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. 
  • 2011 ACCF/AHA/SCAI Guideline for Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: executive summary: a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines and the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions. 
  • 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. 
  • 2013 ACCF/AHA guideline for the management of ST-elevation myocardial infarction: a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines. 
  • 2013 ACCF/AHA guideline for the management of ST-elevation myocardial infarction: executive summary: a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines. 
  • 2014 Report on the Milestones for the US National Plan to Address Alzheimer's Disease. 
  • 2015 American College of Rheumatology Guideline for the Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis. 
  • 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 Critical Evaluation of the Representation of Black Patients With Heart Failure and Preserved Ejection Fraction in Clinical Trials: A Literature Review. 
  • A Knotty Problem of Intertwined Rights. 
  • A Long-term Benefit Approach vs Standard Risk-Based Approaches for Statin Eligibility in Primary Prevention. 
  • A Multi-Institutional Prospective Trial Confirms Noninvasive Blood Test Maintains Predictive Value in African American Men. 
  • A National Snapshot of Patient-Reported Outcomes Comparing Types of Abdominal Flaps for Breast Reconstruction. 
  • A Practical Approach to Mechanical Circulatory Support in Patients Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: An Interventional Perspective. 
  • A Propensity-matched Survival Analysis: Do Simultaneous Liver-lung Transplant Recipients Need a Liver? 
  • 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 double-blind pilot dosing study of low field magnetic stimulation (LFMS) for treatment-resistant depression (TRD). 
  • A five-gene hedgehog signature developed as a patient preselection tool for hedgehog inhibitor therapy in medulloblastoma. 
  • A gift of life: ethical and practical problems with conditional and directed donation. 
  • A long-term experience with expansion of Milan criteria for liver transplant recipients. 
  • 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 assessment of the use of single-photon emission computed tomography myocardial perfusion imaging with appropriateness criteria. 
  • 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 novel, efficient, randomized selection trial comparing combinations of drug therapy for ALS. 
  • A perspective on the regulation of the evaluation of new antithrombotic drugs. 
  • A phase I/II trial of intratumoral endoscopic ultrasound injection of ONYX-015 with intravenous gemcitabine in unresectable pancreatic carcinoma. 
  • A phase II study of cladribine treatment for fludarabine refractory B cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia: results from CALGB Study 9211. 
  • A population-based study of the association between coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) and cognitive decline: the Cache County study. 
  • A randomized phase III study of doxorubicin versus cisplatin/interferon alpha-2b/doxorubicin/fluorouracil (PIAF) combination chemotherapy for unresectable hepatocellular 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 registry of adult African American twins: the Carolina African American Twin Study of Aging. 
  • A retrospective analysis of the merits and challenges associated with simultaneous bilateral THA using the direct anterior approach. 
  • A review of racial differences in geriatric depression: implications for care and clinical research. 
  • A selective approach to resection of cystic lesions of the pancreas: results from 539 consecutive patients. 
  • A selective approach to the resection of cystic lesions of the pancreas: results from 539 consecutive patients. 
  • A surveillance system for monitoring, public reporting, and improving minority access to cancer clinical trials. 
  • A systematic review of models to predict recruitment to multicentre 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 systematic review on the application of pharmacoepidemiology in assessing prescription drug-related adverse events in pediatrics. 
  • A taxonomy for disease management: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association Disease Management Taxonomy Writing Group. 
  • ACC/AATS/AHA/ASE/ASNC/SCAI/SCCT/STS 2016 Appropriate Use Criteria for Coronary Revascularization in Patients With Acute Coronary Syndromes: A Report of the American College of Cardiology Appropriate Use Criteria Task Force, American Association for Thoracic Surgery, American Heart Association, American Society of Echocardiography, American Society of Nuclear Cardiology, Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography, and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons. 
  • ACC/AATS/AHA/ASE/EACTS/HVS/SCA/SCAI/SCCT/SCMR/STS 2017 Appropriate Use Criteria for the Treatment of Patients With Severe Aortic Stenosis: A Report of the American College of Cardiology Appropriate Use Criteria Task Force, American Association for Thoracic Surgery, American Heart Association, American Society of Echocardiography, European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Heart Valve Society, Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists, Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography, Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, and Society of Thoracic Surgeons. 
  • 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). 
  • ACC/AHA/ASE 2003 guideline update for the clinical application of echocardiography--summary article: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (ACC/AHA/ASE Committee to Update the 1997 Guidelines for the Clinical Application of Echocardiography). 
  • 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/STS/AATS/AHA/ASNC 2009 Appropriateness Criteria for Coronary Revascularization: a report by 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/STS/AATS/AHA/ASNC/HFSA/SCCT 2012 appropriate use criteria for coronary revascularization focused update: a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation Appropriate Use Criteria Task Force, Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, Society of Thoracic Surgeons, American Association for Thoracic Surgery, American Heart Association, American Society of Nuclear Cardiology, 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. 
  • AGS Report on Engagement Related to the NIH Inclusion Across the Lifespan Policy. 
  • 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. 
  • Abdominoperineal Resection for Rectal Cancer in the Twenty-First Century: Indications, Techniques, and Outcomes. 
  • 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. 
  • Acceptance-enhanced behavior therapy for trichotillomania: Randomized controlled trial rationale, method, and strategies for recruiting minority participants. 
  • 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. 
  • Achieving sufficient accrual to address the primary endpoint in phase III clinical trials from U.S. Cooperative Oncology Groups. 
  • Active Surveillance for DCIS: The Importance of Selection Criteria and Monitoring. 
  • Active surveillance for prostate cancer: can we modernize contemporary protocols to improve patient selection and outcomes in the focal therapy era? 
  • Acute DeBakey Type I Dissection Repair Using Frozen Elephant Trunk: The Cleveland Clinic Technique. 
  • Acute Rupture Open Repair Techniques. 
  • Acute coronary syndromes in the elderly. 
  • Acute coronary syndromes. STREAMlining care for patients with STEMI. 
  • Adapting to a Pandemic - Conducting Oncology Trials during the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic. 
  • Adenosine-induced transient asystole for intracranial aneurysm surgery: a retrospective review. 
  • Adherence to adding inhaled corticosteroids to rescue therapy in a pragmatic trial with adults with asthma: A pilot study. 
  • Adjunct endovascular interventions in carotid body tumors. 
  • 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. 
  • Adjuvant therapy for colorectal cancer: yesterday, today, and tomorrow. 
  • Adult Congenital Heart Disease Care Provision: the Need for a Jack/Jackie of All Trades. 
  • Advanced (stage D) heart failure: a statement from the Heart Failure Society of America Guidelines Committee. 
  • Advanced therapies for end-stage heart failure. 
  • 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? 
  • Advocating cardiovascular precision medicine with P2Y12 receptor inhibitors. 
  • 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. 
  • Aggression after traumatic brain injury: prevalence and correlates. 
  • 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? 
  • Alopecia areata investigational assessment guidelines. National Alopecia Areata Foundation. 
  • Am I a control?: Genotype-driven research recruitment and self-understandings of study participants. 
  • American Association for Thoracic Surgery/International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation guidelines on selected topics in mechanical circulatory support. 
  • 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. 
  • American Thyroid Association Statement on Remote-Access Thyroid Surgery. 
  • An Observational Study of the Association of Video- Versus Text-Based Informed Consent With Multicenter Trial Enrollment: Lessons From the PALM Study (Patient and Provider Assessment of Lipid Management). 
  • 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 evidence-based approach to patient selection for emergency department thoracotomy: A practice management guideline from the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma. 
  • 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 approach to consumer representation and involvement in a multicentre randomized controlled trial. 
  • An integrated genomic-based approach to individualized treatment of patients with advanced-stage ovarian cancer. 
  • An investigation of the efficacy of electronic consenting interfaces of research permissions management system in a hospital setting. 
  • An open-Label, 2 × 2 factorial, randomized controlled trial to evaluate the safety of apixaban vs. vitamin K antagonist and aspirin vs. placebo in patients with atrial fibrillation and acute coronary syndrome and/or percutaneous coronary intervention: Rationale and design of the AUGUSTUS trial. 
  • An outlook on precision surgery. 
  • 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 PTEN, BRAF, and EGFR status in determining benefit from cetuximab therapy in wild-type KRAS metastatic colon cancer. 
  • Analysis of early readmissions after combined pancreas-kidney transplantation. 
  • Analysis of intracellular methotrexate polyglutamates in patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis: effect of route of administration on variability in intracellular methotrexate polyglutamate concentrations. 
  • 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. 
  • Anticoagulation: choosing the optimal anticoagulant. 
  • Anticoagulation: indications and risk classification schemes. 
  • Antifungal agents in children. 
  • Antiplatelet strategies: evaluating their current role in the setting of acute coronary syndromes. 
  • Antireflux surgery in the setting of lung transplantation: strategies for treating gastroesophageal reflux disease in a high-risk population. 
  • Antithrombotic Therapy in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: A North American Perspective-2016 Update. 
  • Aortic valve repair. 
  • Aortic valve replacement in adults after balloon aortic valvuloplasty. 
  • Apical prolapse repair: weighing the risks and benefits. 
  • Appropriate Use Criteria for Coronary Revascularization and Trends in Utilization, Patient Selection, and Appropriateness of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention. 
  • Appropriate Use of Limited Interventions vs Extensive Surgery in the Elderly Patient With Spinal Disorders. 
  • Appropriateness Criteria for Total Knee Arthroplasty: Additional Comments and Considerations. 
  • Appropriateness of percutaneous coronary intervention. 
  • Appropriateness of percutaneous coronary intervention: a review. 
  • Are Well-Informed Potential Trial Participants More Likely to Participate? 
  • Are surgeons' preferences for instrumentation related to patient outcomes? A randomized clinical trial of two implants for idiopathic scoliosis. 
  • 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. 
