Scholars@Duke
Charles William Hargett III

Charles William Hargett III

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Medicine, Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine
Duke Box 2650, Durham, NC 27710
Duke South White Zone, 564-B, Durham, NC 27710

Selected Publications

Exploring US internal medicine resident career preferences: a Q-methodology study.

Journal Article Adv Health Sci Educ Theory Pract · August 2023 Career selection in medicine is a complex and underexplored process. Most medical career studies performed in the U.S. focused on the effect of demographic variables and medical education debt on career choice. Considering ongoing U.S. physician workforce ... Full text Link to item Cite

Distressed Work: Chronic Imperatives and Distress in Covid-19 Critical Care.

Journal Article Hastings Cent Rep · January 2023 This ethnographic study introduces the term "distressed work" to describe the emergence of chronic frictions between moral imperatives for health care workers to keep working and the dramatic increase in distress during the Covid-19 pandemic. Interviews an ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Where Have All the Heroes Gone?

Journal Article Med Anthropol · April 2021 Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Improving on the diagnostic characteristics of echocardiography for pulmonary hypertension.

Journal Article Int J Cardiovasc Imaging · September 2017 This retrospective study evaluated the diagnostic characteristics of a combination of echocardiographic parameters for pulmonary hypertension (PH). Right ventricular systolic pressure (RVSP) estimation by echocardiography (echo) is used to screen for PH. H ... Full text Link to item Cite

Developing a model for effective leadership in healthcare: a concept mapping approach.

Journal Article J Healthc Leadersh · 2017 PURPOSE: Despite increasing awareness of the importance of leadership in healthcare, our understanding of the competencies of effective leadership remains limited. We used a concept mapping approach (a blend of qualitative and quantitative analysis of grou ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

What motivates residents to teach? The Attitudes in Clinical Teaching study.

Journal Article Med Educ · July 2016 CONTEXT: Graduate medical trainees have a critical role in the teaching of other trainees. Improving their teaching requires an understanding of their attitudes towards teaching and their motivation to teach. Both have been incompletely explored in this po ... Full text Link to item Cite

Exploring student preferences with a Q-sort: the development of an individualized renal physiology curriculum.

Journal Article Adv Physiol Educ · September 2015 Medical education reform is underway, but the optimal course for change has yet to be seen. While planning for the redesign of a renal physiology course at the Duke School of Medicine, the authors used a Q-sort survey to assess students' attitudes and lear ... Full text Link to item Cite

Comparative effectiveness and safety of drug therapy for pulmonary arterial hypertension: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Journal Article Chest · May 2014 BACKGROUND: Current treatments for pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) have been shown to improve dyspnea, 6-min walk distance (6MWD), and pulmonary hemodynamics, but few studies were designed to compare treatment regimens or assess the impact of treatme ... Full text Link to item Cite

Thrombolytic therapy for venous thromboembolism: current clinical practice.

Journal Article J Hosp Med · May 2009 BACKGROUND: Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a life-threatening condition for which thrombolytic therapy may be beneficial. The appropriate setting for the use of thrombolytic therapy remains controversial. More than 10 years ago we described the case-based ... Full text Link to item Cite

Clinical probability and D-dimer testing: how should we use them in clinical practice?

Journal Article Semin Respir Crit Care Med · February 2008 Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is extraordinarily common and is a major cause of morbidity and mortality. However, accurate and timely diagnosis of VTE is confounded by its kaleidoscopic presentation. Clinical prediction rules (CPRs) and D-dimer testing have ... Full text Link to item Cite

Giant cell interstitial pneumonia associated with nitrofurantoin.

Journal Article Lung · 2006 A case of giant cell interstitial pneumonia (GIF) that occurred in association with exposure to nitrofurantoin is presented. While the diagnosis of GIP is confirmed by histopathology, this diagnosis can be supported by the findings of bizarre multinucleate ... Full text Link to item Cite

Pulmonary Embolism

Journal Article · January 1, 2006 Full text Cite

Brain natriuretic peptide: diagnostic and therapeutic implications in pulmonary arterial hypertension.

Journal Article Semin Respir Crit Care Med · August 2005 Brain or B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) is one of the new biomarkers employed within the last decade to help clarify difficult cardiovascular problems. Plasma BNP is elevated in cardiac ventricular dysfunction and plays a key role in protecting the body ... Full text Link to item Cite

Association of breast cancer with the finding of atypical ductal hyperplasia at core breast biopsy.

Journal Article Ann Surg · June 1997 OBJECTIVE: The purpose of the study is to evaluate the prevalence of occult breast carcinoma in surgical breast biopsies performed on nonpalpable breast lesions diagnosed initially as atypical ductal hyperplasia (ADH) by core needle biopsy. BACKGROUND: Aty ... Full text Link to item Cite