Virginia

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • 10-year survey of referrals to a pediatric nephrology program. 
  • A Participatory Process to Engage Appalachian Youth in Reducing Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption. 
  • A community-based smoking-cessation program: self-care behaviors and success. 
  • A descriptive study of waterpipe smoking among college students. 
  • A survey of stakeholder knowledge, experience, and opinions of advance directives for mental health in Virginia. 
  • Acetabular Dysplasia in Middle-Aged Patients: Periacetabular Osteotomy or Total Hip Arthroplasty? 
  • Adverse health outcomes after discharge from the emergency department--incidence and risk factors in a veteran population. 
  • African American grandparents' and adolescent grandchildren's sexuality communication 
  • An analysis of the obstetric outcome of 125 consecutive pregnancies conceived in vitro and resulting in 100 deliveries. 
  • An engineering work analysis applied to patient falls in the nursing domain. 
  • Anal sphincter injury in women with pelvic floor disorders. 
  • Antioxidant defenses in killifish (Fundulus heteroclitus) exposed to contaminated sediments and model prooxidants: short-term and heritable responses. 
  • Assessing Cancer Risk Associated with Aquatic Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Pollution Reveals Dietary Routes of Exposure and Vulnerable Populations. 
  • Assessing and Predicting Susceptibility to Waterpipe Tobacco Use Among College Students. 
  • Benefits, risk, and uncertainty: preferences of antiretroviral-naïve African Americans for HIV treatments. 
  • CONNECT for better fall prevention in nursing homes: results from a pilot intervention study. 
  • Caffeine exposure and acute kidney injury in premature infants with necrotizing enterocolitis and spontaneous intestinal perforation. 
  • Calculating an institutional personal protective equipment (PPE) burn rate to project future usage patterns during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. 
  • Can mandated outpatient treatment prevent tragedies? 
  • Characterization of the recalcitrant CYP1 phenotype found in Atlantic killifish (Fundulus heteroclitus) inhabiting a Superfund site on the Elizabeth River, VA. 
  • Chronic disease management perspectives of colorectal cancer survivors using the Veterans Affairs healthcare system: a qualitative analysis. 
  • Clinical and molecular predictors of disease severity and survival in chronic lymphocytic leukemia. 
  • Clinical outcomes in chronic lymphocytic leukaemia associated with expression of CD5, a negative regulator of B-cell receptor signalling. 
  • Coalition Building for Health: A Community Garden Pilot Project with Apartment Dwelling Refugees. 
  • Cohort studies of health effects among people exposed to estuarine waters: North Carolina, Virginia, and Maryland. 
  • Compound- and mixture-specific differences in resistance to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and PCB-126 among Fundulus heteroclitus subpopulations throughout the Elizabeth River estuary (Virginia, USA). 
  • Cost minimization in endoscopy center scheduling: a case-controlled study. 
  • Cost-based decision analysis of postreduction imaging in the management of mandibular fractures. 
  • Costs of resistance and correlational selection in the multiple-herbivore community of Solanum carolinense. 
  • Creation of state-level Medicare database for healthcare evaluation applications. 
  • Cytochrome P4501A (CYP1A) in killifish (Fundulus heteroclitus): heritability of altered expression and relationship to survival in contaminated sediments. 
  • Differential access to quality rural healthcare: professional and policy challenges. 
  • Differential display of hepatic mRNA from killifish (Fundulus heteroclitus) inhabiting a Superfund estuary. 
  • Disseminated zygomycosis: report of four cases and review. 
  • Does a high level of HDL-C cholesterol undo the bad effects of a high LDL-C cholesterol? 
  • Effect of nosocomial bloodstream infections on mortality, length of stay, and hospital costs in older adults. 
  • Effect-directed analysis of Elizabeth River porewater: developmental toxicity in zebrafish (Danio rerio). 
  • Embryonic Fundulus heteroclitus responses to sediment extracts from differentially contaminated sites in the Elizabeth River, VA. 
  • Environmental Correlates of Lyme Disease Emergence in Southwest Virginia, 2005-2014. 
  • Exploring cancer support needs for older African-American men with prostate cancer. 
  • Family practice in Virginia: a comparative analysis of two years' data. 
  • Favorable impact of an infection control network on nosocomial infection rates in community hospitals. 
  • Feasibility and Value of Developing a Regional Antibiogram for Community Hospitals. 
  • First evidence on the validity and reliability of the Safety Organizing Scale-Nursing Home version (SOS-NH). 
  • Fundulus heteroclitus adapted to PAHs are cross-resistant to multiple insecticides. 
  • Galactose-α-1,3-galactose and delayed anaphylaxis, angioedema, and urticaria in children. 
  • Genetic variation in horizontally transmitted fungal endophytes of pine needles reveals population structure in cryptic species. 
  • Genotoxicity in Atlantic killifish (Fundulus heteroclitus) from a PAH-contaminated Superfund site on the Elizabeth River, Virginia. 
