Patient Selection

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • 'What do they know about it?' How the North Carolina public views cancer clinical trials: implications for primary care doctors. 
  • 10 Years with ICH E10: Choice of Control Groups. 
  • 2006 update of recommendations for the use of white blood cell growth factors: an evidence-based clinical practice guideline. 
  • 2009 focused updates: ACC/AHA guidelines for the management of patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (updating the 2004 guideline and 2007 focused update) and ACC/AHA/SCAI guidelines on percutaneous coronary intervention (updating the 2005 guideline and 2007 focused update): a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines. 
  • 2012 ACCF/AHA focused update of the guideline for the management of patients with unstable angina/Non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction (updating the 2007 guideline and replacing the 2011 focused update): a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Task Force on practice guidelines. 
  • 2012 American College of Cardiology Foundation/Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions expert consensus document on cardiac catheterization laboratory standards update: A report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation Task Force on Expert Consensus documents developed in collaboration with the Society of Thoracic Surgeons and Society for Vascular Medicine. 
  • 2012 American College of Cardiology Foundation/Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions expert consensus document on cardiac catheterization laboratory standards update: American College of Cardiology Foundation Task Force on expert consensus documents Society of Thoracic Surgeons Society for Vascular Medicine. 
  • 2014 Report on the Milestones for the US National Plan to Address Alzheimer's Disease. 
  • 27th Bethesda Conference: matching the intensity of risk factor management with the hazard for coronary disease events. Task Force 5. Stratification of patients into high, medium and low risk subgroups for purposes of risk factor management. 
  • A Bayesian approach to subgroup identification. 
  • A Canadian context for the Acute Study of Clinical Effectiveness of Nesiritide and Decompensated Heart Failure (ASCEND-HF) trial. 
  • A Knotty Problem of Intertwined Rights. 
  • A Risk Score to Assist Selecting Lobectomy Versus Sublobar Resection for Early Stage Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. 
  • A UNOS perspective on donor liver allocation. United Network for Organ Sharing. 
  • A comparison of U.S. and Canadian cardiac catheterization practices in detecting severe coronary artery disease after myocardial infarction: efficiency, yield and long-term implications. 
  • A cooperative network of trained sites for the conduct of a complex clinical trial: a new concept in multicenter clinical research. 
  • A design alternative for two-stage, phase II, multicenter cancer clinical trials. 
  • A gift of life: ethical and practical problems with conditional and directed donation. 
  • A multi-site randomized clinical trial to reduce suicidal ideation in suicidal adult outpatients with Major Depressive Disorder: Development of a methodology to enhance safety. 
  • A multicenter, randomized trial of percutaneous coronary intervention versus bypass surgery in high-risk unstable angina patients. The AWESOME (Veterans Affairs Cooperative Study #385, angina with extremely serious operative mortality evaluation) investigators from the Cooperative Studies Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs. 
  • A new method of representing drug-induced platelet inhibition: better description of time course, response variability, non-response, and heightened activity. 
  • A phase I/II trial of intratumoral endoscopic ultrasound injection of ONYX-015 with intravenous gemcitabine in unresectable pancreatic carcinoma. 
  • A randomized trial of transcutaneous electric acupoint stimulation as adjunctive treatment for opioid detoxification. 
  • A rationale for conducting parallel mechanistic studies in clinical trials of pharmacotherapy. 
  • A review of racial differences in geriatric depression: implications for care and clinical research. 
  • A surveillance system for monitoring, public reporting, and improving minority access to cancer clinical trials. 
  • A systematic review of strategies used to increase recruitment of people with cancer or organ failure into clinical trials: implications for palliative care research. 
  • A taxonomy for disease management: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association Disease Management Taxonomy Writing Group. 
  • ACC/AHA 2002 guideline update for the management of patients with unstable angina and non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction--summary article: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association task force on practice guidelines (Committee on the Management of Patients With Unstable Angina). 
  • ACC/AHA guidelines for the management of patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction--executive summary: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (Writing Committee to Revise the 1999 Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction). 
  • ACC/AHA guidelines for the management of patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction--executive summary: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (Writing Committee to Revise the 1999 Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction). 
  • ACCF/ASE/ACEP/AHA/ASNC/SCAI/SCCT/SCMR 2008 Appropriateness Criteria for Stress Echocardiography. A report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation Appropriateness Criteria Task Force, American Society of Echocardiography, American College of Emergency Physicians, American Heart Association, American Society of Nuclear Cardiology, Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography, and Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance endorsed by the Heart Rhythm Society and the Society of Critical Care Medicine. 
  • ACCF/ASE/ACEP/AHA/ASNC/SCAI/SCCT/SCMR 2008 appropriateness criteria for stress echocardiography: a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation Appropriateness Criteria Task Force, American Society of Echocardiography, American College of Emergency Physicians, American Heart Association, American Society of Nuclear Cardiology, Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography, and Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance endorsed by the Heart Rhythm Society and the Society of Critical Care Medicine. 
  • ACCF/SCAI/STS/AATS/AHA/ASNC 2009 Appropriateness Criteria for Coronary Revascularization : a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation Appropriateness Criteria Task Force, Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, Society of Thoracic Surgeons, American Association for Thoracic Surgery, American Heart Association, and the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology. Endorsed by the American Society of Echocardiography, the Heart Failure Society of America, and the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography. 
  • ACCF/SCAI/SVMB/SIR/ASITN 2007 Clinical Expert Consensus Document on carotid stenting. 
  • ACR Appropriateness Criteria® ipsilateral radiation for squamous cell carcinoma of the tonsil. 
  • ACR appropriateness criteria retreatment of recurrent head and neck cancer after prior definitive radiation expert panel on radiation oncology-head and neck cancer. 
  • ALS Multicenter Cohort Study of Oxidative Stress (ALS COSMOS): study methodology, recruitment, and baseline demographic and disease characteristics. 
  • ASCERT: the American College of Cardiology Foundation--the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Collaboration on the comparative effectiveness of revascularization strategies. 
  • Accelerated partial breast irradiation consensus statement from the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO). 
  • Accelerated partial breast irradiation consensus statement from the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO). 
  • Accelerated partial breast irradiation: caution and concern from an ASTRO task force. 
  • Accrual of Older Patients With Breast Cancer to Alliance Systemic Therapy Trials Over Time: Protocol A151527. 
  • Accuracy and clinical relevance of computed tomography scan interpretation of peritoneal cancer index in colorectal cancer peritoneal carcinomatosis: a multi-institutional study. 
  • Accuracy of MR Imaging and MR Spectroscopy for Detection and Quantification of Hepatic Steatosis in Living Liver Donors: A Meta-Analysis. 
  • Accuracy of spatial normalization of the hippocampus: implications for fMRI research in memory disorders. 
  • Achieving Quality in Cardiovascular Imaging II: proceedings from the Second American College of Cardiology -- Duke University Medical Center Think Tank on Quality in Cardiovascular Imaging. 
  • Active surveillance for prostate cancer: can we modernize contemporary protocols to improve patient selection and outcomes in the focal therapy era? 
  • Acute coronary syndromes in the elderly. 
  • Acute coronary syndromes. STREAMlining care for patients with STEMI. 
  • Adenosine-induced transient asystole for intracranial aneurysm surgery: a retrospective review. 
  • Adjuvant paclitaxel plus carboplatin compared with observation in stage IB non-small-cell lung cancer: CALGB 9633 with the Cancer and Leukemia Group B, Radiation Therapy Oncology Group, and North Central Cancer Treatment Group Study Groups. 
  • Advanced (stage D) heart failure: a statement from the Heart Failure Society of America Guidelines Committee. 
  • Advances in endocrine therapy for breast cancer: considering efficacy, safety, and quality of life. 
  • Advances in pancreas transplantation: the University of Wisconsin experience. 
  • Adverse pathology and undetectable ultrasensitive prostate-specific antigen after radical prostatectomy: is adjuvant radiation warranted? 
  • African American participation in health-related research studies: indicators for effective recruitment. 
  • African-American heredity prostate cancer study: a model for genetic research. 
  • Age and alarm symptoms do not predict endoscopic findings among patients with dyspepsia: a multicentre database study. 
  • Age and comorbidities are effect modifiers of gender disparities in renal transplantation. 
  • Aging and cancer. 
  • Agreement between a brief mailed screener and an in-depth telephone survey: observations from the Fresh Start study. 
  • Allocation of vascularized composite allografts: what is it? 
  • American Cancer Society lung cancer screening guidelines. 
  • American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) and American College of Radiology (ACR) practice guideline for the transperineal permanent brachytherapy of prostate cancer. 
  • American Society of Clinical Oncology 2013 top five list in oncology. 
  • An acute change in lung allocation score and survival after lung transplantation: a cohort study. 
  • An automated communication system in a contact registry for persons with rare diseases: scalable tools for identifying and recruiting clinical research participants. 
  • An evaluation of patient self-testing competency of prothrombin time for managing anticoagulation: pre-randomization results of VA Cooperative Study #481--The Home INR Study (THINRS). 
  • An independently derived and validated predictive model for selecting patients with myocardial infarction who are likely to benefit from tissue plasminogen activator compared with streptokinase. 
  • An integrated genomic-based approach to individualized treatment of patients with advanced-stage ovarian cancer. 
  • An updated bleeding model to predict the risk of post-procedure bleeding among patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention: a report using an expanded bleeding definition from the National Cardiovascular Data Registry CathPCI Registry. 
  • Analysis of early readmissions after combined pancreas-kidney transplantation. 
  • Analysis of semen parameters in male referrals: impact of reference limits, stratification by fertility categories, predictors of change, and comparison of normal semen parameters in subfertile couples. 
  • Annual Outcomes With Transcatheter Valve Therapy: From the STS/ACC TVT Registry. 
  • Antibiotics for acute bronchitis. 
  • Antifungal agents in children. 
  • Antireflux surgery in the setting of lung transplantation: strategies for treating gastroesophageal reflux disease in a high-risk population. 
  • Aortic valve replacement in adults after balloon aortic valvuloplasty. 
  • Appropriate Use Criteria for Coronary Revascularization and Trends in Utilization, Patient Selection, and Appropriateness of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention. 
  • Appropriateness of percutaneous coronary intervention: a review. 
  • Are we overtreating prostate cancer? 
  • Artificial intelligence framework for simulating clinical decision-making: a Markov decision process approach. 
  • Ascertainment of colonoscopy indication using administrative data. 
  • Assessment and treatment of depression in patients with cardiovascular disease: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Working Group Report. 
  • Assessment of oral antithrombotic therapy by platelet function testing. 
  • Assessment of the impact of adjunctive proactive telephone counseling to promote smoking cessation among lung cancer patients' social networks. 
  • Association Between Use of the 21-Gene Recurrence Score Assay and Receipt of Chemotherapy Among Medicare Beneficiaries With Early-Stage Breast Cancer, 2005-2009. 
  • Association between surgical indications, operative risk, and clinical outcome in infective endocarditis: a prospective study from the International Collaboration on Endocarditis. 
  • Associations of internet website use with weight change in a long-term weight loss maintenance program. 
  • Associations, populations, and the truth: recommendations for genetic association studies in Arthritis & Rheumatism. 
  • Awareness and perceptions of electroconvulsive therapy among psychiatric patients: a cross-sectional survey from teaching hospitals in Karachi, Pakistan. 
  • Barriers to cardiac transplantation in idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy: the Washington, DC, Dilated Cardiomyopathy Study. 
  • Barriers to clinical trial participation by older women with breast cancer. 
  • Baseline characteristics of the Nateglinide and Valsartan Impaired Glucose Tolerance Outcomes Research (NAVIGATOR) trial population: comparison with other diabetes prevention trials. 
  • Baseline clinical characteristics of patients recruited into the assessment of treatment with lisinopril and survival study. 
  • Benefit or bias? The role of surgery to remove the primary tumor in patients with metastatic breast cancer. 
  • Biliopancreatic diversion with duodenal switch. 
  • Biosignatures in thrombotic disorders. 
  • Borderline resectable pancreatic cancer: definitions, management, and role of preoperative therapy. 
  • Breast cancer screening: science, society and common sense. 
  • Bridging the gap: recruitment of African-American women into mental health research studies. 
  • Brief Report: Respondent-driven Sampling Estimators Under Real and Theoretical Recruitment Conditions of Female Sex Workers in China. 
  • Building a national research network for clinical investigations in otology and neurotology. 
  • CT perfusion-guided versus time-guided mechanical recanalization in acute ischemic stroke patients. 
  • Can breast cancer molecular subtype help to select patients for preoperative MR imaging? 
  • Can the Kawashima procedure be performed in younger patients? 
  • Candidacy for lung transplant and lung allocation. 
  • Carboplatin is effective therapy for young children with progressive optic pathway tumors: a Pediatric Oncology Group phase II study. 
  • Carcinoma of unknown primary with a colon-cancer profile-changing paradigm and emerging definitions. 
  • Cardiac resynchronization therapy in heart failure patients: an update. 
  • Cardiac resynchronization therapy: Identifying an activation delay by regional strain analysis. 
  • Cardiac resynchronization therapy: Part 1--issues before device implantation. 
  • Cardiac transplantation at Duke University Medical Center. 
  • Cesarean delivery for fetal malformations. 
  • Challenges and opportunities: recruitment and retention of African Americans for Alzheimer disease research: lessons learned. 
  • Challenges and solutions for recruiting pregnant smokers into a nicotine replacement therapy trial. 
  • Challenges in enrollment of minority, pediatric, and geriatric patients in emergency and acute care clinical research. 
  • Challenges in internet study recruitment of African American cancer patients. 
  • Challenges in the phenotypic characterisation of patients in genetic studies of coronary artery disease. 
  • Changes in patterns of coronary revascularization strategies for patients with acute coronary syndromes (from the CRUSADE Quality Improvement Initiative). 
  • Chapter 6: assessing applicability of medical test studies in systematic reviews. 
  • Characteristics of patients with lower extremity symptoms treated with slump stretching: a case series. 
  • Chemotherapy Use, Performance Status, and Quality of Life at the End of Life. 
  • Church rosters: is this a viable mechanism for effectively recruiting African Americans for a community-based survey? 
  • Clinic variation in recruitment metrics, patient characteristics and treatment use in a randomized clinical trial of osteoarthritis management. 
  • Clinical Trial Design Principles and Endpoint Definitions for Transcatheter Mitral Valve Repair and Replacement: Part 1: Clinical Trial Design Principles: A Consensus Document From the Mitral Valve Academic Research Consortium. 
  • Clinical Trials Versus Clinical Practice: When Evidence and Practice Diverge--Should Nondiabetic Patients With 3-Vessel Disease and Stable Ischemic Heart Disease Be Preferentially Treated With CABG? 
  • Clinical and treatment response characteristics of late-life depression associated with vascular disease: a pooled analysis of two multicenter trials with sertraline. 
  • Clinical characteristics and referral pattern of patients with left ventricular dysfunction and significant coronary artery disease undergoing radionuclide imaging. 
  • Clinical characteristics of patients undergoing surgical ventricular reconstruction by choice and by randomization. 
  • Clinical hypertension research tools: the randomized controlled clinical trial. 
  • Clinical management of continuous-flow left ventricular assist devices in advanced heart failure. 
  • Clinical outcome after coronary artery revascularization and lung transplantation. 
  • Clinical outcomes of fractional flow reserve by computed tomographic angiography-guided diagnostic strategies vs. usual care in patients with suspected coronary artery disease: the prospective longitudinal trial of FFR(CT): outcome and resource impacts study. 
  • Clinical predictors of larynx preservation after multiagent concurrent chemoradiotherapy. 
  • Clinical research in the lay press: irresponsible journalism raises a huge dose of doubt. 
  • Clinical trial design principles and endpoint definitions for transcatheter mitral valve repair and replacement: part 1: clinical trial design principles: A consensus document from the mitral valve academic research consortium. 
  • Clinical trial recruitment challenges with older adults with cancer. 
  • Clinical trials in children with Down syndrome: issues from a cognitive research perspective. 
  • Clinical trials in hospitalized heart failure patients: targeting interventions to optimal phenotypic subpopulations. 
  • Clinical trials in mechanical circulatory support. 
  • Clinical trials in peripheral vascular disease: pipeline and trial designs: an evaluation of the ClinicalTrials.gov database. 
  • Clinical trials in progressive neurological diseases. Recruitment, enrollment, retention and compliance. 
  • Clinical trials of pharmacological therapies in acute heart failure syndromes: lessons learned and directions forward. 
  • Combined medial meniscal transplantation and high tibial osteotomy. 
  • Commentary: Per capita payments in clinical trials: reasonable costs versus bounty hunting. 
  • Community dwelling elderly are appropriate subjects for intensive dietary choice restriction studies. 
  • Community engagement in diverse populations for Alzheimer disease prevention trials. 
  • Community recruitment process by race, gender, and SES gradient: lessons learned from the Community Health and Stress Evaluation (CHASE) Study experience. 
  • Comparative effectiveness research in oncology: the need for clarity, transparency and vision. 
  • Comparing the use of diagnostic imaging and receipt of carotid endarterectomy in elderly black and white stroke patients. 
  • Comparison of 2-Year Outcomes of Extended Criteria Cardiac Transplantation Versus Destination Left Ventricular Assist Device Therapy Using Continuous Flow. 
  • Comparison of academic and nonacademic sites in multi-center clinical trials. 
  • Comparison of performance status with peak oxygen consumption in operable patients with non-small-cell lung cancer. 
  • Comparison of survival after mitral valve replacement with biologic and mechanical valves in 1139 patients. 
  • Complementary roles of open and hybrid approaches to thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm repair. 
  • Computed tomography perfusion-based selection of patients for endovascular recanalization. 
  • Concurrent chemoradiotherapy for locally advanced, nonmetastatic, squamous carcinoma of the head and neck: consensus, controversy, and conundrum. 
  • Conduct of clinical trials in acute heart failure: regional differences in heart failure clinical trials. 
  • Conducting empirical research on informed consent: challenges and questions. 
  • Conducting multisite research studies in nursing education: brief practice of CPR skills as an exemplar. 
  • Conducting research with racial/ethnic minorities: methodological lessons from the NIDA Clinical Trials Network. 
  • Confronting the issues of patient safety and investigator conflict of interest in an international clinical trial of myocardial reperfusion. Global Utilization of Streptokinase and Tissue Plasminogen Activator for Occluded Coronary Arteries (GUSTO) Steering Committee. 
  • Contemporary results of focal therapy for prostate cancer using cryoablation. 
  • Contemporary surgical options for metastatic colorectal cancer. 
  • Contemporary therapy of acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction. 
  • Contraindications to anticoagulation therapy and eligibility for novel anticoagulants in older patients with atrial fibrillation. 
  • Contrast echocardiography: past, present, and...future? 
  • Contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance angiography of carotid arteries: utility in routine clinical practice. 
  • Coordinated series of studies to evaluate characteristics and mechanisms of acute coronary syndromes in high-risk patients randomly assigned to enoxaparin or unfractionated heparin: design and rationale of the SYNERGY Library. 
  • Coronary artery bypass surgery compared with percutaneous coronary interventions for multivessel disease: a collaborative analysis of individual patient data from ten randomised trials. 
  • Coronary bypass surgery with or without surgical ventricular reconstruction. 
  • Correlation of hip fracture with other fracture types: Toward a rational composite hip fracture endpoint. 
  • Cost implications of selective preoperative risk screening in the care of candidates for peripheral vascular operations. 
  • Cost-effectiveness analysis in a setting of budget constraints--is it equitable? 
  • Craniosacral therapy for migraine: protocol development for an exploratory controlled clinical trial. 
  • Creatine kinase-MB elevation after percutaneous coronary intervention predicts adverse outcomes in patients with acute coronary syndromes. 
  • Credibility of low-strength static magnet therapy as an attention control intervention for a randomized controlled study of CranioSacral therapy for migraine headaches. 
  • Critical care aspects of lung transplantation. 
  • Crowdsourcing--harnessing the masses to advance health and medicine, a systematic review. 
  • Cryoablation for Small Renal Masses: Selection Criteria, Complications, and Functional and Oncologic Results. 
  • Curbing potential radiation-induced cancer risks in oncologic imaging: perspectives from the 'image gently' and 'image wisely' campaigns. 
  • Current Trends in the Management of Ductal Carcinoma In Situ. 
  • Current and future techniques of neuromodulation for bladder dysfunction. 
  • Current cardiovascular outcomes trials in type 2 diabetes: Perspectives and insight. 
  • Current concepts and controversies in lung transplantation. 
  • Current management of aortic arch lesions with hybrid procedures: a tailored approach to a progressive disease. 
  • Current options in oral antiplatelet strategies during percutaneous coronary interventions. 
  • Current status of percutaneous PFO closure. 
  • Current trends and new frontiers in focal therapy for localized prostate cancer. 
  • Decongestion in acute heart failure. 
  • Defining optimal research study design for cardiovascular imaging using computed tomography angiography as a model. 
  • Demographics, prognosis, and therapy in 702 patients with brain metastases from malignant melanoma. 
  • Design and end points of clinical trials for patients with progressive prostate cancer and castrate levels of testosterone: recommendations of the Prostate Cancer Clinical Trials Working Group. 
  • Design and inference for cancer biomarker study with an outcome and auxiliary-dependent subsampling. 
  • Design considerations and proposed template for clinical trials in hospitalized patients with decompensated chronic heart failure. 
  • Design of clinical trials in AKI: a report from an NIDDK workshop. Trials of patients with sepsis and in selected hospital settings. 
  • Design of clinical trials in acute kidney injury: a report from an NIDDK workshop--prevention trials. 
  • Design of clinical trials in acute kidney injury: report from an NIDDK workshop on trial methodology. 
  • Design, recruitment, logistics, and data management of the GEHA (Genetics of Healthy Ageing) project. 
  • Designing and conducting randomized controlled trials in palliative care: A summary of discussions from the 2010 clinical research forum of the Australian Palliative Care Clinical Studies Collaborative. 
  • Determining eligibility for lung transplantation: A nationwide assessment of the cutoff glomerular filtration rate. 
  • Determining the Optimal Timing for Initiation of Adjuvant Chemotherapy After Resection for Stage II and III Colon Cancer. 
  • Development of a protocol for allogeneic marrow transplantation for severe systemic sclerosis: paradigm for autoimmune disease. 
  • Diagnosis and Treatment of Venous Malformations. Consensus Document of the International Union of Phlebology (IUP): updated 2013. 
  • Dialysate calcium concentration and the risk of sudden cardiac arrest in hemodialysis patients. 
  • Differences between chest pain observation service patients and admitted "rule-out myocardial infarction" patients. 
  • Differential outcomes with early and late repeat transplantation in the era of the lung allocation score. 
  • Differential treatment benefit of platelet glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibition with percutaneous coronary intervention versus medical therapy for acute coronary syndromes: exploration of methods. 
  • Difficult behaviors in long-term care patients with dementia. 
  • Direct en face imaging of secundum atrial septal defects by velocity-encoded cardiovascular magnetic resonance in patients evaluated for possible transcatheter closure. 
  • Distorted perceptions in dyadic interactions of aggressive and nonaggressive boys: effects of prior expectations, context, and boys' age. 
  • Distributing scarce livers: the moral reasoning of the general public. 
  • Does Participation in a Randomized Clinical Trial Change Outcomes? An Evaluation of Patients Not Enrolled in the SPRINT Trial. 
  • Does imaging-guided selection of patients with ischemic heart failure for high risk revascularization improve identification of those with the highest clinical benefit?: Myocardial imaging should not exclude patients with ischemic heart failure from coronary revascularization. 
  • Does informed consent to research require comprehension? 
  • Dose response: intelligent rationing by physicians is the first step to a health-care system that society can afford. 
  • Durable mechanical circulatory support devices. 
  • Dynamics of patient targeting for care management in Medicaid: a case study of the Durham Community Health Network. 
  • Early discharge in the thrombolytic era: an analysis of criteria for uncomplicated infarction from the Global Utilization of Streptokinase and t-PA for Occluded Coronary Arteries (GUSTO) trial. 
  • Early glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitor use for non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndrome: patient selection and associated treatment patterns. 
  • Economic analysis of conventional-dose chemotherapy compared with high-dose chemotherapy plus autologous hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation for metastatic breast cancer. 
  • Economic analysis of gene expression profile data to guide adjuvant treatment in women with early-stage breast cancer. 
  • Economic evaluation of access to musculoskeletal care: the case of waiting for total knee arthroplasty. 
  • Effect of changing indications and techniques on total hip resurfacing. 
  • Effect of donor age on survival of liver transplant recipients with hepatitis C virus infection. 
  • Effect of initial combination therapy with sitagliptin, a dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitor, and metformin on glycemic control in patients with type 2 diabetes. 
  • Effect of outpatient treatment of febrile neutropenia on the risk threshold for the use of CSF in patients with cancer treated with chemotherapy. 
  • Effect of the 2014 atrial fibrillation guideline revisions on the proportion of patients recommended for oral anticoagulation. 
  • Effective strategies for recruiting of Asian cancer patients in internet research. 
  • Effectiveness of early coronary angioplasty and abciximab for failed thrombolysis (reteplase or alteplase) during acute myocardial infarction (results from the GUSTO-III trial). Global Use of Strategies To Open occluded coronary arteries. 
  • Effects of antipsychotic medications on sleep in schizophrenia. 
  • Effects of disclosing financial interests on participation in medical research: a randomized vignette trial. 
  • Efficacy of mediastinal lymph node dissection during lobectomy for lung cancer by thoracoscopy and thoracotomy. 
  • Ejection fraction assessment and survival: an analysis of the Sudden Cardiac Death in Heart Failure Trial (SCD-HeFT). 
  • Eligibility and accessibility of magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS) for the treatment of uterine leiomyomas. 
  • Eligibility and response guidelines for phase II clinical trials in androgen-independent prostate cancer: recommendations from the Prostate-Specific Antigen Working Group. 
  • Embolization of metastatic spinal tumors. 
  • Emory Angioplasty Versus Surgery Trial (EAST): design, recruitment, and baseline description of patients. 
  • Empirical research on informed consent. An annotated bibliography. 
  • Endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration is useful for nodal staging in patients with pleural mesothelioma. 
  • Endovascular procedures for aorto-iliac occlusive disease are associated with superior short-term clinical and economic outcomes compared with open surgery in the inpatient population. 
  • Endovascular treatment of varicose veins. 
  • Enrollment and Racial Disparities in Cancer Treatment Clinical Trials in North Carolina. 
  • Enrollment in Heart Failure Clinical Trials: Insights Into Which Entry Criteria Exclude Patients. 
  • Enrollment in clinical trials according to patients race: experience from the VA Cooperative Studies Program (1975-2000). 
  • Established and Emerging Roles of Biomarkers in Heart Failure Clinical Trials. 
  • Establishing patient-specific criteria for selecting the optimal upper extremity vascular access procedure. 
  • Ethical challenges in genotype-driven research recruitment. 
  • Ethical issues in umbilical cord blood banking. Working Group on Ethical Issues in Umbilical Cord Blood Banking. 
  • Ethical ramifications of alternative means of recruiting research participants from cancer registries. 
  • Ethical responsibilities toward indirect and collateral participants in pragmatic clinical trials. 
  • Evaluating strict and conventional left bundle branch block criteria using electrocardiographic simulations. 
  • Evaluation of ventricular arrhythmias in early clinical pharmacology trials and potential consequences for later development. 
  • Evolution of the concept of focal therapy for prostate cancer. 
  • Evolving practice pattern changes and outcomes in the era of hybrid aortic arch repair. 
  • Examination of the treatment selection process in a multicenter observational study. 
  • Examining the challenges of recruiting women into a cardiac rehabilitation clinical trial. 
  • Examining the impact of genetic testing for type 2 diabetes on health behaviors: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Extending the boundaries of acceptable organ donors: a means of expanding the donor pool for liver transplantation. 
  • Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for adult respiratory failure. 
  • Factors affecting patient enrollment in radiology clinical trials: a case study of the American College of Radiology Imaging Network. 
  • Factors associated with recruitment and screening in the Treatment for Adolescents With Depression Study (TADS). 
  • Family patterns of decision-making in pediatric clinical trials. 
  • Features associated with successful recruitment of diverse patients onto cancer clinical trials: report from the American College of Surgeons Oncology Group. 
  • Fibrogenesis assessed by serological type III collagen formation identifies patients with progressive liver fibrosis and responders to a potential antifibrotic therapy. 
  • Finding a place for public preferences in liver allocation decisions. 
  • Focal cryotherapy for prostate cancer. 
  • Focal features in West syndrome indicating candidacy for surgery. 
  • Focal therapy for prostate cancer is a reasonable treatment option in properly selected patients. 
  • Focal therapy for prostate cancer: possibilities and limitations. 
  • Focal therapy of prostate cancer: evidence-based analysis for modern selection criteria. 
  • Focal therapy of prostate cancer: making steady progress toward a first-line image-guided treatment modality. 
  • Focal therapy: patients, interventions, and outcomes--a report from a consensus meeting. 
  • Focus groups with African American adolescents: enhancing recruitment and retention in intervention studies. 
  • Follow YOUR Heart: development of an evidence-based campaign empowering older women with HIV to participate in a large-scale cardiovascular disease prevention trial. 
  • Formative research in clinical trial development: attitudes of patients with arthritis in enhancing prevention trials. 
  • Futility, benefit, and transcatheter aortic valve replacement. 
  • GP IIb-IIIa inhibitors administered upstream: evidence for improved outcomes with conventional and newer antithrombotic agents? 
  • Gene expression profiles of tumor biology provide a novel approach to prognosis and may guide the selection of therapeutic targets in multiple myeloma. 
  • Generalizability of Pharmacologic and Psychotherapy Clinical Trial Results for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder to Community Samples. 
  • Genes and Environmental Exposures in Veterans with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: the GENEVA study. Rationale, study design and demographic characteristics. 
  • Geographic favoritism in liver transplantation--unfortunate or unfair? 
  • Getting meaningful informed consent from older adults: a structured literature review of empirical research. 
  • Glycemic management in diabetes and the associated cardiovascular risk: are we helping or hurting our patients? 
  • Gone but not forgotten: the case for drug-eluting stents in percutaneous revascularization of the chronic coronary total occlusion. 
  • Growing use of laparoscopic cholecystectomy in the national Veterans Affairs Surgical Risk Study: effects on volume, patient selection, and selected outcomes. 
  • Guideline adjudicated fibrinolytic failure: incidence, findings, and management in a contemporary clinical trial. 
  • Guideline for the management of clinically localized prostate cancer: 2007 update. 
  • Guidelines for the performance of a comprehensive intraoperative epiaortic ultrasonographic examination: recommendations of the American Society of Echocardiography and the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists; endorsed by the Society of Thoracic Surgeons. 
  • Guidelines for trials of behavioral treatments for recurrent headache, first edition: American Headache Society Behavioral Clinical Trials Workgroup. 
  • Hand transplantation. 
  • Harms, benefits, and the nature of interventions in pragmatic clinical trials. 
  • Heart Rhythm Monitoring Strategies for Cryptogenic Stroke: 2015 Diagnostics and Monitoring Stroke Focus Group Report. 
  • Hemodynamic outcomes of transcatheter aortic valve replacement and medical management in severe, inoperable aortic stenosis: a longitudinal echocardiographic study of cohort B of the PARTNER trial. 
  • Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia: twenty-nine years later. 
  • High tibial osteotomy for the treatment of unicompartmental arthritis of the knee. 
  • High-frequency oscillatory ventilation in pediatric respiratory failure: a multicenter experience. 
  • High-frequency ventilation. 
  • Hip resurfacing-keys to success. 
  • Hospital variability in the rate of finding obstructive coronary artery disease at elective, diagnostic coronary angiography. 
  • How many patients with heart failure are eligible for cardiac resynchronization? Insights from two prospective cohorts. 
  • How proxies make decisions about research for patients with Alzheimer's disease. 
  • How to select the right patients for focal therapy of prostate cancer? 
  • How we approach an apheresis request for a Category III, Category IV, or noncategorized indication. 
  • Hyperbaric oxygen treatment for air or gas embolism. 
  • Hyperbaric oxygen treatment for decompression sickness. 
  • Identifying appropriate patients for early salvage radiotherapy after prostatectomy. 
  • Identifying, recruiting, and retaining seriously-ill patients and their caregivers in longitudinal research. 
  • Immunotherapy of head and neck cancer: Emerging clinical trials from a National Cancer Institute Head and Neck Cancer Steering Committee Planning Meeting. 
  • Impact of ABO compatibility on outcomes after heart transplantation in a national cohort during the past decade. 
  • Impact of aortoiliac tortuosity on endovascular repair of abdominal aortic aneurysms: evaluation of 3D computer-based assessment. 
  • Impact of changes in clinical practice guidelines on assessment of quality of care. 
  • Impact of early discharge after coronary artery bypass graft surgery on rates of hospital readmission and death. The Ischemic Heart Disease (IHD) Patient Outcomes Research Team (PORT) Investigators. 
  • Impact of implementation of the MELD scoring system on the prevalence and incidence of chronic renal disease following liver transplantation. 
  • Impact of patient selection and treatment strategies on outcomes after lobectomy for biopsy-proven stage IIIA pN2 non-small cell lung cancer. 
  • Impact of pediatric exclusivity on drug labeling and demonstrations of efficacy. 
  • Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators for primary prevention: how do the data pertain to the aged? 
  • Implementation of Lung Cancer Screening in the Veterans Health Administration. 
  • Implications of patient selection and surgical technique for primary total knee arthroplasty. 
  • Importance of echocardiography in patients with severe nonischemic heart failure: the second Prospective Randomized Amlodipine Survival Evaluation (PRAISE-2) echocardiographic study. 
  • Improved survival in patients enrolled promptly into remote monitoring following cardiac implantable electronic device implantation. 
  • Improving Outcomes for Patients With Diabetic Macular Edema. 
  • Improving accrual of older persons to cancer treatment trials: a randomized trial comparing an educational intervention with standard information: CALGB 360001. 
  • Improving patient selection for coagulopathy testing in the setting of acute ischemic stroke. 
  • Improving the Evidence Base for Treating Older Adults With Cancer: American Society of Clinical Oncology Statement. 
  • In hormone-naive metastatic prostate cancer, should all patients now receive docetaxel? No, not yet. 
  • Incentives for children in research. 
  • Incidental findings on brain magnetic resonance imaging of children with sickle cell disease. 
  • Indications, algorithms, and outcomes for coronary artery bypass surgery in patients with acute coronary syndromes. 
  • Influence of Clinical Trial Site Enrollment on Patient Characteristics, Protocol Completion, and End Points: Insights From the ASCEND-HF Trial (Acute Study of Clinical Effectiveness of Nesiritide in Decompensated Heart Failure). 
  • Influence of comorbidity on racial differences in receipt of surgery among US veterans with early-stage non-small-cell lung cancer. 
  • Informed consent for research in Borderline Personality Disorder. 
  • Inhaled PGE1 in neonates with hypoxemic respiratory failure: two pilot feasibility randomized clinical trials. 
  • Initial learning experience of laparoendoscopic single site (LESS) gastric banding: finding predictors of success. 
  • Initial treatment for chronic hepatitis C: current therapies and their optimal dosing and duration. 
  • Inotropes in the management of acute heart failure. 
  • Insulin resistance is associated with a metabolic profile of altered protein metabolism in Chinese and Asian-Indian men. 
  • Intensity-modulated radiation therapy in gynecologic malignancies. 
  • Interactions between age, outcome of acute coronary syndromes, and tirofiban therapy. 
  • Internet communities for recruitment of cancer patients into an Internet survey: a discussion paper. 
  • Internet communities for recruitment of cancer patients. 
  • Intestinal transplantation. 
  • Intestinal transplantation: a single-center experience. 
  • Intracorporeal ileocolic anastomosis: a review. 
  • Intrathecal drug delivery for the management of cancer pain: a multidisciplinary consensus of best clinical practices. 
  • Intravenous fluids in sepsis: what to use and what to avoid. 
  • Is surgical excision of core biopsy proven benign papillomas of the breast necessary? 
  • Is there a bias against performing coronary revascularization in women? 
  • Is there evidence of implicit exclusion criteria for elderly subjects in randomized trials? Evidence from the GUSTO-1 study. 