  • Ascites in hepatitis C liver transplant recipients frequently occurs in the absence of advanced fibrosis. 
  • Assessing Frailty in Patients Undergoing Destination Therapy Left Ventricular Assist Device: Observations from Interagency Registry for Mechanically Assisted Circulatory Support. 
  • Assessing the current role of platelet function testing. 
  • Assessment and treatment of depression in patients with cardiovascular disease: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Working Group Report. 
  • Assessment of cadaveric organ viability during pulsatile perfusion using infrared imaging. 
  • Assessment of chiropractic treatment for active duty, U.S. military personnel with low back pain: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. 
  • 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. 
  • Atherosclerotic renal artery stenosis in the post-CORAL era part 2: new directions in Transcatheter Nephron Salvage following flawed revascularization trials. 
  • Awareness and perceptions of electroconvulsive therapy among psychiatric patients: a cross-sectional survey from teaching hospitals in Karachi, Pakistan. 
  • Barriers and strategies for sustained participation of African-American men in cohort studies. 
  • 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. 
  • Barriers to enrollment in a randomized controlled trial of hydrocortisone for cardiovascular insufficiency in term and late preterm newborn infants. 
  • Baseline Parameters in Clinical Trials for Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis: Recommendations From the Liver Forum. 
  • Baseline characteristics in the Avoiding Cardiovascular events through Combination therapy in Patients Living with Systolic Hypertension (ACCOMPLISH) trial: a hypertensive population at high cardiovascular risk. 
  • 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. 
  • Bayesian inference for smoking cessation with a latent cure state. 
  • Bedside insertion of inferior vena cava filters in the intensive care unit. 
  • Before and after the veterans affairs cooperative program 468 study: Deep brain stimulator target selection for treatment of Parkinson's disease. 
  • Benefit or bias? The role of surgery to remove the primary tumor in patients with metastatic breast cancer. 
  • Biliopancreatic diversion with duodenal switch. 
  • Binaural advantages in using a cochlear implant for adults with profound unilateral hearing loss. 
  • Biopsy first: Lessons learned from Cancer and Leukemia Group B (CALGB) 140503. 
  • Biosignatures in thrombotic disorders. 
  • Bladder Reconstruction Rates Differ among Centers Participating in National Spina Bifida Patient Registry. 
  • 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. 
  • Case 6--1999. Off-pump coronary artery bypass graft surgery. 
  • Case definitions for inclusion and analysis of endpoints in clinical trials for nonalcoholic steatohepatitis through the lens of regulatory science. 
  • Catheterization Laboratory Considerations During the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic: From the ACC's Interventional Council and SCAI. 
  • Central effects of residual hearing: implications for choice of ear for cochlear implantation. 
  • Cesarean delivery for fetal malformations. 
  • Challenges and opportunities: recruitment and retention of African Americans for Alzheimer disease research: lessons learned. 
  • Challenges and recommendations for early identification of metastatic disease in prostate cancer. 
  • 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. 
  • Challenges to accrual predictions to phase III cancer clinical trials: a survey of study chairs and lead statisticians of 248 NCI-sponsored trials. 
  • Changes in international normalized ratio (INR) and model for endstage liver disease (MELD) based on selection of clinical laboratory. 
  • 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 and Treatments of Patients Enrolled in the CHAMP-HF Registry Compared With Patients Enrolled in the PARADIGM-HF Trial. 
  • Characteristics of patients with lower extremity symptoms treated with slump stretching: a case series. 
  • Characterization of a "low-risk" cohort of grade group 2 prostate cancer patients: Results from the Shared Equal Access Regional Cancer Hospital database. 
  • Characterization of the organ donor with bacteremia. 
  • Chemoprevention of breast cancer: the Italian experience. 
  • Chemotherapy Use, Performance Status, and Quality of Life at the End of Life. 
  • Choice of Hemodialysis Access in Older Adults: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis. 
  • Cholecystectomy concomitant with laparoscopic gastric bypass: a trend analysis of the nationwide inpatient sample from 2001 to 2008. 
  • Chronic Myeloid Leukemia, Version 1.2019, NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology. 
  • 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 regulatory landscape for cardiogenic shock: A report from the Cardiac Safety Research Consortium ThinkTank on cardiogenic shock. 
  • 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 decision making regarding leiomyomata: what we need in the next millenium. 
  • 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 outcome of a cohort of patients eligible for therapeutic angiogenesis or transmyocardial revascularization. 
  • 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 accrual in older cancer patients: The most important steps are the first ones. 
  • 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 discussion, referral, and recruitment: physician, patient, and system factors. 
  • 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. 
  • Clinical trials recruitment planning: A proposed framework from the Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative. 
  • Closing the gap between bench and bedside research for early arthritis therapies (EARTH): report from the AOSSM/NIH U-13 Post-Joint Injury Osteoarthritis Conference II. 
  • Combined medial meniscal transplantation and high tibial osteotomy. 
  • Commentary: Higher paraplegia/paraparesis and technical success rates of concurrent hybrid procedures in the treatment of thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms. 
  • Commentary: Per capita payments in clinical trials: reasonable costs versus bounty hunting. 
  • Comments on concurrent and adjuvant chemotherapy for nasopharyngeal carcinoma: a mist of mysterious results. 
  • Community and treatment engagement for depressed African American youth: the AAKOMA FLOA pilot. 
  • 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 Approaches for Notification and Authorization in Pragmatic Clinical Research Evaluating Commonly Used Medical Practices. 
  • Comparison of Rates of Bleeding and Vascular Complications Before, During, and After Trial Enrollment in the SAFE-PCI Trial for Women. 
  • Comparison of academic and nonacademic sites in multi-center clinical trials. 
  • Comparison of outcomes in cancer patients treated within and outside clinical trials: conceptual framework and structured review. 
  • 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. 
  • Comprehension of a simplified assent form in a vaccine trial for adolescents. 
  • Comprehensive Assessment of Long-term Effects of Reducing Intake of Energy Phase 2 (CALERIE Phase 2) screening and recruitment: methods and results. 
  • Comprehensive genomic profiling of relapsed and metastatic adenoid cystic carcinomas by next-generation sequencing reveals potential new routes to targeted therapies. 
  • Computed tomography perfusion-based selection of patients for endovascular recanalization. 
  • Conceptual and methodological issues in designing a randomized, controlled treatment trial for geriatric bipolar disorder: GERI-BD. 
  • Concurrent chemoradiotherapy for locally advanced, nonmetastatic, squamous carcinoma of the head and neck: consensus, controversy, and conundrum. 
  • Concurrent versus two-stage hybrid procedures in the treatment of thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms. 
  • Conduct of clinical trials in acute heart failure: regional differences in heart failure clinical trials. 
  • Conducting clinical trials in heart failure during (and after) the COVID-19 pandemic: an Expert Consensus Position Paper from the Heart Failure Association (HFA) of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). 
  • 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. 
  • Confirmatory Magnetic Resonance Imaging with or without Biopsy Impacts Decision Making in Newly Diagnosed Favorable Risk Prostate Cancer. 
  • 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. 
  • Consensus document on the radial approach in percutaneous cardiovascular interventions: position paper by the European Association of Percutaneous Cardiovascular Interventions and Working Groups on Acute Cardiac Care** and Thrombosis of the European Society of Cardiology. 
  • Consensus guidelines for the use of ultrasound for diving research. 
  • Contemporary Management of Cardiogenic Shock: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association. 
  • Contemporary Patterns of Early Coronary Angiography Use in Patients With Non-ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction in the United States: Insights From the National Cardiovascular Data Registry Acute Coronary Treatment and Intervention Outcomes Network Registry. 
  • Contemporary results of focal therapy for prostate cancer using cryoablation. 
  • Contemporary role of prostate cancer antigen 3 in the management of prostate cancer. 
  • Contemporary role of systematic prostate biopsies: indications, techniques, and implications for patient care. 
  • Contemporary surgical options for metastatic colorectal cancer. 
  • Contemporary therapy of acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction. 
  • Contemporary use of adjunctive thrombectomy during primary percutaneous coronary intervention for ST-elevation myocardial infarction in the United States. 
  • 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. 
  • Controversies and Challenges of Ventricular Assist Device Therapy. 
  • Controversies in Diagnostic Imaging of Patients With Suspected Stable and Acute Chest Pain Syndromes. 
  • Controversies in acupuncture research: selection of controls and outcome measures in acupuncture clinical trials. 
  • 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. 
  • Core Competencies in Echocardiography for Imaging Structural Heart Disease Interventions: An Expert Consensus Statement. 
  • 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. 
  • Correction of congenital diaphragmatic hernia in utero VII: a prospective trial. 
  • 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 of Screening for Primary Aldosteronism and Subtype Diagnosis in the Resistant Hypertensive Patients. 
  • 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. 
  • Creating metasummaries of qualitative findings. 
  • 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. 
  • Culprit-only or multivessel revascularization in patients with acute coronary syndromes: an American College of Cardiology National Cardiovascular Database Registry report. 
  • Curative Treatment for Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer in Elderly Patients: A Systematic Review. 
  • 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 national health insurance coverage policies for breast and ovarian cancer prophylactic surgery. 
  • 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. 
  • Cystic fibrosis pulmonary guidelines: pulmonary complications: hemoptysis and pneumothorax. 
  • Cystic lesions of the pancreas: changes in the presentation and management of 1,424 patients at a single institution over a 15-year time period. 
  • Cystic lesions of the pancreas: selection criteria for operative and nonoperative management in 209 patients. 
  • Decongestion in acute heart failure. 
  • Defining left bundle branch block in the era of cardiac resynchronization therapy. 
  • Defining optimal research study design for cardiovascular imaging using computed tomography angiography as a model. 
  • Defining the Incremental Utility of Prostate Multiparametric Magnetic Resonance Imaging at Standard and Specialized Read in Predicting Extracapsular Extension of Prostate Cancer. 
