Health Care Surveys

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "I wish I had seen this test result earlier!": Dissatisfaction with test result management systems in primary care. 
  • A National Survey of Pulmonologists' Views on Low-Dose Computed Tomography Screening for Lung Cancer. 
  • A Society for Pediatric Urology Workforce Survey on the Current Perceptions of Oncology Care by Pediatric Urologists: A Report from the Pediatric Urologic Oncology Working Group of the Society for Pediatric Urology. 
  • A comparative resident site visit project: a novel approach for implementing programmatic change in the duty hours era. 
  • A comparison of cancer survivors from the PROMIS study selecting telephone versus online questionnaires. 
  • A comparison of three health status measures in primary care outpatients. 
  • A decade in diabetes specialist services, 2000 to 2011, in England: the views of consultant diabetologists and diabetes specialist nurses amidst persistent healthcare delivery change. 
  • A framework for quality improvement: an analysis of factors responsible for improvement at hospitals participating in the Can Rapid Risk Stratification of Unstable Angina Patients Suppress Adverse Outcomes with Early Implementation of the ACC/AHA Guidelines (CRUSADE) quality improvement initiative. 
  • A national survey of the primary and acute care pediatric nurse practitioner educational preparation. 
  • A network perspective on patient experiences and health status: the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey 2004 to 2011. 
  • A policy-based intervention for the reduction of communication breakdowns in inpatient surgical care: results from a Harvard surgical safety collaborative. 
  • A prevalence study of faith-based healing in the rural southeastern United States. 
  • A randomized controlled trial of health information exchange between human immunodeficiency virus institutions. 
  • A survey of anesthesiologists' and nurses' attitudes toward the implementation of an Anesthesia Information Management System on a labor and delivery floor. 
  • A survey of current liver biopsy practice patterns. 
  • A survey of health care practitioners' knowledge of the QT interval. 
  • A survey of pessary use by members of the American urogynecologic society. 
  • A survey of the management of spinal-induced hypotension for scheduled cesarean delivery. 
  • A survey of workplace violence across 65 U.S. emergency departments. 
  • A survey-based study of wrong-level lumbar spine surgery: the scope of the problem and current practices in place to help avoid these errors. 
  • Acceptance of a Polypill approach to prevent cardiovascular disease among a sample of U.S. physicians. 
  • Access to Health Care and Hearing Evaluation in US Adults. 
  • Access to health care services for the disabled elderly. 
  • Access to medical care among persons with psychotic and major affective disorders. 
  • Administrative update: utilization of services. I. Comparing use of public and private mental health services: the enduring barriers of race and age. 
  • Adult extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: an international survey of transfusion and anticoagulation techniques. 
  • Adverse impact of coercive treatments on psychiatric inpatients' satisfaction with care. 
  • Agreement and validity of pharmacy data versus self-report for use of osteoporosis medications among chronic glucocorticoid users. 
  • Alternative medicine research in clinical practice: a US national survey. 
  • An evaluation of patient preferences for osteoporosis medication attributes: results from the PREFER-US study. 
  • An international survey on liver metastases radiotherapy. 
  • An inverse association between self-reported arthritis and mortality in the elderly: findings from the national long-term care survey. 
  • An observation unit may help improve an institution's Press Ganey satisfaction score. 
  • Annual direct and indirect health costs of the congenital ichthyoses. 
  • Annual medical spending attributable to obesity: payer-and service-specific estimates. 
  • Anticoagulation and antiplatelet therapy in stable coronary artery disease: A multicenter survey. 
  • Are gastroenterologists less tolerant of treatment risks than patients? Benefit-risk preferences in Crohn's disease management. 
  • Are physicians' perceptions of healthcare quality and practice satisfaction affected by errors associated with electronic health record use? 
  • Aspirin treatment after myocardial infarction: are health maintenance organization members, women, and the elderly undertreated? 
  • Assertive community treatment: facilitators and barriers to implementation in routine mental health settings. 
  • Assessing safety culture: guidelines and recommendations. 
  • Assessment of Impact of Long-Cassette Standing X-Rays on Surgical Planning for Cervical Pathology: An International Survey of Spine Surgeons. 
  • Availability of post-hospital services supporting community reintegration for children with identified surgical need in Uganda. 
  • Awareness of racial/ethnic disparities in surgical outcomes and care: factors affecting acknowledgment and action. 
  • Awareness of the Food and Drug Administration's Bad Ad Program and Education Regarding Pharmaceutical Advertising: A National Survey of Prescribers in Ambulatory Care Settings. 
  • Barriers to providing osteoporosis care in skilled nursing facilities: perceptions of medical directors and directors of nursing. 
  • Barriers to providing osteoporosis care in skilled nursing facilities: perceptions of medical directors and directors of nursing. 
  • Bridging American-Canadian health care outcome differences: is there really a gap? 
  • Can a moral reasoning exercise improve response quality to surveys of healthcare priorities? 
  • Can physicians accurately predict which patients will lose weight, improve nutrition and increase physical activity? 
  • Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Training Disparities in the United States. 
  • Caregiver staffing in nursing homes and their influence on quality of care: using dynamic panel estimation methods. 
