Databases as Topic

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A decade of change in abdominal aortic aneurysm repair in the United States: Have we improved outcomes equally between men and women? 
  • A lovely idea: forming an ASRA Acute Postoperative Pain (AcutePOP) database. 
  • A national clinical decision support infrastructure to enable the widespread and consistent practice of genomic and personalized medicine. 
  • A sea of standards for omics data: sink or swim? 
  • A strategy for the rapid identification of phosphorylation sites in the phosphoproteome. 
  • A structural pathway for signaling in the E46Q mutant of photoactive yellow protein. 
  • A study of 11,003 patients with hypertrophic pyloric stenosis and the association between surgeon and hospital volume and outcomes. 
  • Acute stroke imaging research roadmap. 
  • Agreement and validity of pharmacy data versus self-report for use of osteoporosis medications among chronic glucocorticoid users. 
  • An examination of factors predicting prioritization for liver transplantation. 
  • Aortoesophageal fistula after thoracic aortic stent-graft placement: a rare but catastrophic complication of a novel emerging technique. 
  • Ascertainment of colonoscopy indication using administrative data. 
  • Association of Early Myocardial Workload and Mortality Following Severe Traumatic Brain Injury. 
  • Automated spectral analysis I: formation of a priori information by spectral simulation. 
  • Automated spectral analysis III: application to in vivo proton MR spectroscopy and spectroscopic imaging. 
  • Baseline use of concomitant psychotropic medications to treat schizophrenia in the CATIE trial. 
  • Can cardiovascular clinical characteristics be identified and outcome models be developed from an in-patient claims database? 
  • Cancer Informatics: New Tools for a Data-Driven Age in Cancer Research. 
  • Caring for patients with sickle cell disease in North Carolina. 
  • Case-based reasoning computer algorithm that uses mammographic findings for breast biopsy decisions. 
  • Center variation and outcomes associated with delayed sternal closure after stage 1 palliation for hypoplastic left heart syndrome. 
  • Challenges in merging Medicaid and Medicare databases to obtain healthcare costs for dual-eligible beneficiaries: using diabetes as an example. 
  • Challenging 30-day mortality as a site-specific quality metric in non-small cell lung cancer. 
  • Children use salience to solve coordination problems. 
  • Chromophore conformation and the evolution of tertiary structural changes in photoactive yellow protein. 
  • Cloning and characterization of PDE7B, a cAMP-specific phosphodiesterase. 
  • Comparative effectiveness of angiotensin-converting-enzyme inhibitors: is an ACE always an ace? 
  • Comparative trends in guidelines adherence among patients with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes treated with invasive versus conservative management strategies: Results from the CRUSADE quality improvement initiative. 
  • Comparison of cardiac surgery volumes and mortality rates between the Society of Thoracic Surgeons and Medicare databases from 1993 through 2001. 
  • Complication rates of three common spine procedures and rates of thromboembolism following spine surgery based on 108,419 procedures: a report from the Scoliosis Research Society Morbidity and Mortality Committee. 
  • Computer-assisted detection of mammographic masses: a template matching scheme based on mutual information. 
  • Computerized classification of suspicious regions in chest radiographs using subregion Hotelling observers. 
  • Contemporary management and outcomes of acute type A aortic dissection: An analysis of the STS adult cardiac surgery database. 
  • Daily intake of antioxidants in relation to survival among adult patients diagnosed with malignant glioma. 
  • Demographics, stone characteristic, and treatment of urinary calculi at the 47th Combat Support Hospital during the first 6 months of Operation Iraqi Freedom. 
  • Development and Feasibility Testing of a Critical Care EEG Monitoring Database for Standardized Clinical Reporting and Multicenter Collaborative Research. 
  • Development and use of a Guideline Entry Wizard to convert text clinical practice guidelines to a relational format. 
  • Development of an integrated biospecimen bank and multidisciplinary clinical database for pancreatic cancer. 
  • Differential survival with Alzheimer disease. 
