Mild Cognitive Impairment and Progression to Dementia: Follow-up of the Singapore Longitudinal Ageing Study Cohort. 
  • Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infection surveillance: National Healthcare Safety Network's laboratory-identified event reporting versus traditional laboratory-confirmed bloodstream infection surveillance. 
  • Methods for comparing the mortality experience of heterogeneous populations. 
  • Minimally Invasive Versus Open Esophagectomy for Esophageal Cancer: A Population-Based Analysis. 
  • Molecular analysis of adenovirus isolates from vaccinated and unvaccinated young adults. 
  • Molecular malaria epidemiology: mapping and burden estimates for the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2007. 
  • Mortality in Vietnam, 1979-1989. 
  • Mortality of older construction and craft workers employed at Department of Energy (DOE) nuclear sites. 
  • Mortality of older construction and craft workers employed at department of energy (DOE) nuclear sites: follow-up through 2011. 
  • Musculoskeletal concerns do not justify failure to use safer sequential trigger to prevent acute nail gun injuries. 
  • Mycobacteria: treatment approaches and mechanisms of resistance. 
  • Myopia in young adults is inversely related to an objective marker of ocular sun exposure: the Western Australian Raine cohort study. 
  • Nail gun injuries among construction workers. 
  • National Department of Defense Surveillance for Invasive Streptococcus pneumoniae: antibiotic resistance, serotype distribution, and arbitrarily primed polymerase chain reaction analyses. 
  • National Department of Defense surveillance data for antibiotic resistance and emm gene types of clinical group A streptococcal isolates from eight basic training military sites. 
  • Natural history of human immunodeficiency virus disease in perinatally infected children: an analysis from the Pediatric Spectrum of Disease Project. 
  • Near-miss maternal mortality: cardiac dysfunction as the principal cause of obstetric intensive care unit admissions. 
  • Non-fatal construction industry fall-related injuries treated in US emergency departments, 1998-2005. 
  • Non-fatal contact injuries among workers in the construction industry treated in U.S. emergency departments, 1998-2005. 
  • Non-prescribed use of pain relievers among adolescents in the United States. 
  • Nonfatal construction industry-related injuries treated in hospital emergency departments in the United States, 1998-2005. 
  • Nonfatal tool- or equipment-related injuries treated in US emergency departments among workers in the construction industry, 1998-2005. 
  • Novel method to collect medication adverse events in juvenile arthritis: results from the childhood arthritis and rheumatology research alliance enhanced drug safety surveillance project. 
  • Nursing patient safety research in rural health care settings. 
  • Obesity, weight gain, and ovarian cancer risk in African American women. 
  • Occupational impairment and disability among applicants for Social Security disability benefits in Pennsylvania. 
  • Outbreak of 2009 pandemic influenza A(H1N1), Los Lagos, Chile, April-June 2009. 
  • Outbreaks of Escherichia coli O157 infections at multiple county agricultural fairs: a hazard of mixing cattle, concession stands and children. 
  • Outcomes of Active Surveillance for Ductal Carcinoma in Situ: A Computational Risk Analysis. 
  • Parents' reported preference scores for childhood atopic dermatitis disease states. 
  • Part I. Analysis of data gaps pertaining to Salmonella enterica serotype Typhi infections in low and medium human development index countries, 1984-2005. 
  • Patient radiation exposure tracking: worldwide programs and needs--results from the first IAEA survey. 
  • Patient registries: utility, validity and inference. 
  • Peak expiratory flow, breath rate and blood pressure in adults with changes in particulate matter air pollution during the Beijing Olympics: a panel study. 
  • Pedicure-associated rapidly growing mycobacterial infection: an endemic disease. 
  • Physical activity, television viewing time, and retinal microvascular caliber: the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis. 
  • Physical assault among nursing staff employed in acute care. 
  • Pneumonia hospitalizations in the US Navy and Marine Corps: rates and risk factors for 6,522 admissions, 1981-1991. 
  • Poliomyelitis in Pakistan. 