  • Caregiving-related needs of family caregivers of older Singaporeans. 
  • Changes and equity in use of maternal health care in China: from 1991 to 2003. 
  • Changes in functional status among persons over age sixty-five undergoing total knee arthroplasty. 
  • Changes in the monitoring and oversight practices of not-for-profit hospital governing boards 1989-2005: evidence from three national surveys. 
  • Changing access to health services in urban China: implications for equity. 
  • Changing medical doctor productivity and its affecting factors in rural China. 
  • Changing physician knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs about migraine: evaluation of a new educational intervention. 
  • Characteristics and Delivery of Diabetes Shared Medical Appointments in North Carolina. 
  • Characteristics of eye care practices with managed care contracts. 
  • Characteristics of low-vision rehabilitation services in the United States. 
  • Checklists, safety, my culture and me. 
  • Choosing Wisely: the American College of Rheumatology's Top 5 for pediatric rheumatology. 
  • Clinic Satisfaction Tool Improves Communication and Provides Real-Time Feedback. 
  • Clinical practice variation in the management of diminutive colorectal polyps: results of a national survey of gastroenterologists. 
  • Clinician adherence to the clinical practice guideline: Acute otitis externa. 
  • Clinician perception of the impact of deployed physical therapists as physician extenders in a combat environment. 
  • Clinicians' attitudes regarding barriers to the implementation of psychiatric advance directives. 
  • Cognitive work analysis to evaluate the problem of patient falls in an inpatient setting. 
  • Collecting data on quality is feasible in community-based palliative care. 
  • Community-Based Long-Term Care Services: If We Build It, Will They Come? 
  • Comparing oncologist, nurse, and physician assistant attitudes toward discussions of negative emotions with patients. 
  • Comparison of Delay Times from Symptom Onset to Medical Contact in Blacks Versus Whites With Acute Myocardial Infarction. 
  • Complementary and alternative medicine use among US Navy and Marine Corps personnel. 
  • Complexity science and the dynamics of climate and communication: reducing nursing home turnover. 
  • Conducting physician mail surveys on a limited budget. A randomized trial comparing $2 bill versus $5 bill incentives. 
  • Consumer assessment of healthcare providers and systems surgical care survey: benefits and challenges. 
  • Contemporary transradial access practices: Results of the second international survey. 
  • Contemporary use of adjunctive thrombectomy during primary percutaneous coronary intervention for ST-elevation myocardial infarction in the United States. 
  • Continental Divide? The attitudes of US and Canadian oncologists on the costs, cost-effectiveness, and health policies associated with new cancer drugs. 
  • Continental variations in preoperative and postoperative management of patients with anterior cruciate ligament repair. 
  • Contraindications and safety of transbronchial lung biopsy via flexible bronchoscopy. A survey of pulmonologists and review of the literature. 
  • Controversy undermines support for state mandates on the human papillomavirus vaccine. 
  • Coronary revascularization and circulatory support strategies in patients with myocardial infarction, multi-vessel coronary artery disease, and cardiogenic shock: Insights from an international survey. 
  • Correlates of electronic health record adoption in office practices: a statewide survey. 
  • Correlates of electronic health record adoption in office practices: a statewide survey. 
  • Cranberry use among pediatric nephrology patients. 
  • Cumulative index of health disorders as an indicator of aging-associated processes in the elderly: results from analyses of the National Long Term Care Survey. 
  • Current national health insurance coverage policies for breast and ovarian cancer prophylactic surgery. 
  • Current practice among plastic surgeons of antibiotic prophylaxis and closed-suction drains in breast reconstruction: experience, evidence, and implications for postoperative care. 
  • Current state of information technologies for the clinical research enterprise across academic medical centers. 
  • Deficits and variations in patients' experience with making 9 common medical decisions: the DECISIONS survey. 
  • Defining care provided for breast cancer based on medical record review or Medicare claims: information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Patterns of Care Study. 
  • Determinants of Uncontrolled Hypertension in Rural Communities in South Asia-Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. 
  • Development of a patient satisfaction survey for outpatient care: a brief report. 
  • Differential prescribing of opioid analgesics according to physician specialty for Medicaid patients with chronic noncancer pain diagnoses. 
  • Dignity in end-of-life care: results of a national survey of U.S. physicians. 
  • Diplopia-Related Ambulatory and Emergency Department Visits in the United States, 2003-2012. 
  • Discrepant attitudes about teamwork among critical care nurses and physicians. 
  • Disease management in healthcare organizations: results of in-depth interviews with disease management decision makers. 
  • Do clinicians tell patients they have prehypertension? 
  • Do corporate chains affect quality of care in nursing homes? The role of corporate standardization. 
  • Do physicians' attitudes toward implantable cardioverter defibrillator therapy vary by patient age, gender, or race? 
  • Do religious physicians disproportionately care for the underserved? 
  • Does an Otolaryngology-Specific Database Have Added Value? A Comparative Feasibility Analysis. 
  • Does assistive technology substitute for personal assistance among the disabled elderly? 
  • Does the presence of a pharmacist in primary care clinics improve diabetes medication adherence? 
  • Dry eye medication use and expenditures: data from the medical expenditure panel survey 2001 to 2006. 
  • EUS-guided fine needle aspiration of the liver: indications, yield, and safety based on an international survey of 167 cases. 
  • Early treatment for non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndrome is associated with appropriate discharge care. 
  • Effect of gender, age, and relevant course work on attitudes toward empathy, patient spirituality, and physician wellness. 
  • Effectiveness of rheumatoid hand surgery: contrasting perceptions of hand surgeons and rheumatologists. 
  • Effectiveness of the Middle East respiratory syndrome-coronavirus protocol in enhancing the function of an Emergency Department in Qatar. 
  • Effects of communicating social comparison information on risk perceptions for colorectal cancer. 
  • Effects of counseling techniques on patients' weight-related attitudes and behaviors in a primary care clinic. 
  • Elective primary cesarean delivery: attitudes of urogynecology and maternal-fetal medicine specialists. 
  • Electronic health records: which practices have them and how are clinicians using them? 
  • Elementary school-located influenza vaccine programs: key stakeholder experiences from initiation to continuation. 
  • Emergency medical services system utilization over the last 10 years: what predicts transport of children? 
  • Employment of mid-level providers in primary care and control of diabetes. 
  • End-of-life care at an academic medical center: are attending physicians, house staff, nurses, and bereaved family members equally satisfied? Implications for palliative care. 
  • Epidemiology of pediatric surgical needs in low-income countries. 
  • Equity in access to healthcare among the urban elderly in China: does health insurance matter? 
  • Estimated time spent on preventive services by primary care physicians. 
  • Ethics in cardiothoracic surgery: a survey of surgeons' views. 
  • Evaluating Guideline-Recommended Antibiotic Practices for Childhood Respiratory Infections: Is It Time to Consider Case-Based Formats? 
  • Evaluating disparities in door-to-EKG time for patients with noncardiac chest pain. 
  • Evaluation of an evidence-based, nurse-driven checklist to prevent hospital-acquired catheter-associated urinary tract infections in intensive care units. 
  • Evaluation of dysphonic patients by general otolaryngologists. 
  • Evaluation of spina bifida transitional care practices in the United States. 
  • Evidence-based chaplaincy care: attitudes and practices in diverse healthcare chaplain samples. 
  • Factors Affecting Care in Non-English-Speaking Patients and Families. 
  • Factors affecting increasing radiation dose for mammography in North Carolina from 1997 through 2001: an analysis of Food and Drug Administration annual surveys. 
  • Factors associated with annual-interval mammography for women in their 40s. 
  • Factors associated with patient-recalled smoking cessation advice in a low-income clinic. 
  • First evidence on the validity and reliability of the Safety Organizing Scale-Nursing Home version (SOS-NH). 
  • Foregone health care among adolescents. 
  • Front line workers' attitudes towards psychiatric advance directives. 
  • Gaps in receipt of regular eye examinations among medicare beneficiaries diagnosed with diabetes or chronic eye diseases. 
  • Genetic counseling and testing for breast-ovarian cancer susceptibility: what do women want? 
  • Giving birth at a health-care facility in rural China: is it affordable for the poor? 
  • Growing use of laparoscopic cholecystectomy in the national Veterans Affairs Surgical Risk Study: effects on volume, patient selection, and selected outcomes. 
  • Guidelines for perioperative blood transfusion and conservation in cardiac surgery: lessons and challenges. 
  • Health Disparities in the Hospitalized Child. 
  • Health care for childhood cancer survivors: insights and perspectives from a Delphi panel of young adult survivors of childhood cancer.. 
  • Healthcare access and mammography screening in Michigan: a multilevel cross-sectional study. 
  • Healthcare utilization and mortality among veterans of the Gulf War. 
  • Heparin use for diagnostic cardiac catheterization with a radial artery approach: An international survey of practice patterns. 
  • Heterogeneity in health seeking behaviour for treatment, prevention and urgent care in four districts in western Kenya. 
  • High variability in radiologists' reporting practices for incidental thyroid nodules detected on CT and MRI. 
  • Hospice Access for Undocumented Immigrants. 
  • Hospital pharmacy and emergency department availability of parenteral pyridoxine. 
  • How do physician assessments of patient preferences for colorectal cancer screening tests differ from actual preferences? A comparison in Canada and the United States using a stated-choice survey. 
  • How do physicians weigh benefits and risks associated with treatments in patients with osteoarthritis in the United Kingdom? 
  • How treatment priorities influence triptan preferences in clinical practice: perspectives of migraine sufferers, neurologists, and primary care physicians. 
  • Hypertensive patients' use of blood pressure monitors stationed in pharmacies and other locations: a cross-sectional mail survey. 
  • IAEA survey of paediatric computed tomography practice in 40 countries in Asia, Europe, Latin America and Africa: procedures and protocols. 
  • Identification and referral of patients with progressive CKD: a national study. 
  • Identifying Targets for Improving Mental Healthcare of Adolescents with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: Perspectives from Pediatric Rheumatology Clinicians in the United States and Canada. 
  • Impact of an automated test results management system on patients' satisfaction about test result communication. 
  • Impact of financial and educational interventions on maternity care: results of cluster randomized trials in rural China, CHIMACA. 
  • Impacts of managed care patient protection laws on health services utilization and patient satisfaction with care. 
  • Implementation of Milestones-Based Assessment for a Safe and Effective Discharge. 
  • Implementation of strategies to prevent and control the emergence and spread of antimicrobial-resistant microorganisms in U.S. hospitals. 
  • Implementation of the Josie King Care Journal in a pediatric intensive care unit: a quality improvement project. 
  • Improving safety culture results in Rhode Island ICUs: lessons learned from the development of action-oriented plans. 
  • In a mailed physician survey, questionnaire length had a threshold effect on response rate. 
  • In a survey, marked inconsistency in how oncologists judged value of high-cost cancer drugs in relation to gains in survival. 
  • In-hospital death following inpatient surgical procedures in the United States, 1996-2006. 
  • Inappropriate nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug use: prevalence and predictors. 
  • Incorporating indirect costs into a cost-benefit analysis of laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding. 
  • Indications for tracheotomy in the pediatric intensive care unit population: a pilot study. 
  • Influence of operator experience and PCI volume on transfemoral access techniques: A collaboration of international cardiovascular societies. 
  • Influenza vaccination practices of physicians and caregivers of children with neurologic and neurodevelopmental conditions - United States, 2011-12 influenza season. 
  • Informal care and health care use of older adults. 
  • Initiation of salvage therapy for prostate cancer. 
  • Inpatient hospital care for psoriasis: a vanishing practice in the United States. 
  • Integrating routine HIV screening into a primary care setting in rural North Carolina. 
  • Integration of Electronic Patient-Reported Outcomes Into Routine Cancer Care: An Analysis of Factors Affecting Data Completeness. 
  • Intensive care in critical access hospitals. 
  • Invited Commentary. 
  • Is a home-care network necessary to access the Medicare hospice benefit? 
  • Ketamine in the Prehospital Environment: A National Survey of Paramedics in the United States. 
  • Knowledge, attitudes, and practices in safe motherhood care among obstetric providers in Bugesera, Rwanda. 
  • Laminectomy and fusion after spinal cord injury: national inpatient complications and outcomes. 
  • Language barriers and patient-centered breast cancer care. 
  • Lessons learned from implementation of a computerized application for pending tests at hospital discharge. 
  • Levels and variation in overuse of fecal occult blood testing in the Veterans Health Administration. 
  • Longitudinal rates of annual eye examinations of persons with diabetes and chronic eye diseases. 
  • Making the case for school-based health: where do we stand? 
  • Management of glioma in Victoria (1998-2000): retrospective cohort study. 
  • Management of skin abscesses by primary care pediatricians. 
  • Mapping geographical inequalities in oral rehydration therapy coverage in low-income and middle-income countries, 2000-17. 
  • Maternal autonomy and child health care utilization in India: results from the National Family Health Survey. 
  • Measurement Properties of the CAPACITY Instrument to Assess Perceived Communication With the Health Care Team Among Care Partners of Patients With Cognitive Impairment. 
  • Measuring patient preferences for colorectal cancer screening using a choice-format survey. 
  • Meeting Basic Needs: Social Supports and Services Provided by Hospice. 
  • Migration of persons with AIDS--a search for support from elderly parents? 
  • Missing in action: care by physician assistants and nurse practitioners in national health surveys. 
  • Modest Associations Between Electronic Health Record Use and Acute Myocardial Infarction Quality of Care and Outcomes: Results From the National Cardiovascular Data Registry. 
  • Molecular testing for the BRCA1 and BRCA2 Ashkenazi Jewish founder mutations: a report on the College of American Pathologists proficiency testing surveys. 
  • NHAMCS Validation of Emergency Severity Index as an Indicator of Emergency Department Resource Utilization. 
  • National Imaging and Antibiotic Practice Patterns in Children Presenting With Urinary Tract Infection to Community Practices: Little Impact From the American Academy of Pediatrics Guidelines? 
  • National medical spending attributable to overweight and obesity: how much, and who's paying? 
  • Neoadjuvant Systemic Therapy for Breast Cancer: Factors Influencing Surgeons' Referrals. 
  • Neoadjuvant long-course chemoradiation remains strongly favored over short-course radiotherapy by radiation oncologists in the United States. 
  • New estimates for CRNA vacancies. 
  • No wrong door to smoking cessation care: a Veterans Affairs Chaplain survey. 
  • Non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction patients who present during off hours have higher risk profiles and are treated less aggressively, but their outcomes are not worse: a report from Can Rapid Risk Stratification of Unstable Angina Patients Suppress ADverse Outcomes with Early Implementation of the ACC/AHA Guidelines CRUSADE initiative. 
  • Non-surgical management of stress urinary incontinence: ambulatory treatments for leakage associated with stress (ATLAS) trial. 
  • North Carolina stroke prevention and treatment facilities survey. Statewide availability of programs and services. 
  • Nurse practitioners and physician assistants employed by general and subspecialty pediatricians. 
  • Nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and physicians in community health centers, 2006-2010. 
  • Nurses' satisfaction with medication administration point-of-care technology. 
  • Nursing advocacy in North Carolina. 
  • Obstetrician-gynecologist physicians' beliefs about emergency contraception: a national survey. 
  • Obstetrician-gynecologists' objections to and willingness to help patients obtain an abortion. 
  • Obstetrician-gynecologists' views on contraception and natural family planning: a national survey. 
  • Obstetrician-gynecologists, religious institutions, and conflicts regarding patient-care policies. 
  • Opportunities for improvement on current nuclear cardiology practices and radiation exposure in Latin America: Findings from the 65-country IAEA Nuclear Cardiology Protocols cross-sectional Study (INCAPS). 
  • Oral anticoagulation for subclinical atrial tachyarrhythmias detected by implantable cardiac devices: an international survey of the AF-SCREEN Group. 
  • Oral health and pediatricians: results of a national survey. 
  • Organizational Structure, Staffing, Resources, and Educational Initiatives in Cardiac Intensive Care Units in the United States: An American Heart Association Acute Cardiac Care Committee and American College of Cardiology Critical Care Cardiology Working Group Cross-Sectional Survey. 
  • Out-of-Pocket Spending for Ambulatory Physical Therapy Services From 2008 to 2012: National Panel Survey. 
  • Outcome results of the 1996-1999 patterns of care survey of the national practice for patients receiving radiation therapy for carcinoma of the esophagus. 
  • Outpatient management of heart failure in the United States, 2006-2008. 
  • Overriding psychiatric advance directives: factors associated with psychiatrists' decisions to preempt patients' advance refusal of hospitalization and medication. 
  • Palliative Care Awareness Among Advanced Cancer Patients and Their Family Caregivers in Singapore. 
  • Parental vaccine concerns in Kentucky. 
  • Parents as passengers during pediatric transport. 
  • Patient and clinician satisfaction with a store-and-forward teledermatology consult system. 
  • Patient characteristics associated with receipt of lifestyle behavior advice. 
  • Patient expectations regarding eye care: development and results of the Eye Care Expectations Survey (ECES). 
  • Patient factors related to the odds of receiving prevention services in Veterans Health Administration medical centers. 
  • Patient portals: survey of nursing informaticists. 
  • Patient safety, satisfaction, and quality of hospital care: cross sectional surveys of nurses and patients in 12 countries in Europe and the United States. 
  • Patient satisfaction and its relationship with clinical quality and inpatient mortality in acute myocardial infarction. 
  • Patient satisfaction instruments used at academic medical centers: results of a survey. 
  • Patient-Centered Communication for Discussing Oncotype DX Testing. 
  • Patient-reported frequency of taking aspirin in a population with coronary artery disease. 
  • Patient-reported outcomes and satisfaction after total skin-sparing mastectomy and immediate expander-implant reconstruction. 
  • 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' perceptions of safety if interpersonal continuity of care were to be disrupted. 
  • Patterns of chemotherapy-associated toxicity and supportive care in US oncology practice: a nationwide prospective cohort study. 
  • Pediatric emergency and essential surgical care in Zambian hospitals: a nationwide study. 
  • Pediatric workforce: a look at pediatric infectious diseases data from the American Board of Pediatrics. 
  • Pediatrics workforce: a look at developmental-behavioral pediatrics data from the American Board of Pediatrics. 
  • Perceived racial/ethnic bias in healthcare in Durham County, North Carolina: a comparison of community and national samples. 
  • Perception Versus Actual Performance in Timely Tissue Plasminogen Activation Administration in the Management of Acute Ischemic Stroke. 
  • Perception of Safety of Surgical Practice Among Operating Room Personnel From Survey Data Is Associated With All-cause 30-day Postoperative Death Rate in South Carolina. 
  • Perception of unmet basic needs as a predictor of mortality among community-dwelling older adults. 
  • Perceptions and competence in evidence-based medicine: a survey of the American Urological Association Membership. 
  • Perceptions of 24/7 in-hospital intensivist coverage on pediatric housestaff education. 
  • Performance, satisfaction, and transition into practice of graduates of accelerated nursing programs. 
  • Perioperative management of patients receiving new oral anticoagulants: an international survey. 
  • Persistent problems of access to appropriate, affordable TB services in rural China: experiences of different socio-economic groups. 
  • Perspectives and Uses of the Electronic Health Record Among US Pediatricians: A National Survey. 
  • Pharmacist prescription of hormonal contraception in Oregon: Baseline knowledge and interest in provision. 
  • Physician Experience and Attitudes Toward Addressing the Cost of Cancer Care. 
  • Physician decision making and trends in the use of cardiac stress testing in the United States: an analysis of repeated cross-sectional data. 
  • Physician knowledge and practices in the evaluation of coagulopathies in stroke patients. 
  • Physicians and electronic health records: a statewide survey. 
  • Physicians' attitudes about shared decision making for prostate cancer screening. 
  • Physicians' attitudes and practices regarding adherence to medical regimens by patients with chronic illness. 
  • Physicians' beliefs and U.S. health care reform--a national survey. 
  • Physicians' knowledge and attitudes regarding implantable cardioverter-defibrillators. 
  • Physicians' perceptions of shared decision-making for implantable cardioverter-defibrillators: Results of a physician survey. 
  • Physicians' stated trade-off preferences for chronic hepatitis B treatment outcomes in Germany, France, Spain, Turkey, and Italy. 
  • Physicians' use of key functions in electronic health records from 2005 to 2007: a statewide survey. 
  • Pilot study of a population-based survey to assess the prevalence of surgical conditions in Uganda. 
  • Point-prevalence study of antimicrobial use in public hospitals in southern Sri Lanka identifies opportunities for improving prescribing practices. 
  • Polypharmacy management in Medicare managed care: changes in prescribing by primary care physicians resulting from a program promoting medication reviews. 
  • Practice Guideline: Contraception for Adolescents with Chronic Illness. 
  • Practice characteristics and HMO enrollee satisfaction with specialty care: an analysis of patients with glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy. 
  • Practice patterns for peer review in radiation oncology. 
  • Predictors of inactive lifestyle among adult survivors of childhood cancer: a report from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study. 
  • Predictors of reduced dose intensity in patients with early-stage breast cancer receiving adjuvant chemotherapy. 
  • Preferences for cardiac tests and procedures may partially explain sex but not race disparities. 
  • Preliminary study of a school-based program to improve hypertension awareness in the community. 
  • Prescribing "placebo treatments": results of national survey of US internists and rheumatologists. 
  • Prescribing for Children With Rheumatic Disease: Perceived Treatment Approaches Between Pediatric and Adult Rheumatologists. 
  • Prescription of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and muscle relaxants for back pain in the United States. 
  • Prevalence of Pediatric Surgical Conditions Across Somaliland. 
  • Prevalence of Surgically Untreated Face, Head, and Neck Conditions in Uganda: A Cross-Sectional Nationwide Household Survey. 
  • Prevalence, characteristics, and opinions of pediatric rapid response teams in the United States. 
  • Preventive health services received by minority women aged 45-64 and the goals of healthy people 2000. 
  • Primary care approach to dysphonia. 
  • Primary care approach to hearing loss: the hidden disability. 
  • Primary care physicians' familiarity, beliefs, and perceived barriers to practice guidelines in non-diabetic CKD: a survey study. 
  • Primary care providers' needs and preferences for information about colorectal cancer survivorship care. 
  • Private health insurance coverage for substance abuse and mental health services, 1995 to 1998. 
  • Private practice rates among pediatric subspecialists. 
  • Project CAPE: a high-fidelity, in situ simulation program to increase Critical Access Hospital Emergency Department provider comfort with seriously ill pediatric patients. 
  • Projected morbidity and mortality from missed diagnoses of coronary artery disease in the United States. 
  • Psychiatric advance directives among public mental health consumers in five U.S. cities: prevalence, demand, and correlates. 
  • Quality of Acute Care for Patients With Urinary Stones in the United States. 
  • Quality of reproductive health services to limited English proficient (LEP) patients. 
  • Quantifying the impact of accessibility on preventive healthcare in sub-Saharan Africa using mobile phone data. 
  • Quantifying the pediatric surgical need in Uganda: results of a nationwide cross-sectional, household survey. 
  • Quantifying the utility of taking pills for cardiovascular prevention. 
  • Race and ethnicity and rural mental health treatment. 
  • Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health and Health Care. 
  • Racial differences in influenza vaccination among older Americans 1996-2000: longitudinal analysis of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and the Asset and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old (AHEAD) survey. 
  • Racial differences in next-of-kin participation in an ongoing survey of satisfaction with end-of-life care: a study of a study. 
  • ReCAP: Feasibility and Effectiveness of a Pilot Program to Facilitate Quality Improvement Learning in Oncology: Experience of the American Society of Clinical Oncology Quality Training Program. 
  • Real-world treatment patterns and adverse events in metastatic renal cell carcinoma from a large US claims database. 
  • Regional variations in physicians' attitudes and recommendations surrounding implantable cardioverter-defibrillators. 
  • Regularity of preventive foot care in persons with diabetes: results from the Nord-Trøndelag Health Study. 
  • Regulation Without Representation: Cardiac Device Patient Knowledge and Attitudes About the FDA Regulatory Process. 
  • Religion, clinicians, and the integration of complementary and alternative medicines. 
  • Response rates to a mailed survey targeting childhood cancer survivors: a comparison of conditional versus unconditional incentives. 
  • Results from the Quality Research in Radiation Oncology (QRRO) survey: Evaluation of dosimetric outcomes for low-dose-rate prostate brachytherapy. 
  • Results of a survey on current surgical smoke control practices. 
  • Retinopathy of prematurity care: patterns of care and workforce analysis. 
  • Revealing and resolving patient safety defects: the impact of leadership WalkRounds on frontline caregiver assessments of patient safety. 
  • Risk and timing of neutropenic events in adult cancer patients receiving chemotherapy: the results of a prospective nationwide study of oncology practice. 
  • Rural/urban differences in barriers to and burden of care for children with special health care needs. 
  • Rurality, gender, and mental health treatment. 
  • Safeguarding the administration of high-dose chemotherapy: a national practice survey by the American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation. 
  • Safety concerns regarding combination vaccines. Perspective of select European countries. 