  • Delivery of optimized anticoagulant therapy: consensus statement from the Anticoagulation Forum. 
  • Demographics, prognosis, and therapy in 702 patients with brain metastases from malignant melanoma. 
  • Design Elements and Enrollment Patterns of Contemporary Trials in Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction: A Systematic Review. 
  • 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 of phase I combination trials: recommendations of the Clinical Trial Design Task Force of the NCI Investigational Drug Steering Committee. 
  • 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. 
  • Designing the Selenium and Vitamin E Cancer Prevention Trial (SELECT). 
  • 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. 
  • Determining the efficacy of antiplatelet therapies for the individual: lessons from clinical trials. 
  • Development of a protocol for allogeneic marrow transplantation for severe systemic sclerosis: paradigm for autoimmune disease. 
  • Diabetic atrial fibrillation patients: mortality and risk for stroke or embolism during a 10-year follow-up. 
  • 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 Patients Enrolled Early and Late During Clinical Trial Recruitment: Insights From the HF-ACTION Trial. 
  • 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. 
  • Dipsticks and diagnostic algorithms in urinary tract infection: development and validation, randomised trial, economic analysis, observational cohort and qualitative study. 
  • Direct en face imaging of secundum atrial septal defects by velocity-encoded cardiovascular magnetic resonance in patients evaluated for possible transcatheter closure. 
  • Direct myocardial revascularization and angiogenesis--how many patients might be eligible? 
  • Disrupting abnormal electrical activity with deep brain stimulation: is epilepsy the next frontier? 
  • 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 clinician-reported lipid guideline adoption translate to guideline-adherent care? An evaluation of the Patient and Provider Assessment of Lipid Management (PALM) registry. 
  • 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. 
  • Drug-company sponsorship and the Declaration of Helsinki. 
  • Dual-energy CT workflow: multi-institutional consensus on standardization of abdominopelvic MDCT protocols. 
  • Durable mechanical circulatory support devices. 
  • Dynamics of patient targeting for care management in Medicaid: a case study of the Durham Community Health Network. 
  • Early Check: translational science at the intersection of public health and newborn screening. 
  • Early Clinical Outcomes After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Using a Novel Self-Expanding Bioprosthesis in Patients With Severe Aortic Stenosis Who Are Suboptimal for Surgery: Results of the Evolut R U.S. Study. 
  • 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. 
  • Early impact of guideline publication on angiotensin-receptor neprilysin inhibitor use among patients hospitalized for heart failure. 
  • Early use of TIPS for cirrhosis and variceal bleeding. 
  • Echocardiography for the assessment of myocardial viability. 
  • Echocardiography in the detection of cardioembolism in a stroke population. 
  • Economic analyses of the Be Fit Be Well program: a weight loss program for community health centers. 
  • 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 patient selection method on provider group performance estimates. 
  • 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 and toxicity of methotrexate in juvenile idiopathic arthritis: comparison of 2 initial dosing regimens. 
  • 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. 
  • Effectiveness of involuntary outpatient commitment. 
  • Effectiveness of spinal fusion versus structured rehabilitation in chronic low back pain patients with and without isthmic spondylolisthesis: a systematic review. 
  • Effectiveness of thigh-length graduated compression stockings to reduce the risk of deep vein thrombosis after stroke (CLOTS trial 1): a multicentre, randomised controlled trial. 
  • 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. 
  • Emerging vascular applications of magnetic resonance imaging: a picture is worth more than a thousand words. 
  • 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. 
  • Engaging African Americans in Research: The Recruiter's Perspective. 
  • Enrollment Trends and Disparity Among Patients With Lung Cancer in National Clinical Trials, 1990 to 2012. 
  • Enrollment and Racial Disparities in Cancer Treatment Clinical Trials in North Carolina. 
  • Enrollment and Retention of Men and Women in Health Services Research and Development Trials. 
  • 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). 
  • Enrollment of Older Patients, Women, and Racial and Ethnic Minorities in Contemporary Heart Failure Clinical Trials: A Systematic Review. 
  • Enrollment of women in cardiovascular clinical trials funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. 
  • Enrollment of women in cardiovascular clinical trials. 
  • Enteric-coated mycophenolate sodium versus mycophenolate mofetil maintenance immunosuppression: outcomes analysis of the United Network for Organ Sharing/Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network database. 
  • Established and Emerging Roles of Biomarkers in Heart Failure Clinical Trials. 
  • Establishing an electronic health record-supported approach for outreach to and recruitment of persons at high risk of type 2 diabetes in clinical trials: The vitamin D and type 2 diabetes (D2d) study experience. 
  • Establishing patient-specific criteria for selecting the optimal upper extremity vascular access procedure. 
  • Estimating the rate of cesarean section by maternal request: anonymous survey of obstetricians in Australia. 
  • Ethical challenges in genotype-driven research recruitment. 
  • Ethical issues in identifying and recruiting participants for familial genetic research. 
  • 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. 
  • Ethics in the quest for transplant tolerance. 
  • Evaluating strict and conventional left bundle branch block criteria using electrocardiographic simulations. 
  • Evaluating the validity of model for end-stage liver disease exception points for hepatocellular carcinoma patients with multiple nodules <2 cm. 
  • Evaluation of ventricular arrhythmias in early clinical pharmacology trials and potential consequences for later development. 
  • Everolimus-eluting Xience v/Promus versus zotarolimus-eluting resolute stents in patients with diabetes mellitus. 
  • Evolution of the concept of focal therapy for prostate cancer. 
  • Evolving Landscape of Clinical Trials in Heart Failure: Patient Populations, Endpoint Selection, and Regions of Enrollment. 
  • 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. 
  • Explaining the unexpected: insights from the PLATelet inhibition and clinical Outcomes (PLATO) trial comparing ticagrelor and clopidogrel. Editorial on Serebruany "Viewpoint: Paradoxical excess mortality in the PLATO trial should be independently verified" (Thromb Haemost 2011; 105.5). 
  • Exploring Understanding of "Understanding": The Paradigm Case of Biobank Consent Comprehension. 
  • Extending the boundaries of acceptable organ donors: a means of expanding the donor pool for liver transplantation. 
  • Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for adult respiratory failure. 
  • FOXM1 expression predicts the prognosis in hepatocellular carcinoma patients after orthotopic liver transplantation combined with the Milan criteria. 
  • Factors Associated With Initiation of Biologics in Patients With Axial Spondyloarthritis in an Urban Asian City: A PRESPOND Study. 
  • Factors Associated with Revision Surgery after Balloon Sinuplasty. 
  • Factors affecting patient enrollment in radiology clinical trials: a case study of the American College of Radiology Imaging Network. 
  • Factors associated with do-not-resuscitate orders: patients' preferences, prognoses, and physicians' judgments. SUPPORT Investigators. Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatment. 
  • Factors associated with failure to list HIV-positive kidney transplant candidates. 
  • Factors associated with recruitment and screening in the Treatment for Adolescents With Depression Study (TADS). 
  • Failure of investigator adherence to electrocardiographic entry criteria is frequent and influences clinical outcomes: lessons from APEX-AMI. 
  • 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. 
  • Fenestrated and branched endografts for the treatment of thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms: a systematic review. 
  • Fetal surgery for posterior urethral valves: long-term postnatal outcomes. 
  • Fibroblast growth factor 23 and the future of phosphorus management. 
  • 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. 
  • Five good reasons to be disappointed with randomized trials. 
  • Focal Therapy Eligibility Determined by Magnetic Resonance Imaging/Ultrasound Fusion Biopsy. 
  • Focal Therapy for Prostate Cancer: A More Vehement View of the Approach Could Translate into Real Benefits for Our Patients. 
  • 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 in prostate cancer-report from a consensus panel. 
  • Focal therapy of prostate and kidney cancer. 
  • 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. 
  • Formal representation of eligibility criteria: a literature review. 
  • 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? 
  • Gasless Transaxillary Endoscopic Thyroidectomy with Robotic Assistance: A High-Volume Experience in North America. 
  • Gemcitabine, vinorelbine, and pegylated liposomal doxorubicin (GVD), a salvage regimen in relapsed Hodgkin's lymphoma: CALGB 59804. 
  • Gender, age, and ethnicity in HIV vaccine-related research and clinical trials: report from a WHO-UNAIDS consultation, 26-28 August 2004. Lausanne, Switzerland. 
  • 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. 
  • Genetic determinants of renal transplant outcome: where do we stand? 
  • Genomics identifies medulloblastoma subgroups that are enriched for specific genetic alterations. 
  • Geographic favoritism in liver transplantation--unfortunate or unfair? 
  • Geographic favoritism in liver transplantation. 
  • Getting meaningful informed consent from older adults: a structured literature review of empirical research. 
  • Global Variations in Patient Populations and Outcomes in Heart Failure Clinical Trials. 
  • 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. 
  • Hand-Assisted Laparoscopic Colectomy Improves Perioperative Outcomes Without Increasing Operative Time Compared to the Open Approach: a National Analysis of 8791 Patients. 
  • Harms, benefits, and the nature of interventions in pragmatic clinical trials. 
  • Heart Failure Site-Based Research in the United States: Results of the Heart Failure Society of America Research Network Survey. 
  • Heart Failure in Women. 
  • Heart Rhythm Monitoring Strategies for Cryptogenic Stroke: 2015 Diagnostics and Monitoring Stroke Focus Group Report. 
  • Heart failure and the elderly: disease diversity, data, and delivery of care. 
  • Hemicraniectomy and durotomy upon deterioration from infarction-related swelling trial: randomized pilot clinical trial. 
  • 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. 
  • Hepatic resection for metastatic melanoma: distinct patterns of recurrence and prognosis for ocular versus cutaneous disease. 
  • Hepatitis B virus viral load and treatment decision. 
  • Hepatobiliary MRI as novel selection criteria in liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma. 
