Organizational Policy

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A conceptual model of work and health disparities in the United States. 
  • ACC/AHA guidelines for cardiac catheterization and cardiac catheterization laboratories. American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Ad Hoc Task Force on Cardiac Catheterization. 
  • AJT's response to the National Institutes of Health public access regulations. 
  • Acceptance of external funds by physician organizations: issues and policy options. 
  • Accessibility of health clubs for people with mobility disabilities and visual impairments. 
  • Altruism, incentives, and organ donation: attitudes of the transplant community. 
  • An empirical taxonomy of hospital governing board roles. 
  • An instrument to assess the obesogenic environment of child care centers. 
  • An official American Thoracic Society policy statement: managing conscientious objections in intensive care medicine. 
  • Aprotinin use during cardiac surgery: recent alterations and effects on blood product utilization. 
  • Beginning a conversation on medical futility in North Carolina. 
  • Building capacity in VA to provide emergency gynecology services for women. 
  • Can the Institute of Medicine review the FDA? 
  • Carotid endarterectomy then and now: outcome and cost-effectiveness of modern practice. 
  • Catastrophic High School and Collegiate Cheerleading Injuries in the United States: An Examination of the 2006-2007 Basket Toss Rule Change. 
  • Changing times, changing opinions: history informing the family presence debate. 
  • Complexities of defibrillator deactivation. 
  • Consent for emergency medical services for children and adolescents. 
  • Continuing care retirement communities: prospects for reducing institutional long-term care. 
  • Coverage with evidence development for Medicare beneficiaries: challenges and next steps. 
  • Cultural and organizational implications of academic managed-care networks. 
  • Deciding to terminate treatment: a practical guide for physicians. 
  • Development and validation of AIMFREE: Accessibility Instruments Measuring Fitness and Recreation Environments. 
  • Development of level of institutionalization scales for health promotion programs. 
  • Disaster preparedness and response practices among providers from the Veterans Health Administration and Veterans with spinal cord injuries and/or disorders. 
  • Disclosing conflicts of interest in clinical research: views of institutional review boards, conflict of interest committees, and investigators. 
  • Do not resuscitate (DNR) orders during surgery: ethical foundations for institutional policies in the United States. 
  • Dobson backed NICE ruling on flu drug. 
  • Doctoral programs in nursing: philosophy, curricula, and program requirements. 
  • Drugs and the exercise test. 
  • Editorial independence for CMAJ: signposts along the road. 
  • Education and Debate: WHO's management: struggling to transform a "fossilised bureaucracy". 
  • Expert and stakeholder consensus on priorities for obesity prevention research in early care and education settings. 
  • Factors promoting consistent adherence to safe needle precautions among hospital workers. 
  • Financing graduate medical education to meet the needs of children and the future pediatrician workforce. 
  • Food environment in secondary schools: a la carte, vending machines, and food policies and practices. 
  • From physician to consumer: the effectiveness of strategies to manage health care utilization. 
  • Guidance to employers on integrating e-cigarettes/electronic nicotine delivery systems into tobacco worksite policy. 
  • Guidelines issues workshop report. 
  • Health data use, stewardship, and governance: ongoing gaps and challenges: a report from AMIA's 2012 Health Policy Meeting. 
  • Homework for students with learning disabilities: the implications of research for policy and practice. 
  • Hospital bloodborne pathogens programs: program characteristics and blood and body fluid exposure rates. 
  • Hospital drug formularies and use of hospital services. 
  • Implementation and adoption of mechanical patient lift equipment in the hospital setting: The importance of organizational and cultural factors. 
  • Implementing and maintaining an infusion alliance. 
  • Influence of a tobacco-free hospital campus policy on smoking status of hospital employees. 
  • Institutional futility policies are inherently unfair. 
  • Insurance Expansions: Do They Hurt Those They Are Designed to Help? 
  • Job characteristics and work organization factors associated with patient-handling injury among nursing personnel. 
  • Laboratory Animal Bite Anaphylaxis: A National Survey: Part 2: Treatment Protocols. 
  • Legalization of marijuana: potential impact on youth. 
  • Link between decisions regarding resuscitation and preferences for quality over length of life with heart failure. 
  • Magnesium sulfate tocolysis: time to quit. 
  • Non-reporting of work injuries and aspects of jobsite safety climate and behavioral-based safety elements among carpenters in Washington State. 
  • North Carolina hospitals' policies on medical futility. 
  • Objective measures of adoption of patient lift and transfer devices to reduce nursing staff injuries in the hospital setting. 
  • Obstetrician-gynecologists, religious institutions, and conflicts regarding patient-care policies. 
  • Occupational medicine programs for animal research facilities. 
  • Operation of a radiopharmacy for a clinical trial. 
  • Organization of work in the agricultural, forestry, and fishing sector in the US southeast: implications for immigrant workers' occupational safety and health. 
  • Parents as passengers during pediatric transport. 
  • Perspective: The case for research justice: inclusion of patients with limited English proficiency in clinical research. 
  • Physician-industry cooperation in the medical device industry. 
  • Policies and practices related to the role of board certification and recertification of pediatricians in hospital privileging. 
  • Policies of academic medical centers for disclosing financial conflicts of interest to potential research participants. 
  • Political perspectives on uncertified home care agencies. 
  • Prevention of laboratory animal allergy in the United States: a national survey. 
  • Prevention of sexual harassment in the workplace and educational settings. 
  • Primary care multidisciplinary teams in practice: a qualitative study. 
  • Quiet time: a nursing intervention to promote sleep in neurocritical care units. 
  • Research recruitment through US central cancer registries: balancing privacy and scientific issues. 
  • Responsibility for global health. 
  • Results of a survey on current surgical smoke control practices. 
  • Safe handling: implementing hazardous drug precautions. 
  • Scientific misconduct from the perspective of research coordinators: a national survey. 
  • Setting priorities for health reform. 
  • Social media use and cybercivility guidelines in U.S. nursing schools: A review of websites. 
  • Staff interaction strategies that optimize delivery of transitional care in a skilled nursing facility: a multiple case study. 
  • Support for tobacco control policies among youth in North Carolina. 
  • Task Force on Strategic Research Direction: Basic Science Subgroup key science topics report. 
  • Teaching an integrated approach to health care: lessons from five schools. 
  • The National Academy of Medicine's Vision: Leadership, Innovation, and Impact for a Healthier Future. 
  • The changing relationship between health care professionals and the pharmaceutical industry. 
  • The cost of self-imposed regulatory burden in animal research. 
  • The effects of state psychiatric hospital waitlist policies on length of stay and time to readmission. 
  • Toward elimination of perinatal HIV transmission: New Jersey hospital barriers to rapid HIV testing in labor and delivery, 2005. 
  • Trust in managed care organizations. 
  • Use of board certification and recertification of pediatricians in health plan credentialing policies. 
  • VA Stroke Study: neurologist care is associated with increased testing but improved outcomes. 
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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, with tenure, School of Nursing
  • O'Connor, Christopher Michael, Richard Sean Stack, M.D. / Guidant Foundation Professor of Cardiology, Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology