Needs Assessment

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "Characteristics of Individuals Infected with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Provider Interaction inthe Predominantly Rural Southeast" 
  • "Reality surgery"--a research ethics perspective on the live broadcast of surgical procedures. 
  • 5 competencies needed by new baccalaureate graduates. 
  • A Hospital Level Analysis of 30-Day Readmission Performance for Heart Failure Patients and Long-Term Survival: Findings from Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure. 
  • A National Needs Assessment of Point-of-Care Ultrasound Training for Hospitalists. 
  • A Research Agenda for Communication Between Health Care Professionals and Patients Living With Serious Illness. 
  • A Review of Empathy, Its Importance, and Its Teaching in Surgical Training. 
  • A Survey-Based Needs Assessment of Barriers to Optimal Sickle Cell Disease Care in the Emergency Department. 
  • A Syringe Service Program Within a Federal System: Foundations for Implementation. 
  • A conceptual framework of outcomes for caregivers of assistive technology users. 
  • A framework for modelling the selection of assistive technology devices (ATDs). 
  • A framework for the conceptual modelling of assistive technology device outcomes. 
  • A national survey of the primary and acute care pediatric nurse practitioner educational preparation. 
  • A rubric for improving the quality of online courses. 
  • A systematic review of capacity assessment tools in pediatric surgery: Global Assessment in Pediatric Surgery (GAPS) Phase I. 
  • Accuracy of self-reports of fecal occult blood tests and test results among individuals in the carpentry trade. 
  • Acute Pain Medicine in the United States: A Status Report. 
  • Adaptation of an HIV prevention curriculum for use with older African American women 
  • Addressing Unmet Maternal Health Needs at a Pediatric Specialty Infant Care Clinic. 
  • Addressing the Social Determinants of Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Ensuring Equity, Quality, and Sustainability. 
  • Administrative characteristics of comprehensive prenatal case management programs. 
  • Adult emergency department patients with sickle cell pain crisis: a learning collaborative model to improve analgesic management. 
  • Advances in uterine leiomyoma research: conference overview, summary, and future research recommendations. 
  • Advocacy skills training for young adult cancer survivors: the Young Adult Survivors Conference at Camp Māk-a-Dream. 
  • Alcohol consumption among pregnant women in Northern Tanzania 2000-2010: a registry-based study. 
  • An Integrated Framework For The Prevention And Treatment Of Obesity And Its Related Chronic Diseases. 
  • An argument for renewed focus on epidemiology for public health. 
  • An education-service collaboration to address a perceived graduate RN readiness gap. 
  • Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors and angiotensin II receptor blockers for treatment of ischemic heart disease: Future research needs prioritization. 
  • Another Look at Competencies and Clinical Evaluation: From 40 Years Ago. 
  • Antimicrobial Stewardship Training for Infectious Diseases Fellows: Program Directors Identify a Curriculum Need. 
  • Assessment of Clinical Palliative Care Trigger Status vs Actual Needs Among Critically Ill Patients and Their Family Members. 
  • Association of unmet needs for support services with medication use and adherence among HIV-infected individuals in the southeastern United States. 
  • Attracting students to surgical careers: preclinical surgical experience. 
  • Avoidable costs of comprehensive case management. 
  • Building health system capacity to improve maternal and newborn care: a pilot leadership program for frontline staff at a tertiary hospital in Ghana. 
  • Can we understand population healthcare needs using electronic medical records? 
  • Cardiac safety research consortium "shock II" think tank report: Advancing practical approaches to generating evidence for the treatment of cardiogenic shock. 
  • Cardiac surgery in North America and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): Regional variability in burden and impact. 
  • Caregiving-related needs of family caregivers of older Singaporeans. 
  • Changes in fall prevention training for apprentice carpenters based on a comprehensive needs assessment. 
  • Characterizing hospice discharge patterns in a nationally representative sample of the elderly, 1993-2000. 
  • Chronic venous leg ulcer treatment: future research needs. 
  • Clinical implications of spirituality to mental health: review of evidence and practical guidelines. 
  • Clinical needs assessment of middle and high school students following the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. 
  • Community Obstetrical Units Less Likely than Academic Units to Have Universal COVID-19 Testing. 
  • Community and facility-level engagement in planning and budgeting for the government health sector--a district perspective from Kenya. 
  • Community-Informed Health Promotion to Improve Health Behaviors in Honduras. 
  • Comparison of need for operative therapy in patients with mitral valve prolapse involving both leaflets versus posterior leaflet only. 
  • Comprehensive electrocardiogram-to-device time for primary percutaneous coronary intervention in ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: A report from the American Heart Association mission: Lifeline program. 
  • Correlates of daily leisure-time physical activity in a community sample: Narrow personality traits and practical barriers. 
  • Creating a Cognitive Aid for Use During Intraoperative Power Failures. 
  • Current use and training needs of point-of-care ultrasound in emergency departments: A national survey of VA hospitals. 
  • Data and methods to characterize the role of sex work and to inform sex work programs in generalized HIV epidemics: evidence to challenge assumptions. 
  • Defining leadership competencies for pediatric critical care fellows: Results of a national needs assessment. 
  • Detecting geriatric needs in older patients with breast cancer through use of a brief geriatric screening tool. 
  • Determinants of remaining in the community after discharge: results from New Jersey's Nursing Home Transition Program. 
  • Developing a Research Agenda for Integrating Palliative Care into Critical Care and Pulmonary Practice To Improve Patient and Family Outcomes. 
  • Development of a web-based, specialty specific portfolio. 
  • Development of the Child Health Indicator Assessment (CHIA) in a community-based nurse-managed center. 
  • Difference in Medication Adherence Between Patients Prescribed a 30-Day Versus 90-Day Supply After Acute Myocardial Infarction. 
  • Differences in health care use and outcomes by the timing of in-hospital worsening heart failure. 
  • Disease control and health systems in low- and middle-income countries: enhancing positive interrelation. 
  • Disease management in healthcare organizations: results of in-depth interviews with disease management decision makers. 
  • Disease progression in hemodynamically stable patients presenting to the emergency department with sepsis. 
  • Do targeted efforts for the rural underserved help kill comprehensive reform? 
  • Educating Future Health Care Professionals About Cybercivility: Needs Assessment Study. 
  • Effect of a Community Agency-Administered Nurse Home Visitation Program on Program Use and Maternal and Infant Health Outcomes: A Randomized Clinical Trial. 
  • Emergency Department Sickle Cell Assessment of Needs and Strengths (ED-SCANS), a focus group and decision support tool development project. 
  • Empowering communication: a community-based intervention for patients. 
  • Enabling nurses to lead change: the orientation experiences of nurses to boards. 
  • Establishing faculty needs and priorities for peer-mentoring groups using a nominal group technique. 
  • Evaluating mental health difficulties and associated outcomes among HIV-positive adolescents in Tanzania. 
  • Evaluating the association of social needs assessment data with cardiometabolic health status in a federally qualified community health center patient population. 
  • Expanding Faculty Development of Teaching Skills: A National Needs Assessment of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Faculty. 
  • Exploring health behaviors, quality of life, and support needs in African-American prostate cancer survivors: a pilot study to support future interventions. 
  • Financial burden, distress, and toxicity in cardiovascular disease. 
  • Flipping the classroom: a national pilot curriculum for physiology in neonatal-perinatal medicine. 
  • Functional capacity in men and women following cardiac rehabilitation. 
  • Future of Hypertension. 
  • GME Concentrations: A Collaborative Interdisciplinary Approach to Learner-Driven Education. 
  • Gender and national origin differences in healthcare utilization among U.S. Immigrants from Mexico, China, and India. 
  • Gerontological nursing content in baccalaureate nursing programs: comparison of findings from 1997 and 2003. 
  • Grading quality of evidence and strength of recommendations in clinical practice guidelines part 3 of 3. The GRADE approach to developing recommendations. 
  • HIV and older adults: clinical outcomes in the era of HAART. 
  • HIV epidemiology update and transmission factors: risks and risk contexts--16th International AIDS Conference epidemiology plenary. 
  • HIV/AIDS in the Southern USA: a disproportionate epidemic. 
  • HRS White Paper on interoperability of data from cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIEDs). 
  • Health Care System Factors Associated with Transition Preparation in Youth with Special Health Care Needs. 
  • Health care needs of homeless adults at a nurse-managed clinic. 
  • Health needs and barriers to healthcare of women who have experienced intimate partner violence. 
  • Heart Center nursing research: a team effort. Heart Center Nursing Research Work Group Members. 
  • Helping clinicians who care for trauma survivors. 
  • Hemato-oncology and palliative care teams: is it time for an integrated approach to patient care? 
  • Hospital readmission among older adults who return home with unmet need for ADL disability. 
  • How North Carolina Can Best Respond to Long-Term Services and Supports Needs. 
  • Identifying Needs for Advancing the Profession and Workforce in Environmental Health. 
  • Impact of practice environment on procedures performed by U.S. Army general internists. 
  • In urban and rural India, a standardized patient study showed low levels of provider training and huge quality gaps. 
  • Incorporating geriatrics into baccalaureate nursing curricula: laying the groundwork with faculty development. 
  • Increasing the Availability and Quality of Donor Eyes for Research. 
  • Informational needs assessment of non-Hodgkin lymphoma survivors and their physicians. 
  • Innovating through "interesting times" in global health. 
  • Innovation interest within dermatology: a needs assessment for novel thought processes. 
  • Integrating spirituality into the care of older adults. 
  • Intentional and unintentional medication non-adherence in African Americans: Insights from the Jackson Heart Study. 
  • Interleukin-1 receptor-associated kinase-1: more evidence. 
  • International survey of nursing home research priorities. 
  • Internet education of African American consumers on quality of care. 
  • Interventions for healthy aging among mature Black lesbians: Recommendations gathered through community-based research. 
  • Introductory commentary: a strategic review of options for building on lessons learnt from IMCI and iCCM. 
  • Ion channel inhibition against COVID-19: A novel target for clinical investigation. 
  • Ketamine in the Prehospital Environment: A National Survey of Paramedics in the United States. 
  • Knowledge Gaps in Cardiovascular Care of the Older Adult Population: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association, American College of Cardiology, and American Geriatrics Society. 
  • Learning Cybercivility: A Qualitative Needs Assessment of Health Professions Students. 
  • Leveraging institutional support for family caregivers to meet the health and vocational needs of persons with disabilities. 
  • Limitations of Available Blood Products for Massive Transfusion During Mass Casualty Events at US Level 1 Trauma Centers. 
  • Longitudinal adherence to fecal occult blood testing impacts colorectal cancer screening quality. 
  • Longitudinal patterns of unmet need for contraception among women living with HIV on antiretroviral therapy in South Africa. 
  • Making epidemiologic studies responsive to the needs of participants and communities: the Carolina Breast Cancer Study experience. 
  • Management of child and adolescent obesity: attitudes, barriers, skills, and training needs among health care professionals. 
  • Managers' perspectives of new graduates of accelerated nursing programs: how do they compare with other graduates? 
  • Marital rape: history, research, and practice. 
  • Medical Cannabis State and Federal Regulations: Implications for United States Health Care Entities. 
  • Mental and Physical Health of Children in Foster Care. 
  • Mental health and recovery in the Gulf Coast after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. 
  • Mental health assessments in juvenile justice: report on the consensus conference. 
  • Molecular Diagnostics for Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection. 
  • Monitoring needs and goal-directed fluid therapy within an enhanced recovery program. 
