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Eugenia Renee McPeek Hinz

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Medicine, General Internal Medicine
2424 Erwin Rd -Rm 12055, Durham, NC 27705
2424 Erwin Rd, Rm 12055, Durham, NC 27705
Office hours Mondays 1:00 to 1:45 PM every 1st and 3rd week of the month  

Selected Publications


Accessibility of diabetes education in the United States: barriers, policy implications, and the road ahead.

Journal Article Health Aff Sch · August 2024 Diabetes Self-Management Education and Support (DSMES) programs are an effective, yet underutilized, resource to improve health outcomes and behaviors for people with diabetes. We examined the attendance and referral rates for people with diabetes to DSMES ... Full text Link to item Cite

Evaluation of SNOMED CT Grouper Accuracy and Coverage in Organizing the Electronic Health Record Problem List by Clinical System: Observational Study.

Journal Article JMIR medical informatics · May 2024 BackgroundThe problem list (PL) is a repository of diagnoses for patients' medical conditions and health-related issues. Unfortunately, over time, our PLs have become overloaded with duplications, conflicting entries, and no-longer-valid diagnoses ... Full text Cite

Implementation of NCCARE360, a Digital Statewide Closed-Loop Referral Platform to Improve Health and Social Care Coordination: Evidence from the North Carolina COVID-19 Support Services Program.

Journal Article N C Med J · March 2024 INTRODUCTION: Efforts to improve population health by being responsive to patients' social and economic conditions will benefit from care models and technologies that assess and address unmet social needs. In 2019, NCCARE360 launched in North Carolina as t ... Full text Link to item Cite

Leveraging Student Volunteers to Connect Patients with Social Risk to Resources On a Coordinated Care Platform: A Case Study with Two Endocrinology Clinics.

Journal Article Int J Integr Care · 2024 INTRODUCTION: Although unmet social needs can impact health outcomes, health systems often lack the capacity to fully address these needs. Our study describes a model that organized student volunteers as a community-based organisation (CBO) to serve as a s ... Full text Link to item Cite

Interactive visualization tool to understand and monitor health disparities in diabetes care and outcomes.

Journal Article J Clin Transl Sci · 2024 OBJECTIVE: Type 2 diabetes (T2DM) poses a significant public health challenge, with pronounced disparities in control and outcomes. Social determinants of health (SDoH) significantly contribute to these disparities, affecting healthcare access, neighborhoo ... Full text Link to item Cite

In Reply to Farber et al.

Journal Article Acad Med · September 1, 2022 Full text Link to item Cite

Implementation of Changes to Medical Student Documentation at Duke University Health System: Balancing Education With Service.

Journal Article Acad Med · June 1, 2021 PURPOSE: When the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) changed policies about medical student documentation, students with proper supervision may now document their history, physical exam, and medical decision making in the electronic health re ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Clinician Burnout Associated With Sex, Clinician Type, Work Culture, and Use of Electronic Health Records.

Journal Article JAMA Netw Open · April 1, 2021 IMPORTANCE: Electronic health records (EHRs) are considered a potentially significant contributor to clinician burnout. OBJECTIVE: To describe the association of EHR usage, sex, and work culture with burnout for 3 types of clinicians at an academic medical ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Electronic Health Record Use by Sex Among Physicians in an Academic Health Care System.

Journal Article JAMA Intern Med · February 1, 2021 This cohort study examines the association of sex with electronic health record use among physicians and patient satisfaction. ... Full text Link to item Cite

Increased Clinician Time Using Electronic Health Records During COVID-19 Pandemic.

Journal Article AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium · January 2021 The COVID-19 pandemic challenged how healthcare systems provided care in socially distanced formats. We hypothesized that the COVID-19 era changes in clinical care delivery models contributed to increased Electronic Health Record (EHR) related work. To eva ... Cite

Assessing electronic health record phenotypes against gold-standard diagnostic criteria for diabetes mellitus.

Journal Article J Am Med Inform Assoc · April 1, 2017 OBJECTIVE: We assessed the sensitivity and specificity of 8 electronic health record (EHR)-based phenotypes for diabetes mellitus against gold-standard American Diabetes Association (ADA) diagnostic criteria via chart review by clinical experts. MATERIALS ... Full text Link to item Cite

Applying active learning to high-throughput phenotyping algorithms for electronic health records data.

Journal Article Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · December 2013 ObjectivesGeneralizable, high-throughput phenotyping methods based on supervised machine learning (ML) algorithms could significantly accelerate the use of electronic health records data for clinical and translational research. However, they often ... Full text Open Access Cite

Comparative analysis of pharmacovigilance methods in the detection of adverse drug reactions using electronic medical records.

Journal Article Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · May 2013 ObjectiveMedication  safety requires that each drug be monitored throughout its market life as early detection of adverse drug reactions (ADRs) can lead to alerts that prevent patient harm. Recently, electronic medical records (EMRs) have emerged ... Full text Cite

A natural language processing algorithm to define a venous thromboembolism phenotype.

Journal Article AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium · January 2013 Deep venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism are diseases associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Known risk factors are attributed for only slight majority of venous thromboembolic disease (VTE) with the remainder of risk presumably related ... Cite

Return of individual research results from genome-wide association studies: experience of the Electronic Medical Records and Genomics (eMERGE) Network.

Journal Article Genetics in medicine : official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics · April 2012 PurposeReturn of individual genetic results to research participants, including participants in archives and biorepositories, is receiving increased attention. However, few groups have deliberated on specific results or weighed deliberations again ... Full text Cite