“…The BacT/ALERT 3D system (bioMerieux, Durham, North Carolina) is currently being used for laboratory diagnosis of blood stream infections. …”
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“…METHODS: We conducted 15 focus groups (n = 110 participants) in four counties in diverse regions of the southeastern US: Appalachia, the Mississippi Delta, and the Piedmont area of North Carolina. Based on a hypothetical study of a behavioral intervention for type 2 diabetes, we asked about the acceptability and appropriateness of direct investigator versus physician-mediated contact with patients for research recruitment, and whether patients should be asked to opt in or opt out of further contact in response to recruitment letters. …”
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“…We used cross-sectional data from high school students who reported ever using a tobacco product from the 2017 North Carolina Youth Tobacco Survey (n = 1,053). In multivariable regressions, we examined how demographic and psychosocial factors were associated with adolescents’ first product tried and how first product tried was associated with current tobacco use (i.e., no use, use of a single product, use of multiple products) and frequency of tobacco use. …”
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“…Descriptive and analytical statistics were generated by SAS 9.4 University Edition (SAS Institute, Cary. North Carolina, USA). RESULTS: The average age was 58.6 ± 7.8 years. …”
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“…METHODS: We conducted a retrospective cohort study of all patients with candidemia diagnosed at three academic medical centers (Duke, University of North Carolina and University of Virginia) from 2012 to 2017. …”
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“…METHODS: We conducted a randomized, prospective, open-label study at Novant Health Forsyth Medical Center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina between October 2018 and April 2019. Admitted high-risk patients (defined as: ≥ 60 years of age, hospitalized ≤ 30 days prior to the index hospitalization and received systemic antibiotics during that prior hospitalization and currently receiving systemic antibiotics) were randomized 1:1 to either oral vancomycin (dosed at 125 mg once daily while receiving systemic antibiotics and continued for 5 days post completion of systemic antibiotics [OVP]), or no prophylaxis. …”
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“…The Biofire®Filmarray ((bioMérieux, North Carolina) Pneumonia Panel was recently approved by the FDA. …”
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“…METHODS: CRACKLE-1 was a multicenter, prospective study that included 960 patients with at least one carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE)-positive culture from December 2011 to June 2016 collected from 18 hospitals encompassing 8 healthcare systems in the Midwestern US and North Carolina. Patients with CRKp bacteriuria who were discharged alive from index hospitalization were included in the current study, and sporadic (single positive CRKp urine culture) and persistent (≥2 CRKp urine cultures during independent hospital admissions occurring at least 2 days apart) cases were compared. …”
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“…To facilitate ease of use, our protocol capitalizes on the familiarity of Microsoft Excel® as an intermediary for storing the raw output from the EMR, with data parsing and processing scripts written in SAS V9.4 (Cary, North Carolina). RESULTS: As a proof of concept, we extracted the diagnosis codes and standard laboratories for 190 patients seen in our Congenital Cytomegalovirus Clinic at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, Texas. …”
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“…BACKGROUND: In January 2018, the first case of anOXA-48 carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae (OXA-48 CRKP) was identified in a North Carolina hospital in a patient arriving from Eastern Europe. …”
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“…SETTING: We analysed data from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis conducted in six centres across the USA (Baltimore, Maryland; Chicago, Illinois; Forsyth County, North Carolina; Los Angeles, California; New York, New York; and St Paul, Minnesota). …”
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“…The current study, My Body My Test (MBMT), evaluates the impact of mailed kits for self-collection of samples for human papillomavirus (HPV) testing on completion of cervical cancer screening in low-income, North Carolina women overdue for cervical cancer screening. …”
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“…METHODS: This longitudinal analysis used data from the Johnston County Osteoarthritis Project (JoCo OA, n = 3857), a community-based study in North Carolina, USA, with 18.4 ± 1.5 years of follow-up. …”
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“…The program includes 6 months of continued monthly contact to help overweight and obese Hispanic mothers and their children improve adiposity, weight (trajectory for children), health behaviors (nutrition and physical activity), and self-efficacy We will partner with two federally qualified health departments in Durham and Chatham counties, North Carolina to enroll participants. We will partner with community centers to deliver the intervention. …”
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“…SETTING: 10 primary care practices in North Carolina. PARTICIPANTS: Providers and clinical staff participated in monthly group phone calls with researchers to share best practices during implementation of a SDM intervention for asthma patients. …”
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“…METHODS: We performed a retrospective cohort study of blunt and penetrating trauma patients in a five-county region in North Carolina using prehospital records. We included patients who were transported emergency traffic directly from the scene by ground ambulance to a Level I or Level II trauma center between 2013–2018. …”
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“…Relative search volume was also significantly correlated with mortality in 47 states, with correlation coefficients ranging from 0.58 in Oklahoma to 0.94 in North Carolina. Both the incidence and mortality rates of lung cancer were correlated with decomposed relative search volumes in all states excluding Vermont. …”
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“…RESULTS: Regionally, increasing seroprevalence occurred within several states throughout the central and southeastern states, including Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia and Texas. The underlying local trends revealed increasing seroprevalence at a finer scale. …”
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“…We examined the relative effectiveness of antibiotic stewardship interventions on CDI incidence using a geospatially explicit agent-based model of a regional healthcare network in North Carolina. We simulated reductions in unnecessary antibiotic prescribing and inappropriate antibiotic selection with intervention scenarios at individual and network healthcare facilities, including short-term acute care hospitals (STACHs), nursing homes, and outpatient locations. …”
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“…The majority of publications (n = 727, 36.44%) were published in the United States, and the University of North Carolina contributed the most publications (n = 89, 4.46%). …”
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