  • Hepatocellular carcinoma and model for end-stage liver disease exceptions: the more we understand, the more challenging the allocation gets. 
  • Heterogeneity of stroke pathophysiology and neuroprotective clinical trial design. 
  • High tibial osteotomy for the treatment of unicompartmental arthritis of the knee. 
  • High versus low PEEP in ARDS. 
  • High-dose chemotherapy and hematopoietic support for patients with high-risk primary breast cancer and involvement of 4 to 9 lymph nodes. 
  • High-frequency oscillatory ventilation in pediatric respiratory failure: a multicenter experience. 
  • High-frequency ventilation. 
  • High-quality evidence to inform clinical practice. 
  • High-risk patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction derive greatest absolute benefit from primary percutaneous coronary intervention: results from the Primary Coronary Angioplasty Trialist versus thrombolysis (PCAT)-2 collaboration. 
  • High-risk prostate cancer: from definition to contemporary management. 
  • Hip resurfacing-keys to success. 
  • Hospital participation in clinical trials for patients with acute myocardial infarction: Results from the National Cardiovascular Data Registry. 
  • Hospital percutaneous coronary intervention appropriateness and in-hospital procedural outcomes: insights from the NCDR. 
  • 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 reduce the risk of failing to reach recruitment targets: lessons learnt from a pump pilot trial. 
  • 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. 
  • Hybrid procedures in the treatment of thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms: a systematic review. 
  • Hyperbaric oxygen treatment for air or gas embolism. 
  • Hyperbaric oxygen treatment for decompression sickness. 
  • IRB chairs' perspectives on genotype-driven research recruitment. 
  • Identification of patients at high risk for post-discharge venous thromboembolism after hepato-pancreato-biliary surgery: which patients benefit from extended thromboprophylaxis? 
  • Identifying appropriate patients for early salvage radiotherapy after prostatectomy. 
  • Identifying patients who are suitable for stentless ureteroscopy following treatment of urolithiasis. 
  • Identifying, recruiting, and retaining seriously-ill patients and their caregivers in longitudinal research. 
  • If you build a rare disease registry, will they enroll and will they use it? Methods and data from the National Registry of Myotonic Dystrophy (DM) and Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy (FSHD). 
  • 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 Current Versus Previous Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Guidelines on the Proportion of Patients With Heart Failure Eligible for Therapy. 
  • Impact of Heart Outcomes Prevention Evaluation Trial on Statin Eligibility for the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease: Insights from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. 
  • Impact of age and comorbidity on treatment and outcomes in elderly cancer patients. 
  • 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 early personal-history characteristics on the Pace of Aging: implications for clinical trials of therapies to slow aging and extend healthspan. 
  • 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. 
  • Impact of pre-operative positron emission tomography in gallbladder cancer. 
  • Impact of the New Pulmonary Hypertension Definition on Heart Transplant Outcomes: Expanding the Hemodynamic Risk Profile. 
  • Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators for primary prevention: how do the data pertain to the aged? 
  • Implementation of Lung Cancer Screening in the Veterans Health Administration. 
  • Implementing a geriatric assessment in cooperative group clinical cancer trials: CALGB 360401. 
  • Implications of patient selection and surgical technique for primary total knee arthroplasty. 
  • Implications of the LEGACY trial on US Atrial Fibrillation Patients: An NCDR Research to Practice (R2P) Project. 
  • Importance of echocardiography in patients with severe nonischemic heart failure: the second Prospective Randomized Amlodipine Survival Evaluation (PRAISE-2) echocardiographic study. 
  • Improved patient selection for implantable defibrillators. 
  • Improved survival in patients enrolled promptly into remote monitoring following cardiac implantable electronic device implantation. 
  • Improved survival in simultaneous lung-liver recipients and candidates in the modern era of lung allocation. 
  • Improvement in Liver Transplant Outcomes From Older Donors: A US National Analysis. 
  • 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 evidence developed from population-level experience with targeted agents. 
  • Improving outcomes after catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation: better patient selection, better procedure, or both? 
  • 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. 
  • Improving the Safety of Teratogen Prescribing Practices in a Pediatric Rheumatology Clinic. 
  • 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. 
  • Increased Calculated Panel Reactive Antigen Is Associated With Increased Waitlist Time and Mortality in Lung Transplantation. 
  • Increasing access to the MDR-TB surveillance programme through a collaborative model in western Kenya. 
  • Index of contractile asymmetry improves patient selection for CRT: a proof-of-concept study. 
  • 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. 
  • Influence of donor criteria on early outcome after intestinal transplantation. 
  • Influence of healthy candidate bias in assessing clinical effectiveness for implantable cardioverter-defibrillators: cohort study of older patients with heart failure. 
  • Informed consent for research in Borderline Personality Disorder. 
  • Inhaled PGE1 in neonates with hypoxemic respiratory failure: two pilot feasibility randomized clinical trials. 
  • Initial Imaging-Guided Strategy Versus Routine Care in Patients With Non-ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction. 
  • 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. 
  • Insertion and removal of vaginal mesh for pelvic organ prolapse. 
  • Insulin resistance is associated with a metabolic profile of altered protein metabolism in Chinese and Asian-Indian men. 
  • Integrative Review of Recruitment of Research Participants Through Facebook. 
  • Integrative health coaching for patients with type 2 diabetes: a randomized clinical trial. 
  • Intellectual Equipoise and Challenges: Accruing Patients With Advanced Cancer to a Trial Randomizing to Surgical or Nonsurgical Management (SWOG S1316). 
  • Intensity-modulated radiation therapy in gynecologic malignancies. 
  • Interactions between age, outcome of acute coronary syndromes, and tirofiban therapy. 
  • Interhospital ECMO Transport: Regional Focus. 
  • Intermediate-term results of the Ludloff osteotomy in one hundred and eleven feet. Surgical technique. 
  • International guidelines for the selection of lung transplant candidates: 2006 update--a consensus report from the Pulmonary Scientific Council of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation. 
  • Internet Recruitment of Asian American Breast Cancer Survivors. 
  • Internet communities for recruitment of cancer patients into an Internet survey: a discussion paper. 
  • Internet communities for recruitment of cancer patients. 
  • Interruption of antiretroviral treatment in HIV-infected patients with preserved immune function is associated with a low rate of clinical progression: a prospective study by AIDS Clinical Trials Group 5170. 
  • Interstitial implant alone or in combination with external beam radiation therapy for intermediate-risk prostate cancer: a survey of practice patterns in the United States. 
  • Intestinal transplantation. 
  • Intestinal transplantation: a single-center experience. 
  • Intra-aortic balloon pump trials: questions, answers, and unresolved issues. 
  • 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. 
  • Investigating the mechanisms of hyporesponse to antiplatelet approaches. 
  • Is Anticoagulation Beneficial in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension? 
  • Is Functional Independence Associated With Improved Long-Term Survival After Lung Transplantation? 
  • Is Resection of Primary Midgut Neuroendocrine Tumors in Patients with Unresectable Metastatic Liver Disease Justified? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. 
  • Is mifepristone useful in psychotic depression? 
  • 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. 
  • Islet cell xenotransplantation: a serious look toward the clinic. 
  • Issues affecting minority participation in research studies of Alzheimer disease. 
  • Issues in Internet survey research among cancer patients. 
  • Kidney transplantation and waiting list for renal transplantation for human immunodeficiency virus patients. 
  • Kidney transplantation combined with other organs in Bologna: an update. 
  • Knee osteotomy and meniscal transplantation: indications, technical considerations, and results. 
  • LINAC based stereotactic radiosurgery for multiple brain metastases: guidance for clinical implementation. 
  • Lack of timely accrual information in oncology clinical trials: a cross-sectional analysis. 
  • Laparoscopic adrenalectomy. Comparison of the lateral and posterior approaches. 
  • 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 atrial appendage occlusion: rationale, evidence, devices, and patient selection. 
  • Left ventricular assist device destination therapy versus extended criteria cardiac transplant. 
  • Left ventricular assist device therapy in advanced heart failure: patient selection and outcomes. 
  • Length of stay, functional outcome, and mortality following medical rehabilitation. 
  • Letter to the editor: preoperative pain and function profiles reflect consistent TKA patient selection among US surgeons. 
  • 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. 
  • Liver transplant recipient survival benefit with living donation in the model for endstage liver disease allocation era. 
  • Liver transplantation for alcoholic liver disease. 
  • Liver transplantation in autoimmune liver disease--selection of patients. 
  • Liver transplantation in patients with liver metastases from neuroendocrine tumors: A systematic review. 
  • Living-related lobar lung transplantation. 
  • Local access to subspecialty care influences the chance of receiving a liver transplant. 
  • Local therapy for rectal cancer. 
  • Locoregional therapies for hepatocellular carcinoma and the new LI-RADS treatment response algorithm. 
  • Long-term follow-up of a randomized post-induction therapy trial in acute myelogenous leukemia (a Southeastern Cancer Study Group trial). 
  • Long-term outcomes after fetal therapy for congenital high airway obstructive syndrome. 
  • Long-term outcomes and quality of life after intestine transplantation. 
  • 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 Accuracy of the HeartMate Risk Score for Predicting Mortality Using the INTERMACS Registry Data. 
  • Low mortality rates after endovascular aortic repair expand use to high-risk patients. 
  • Low-molecular-weight heparin to prevent postpartum venous thromboembolism. A pilot randomised placebo-controlled trial. 
  • 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. 
  • Lower likelihood of cardiac procedures after acute coronary syndrome in patients with human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. 
  • Lung transplant referral for individuals with cystic fibrosis: Cystic Fibrosis Foundation consensus guidelines. 
  • Lung transplantation at Duke University Medical Center. 
  • Lung transplantation at Duke University. 
  • Lung transplantation for cystic fibrosis patients with Burkholderia cepacia complex. Survival linked to genomovar type. 