  • Service costs of caring for adolescents with mental illness in a rural community, 1993-2000. 
  • Should your practice participate in a quality-reporting program? 
  • Sight-Threatening Ocular Diseases Remain Underdiagnosed Among Children Of Less Affluent Families. 
  • Statewide assessment of hospital-based stroke prevention and treatment services in North Carolina: changes over the last 5 years. 
  • Statewide hospital-based stroke services in North Carolina: changes over 10 years. 
  • Stroke center designation can be achieved by small hospitals: the Massachusetts experience. 
  • Substance use, dependence, and service utilization among the US uninsured nonelderly population. 
  • Sulfonylurea Prescribing Patterns After the Introduction of DPP-4 Inhibitors and GLP-1 Receptor Agonists. 
  • Support for immunization registries among parents of vaccinated and unvaccinated school-aged children: a case control study. 
  • Surgical management of the rheumatoid hand: consensus and controversy among rheumatologists and hand surgeons. 
  • Surgical need among the ageing population of Uganda. 
  • Survey analysis of patient experience using a practice-linked PHR for type 2 diabetes mellitus. 
  • Survey methodology for the uninitiated. 
  • Survey of clinical infant lung function testing practices. 
  • Survey of current practices among US epileptologists of antiepileptic drug withdrawal after epilepsy surgery. 
  • Survey of gastroenterologists' awareness and implementation of AGA guidelines on osteoporosis in inflammatory bowel disease patients: are the guidelines being used and what are the barriers to their use? 
  • Survey of providers' attitudes toward integrating smoking cessation treatment into posttraumatic stress disorder care. 
  • Survival at the threshold of viability: a nationwide survey of the opinions and attitudes of physicians in a developing country. 
  • Systems of care for ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction: a report From the American Heart Association's Mission: Lifeline. 
  • The DECISIONS study: a nationwide survey of United States adults regarding 9 common medical decisions. 
  • The Emergency Severity Index (version 3) 5-level triage system scores predict ED resource consumption. 
  • The Role of Mobile Applications in Improving Alcohol Health Literacy in Young Adults With Type 1 Diabetes: Help or Hindrance? 
  • The association of physicians' religious characteristics with their attitudes and self-reported behaviors regarding religion and spirituality in the clinical encounter. 
  • The effect of watchful waiting on the management and treatment of inguinal hernias in a community setting. 
  • The effects of rural residence and other social vulnerabilities on subjective measures of unmet need. 
  • The glaucoma research foundation patient survey: patient understanding of glaucoma and its treatment. 
  • The impact of TennCare on patient satisfaction with care. 
  • The impact of health status on physicians' intentions to offer cancer screening to older women. 
  • The impact of medical school oaths and other professional codes of ethics: results of a national physician survey. 
  • The impact of minimally invasive parathyroidectomy on the way endocrinologists treat primary hyperparathyroidism. 
  • The impact of race and disease on sickle cell patient wait times in the emergency department. 
  • The impact of race and insurance type on the outcome of endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) repair. 
  • The importance of age in allocating health care resources: does intervention-type matter? 
  • The influence of rural versus urban residence on utilization and receipt of care for chronic low back pain. 
  • The male-female health-survival paradox: a survey and register study of the impact of sex-specific selection and information bias. 
  • The performance of administrative and self-reported measures for risk adjustment of Veterans Affairs expenditures. 
  • The receipt of prevention services by veterans using VA versus non-VA facilities. 
  • The role of community-based and philanthropic organizations in meeting cancer patient and caregiver needs. 
  • The roles of self-efficacy and pretest counseling in type 2 herpes simplex virus screening in asymptomatic adults. 
  • The structure and structural effects of VA rehabilitation bedservice care for stroke. 
  • The structure of critical care transfer networks. 
  • The usage patterns of cardiac bedside markers employing point-of-care testing for troponin in non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndrome: results from CRUSADE. 
  • The use of complementary and alternative medicine by patients with chronic hepatitis C. 
  • The use of droperidol before and after the Food and Drug Administration black box warning: a survey of the members of the Society of Ambulatory Anesthesia. 
  • The use of mind-body medicine and prayer among adult patients with chronic hepatitis C. 
  • Thoracic aorta endografts: variations in practice among medical specialists. 
  • Thyroid hormone use during cardiac transplant organ procurement. 
  • Total duration instead of in-hospital antibiotic days: reaching beyond the hospital walls. 
  • Toward elimination of perinatal HIV transmission: New Jersey hospital barriers to rapid HIV testing in labor and delivery, 2005. 
  • Toward estimating the impact of changes in immigrants' insurance eligibility on hospital expenditures for uncompensated care. 
  • Transfemoral Approach for Coronary Angiography and Intervention: A Collaboration of International Cardiovascular Societies. 
  • Transradial approach for coronary angiography and interventions: results of the first international transradial practice survey. 
  • Trauma and posttraumatic stress in users of the Anxiety Disorders Association of America Web site. 
  • Treating pediatric obesity in the primary care setting to prevent chronic disease: perceptions and knowledge of providers and staff. 
  • Treatment of Type 2 diabetes mellitus in Chongqing of China: unaffordable care for the poor. 
