Journal articleRespiratory medicine · August 2026
BackgroundDespite improvements seen with elexacaftor/tezacaftor/ivacaftor (ETI), many people with CF (PWCF) still experience symptom burden. This study aimed to evaluate current perceived symptom burden and contrast it with PWCF's recollection of ...
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Journal articleJournal of health psychology · April 2026
Nutritional status and weight are critical to cystic fibrosis (CF) care; however, this emphasis increases risk for body image concerns. Limited research has examined body image and esteem in people with CF (PWCF) after the approval of elexacaftor/tezacafto ...
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Journal articleJ Health Care Poor Underserved · 2026
Native patients face persistent health disparities and barriers to care, yet medical education has historically lacked content addressing these issues. To bridge this gap, the Duke University School of Medicine integrated a Native health thread into its fi ...
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Journal articleJ Neurosurg Pediatr · November 1, 2025
OBJECTIVE: Improving outcomes for pediatric patients with hydrocephalus in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) requires research on ventriculoperitoneal shunt (VPS) complications and outcomes that may be comparable to studies conducted in high-income ...
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Journal articleJ Neurosurg Pediatr · June 1, 2025
OBJECTIVE: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality globally, with children in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) contributing a sizable share. In Nigeria, where there is a large unmet need for neurosurgical interven ...
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Journal articlePer Med · June 2025
BACKGROUND: -Omics technologies - including genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics - are increasingly used in acute care settings. However, the current extent of this research has not been systematically assessed. OBJECTIVES: To characteri ...
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Journal articleJournal of clinical and translational science · January 2025
Academic health sciences libraries ("libraries") offer services that span the entire research lifecycle, positioning them as natural partners in advancing clinical and translational science. Many libraries enjoy active and productive collaborations with Cl ...
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Journal articleWorld Neurosurg · December 2024
BACKGROUND: There are critical disparities in the neurosurgical care provided around the globe due to challenges in resource allocation, training, and infrastructure. Global neurosurgical collaborations have replaced classical mission trips to address thes ...
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Journal articleAcad Emerg Med · August 2024
OBJECTIVES: Precision medicine is data-driven health care tailored to individual patients based on their unique attributes, including biologic profiles, disease expressions, local environments, and socioeconomic conditions. Emergency medicine (EM) has been ...
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Journal articleWorld Neurosurg · May 2024
OBJECTIVE: This study investigates the scope, trends, and challenges of neurosurgical research in Nigeria since inception of the specialty in 1962. METHODS: A bibliometric review of the neurosurgical literature from Nigeria was performed. Variables extract ...
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Journal articleWorld Neurosurg · May 2024
OBJECTIVE: This study aims to provide a comprehensive overview of pediatric neurosurgery in Nigeria, since 1962, by assessing epidemiological data, management strategies, and case outcomes. METHODS: A systematic bibliometric review of Nigerian neurosurgica ...
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Journal articleWorld Neurosurg · May 2024
OBJECTIVE: Despite 6 decades of existence, neurosurgery is still in the developing stages in Nigeria. In this era of collaborative health system capacity-building in low- and middle-income countries, this article reviews past efforts and future prospects f ...
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Journal articleWorld Neurosurg · May 2024
OBJECTIVE: Neurotrauma is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in Nigeria. We conducted this systematic review to generate nationally generalizable reference data for the country. METHODS: Four research databases and gray literature sources were ...
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Journal articleWorld Neurosurg · May 2024
OBJECTIVE: Access to neuro-oncologic care in Nigeria has grown exponentially since the first reported cases in the mid-1960s. In this systematic review and pooled analysis, we characterize the growth of neurosurgical oncology in Nigeria and build a referen ...
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Journal articleWorld Neurosurg · May 2024
OBJECTIVE: Vascular neurosurgery has developed significantly in Nigeria, but its burden and challenges remain unclear. This study systematically reviewed vascular neurosurgical literature from Nigeria. METHODS: Four research databases and gray literature s ...
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Journal articleWorld Neurosurg · May 2024
OBJECTIVE: Spinal pathologies are prevalent in Nigeria, though epidemiological data remains sparse. This systematic review used pooled patient-level data from across the country to generate a standardized epidemiological reference. METHODS: Four research d ...
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Journal articleTrauma Violence Abuse · April 2024
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a global public health crisis with long-term adverse consequences for both victims and perpetrators. Patterns of violence often begin during adolescence, yet most interventions target adult relationships. A systematic rev ...
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Journal articleHealth equity · January 2024
Systematic reviews are used for synthesizing and summarizing published research on any given topic and population of interest. These reviews can expand knowledge within a content area but are limited by place and time values, which can perpetuate bias and ...
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Journal articleJ Neurosurg · April 1, 2023
OBJECTIVE: Africa contributes significantly to the global neurosurgical disease burden but has only 1% of the neurosurgery workforce. This study appraises the neurosurgical workforce and training capacity in Africa and projects the workforce capacity by 20 ...
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Journal articlePrehosp Emerg Care · 2023
OBJECTIVE: Emergency medical services (EMS) workforce demographics in the United States do not reflect the diversity of the population served. Despite some efforts by professional organizations to create a more representative workforce, little has changed ...
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Journal articlePrehosp Emerg Care · 2023
BACKGROUND: Emergency medical services (EMS) often serve as the first medical contact for ill or injured patients, representing a critical access point to the health care delivery continuum. While a growing body of literature suggests inequities in care wi ...
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Journal articleJMIR formative research · January 2023
BackgroundThe onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and the concurrent development of vaccines offered a rare and somewhat unprecedented opportunity to study antivaccination behavior as it formed over time via the use of archived versions of websites.
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Journal articleWorld Neurosurg · November 2022
BACKGROUND: Here, we evaluate the evolution and growth of global neurosurgery publications over time, further focusing on the contributions and impact of authors in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). METHODS: In this systematic bibliometric analysis ...
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Journal articleWorld Neurosurg · November 2022
BACKGROUND: The high unmet neurosurgical burden in low- and middle-income countries has necessitated multiple global neurosurgical collaborations. We identified these collaborations and their peer-reviewed journal publications and evaluated them using a mo ...
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Journal articleTrauma Care · September 9, 2022
Sixty-eight percent of persons infected with HIV live in Africa, but as few as 67% of those know their infection status. The emergency department (ED) might be a critical access point to HIV testing. This study sought to measure and compare HIV pre ...
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Journal articleContemp Clin Trials · April 2022
BACKGROUND: This survey of COVID-19 interventional studies encompasses, and expands upon, a previous publication [1] examining individual participant level data (IPD) sharing intentions for COVID-related trials and publications prior to June 30, 2020. METH ...
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Journal articlePLoS Med · April 2022
BACKGROUND: Disease and disability from alcohol use disproportionately impact people in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). While varied interventions have been shown to reduce alcohol use in high-income countries, their efficacy in LMICs has not bee ...
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Journal articleJournal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA · July 2021
ObjectiveThe purpose of this scoping review is to evaluate the extent of library or librarian involvement in informatics education in the health domain.MethodsWe searched eight databases from their inception to 2019 for reports of informa ...
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Journal articleJ Aerosol Med Pulm Drug Deliv · June 2021
Rationale: There is an urgent need to understand the risk of viral transmission during nebulizer treatment of patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Objectives: To assess the risk of transmitting severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 ...
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Journal articleJournal of the International AIDS Society · June 2021
IntroductionAddressing the intersection between mental health and HIV is critical for the wellbeing of persons living with HIV (PLWH). This systematic review synthesized the literature on mental health interventions for PLWH in low- and middle-inc ...
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Journal articleJ Med Internet Res · May 27, 2021
BACKGROUND: Nearly 90% of deaths due to cervical cancer occur in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). In recent years, many digital health strategies have been implemented in LMICs to ameliorate patient-, provider-, and health system-level challenges ...
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Journal articleJ Neurosurg · March 1, 2021
OBJECTIVE: Global neurosurgery is a rapidly emerging field that aims to address the worldwide shortages in neurosurgical care. Many published outreach efforts and initiatives exist to address the global disparity in neurosurgical care; however, there is no ...
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Journal articleTrials · February 2021
BackgroundThe sharing of individual participant-level data from COVID-19 trials would allow re-use and secondary analysis that can help accelerate the identification of effective treatments. The sharing of trial data is not the norm, but the unpre ...
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Journal articlePLoS One · 2021
BACKGROUND: Emergency Medical Services (EMS) systems exist to reduce death and disability from life-threatening medical emergencies. Less than 9% of the African population is serviced by an emergency medical services transportation system, and nearly two-t ...
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Journal articleGen Hosp Psychiatry · 2021
OBJECTIVES: To describe the comorbidities, presentations, and outcomes of adults with incident psychosis and a history of COVID-19. METHODS: We completed a descriptive systematic review of case reports according to PRISMA guidelines, including cases of adu ...
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Journal article · August 17, 2020
BACKGROUNDNearly 90% of deaths due to cervical cancer occur in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). In recent years, many digital health strategies have been implemented in LMICs to ...
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Journal articleJournal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA · July 2020
BackgroundLibrarians teach evidence-based medicine (EBM) and information-seeking principles in undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate medical education. These curricula are informed by medical education standards, medical education competencie ...
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Journal articlePLoS One · 2020
Injuries are a leading cause of death and disability among children. Numerous injury prevention strategies have been successful in high-income countries, but the majority of unintentional injuries happen to children living in low- and middle-income countri ...