  • Moving beyond disclosure: women's perspectives on barriers and motivators to seeking assistance for intimate partner violence. 
  • Multilevel perspectives on diffusing a physical activity promotion program to reach diverse older adults. 
  • Needs assessment for an errors-based curriculum on thoracoscopic lobectomy. 
  • Nurse administered telephone intervention for blood pressure control: a patient-tailored multifactorial intervention. 
  • Of These, Faith, Hope, and Love: Assessing and Providing for the Psychosocial and Spiritual Needs of Burn Patients. 
  • Off-service resident education in the emergency department: outline of a national standardized curriculum. 
  • Opioid Prescribing in the 2016 Medicare Fee-for-Service Population. 
  • Oral anticoagulants for stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation: current status, special situations, and unmet needs. 
  • Outcomes of a revised apprentice carpenter fall prevention training curriculum. 
  • Overlooked and underserved: "action signs" for identifying children with unmet mental health needs. 
  • Participant reactions to a pretreatment research assessment during a treatment outcome study for PTSD. 
  • Patterns of maltreatment and diagnosis across levels of care in group homes. 
  • Pediatric triage: a review of emergency education literature. 
  • Perception of unmet basic needs as a predictor of depressive symptoms among community-dwelling older adults. 
  • Perception of unmet basic needs as a predictor of mortality among community-dwelling older adults. 
  • Perceptions of secondary school staff toward the implementation of school-based activities to prevent weight-related disorders: a needs assessment. 
  • Physician-Leaders: A Call for Cardiovascular Specialists to Step Up. 
  • Picture Cards Versus Physical Examination: A Proof-of-Concept Study to Improve the SOSAS Survey Tool. 
  • Potentially avoidable hospital admissions in older patients with acute myeloid leukaemia in the USA: a retrospective analysis. 
  • Potentially traumatic experiences and sexual health among orphaned and separated adolescents in five low- and middle-income countries. 
  • Practical steps for evidence-based practice: putting one foot in front of the other. 
  • Prevalence and development of psychiatric disorders in childhood and adolescence. 
  • Prevalence of Pediatric Surgical Conditions Across Somaliland. 
  • Prevalence of Surgically Untreated Face, Head, and Neck Conditions in Uganda: A Cross-Sectional Nationwide Household Survey. 
  • Primary care providers' needs and preferences for information about colorectal cancer survivorship care. 
  • Priorities for comparative effectiveness reviews in cardiovascular disease. 
  • Problems meeting basic needs moderate the association between the APOE epsilon4 allele and cognitive decline. 
  • Progress toward the prevention and treatment of atrial fibrillation: A summary of the Heart Rhythm Society Research Forum on the Treatment and Prevention of Atrial Fibrillation, Washington, DC, December 9-10, 2013. 
  • Projected morbidity and mortality from missed diagnoses of coronary artery disease in the United States. 
  • Projection of Eye Disease Burden in Singapore. 
  • Promoting a good death for persons with dementia in nursing facilities: family caregivers' perspectives. 
  • Psychological and physical distress of sheltered battered women 
  • Psychosocial training and cardiac rehabilitation. 
  • Publication Rates of Heart Failure Clinical Trials Remain Low. 
  • Pursuing professional accountability: an evidence-based approach to addressing residents with behavioral problems. 
  • Qualitative evaluation of South Carolina's Postpartum/Infant Home Visit program. 
  • Quality improvement initiative for chronic pain assessment and management in the nursing home: a pilot study. 
  • Quantifying the pediatric surgical need in Uganda: results of a nationwide cross-sectional, household survey. 
  • Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health and Health Care. 
  • Re-evaluating triage in the new millennium: A comprehensive look at the need for standardization and quality. 
  • Reading RVUs: How can we meet the informational needs of cardiologists? 
  • Reasons for Frequent Emergency Department Use by Medicaid Enrollees: A Qualitative Study. 
  • Recommendations to Enhance Pediatric Cardiovascular Drug Development: Report of a Multi-Stakeholder Think Tank. 