  • Issues in Internet survey research among cancer patients. 
  • Kidney transplantation combined with other organs in Bologna: an update. 
  • Knee osteotomy and meniscal transplantation: indications, technical considerations, and results. 
  • Lack of timely accrual information in oncology clinical trials: a cross-sectional analysis. 
  • Laparoscopic colon resection for cancer--a favorable view. 
  • Laparoscopic colon resection for cancer. 
  • Leading the Way in Exercise and Diet (Project LEAD): intervening to improve function among older breast and prostate cancer survivors. 
  • Left ventricular assist device destination therapy versus extended criteria cardiac transplant. 
  • Length of stay, functional outcome, and mortality following medical rehabilitation. 
  • Leukopenia is associated with worse but not prohibitive outcomes following emergent abdominal surgery. 
  • Listing criteria for heart transplantation: International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation guidelines for the care of cardiac transplant candidates--2006. 
  • Liver and small bowel transplantation: therapeutic alternatives for the treatment of liver disease and intestinal failure. 
  • Living-related lobar lung transplantation. 
  • Local access to subspecialty care influences the chance of receiving a liver transplant. 
  • Long-term outcomes in simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation: lessons relearned. 
  • Lopinavir/ritonavir monotherapy after virologic failure of first-line antiretroviral therapy in resource-limited settings. 
  • Low-risk and very-low-risk prostate cancer: is there a role for focal therapy in the era of active surveillance? Yes, the two approaches complement each other. 
  • Low-risk prostate cancer patient: active treatment. 
  • Lung transplantation at Duke University Medical Center. 
  • Lung transplantation at Duke University. 
  • Lung transplantation in advanced COPD: is it worth it? 
  • Lymphatic mapping and sentinel lymphadenectomy in primary cutaneous melanoma. 
  • Magnetic resonance imaging-derived parameter of portal flow predicts volume-mediated pulmonary hypertension in liver transplantation candidates. 
  • Malaria vaccine efficacy: the difficulty of detecting and diagnosing malaria. 
  • Malignant pleural effusions: recent advances and ambulatory sclerotherapy. 
  • Management and outcomes of dialysis access-associated steal syndrome. 
  • Management of cancer pain. 
  • Measurement of chemoresistance markers in patients with stage III non-small cell lung cancer: a novel approach for patient selection. 
  • Mechanisms to provide safe and effective drugs for children. 
  • Medicine. Placebo-controls in short-term clinical trials of hypertension. 
  • Methodological issues in the recruitment of ethnic minority subjects to research via the Internet: a discussion paper. 
  • Methods for a multicenter randomized trial for mixed urinary incontinence: rationale and patient-centeredness of the ESTEEM trial. 
  • Millennium Cohort: enrollment begins a 21-year contribution to understanding the impact of military service. 
  • Mitral procedure selection in patients on dialysis: does mitral repair influence outcomes? 
  • Modafinil for atypical depression: effects of open-label and double-blind discontinuation treatment. 
  • Modest advances in survival for patients with colorectal-associated peritoneal carcinomatosis in the era of modern chemotherapy. 
  • Modifiable barriers to enrollment in American ALS research studies. 
  • Modified puestow lateral pancreaticojejunostomy. 
  • Morbidity and mortality of major pulmonary resections in patients with early-stage lung cancer: initial results of the randomized, prospective ACOSOG Z0030 trial. 
  • Multisite randomized controlled trials in health services research: scientific challenges and operational issues. 
  • My approach to evaluation of patients prior to high-risk PCI with left ventricular support devices. 
  • Myeloid growth factors. 
  • Negative trials in nephrology: what can we learn? 
  • Nerve-sparing focal cryoablation of prostate cancer. 
  • New York Heart Association class versus amino-terminal pro-B type natriuretic peptide for acute heart failure prognosis. 
  • New advances in focal therapy for early stage prostate cancer. 
  • New advances in the management of acute coronary syndromes. 
  • New radiotherapy and chemoradiotherapy approaches for non-small-cell lung cancer. 
  • Non-convulsive status epilepticus: usefulness of clinical features in selecting patients for urgent EEG. 
  • Non-evidence-based ICD implantations in the United States. 
  • Nonadherence to Guideline Recommendations for Tympanostomy Tube Insertion in Children Based on Mega-database Claims Analysis. 
  • 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). 
  • Obesity and sexual quality of life. 
  • Obesity and survival after radical prostatectomy: A 10-year prospective cohort study. 
  • Older Adults in Clinical Research and Drug Development: Closing the Geriatric Gap. 
  • On confirmation bias in imaging research. 
  • OnabotulinumtoxinA vs Sacral Neuromodulation on Refractory Urgency Urinary Incontinence in Women: A Randomized Clinical Trial. 
  • One-year comparison of a high-monounsaturated fat diet with a high-carbohydrate diet in type 2 diabetes. 
  • Open versus endovascular repair of ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms. 
  • Operative versus nonoperative treatment of knee dislocations: a meta-analysis. 
  • Operator-specific outcomes. A call to professional responsibility. 
  • Optimal non-invasive imaging test selection for the diagnosis of ischaemic heart disease. 
  • Optimal timing of implantable cardioverter-defibrillator implantation after myocardial infarction: a decision analysis. 
  • Optimizing living donor kidney graft function by donor-recipient pair selection. 
  • Optimizing the efficiency and quality of sipuleucel-T delivery in an academic institution. 
  • Options in the management of varicose veins, 2008. 
  • Oral antihypertensive trial design and analysis under the pediatric exclusivity provision. 
  • Organ Allocation and Distribution: Lessons to Be Learned and Principles to Lead Us Forward. 
  • Organizational and physician factors associated with patient enrollment in cancer clinical trials. 
  • Outcome- and auxiliary-dependent subsampling and its statistical inference. 
  • Outcomes and Experience with Lumbopleural Shunts in the Management of Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension. 
  • Outcomes for endocarditis surgery in North America: a simplified risk scoring system. 
  • Outcomes of Ankle Distraction for the Treatment of Ankle Arthritis. 
  • Outcomes of off-pump versus on-pump coronary artery bypass grafting: Impact of preoperative risk. 
  • Outcomes with an alternate list strategy for heart transplantation. 
  • Outcomes-Based CV Imaging Research Endpoints and Trial Design 
  • Overcoming recruitment challenges in palliative care clinical trials. 
  • PR interval identifies clinical response in patients with non-left bundle branch block: a Multicenter Automatic Defibrillator Implantation Trial-Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy substudy. 
  • Pancreas transplantation at the University of Wisconsin. 
  • Pancreas transplantation: the Nebraska experience. 
  • Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors: selection, selection, selection…. 
  • Paravertebral Block for Inguinal Herniorrhaphy: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials. 
  • Parenteral nutrition and calorie delivery in the ICU: controversy, clarity, or call to action? 
  • Participation in a women's breast cancer risk counseling trial. Who participates? Who declines? High Risk Breast Cancer Consortium. 
  • Pathologic and molecular features correlate with long-term outcome after adjuvant therapy of resected primary GI stromal tumor: the ACOSOG Z9001 trial. 
  • Patient Selection and Surgical Management of High-Risk Patients with Morbid Obesity. 
  • Patient and hospital characteristics associated with inappropriate percutaneous coronary interventions. 
  • Patient and physician factors associated with participation in cervical and uterine cancer trials: an NRG/GOG247 study. 
  • Patient preference and validity of randomized controlled trials. 
  • Patient reactions to confidentiality, liability, and financial aspects of informed consent in cardiology research. 
  • Patient selection and current practice strategy for off-pump coronary artery bypass surgery. 
  • Patient selection for advanced heart failure therapy referral. 
  • Patient selection for cytoreduction and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemoperfusion. 
  • Patient selection for diagnostic coronary angiography and hospital-level percutaneous coronary intervention appropriateness: insights from the National Cardiovascular Data Registry. 
  • Patient selection for experimental adjuvant therapy after radical prostatectomy. 
  • Patient selection for hemiablative focal therapy of prostate cancer: variables predictive of tumor unilaterality based upon radical prostatectomy. 
  • Patient selection for left ventricular assist devices. 
  • Patient selection for mechanical circulatory support. 
  • Patient selection in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction clinical trials. 
  • Patient-specific predictions of outcomes in myocardial infarction for real-time emergency use: a thrombolytic predictive instrument. 
  • Patterns of participation and successful patient recruitment to American College of Surgeons Oncology Group Z0010, a phase II trial for patients with early-stage breast cancer. 
  • Perceptions concerning hip resurfacing from attendees at the Second Annual U.S. Comprehensive Course on Total Hip Resurfacing Arthroplasty. 
  • Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Utilization and Appropriateness across the United States. 
  • Percutaneous coronary intervention versus coronary bypass graft surgery for diabetic patients with unstable angina and risk factors for adverse outcomes with bypass: outcome of diabetic patients in the AWESOME randomized trial and registry. 
  • Percutaneous cryoablation of renal tumors: patient selection, technique, and postprocedural imaging. 
  • Performance of delayed-enhancement magnetic resonance imaging with gadoversetamide contrast for the detection and assessment of myocardial infarction: an international, multicenter, double-blinded, randomized trial. 