  • Population screening for prostate cancer and emerging concepts for young men. 
  • Population-based assessment of adverse events associated with long-term glucocorticoid use. 
  • Population-based study of medical comorbidity in early dementia and "cognitive impairment, no dementia (CIND)": association with functional and cognitive impairment: The Cache County Study. 
  • Population-based surveillance of typhoid fever in Egypt. 
  • Possible socioeconomic and ethnic disparities in quality of life in a cohort of breast cancer survivors. 
  • Postoperative infection in spine surgery: does the month matter? 
  • Postsurgical surveillance of patients with FIGO stage I/II endometrial adenocarcinoma. 
  • Practice patterns of naturopathic physicians: results from a random survey of licensed practitioners in two US States. 
  • Predictive algorithms: uses and limitations. 
  • Predictors of chronic breathlessness: a large population study. 
  • Prevalence of birth defects among infants of Gulf War veterans in Arkansas, Arizona, California, Georgia, Hawaii, and Iowa, 1989-1993. 
  • Prevalence of obesity and cardiovascular risk factors among manufacturing company employees in Kentucky. 
  • Prevalence of recurrent physical symptoms in U.S. adolescents. 
  • Prevalence of refractive errors in a multiethnic Asian population: the Singapore epidemiology of eye disease study. 
  • Prevalence of traumatic brain injury in the general adult population: a meta-analysis. 
  • Prevention of laboratory animal allergy in the United States: a national survey. 
  • Primary and secondary allergies to laboratory animals. 
  • Prostate cancer early detection, version 1.2014. Featured updates to the NCCN Guidelines. 
  • Prostate cancer: active surveillance in African American men. 
  • Prostate cancer: the new landscape. 
  • Psychosocial correlates of health compromising behaviors among adolescents. 
  • Public health. Genomics and medicine at a crossroads in Chernobyl. 
  • Quality of Care and Contraceptive Use in Urban Kenya. 
  • Quality of Life is Similar between Long-term Survivors of Indolent and Aggressive Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma. 
  • Quality of life in patients with Barrett's esophagus undergoing surveillance. 
  • Radiation protection of patients in diagnostic and interventional radiology in Asian countries: impact of an IAEA project. 
  • Rapid reporting of cancer incidence in a population-based study of breast cancer: one constructive use of a central cancer registry. 
  • Rates of surveillance and management of hepatocellular carcinoma in patients evaluated at a liver transplant center. 
  • Recommendations for breast cancer surveillance for female survivors of childhood, adolescent, and young adult cancer given chest radiation: a report from the International Late Effects of Childhood Cancer Guideline Harmonization Group. 
  • Recommendations for the establishment of stroke systems of care: recommendations from the American Stroke Association's Task Force on the Development of Stroke Systems. 
  • Records of imported tire-breeding mosquitoes in Ohio. 
  • Recreational physical activity and ovarian cancer risk in African American women. 
  • Refining the focus of construction injury surveillance. 
  • Regional variation in late preterm births in North Carolina. 
  • Relation of nutrient intake to microalbuminuria in nondiabetic middle-aged men and women: International Population Study on Macronutrients and Blood Pressure (INTERMAP). 
  • Relationship between exposure, clinical malaria, and age in an area of changing transmission intensity. 
  • Religion and HIV in Tanzania: influence of religious beliefs on HIV stigma, disclosure, and treatment attitudes. 
  • Report of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute working group on outcomes research in cardiovascular disease. 
  • Representativeness of participants in the cancer care outcomes research and surveillance consortium relative to the surveillance, epidemiology, and end results program. 
  • Respiratory syncytial virus outbreak in a long-term care facility detected using reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction: an argument for real-time detection methods. 
  • Retinal arteriolar narrowing and left ventricular remodeling: the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis. 
  • Retinal microvascular abnormalities and risk of renal failure in Asian populations. 
  • Retinal microvascular signs are associated with chronic kidney disease in persons with and without diabetes. 
