Texas

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • 'Criteria' aPL tests: report of a task force and preconference workshop at the 13th International Congress on Antiphospholipid Antibodies, Galveston, Texas, April 2010. 
  • A 4-tiered classification of left ventricular hypertrophy based on left ventricular geometry: the Dallas heart study. 
  • A binational school survey of depressive symptoms, drug use, and suicidal ideation. 
  • A case-control method for assessing environmental risks from multiple industrial point sources. 
  • A fatal x-linked recessive reticuloendothelial syndrome with hyperglobulinemia. X-linked recessive reticuloendotheliosis. 
  • A medical history of Governor John B. Connally and his gunshot wounds. 
  • A randomized, placebo-controlled trial of oxycodone and of gabapentin for acute pain in herpes zoster. 
  • A δ Homolog for Dementia Case Finding with Replication in the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative. 
  • Absolute lymphocyte count is a prognostic marker in Covid-19: A retrospective cohort review. 
  • Air pollution and lung cancer mortality in Harris County, Texas, 1979-1981. 
  • An analysis of single nucleotide polymorphisms of 125 DNA repair genes in the Texas genome-wide association study of lung cancer with a replication for the XRCC4 SNPs. 
  • An outbreak of foodborne botulism associated with food sold at a salvage store in Texas. 
  • An outpatient Urgent Care Bay within a pediatric cancer and hematology center. 
  • An urgent need to understand and address the safety and well-being of hospital "sitters". 
  • Association between hepatitis B virus and pancreatic cancer. 
  • Association of Galectin-3 With Diabetes Mellitus in the Dallas Heart Study. 
  • Association of a 4-Tiered Classification of LV Hypertrophy With Adverse CV Outcomes in the General Population. 
  • Association of a novel functional promoter variant (rs2075533 C>T) in the apoptosis gene TNFSF8 with risk of lung cancer--a finding from Texas lung cancer genome-wide association study. 
  • Barriers to medical care of Mexican-Americans: the role of social class, acculturation, and social isolation. 
  • Breast cancer screening behaviors and attitudes in three racial/ethnic groups. 
  • Caffeine and miscarriage risk. 
  • Cancer immunotherapy innovator James Allison receives the 2015 Lasker~DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award. 
  • Cancer in children of parents exposed to hydrocarbon-related industries and occupations. 
  • Cardiopulmonary and mental health diagnoses surrounding the September 11 terrorist acts in a military population. 
  • Caring for the uninsured and underinsured. 
  • Case mix adjustment in nursing systems research: the case of resident outcomes in nursing homes. 
  • Characteristics that predict locating and interviewing mothers identified by a state birth defects registry and vital records. 
  • Chlordanes in the indoor and outdoor air of three U.S. cities. 
  • Clinical Indications and Impact on Management: Fourth and Subsequent Posttherapy Follow-up 18F-FDG PET/CT Scans in Oncology Patients. 
  • Co-occurring woody species have diverse hydraulic strategies and mortality rates during an extreme drought. 
  • Coital risk factors for cervical cancer. Sexual activity among white middle class women. 
  • Colicin typing as an epidemiological tool in the investigation of outbreaks of Shigella sonnei. 
  • Collaborative learning method: enhancing excellence in nursing administration doctoral programs. 
  • Colorectal cancer prevention for low-income, sociodemographically-diverse adults in public housing: baseline findings of a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Commentary: Go "all in" the way they do in Texas-Or wait to see how the hand plays out? Extent of distal repair for acute type I dissection. 
  • Comparative analysis of environmental and clinical populations of Cryptococcus neoformans. 
  • Comparison of residential geocoding methods in population-based study of air quality and birth defects. 
  • Complex transmission dynamics of clonally related virulent Mycobacterium tuberculosis associated with barhopping by predominantly human immunodeficiency virus-positive gay men. 
  • Complexity science and the dynamics of climate and communication: reducing nursing home turnover. 
  • Copy Number Variants of Undetermined Significance Are Not Associated with Worse Clinical Outcomes in Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome. 
  • Creating an evidence-based practice environment: one hospital's journey. 
  • Declines Noted in Cognitive Processes and Association With Achievement Among Children With Leukemia. 
  • Depressive disorders in primary care: prevalence, functional disability, and identification. 
  • Diagnostic accuracy of serum antibodies to human papillomavirus type 16 early antigens in the detection of human papillomavirus-related oropharyngeal cancer. 
  • Dietary mutagen exposure and risk of pancreatic cancer. 
  • Differences in history of sexual behavior between patients with oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma and patients with squamous cell carcinoma at other head and neck sites. 
  • Discrepant attitudes about teamwork among critical care nurses and physicians. 
  • Disease management produces limited quality-of-life improvements in patients with congestive heart failure: evidence from a randomized trial in community-dwelling patients. 
  • Donor leukocyte infusions in recurrent Hodgkin lymphoma following allogeneic stem cell transplant: 10-year experience at the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. 
  • Drug Use Mediates the Relationship Between Depressive Symptoms and Adherence to ART Among Recently Incarcerated People Living with HIV. 
  • Educational attainment has a limited impact on disease management outcomes in heart failure. 
  • Effects of sit-up training versus core stabilization exercises on sit-up performance. 
  • Electroconvulsive Therapy and All-Cause Mortality in Texas, 1998-2013. 
  • Electron microscopy identification of SARS-COV-2: what is the evidence? 
  • Elevated Serum Leptin Levels are Associated With an Increased Risk of Sentinel Lymph Node Metastasis in Cutaneous Melanoma. 
  • Empowering communication: a community-based intervention for patients. 
  • Ending Sexual Harassment in Academic Medicine. 
  • Engaging nurses in patient safety. 
  • Evaluation of air quality in a sterile-drug preparation area with an electronic particle counter. 
  • Exogenous hormone use, reproductive factors, and risk of intracranial meningioma in females. 
  • Experience of Novice Clinical Adjunct Faculty: A Qualitative Study. 
  • Exploring e-readers to support clinical medical education: two case studies. 
  • Exposure to fumonisins and the occurrence of neural tube defects along the Texas-Mexico border. 
  • Factors Associated With Poor Child Motor Vehicle Restraint on the USA-Mexico Border. 
  • Fine organic particulate matter dominates indoor-generated PM2.5 in RIOPA homes. 
  • Fluoxetine versus placebo in advanced cancer outpatients: a double-blinded trial of the Hoosier Oncology Group. 
  • Fumonisins disrupt sphingolipid metabolism, folate transport, and neural tube development in embryo culture and in vivo: a potential risk factor for human neural tube defects among populations consuming fumonisin-contaminated maize. 
  • Functional Variants in Notch Pathway Genes NCOR2, NCSTN, and MAML2 Predict Survival of Patients with Cutaneous Melanoma. 
  • Functional polymorphisms of JWA gene are associated with risk of bladder cancer. 
  • Gender differences in acute and chronic pain in the emergency department: results of the 2014 Academic Emergency Medicine consensus conference pain section. 
  • General internists influence students to choose primary care careers: the power of role modeling. 
  • Genetic polymorphisms in glutathione S-transferase mu and theta, N-acetyltransferase, and CYP1A1 and risk of gliomas. 
  • Geochemical evidence for fugitive gas contamination and associated water quality changes in drinking-water wells from Parker County, Texas. 
  • Grade 3 ischemia on admission electrocardiogram and chest pain duration predict failure of ST-segment resolution after primary percutaneous coronary intervention for acute myocardial infarction. 
  • Growth patterns and gastrointestinal symptoms in pediatric patients after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. 
  • HIV Diagnoses, Prevalence and Outcomes in Nine Southern States. 
  • Haplotype and genotypes of the VDR gene and cutaneous melanoma risk in non-Hispanic whites in Texas: a case-control study. 
  • Hispanic Americans and the state mental hospitals in Texas: ethnic parity as a latent function of a fiscal incentive policy. 
  • Hispanic ethnicity, language, and depression: physician-patient communication and patient use of alternative treatments. 
  • Hospital workers bypass traditional occupational injury reporting systems when reporting patient and visitor perpetrated (type II) violence. 
  • Hospitals as interpretation systems. 
  • Houston AANCART best practices: from vision to synergy to reality. 
  • How does infiltration behavior modify the composition of ambient PM2.5 in indoor spaces? An analysis of RIOPA data. 
  • Identification of two genes causing reinforcement in the Texas wildflower Phlox drummondii. 
  • Impact of Childhood Leukemia Treatment on Attention Measured by the Continuous Performance Test Factor Structure. 
  • In vitro benzo[a]pyrene diol epoxide-induced DNA damage and chromosomal aberrations in primary lymphocytes, smoking, and risk of squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck. 
  • Incorporating primary and secondary prevention approaches to address childhood obesity prevention and treatment in a low-income, ethnically diverse population: study design and demographic data from the Texas Childhood Obesity Research Demonstration (TX CORD) study. 
  • Intensity, location, and quality of pain in Spanish-speaking children with cancer. 
  • Interest in genetic prostate cancer susceptibility testing among african American men. 
  • Intradialytic hypertension and its association with endothelial cell dysfunction. 
  • Intravenous BU plus Mel: an effective, chemotherapy-only transplant conditioning regimen in patients with ALL. 
  • Knowledge and attitudes about depression among non-generalists and generalists. 
  • Letter by Hill et al. regarding article, "Mortality in first 5 years in infants with functional single ventricle born in Texas, 1996 to 2003". 
  • Letter: Incidence of childhood leukaemia. 
  • Matched analysis of survival in patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck diagnosed before and after 40 years of age. 
  • Measuring canopy loss and climatic thresholds from an extreme drought along a fivefold precipitation gradient across Texas. 
  • Measuring safety culture in the ambulatory setting: the safety attitudes questionnaire--ambulatory version. 
  • Medical futility decisions and physicians' legal defensiveness: the impact of anticipated conflict on thresholds for end-of-life treatment. 
  • Medication prescribing practices for older prisoners in the Texas prison system. 
  • Meeting The Future of Nursing Report Recommendations: A Successful Practice-Academic Partnership. 
  • Mental health symptoms in combat medic training: a longitudinal examination. 
  • Midlife Cardiorespiratory Fitness, Incident Cancer, and Survival After Cancer in Men: The Cooper Center Longitudinal Study. 
  • Minimal trauma fractures: lifting the specter of misconduct by identifying risk factors and planning for prevention. 
  • Molecular signatures of selection on reproductive character displacement of flower color in Phlox drummondii. 
  • Multilevel quantile function modeling with application to birth outcomes. 
  • No Association between hOGG1 Ser326Cys polymorphism and risk of squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck. 
  • Noble gases identify the mechanisms of fugitive gas contamination in drinking-water wells overlying the Marcellus and Barnett Shales. 
  • Nocturnal awakenings, sleep environment interruptions, and fatigue in hospitalized children with cancer. 
  • Novel long QT syndrome-associated missense mutation, L762F, in CACNA1C-encoded L-type calcium channel imparts a slower inactivation tau and increased sustained and window current. 
  • Nursing homes as complex adaptive systems: relationship between management practice and resident outcomes. 
  • Outcomes of Treatment of Gestational Trophoblastic Neoplasia in a Primarily Indigent Urban Population. 
  • Outpatient percutaneous central venous access in cancer patients. 
  • Overexpression of hMTH in peripheral lymphocytes and risk of prostate cancer: a case-control analysis. 
  • Pediatric tracheostomies: a recent experience from one academic center. 
  • Performance of case-finding tools for depression in the nursing home: influence of clinical and functional characteristics and selection of optimal threshold scores. 
  • Permeability of four disposable protective-clothing materials to seven antineoplastic drugs. 
  • Phase I and pharmacokinetic study of 3'-C-ethynylcytidine (TAS-106), an inhibitor of RNA polymerase I, II and III,in patients with advanced solid malignancies. 
  • Physical assault, physical threat, and verbal abuse perpetrated against hospital workers by patients or visitors in six U.S. hospitals. 
  • Physician assistants don't participate in executions. 
  • Physicians' legal defensiveness in end-of-life treatment decisions: comparing attitudes and knowledge in states with different laws. 
  • Political perspectives on uncertified home care agencies. 
  • Polymorphisms of MDM4 and risk of squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck. 
  • Polymorphisms of methionine synthase and methionine synthase reductase and risk of squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck: a case-control analysis. 
  • Polypharmacy management in Medicare managed care: changes in prescribing by primary care physicians resulting from a program promoting medication reviews. 
  • Potentially functional variants of p14ARF are associated with HPV-positive oropharyngeal cancer patients and survival after definitive chemoradiotherapy. 
  • Predictors of intensive care unit length of stay and intracranial pressure in severe traumatic brain injury. 
  • Prenatal smoking cessation counseling by Texas obstetricians. 
  • Prescriptions for justice: using social accounts to legitimate the exercise of professional control. 
  • Probing the mechanisms of intradialytic hypertension: a pilot study targeting endothelial cell dysfunction. 
  • Proportionate mortality among union members employed at three Texas refineries. 
  • Pulmonary involvement in systemic sclerosis: associations with genetic, serologic, sociodemographic, and behavioral factors. 
  • Quality of life after surgery for intracranial meningioma. 
  • RN participation in organizational decision making and improvements in resident outcomes. 
  • Racial Disparities in the Administration of ECT in Texas, 1998-2013. 
  • Randomized Controlled Trial of an Intervention to Maintain Suppression of HIV Viremia After Prison Release: The imPACT Trial. 
  • Re-evaluation of urine mutagenicity of pharmacy personnel exposed to antineoplastic agents. 
  • Recruiting older women for screening mammography. 
  • Regional Fat Distribution and Blood Pressure Level and Variability: The Dallas Heart Study. 