  • Performance of propensity score methods when comparison groups originate from different data sources. 
  • Perioperative and oncologic outcomes of minimally invasive liver resection for colorectal metastases: A case-control study of 130 patients. 
  • Peripheral vascular disease. Diagnosing and treating the 3 most common peripheral vasculopathies. 
  • Perspective: The case for research justice: inclusion of patients with limited English proficiency in clinical research. 
  • Pharmacogenomic strategies provide a rational approach to the treatment of cisplatin-resistant patients with advanced cancer. 
  • Phase 1 trial study of 131I-labeled chimeric 81C6 monoclonal antibody for the treatment of patients with non-Hodgkin lymphoma. 
  • Phase II study of docetaxel in advanced soft tissue sarcomas. 
  • Phase II trial of cetuximab, gemcitabine, and oxaliplatin followed by chemoradiation with cetuximab for locally advanced (T4) pancreatic adenocarcinoma: correlation of Smad4(Dpc4) immunostaining with pattern of disease progression. 
  • Phase Ib study of CP-868,596, a PDGFR inhibitor, combined with docetaxel with or without axitinib, a VEGFR inhibitor. 
  • Physicians' knowledge and attitudes regarding implantable cardioverter-defibrillators. 
  • Physiologic correlates of intraoperative blood transfusion among patients undergoing major gastrointestinal operations. 
  • Platelet glycoprotein IIb/IIIa receptor antagonists in non-ST segment elevation acute coronary syndromes: a review and guide to patient selection. 
  • Platelet glycoprotein IIb/IIIa receptor blockade in coronary artery disease. 
  • Poor metabolic and blood pressure control in patients with diabetic retinopathy attending a tertiary ophthalmic hospital in Australia. 
  • Portopulmonary Hypertension and Liver Transplant: Recent Review of the Literature. 
  • Potential impact of evidence-based medicine in acute coronary syndromes: insights from GUSTO-IIb. Global Use of Strategies to Open Occluded Arteries in Acute Coronary Syndromes trial. 
  • Practice patterns in percutaneous image-guided intraabdominal abscess drainage: survey of academic and private practice centers. 
  • Practice patterns in supraglottoplasty and perioperative care. 
  • Predictors of 30-day postoperative stroke or death after carotid endarterectomy using the 2012 carotid endarterectomy-targeted American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program database. 
  • Predictors of contemporary coronary artery bypass grafting outcomes. 
  • Predictors of outcome and the lack of effect of percutaneous coronary intervention across the risk strata in patients with persistent total occlusion after myocardial infarction: Results from the OAT (Occluded Artery Trial) study. 
  • Predictors of reduced dose intensity in patients with early-stage breast cancer receiving adjuvant chemotherapy. 
  • Predischarge initiation of carvedilol in patients hospitalized for decompensated heart failure. 
  • Preliminary experience with split liver transplantation. 
  • Prenatal gene tranfer: scientific, medical, and ethical issues: a report of the Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee. 
  • Preoperative coronary revascularization in high-risk patients undergoing vascular surgery: a core review. 
  • Preoperative evaluation to determine candidates for metal-on-metal hip resurfacing. 
  • Presence of mechanical dyssynchrony in Duchenne muscular dystrophy. 
  • Prevalence and outcomes of same-day discharge after elective percutaneous coronary intervention among older patients. 
  • Prevalence, characteristics, and predictors of early termination of cardiovascular clinical trials due to low recruitment: insights from the ClinicalTrials.gov registry. 
  • Preventing tomorrow's sudden cardiac death today: dissemination of effective therapies for sudden cardiac death prevention. 
  • Preview of a new trial of extracranial-to-intracranial arterial anastomosis: the carotid occlusion surgery study. 
  • Primary care of HIV infection. 
  • Proactive recruitment of cancer patients' social networks into a smoking cessation trial. 
  • Procedural and clinical outcomes with catheter-based plaque excision in critical limb ischemia. 
  • Procurement, preservation, and transport of cadaver kidneys. 
  • Prognostic value of serum carcinoembryonic antigen levels in patients who undergo lung transplantation. 
  • Project among African-Americans to explore risks for schizophrenia (PAARTNERS): recruitment and assessment methods. 
  • Prophylactic value of preincision intra-aortic balloon pump: analysis of a statewide experience. 
  • Proportion of patients followed in a specialized heart failure clinic needing an implantable cardioverter defibrillator as determined by applying different trial eligibility criteria. 
  • Prostate biopsy in selecting candidates for hemiablative focal therapy. 
  • Provisional stenting strategies: systematic overview and implications for clinical decision-making. 
  • Psychosocial issues in the assessment and management of patients undergoing lung transplantation. 
  • Public perceptions of the importance of prognosis in allocating transplantable livers to children. 
  • Public perspectives on returning genetics and genomics research results. 
  • Public preferences for efficiency and racial equity in kidney transplant allocation decisions. 
  • Public preferences for prevention versus cure: what if an ounce of prevention is worth only an ounce of cure? 
  • Pulmonary metastasectomy for metastatic malignant melanoma. 
  • Pulmonary vein isolation for the maintenance of sinus rhythm in patients with atrial fibrillation: a meta-analysis of randomized, controlled trials. 
  • Quality of life after prostate cancer treatment. 
  • Quantifying the recruitment challenges with couple-based interventions for cancer: applications to early-stage breast cancer. 
  • Racial differences in enrolment in a cancer genetics registry. 
  • Racial differences in prostate cancer risk remain among US servicemen with equal access to care. 
  • Racial variation in cardiac procedure use and survival following acute myocardial infarction in the Department of Veterans Affairs. 
  • Racial variation in the use of coronary-revascularization procedures. Are the differences real? Do they matter? 
  • Racial variation in treatment for transient ischemic attacks: impact of participation by neurologists. 
  • Radiation therapy for oligometastatic non-small cell lung cancer. 
  • Radiofrequency ablation of liver tumors: influence of technique and tumor size. 
  • Radiologic intervention in the acute stroke patient. 
  • Radiologic issues in lung transplantation for end-stage pulmonary disease. 
  • Randomized multicenter trial of hyperthermic isolated limb perfusion with melphalan alone compared with melphalan plus tumor necrosis factor: American College of Surgeons Oncology Group Trial Z0020. 
  • Rates of surveillance and management of hepatocellular carcinoma in patients evaluated at a liver transplant center. 
  • Rationale and design for the Defibrillators to Reduce Risk by Magnetic Resonance Imaging Evaluation (DETERMINE) trial. 
  • Rationale and design of a randomized clinical trial to assess the safety and efficacy of cardiac resynchronization therapy in patients with advanced heart failure: the Multicenter InSync Randomized Clinical Evaluation (MIRACLE). 
  • Rationale and design of the CONFIRM (COronary CT Angiography EvaluatioN For Clinical Outcomes: An InteRnational Multicenter) Registry. 
  • Rationale and design of the Initiation Management Predischarge: Process for Assessment of Carvedilol Therapy for Heart Failure (IMPACT-HF) study. 
  • Rationale and design of the pilot randomized study of nesiritide versus dobutamine in heart failure (PRESERVD-HF). 
  • Rationale and study design for a multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study of the effects of tolvaptan on the acute and chronic outcomes of patients hospitalized with worsening congestive heart failure. 
  • Rationale for percutaneous biopsy and histologic characterisation of renal tumours. 
  • Rationing HIV medications: what do patients and the public think about allocation policies? 
  • Rationing failure. The ethical lessons of the retransplantation of scarce vital organs. 
  • Real-time ultrasonography for placement of central venous catheters in children: A multi-institutional study. 
  • Recent Clinical Trials in Osteoporosis: A Firm Foundation or Falling Short? 
  • Reclassification of cardiovascular risk using integrated clinical and molecular biosignatures: Design of and rationale for the Measurement to Understand the Reclassification of Disease of Cabarrus and Kannapolis (MURDOCK) Horizon 1 Cardiovascular Disease Study. 
  • Recognizing bedside rationing: clear cases and tough calls. 
  • Recommendations for clinical trials of off-label drugs used to treat advanced-stage cancer. 
  • Recommendations for the Use of WBC Growth Factors: American Society of Clinical Oncology Clinical Practice Guideline Update. 
  • Recruiting young adults into a weight loss trial: report of protocol development and recruitment results. 
  • Recruitment and retention of healthy minority women into community-based longitudinal research. 
  • Recruitment and retention of minority participants in the DASH controlled feeding trial. DASH Collaborative Research Group. Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension. 
  • Recruitment and retention of pregnant women into clinical research trials: an overview of challenges, facilitators, and best practices. 
  • Recruitment and retention rates in behavioral trials involving patients and a support person: a systematic review. 
  • Recruitment experience in the first phase of the African American Hereditary Prostate Cancer (AAHPC) study. 
  • Recruitment of African American women to a walking program: eligibility, ineligibility, and attrition during screening. 
  • Recruitment of African-American pre-adolescent girls into an obesity prevention trial: the GEMS pilot studies. 
  • Recruitment of research participants through the Internet. 
  • Recruitment of rural and cognitively impaired older adults for dental research. 
  • Recruitment strategies and rates of a multi-site behavioral intervention for adolescents and young adults with cancer. 
  • Reducing patient eligibility criteria in cancer clinical trials. 