  • Heart matters: Gender and racial differences cardiovascular disease risk factor control among veterans. 
  • Individual progress toward self-selected goals among older adults enrolled in a physical activity counseling intervention. 
  • Informant disagreement for separation anxiety disorder. 
  • Interleukin-1 Blockade in Recently Decompensated Systolic Heart Failure: Results From REDHART (Recently Decompensated Heart Failure Anakinra Response Trial). 
  • Interstitial lung disease in a veterans affairs regional network; a retrospective cohort study. 
  • It was pretty scary: The theme of fear in young adult women's descriptions of a history of adolescent dating abuse 
  • Later life swimming performance and persistent heart damage following subteratogenic PAH mixture exposure in the Atlantic killifish (Fundulus heteroclitus). 
  • Local influenza-like illness surveillance at a university health system during the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic. 
  • Lumbar disc surgery in a fixed compensation population: a model for influence of secondary gain on surgical outcome. 
  • Major depressive disorder in hospitalized medically ill patients: an examination of young and elderly male veterans. 
  • Meeting report of the American Ophthalmological Society, 131st year annual meeting, Hot Springs, Va, May 21-24, 1995. 
  • NCI, NHLBI first international consensus conference on late effects after pediatric hematopoietic cell transplantation: state of the science, future directions. 
  • Narcotic use and misuse in Crohn's disease. 
  • New directions in research on pain and ethnicity: a comment on Riley, Wade, Myers, Sheffield, Pappas, and Price (2002). 
  • Obesity surgery mortality risk score: proposal for a clinically useful score to predict mortality risk in patients undergoing gastric bypass. 
  • Outcome of intracytoplasmic sperm injection in azoospermic patients: stressing the liaison between the urologist and reproductive medicine specialist. 
  • Outcome of twin, triplet, and quadruplet in vitro fertilization pregnancies: the Norfolk experience. 
  • Oxidative stress in two populations of killifish (Fundulus heteroclitus) with differing contaminant exposure histories. 
  • Patient and clinician satisfaction with a store-and-forward teledermatology consult system. 
  • Poor functional status is an independent predictor of surgical site infections due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in older adults. 
  • Predict Resident Exam Performance (PREP) study. 
  • Psychological reactions to terrorist attacks: findings from the National Study of Americans' Reactions to September 11. 
  • Psychosocial Experiences of Young Adults Diagnosed With Acute Leukemia During Hospitalization for Induction Chemotherapy Treatment. 
  • Risk Assessment in Sentencing and Plea Bargaining: The Roles of Prosecutors and Defense Attorneys 
  • Risk and Resources: A Qualitative Perspective on Low-Level Sentencing in Virginia 
  • Risk factors for surgical site infections in older people. 
  • Rocky mountain spotted fever in childhood. 
  • Screening the elderly. A brief instrumental activities of daily living measure. 
  • Secondary gain influences the outcome of lumbar but not cervical disc surgery. 
  • Sexual function in women with urinary incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse. 
  • Solving the problem at the source: controlling Mn release at the sediment-water interface via hypolimnetic oxygenation 
  • Standardized Team-Based Care for Cardiogenic Shock. 
  • Suicide attempts among formerly hospitalized adolescents: a prospective naturalistic study of risk during the first 5 years after discharge. 
  • Surgically placed left ventricular leads provide similar outcomes to percutaneous leads in patients with failed coronary sinus lead placement. 
  • Tailoring your heart failure project for success in rural areas. 
  • Teratogenesis in Fundulus heteroclitus embryos exposed to a creosote-contaminated sediment extract and CYP1A inhibitors. 
  • The Age/Sex Register: estimation of the practice population. 
  • The CHAMPUS Tidewater Demonstration Project. 
  • The Elizabeth River Story: A Case Study in Evolutionary Toxicology. 
  • The association of alcohol consumption patterns with self-rated physical health and psychiatric distress among Afghanistan- and Iraq-era U.S. veterans. 
  • The epidemiology of myasthenia gravis in central and western Virginia. 
  • The influence of obstetric no-fault compensation on obstetricians' practice patterns. 
  • The modified checklist for autism in toddlers: reliability in a diverse rural American sample. 
  • The relation between methods and recommendations in clinical practice guidelines for hypertension and hyperlipidemia. 
  • Valid or Voodoo? A Qualitative Study of Attorney Perceptions of Risk Assessment in Sentencing and Plea Bargaining 
  • Variation in the type and frequency of postoperative invasive Staphylococcus aureus infections according to type of surgical procedure. 
  • Widespread dissemination of CTX-M-15 genotype extended-spectrum-β-lactamase-producing enterobacteriaceae among patients presenting to community hospitals in the southeastern United States. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Anderson, Ruth A., Professor Emerita in the School of Nursing, School of Nursing
  • McConnell, Eleanor Schildwachter, Associate Professor in the School of Nursing, School of Nursing