  • Relation between ambient air quality and selected birth defects, seven county study, Texas, 1997-2000. 
  • Religious beliefs and practices in family medicine. 
  • Repair of tobacco carcinogen-induced DNA adducts and lung cancer risk: a molecular epidemiologic study. 
  • Resilience facilitates adjustment through greater psychological flexibility among Iraq/Afghanistan war veterans with and without mild traumatic brain injury. 
  • Resource allocation and resident outcomes in nursing homes: comparisons between the best and worst. 
  • Single-nucleotide polymorphisms at the TP53-binding or responsive promoter regions of BAX and BCL2 genes and risk of squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck. 
  • Socioeconomic characteristics of patients with oropharyngeal carcinoma according to tumor HPV status, patient smoking status, and sexual behavior. 
  • Solid pseudopapillary neoplasm of the pancreas: clinicopathologic and survival analyses of 64 cases from a single institution. 
  • Spatial-temporal modeling of the association between air pollution exposure and preterm birth: identifying critical windows of exposure. 
  • State of HIV in the US Deep South 
  • Store-and-forward teledermatology results in similar clinical outcomes to conventional clinic-based care. 
  • Strategic planning for clinical services: the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute. 
  • Strict glycemic targets need not be so strict: a more permissive glycemic range for critically ill children. 
  • Structured Documentation of Home Ventilator Settings in Children: A Quality Improvement Project. 
  • Symptom prevalence and physiologic biomarkers among adolescents using a mobile phone intervention following hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. 
  • Systemic lupus erythematosus in three ethnic groups. IV. Factors associated with self-reported functional outcome in a large cohort study. LUMINA Study Group. Lupus in Minority Populations, Nature versus Nurture. 
  • Teaching evidence-based practice skills in a hospital. 
  • Texas Children's Medication Algorithm Project: update from Texas Consensus Conference Panel on Medication Treatment of Childhood Major Depressive Disorder. 
  • The MUC5B promoter polymorphism and telomere length in patients with chronic hypersensitivity pneumonitis: an observational cohort-control study. 
  • The Oswald injury. 
  • The Texas Breast Screening Project: Part I. Mammographic and clinical results. 
  • The Texas Breast Screening Project: Part II. Demographics, risk profiles, and health practices of participants. 
  • The Texas Medication Algorithm Project antipsychotic algorithm for schizophrenia: 2003 update. 
  • The Texas Medication Algorithm Project antipsychotic algorithm for schizophrenia: 2006 update. 
  • The cardiovascular patient's perceptions of complementary and alternative medicine. 
  • The effect of executive walk rounds on nurse safety climate attitudes: a randomized trial of clinical units[ISRCTN85147255] [corrected]. 
  • The effect of patient education on pediatric immunization rates. 
  • The implication of environmental turbulence for nursing-unit design in effective nursing homes. 
  • The meaning of adolescents' eating experiences during bone marrow transplant recovery. 
  • The other fly room: J. T. Patterson and Texas genetics. 
  • The relationship between violence in Northern Mexico and potentially avoidable hospitalizations in the USA-Mexico border region. 
  • The thinking hospital. 
  • Trajectory of systolic blood pressure in a low-income, racial-ethnic minority cohort with diabetes and baseline uncontrolled hypertension. 
  • Transplantation of high panel-reactive antibody left ventricular assist device patients without crossmatch using on-bypass pheresis and alemtuzumab. 
  • Traumatic Brain Injury, Sleep Quality, and Suicidal Ideation in Iraq/Afghanistan Era Veterans. 
  • Treatment decisions for terminally ill patients: physicians' legal defensiveness and knowledge of medical law. 
  • Treatment of meningomyelocele in indigent and nonindigent patients. 
  • Treatment of ureteral calculi by extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy at a multi-use center. 
  • Tumor invasion of muscular vessels predicts poor prognosis in patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma who have received neoadjuvant therapy and pancreaticoduodenectomy. 
  • Using difficulty resuming sleep to define nocturnal awakenings. 
  • Using local rather than general anesthesia for inguinal hernia repair is associated with shorter operative time and enhanced postoperative recovery. 
  • Validation of a breast cancer risk assessment model in women with a positive family history. 
  • Variants in melanocortin 1 receptor gene contribute to risk of melanoma--a direct sequencing analysis in a Texas population. 
  • Variations in pain, sleep, and activity during hospitalization in children with cancer. 
  • What's good for you may be good for me: evidence for adaptive introgression of multiple traits in wild sunflower. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Anderson, Ruth A., Professor Emerita in the School of Nursing, School of Nursing
  • Strand de Oliveira, Justine, Professor Emeritus in Family Medicine and Community Health, Family Medicine and Community Health, Physician Assistant Program