Scholars@Duke
Dana Cooley Clifton

Dana Cooley Clifton

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Medicine, General Internal Medicine

Selected Publications

Non-overdose acute care hospitalizations for opioid use disorder among commercially-insured adults: a retrospective cohort study.

Journal Article Addict Sci Clin Pract · July 11, 2023 BACKGROUND: Acute care inpatient admissions outside of psychiatric facilities have been increasingly identified as a critical touchpoint for opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment. We sought to describe non-opioid overdose hospitalizations with documented OUD ... Full text Link to item Cite

Implementation of a comprehensive hospitalist-led initiative to improve care for patients with opioid use disorder.

Journal Article J Hosp Med · June 2022 BACKGROUND: As opioid-related hospitalizations rise, hospitals must be prepared to evaluate and treat patients with opioid use disorder (OUD). We implemented a hospitalist-led program, Project Caring for patients with Opioid Misuse through Evidence-based T ... Full text Link to item Cite

Tales from the frontlines: An alarming rise in hospitalizations related to opioid use disorder in the era of COVID-19.

Journal Article J Opioid Manag · 2021 The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had harmful effects on the opioid epidemic. While a negative effect was predicted, we report on this reality in the hospital setting. We have seen a sharp rise in hospitalized patients with opioid use di ... Full text Link to item Cite

A Tablet-Based Educational Tool: Toward More Comprehensive Pediatric Patient Education.

Journal Article Clin Pediatr (Phila) · September 2018 There is a paucity of data on the impact of mobile technology on physician-led education in the pediatric population. We performed a prospective pilot study in a pediatric diabetes clinic to evaluate the impact of tablet-based patient education. A total of ... Full text Link to item Cite

Suboptimal HIV Testing Among Patients Admitted With Pneumonia: A Missed Opportunity.

Journal Article AIDS Educ Prev · August 2017 Patients admitted with pneumonia are at higher risk for HIV and should be routinely screened. We examined a retrospective cohort of patients admitted to Duke University Health System with a primary diagnosis of pneumonia. During the study period, 6,951 per ... Full text Link to item Cite

Prevalence of mycobacteremia among HIV-infected infants and children in northern Tanzania.

Journal Article Pediatr Infect Dis J · July 2013 Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a common cause of bloodstream infections among HIV-infected adults in sub-Saharan Africa, and is associated with high morbidity and mortality. We found no cases of mycobacteremia among 93 ill, HIV-infected children in northern ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Predicting mortality for paediatric inpatients where malaria is uncommon.

Journal Article Arch Dis Child · October 2012 OBJECTIVE: As the proportion of children living low malaria transmission areas in sub-Saharan Africa increases, approaches for identifying non-malarial severe illness need to be evaluated to improve child outcomes. DESIGN: As a prospective cohort study, we ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite