Program Evaluation

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • 'Resident-educators': a unique approach to resuscitation education. 
  • 5-a-day Power Plus: process evaluation of a multicomponent elementary school program to increase fruit and vegetable consumption. 
  • A Peer-to-Peer Mentoring Program for In-Center Hemodialysis: A Patient-Centered Quality Improvement Program. 
  • A Pharmacology-Based Enrichment Program for Undergraduates Promotes Interest in Science. 
  • A Plan for Academic Biobank Solvency-Leveraging Resources and Applying Business Processes to Improve Sustainability. 
  • A Quality Improvement Project to Increase Early Detection of Syphilis Infection or Re-infection in HIV-infected Men Who Have Sex With Men. 
  • A course-based research experience: how benefits change with increased investment in instructional time. 
  • A cross-site, comparative effectiveness study of an integrated HIV and substance use treatment program. 
  • A culturally targeted self-management program for African Americans with type 2 diabetes mellitus. 
  • A fidelity measure for integrated management of depression in primary care. 
  • A geographic information system analysis of the impact of a statewide acute stroke emergency medical services routing protocol on community hospital bypass. 
  • A large-scale cluster randomized trial to determine the effects of community-based dietary sodium reduction--the China Rural Health Initiative Sodium Reduction Study. 
  • A low-vision rehabilitation program for patients with mild cognitive deficits. 
  • A multidisciplinary approach to pediatric pain: an empirical analysis. 
  • A pilot study on the influence of an individualized and experiential training on cancer caregiver's self-efficacy in home care and symptom management. 
  • A problem-based approach to teaching outcomes research in family medicine residency. 
  • A public health approach to address the mental health burden of youth in situations of political violence and humanitarian emergencies. 
  • A randomized comparative effectiveness study of Healthy Directions 2--a multiple risk behavior intervention for primary care. 
  • A randomized pilot trial of a telephone-based couples intervention for physical intimacy and sexual concerns in colorectal cancer. 
  • A research agenda to underpin malaria eradication. 
  • A research network to evaluate assertive community treatment: introduction. 
  • A response to representatives from the social HMOs regarding program evaluation. 
  • A rubric for improving the quality of online courses. 
  • A statewide nurse training program for a hospital based infant abusive head trauma prevention program. 
  • A tale of two tribes. 
  • Academic-practice partnerships to promote evidence-based practice in long-term care: oral hygiene care practices as an exemplar. 
  • Adaptation and delivery of a motivational interviewing-based counseling program for persons acutely infected with HIV in Malawi: Implementation and lessons learned. 
  • Adaptations to the coping power program's structure, delivery settings, and clinician training. 
  • Adapting the Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) model of police-mental health collaboration in a low-income, post-conflict country: curriculum development in Liberia, West Africa. 
  • Addressing the systems-based practice requirement with health policy content and educational technology. 
  • Adherence to ventilator-associated pneumonia bundle and incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia in the surgical intensive care unit. 
  • Administrative characteristics of comprehensive prenatal case management programs. 
  • Advocacy skills training for young adult cancer survivors: the Young Adult Survivors Conference at Camp Māk-a-Dream. 
  • African-American crack abusers and drug treatment initiation: barriers and effects of a pretreatment intervention. 
  • Alabama coronary artery bypass grafting project: results from phase II of a statewide quality improvement initiative. 
  • American College of Surgeons Resident Objective Structured Clinical Examination: a national program to assess clinical readiness of entering postgraduate year 1 surgery residents. 
  • An advanced course in long term care for geriatric medicine fellows. 
  • An after-school obesity prevention program for African-American girls: the Minnesota GEMS pilot study. 
  • An education-service collaboration to address a perceived graduate RN readiness gap. 
  • An evaluation of Duke University's LIVE FOR LIFE health promotion program on changes in worker absenteeism. 
  • An innovative approach to collaborative simulation training on teamwork skills for pediatric residents and nursing students 
  • An innovative process for faculty development in residency training. 
  • An innovative residency program designed to develop leaders to improve the health of children. 
  • An interactive web-based method of outreach to college students at risk for suicide. 
  • Anesthesia information management systems as a cost containment tool. 
  • Antimicrobial stewardship programs: how to start and steer a successful program. 
  • Appropriateness of quality indicators for older patients with advanced dementia and poor prognosis. 
  • Are We Ready for a Radiological Terrorist Attack Yet? Report From the Centers for Medical Countermeasures Against Radiation Network. 
  • Are differences in exposure to a multicomponent school-based intervention associated with varying dietary outcomes in adolescents? 
  • Are pediatric critical care medicine fellowships teaching and evaluating communication and professionalism? 
  • Assertive community treatment for people with severe mental illness: the effect on hospital use and costs. 
  • Assessing geriatrics in undergraduate medical education: two different approaches. 
  • Assessing the present state and potential of Medicaid controlled substance lock-in programs. 
  • Assessment of joint review of radiologic studies by a primary care physician and a radiologist. 
  • Assessment of the impact of adjunctive proactive telephone counseling to promote smoking cessation among lung cancer patients' social networks. 
  • Assisted early mobility for hospitalized older veterans: preliminary data from the STRIDE program. 
  • Association of Rapid Care Process Implementation on Reperfusion Times Across Multiple ST-Segment-Elevation Myocardial Infarction Networks. 
  • Asthma rehabilitation program. 
  • Audio feedback for student writing in online nursing courses: exploring student and instructor reactions. 
  • Automated support for pharmacovigilance: a proposed system. 
  • Barber-led sexual health education intervention for Black male adolescents and their fathers. 
  • Belief in numbers: When and why women disbelieve tailored breast cancer risk statistics. 
  • Benefits and Challenges of Delivering Tele-rehabilitation Services to Rural Veterans. 
  • Best practices in the Veterans Health Administration's MOVE! Weight management program. 
  • Building geographic information system capacity in local health departments: lessons from a North Carolina project. 
  • CONNECT for better fall prevention in nursing homes: results from a pilot intervention study. 
  • CTSA Consortium Consensus Scientific Review Committee (SRC) Working Group Report on the SRC Processes. 
  • Can a costly intervention be cost-effective?: An analysis of violence prevention. 
  • Can eHealth Technology Enhance the Patient-Provider Relationship in Rehabilitation? 
  • Can physician education lower the cost of prescription drugs? A prospective, controlled trial. 
  • Can we measure encoded exposure? Validation evidence from a national campaign. 
  • Cancer control-planning and monitoring population-based systems. 
  • Career progress in online and blended learning environments. 
  • Centers for cardiovascular outcomes research: defining a collaborative vision. 
  • Challenges of Maintaining Good Clinical Laboratory Practices in Low-Resource Settings:  A Health Program Evaluation Framework Case Study From East Africa. 
  • Changes in fall prevention training for apprentice carpenters based on a comprehensive needs assessment. 
  • Changing fruit and vegetable consumption among children: the 5-a-Day Power Plus program in St. Paul, Minnesota. 
  • Clinic visit and waiting: patient education and satisfaction. 
  • Clinical Quality Improvement Curriculum for Faculty in an Academic Medical Center. 
  • Collaborative planning for formative assessment and cultural appropriateness in the Girls health Enrichment Multi-site Studies (GEMS): a retrospection. 
  • Common design elements of the Girls health Enrichment Multi-site Studies (GEMS). 
  • Community pharmacists' experience with pharmacogenetic testing. 
  • Community-level HIV prevention for persons with severe mental illness living in supportive housing programs: a pilot intervention study. 
  • Comparison of team-focused CPR vs standard CPR in resuscitation from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: Results from a statewide quality improvement initiative. 
  • Competency-based goals, objectives, and linked evaluations for rheumatology training programs: a standardized template of learning activities from the Carolinas Fellows Collaborative. 
  • Complexity theory: a long-term care specialty practice exemplar for the education of advanced practice nurses. 
  • Connecting child care quality to child outcomes: drawing policy lessons from nonexperimental data. 
  • Control of diarrhoeal diseases. 
  • Cost and logistics for implementing the American College of Surgeons objective structured clinical examination. 
  • Cost-effectiveness of WISEWOMAN, a program aimed at reducing heart disease risk among low-income women. 
  • Cost-effectiveness of a community-level HIV risk reduction intervention for women living in low-income housing developments. 
  • Cost-effectiveness of family-based group treatment for child and parental obesity. 
  • Creating asthma-friendly schools: a public health approach. 
  • Critical care nursing education at the baccalaureate level. 
  • Current practices in evaluating radiology residents, faculty, and programs: results of a survey of radiology residency program directors. 
  • Design and implementation of a web-based patient portal linked to an ambulatory care electronic health record: patient gateway for diabetes collaborative care. 
  • Design, implementation, and evaluation of population-specific telehealth nursing services. 
  • Designing Experimental Evaluations of Social Programs: The Case of the U.S. National JTPA Study 
  • Developing a financial framework for academic service partnerships: models of the United States and Europe. 
  • Development and implementation of a proficiency testing program for Luminex bead-based cytokine assays. 
  • Development and participant assessment of a practical quality improvement educational initiative for surgical residents. 
