South Carolina

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • 5 competencies needed by new baccalaureate graduates. 
  • A comparison of the adoption of electronic health records in North Carolina and South Carolina HIV systems. 
  • An epidemiological study of the role of chrysotile asbestos fibre dimensions in determining respiratory disease risk in exposed workers. 
  • Are Hospice Admission Practices Associated With Hospice Enrollment for Older African Americans and Whites? 
  • Asbestos standards: Impact of currently uncounted chrysotile asbestos fibers on lifetime lung cancer risk. 
  • Assertive community treatment for people with severe mental illness: the effect on hospital use and costs. 
  • Association of Epstein-Barr virus with systemic lupus erythematosus: effect modification by race, age, and cytotoxic T lymphocyte-associated antigen 4 genotype. 
  • Between-session changes predict overall perception of improvement but not functional improvement in patients with shoulder impingement syndrome seen for physical therapy: an observational study. 
  • Carcinogenicity of chrysotile asbestos: a case control study of textile workers. 
  • Characterization and quantitative analysis of single-walled carbon nanotubes in the aquatic environment using near-infrared fluorescence spectroscopy. 
  • Cigarette smoking and acute non-influenzal respiratory disease in military cadets. 
  • Comparing questionnaire-based methods to assess occupational silica exposure. 
  • Competency-based goals, objectives, and linked evaluations for rheumatology training programs: a standardized template of learning activities from the Carolinas Fellows Collaborative. 
  • Controlling risk in capitation payment. Multivariate definitions of risk groups. 
  • Defining the rural HIV epidemic: correlations of 3 definitions--South Carolina, 2005-2011. 
  • Development of a fibre size-specific job-exposure matrix for airborne asbestos fibres. 
  • Differences in Hospital Readmission Risk across All Payer Groups in South Carolina. 
  • Disparities in viral load and CD4 count trends among HIV-infected adults in South Carolina. 
  • Does Medicaid pay more to a program of all-inclusive care for the elderly (PACE) than for fee-for-service long-term care? 
  • Effects on Daily Spiritual Experiences of Religious Versus Conventional Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression. 
  • Estimates of historical exposures by phase contrast and transmission electron microscopy for pooled exposure--response analyses of North Carolina and South Carolina, USA asbestos textile cohorts. 
  • Exposure and mineralogical correlates of pulmonary fibrosis in chrysotile asbestos workers. 
  • Exposure-response analysis of risk of respiratory disease associated with occupational exposure to chrysotile asbestos. 
  • Follow-up study of chrysotile asbestos textile workers: cohort mortality and case-control analyses. 
  • From Barriers to Assets: Rethinking factors impacting advance care planning for African Americans. 
  • HIV community viral load trends in South Carolina. 
  • Implementation of the Surgical Safety Checklist in South Carolina Hospitals Is Associated with Improvement in Perceived Perioperative Safety. 
  • Increased lung cancer mortality among chrysotile asbestos textile workers is more strongly associated with exposure to long thin fibres. 
  • Instituting a radiology residency scholarly activity program. 
  • Interest in genetic prostate cancer susceptibility testing among african American men. 
  • Intrinsic and extrinsic predictors of work satisfaction in ambulatory care and hospital settings. 
  • Large, persistent epidemic of adenovirus type 4-associated acute respiratory disease in U.S. army trainees. 
  • Longitudinal investigation of reciprocal relationship between stress reactions and hardiness. 
  • Lung Cancer Risk Associated with Regulated and Unregulated Chrysotile Asbestos Fibers. 
  • Lung cancer mortality among asbestos textile workers: a review and update. 
  • Lung cancer mortality in North Carolina and South Carolina chrysotile asbestos textile workers. 
  • Morphological and genetic differentiation and reproductive isolation among closely related taxa in the Ipomoea series Batatas. 
  • Mortality Trends After a Voluntary Checklist-based Surgical Safety Collaborative. 
  • Mortality patterns among female and male chrysotile asbestos textile workers. 
  • Narrative feedback from OR personnel about the safety of their surgical practice before and after a surgical safety checklist intervention. 
  • Natural selection on a leaf-shape polymorphism in the ivyleaf morning glory (Ipomoea hederacea). 
  • Neighborhood Disadvantage is Associated with High Cytomegalovirus Seroprevalence in Pregnancy. 
  • Occupational risk factors for the development of systemic lupus erythematosus. 
  • Pain behavior in rheumatoid arthritis patients: identification of pain behavior subgroups. 
  • Parasites and progress: ethical decision-making and the Santee-Cooper Malaria study, 1944-1949. 
  • Paying for Palliative Care in Medicare: Evidence From the Four Seasons/Duke CMMI Demonstration. 
  • Perception of Safety of Surgical Practice Among Operating Room Personnel From Survey Data Is Associated With All-cause 30-day Postoperative Death Rate in South Carolina. 
  • Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon bioaccumulation by meiobenthic copepods inhabiting a superfund site: techniques for micromass body burden and total lipid analysis. 
  • Polypharmacy in pregnant women with major psychiatric illness: a pilot study. 
  • Population-based drug-related anaphylaxis in children and adolescents captured by South Carolina Emergency Room Hospital Discharge Database (SCERHDD) (2000-2002). 
  • Postoperative acute care use after freestanding ambulatory surgery. 
  • Predicting Length of Hospice Stay: An Application of Quantile Regression. 
  • Predicting cocaine use among methadone patients: analysis of findings from a national study. 
  • Qualitative evaluation of South Carolina's Postpartum/Infant Home Visit program. 
  • Race and residence: intercounty variation in black-white differences in hospice use. 
  • Relationship Between Operating Room Teamwork, Contextual Factors, and Safety Checklist Performance. 
  • Restarting the cycle: incidence and predictors of first acute care use after nursing home discharge. 
  • Rural-urban differences in HIV viral loads and progression to AIDS among new HIV cases. 
  • Scaling Safety: The South Carolina Surgical Safety Checklist Experience. 
  • Service utilization comparison of South Carolina Medicaid fee-for-service (FFS), Physician Enhanced Plan (PEP) and Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) models. 
  • Smoking and use of hair treatments in relation to risk of developing systemic lupus erythematosus. 
  • Stability of self-reported family history of prostate cancer among African American men. 
  • Standardization and Scaling of a Community-Based Palliative Care Model. 
  • Statewide Longitudinal Progression of the Whole-Patient Measure of Safety in South Carolina. 
  • Surficial gains and subsoil losses of soil carbon and nitrogen during secondary forest development. 
  • Surgical team member assessment of the safety of surgery practice in 38 South Carolina hospitals. 
  • The Relationship of HIV-related Stigma and Health Care Outcomes in the US Deep South. 
  • The aftermath of rape: recent empirical findings. 
  • The effects of quantitative fecundity in the haploid stage on reproductive success and diploid fitness in the aquatic peat moss Sphagnum macrophyllum. 
  • The impact of an innovative reform to the South Carolina dental medicaid system. 
  • The impact of work rewards on radiographers' organizational commitment. 
  • The response of an assertive community treatment program following a natural disaster. 
  • Urinary mutagenicity and other biomarkers of occupational smoke exposure of wildland firefighters and oxidative stress. 
  • Urology Consultation and Emergency Department Revisits for Children with Urinary Stone Disease. 
  • Use of Hospital Referral Regions in Evaluating End-of-Life Care. 
  • What are Hospice Providers in the Carolinas Doing to Reach African Americans in Their Service Area? 
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  • Ferguson, P. Lee, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering