“…METHODS: In 2009, prior to the release of the updated USPSTF recommendations, we conducted 12 120-min, gender-specific focus groups with 105 current smokers in Charlotte, North Carolina and Cincinnati, Ohio. Focus group facilitators asked participants about their experience with three lung cancer screening tests, including CT scan, chest x-ray, and sputum cytology. …”
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“…METHODS: In December 2015, a dedicated PrEP clinic was established at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina (NC). We performed a retrospective review of patients evaluated at the PrEP clinic, abstracting the following routinely collected variables: age, race, ethnicity, sex at birth, self-identified gender, HIV risk factors and source of referral. …”
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“…METHODS: The Shape Program, a weight gain prevention intervention implemented in community health centers in rural North Carolina, was designed for socioeconomically disadvantaged Black women with overweight or obesity. …”
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“…METHODS: We conducted a feasibility study in an academic health center and local community in Durham, North Carolina. We enrolled self-identified Spanish speaking overweight/obese adults (≥ 18) with OA of the knee and/or hip under the care of a primary health care provider. …”
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“…The study population came from a longitudinal cohort of AYAs undergoing healthcare transition at the STARx Program at the University of North Carolina, in the South-Eastern USA, from 2006 to 2015. …”
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“…DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: Cohort study in which data from 90 097 patients 18 years or older in the Duke University Health System and Lincoln Community Health Center EHR from January 1, 2009, to December 31, 2015, with at least 1 health care encounter and residence in Durham County, North Carolina, in the year prior to the index date were linked with census tract data to quantify the association between nSES and the risk of adverse outcomes. …”
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“…METHODS: We used the HCV Transmission and Progression (TaP) Markov model to quantify the impact of removing restrictions to HCV treatment access on the infected populations, expenditures, and net social value for the North Carolina (NC), Oregon (OR), and Wisconsin (WI) Medicaid programs. …”
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“…A randomly selected subgroup of 37 patients with glaucoma and 28 controls drove in a driving simulator to investigate peripheral event detection performance during distracted driving at the Visual Performance Laboratory, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. Data collection was performed from December 1, 2016, through April 30, 2017. …”
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“…To address this gap, we will implement a pragmatic 12-month randomized controlled trial of a digital weight gain prevention intervention delivered to patients receiving primary care within a network of Federally Qualified Community Health Centers in central North Carolina. METHODS: Balance (Equilibrio in Spanish) is a pragmatic effectiveness trial that will randomize adult patients who have overweight or obesity (BMI of 25–40 kg/m(2)) to either: 1) a weight gain prevention intervention with tailored behavior change goals and tracking, daily weighing on a network-connected electronic scale, and responsive weight and goal coaching delivered remotely by health center registered dietitians; or 2) a usual care program with automated healthy living text messages and print materials and routine primary care. …”
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“…METHOD: In this prospective study (Nurture: recruitment 2013–2015 in North Carolina, United States), we examined in 454 infants the association of prenatal antibiotic exposure (by any prenatal antibiotic exposure; by trimester of pregnancy; by number of courses; by type of antibiotics) with infant age- and sex-specific weight-for-length z score (WFL-z) and skinfold thicknesses (subscapular, triceps, abdominal) at 12 months of age. …”
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“…CASE DESCRIPTION: Using EMR data from surgical departments at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, we first identified ERAS cases using a protocol-based method, using basic information including the date of ERAS implementation, surgical procedure and date, and primary surgeon. …”
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“…METHODS: Semi-structured interviews on the policy development, implementation and enforcement experiences of 21 different privately-owned affordable housing management companies were conducted with representatives from properties in North Carolina and Georgia who had established smoke-free policies before 2016. …”
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“…We used an ABM of a North Carolina (NC) regional healthcare network to assess the impact of increasing antibiotic risk ratios (RRs) across network locations on healthcare-associated (HA) and community-associated (CA) CDI incidence. …”
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“…METHODS: Persons diagnosed with HCV in 4 screening sites across Durham County, North Carolina, from December 2015 to May 2018 were included, allowing for 9 months of follow-up. …”
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“…METHODS: A total of 131 CRAb isolates were identified at four tertiary care medical centers located in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas and North Carolina between 2017 and 2018. The genomes were sequenced with Illumina NextSeq and de novo assembled. …”
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“…METHODS: The Physical Activity Calorie Expenditure (PACE) Study compared activity-based calorie-expenditure food labels with calorie-only labels at three Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina worksite cafeterias. After 1 year of baseline data collection, one cafeteria had food items labeled with PACE labels, two others had calorie-only food labels. …”
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“…Contact for Scientific Queries: Tracy Scull, PhD (Principal Investigator); innovation Research & Training at 5316 Highgate Drive, Suite 121, Durham, North Carolina, USA 27713; tscull@irtinc.us.…”
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“…DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: This randomized clinical trial enrolled 637 patients who presented to 6 EDs spanning urban and suburban locations within a large integrated health care system in North Carolina from June 12, 2017, through February 14, 2018; patients were followed up for up to 45 days. …”
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“…We used data from the Agricultural Health Study, a large prospective cohort of pesticide applicators in North Carolina and Iowa, to extend our previous work and evaluate 39 additional pesticides and aggressive PCa. …”
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“…The mean University of North Carolina “4P” scar scale (UNC4P) for the scar was 0.92, and no patients complained numbness. …”
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