  • Lung transplantation in advanced COPD: is it worth it? 
  • Lupus and Left Ventricular Assist Devices: High-Risk for Bleeding? 
  • Lymphatic mapping and sentinel lymphadenectomy in primary cutaneous melanoma. 
  • MRI patient selection for endovascular thrombectomy in acute ischemic stroke: correlation between pretreatment diffusion weighted imaging and outcome scores. 
  • MRI phenotype is associated with response to doxorubicin and cyclophosphamide neoadjuvant chemotherapy in stage III breast cancer. 
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Infantile Idiopathic Scoliosis: Is Universal Screening Necessary? 
  • 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. 
  • Management of hepatocellular adenoma: comparison of resection, embolization and observation. 
  • Management of venous thromboembolism in patients with advanced cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis. 
  • Managing Prostate Cancer Surgical Patients during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Brief Report of the Duke Cancer Institute's Initial Experience. 
  • Managing clinical research permissions electronically: A novel approach to enhancing recruitment and managing consents. 
  • Maternal outcome after open fetal surgery. A review of the first 17 human cases. 
  • Measurement of chemoresistance markers in patients with stage III non-small cell lung cancer: a novel approach for patient selection. 
  • Measuring the unmeasurable: automated bone scan index as a quantitative endpoint in prostate cancer clinical trials. 
  • Mechanisms to provide safe and effective drugs for children. 
  • Medical Management of Patients With a Left Ventricular Assist Device for the Non-Left Ventricular Assist Device Specialist. 
  • Medical, ethical and legal issues regarding thrombolytic therapy in the Jehovah's Witness. 
  • Medication dosing for heart failure with reduced ejection fraction - opportunities and challenges. 
  • Medicine. Placebo-controls in short-term clinical trials of hypertension. 
  • Mental health first aid training of the public in a rural area: a cluster randomized trial [ISRCTN53887541]. 
  • Metabolic phenotype in the brothers of women with polycystic ovary syndrome. 
  • Metal-on-metal hip resurfacing: a skeptic's view. 
  • Methadone metabolism and clearance are induced by nelfinavir despite inhibition of cytochrome P4503A (CYP3A) activity. 
  • Methodological issues in the recruitment of ethnic minority subjects to research via the Internet: a discussion paper. 
  • Methods and baseline characteristics of two group-randomized trials with multiracial and multiethnic working-class samples. 
  • 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. 
  • Minimally invasive distal pancreatectomy. 
  • Minimally invasive treatment of urinary tract calculi in children. 
  • 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. 
  • Molecular Genomic Testing for Breast Cancer: Utility for Surgeons. 
  • Molecular pathways: translational and therapeutic implications of the Notch signaling pathway in cancer. 
  • Morbidity and Mortality Conference for Percutaneous Coronary Intervention. 
  • Morbidity and mortality of major pulmonary resections in patients with early-stage lung cancer: initial results of the randomized, prospective ACOSOG Z0030 trial. 
  • Mortality and morbidity reduction by primary percutaneous coronary intervention is independent of the patient's age. 
  • Multicenter automatic defibrillator implantation trial: reduce inappropriate therapy (MADIT-RIT): background, rationale, and clinical protocol. 
  • Multicenter, dose-ranging study of efegatran sulfate versus heparin with thrombolysis for acute myocardial infarction: The Promotion of Reperfusion in Myocardial Infarction Evolution (PRIME) trial. 
  • Multifractal characterization of the autonomous nervous system during prolonged coronary artery occlusion. 
  • Multisite Investigation of Outcomes With Implementation of CYP2C19 Genotype-Guided Antiplatelet Therapy After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention. 
  • 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. 
  • NCCN Guidelines Insights: Bladder Cancer, Version 5.2018. 
  • NCCN Guidelines Insights: Cancer-Associated Venous Thromboembolic Disease, Version 2.2018. 
  • National Institute of Mental Health Collaborative Multimodal Treatment Study of Children with ADHD (the MTA). Design challenges and choices. 
  • Negative trials in nephrology: what can we learn? 
  • Neoadjuvant systemic therapy in melanoma: recommendations of the International Neoadjuvant Melanoma Consortium. 
  • Nerve-sparing focal cryoablation of prostate cancer. 
  • Neurocognitive assessment in the Clinical Antipsychotic Trials of Intervention Effectiveness (CATIE) project schizophrenia trial: development, methodology, and rationale. 
  • 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 antihyperglycemic medications with cardiovascular protection for patients with diabetes: What do surgeons need to know? 
  • New drugs for old folks: the evidence-based argument for newer antidepressants. 
  • New radiotherapy and chemoradiotherapy approaches for non-small-cell lung cancer. 
  • Next steps in immuno-oncology: enhancing antitumor effects through appropriate patient selection and rationally designed combination strategies. 
  • Nicotine abstinence genotyping: assessing the impact on smoking cessation clinical trials. 
  • No Changes in Patient Selection and Value-Based Metrics for Total Hip Arthroplasty After Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement Bundle Implementation at a Single Center. 
  • No stone left unturned: challenges encountered during recruitment of women with advanced ovarian cancer for a phase I study. 
  • 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. 
  • Observation versus Resection for Small Asymptomatic Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors: A Matched Case-Control Study. 
  • Obstacles and opportunities in the design of ethics consultation evaluation. 
  • Olanzapine on trial. 
  • Older Adults in Clinical Research and Drug Development: Closing the Geriatric Gap. 
  • Older spouses' perceptions of partners' chronic arthritis pain: implications for spousal responses, support provision, and caregiving experiences. 
  • Older-Patient-Specific Cancer Trials: A Pooled Analysis of 2,277 Patients (A151715). 
  • On Enrichment Strategies for Biomarker Stratified Clinical Trials. 
  • On confirmation bias in imaging research. 
  • OnabotulinumtoxinA vs Sacral Neuromodulation on Refractory Urgency Urinary Incontinence in Women: A Randomized Clinical Trial. 
  • Once-daily intravenous busulfan and fludarabine: clinical and pharmacokinetic results of a myeloablative, reduced-toxicity conditioning regimen for allogeneic stem cell transplantation in AML and MDS. 
  • One-year comparison of a high-monounsaturated fat diet with a high-carbohydrate diet in type 2 diabetes. 
  • Open repair of chronic distal aortic dissection in the endovascular era: Implications for disease management. 
  • Open versus endovascular repair of ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms. 
  • Operative resection is currently overutilized for cystic lesions of the pancreas. 
  • 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. 
  • Optimal use of radium-223 in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer. 
  • 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. 
  • Organizational- and employee-level recruitment into a worksite-based weight loss study. 
  • Osteochondral Lesions of the Ankle. 
  • Other formulations and future considerations for apomorphine for subcutaneous injection therapy. 
  • Outcome- and auxiliary-dependent subsampling and its statistical inference. 
  • Outcomes and Experience with Lumbopleural Shunts in the Management of Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension. 
  • Outcomes following transcatheter aortic valve replacement in the United States. 
  • 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. 
  • Outpatient Worsening Heart Failure as a Target for Therapy: A Review. 
  • Ovarian Cancer: Clinical Trial Breakthroughs and Impact on Management. 
  • 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. 
  • PREPARED Study: A Study of Shared Decision-Making for Coronary Artery Disease. 
  • Pain and disability determine treatment modality for older patients with adult scoliosis, while deformity guides treatment for younger patients. 
  • Palliative care. 
  • Pancreas Transplantation: Indications, Techniques, and Outcomes. 
  • Pancreas and liver resection in Jehovah's Witness patients: feasible and safe. 
  • 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. 
  • Parent perspectives on pediatric genetic research and implications for genotype-driven research recruitment. 
  • Parenteral nutrition and calorie delivery in the ICU: controversy, clarity, or call to action? 
  • Parkinson's disease: therapeutic choices and timing decisions in patient management. Interview by Wayne Kuznar. 
  • Participation in a women's breast cancer risk counseling trial. Who participates? Who declines? High Risk Breast Cancer Consortium. 
  • Participation in trauma research: is there evidence of harm? 
  • Participation of Racial and Ethnic Minorities in Technology-Based Interventions to Self-Manage Type 2 Diabetes: A Scoping Review. 
  • Pathologic and molecular features correlate with long-term outcome after adjuvant therapy of resected primary GI stromal tumor: the ACOSOG Z9001 trial. 
  • Pathological upgrading at radical prostatectomy for patients with Grade Group 1 prostate cancer: implications of confirmatory testing for patients considering active surveillance. 
  • Patient Age and Tumor Subtype Predict the Extent of Axillary Surgery Among Breast Cancer Patients Eligible for the American College of Surgeons Oncology Group Trial Z0011. 
  • Patient Factors That Influence Decision Making: Randomization Versus Observational Nonoperative Versus Observational Operative Treatment for Adult Symptomatic Lumbar Scoliosis. 
  • Patient Selection and Surgical Management of High-Risk Patients with Morbid Obesity. 
  • Patient age and decisions to withhold life-sustaining treatments from seriously ill, hospitalized adults. SUPPORT Investigators. Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatment. 
  • 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 perspectives on research recruitment through cancer registries. 
  • Patient preference and validity of randomized controlled trials. 
  • 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 and outcomes of laparoscopic transabdominal versus posterior retroperitoneal adrenalectomy among surgeons in the Collaborative Endocrine Surgery Quality Improvement Program (CESQIP). 
  • Patient selection for advanced heart failure therapy referral. 
  • 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 for percutaneous mitral valve repair: insight from early clinical trial applications. 
  • Patient selection for prostate focal therapy in the era of active surveillance: an International Delphi Consensus Project. 
  • Patient selection in congenital pyriform aperture stenosis repair - 14 year experience and systematic review of literature. 
  • Patient selection in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction clinical trials. 
  • Patient, Provider, and Practice Characteristics Associated With Sacubitril/Valsartan Use in the United States. 