  • Reduction in consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages is associated with weight loss: the PREMIER trial. 
  • Reduction of plasma urate levels following treatment with multiple doses of pegloticase (polyethylene glycol-conjugated uricase) in patients with treatment-failure gout: results of a phase II randomized study. 
  • Referral patterns for coronary artery disease treatment: gender bias or good clinical judgment? 
  • Regional differences in the characteristics and treatment of patients participating in an international heart failure trial. The Assessment of Treatment with Lisinopril and Survival (ATLAS) Trial Investigators. 
  • Reirradiation for recurrent head and neck cancer. 
  • Relationship between clinical trial site enrollment with participant characteristics, protocol completion, and outcomes: insights from the EVEREST (Efficacy of Vasopressin Antagonism in Heart Failure: Outcome Study with Tolvaptan) trial. 
  • Relationship between transferrin saturation and iron stores in the African American and US Caucasian populations: analysis of data from the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. 
  • Relationship of serum prolactin with severity of drug use and treatment outcome in cocaine dependence. 
  • Report on ISCTM Consensus Meeting on Clinical Assessment of Response to Treatment of Cognitive Impairment in Schizophrenia. 
  • Reporting and representation of race/ethnicity in published randomized trials. 
  • Representation of women in randomized clinical trials of cardiovascular disease prevention. 
  • Representativeness of RELAX-AHF clinical trial population in acute heart failure. 
  • Researching breathlessness in palliative care: consensus statement of the National Cancer Research Institute Palliative Care Breathlessness Subgroup. 
  • Researching the world of children. 
  • Resection or transplant-listing for solitary hepatitis C-associated hepatocellular carcinoma: an intention-to-treat analysis. 
  • Respondent driven sampling is an effective method for engaging methamphetamine users in HIV prevention research in South Africa. 
  • Results with a selective revascularization strategy for left subclavian artery coverage during thoracic endovascular aortic repair. 
  • Results with selective preoperative lumbar drain placement for thoracic endovascular aortic repair. 
  • Retinal vascular fractal dimension and risk of early diabetic retinopathy: A prospective study of children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes. 
  • Retrograde balloon cautery incision of ureteropelvic junction obstruction. 
  • Review of the biology of bleeding and clotting in the surgical patient. 
  • Revision INBONE total ankle replacement. 
  • Risk assessment in oncology clinical practice. From risk factors to risk models. 
  • Risk factors for methotrexate-induced lung injury in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. A multicenter, case-control study. Methotrexate-Lung Study Group. 
  • Risk stratification for adverse economic outcomes in cardiac surgery. 
  • Risk-adjusted survival after tissue versus mechanical aortic valve replacement: a 23-year assessment. 
  • Role of coronary artery calcium score in identifying occult coronary artery disease in patients evaluated for deceased-donor liver transplant - a preliminary report. 
  • Rotationplasty after failed limb-sparing tumor surgery: a report of two cases. 
  • Same bridge, new destinations rethinking paradigms for mechanical cardiac support in heart failure. 
  • Sampling patients within physician practices and health plans: multistage cluster samples in health services research. 
  • Screening for hypercoagulable syndromes following stroke. 
  • Selection of patients with melanoma brain metastases for aggressive treatment. 
  • Serum prostate-specific antigen (PSA) concentration is positively associated with rate of disease reclassification on subsequent active surveillance prostate biopsy in men with low PSA density. 
  • Setting organ allocation priorities: should we care what the public cares about? 
  • Sex bias in cardiovascular care: should women be treated more like men? 
  • Simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation at the University of Wisconsin. 
  • Site selection for heart failure clinical trials in the USA. 
  • Site selection in global clinical trials in patients hospitalized for heart failure: perceived problems and potential solutions. 
  • Size of sentinel node tumor deposits and extent of axillary lymph node involvement: which breast cancer patients may benefit from less aggressive axillary dissections? 
  • Social and racial differences in selection of breast cancer adjuvant chemotherapy regimens. 
  • Social responsibility, personal responsibility, and prognosis in public judgments about transplant allocation. 
  • Solid organ transplantation at the National Institutes of Health: development of a research-based transplantation practice. 
  • Solid-organ transplantation in older adults: current status and future research. 
  • Sonography of solid breast lesions: observer variability of lesion description and assessment. 
  • Sources of hospital-level variation in major bleeding among patients with non-st-segment elevation myocardial infarction: a report from the National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR). 
  • Special considerations for the management of pediatric acute respiratory distress syndrome. 
  • Sphincter-sparing surgery in patients with low-lying rectal cancer: techniques, oncologic outcomes, and functional results. 
  • State of the art: strategies for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in respiratory failure. 
  • Stem cell use in a patient with an ischemic foot ulcer: a case study. 
  • Stereotactic radiotherapy for pulmonary metastases. 
  • Strategies to Maximize Enrollment in a Prospective Study of Comatose Children in the PICU. 
  • Strategies to support recruitment of patients with life-limiting illness for research: the Palliative Care Research Cooperative Group. 
  • Stroke in patients with asymptomatic internal-carotid-artery stenosis. 
  • Study design for genetic analysis in the Jackson Heart Study. 
  • Study protocol, sample characteristics, and loss to follow-up: the OPPERA prospective cohort study. 
  • Successful recruitment strategies for women in postpartum mental health trials. 
  • Surgery for spinal stenosis: long-term reoperation rates, health care cost, and impact of instrumentation. 
  • Surgical Maze procedure as a treatment for atrial fibrillation: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. 
  • Surgical considerations in lung transplantation: transplant operation and early postoperative management. 
  • Surgical management of complex spinal deformity. 
  • Surgical management of necrotizing pancreatitis: an overview. 
  • Surgical treatment of the middle-aged patient with arthritic knees. 
  • Surrogates' perceptions about feeding tube placement decisions. 
  • Survey of US public attitudes toward pharmacogenetic testing. 
  • Survey of oncologists' perceptions of barriers to accrual of older patients with breast carcinoma to clinical trials. 
  • Survival after primary prevention implantable cardioverter-defibrillator placement among patients with chronic kidney disease. 
  • Survival benefits of heart and lung transplantation. 
  • TRIPSTAR: prioritizing oral triptan treatment attributes in migraine management. 
  • Tacrolimus with mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) or sirolimus vs. cyclosporine with MMF in cardiac transplant patients: 1-year report. 
  • Take heart: a one-on-one peer-based strategy to improve acute coronary syndrome patient care. 
  • Temporal Trends in Disease Severity and Predicted Surgical Risk at the Time of Referral for Echocardiography in Patients Diagnosed with Aortic Stenosis. 
  • The 2013 International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation Guidelines for mechanical circulatory support: executive summary. 
  • The A-to-Z Trial: Methods and rationale for a single trial investigating combined use of low-molecular-weight heparin with the glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitor tirofiban and defining the efficacy of early aggressive simvastatin therapy. 
  • The Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration (CKDEPI) equation best characterizes kidney function in patients being considered for lung transplantation. 
  • The Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) eating pattern in special populations. 
  • The Food and Drug Administration and pragmatic clinical trials of marketed medical products. 
  • The Impact of Renal Impairment on Short-term Morbidity Risk Following Lumbar Spine Surgeries. 
  • The Initiation Management Predischarge Process for Assessment of Carvedilol Therapy for Heart Failure (IMPACT-HF) Study: design and implications. 
  • The International Association Study Lung Cancer (IASLC) Strategic Screening Advisory Committee (SSAC) response to the USPSTF recommendations. 
  • The International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation Guidelines for the care of heart transplant recipients. 
  • The Rare Diseases Clinical Research Network Contact Registry update: features and functionality. 
  • The Warfarin and Antiplatelet Therapy in Heart Failure trial (WATCH): rationale, design, and baseline patient characteristics. 
  • The age-adjusted Charlson Comorbidity Index as an outcome predictor of patients with acute mesenteric ischemia. 
  • The appropriate use of neurostimulation: stimulation of the intracranial and extracranial space and head for chronic pain. Neuromodulation Appropriateness Consensus Committee. 
  • The art and science of targeting geriatrics programs. 
  • The cancer aging interface: a research agenda. 
  • The case for practical clinical trials in psychiatry. 
  • The challenge of measuring community values in ways appropriate for setting health care priorities. 
  • The changing profile of patient selection, procedural techniques, and outcomes in excimer laser coronary angioplasty. Participating Investigators of the Percutaneous Excimer Laser Coronary Angioplasty Registry. 
  • The correlation between patient characteristics and expectations of benefit from Phase I clinical trials. 
  • The cost effectiveness of radiofrequency ablation for Barrett's esophagus. 
  • The current clinical value of the DCIS Score. 
  • The current practice of intra-aortic balloon counterpulsation: results from the Benchmark Registry. 
  • The current status of living donor liver transplantation. 
  • The design and implementation of an open-source, data-driven cohort recruitment system: the Duke Integrated Subject Cohort and Enrollment Research Network (DISCERN). 
  • The development and potential of acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI) imaging for carotid artery plaque characterization. 
  • The disconnect between phase II and phase III trials of drugs for heart failure. 
  • The effect of prior pneumonectomy or lobectomy on subsequent lung transplantation. 
  • The effect of race and sex on physicians' recommendations for cardiac catheterization. 