  • Regarding "predicted shortage of vascular surgeons in the United States: population and workload analysis". 
  • Regularity of preventive foot care in persons with diabetes: results from the Nord-Trøndelag Health Study. 
  • Relationship between self-reported disability and caregiver hours. 
  • Reproductive health needs of adolescent and young adult women with pediatric rheumatic diseases. 
  • Research Priorities in the Secondary Prevention of Atrial Fibrillation: A National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Virtual Workshop Report. 
  • Response: Proposing and Meeting the Need for Interdisciplinary Cardio-Oncology Subspecialty Training by Sherry-Ann Brown, MD, PhD and Nicole Sandhu, MD, PhD. 
  • Results of an Expert Consensus Survey on the Treatment of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension With Oral Prostacyclin Pathway Agents. 
  • Risk stratification for return emergency department visits among high-risk patients. 
  • Selecting renal replacement therapies: what do African American and non-African American patients and their families think others should know? A mixed methods study. 
  • Service costs of caring for adolescents with mental illness in a rural community, 1993-2000. 
  • Setting priorities for health reform. 
  • Shortages of rural mental health professionals. 
  • Should Pediatric Patients Be Prioritized When Rationing Life-Saving Treatments During COVID-19 Pandemic. 
  • Should academic medical centers conduct clinical trials of the efficacy of intercessory prayer? 
  • Sight-Threatening Ocular Diseases Remain Underdiagnosed Among Children Of Less Affluent Families. 
  • Six-Year Checkup: Narrowing the Scope of Practical Radiation Oncology. 
  • Strategy to assess, develop, and evaluate critical thinking. 
  • Strengthening the associate program director workforce: needs assessment and recommendations. 
  • Stress and challenge of psychiatric nursing clinical experiences. 
  • Suboptimal prescribing in older inpatients and outpatients. 
  • Substance abuse, treatment needs and access among female sex workers and non-sex workers in Pretoria, South Africa. 
  • Substantive innovation in nursing education: shifting the emphasis from content coverage to student learning. 
  • Supply, demand, and equilibrium in the market for CRNAs. 
  • Supporting cancer family caregivers: How can frontline oncology clinicians help? 
  • Supporting the needs of college students with autism spectrum disorder. 
  • Surgeons OverSeas Assessment of Surgical Need (SOSAS) Uganda: Update for Household Survey. 
  • Surgical need among the ageing population of Uganda. 
  • Symptom experiences of children and adolescents with cancer. 
  • Symptom management research in children with cancer. 
  • Take Control of Your Blood Pressure (TCYB) study: a multifactorial tailored behavioral and educational intervention for achieving blood pressure control. 
  • Television campaigns and adolescent marijuana use: tests of sensation seeking targeting. 
  • The 2015 Nepal Earthquake(s): Lessons Learned From the Disability and Rehabilitation Sector's Preparation for, and Response to, Natural Disasters. 
  • The Denominator: Evolving the Electronic Medical Record To Discover Who Needs Palliative Care. 
  • The Emergency Department Sickle Cell Assessment of Needs and Strengths (ED-SCANS): reliability and validity. 
  • The Emergency Severity Index Version 4: changes to ESI level 1 and pediatric fever criteria. 
  • The Grand Challenges and nursing. 
  • The Institute of Medicine Report on the Mental Health and Substance Use Workforce for Older Adults: a reflection. 
  • The Internal Medicine Subinternship--Now More Important than Ever: A Joint CDIM-APDIM Position Paper. 
  • The NIEHS Environmental Health Sciences Data Resource Portal: placing advanced technologies in service to vulnerable communities. 
  • The National Agenda for Nursing Education Research. 
  • The Need for Practical and Accurate Measures of Value for Radiology. 
  • The Pathologist Workforce in the United States: II. An Interactive Modeling Tool for Analyzing Future Qualitative and Quantitative Staffing Demands for Services. 