  • Patient- and trial-specific barriers to participation in cardiovascular randomized clinical trials. 
  • Patient-specific predictions of outcomes in myocardial infarction for real-time emergency use: a thrombolytic predictive instrument. 
  • Patients with DNR orders in the operating room: surgery, resuscitation, and outcomes. SUPPORT Investigators. Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatments. 
  • Patients' Views Concerning Research on Medical Practices: Implications for Consent. 
  • 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. 
  • Patterns of use and comparative effectiveness of bleeding avoidance strategies in men and women following percutaneous coronary interventions: an observational study from the National Cardiovascular Data Registry. 
  • Pelvic floor disorders clinical trials: participant recruitment and retention. 
  • 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 Nephrolithotomy: Update, Trends, and Future Directions. 
  • 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. 
  • Perioperative care for the older outpatient undergoing ambulatory surgery. 
  • Peripheral nerve stimulation for the treatment of primary headache. 
  • 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. 
  • Pharmacoinvasive Strategy Versus Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction in Clinical Practice: Insights From the Vital Heart Response Registry. 
  • 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. 
  • Photodynamic therapy provides local control of cholangiocarcinoma in patients awaiting liver transplantation. 
  • Physician Attitudes toward the First Pediatric Appropriate Use Criteria and Engagement With Educational Intervention to Improve the Appropriateness of Outpatient Echocardiography. 
  • Physicians' knowledge and attitudes regarding implantable cardioverter-defibrillators. 
  • Physiologic correlates of intraoperative blood transfusion among patients undergoing major gastrointestinal operations. 
  • Placental-blood transplantation. 
  • 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. 
  • Politically Correct Heart Failure Research in America to Avoid Geographic Variation. 
  • Poor metabolic and blood pressure control in patients with diabetic retinopathy attending a tertiary ophthalmic hospital in Australia. 
  • Population adjustment of the definition of the vaginal birth after cesarean rate. 
  • Portopulmonary Hypertension and Liver Transplant: Recent Review of the Literature. 
  • Post-Prostatectomy Radiation Therapy: Patient Selection, Timing, Imaging, and Therapy Intensification. 
  • Postoperative Liver Failure Risk Score: Identifying Patients with Resectable Perihilar Cholangiocarcinoma Who Can Benefit from Portal Vein Embolization. 
  • 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. 
  • Potential of predictive computer models for preoperative patient selection to enhance overall quality-adjusted life years gained at 2-year follow-up: a simulation in 234 patients with adult spinal deformity. 
  • Practice bulletin no. 123: thromboembolism in pregnancy. 
  • Practice patterns in percutaneous image-guided intraabdominal abscess drainage: survey of academic and private practice centers. 
  • Practice patterns in supraglottoplasty and perioperative care. 
  • Pre- and intraoperative variables affecting early outcomes in elderly patients undergoing pancreaticoduodenectomy. 
  • Pre-exercise screening and prescription guidelines for cancer patients. 
  • Pre-transplant Screening for Non-HLA Antibodies: Who should be Tested? 
  • Predicting recurrent mitral regurgitation after mitral valve repair for severe ischemic mitral regurgitation. 
  • Predicting survival in patients receiving continuous flow left ventricular assist devices: the HeartMate II risk score. 
  • 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 Response to Endobronchial Coil Therapy in Patients With Advanced Emphysema. 
  • 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 evaluation of factors associated with premature trial closure and feasibility of accrual benchmarks in phase III oncology trials. 
  • 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 of radiographic findings in individuals with chronic low back pain screened for a randomized controlled trial: secondary analysis and clinical implications. 
  • 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. 
  • Prevention and early detection clinical trials: opportunities for primary care providers and their patients. 
  • Prevention of perioperative and anesthesia-related complications in facial cosmetic surgery. 
  • 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. 
  • Progress towards a vaccine for nontypable Haemophilus influenzae. 
  • Project among African-Americans to explore risks for schizophrenia (PAARTNERS): recruitment and assessment methods. 
  • Promoting Accrual of Older Patients with Cancer to Clinical Trials: An Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology Member Survey (A171602). 
  • 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. 
  • Psychometric evaluation of a Brazilian version of the impact of weight on quality of life (IWQOL-Lite) instrument. 
  • 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 assessment and improvement in interventional cardiology: a position statement of the Society of Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, part 1: standards for quality assessment and improvement in interventional cardiology. 
  • Quality of life after prostate cancer treatment. 
  • Quantifying the recruitment challenges with couple-based interventions for cancer: applications to early-stage breast cancer. 
  • Ra-223 Treatment for Bone Metastases in Castrate-Resistant Prostate Cancer: Practical Management Issues for Patient Selection. 
  • Race, sex, and physicians' referrals for cardiac catheterization. 
  • 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 diversity in uterine leiomyoma clinical studies. 
  • Racial injustice in health 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. 
  • 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. 
  • Racial-ethnic disparities in stroke care: the American experience: a statement for healthcare professionals from the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association. 
  • 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. 
  • Randomised, double-blind, multicentre, mixed-methods, dose-escalation feasibility trial of mirtazapine for better treatment of severe breathlessness in advanced lung disease (BETTER-B feasibility). 
  • Randomized controlled trials for degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis: which patients benefit from lumbar fusion? 
  • 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 MASS COMM trial: A randomized trial to compare percutaneous coronary intervention between MASSachusetts hospitals with cardiac surgery on-site and COMMunity hospitals without cardiac surgery on-site. 
  • 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. 
  • Rationale, design, and baseline characteristics for a large international trial of cardiovascular disease prevention in people with dysglycemia: the ORIGIN Trial (Outcome Reduction with an Initial Glargine Intervention). 
  • Rationale, objectives and design of the Direct Analysis of Nonvertebral Fracture in the Community Experience (DANCE) study. 
  • 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 world effectiveness of primary implantable cardioverter defibrillators implanted during hospital admissions for exacerbation of heart failure or other acute co-morbidities: cohort study of older patients with heart failure. 
  • Real-time ultrasonography for placement of central venous catheters in children: A multi-institutional study. 
  • Reasons Associated with Total Thyroidectomy as Initial Surgical Management of an Indeterminate Thyroid Nodule. 
  • Reasons for nonenrollment in a clinical trial of acute lung injury. 
  • 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. 
  • Recommendations for the use of mechanical circulatory support: device strategies and patient selection: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association. 
  • Recommendations to Enhance Pediatric Cardiovascular Drug Development: Report of a Multi-Stakeholder Think Tank. 
  • Recruiting intergenerational African American males for biomedical research Studies: a major research challenge. 
  • Recruiting participants to cancer prevention clinical trials: lessons from successful community oncology networks. 
  • Recruiting young adults into a weight loss trial: report of protocol development and recruitment results. 
  • Recruitment and Retention of Asian Americans in Web-Based Physical Activity Promotion Programs: A Discussion Paper. 
  • 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 participants in a pragmatic randomized intervention trial at three community health clinics: results and lessons learned. 
  • 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 and retention: A randomized controlled trial of video-enhanced versus standard consent processes within the E-OPTIMAL study. 
  • Recruitment and selection of couples for intervention research: achieving developmental homogeneity at the cost of demographic diversity. 
  • Recruitment experience in the first phase of the African American Hereditary Prostate Cancer (AAHPC) study. 
  • Recruitment for a hospital-based pragmatic clinical trial using volunteer nurses and students. 
  • 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. 
  • Recruitment strategies in the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal and Ovarian (PLCO) Cancer Screening Trial: the first six years. 
  • Rectal Cancer, Version 2.2018, NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology. 
  • Rectus muscle resection in Graves' ophthalmopathy. 
  • Redefining the role of biomarkers in heart failure trials: expert consensus document. 
  • Reduced ejection fraction, sudden cardiac death, and heart failure death in the mode selection trial (MOST): implications for device selection in elderly patients with sinus node disease. 
  • 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. 
  • Reexpressing Parenthood 
  • Referral patterns for coronary artery disease treatment: gender bias or good clinical judgment? 
  • Reflecting on survivorship outcomes to aid initial decision making in patients treated for IDH-mutated anaplastic glioma. 
  • Reflections 1 year into the 21-Center National Institutes of Health--funded WRIST study: a primer on conducting a multicenter clinical trial. 
  • Reframing the approach to patients with hepatocellular carcinoma: Longitudinal assessment with hazard associated with liver transplantation for HCC (HALTHCC) improves ablate and wait strategy. 
  • 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. 
  • Regional variability in symptom-based MELD exceptions: a response to organ shortage? 
  • Reirradiation for recurrent head and neck cancer. 
  • Relationship Between Enrolling Country Income Level and Patient Profile, Protocol Completion, and Trial End Points. 
  • 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 Annular Sizing Using Multidetector Computed Tomographic Imaging and Clinical Outcomes After Self-Expanding CoreValve Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement. 
  • Relationship of serum prolactin with severity of drug use and treatment outcome in cocaine dependence. 
  • Reply by Authors. 
  • Reply: To PMID 24974958. 
  • 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. 
  • Representativeness of the PIONEER-HF Clinical Trial Population in Patients Hospitalized With Heart Failure and Reduced Ejection Fraction. 
  • Research Participation of a Professional Organization in Clinical Trials: The Association of Black cardiologists Clinical Trial Investigator Identification Project. 
  • Research design considerations for confirmatory chronic pain clinical trials: IMMPACT recommendations. 
  • Research design features and patient characteristics associated with the outcome of antidepressant clinical trials. 
  • Research participants' perspectives on genotype-driven research recruitment. 
  • Research recruitment through US central cancer registries: balancing privacy and scientific issues. 
  • 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. 
  • Respiratory Compromise as a New Paradigm for the Care of Vulnerable Hospitalized Patients. 
  • 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. 
  • Revascularization in stable coronary disease: evidence and uncertainties. 
  • Review of the biology of bleeding and clotting in the surgical patient. 
