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 feasibility study of conducting surveillance for swine pathogens in slurry from North Carolina swine farms. 
  • 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 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 population-level analysis of 5620 recipients of multiple in-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation attempts. 
  • A review of Kenya's cancer policies to improve access to cancer testing and treatment in the country. 
  • A review of cardiovascular risk factors in US military personnel. 
  • 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 as a treatment option for prostate cancer. 
  • 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. 
  • Acute Coronary Syndromes and Heart Failure Critical Care Units Utilization and Outcomes in Teaching and Community Hospitals: A National Population-Based Analysis. 
  • Addressing pediatric medical training needs in noncommunicable diseases. 
  • Adult Glioma Incidence and Survival by Race or Ethnicity in the United States From 2000 to 2014. 
  • Adult adenovirus infections: loss of orphaned vaccines precipitates military respiratory disease epidemics. For the Adenovirus Surveillance Group. 
  • Adverse events in humans associated with accidental exposure to the livestock brucellosis vaccine RB51. 
  • Affect and loneliness among centenarians and the oldest old: the role of individual and social resources. 
  • African American Men With Low-Risk Prostate Cancer Are Candidates for Active Surveillance: The Will-Rogers Effect? 
  • Airways obstruction among older construction and trade workers at Department of Energy nuclear sites. 
  • Alcohol use and burden for 195 countries and territories, 1990-2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016. 
  • 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 estimation of the global volume of surgery: a modelling strategy based on available data. 
  • 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 Between Thyroid Disease and Uveitis: Results From the Pacific Ocular Inflammation Study. 
  • Association of Changes in Visual Acuity With Vision-Specific Functioning in the Singapore Malay Eye Study. 
  • Association of Galectin-3 With Diabetes Mellitus in the Dallas Heart Study. 
  • Association of Vision Impairment and Major Eye Diseases With Mobility and Independence in a Chinese Population. 
  • Automated laboratory reporting of infectious diseases in a climate of bioterrorism. 
  • Availability and scope of integrated screening for patients with Lynch syndrome. 
  • 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. 
  • Benefits of Population Segmentation Analysis for Developing Health Policy to Promote Patient-Centred Care. 
  • 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. 
  • Body mass index, eating attitudes, and symptoms of depression and anxiety in pregnancy and the postpartum period. 
  • Breast cancer surveillance practices among women previously treated with chest radiation for a childhood cancer. 
  • 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. 
  • C-reactive protein and risk of cardiovascular disease in men and women from the Framingham Heart Study. 
  • COPD and Rural Health: A Dialogue on the National Action Plan. 
  • California Autism Prevalence by County and Race/Ethnicity: Declining Trends Among Wealthy Whites. 
  • Cancer control-planning and monitoring population-based systems. 
  • Cancer risk in children and adolescents with birth defects: a population-based cohort study. 
  • Cancer yield of mammography, MR, and US in high-risk women: prospective multi-institution breast cancer screening study. 
  • Cardiovascular and cerebrovascular comorbidities of juvenile dermatomyositis in US children: an analysis of the National Inpatient Sample. 
  • 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 bloodstream infections in adult hematology patients with febrile neutropenia: an evaluation of surveillance definitions using differential time to blood culture positivity. 
  • 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. 
  • Characteristics of individuals infected with the human immunodeficiency virus and provider interaction in the predominantly rural Southeast. 
  • Characterization of Young Adult Emergency Department Users: Evidence to Guide Policy. 
  • Chemical-Biological Terrorism and Its Impact on Children. 
  • Childhood cancer survivorship research in minority populations: A position paper from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study. 
  • Choice of Study Populations for Vaccines. 
  • Clinical characteristics of scleritis and episcleritis: results from the pacific ocular inflammation 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? 
  • Community-, facility-, and individual-level outcomes of a district mental healthcare plan in a low-resource setting in Nepal: A population-based evaluation. 
  • 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. 
  • Conclusion of Avery et al--validation of findings but concern about rationale. 
  • Conflict and mental health: a cross-sectional epidemiological study in Nepal. 
  • Consistency of primary brain tumor diagnoses and codes in cancer surveillance systems. 