  • Development of a Pediatric Cardiac Mechanical Support Program. 
  • Development of a contemporary globally diverse HIV viral panel by the EQAPOL program. 
  • Diet quality and weight change among overweight and obese postpartum women enrolled in a behavioral intervention program. 
  • Direct-to-patient expert system and home INR monitoring improves control of oral anticoagulation. 
  • Dissemination and experience with cognitive processing therapy. 
  • Do intervention programs assist students to succeed in college? A multilevel longitudinal study. 
  • Does improved access to diagnostic imaging results reduce hospital length of stay? A retrospective study. 
  • Donors reject screening panel for malaria projects. 
  • Dose of early intervention treatment during children's first 36 months of life is associated with developmental outcomes: an observational cohort study in three low/low-middle income countries. 
  • Economic Analysis of Primary Care-Based Physical Activity Counseling in Older Men: The VA-LIFE Trial. 
  • Economic considerations for the hepatologist. 
  • Economic grand rounds: Can states implement involuntary outpatient commitment within existing state budgets? 
  • Editorial comment--Advertising strategies to increase the public knowledge of the warning signs of stroke. 
  • Education research: neurology residency training in the new millennium. 
  • Effect of WHO newborn care training on neonatal mortality by education. 
  • Effect of teaching motivational interviewing via communication coaching on clinician and patient satisfaction in primary care and pediatric obesity-focused offices. 
  • Effectiveness of OSHA Outreach Training on carpenters' work-related injury rates, Washington State 2000-2008. 
  • Effectiveness of a Statewide Abusive Head Trauma Prevention Program in North Carolina. 
  • Effectiveness of a barcode medication administration system in reducing preventable adverse drug events in a neonatal intensive care unit: a prospective cohort study. 
  • Effectiveness of a community-based individualized lifestyle intervention among older adults with diabetes and hypertension, Tianjin, China, 2008-2009. 
  • Effectiveness of an Evidence-Based Quality Improvement Approach to Cultural Competence Training: The Veterans Affairs' "Caring for Women Veterans" Program. 
  • Effectiveness of automatic diagnostic test result feedback on outpatient laboratory and radiology testing in veterans. A controlled trial. 
  • Effectiveness of contingency contracting: component of a worksite weight loss program. 
  • Effectiveness of geriatric evaluation and management: design of a study. 
  • Effectiveness of interventions to prevent work-related eye injuries 
  • Effectiveness of interventions to prevent work-related eye injuries. 
  • Effectiveness of laparoscopic cadaveric dissection in enhancing resident comprehension of pelvic anatomy. 
  • Effectiveness of mentoring programs for youth: a meta-analytic review. 
  • Effectiveness of school food environment policies on children's dietary behaviors: A systematic review and meta-analysis. 
  • Effectiveness of state and federal government agreements with major credit card and shipping companies to block illegal Internet cigarette sales. 
  • Effectiveness of telephone counseling for mammography: results from five randomized trials. 
  • Effects of Tennessee Medicaid managed care on obstetrical care and birth outcomes. 
  • Effects of a Hybrid Education Programme for Korean Mothers of Children with Atopic Dermatitis. 
  • Effects of an educational intervention on students' attitudes toward the disabled. 
  • Effects of educational intervention in waiting room on patient satisfaction. 
  • Effects of state reforms on health insurance coverage of adults. 
  • Efficacy and cost-effectiveness of an outcall program to reduce carer burden and depression among carers of cancer patients [PROTECT]: rationale and design of a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Efficacy of a woman-focused intervention to reduce HIV risk and increase self-sufficiency among African American crack abusers. 
  • Electronic health (eHealth) interventions for weight management among racial/ethnic minority adults: a systematic review. 
  • Emergency department bypass for ST-Segment-elevation myocardial infarction patients identified with a prehospital electrocardiogram: a report from the American Heart Association Mission: Lifeline program. 
  • Emergency vaccination against epidemic meningitis in Ghana: implications for the control of meningococcal disease in West Africa. 
  • Empowering communication: a community-based intervention for patients. 
  • Empowering patients to improve the quality of their care: design and implementation of a shared health maintenance module in a US integrated healthcare delivery network. 
  • Establishing a framework for improving the quality of clinical and translational research. 
  • Establishing a regional, multisite database for quality improvement and service planning in community-based palliative care and hospice. 
  • Evaluating Teach One Reach One-An STI/HIV Risk-Reduction Intervention to Enhance Adult-Youth Communication About Sex and Reduce the Burden of HIV/STI. 
  • Evaluating healthcare information technology outside of academia: observations from the national resource center for healthcare information technology at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. 