  • Review of the use of hepatitis B core antibody-positive kidney donors. 
  • Revision INBONE total ankle replacement. 
  • Rhodamine-123: therapy for hormone refractory prostate cancer, a phase I clinical trial. 
  • Rindopepimut with temozolomide for patients with newly diagnosed, EGFRvIII-expressing glioblastoma (ACT IV): a randomised, double-blind, international phase 3 trial. 
  • 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. 
  • Risks and benefits of anticoagulation in atrial fibrillation: insights from the Outcomes Registry for Better Informed Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation (ORBIT-AF) registry. 
  • Robotic ultrasound and needle guidance for prostate cancer management: review of the contemporary literature. 
  • Role of a high throughput biodosimetry test in treatment prioritization after a nuclear incident. 
  • 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. 
  • SBRT for Hepatocellular Carcinoma: 8-Year Experience from a Regional Transplant Center. 
  • SMARTer discontinuation trial designs for developing an adaptive treatment strategy. 
  • SPARED Collaboration: Patient Selection for Partial Gland Ablation in Men with Localized Prostate Cancer. 
  • SUPPORT-AF II: Supporting Use of Anticoagulants Through Provider Profiling of Oral Anticoagulant Therapy for Atrial Fibrillation: A Cluster-Randomized Study of Electronic Profiling and Messaging Combined With Academic Detailing for Providers Making Decisions About Anticoagulation in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation. 
  • Safety of the Deferral of Coronary Revascularization on the Basis of Instantaneous Wave-Free Ratio and Fractional Flow Reserve Measurements in Stable Coronary Artery Disease and Acute Coronary Syndromes. 
  • Same bridge, new destinations rethinking paradigms for mechanical cardiac support in heart failure. 
  • Same-day discharge compared with overnight hospitalization after uncomplicated percutaneous coronary intervention: a systematic review and meta-analysis. 
  • Sampling in difficult to access refugee and immigrant communities. 
  • Sampling patients within physician practices and health plans: multistage cluster samples in health services research. 
  • Scar burden assessed by Selvester QRS score predicts prognosis, not CRT clinical benefit in preventing heart failure event and death: A MADIT-CRT sub-study. 
  • Scoring System to Triage Patients for Spine Surgery in the Setting of Limited Resources: Application to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic and Beyond. 
  • Screening for hypercoagulable syndromes following stroke. 
  • Sedation Management for Critically Ill Children with Pre-Existing Cognitive Impairment. 
  • Segmental contribution toward total lumbar range of motion in disc replacement and fusions: a comparison of operative and adjacent levels. 
  • Selection of patients for coronary angiography and coronary revascularization early after myocardial infarction: is there evidence for a gender bias? 
  • Selection of patients with melanoma brain metastases for aggressive treatment. 
  • Selection of treatment modalities or observation of arteriovenous malformations. 
  • Seriously ill hospitalized adults: do we spend less on older patients? Support Investigators. Study to Understand Prognoses and Preference for Outcomes and Risks of Treatments. 
  • 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? 
  • Severe coronary artery disease: is there a place for percutaneous coronary intervention? 
  • Sex bias in cardiovascular care: should women be treated more like men? 
  • Should Antithrombotic Treatment Strategies in East Asians Differ from Caucasians? 
  • Simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation at the University of Wisconsin. 
  • Site enrollment rate, outcomes, and study drug effects in a multicenter trial. Results from RELAX-AHF. 
  • 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? 
  • Small Bowel Transplantation. 
  • Small bowel video capsule endoscopy: an overview. 
  • So different, yet so similar: meta-analysis and policy modeling of willingness to participate in clinical trials among Brazilians and Indians. 
  • Social and racial differences in selection of breast cancer adjuvant chemotherapy regimens. 
  • Social responsibility, personal responsibility, and prognosis in public judgments about transplant allocation. 
  • Society for Ambulatory Anesthesia consensus statement on preoperative selection of adult patients with obstructive sleep apnea scheduled for ambulatory surgery. 
  • Soft-tissue management in revision total shoulder arthroplasty. 
  • 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 Articles: 2011 ACCF/AHA Guideline for Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery: executive summary: a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines. 
  • 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. 
  • Status of high-dose chemotherapy for breast cancer: a review. 
  • Status quo of hybrid coronary revascularization for multi-vessel coronary artery disease. 
  • Stem cell transplantation in systemic sclerosis. 
  • Stem cell use in a patient with an ischemic foot ulcer: a case study. 
  • Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy for Oligometastasis: Opportunities for Biology to Guide Clinical Management. 
  • Stereotactic body radiation therapy for early-stage non-small cell lung cancer: Executive Summary of an ASTRO Evidence-Based Guideline. 
  • Stereotactic radiotherapy for pulmonary metastases. 
  • Stop Hypertension with the Acupuncture Research Program (SHARP): clinical trial design and screening results. 
  • 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. 
  • Surgeon volume and adequacy of thyroidectomy for differentiated thyroid cancer. 
  • Surgery for spinal stenosis: long-term reoperation rates, health care cost, and impact of instrumentation. 
  • Surgical Considerations in the Treatment of Small Bowel Crohn's Disease. 
  • Surgical Maze procedure as a treatment for atrial fibrillation: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. 
  • Surgical Treatment of Parkinson Disease. 
  • Surgical Upstaging Rates for Vacuum Assisted Biopsy Proven DCIS: Implications for Active Surveillance 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. 
  • Surgical treatments for advanced heart failure. 
  • Surrogates' perceptions about feeding tube placement decisions. 
  • Survey criteria for fibromyalgia independently predict increased postoperative opioid consumption after lower-extremity joint arthroplasty: a prospective, observational cohort study. 
  • 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 Benefit of Lung Transplantation in the Modern Era of Lung Allocation. 
  • Survival after primary prevention implantable cardioverter-defibrillator placement among patients with chronic kidney disease. 
  • Survival benefits of heart and lung transplantation. 
  • Sydenham Society: racial variations in carotid endarterectomy. 
  • Synchronous colorectal liver metastases: the "surgeon as oncologist" perspective. 
  • Synchronous resection of esophageal cancer and other organ malignancies: A systematic review. 
  • 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. 
  • Tamoxifen pharmacogenomics: the role of CYP2D6 as a predictor of drug response. 
  • Technical Options and Approaches to Lengthen the Shortened Esophagus. 
  • Techniques of selective cannulation and sphincterotomy. 
  • 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 2018 ISHLT/APM/AST/ICCAC/STSW Recommendations for the Psychosocial Evaluation of Adult Cardiothoracic Transplant Candidates and Candidates for Long-term Mechanical Circulatory Support. 
  • The 2018 ISHLT/APM/AST/ICCAC/STSW recommendations for the psychosocial evaluation of adult cardiothoracic transplant candidates and candidates for long-term mechanical circulatory support. 
  • The 5Ts: Preliminary Development of a Framework to Support Inclusion of Older Adults in Research. 
  • 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 Childhood Asthma Management Program (CAMP): design, rationale, and methods. Childhood Asthma Management Program Research Group. 
  • The Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration (CKDEPI) equation best characterizes kidney function in patients being considered for lung transplantation. 
  • The Complexity of Conducting a Multicenter Clinical Trial: Taking It to the Next Level Stipulated by the Federal Agencies. 
  • 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 Fuzzy Math of Anticoagulation and Access Site: When 1 + 1 Does Not Always Equal 2. 
  • The Global Need for a Trastuzumab Biosimilar for Patients With HER2-Positive Breast Cancer. 
  • The HLA-A2-restricted PSMA peptide LLHETDSAV is poorly immunogenic in patients with metastatic prostate cancer. 
  • 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 MATRICS Consensus Cognitive Battery, part 2: co-norming and standardization. 
  • The MISDEF2 algorithm: an updated algorithm for patient selection in minimally invasive deformity surgery. 
  • The NIMH Multisite HIV Prevention Trial: reducing HIV sexual risk behavior. The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Multisite HIV Prevention Trial Group. 
  • The National Cancer Institute-American Society of Clinical Oncology Cancer Trial Accrual Symposium: summary and recommendations. 
  • The PARACHUTE IV trial design and rationale: percutaneous ventricular restoration using the parachute device in patients with ischemic heart failure and dilated left ventricles. 
  • The Prospective Registry Evaluating Myocardial Infarction: Events and Recovery (PREMIER)--evaluating the impact of myocardial infarction on patient outcomes. 
  • The Rare Diseases Clinical Research Network Contact Registry update: features and functionality. 
  • The STS-ACC transcatheter valve therapy national registry: a new partnership and infrastructure for the introduction and surveillance of medical devices and therapies. 
  • The SYNERGY trial: study design and rationale. 
  • The Tuskegee Legacy Project: history, preliminary scientific findings, and unanticipated societal benefits. 
  • 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 fate of the corneal endothelium in cataract surgery. 
  • 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 contemporary concept of significant versus insignificant prostate cancer. 
  • 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 culture of faith and hope: patients' justifications for their high estimations of expected therapeutic benefit when enrolling in early phase oncology trials. 
  • 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 economics of heart failure. 
  • The effect of Guidelines in surgical decision making: The paradigm of hepatocellular carcinoma. 
  • The effect of physician permission versus notification on research recruitment through cancer registries (United States). 
  • 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 effect of watchful waiting on the management and treatment of inguinal hernias in a community setting. 
  • The efficacy and equity of retransplantation: an experimental survey of public attitudes. 
  • The efficacy and safety of the hematoma block for fracture reduction in closed, isolated fractures. 
  • The ethical challenges of a randomized controlled trial of involuntary outpatient commitment. 
  • The ethics of care: social workers in an influenza pandemic. 
  • The ethics of clinical trials for cancer therapy. 
  • The ethics of using Web technology to find research participants. 
  • 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 feasibility of a randomised, placebo-controlled clinical trial of homeopathic treatment of depression in general practice. 