  • Retinal vascular caliber and brachial flow-mediated dilation: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. 
  • Risk and protection in the development of problem behaviors in adolescents. 
  • Risk factors for methotrexate-induced lung injury in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. A multicenter, case-control study. Methotrexate-Lung Study Group. 
  • Risk of late effects of treatment in children newly diagnosed with standard-risk acute lymphoblastic leukaemia: a report from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study cohort. 
  • Risk patterns preceding diagnosis among newly HIV-diagnosed men who have sex with men in New York City. 
  • Salt sales survey: a simplified, cost-effective method to evaluate population salt reduction programs--a cluster-randomized trial. 
  • Sampling strategies for tissue microarrays to evaluate biomarkers in ovarian cancer. 
  • Screening strategies in gastroesophageal reflux disease: early identification of esophageal carcinoma. 
  • Second primary cancers in survivors of childhood cancer. 
  • Secondary gastrointestinal cancer in childhood cancer survivors: a cohort study. 
  • Sequential emergence of antibiotic resistance in enterococcal bloodstream isolates over 25 years. 
  • Severe cutaneous hypersensitivity reactions during treatment of tuberculosis in patients with HIV infection in Tanzania. 
  • Sex differences in health and mortality in Moscow and Denmark. 
  • Shigellosis in the United States: five-year review of nationwide surveillance, 1964-1968. 
  • Society of Gynecologic Oncologists Education Committee statement on risk assessment for inherited gynecologic cancer predispositions. 
  • Socioeconomic status, systolic blood pressure and intraocular pressure: the Tanjong Pagar Study. 
  • Standards for the uniform reporting of hypertension in adults using population survey data: recommendations from the World Hypertension League Expert Committee. 
  • Stemming the tide of hepatitis B virus related hepatocellular carcinoma? 
  • Stimulant treatment for children: a community perspective. 
  • Substituted judgment in principle and practice: a national physician survey. 
  • Summaries for patients. Increased risk for gastrointestinal cancer in childhood cancer survivors. 
  • Summary and conclusions: measles elimination meeting, 16-17 March 2000. 
  • Surveillance for unexplained deaths and critical illnesses due to possibly infectious causes, United States, 1995-1998. 
  • Surveillance issues in inflammatory bowel disease: ulcerative colitis. 
  • Surveillance of hearing loss among older construction and trade workers at Department of Energy nuclear sites. 
  • Surveillance of musculoskeletal injuries and disorders in a diverse cohort of workers at a tertiary care medical center. 
  • Surveillance of respiratory diseases among construction and trade workers at Department of Energy nuclear sites. 
  • Surveillance of work-related musculoskeletal injuries among union carpenters. 
  • Surveying the surveillance: surgical site infections excluded by the January 2013 updated surveillance definitions. 
  • Sustainability of cancer registration in the Kilimanjaro Region of Tanzania--a qualitative assessment. 
  • Tailoring adverse drug event surveillance to the paediatric inpatient. 
  • Telephone adaptation of the Modified Mini-Mental State Exam (3MS). The Cache County Study. 
  • Temporal trends and geographic variation of lower-extremity amputation in patients with peripheral artery disease: results from U.S. Medicare 2000-2008. 
  • Ten years and 100,000 participants later: occupational and other factors influencing participation in US Gulf War health registries. 
  • Testicular cancer survivorship: research strategies and recommendations. 
  • Testing an instrument to screen for fibromyalgia syndrome in general population studies: the London Fibromyalgia Epidemiology Study Screening Questionnaire. 
  • The Danish Twin Registry: 127 birth cohorts of twins. 
  • The Danish Twin Registry: linking surveys, national registers, and biological information. 
  • The Department of Defense Birth Defects Registry: overview of a new surveillance system. 
  • The Naval Health Research Center Respiratory Disease Laboratory. 
  • The Prevalence of ADHD in a Population-Based Sample. 
  • The association of HIV counseling and testing with HIV risk behaviors in a random population-based survey in Kisumu, Kenya. 
  • The dynamics of population aging: demography and policy analysis. 
  • The effect of women's status on infant and child mortality in four rural areas of Bangladesh. 
  • The global burden of typhoid fever. 
  • The impact of depressive symptomatology on physical disability: MacArthur Studies of Successful Aging. 
  • The magnitude of the global problem of acute diarrhoeal disease: a review of active surveillance data. 
  • The older pedestrian. 
  • The perception of cancer risk in patients with prevalent Barrett's esophagus enrolled in an endoscopic surveillance program. 
  • The potential impact of excluding funguria from the surveillance definition of catheter-associated urinary tract infection. 
  • The prevalence and 3-year incidence of dementia in older Black and White community residents. 
  • The relationship between anterior chamber depth and the presence of diabetes in the Tanjong Pagar Survey. 
  • The spatial distribution of known predictors of autism spectrum disorders impacts geographic variability in prevalence in central North Carolina. 
  • The use of CAM by women suffering from nausea and vomiting during pregnancy. 
  • Three perspectives on work-related injury surveillance systems. 
  • Thromboembolism is a leading cause of death in cancer patients receiving outpatient chemotherapy. 
  • Towards a more comprehensive understanding of cancer burden in North Carolina: priorities for intervention. 
  • Transatlantic Consensus Group on active surveillance and focal therapy for prostate cancer. 
  • Treatment of intestinal failure: intestinal transplantation. 
  • Trends in cannabis use disorders among racial/ethnic population groups in the United States. 
  • Trinucleotide repeat polymorphisms in the androgen receptor gene and risk of ovarian cancer. 
  • Twelve-year follow-up of American women's awareness of cardiovascular disease risk and barriers to heart health. 
  • Understanding young adult physical activity, alcohol and tobacco use in community colleges and 4-year post-secondary institutions: A cross-sectional analysis of epidemiological surveillance data. 
  • Upper endoscopy as a screening and surveillance tool in esophageal adenocarcinoma: a review of the evidence. 
  • Upper respiratory tract infections (URI). 
  • Urinary Isoprostane Levels and Age-Related Macular Degeneration. 
  • Use of diagnosis codes for detection of clinically significant opioid poisoning in the emergency department: A retrospective analysis of a surveillance case definition. 
  • Use of psychotherapy in a representative adult community sample in São Paulo, Brazil. 
  • Validation of the surveillance system for tuberculosis in Botswana. 
  • Validation study of medicare claims to identify older US adults with CKD using the Reasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) Study. 
  • Validity of soccer injury data from the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Injury Surveillance System. 
  • Venous thromboembolism: a public health concern. 
  • Visual loss after spine surgery: a population-based study. 
  • Voice disorders in the elderly: A national database study. 
  • Warrior Model for Human Performance and Injury Prevention: Eagle Tactical Athlete Program (ETAP) Part I. 
  • West Nile virus among hospitalized, febrile patients: a case for expanding diagnostic testing. 
  • Work group IV: Future directions for measures of the food and physical activity environments. 
  • Work-related injuries in residential and drywall carpentry. 
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  • Berchuck, Andrew, James M. Ingram Professor of Gynecologic Oncology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Gynecologic Oncology
  • Dement, John McCray, Professor Emeritus in Community and Family Medicine, Community and Family Medicine, Occupational & Environmental Medicine
  • Gold, Deborah T., Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychology and Neuroscience
  • Grambow, Steven C., Assistant Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • Halabi, Susan, Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • McLendon, Roger Edwin, Professor of Pathology, Pathology
  • Merli, M. Giovanna, Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke Global Health Institute
  • Moehring, Rebekah, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Infectious Diseases
  • Moorman, Patricia Gripka, Professor in Community and Family Medicine, Duke Cancer Institute
  • O'Meara, Wendy P, Associate Professor in Medicine, Medicine, Infectious Diseases
  • Ostbye, Truls, Professor in Community and Family Medicine, Community and Family Medicine
  • Wu, Li-Tzy, Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medicine, General Internal Medicine