  • Evaluating long-term care demonstrations in real time with study design and plan performance interactions. 
  • Evaluating the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education core clinical competencies: techniques and feasibility in a urology training program. 
  • Evaluating the Impact of Medication Safety Alerts on Prescribing of Potentially Inappropriate Medications for Older Veterans in an Ambulatory Care Setting. 
  • Evaluating the impact of a substance use intervention program on the peer status and influence of adolescent peer leaders. 
  • Evaluating the implementation and sustainability of a program for enhancing veterans' intimate relationships. 
  • Evaluating the outcomes of a distance-accessible PhD program. 
  • Evaluation of Amigas Latinas Motivando el Alma (ALMA): a pilot promotora intervention focused on stress and coping among immigrant Latinas. 
  • Evaluation of Pillars4life: a virtual coping skills program for cancer survivors. 
  • Evaluation of a Health Coaching Course for Providers and Staff in Veterans Health Affairs Medical Facilities. 
  • Evaluation of a Hospital-Based Pneumonia Nurse Navigator Program. 
  • Evaluation of a Standardized Program for Training Practicing Anesthesiologists in Ultrasound-Guided Regional Anesthesia Skills. 
  • Evaluation of a nurse-led safety program in a critical care unit. 
  • Evaluation of a peer mentoring program for early career gerontological nursing faculty and its potential for application to other fields in nursing and health sciences. 
  • Evaluation of a workplace hemochromatosis screening program. 
  • Evaluation of the All Stars character education and problem behavior prevention program: effects on mediator and outcome variables for middle school students. 
  • Evaluation of the dofetilide risk-management program. 
  • Examining the Dose-Response Relationship in the Veterans Health Administration's MOVE!® Weight Management Program: A Nationwide Observational Study. 
  • Examining the research base for child mental health services and policy. 
  • Excessive use of vancomycin: a successful intervention strategy at an academic medical center. 
  • Expert Consensus on Metrics to Assess the Impact of Patient-Level Antimicrobial Stewardship Interventions in Acute-Care Settings. 
  • Expert and stakeholder consensus on priorities for obesity prevention research in early care and education settings. 
  • Exploring the behavior of hospital composite performance measures: an example from coronary artery bypass surgery. 
  • Facilitated peer group mentoring: a case study of creating leadership skills among the associate program directors of the APPD. 
  • Facilitating Institutional Oversight and Program Improvement Through Educational Competency Committees. 
  • Faculty development: doing more with less. 
  • Feasibility and acceptability of a resilience training program for intensive care unit nurses. 
  • Fiscal implications of newborn screening in the diagnosis of severe combined immunodeficiency. 
  • Foot education improves knowledge and satisfaction among patients at high risk for diabetic foot ulcer. 
  • Formative research in a school-based obesity prevention program for Native American school children (Pathways). 
  • From evidence to practice: using the RE-AIM framework to adapt the REACHII caregiver intervention to the community. 
  • From the Classroom to Facebook: A Fresh Approach for Youth Tobacco Prevention. 
  • General practice encounters for psychological problems in rural, remote and metropolitan areas in Australia. 
  • Gerontological nursing content in baccalaureate nursing programs: comparison of findings from 1997 and 2003. 
  • Good to Great: Quality-Improvement Initiative Increases and Sustains Pediatric Health Care Worker Hand Hygiene Compliance. 
  • Government and school progress to promote a healthful diet to American children and adolescents: a comprehensive review of the available evidence. 
  • Graduate education in nursing leadership through distance technologies: the Canada-Norway Nursing Connection. 
  • Growing up with sickle cell disease: a pilot study of a transition program for adolescents with sickle cell disease. 
  • HPTN 062: a feasibility and acceptability pilot intervention to reduce HIV transmission risk behaviors among individuals with acute and early HIV infection in Lilongwe, Malawi. 
  • Harnessing the Power of Integrated Mitochondrial Biology and Physiology: A Special Report on the NHLBI Mitochondria in Heart Diseases Initiative. 
  • Health promotion interventions for disadvantaged women: overview of the WISEWOMAN projects. 
  • Heart Center nursing research: a team effort. Heart Center Nursing Research Work Group Members. 
  • Hospital bloodborne pathogens programs: program characteristics and blood and body fluid exposure rates. 
  • Hypertension Improvement Project (HIP) Latino: results of a pilot study of lifestyle intervention for lowering blood pressure in Latino adults. 
  • Impact of Regional Systems of Care on Disparities in Care Among Female and Black Patients Presenting With ST-Segment-Elevation Myocardial Infarction. 
  • Impact of an expanded hospital recognition program for heart failure quality of care. 