  • The Surprise Question and Identification of Palliative Care Needs among Hospitalized Patients with Advanced Hematologic or Solid Malignancies. 
  • The U.S. Thrombosis and Hemostasis Centers pilot sites program. 
  • The effects of health changes on projections of health service needs for the elderly population of the United States. 
  • The effects of rural residence and other social vulnerabilities on subjective measures of unmet need. 
  • The efficacy of an HIV risk reduction intervention for Hispanic women. 
  • The nursing leadership program. The Cyprus experience--a tale of two cultures. 
  • The prevalence of medical student mistreatment and its association with burnout. 
  • The pursuit of excellence in nursing education. 
  • The radiology perspective: needs and tools for management of life-threatening events. 
  • The relative effects of home care client characteristics on the resource allocation process: do personality and demeanor matter? 
  • The state and consequences of dermatology drug prices in the United States. 
  • Toward a redefinition of psychiatric emergency. 
  • Transitioning Pediatric Patients to Adult Health Care: A Quality Improvement Needs Assessment. 
  • Translation of acute coronary syndrome therapies: from evidence to routine clinical practice. 
  • Transport Medical Control Education for Pediatric Critical Care Fellows: A National Needs Assessment Study. 
  • Traumatic Brain Injury in the Elderly: Burden, Risk Factors, and Prevention. 
  • Treatment considerations for clinicians in applying evidence-based practice to complex presentations in child trauma. 
  • Undermet needs for assistance in personal activities of daily living among community-dwelling oldest old in China from 2005 to 2008. 
  • Understanding patient experience in university-based dermatology clinics: Time motion analysis. 
  • Unintended pregnancy and induced abortion among unmarried women in China: a systematic review. 
  • Unique Educational Needs of Emergency Nurse Practitioners. 
  • Unmet Need for ADL Assistance Is Associated With Mortality Among Older Adults With Mild Disability. 
  • Unmet Needs of African Americans and Whites at the Time of Palliative Care Consultation. 
  • Unmet health needs identified by Haitian women as priorities for attention: a qualitative study. 
  • 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. 
  • Urine Microscopy for Internal Medicine Residents: A Needs Assessment and Implementation of Virtual Teaching Sessions. 
  • Using a modified nominal group technique to elicit director of nursing input for an osteoporosis intervention. 
  • Using health communication best practices to develop a web-based provider-patient communication aid: the CONNECT study. 
  • Variation in warfarin thromboprophylaxis after mitral valve repair: does equipoise exist and is a randomized trial warranted? 
  • Veterans' Preferences for Receiving Information About VA Services: Is Getting the Information You Want Related to Increased Health Care Utilization? 
  • Vital Directions for Health and Health Care: An Initiative of the National Academy of Medicine. 
  • WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT AND FAMILY PLANNING: A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE. 
  • What do internal medicine residents know about rheumatology? A needs assessment for curriculum design. 
  • Will Obesity Treatment Reimbursement Benefit Those at Highest Risk? 
  • Women's resources and use of strategies as risk and protective factors for reabuse over time. 
  • Workplace health and safety intervention for child care staff: Rationale, design, and baseline results from the CARE cluster randomized control trial. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Anderson, Ruth A., Professor Emerita in the School of Nursing, School of Nursing
  • Andolsek, Kathryn Marijoan, Professor in Family Medicine and Community Health, School of Medicine
  • Dement, John McCray, Professor Emeritus in Family Medicine and Community Health, Family Medicine & Community Health,Occupational & Environmental Medicine
  • Moorman, Patricia Gripka, Professor Emeritus in Family Medicine and Community Health, Duke Cancer Institute
  • Tsalik, Ephraim, Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine, Medicine, Infectious Diseases
  • Whetten, Kathryn, Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy, School of Nursing
  • Wu, Li-Tzy, Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medicine, General Internal Medicine
  • Yancy Jr., William Samuel, Professor of Medicine, Medicine, General Internal Medicine