  • Correlation of West Nile Virus Incidence in Donated Blood with West Nile Neuroinvasive Disease Rates, United States, 2010-2012. 
  • Cost-effectiveness analysis of lead poisoning screening strategies following the 1997 guidelines of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 
  • Cost-effectiveness of an injury and drowning prevention program in Bangladesh. 
  • Current issues in prostate cancer. Introduction. 
  • Data-driven phenotype discovery of FMR1 premutation carriers in a population-based sample. 
  • Deaths from violence in North Carolina, 2004: how deaths differ in females and males. 
  • Deferred systemic therapy in patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma. 
  • Demographic and health characteristics of elderly smokers: results from established populations for epidemiologic studies of the elderly. 
  • 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. 
  • Design and Implementation of a Comprehensive Surveillance System for Venous Thromboembolism in a Defined Region Using Electronic and Manual Approaches. 
  • Design and field procedures in the US National Comorbidity Survey Replication Adolescent Supplement (NCS-A). 
  • 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. 
  • Detecting signals of opioid analgesic abuse: application of a spatial mixed effect poisson regression model using data from a network of poison control centers. 
  • 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. 
  • Development of Envelope Protein Antigens To Serologically Differentiate Zika Virus Infection from Dengue Virus Infection. 
  • Diagnosis and management of Q fever--United States, 2013: recommendations from CDC and the Q Fever Working Group. 
  • 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. 
  • Effect of intraocular pressure on the Bayesian estimation of rates of visual field progression in glaucoma. 
  • Effects of duty-cycled passive acoustic recordings on detecting the presence of beaked whales in the northwest Atlantic. 
  • 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. 
  • Enterococcus species and the central line-associated bloodstream infection surveillance definition: evaluating the importance of blood culture contamination. 
  • Epidemiological personology: the unifying role of personality in population-based research on problem behaviors. 
  • Epidemiological study of people living in rural North Carolina for novel respiratory viruses. 
  • Epidemiology and risk factors for endemic typhoid fever in Uzbekistan. 
  • Epidemiology of apathy in older adults: the Cache County Study. 
  • Epidemiology of primary health problems in Beirut. 
  • Epidemiology of respiratory syncytial virus in various regions within North Carolina during multiple seasons. 
  • Ergonomics in office-based surgery: a survey-guided observational study. 
  • Estimated global distribution and regional spread of HIV-1 genetic subtypes in the year 2000. 
  • Estimating the international burden of sport-related death: a review of data sources. 
  • 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. 
  • Etiology of Sudden Cardiac Arrest and Death in US Competitive Athletes: A 2-Year Prospective Surveillance Study. 
  • Evaluation of Selvester QRS score for use in presence of conduction abnormalities in a broad population. 
  • Examining landscape factors influencing relative distribution of mosquito genera and frequency of virus infection. 
  • Excess salmonellosis in women in the United States: 1968-2000. 
  • Factors That Mattered in Helping Travelers From Countries With Ebola Outbreaks Participate in Post-Arrival Monitoring During the 2014-2016 Ebola Epidemic. 
  • 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 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Surveillance for adverse effects associated with anthrax vaccination--US Department of Defense, 1998-2000. 
  • 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. 
  • Guidance on public reporting of healthcare-associated infections: recommendations of the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee. 
  • HIV community viral load trends in South Carolina. 
  • HIV testing behaviors and attitudes among community recruited methamphetamine users in a South African township. 
  • HIV-1 and HIV-Associated Nephropathy 25 Years Later. 
  • HIV/AIDS in the Southern USA: a disproportionate epidemic. 
  • Head and neck cancers. 
  • Health behaviors, medical care, and interventions to promote healthy living in the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study cohort. 
  • Health equity in transition from planned to market economy in China. 
  • Health status of children with moderate to severe cerebral palsy. 
  • 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 workers bypass traditional occupational injury reporting systems when reporting patient and visitor perpetrated (type II) violence. 
  • How do statistical properties influence findings of tracking (maintenance) in epidemiologic studies? An example of research in tracking of obesity. 
  • Human health effects of exposure to Pfiesteria piscicida: a review. 
  • 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. 