  • The effect of race on the referral process for invasive cardiac procedures. 
  • The efficacy and equity of retransplantation: an experimental survey of public attitudes. 
  • The ethical challenges of a randomized controlled trial of involuntary outpatient commitment. 
  • The ethics of care: social workers in an influenza pandemic. 
  • The evaluation of treatment when center-specific selection criteria vary with respect to patient risk. 
  • The evolving role of blood and marrow transplantation for the treatment of autoimmune diseases. 
  • The evolving role of radiotherapy in treatment of oligometastatic NSCLC. 
  • The exclusion of women from clinical trials of thrombolytic therapy: implications for developing the thrombolytic predictive instrument database. 
  • The extended Toronto criteria for liver transplantation in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma: A prospective validation study. 
  • The future of clinical trials in secondary prevention after acute coronary syndromes. 
  • The future of cochlear implants. 
  • The immediate impact of the Clinical Outcomes Utilizing Revascularization and Aggressive Drug Evaluation (COURAGE) trial on the management of stable angina. 
  • The impact of Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services high-risk criteria on outcome after carotid endarterectomy and carotid artery stenting in the SVS Vascular Registry. 
  • The impact of diabetes mellitus and renal insufficiency on the outcome of endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair. 
  • The impact of exercise training compared to caloric restriction on hepatic and peripheral insulin resistance in obesity. 
  • The impact of for-profit hospital status on the care and outcomes of patients with non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: results from the CRUSADE Initiative. 
  • The influence of relationships on children's and adolescents' participation in research. 
  • The oligometastatic state - separating truth from wishful thinking. 
  • The pathogenesis of vascular thrombosis and its impact in microvascular surgery. 
  • The pathway to biomarker discovery: carbonic anhydrase IX and the prediction of immune responsiveness. 
  • The pharmacogenetics of antiplatelet agents: towards personalized therapy? 
  • The privilege of self-regulation: the role of appropriate use criteria. 
  • The relationship of platelet reactivity to the occurrence of post-stenting ischemic events: emergence of a new cardiovascular risk factor. 
  • The role of focal therapy in the management of localised prostate cancer: a systematic review. 
  • The role of hepatic resection in the treatment of hepatocellular cancer. 
  • The role of imaging studies and molecular markers for selecting candidates for radical prostatectomy. 
  • The role of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in focal therapy for prostate cancer: recommendations from a consensus panel. 
  • The role of transrectal saturation biopsy in tumour localization: pathological correlation after retropubic radical prostatectomy and implication for focal ablative therapy. 
  • The strengths and limitations of meta-analyses based on aggregate data. 
  • The study of LoSmapimod treatment on inflammation and InfarCtSizE (SOLSTICE): design and rationale. 
  • The trials and tribulations of enrolling couples in a randomized, controlled trial: a self-management program for hyperlipidemia as a model. 
  • The uncertainty principle and industry-sponsored research. 
  • Therapy choices among older patients with lung carcinoma: an evaluation of two trials of the Cancer and Leukemia Group B. 
  • Thoracic organ transplantation at Papworth Hospital. 
  • Thrombosis and cancer: emerging data for the practicing oncologist. 
  • Timing of in-hospital coronary artery bypass graft surgery for non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction patients results from the National Cardiovascular Data Registry ACTION Registry-GWTG (Acute Coronary Treatment and Intervention Outcomes Network Registry-Get With The Guidelines). 
  • Total ankle replacement systems available in the United States. 
  • Total ankle replacement: why, when and how? 
  • Transatlantic Consensus Group on active surveillance and focal therapy for prostate cancer. 
  • Transcatheter aortic valve replacement: an update. 
  • Transformation of alkylating regimen of thiotepa into tepa determines the disease progression through GSTP1 gene polymorphism for metastatic breast cancer patients receiving thiotepa containing salvage chemotherapy. 
  • Transplant outcomes in mucopolysaccharidoses. 
  • Transplantation in alcoholics: separating prognosis and responsibility from social biases. 
  • Transradial approach for coronary angiography and interventions: results of the first international transradial practice survey. 
  • Treatment efficacy: aphasia. 
  • Treatment selection for coronary artery disease: The collision of a belief system with evidence. 
  • Treatment with adenosine diphosphate receptor inhibitors-longitudinal assessment of treatment patterns and events after acute coronary syndrome (TRANSLATE-ACS) study design: expanding the paradigm of longitudinal observational research. 
  • Trends in Enrollment, Clinical Characteristics, Treatment, and Outcomes According to Age in Non-ST-Segment-Elevation Acute Coronary Syndromes Clinical Trials. 
  • Trends in Heart Failure Clinical Trials From 2001-2012. 
  • Trends in mitral valve surgery in the United States: results from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Adult Cardiac Surgery Database. 
  • Umbilical cord stem cell transplantation. 
  • Under-representation of women in high-impact published clinical cancer research. 
  • Understanding the mechanisms behind trastuzumab therapy for human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-positive breast cancer. 
  • Unpredictable drug shortages: an ethical framework for short-term rationing in hospitals. 
  • Update of the guidelines for lupus anticoagulant detection. Subcommittee on Lupus Anticoagulant/Antiphospholipid Antibody of the Scientific and Standardisation Committee of the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis. 
  • Updated evidence on intracoronary abciximab in ST-elevation myocardial infarction: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials. 
  • Updated standardized endpoint definitions for transcatheter aortic valve implantation: the Valve Academic Research Consortium-2 consensus document. 
  • Updated standardized endpoint definitions for transcatheter aortic valve implantation: the Valve Academic Research Consortium-2 consensus document. 
  • Updated standardized endpoint definitions for transcatheter aortic valve implantation: the Valve Academic Research Consortium-2 consensus document. 
  • Use of Preprocedural MDCT for Cardiac Implantable Electric Device Lead Extraction: Frequency of Findings That Change Management. 
  • Use of electrocardiogram indices of myocardial ischemia for risk stratification and decision making of reperfusion strategies. 
  • Use of re-randomized data in meta-analysis. 
  • Using Natriuretic Peptides for Selection of Patients in Acute Heart Failure Clinical Trials. 
  • Using observational data to estimate prognosis: an example using a coronary artery disease registry. 
  • Using plasma transforming growth factor beta-1 during radiotherapy to select patients for dose escalation. 
  • Utilization of intravenous tissue plasminogen activator for ischemic stroke: are there sex differences? 
  • Variability in IRBs regarding parental acceptance of passive consent. 
  • Variability in frontotemporal brain structure: the importance of recruitment of African Americans in neuroscience research. 
  • Variation in use of nephron-sparing surgery among children with renal tumors. 
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  • Willingness to participate in cardiac trials. 
  • Withholding medical treatment from the severely demented patient. Decisional processes and cost implications. 
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  • Berchuck, Andrew, James M. Ingram Professor of Gynecologic Oncology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Gynecologic Oncology
  • Brennan, J. Matthew, Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Cardiology
  • Brennan, Todd Victor, Associate Professor of Surgery, Surgery, Abdominal Transplant Surgery
  • Curtis, Lesley H., Professor in Population Health Sciences, Duke Clinical Research Institute
  • Dodge, Kenneth A., Pritzker Professor of Early Learning Policy Studies, Duke Science & Society
  • 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
  • Fisher, Deborah Anne, Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Gastroenterology
  • Gottfried, Oren N, Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, Neurosurgery
  • Grambow, Steven C., Assistant Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • Jowell, Paul Simon, Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Gastroenterology
  • Koontz, Bridget Fey, Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology, Radiation Oncology
  • LeBlanc, Thomas William, Associate Professor of Medicine, Duke Cancer Institute
  • MacFall, James R., Adjunct Professor in the Department of Radiology, Radiology
  • Mentz, Robert John, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Cardiology
  • Merli, M. Giovanna, Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke Global Health Institute
  • Middleton, John Paul, Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Nephrology
  • Milano, Carmelo Alessio, Professor of Surgery, Surgery, Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery
  • Moon, Richard Edward, Professor of Anesthesiology, Medicine, Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine
  • Moorman, Patricia Gripka, Professor in Community and Family Medicine, Duke Cancer Institute
  • Muhlbaier, Lawrence H., Associate Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • Muir, Kelly Walton, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Ophthalmology, Glaucoma
  • Myers, Evan Robert, Walter L. Thomas Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology in the School of Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • Patel, Uptal Dinesh, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine, Medicine, Nephrology
  • Patz Jr., Edward F., James and Alice Chen Professor of Radiology, Pathology
  • Preminger, Glenn Michael, James F. Glenn, M.D. Professor of Urology, Surgery
  • Sampson, John Howard, Robert H., M.D. and Gloria Wilkins Professor of Neurosurgery, in the School of Medicine, Immunology
  • Sosa, Julie Ann, Professor of Surgery, Medicine, Medical Oncology
  • Steinbach, William J., Professor of Pediatrics, Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
  • Stinnett, Sandra Sue, Associate Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • Sullivan, Daniel Carl, Professor Emeritus of Radiology, Radiology
  • Swaminathan, Madhav, Professor of Anesthesiology, Anesthesiology, Cardiothoracic
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  • Warner, David Samuel, Distinguished Professor of Anesthesiology, in the School of Medicine, Neurobiology
  • Wu, Li-Tzy, Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medicine, General Internal Medicine
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