  • Impact of preoperative briefings on operating room delays: a preliminary report. 
  • Impact of the fast track prevention program on health services use by conduct-problem youth. 
  • Impacts of Workplace Health Promotion and Wellness Programs on Health Care Utilization and Costs: Results From an Academic Workplace. 
  • Implementation and randomized controlled trial evaluation of universal postnatal nurse home visiting. 
  • Implementation evaluation of the Telephone Lifestyle Coaching (TLC) program: organizational factors associated with successful implementation. 
  • Implementation of Good Clinical Laboratory Practice (GCLP) guidelines within the External Quality Assurance Program Oversight Laboratory (EQAPOL). 
  • Implementation of Lung Cancer Screening in the Veterans Health Administration. 
  • Implementation of a four-year multimedia computer curriculum in cardiology at six medical schools. 
  • Implementation of new clinical programs in the VHA healthcare system: the importance of early collaboration between clinical leadership and research. 
  • Implementing a Continuous Quality Improvement Program in a High-Volume Clinical Echocardiography Laboratory: Improving Care for Patients With Aortic Stenosis. 
  • Implementing a nurse information system in a nurse-managed primary care practice: a process in progress. 
  • Implementing evidence-based medication safety interventions on a progressive care unit. 
  • Implementing rapid HIV testing with or without risk-reduction counseling in drug treatment centers: results of a randomized trial. 
  • Improving blood pressure control through a clinical pharmacist outreach program in patients with diabetes mellitus in 2 high-performing health systems: the adherence and intensification of medications cluster randomized, controlled pragmatic trial. 
  • Improving door-to-needle times in acute ischemic stroke: the design and rationale for the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association's Target: Stroke initiative. 
  • In the wake of suicide: Developing guidelines for suicide postvention in fire service. 
  • Inadequate use and regulation of interventions against publication bias decreases their effectiveness: a systematic review. 
  • Incorporating a built environment module into an accelerated second-degree community health nursing course. 
  • 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. 
  • Increased living donor volunteer rates with a formal recipient family education program. 
  • Influence of beta-blocker continuation or withdrawal on outcomes in patients hospitalized with heart failure: findings from the OPTIMIZE-HF program. 
  • Influenza vaccination of household contacts of newborns: a hospital-based strategy to increase vaccination rates. 
  • Infusing PDA technology into nursing education. 
  • Initial level of care and clinical status in a managed mental health program. 
  • Innovative care delivery model to address obesity in older African-American women: Senior Wellness Initiative and Take Off Pounds Sensibly collaboration for health (SWITCH). 
  • Innovative introduction to surgery in the preclinical years. 
  • Insurance expansions: do they hurt those they are designed to help? 
  • Interventions for preventing falls in acute- and chronic-care hospitals: a systematic review and meta-analysis. 
  • Introducing a module for laboratory test order entry and reporting of results at a hospital ward: an evaluation study using a multi-method approach. 
  • Introduction of team-based learning (TBL) at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical University College: experience with the ectoparasites module. 
  • Introduction to a Special Issue of the Journal of Immunological Methods: Building global resource programs to support HIV/AIDS clinical trial studies. 
  • Is it a match? a novel method of evaluating medical school success. 
  • Just for Us: in-home care for frail elderly and disabled individuals with low incomes. 
  • Lack of association between electronic health record systems and improvement in use of evidence-based heart failure therapies in outpatient cardiology practices. 
  • Laparoscopic skill assessment of practicing surgeons prior to enrollment in a surgical trial of a new laparoscopic procedure. 
  • Leadership and business education in orthopaedic residency training programs. 
  • Lessons Learned From Implementing Health Coaching in The Heart Healthy Lenoir Hypertension Study. 
  • Lessons learned about behavioral science and acute/early HIV infection. The NIMH Multisite Acute HIV Infection Study: V. 
  • Lessons learned from the CRUSADE National Quality Improvement Initiative. 
  • Mediation of employment discrimination disputes involving persons with psychiatric disabilities. 
  • Medication coaching program for patients with minor stroke or TIA: a pilot study. 
  • Medication monitoring and drug testing ethics project. 
  • Mental health impact of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts: a review of US research, service provision, and programmatic responses. 
  • Mentoring new nurses in the neonatal intensive care unit: impact on satisfaction and retention. 
  • Meta-Evaluation: Experiences in an Accelerated Graduate Nurse Education Program. 
  • Money for nothing? A call for empirical evaluation of biodiversity conservation investments. 
  • Monitoring population health for Healthy People 2020: evaluation of the NIH PROMIS® Global Health, CDC Healthy Days, and satisfaction with life instruments. 