  • Immediate laparoscopic adrenalectomy versus observation: cost evaluation for incidental adrenal lesions with atypical imaging characteristics. 
  • Impact of Diabetes Mellitus on Head and Neck Cancer Patients Undergoing Surgery. 
  • Impact of Missing Data for Body Mass Index in an Epidemiologic Study. 
  • 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 complications on outcomes following aortic and mitral valve replacements in the United States. 
  • Impact of estrogen use on decline in cognitive function in a representative sample of older community-resident women. 
  • Impact of geographic density of eye care professionals on eye care among adults with diabetes. 
  • 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. 
  • Implementation of health risk assessments with family health history: barriers and benefits. 
  • Improving preventive service delivery through office systems. 
  • In-Hospital and Postdischarge Mortality Among Patients With Acute Decompensated Heart Failure Hospitalizations Ending on the Weekend Versus Weekday: The ARIC Study Community Surveillance. 
  • 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). 
  • Incidence of Musculoskeletal Injury in US Army Unit Types: A Prospective Cohort Study. 
  • 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. 
  • Injury surveillance. 
  • Integration of multiparametric MRI into active surveillance of prostate cancer. 
  • Inter-relationship between ocular perfusion pressure, blood pressure, intraocular pressure profiles and primary open-angle glaucoma: the Singapore Epidemiology of Eye Diseases study. 
  • 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. 
  • Inverted U-shaped relationship between vitamin D and ever-reported eczema in US adults. 
  • Is Corneal Arcus Independently Associated With Incident Cardiovascular Disease in Asians? 
  • 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. 
  • Kidney Function Surveillance in the National Spina Bifida Patient Registry: A Retrospective Cohort 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. 
  • LI-RADS: a glimpse into the future. 
  • Lack of usefulness of radiographic screening for pulmonary disease in asymptomatic HIV-infected adults. Pulmonary Complications of HIV Infection Study Group. 
  • Long-term survivors of childhood Ewing sarcoma: report from the childhood cancer survivor study. 
  • Longitudinal Change in Central Corneal Thickness in the Tema Eye Survey. 
  • 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. 
  • Measuring immunization coverage among preschool children: past, present, and future opportunities. 
  • Medical planning and response for a nuclear detonation: a practical guide. 
  • 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. 
  • 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. 
  • Minor self-harm and psychiatric disorder: a population-based study. 
  • 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. 
  • Montagnard ethnicity and genetic relations in Northern Cameroon: comment on "the peopling of sub-Saharan Africa: the case study of Cameroon," by G. Spedini et al. 
  • Mortality Trends in Colorectal Cancer in China During 2000-2015: A Joinpoint Regression and Age-Period-Cohort Analysis. 
  • 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. 
  • Mortality of older construction and craft workers employed at department of energy nuclear sites: Follow-up through 2016. 
  • Multiple bias analysis using logistic regression: an example from the National Birth Defects Prevention Study. 
  • Multiple cardiovascular risk factors in Kenya: evidence from a health and demographic surveillance system using the WHO STEPwise approach to chronic disease risk factor surveillance. 
  • 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. 
  • Nail-gun injuries treated in emergency departments--United States, 2001-2005. 
  • 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. 
  • Nondisease-specific problems and all-cause mortality in the REasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke study. 
  • 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. 
  • Number of natural teeth, denture use and mortality in Chinese elderly: a population-based prospective cohort study. 
  • 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. 
  • On evaluation of consistency in multi-regional clinical trials. 
  • Outbreaks of Escherichia coli O157 infections at multiple county agricultural fairs: a hazard of mixing cattle, concession stands and children. 
  • Outcome of Pancreatic Cancer Surveillance Among High-Risk Individuals Tested for Germline Mutations in BRCA1 and BRCA2. 
  • Outcomes of Active Surveillance for Ductal Carcinoma in Situ: A Computational Risk Analysis. 
  • Parenting practices and child disruptive behavior problems in early elementary school. Conduct Problems Prevention Research Group. 
  • 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. 
  • Passive acoustic monitoring of coastally associated Hawaiian spinner dolphins, Stenella longirostris, ground-truthed through visual surveys. 