  • Trends in spinal pain management injections in academic radiology departments. 
  • Trends in the association between age and in-hospital mortality after percutaneous coronary intervention: National Cardiovascular Data Registry experience. 
  • Trends in up-to-date status in colorectal cancer screening, North Carolina, 1998-2002. 
  • Tuberculosis patient expenditure on drugs and tests in subsidised, public services in China: a descriptive study. 
  • US Physicians' Opinions about Distinctions between Withdrawing and Withholding Life-Sustaining Treatment. 
  • Understanding of an aggregate probability statement by patients who are offered participation in Phase I clinical trials. 
  • Understanding operator stent choice in the catheterization laboratory using a pre-procedure survey: Opportunities for quality improvement. 
  • Understanding patient preferences for femoral central venous catheterization among patients with sickle cell disease. 
  • Unmet need for routine and specialty care: data from the National Survey of Children With Special Health Care Needs. 
  • Unmet need for therapy services, assistive devices, and related services: data from the national survey of children with special health care needs. 
  • Unmet needs and depression among carers of people newly diagnosed with cancer. 
  • Unmet spiritual care needs impact emotional and spiritual well-being in advanced cancer patients. 
  • Uptake of enhanced recovery practices by SAGES members: a survey. 
  • Use of Strategies to Improve Door-to-Needle Times With Tissue-Type Plasminogen Activator in Acute Ischemic Stroke in Clinical Practice: Findings from Target: Stroke. 
  • Use of a Clinical Decision Support Tool to improve guideline adherence for the treatment of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: Skin and Soft Tissue Infections. 
  • Use of features in electronic health records and health care quality: How are they related? 
  • Use of guideline-recommended therapies for heart failure in the Medicare population. 
  • Use of outpatient care in Veterans Health Administration and Medicare among veterans receiving primary care in community-based and hospital outpatient clinics. 
  • Use of substance abuse treatment services by persons with mental health and substance use problems. 
  • Use of the Internet by patients before and after cardiac surgery: telephone survey. 
  • Vaccine knowledge and practices of primary care providers of exempt vs. vaccinated children. 
  • Validation of a clinician questionnaire to assess reasons for antipsychotic discontinuation and continuation among patients with schizophrenia. 
  • Validation of the Subjective Numeracy Scale: effects of low numeracy on comprehension of risk communications and utility elicitations. 
  • Value measurement in cost-utility analysis: explaining the discrepancy between rating scale and person trade-off elicitations. 
  • Variability in mammogram interpretation. 
  • Variation in practice and concordance with guideline criteria for length of stay after elective percutaneous coronary intervention. 
  • Variations in pre-hospital fibrinolysis process of care: insights from the Assessment of the Safety and Efficacy of a New Thrombolytic 3 Plus international acute myocardial infarction pre-hospital care survey. 
  • Voiding cystography practices and preferences of North American pediatric urologists. 
  • Weight-loss talks: what works (and what doesn't). 
  • What length of hospice use maximizes reduction in medical expenditures near death in the US Medicare program? 
  • What rheumatologists in the United States think of complementary and alternative medicine: results of a national survey. 
  • Who pays attention in stated-choice surveys? 
  • Who should be doing laparoscopic bariatric surgery? 
  • Whole body donation for medical science: a population-based study. 
  • Why do people with an anxiety disorder utilize more nonmental health care than those without? 
  • Women's reports of smoking cessation advice during reproductive health visits and subsequent smoking cessation. 
  • Worldwide experience with the robotic navigation system in catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation: methodology, efficacy and safety. 
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  • Anderson, Ruth A., Professor Emerita in the School of Nursing, School of Nursing
  • Bettger, Janet Prvu, Associate Professor in Orthopaedic Surgery, Duke Science & Society
  • Bradford, Daniel William, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Social and Community Psychiatry
  • Cohen, Seth Morris, Associate Professor of Head and Neck Surgery and Communication Sciences, Head and Neck Surgery & Communication Sciences
  • Curtis, Lesley H., Professor in Population Health Sciences, Medicine, General Internal Medicine
  • Gellad, Ziad F., Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Gastroenterology
  • Grambow, Steven C., Assistant Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • Jowell, Paul Simon, Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Gastroenterology
  • Lee, Walter T, Associate Professor of Head and Neck Surgery and Communication Sciences, Radiation Oncology
  • Levy, Jerrold Henry, Professor of Anesthesiology, Anesthesiology, Cardiothoracic
  • Morgan, Perri Anne, Professor in Family Medicine and Community Health, Family Medicine and Community Health
  • Muschkin, Clara G., Associate Research Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy, Sanford School of Public Policy
  • Nieuwsma, Jason A, Associate Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Social and Community Psychiatry
  • Ostbye, Truls, Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health, Family Medicine and Community Health
  • Patel, Uptal Dinesh, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine, Medicine, Nephrology
  • Preminger, Glenn Michael, James F. Glenn, M.D. Distinguished Professor of Urology, Surgery
  • Strand de Oliveira, Justine, Professor Emeritus in Family Medicine and Community Health, Family Medicine and Community Health, Physician Assistant Program
  • Turner, David Ashley, Consulting Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Pediatrics, Critical Care Medicine
  • 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