  • 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 impact of the format of graphical presentation on health-related knowledge and treatment choices. 
  • The incidental finding of a patent foramen ovale during cardiac surgery: should it always be repaired? A core review. 
  • The influence of relationships on children's and adolescents' participation in research. 
  • The international position on laparoscopic liver surgery: The Louisville Statement, 2008. 
  • The mRECIST Classification Provides Insight into Tumor Biology for Patients With Hepatocellular Carcinoma Awaiting Liver Transplantation. 
  • The model for end-stage liver disease score is the best prognostic factor in human immunodeficiency virus 1-infected patients with end-stage liver disease: a prospective cohort study. 
  • 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 choice in health education intervention trials: a review and case study. 
  • 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 safety of a pancreaticoduodenectomy in patients older than 80 years: risk vs. benefits. 
  • 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 subcutaneous implantable cardioverter-defibrillator in review. 
  • 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. 
  • Therapeutic decision making in thoracolumbar spine trauma. 
  • Therapy choices among older patients with lung carcinoma: an evaluation of two trials of the Cancer and Leukemia Group B. 
  • Third- or Later-line Therapy for Metastatic Colorectal Cancer: Reviewing Best Practice. 
  • Thoracic organ transplantation at Papworth Hospital. 
  • Thoracoscopic repair of congenital diaphragmatic hernia in neonates: lessons learned. 
  • Thrombosis and cancer: emerging data for the practicing oncologist. 
  • Ticagrelor in Peripheral Artery Disease Endovascular Revascularization (TI-PAD): Challenges in clinical trial execution. 
  • Timing of curative treatment for prostate cancer: a systematic review. 
  • 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). 
  • Too sick not to exercise: using a 6-week, home-based exercise intervention for cancer-related fatigue self-management for postsurgical non-small cell lung cancer patients. 
  • Total ankle replacement systems available in the United States. 
  • Total ankle replacement: why, when and how? 
  • Total skin-sparing mastectomy in BRCA mutation carriers. 
  • Toward a broader view of values in cost-effectiveness analysis of health. 
  • Transatlantic Consensus Group on active surveillance and focal therapy for prostate cancer. 
  • Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: Comprehensive Review and Present Status. 
  • 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. 
  • Transplants for non-lethal conditions: a case against hand transplantation in minors. 
  • Transradial approach for coronary angiography and interventions: results of the first international transradial practice survey. 
  • Transradial arterial access for coronary and peripheral procedures: executive summary by the Transradial Committee of the SCAI. 
  • Treating depression after myocardial infarction: can selecting patients on the basis of genetic susceptibility improve psychiatric and medical outcomes? 
  • Treatment efficacy: aphasia. 
  • Treatment of Higher-Risk Patients With an Indication for Revascularization: Evolution Within the Field of Contemporary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention. 
  • Treatment of non-ST-segment-elevation acute coronary syndromes with platelet glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitors: an emergency department perspective. 
  • Treatment of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in children: TONIC trial design. 
  • Treatment of tachyarrhythmias. 
  • 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. 
  • Triage Considerations for Patients Referred for Structural Heart Disease Intervention During the COVID-19 Pandemic: An ACC/SCAI Position Statement. 
  • Troponins in equipoise. 
  • Umbilical cord stem cell transplantation. 
  • Under-representation of women in high-impact published clinical cancer research. 
  • Understanding the adoption of arthritis self-management: stages of change profiles among arthritis patients. 
  • Understanding the mechanisms behind trastuzumab therapy for human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-positive breast cancer. 
  • United States Cutaneous Lymphoma Consortium recommendations for treatment of cutaneous lymphomas during the COVID-19 pandemic. 
  • Unmet Needs and Challenges in Clinical Research of Intracerebral Hemorrhage. 
  • 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 (VARC-2). 
  • 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. 
  • Urinary aquaporin 1 and perilipin 2: Can these novel markers accurately characterize small renal masses and help guide patient management? 
  • Use of Preprocedural MDCT for Cardiac Implantable Electric Device Lead Extraction: Frequency of Findings That Change Management. 
  • Use of a validated algorithm to judge the appropriateness of total knee arthroplasty in the United States: a multicenter longitudinal cohort study. 
  • Use of electrocardiogram indices of myocardial ischemia for risk stratification and decision making of reperfusion strategies. 
  • Use of intraocular video endoscopic examination in the preoperative evaluation of keratoprosthesis surgery to assess visual potential. 
  • Use of re-randomized data in meta-analysis. 
  • Use of the National Cancer Data Base to develop clinical trials accrual targets that are appropriate for minority ethnicity patients: a report from the American College of Surgeons Oncology Group (ACOSOG) Special Population Committee. 
  • Using Natriuretic Peptides for Selection of Patients in Acute Heart Failure Clinical Trials. 
  • Using item response theory with health system data to identify latent groups of patients with multiple health conditions. 
  • Using observational data to estimate prognosis: an example using a coronary artery disease registry. 
  • Using online social media for recruitment of human immunodeficiency virus-positive participants: a cross-sectional survey. 
  • Using plasma transforming growth factor beta-1 during radiotherapy to select patients for dose escalation. 
  • Using surgical appropriateness criteria to examine outcomes of total knee arthroplasty in a United States sample. 
  • Utility of a molecular prescreening program in advanced colorectal cancer for enrollment on biomarker-selected clinical trials. 
  • Utilization of intravenous tissue plasminogen activator for ischemic stroke: are there sex differences? 
  • Validation of gene signatures that predict the response of breast cancer to neoadjuvant chemotherapy: a substudy of the EORTC 10994/BIG 00-01 clinical trial. 
  • Valsartan in acute myocardial infarction trial (VALIANT): rationale and design. 
  • Value-Based Care Has Not Resulted in Biased Patient Selection: Analysis of a Single Center's Experience in the Care for Joint Replacement Bundle. 
  • Variability in IRBs regarding parental acceptance of passive consent. 
  • Variability in diagnostic threshold for comedo necrosis among breast pathologists: implications for patient eligibility for active surveillance trials of ductal carcinoma in situ. 
  • Variability in frontotemporal brain structure: the importance of recruitment of African Americans in neuroscience research. 
  • Variation in estimates of limited health literacy by assessment instruments and non-response bias. 
  • Variation in use of nephron-sparing surgery among children with renal tumors. 
  • Vascular inflow control during hemi-hepatectomy: a comparison between intrahepatic pedicle ligation and extrahepatic vascular ligation. 
  • Vascular surgery collaboration during pancreaticoduodenectomy with vascular reconstruction. 
  • Venous thromboembolism in pregnancy. 
  • Ventricular Assist Device Utilization in Heart Transplant Candidates: Nationwide Variability and Impact on Waitlist Outcomes. 
  • Virtual Surgery for the Nasal Airway: A Preliminary Report on Decision Support and Technology Acceptance. 
  • Vorapaxar in the secondary prevention of atherothrombosis. 
  • We still go for the jugular: implications of the 3SITES central venous catheter study for nephrology. 
  • Where are we going with regional therapy for melanoma? 
  • Which Cholecystectomy do Medical Students Prefer? 
  • Which Patients Require Extended Thromboprophylaxis After Colectomy? Modeling Risk and Assessing Indications for Post-discharge Pharmacoprophylaxis. 
  • Which patients with heart failure should receive specialist palliative care? 
  • Who benefits from surgery for brain metastases? 
  • Why the Authors Use Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy with Defibrillators. 
  • Willingness to participate in cardiac trials. 
  • Withholding medical treatment from the severely demented patient. Decisional processes and cost implications. 
  • Women's Participation in Cardiovascular Clinical Trials From 2010 to 2017. 
  • Xanthine oxidase inhibition for hyperuricemic heart failure patients: design and rationale of the EXACT-HF study. 
  • [Central pain processing in chronic low back pain. Evidence for reduced pain inhibition]. 
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  • Alexander, John Hunter Peel, Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Cardiology
  • Berchuck, Andrew, James M. Ingram Distinguished Professor of Gynecologic Oncology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Gynecologic Oncology
  • Brennan, J. Matthew, Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Cardiology
  • Curtis, Lesley H., Professor in Population Health Sciences, Medicine, General Internal Medicine
  • Dodge, Kenneth A., William McDougall Distinguished Professor of Public Policy Studies, Duke Science & Society
  • Esclamado, Ramon Mitra, Richard Hall Chaney, Sr. Distinguished Professor of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery & Communication Sciences
  • Fisher, Deborah Anne, Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Gastroenterology
  • Gottfried, Oren N, 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
  • Mentz, Robert John, Associate 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 Family Medicine and Community Health, Duke Cancer Institute
  • Muhlbaier, Lawrence H., Associate Professor Emeritus of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • Muir, Kelly Walton, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Ophthalmology, Glaucoma
  • O'Connor, Christopher Michael, Richard Sean Stack, M.D. Distinguished Professor, Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology
  • Patel, Uptal Dinesh, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine, Medicine, Nephrology
  • Patz Jr., Edward F., James and Alice Chen Distinguished Professor of Radiology, Pathology
  • Preminger, Glenn Michael, James F. Glenn, M.D. Distinguished Professor of Urology, Surgery
  • Richesson, Rachel L, Associate Professor in the School of Nursing, School of Nursing
  • Sampson, John Howard, Robert H., M.D. and Gloria Wilkins Professor of Neurosurgery, in the School of Medicine, Immunology
  • Steinbach, William J., Samuel L. Katz Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics, Duke Innovation & Entrepreneurship
  • 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
  • Turner, David Ashley, Consulting Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Pediatrics, Critical Care Medicine
  • Warner, David Samuel, Distinguished Distinguished Professor of Anesthesiology, in the School of Medicine, Neurobiology
  • Wu, Li-Tzy, Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medicine, General Internal Medicine
  • Yancy Jr., William Samuel, Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, General Internal Medicine