  • Patient radiation exposure tracking: worldwide programs and needs--results from the first IAEA survey. 
  • 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. 
  • Pedometer-determined physical activity among multiethnic low-income housing residents. 
  • Penetrating trauma in children on the United States-Mexico border: Hispanic ethnicity is not a risk factor. 
  • Personal responsibility and obesity: a constructive approach to a controversial issue. 
  • Personalized predictive modeling for patients with Alzheimer's disease using an extension of Sullivan's life table model. 
  • Physical activity, television viewing time, and retinal microvascular caliber: the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis. 
  • Physical assault among nursing staff employed in acute care. 
  • Physician Utilization Patterns for VEGF-Inhibitor Drugs in the 2012 United States Medicare Population: Bevacizumab, Ranibizumab, and Aflibercept. 
  • Pneumonia hospitalizations in the US Navy and Marine Corps: rates and risk factors for 6,522 admissions, 1981-1991. 
  • Poliomyelitis in Pakistan. 
  • Population pharmacokinetics of vactosertib, a new TGF-β receptor type Ι inhibitor, in patients with advanced solid tumors. 
  • 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 hepatitis C surveillance and treatment in a national managed care organization. 
  • 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. 
  • Prediction of HIV Transmission Cluster Growth With Statewide Surveillance Data. 
  • Predictive algorithms: uses and limitations. 
  • Prevalence and control of cardiovascular risk factors in Poland. Assumptions and objectives of the NATPOL 2011 Survey. 
  • Prevalence and prognostic impact of non-cardiac co-morbidities in heart failure outpatients with preserved and reduced ejection fraction: a community-based study. 
  • Prevalence of birth defects among infants of Gulf War veterans in Arkansas, Arizona, California, Georgia, Hawaii, and Iowa, 1989-1993. 
  • Prevalence of hepatitis B antiviral drug resistance variants in North American patients with chronic hepatitis B not receiving antiviral treatment. 
  • Prevalence of human African trypanosomiasis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. 
  • 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. 
  • Prevalence, subtypes, severity and determinants of ocular trauma: The Singapore Chinese Eye Study. 
  • Prevention of laboratory animal allergy in the United States: a national survey. 
  • Prevention of sudden cardiac death in the young: Developing a rational, reliable, and sustainable national health care resource. A report from the Cardiac Safety Research Consortium. 
  • Primary and secondary allergies to laboratory animals. 
  • Primary prevention of chronic kidney disease through population-based strategies for blood pressure control: The ARIC study. 
  • Prostate cancer early detection, version 1.2014. Featured updates to the NCCN Guidelines. 
  • 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. 
  • Race-associated biological differences among luminal A and basal-like breast cancers in the Carolina Breast Cancer Study. 
  • Racial differences and determinants of macular thickness profiles in multiethnic Asian population: the Singapore Epidemiology of Eye Diseases Study. 
  • Racial/ethnic disparities in de novo metastases sites and survival outcomes for patients with primary breast, colorectal, and prostate cancer. 
  • 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. 
  • 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. 
  • 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 Vascular Imaging Markers and Incident Chronic Kidney Disease: A Prospective Cohort Study. 
  • 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. 
  • Self-Reported Cognitive Impairment Across Racial/Ethnic Groups in the United States, National Health Interview Survey, 1997-2015. 
  • 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. 
  • Sex-specific correlates of walking speed in a wide age-ranged population. 
  • Sexual assault history and health perceptions: seven general population studies. 
  • 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. 
  • Spread of Cryptococcus gattii into Pacific Northwest region of the United States. 
  • 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. 
  • Suicide and Additional Homicides Associated with Intimate Partner Homicide: North Carolina 2004-2013. 
  • Summaries for patients. Increased risk for gastrointestinal cancer in childhood cancer survivors. 
  • Summary and conclusions: measles elimination meeting, 16-17 March 2000. 
  • Surgery Is Associated With Survival Benefit in T4a Esophageal Adenocarcinoma: A National Analysis. 
  • 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 female patients with inherited bleeding disorders in United States Haemophilia Treatment Centres. 
  • Surveillance of hearing loss among older construction and trade workers at Department of Energy nuclear sites. 