  • Do threatened hosts have fewer parasites? A comparative study in primates. 
  • Effect of protein fusion on the transition temperature of an environmentally responsive elastin-like polypeptide: a role for surface hydrophobicity? 
  • Exploration of a hypothesized independent association of a common 9p21.3 gene variant and ischemic stroke in patients with and without angiographic coronary artery disease. 
  • Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis--epidemiology aspects in children and adults. 
  • Food mobility and the evolution of grasping behaviour: a case study in strepsirrhine primates. 
  • Gait Speed and 1-Year Mortality Following Cardiac Surgery: A Landmark Analysis From the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Adult Cardiac Surgery Database. 
  • Gender trends in the repair of ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms and outcomes. 
  • Gene expression profiles of tumor biology provide a novel approach to prognosis and may guide the selection of therapeutic targets in multiple myeloma. 
  • Genomics and hypertension: concepts, potentials, and opportunities. 
  • Guillain-Barre syndrome in organ and bone marrow transplant patients. 
  • HeartMate® II continuous-flow left ventricular assist system. 
  • High-throughput morphologic phenotyping of the mouse brain with magnetic resonance histology. 
  • Impact of residency status on perfusion times and outcomes for coronary artery bypass graft surgery. 
  • Incidence of anterior cruciate ligament injury among active duty U.S. military servicemen and servicewomen. 
  • Incomplete revascularization in the era of drug-eluting stents: impact on adverse outcomes. 
  • Incorporation of a Laguerre-Gauss channelized Hotelling observer for false-positive reduction in a mammographic mass CAD system. 
  • Increasing productivity and reducing errors through usability analysis: a case study and recommendations. 
  • Influence of hospital procedural volume on care process and mortality for patients undergoing elective surgery for mitral regurgitation. 
  • Infobuttons at Intermountain Healthcare: utilization and infrastructure. 
  • Integrating genetic information resources with an EHR. 
  • Introduction to the special section on CATIE baseline data: practical clinical trials in psychiatry: studies of schizophrenia from the CATIE network. 
  • Is hospital procedure volume associated with hospitalization charges and complication rates for cleft lip repairs? 
  • LabKey Server NAb: a tool for analyzing, visualizing and sharing results from neutralizing antibody assays. 
  • Limited-stage small-cell lung cancer (stages I-III): observations from the National Cancer Data Base. 
  • MIN1PIPE: A Miniscope 1-Photon-Based Calcium Imaging Signal Extraction Pipeline. 
  • Major and minor music compared to excited and subdued speech. 
  • Mechanical Thrombectomy in Ischemic Stroke Patients with Severe Pre-Stroke Disability. 
  • Medicines control agency takes over GP research database. 
  • Medulloblastoma and birth date: evaluation of 3 U.S. datasets. 
  • Muscle Logic: New Knowledge Resource for Anatomy Enables Comprehensive Searches of the Literature on the Feeding Muscles of Mammals. 
  • Natural scene statistics as the universal basis of color context effects. 
  • Nucleotide excision repair as a marker for susceptibility to tobacco-related cancers: a review of molecular epidemiological studies. 
  • On the protection of "protected areas". 
  • Open Humans: A platform for participant-centered research and personal data exploration. 
  • Orthopaedic workforce in the next millennium. 
  • Outcomes for endocarditis surgery in North America: a simplified risk scoring system. 
  • Outcomes for patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction in hospitals with and without onsite coronary artery bypass graft surgery: the New York State experience. 
  • Outcomes of bariatric surgery in patients > or =65 years. 
  • Parameter optimization of a computer-aided diagnosis scheme for the segmentation of microcalcification clusters in mammograms. 
  • Perinatal outcomes in women with systemic lupus erythematosus. 
  • Physician payment for 2007: a description of the process by which major changes in valuation of cardiothoracic surgical procedures occurred. 
  • Physiological arousal among women veterans with and without posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • Possible incremental benefits of specialized rehabilitation bed units among veterans after lower extremity amputation. 
  • Pre- and intraoperative variables affecting early outcomes in elderly patients undergoing pancreaticoduodenectomy. 
  • Predicting unilateral prostate cancer based on biopsy features: implications for focal ablative therapy--results from the SEARCH database. 
  • Premature release of data from clinical trials of ezetimibe. 
  • Process of and problems in changing a birth defects registry reporting system. 
  • Psychometric evaluation and calibration of health-related quality of life item banks: plans for the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS). 
  • Puzzle pieces defined: locating common packing units in tertiary protein contacts. 
  • Red cell distribution width as a novel prognostic marker in heart failure: data from the CHARM Program and the Duke Databank. 
  • Regulatory and ethical considerations for linking clinical and administrative databases. 
  • Relation between dose of loop diuretics and outcomes in a heart failure population: results of the ESCAPE trial. 
  • Reporting standards for literature searches and report inclusion criteria: making research syntheses more transparent and easy to replicate. 
  • Response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy does not predict overall survival for patients with synchronous colorectal hepatic metastases. 
  • Self-organizing map for cluster analysis of a breast cancer database. 
  • Siegfried: System for Interactive Electronic Guidelines with Feedback and Resources for Instructional and Educational Development. 
  • Significance of blood stream infection after lung transplantation: analysis in 176 consecutive patients. 
  • Size contrast and assimilation explained by the statistics of natural scene geometry. 
  • Special issues for building computerized-adaptive tests for measuring patient-reported outcomes: the National Institute of Health's investment in new technology. 
  • Spectrum and treatment of small bowel obstruction after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass. 
  • Staphylococcus aureus native valve infective endocarditis: report of 566 episodes from the International Collaboration on Endocarditis Merged Database. 
  • Strategies for delivering value from digital technology transformation. 
  • Structuring clinical practice guidelines in a relational database model for decision support on the Internet. 
  • Surgical revision of loop ("mini") gastric bypass procedure: multicenter review of complications and conversions to Roux-en-Y gastric bypass. 
  • Surgical trainee participation during infrainguinal bypass grafting procedures is associated with increased early postoperative graft failure. 
  • The National Registry of Veterans with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. 
  • The Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS): progress of an NIH Roadmap cooperative group during its first two years. 
  • The age at onset of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. 
  • The impact of the CONSORT statement on reporting of randomized clinical trials in psychiatry. 
  • The incidence of osteonecrosis of the jaw in patients receiving 5 milligrams of zoledronic acid: data from the health outcomes and reduced incidence with zoledronic acid once yearly clinical trials program. 
  • The mouse C-type transient receptor potential 2 (TRPC2) channel: alternative splicing and calmodulin binding to its N terminus. 
  • The remarkable improvements in survival at older ages. 
  • The statistical structure of human speech sounds predicts musical universals. 
  • Towards ubiquitous peer review strategies to sustain and enhance a clinical knowledge management framework. 
  • Trends in isolated coronary artery bypass grafting: an analysis of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons adult cardiac surgery database. 
  • Trial registration: ignored to irresistible. 
  • Underutilization of pancreas donors. 
  • Use of classification models based on usage data for the selection of infobutton resources. 
  • Use of home blood pressure monitoring by hypertensive patients in primary care: survey of a practice-based research network cohort. 
  • Using item banks to construct measures of patient reported outcomes in clinical trials: investigator perceptions. 
  • What can we learn from a decade of database audits? The Duke Clinical Research Institute experience, 1997--2006. 
  • Where in the world is ASRA AcutePOP? 
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  Keywords of People

  • Brennan, J. Matthew, Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Cardiology
  • Muhlbaier, Lawrence H., Associate Professor Emeritus of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • O'Connor, Christopher Michael, Richard Sean Stack, M.D. Distinguished Professor, Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology
  • Soderling, Scott Haydn, George Barth Geller Distinguished Professor of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology
  • Tenenbaum, Jessica Dale, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Duke Science & Society
  • Wu, Li-Tzy, Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medicine, General Internal Medicine