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Journal articleAcad Med · November 2019
Interprofessional education (IPE) is promoted as a necessary precursor to the implementation of the collaborative practices in patient care thought to improve teamwork and communication among health care providers, patients, their families, and communities ...
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Journal articleJournal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA · October 2019
This project characterized current research and collaboration patterns in pain research at one institution after researchers working on a grant application approached the library to better understand current institutional research and publishing about that ...
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Journal articleSyst Rev · April 16, 2018
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BACKGROUND: We investigated whether information in ClinicalTrials.gov would impact the conclusions of five ongoing systematic reviews. METHOD: We considered five reviews that included 495 studies total. Each review team conducted a search of ClinicalTrials ...
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Journal articleBMJ global health · January 2018
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IntroductionThe number of persons with chronic kidney disease (CKD) living in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) is increasing rapidly; yet systems built to care for them have received little attention. In order to inform the development of s ...
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Journal articleAutism Res · May 2017
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is recognized as a global public health concern, yet almost everything we know about ASD comes from high-income countries. Here we performed a scoping review of all research on ASD ever published in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) i ...
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Journal articleJ Med Libr Assoc · April 2017
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BACKGROUND: Writing for publication is an integral skill for both sharing research findings and career advancement, yet many faculty lack expertise, support, and time to author scholarly publications. Health professions educators identified writing as an a ...
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Journal articleInformation and Learning Science · January 1, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this paper in information literacy assessment is to explore how library training can promote electronic resource usage. Increasing the usage of electronic resources is an issue of concern for many libraries all over the world. Sever ...
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Journal article · 2017
More than 500,000 Americans, including 40,000 Veterans, are diagnosed with advanced cancer annually in the United States. Palliative care improves quality of life by managing patients’ physical symptoms and psychosocial and spiritual distress, often provid ...
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Journal articleClin J Am Soc Nephrol · March 7, 2016
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Epidemics of CKD of uncertain etiology (CKDu) are emerging around the world. Highlighting common risk factors for CKD of uncertain etiology across various regions and populations may be important for health policy and public heal ...
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Journal articlePLoS One · 2016
BACKGROUND: Road traffic injuries (RTIs) are a growing but neglected global health crisis, requiring effective prevention to promote sustainable safety. Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) share a disproportionately high burden with 90% of the world's ...
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Journal articleJ Pediatr Nurs · 2015
Transfer from pediatric to adult care is a critical component of a high-quality transition experience for adolescents and young adults (AYA) with chronic illness. To examine the current evidence regarding the effect of transition interventions on care tran ...
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Journal articleJournal of Hospital Librarianship · January 1, 2014
The Duke University Medical Center Library created and implemented a sustainability plan as a way of contributing to the University's institutional goal of becoming carbon neutral by 2024. An internal working group coordinated efforts to implement more env ...
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Journal articleJournal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA · April 2011
QuestionCan e-readers loaded with medical textbooks and other relevant material benefit medical students, residents, and preceptors in clinical settings?SettingsThe settings are North Carolina community clinics served by Duke University M ...
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Journal articleEvidence Based Library and Information Practice · September 27, 2010
A Review of:
Bowman, L. L., Levine, L. E., Waite, B. M., & Gendron, M. (2010). Can students really multitask? An experimental study of instant messaging while reading. Computers & Education, 54, 927-931.
Objective – To e ...
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Journal articleEvidence Based Library and Information Practice · March 17, 2010
A Review of:
Bridges, L.M. (2008). Who is not using the library? A comparison of undergraduate academic disciplines and library use. portal: Libraries and the Academy, 8(2), 187-196.
Objective – To determine differences in under ...
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Journal articleEvidence Based Library and Information Practice · September 21, 2009
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Zhang, Li. "Citation Analysis for Collection Development: A Study of International Relations Journal Literature." Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services 31.3-4 (2007): 195-207.
Objective – To dete ...
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Journal articleMedical reference services quarterly · July 2009
In 2007, Duke University Medical Center Library instituted an interactive, online PubMed tutorial and quiz for medical students to replace an in-person lecture. This article describes the events leading to this educational paradigm shift and how the tutori ...
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Journal articleEvidence Based Library and Information Practice · March 8, 2009
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Gremmels, G. S., and K. S. Lehmann. “Assessment of Student Learning from Reference Service." College & Research Libraries 68.6 (2007): 488-501.
Objective – The study explores the instructional nature of referen ...
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Journal articleMedical Reference Services Quarterly · September 29, 2008
This article will describe how a revolution in customer service provision beginning in 2002 has led to an evolution of library services. When the reference and circulation desks were merged to create a single service point, responsibilities were broadened, ...
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