Observation

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • 'I'm gonna beat you!' SNap!: an observational paradigm for assessing young children's disruptive behaviour in competitive play. 
  • A 6-month observational study of the relationship between weight loss and behavioral symptoms in institutionalized Alzheimer's disease subjects. 
  • A comparison of temperament in nonhuman apes and human infants. 
  • A generalized estimator of the attributable benefit of an optimal treatment regime. 
  • A novel emergency department based prevention intervention program for people living with HIV: evaluation of early experiences. 
  • Adjuvant Chemotherapy Versus Observation Following Resection for Patients With Nonmetastatic Poorly Differentiated Colorectal Neuroendocrine Carcinomas. 
  • 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. 
  • Alpha male chimpanzee grooming patterns: implications for dominance "style". 
  • An evaluation of emergency physician selection of observation unit patients. 
  • An observational study of consumer use of fast-food restaurant drive-through lanes: implications for menu labelling policy. 
  • Animal, vegetable, or ... clinical trial? 
  • Anxious solitude across contexts: Girls’ interactions with familiar and unfamiliar peers 
  • Association of GUCY2C expression in lymph nodes with time to recurrence and disease-free survival in pN0 colorectal cancer. 
  • Behavior and neural basis of near-optimal visual search. 
  • Behavioral observations reflected on consultation requests from primary medical-surgical services: are they predictive of delirium diagnosis and outcomes? 
  • Breast papillomas in the era of percutaneous needle biopsy. 
  • C-reactive protein and risk of cardiovascular disease in men and women from the Framingham Heart Study. 
  • Care of the Patient with Chest Pain in the Observation Unit. 
  • Clinical outcomes with unfractionated heparin or low-molecular-weight heparin as bridging therapy in patients on long-term oral anticoagulants: the REGIMEN registry. 
  • Clinical practice guideline for the diagnosis and management of acute bacterial sinusitis in children aged 1 to 18 years. 
  • Cockcroft-Gault versus modification of diet in renal disease: importance of glomerular filtration rate formula for classification of chronic kidney disease in patients with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes. 
  • Coming closer to describing the variable onset patterns in autism. 
  • Comparative effectiveness of revascularization strategies. 
  • Comparative effectiveness research in lung diseases and sleep disorders: recommendations from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute workshop. 
  • Defining the "disruptive" in preschool behavior: what diagnostic observation can teach us. 
  • Depressive symptoms and outcome of coronary artery bypass grafting. 
  • Description of the Age-Related Eye Disease Study 9-step severity scale applied to participants in the Complications of Age-related Macular Degeneration Prevention Trial. 
  • Determination of motor threshold using visual observation overestimates transcranial magnetic stimulation dosage: safety implications. 
  • Development and validation of a screening instrument to assess the types and quality of foods served at home meals. 
  • Diagnosis of psychogenic paralysis by observation of patient movement in sleep. 
  • Direct Observation Reassessed. 
  • Direct observation of hygiene in a Peruvian shantytown: not enough handwashing and too little water. 
  • Does the teddy bear sign predict psychogenic nonepileptic seizures? 
  • Early recognition of 1-year-old infants with autism spectrum disorder versus mental retardation. 
  • Effects of Food and Drug Administration-approved medications for Alzheimer's disease on clinical progression. 
  • Elementary, my dear readers. 
  • Emergency department observation of heart failure: preliminary analysis of safety and cost. 
  • Empirical estimation of life expectancy from large clinical trials: use of left-truncated, right-censored survival analysis methodology. 
  • Estimation of propensity scores using generalized additive models. 
  • Family presence during cardiopulmonary resuscitation: an opportunity for meaning-making in bereavement. 
  • From nest to nest--influence of ecology and reproduction on the active period of adult Gombe chimpanzees. 
  • Identification of chest pain patients appropriate for an emergency department observation unit. 
  • Impact of physical activity on cancer recurrence and survival in patients with stage III colon cancer: findings from CALGB 89803. 
  • Is optimal angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor dosing neglected in elderly patients with heart failure? 
  • Multisector intervention to accelerate reductions in child stunting: an observational study from 9 sub-Saharan African countries. 
  • Observational study in ten beauty salons: results informing development of the North Carolina BEAUTY and Health Project. 
  • Observing and improving hand hygiene compliance: implementation and refinement of an electronic-assisted direct-observer hand hygiene audit program. 
  • Opportunities for performance improvement in relation to medication administration during pediatric stabilization. 
  • Pain behavior observation: current status and future directions. 
  • Patients with chronic hepatitis C undergoing watchful waiting: Exploring trajectories of illness uncertainty and fatigue. 
  • Pay for performance, quality of care, and outcomes in acute myocardial infarction. 
  • Postoperative hyperthermia following off-pump versus on-pump coronary artery bypass surgery. 
  • Quantifying nursing workflow in medication administration. 
  • Racial differences in mortality among patients with acute ischemic stroke: an observational study. 
  • Randomized Study of Maintenance Pemetrexed Versus Observation for Treatment of Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma: CALGB 30901. 
  • Reducing bias in cancer research: application of propensity score matching. 
  • Relational benefits of relational aggression: adaptive and maladaptive associations with adolescent friendship quality. 
  • Safety culture and hand hygiene: linking attitudes to behavior. 
  • Statistical analysis plans in observational research--reply. 
  • Surgical removal vs observation for subfoveal choroidal neovascularization, either associated with the ocular histoplasmosis syndrome or idiopathic: I. Ophthalmic findings from a randomized clinical trial: Submacular Surgery Trials (SST) Group H Trial: SST Report No. 9. 
  • Temporarily deferred therapy (watchful waiting) for men younger than 70 years and with low-risk localized prostate cancer in the prostate-specific antigen era. 
  • The Longitudinal Youth at Risk Study (LYRIKS)--an Asian UHR perspective. 
  • The critical use of population-based medical databases for prostate cancer research. 
  • The impact of emergency department observation units on United States emergency department admission rates. 
  • The importance of decision making in causal learning from interventions. 
  • The utility of gestures in patients with chest discomfort. 
  • The value of statistical analysis plans in observational research: defining high-quality research from the start. 
  • Time of day effects on the incidence of anesthetic adverse events. 
  • Unfractionated heparin dosing and risk of major bleeding in non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes. 
  • Use of a handheld computer observational tool to improve communication for care planning and psychosocial well-being. 
  • Using inverse probability-weighted estimators in comparative effectiveness analyses with observational databases. 
  • Using observational data to estimate prognosis: an example using a coronary artery disease registry. 
  • Validity of Visual Assessment of Sit to Stand After Hip Fracture. 
  • Young children know that trying is not pretending: a test of the "behaving-as-if" construal of children's early concept of pretense. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Anderson, Ruth A., Professor Emerita in the School of Nursing, School of Nursing
  • McConnell, Eleanor Schildwachter, Associate Professor in the School of Nursing, School of Nursing
  • O'Connor, Christopher Michael, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine, Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology
  • Putallaz, Martha, Professor Emerita of Psychology and Neuroscience, Psychology & Neuroscience
  • Yancy Jr., William Samuel, Professor of Medicine, Medicine, General Internal Medicine