  • Morbidity and Mortality Conference for Percutaneous Coronary Intervention. 
  • More Value From Payment Reform in Health Care and Biomedical Innovation. 
  • Multidisciplinary patient education for total joint replacement surgery patients. 
  • Multistate 5-Year Initiative to Improve Care for Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: Primary Results From the HeartRescue Project. 
  • New directions in research on assertive community treatment. 
  • Normal coronary rates for elective angiography in the Veterans Affairs Healthcare System: insights from the VA CART program (veterans affairs clinical assessment reporting and tracking). 
  • Novel educational approaches to enhance learning and interest in nephrology. 
  • Nurse administered telephone intervention for blood pressure control: a patient-tailored multifactorial intervention. 
  • Nurse practitioners, certified nurse midwives, and physician assistants in California. 
  • OSHA bloodborne pathogens standard. Implications for the occupational health nurse. 
  • Occupational medicine programs for animal research facilities. 
  • Of taps and toilets: quasi-experimental protocol for evaluating community-demand-driven projects. 
  • Outcome by Gender in the Veterans Health Administration Motivating Overweight/Obese Veterans Everywhere Weight Management Program. 
  • Outcomes before and after implementation of a pediatric rapid-response extracorporeal membrane oxygenation program. 
  • Outcomes of an uncertainty management intervention in younger African American and Caucasian breast cancer survivors. 
  • Outcomes of videotape instruction in clinic waiting area. 
  • Overcoming inertia: improvement in achieving target low-density lipoprotein cholesterol. 
  • Paediatric home care: a systematic review of randomized trials on costs and effectiveness. 
  • Participant evaluation of a telephone-based osteoarthritis self-management program, 2006-2009. 
  • Partnering together? Relationships between faith-based community health centers and neighborhood congregations. 
  • Partnership for development: A peer mentorship model for PhD students. 
  • Patient and program outcome assessment in pulmonary rehabilitation: an AACVPR statement. 
  • Patient and provider perspectives on implementation models of HIV counseling and testing for patients with TB. 
  • Pennsylvania's voluntary benefits program: evaluating an innovative proposal for increasing organ donation. 
  • Perspectives of older African-American women on a community-based weight loss program: qualitative findings from the Senior Wellness Initiative and Take Off Pounds Sensibly (TOPS) Collaboration for Health. 
  • Physician coaching to enhance well-being: a qualitative analysis of a pilot intervention. 
  • Physician process and patient outcome measures for diabetes care: relationships to organizational characteristics. 
  • Pilot study: individualized training for caregivers of hospitalized older veterans. 
  • Piloting the Affordable Medicines Facility-malaria: what will success look like? 
  • Polypharmacy management in Medicare managed care: changes in prescribing by primary care physicians resulting from a program promoting medication reviews. 
  • Population health initiatives for primary care at Duke University School of Medicine. 
  • Practice and quality improvement: successful implementation of TeamSTEPPS tools into an academic interventional ultrasound practice. 
  • Practitioner acceptance of the dofetilide risk-management program. 
  • Preliminary Data from the Caring for Older Adults and Caregivers at Home (COACH) Program: A Care Coordination Program for Home-Based Dementia Care and Caregiver Support in a Veterans Affairs Medical Center. 
  • Preliminary findings from a clinical demonstration project for veterans returning from Iraq or Afghanistan. 
  • Preliminary study of a school-based program to improve hypertension awareness in the community. 
  • Preparing junior investigators to develop gerontological research. 
  • Preventive oral health intervention for pediatricians. 
  • Proactive telephone counseling as an adjunct to minimal intervention for smoking cessation: a meta-analysis. 
  • Process evaluation of a statewide abusive head trauma prevention program. 
  • Productivity of Veterans Health Administration laboratories: a College of American Pathologists Laboratory Management Index Program (LMIP) study. 
  • Program design and evaluation strategies for the Special Projects of National Significance Outreach Initiative. 
  • Programs promoting timely sequential antimicrobial therapy: an American perspective. 
  • Promising implications for integrative medicine for back pain: a profile of a Korean hospital. 
  • Promoting Palliative Care. 
  • Promoting community practitioners' use of evidence-based approaches to increase breast cancer screening. 
  • Promoting healthful family meals to prevent obesity: HOME Plus, a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Proposed 'grant-and-access' program with price caps could stimulate development of drugs for very rare diseases. 
  • Psychosocial training and cardiac rehabilitation. 
  • Qualitative evaluation of South Carolina's Postpartum/Infant Home Visit program. 
  • Quality improvement initiative for chronic pain assessment and management in the nursing home: a pilot study. 