  • Surveillance of moderate-size aneurysms of the thoracic aorta. 
  • 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 American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer and the American Cancer Society. The National Cancer Data Base report on age, gender, treatment, and outcomes of patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia. 
  • 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 Health Impact of Symptomatic Adult Spinal Deformity: Comparison of Deformity Types to United States Population Norms and Chronic Diseases. 
  • The Naval Health Research Center Respiratory Disease Laboratory. 
  • The PCORnet Blood Pressure Control Laboratory: A Platform for Surveillance and Efficient Trials. 
  • The Prevalence of ADHD in a Population-Based Sample. 
  • The United States National Prospective Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome Study: microbiologic, serologic, clinical, and epidemiologic findings. 
  • The Vascular Implant Surveillance and Interventional Outcomes (VISION) Coordinated Registry Network: An effort to advance evidence evaluation for vascular devices. 
  • The Warrior Model for Human Performance Optimization. 
  • The association of HIV counseling and testing with HIV risk behaviors in a random population-based survey in Kisumu, Kenya. 
  • The changing epidemiology of infective endocarditis: the paradox of prophylaxis in the current and future eras. 
  • The dynamics of population aging: demography and policy analysis. 
  • The effect of local therapy on breast cancer-specific mortality of women with occult breast cancer and advanced nodal disease (N2/N3): a population 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 health burden of diabetes for the elderly in four communities. 
  • The impact of depressive symptomatology on physical disability: MacArthur Studies of Successful Aging. 
  • The impact of transplant rejection on cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma in renal transplant recipients. 
  • The international experience of single-incision pediatric endosurgery: current state of the art. 
  • The magnitude of the global problem of acute diarrhoeal disease: a review of active surveillance data. 
  • The melanoma epidemic. Is increased surveillance the solution or the problem? 
  • The melanoma epidemic: more apparent than real? 
  • The needs for men undergoing active surveillance (AS) for prostate cancer: results of a focus group study. 
  • 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 syphilis elimination project: targeting the Hispanic community of Baltimore city. 
  • 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. 
  • Transmitted antiretroviral drug resistance among acute and recent HIV infections in North Carolina from 1998 to 2007. 
  • Treatment of intestinal failure: intestinal transplantation. 
  • Trends in cannabis use disorders among racial/ethnic population groups in the United States. 
  • Trends in the incidence of venous thromboembolism during pregnancy or postpartum: a 30-year population-based study. 
  • 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. 
  • Updated Breast Cancer Surveillance Recommendations for Female Survivors of Childhood, Adolescent, and Young Adult Cancer From the International Guideline Harmonization Group. 
  • Updates in colorectal cancer screening in inflammatory bowel disease. 
  • 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. 
  • Value of Tracking Biopsy in Men Undergoing Active Surveillance of Prostate Cancer. 
  • 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. 
  • When should contact precautions and active surveillance be used to manage patients with multidrug-resistant enterobacteriaceae? 
  • Whole-body magnetic resonance imaging as surveillance for subsequent malignancies in preadolescent, adolescent, and young adult survivors of germline retinoblastoma: An update. 
  • Work exposures to animal neurocarcinogens. 
  • Work group IV: Future directions for measures of the food and physical activity environments. 
  • Work-related injuries in residential and drywall carpentry. 
  • Work-related psychosocial stress and risk of preterm, low birthweight delivery. 
  • Youth BMI trajectories: evidence from the NLSY97. 
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  • Berchuck, Andrew, James M. Ingram Distinguished Professor of Gynecologic Oncology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Gynecologic Oncology
  • Dement, John McCray, Professor Emeritus in Family Medicine and Community Health, Family Medicine & Community Health,Occupational & Environmental Medicine
  • Gold, Deborah T., Professor Emeritus in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Social and Community Psychiatry
  • 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, Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Infectious Diseases
  • Moorman, Patricia Gripka, Professor in Family Medicine and Community Health, Duke Cancer Institute
  • O'Meara, Wendy P, Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Infectious Diseases
  • Ostbye, Truls, Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health, Family Medicine and Community Health
  • Wu, Li-Tzy, Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medicine, General Internal Medicine