  • Quality of care for sudden cardiac arrest: Proposed steps to improve the translation of evidence into practice. 
  • Quality of care of and outcomes for African Americans hospitalized with heart failure: findings from the OPTIMIZE-HF (Organized Program to Initiate Lifesaving Treatment in Hospitalized Patients With Heart Failure) registry. 
  • Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH) Detroit partnership: improving diabetes-related outcomes among African American and Latino adults. 
  • Racial differences in the effect of a telephone-delivered hypertension disease management program. 
  • Randomized trial of a nurse-administered, telephone-based disease management program for patients with heart failure. 
  • Reassessing ACOs and Health Care Reform. 
  • Recruitment and retention of participants in a pragmatic randomized intervention trial at three community health clinics: results and lessons learned. 
  • Reducing childhood obesity through U.S. federal policy: a microsimulation analysis. 
  • Reduction in heart failure events by the addition of a clinical pharmacist to the heart failure management team: results of the Pharmacist in Heart Failure Assessment Recommendation and Monitoring (PHARM) Study. 
  • Regional versus general anesthesia for carotid endarterectomy: the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program perspective. 
  • Representativeness of participants in the cancer care outcomes research and surveillance consortium relative to the surveillance, epidemiology, and end results program. 
  • Research Design Meets Market Design: Using Centralized Assignment for Impact Evaluation 
  • Residents' Perspectives on Rewards and Challenges of Caring for Ambulatory Care Patients Living With Chronic Illness: Findings From Three Academic Health Centers. 
  • Response letter to Dr. Oliver: Preventing falls in hospitals - Interpreting the evidence. 
  • Responses of 6500 households to arsenic mitigation in Araihazar, Bangladesh. 
  • Review of the nutritional implications of farmers' markets and community gardens: a call for evaluation and research efforts. 
  • School-based approaches to affect adolescents' diets: results from the TEENS study. 
  • Screening strategies in gastroesophageal reflux disease: early identification of esophageal carcinoma. 
  • Selecting Among Otolaryngology Residency Applicants to Train as Tomorrow's Leaders. 
  • Self-management of fibromyalgia: the role of formal coping skills training and physical exercise training programs. 
  • Sexual abuse of human immunodeficiency virus-positive children. Outcomes for perpetrators and evaluation of other household children. 
  • Short message service (SMS) text messaging as an intervention medium for weight loss: A literature review. 
  • Short-term outcomes after esophagectomy at 164 American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program hospitals: effect of operative approach and hospital-level variation. 
  • Should your practice participate in a quality-reporting program? 
  • Simulation for Teaching Orthopaedic Residents in a Competency-based Curriculum: Do the Benefits Justify the Increased Costs? 
  • Small-group CME using e-mail discussions. Can it work? 
  • Spatio-temporal gap analysis of OBIS-SEAMAP project data: assessment and way forward. 
  • Standardized assessment for evaluation of team skills: validity and feasibility. 
  • Standardized patient identification and specimen labeling: a retrospective analysis on improving patient safety. 
  • State-mandated continuing medical education and the use of proven therapies in patients with an acute myocardial infarction. 
  • Statistical methods for the assessment of EQAPOL proficiency testing: ELISpot, Luminex, and Flow Cytometry. 
  • Strategic planning. 
  • Strategies For Assessing Delivery System Innovations. 
  • Strategy to assess, develop, and evaluate critical thinking. 
  • Stroke center designation can be achieved by small hospitals: the Massachusetts experience. 
  • Student Evaluations of Teaching: There Is More to Course Evaluations Than Student Ratings. 
  • Subsidising artemisinin-based combination therapy in the private retail sector. 
  • Summative Simulated-Based Assessment in Nursing Programs. 
  • Sustainability and performance of the National Cancer Institute's Community Clinical Oncology Program. 
  • Sustaining complex interventions in long-term care: a qualitative study of direct care staff and managers. 
  • Systematic Review of the Impact of Transition Interventions for Adolescents With Chronic Illness on Transfer From Pediatric to Adult Healthcare. 
  • Systematic review of positive youth development programs for adolescents with chronic illness. 
  • Targeted versus standard feedback: results from a randomized quality improvement trial. 
  • Teaching Clinical Ophthalmology: Medical Student Feedback on Team Case-Based Versus Lecture Format. 
  • Teaching neuraxial anesthesia techniques for obstetric care in a Ghanaian referral hospital: achievements and obstacles. 
  • Teaching population health: a competency map approach to education. 
  • Teaching quality essentials: the effectiveness of a team-based quality improvement curriculum in a tertiary health care institution. 
  • Teaching scholarly activity in psychiatric training: years 6 and 7. 
  • Teaching teamwork during the Neonatal Resuscitation Program: a randomized trial. 
  • Teaching the anatomy of oncology: evaluating the impact of a dedicated oncoanatomy course. 
  • Teaching yoga to seniors: essential considerations to enhance safety and reduce risk in a uniquely vulnerable age group. 
  • Teamwork and quality during neonatal care in the delivery room. 
  • Technologic advances for evaluation of cervical cytology: is newer better? 
  • Television campaigns and adolescent marijuana use: tests of sensation seeking targeting. 
  • The 5Cs of Consultation: Training Medical Students to Communicate Effectively in the Emergency Department. 
  • The AMDA Foundation Futures Program: inspiring the next generation of postacute and long-term care medical directors. 
  • The Cambia Sojourns Scholars Leadership Program: Conversations with Emerging Leaders in Palliative Care. 
  • The Cambia Sojourns Scholars Leadership Program: Project Summaries from the Inaugural Scholar Cohort. 
  • The Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology (CHAVI) multi-site quality assurance program for cryopreserved human peripheral blood mononuclear cells. 
  • The Duke-NICHE program: an academic-practice collaboration to enhance geriatric nursing care. 
  • The Emergence of Undergraduate Majors in Global Health: Systematic Review of Programs and Recommendations for Future Directions. 
  • The European Association of Urology (EAU) guidelines methodology: a critical evaluation. 
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  • Transformation of Care: Integrating the Registered Nurse Care Coordinator into the Patient-Centered Medical Home. 
  • Transforming primary care residency training: a collaborative faculty development initiative among family medicine, internal medicine, and pediatric residencies. 
  • Transitional Care Partners: a hospital-to-home support for older adults and their caregivers. 
  • Use of behavior change techniques in clean cooking interventions: a review of the evidence and scorecard of effectiveness. 
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  • Anderson, Ruth A., Professor Emerita in the School of Nursing, School of Nursing
  • Andolsek, Kathryn Marijoan, Professor in Community and Family Medicine, School of Medicine
  • Bettger, Janet Prvu, Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, School of Nursing
  • Carmody, Karen Appleyard, Assistant Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, Psychiatry, Child & Family Mental Health and Developmental Neuroscience
  • Cho, Alex Han, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Medicine, General Internal Medicine
  • Chung, Richard Joonoh, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Medicine, General Internal Medicine
  • Curtis, Lesley H., Professor in Population Health Sciences, Medicine, General Internal Medicine
  • Dodge, Kenneth A., Pritzker Professor of Early Learning Policy Studies, Duke Science & Society
  • Engle, Deborah Lynn, Assistant Professor of the Practice of Medical Education, Medical Education
  • Esclamado, Ramon Mitra, Richard Hall Chaney,Sr. Professor of Otolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgery, in the School of Medicine, Surgery, Head and Neck Surgery and Communication Sciences
  • Ferrari, Guido, Associate Professor of Surgery, Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
  • Halstater, Brian Hugh, Associate Professor of Community and Family Medicine, Community and Family Medicine, Family Medicine
  • Lee, Walter T, Associate Professor of Surgery, Radiation Oncology
  • McConnell, Eleanor Schildwachter, Associate Professor in the School of Nursing, with tenure, School of Nursing
  • Muir, Kelly Walton, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Ophthalmology, Glaucoma
  • Ostbye, Truls, Professor in Community and Family Medicine, Community and Family Medicine
  • Reed, Shelby Derene, Professor in Population Health Sciences, Duke Science & Society
  • Rosanbalm, Katie, Research Scientist, Senior, Center for Child and Family Policy
  • Routh, Jonathan Charles, Paul H. Sherman, M.D. Associate Professor of Surgery, Pediatrics
  • Segall, Noa, Assistant Professor in Anesthesiology, Anesthesiology
  • Sparks, Matthew A., Assistant Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Nephrology
  • Strand de Oliveira, Justine, Professor Emeritus in Community and Family Medicine, Community and Family Medicine
  • Taekman, Jeffrey Marc, Professor of Anesthesiology, Anesthesiology
  • Turner, David Ashley, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatrics, Critical Care Medicine
  • Weinhold, Kent James, Joseph W. and Dorothy W. Beard Professor of Experimental Surgery, in the School of Medicine, Immunology
  • West, Vivian L, Clinical Associate in the School of Nursing, School of Nursing
  • Zafar, Syed Yousuf, Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Medical Oncology
  • Zullig, Leah L, Associate Professor in Population Health Sciences, Medicine, General Internal Medicine