“…We exemplified the proposed method by analyzing data on the spatial occurrence of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) with confounding variables of race and gender in North Carolina. RESULTS: The analysis revealed the presence of spatial variability in the association between SIDS incidence and race. …”
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“…METHODS: Four pairs of Medicaid expanded (Kentucky, Louisiana, Iowa, Arizona) and unexpanded (North Carolina, Alabama, Wisconsin, Texas) states in similar geographic locations were chosen. …”
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“…The analyses were performed with the R Core Team and SAS (Studio 3.8, Institute Inc, North Carolina, U.S, 2019) programs. RESULTS: Of the 10,391 patients interviewed, 27.7% missed at least one of the consultations. …”
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“…METHODS: At University of North Carolina (UNC) Hospitals, we compared the percent positivity for respiratory viral pathogens and norovirus by calendar year for 2014-2019 and the first three months of 2020 to the percent positivity in the subsequent months of 2020 and the first quarter of 2021. …”
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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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“…One new point of purchase approach to promote healthy behaviors is the addition of food labels that display the physical activity requirement needed to burn the calories in a food item (e.g. walk 15 min). 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. …”
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“…OBJECTIVE: This study examines changes in the occurrence of naloxone administrations and multiple naloxone administrations during EMS runs for opioid-related overdoses during the COVID-19 pandemic in Guilford County, North Carolina (NC). METHODS: Using a period-over-period approach, we compared the occurrence of opioid-related EMS runs, naloxone administrations, and multiple naloxone administrations during the 29-week period before (September 1, 2019, to March 9, 2020) and after NC’s COVID-19 state of emergency declaration (ie, the COVID-19 period of March 10 to September 30, 2020). …”
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“…The racial and ethnic disparities in outcomes of individuals infected with COVID-19 highlight the importance of inclusivity in research to improve public health measures. METHODS: We performed a descriptive analysis of the racial and ethnic distribution of children enrolled in our COVID-19 Community Research Partnership (CRP) study, a syndromic and serological surveillance study of children aged 2 – 17 years receiving care at three healthcare systems spanning North and South Carolina. …”
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“…DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: This prospective cohort study was conducted in 6 adult medical and surgical ICUs in academic and community hospitals in North Carolina between January 2019 and September 2020. …”
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“…Study design and oversight are by a multidisciplinary stakeholder team including a 10-patient advisory board. …”
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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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“…We describe the relationship between the societal shock induced by COVID and WIC participant food purchases. METHODS: We used a longitudinal dataset from October 2019 to December 2020 of loyalty-card linked food purchasing data from a large grocery store chain in North Carolina with 496 stores in 86 counties. …”
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“…BACKGROUND: This study describes antibiotic resistance rates for Escherichia coli (E. coli) urinary tract infections (UTIs) and assesses differences in resistance patterns based on setting and community classification. METHODS: A cross-sectional study design was used to analyze antibiotic resistance patterns of E. coli isolates from 12,600 urine cultures processed at a large hospital system in North Carolina from 2016 to 2018. …”
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“…ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION: The study has been reviewed and approved by the Institutional Review Board of Wake Forest School of Medicine in North Carolina, USA. Patient recruitment began on 14 June 2019, was paused between 13 March 2020 and 31 May 2020 due to COVID-19 pandemic, resumed on 01 June 2020 and will last until the required sample size has been attained. …”
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“…ABSTRACT: Stress responses can be triggered by several physical and social factors, prompting physiological reactions including increases in glucocorticoid concentrations. In a population of feral horses (Equus caballus) on Shackleford Banks, North Carolina, females previously immunized with the immunocontraceptive agent porcine zona pellucida (PZP) change social groups (bands) more often than unimmunized females, disrupting the social stability within the population. …”
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“…Methods: We abstracted electronic health record data regarding day-level treatment into a registry of 2,358 OPAT courses (n = 2,072 unique patients) treated in the University of North Carolina Medical Center OPAT program during 2015–2022 (total, 11,861 person weeks; average, 7 OPAT weeks per patient). …”
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“…USEFUL WEBSITES: https://content.ces.ncsu.edu/hop‐downy‐mildew (North Carolina State University disease factsheet), https://www.canr.msu.edu/resources/michigan‐hop‐management‐guide (Michigan Hop Management Guide), http://uspest.org/risk/models (Oregon State University Integrated Plant Protection Center degree‐day model for hop downy mildew), https://www.usahops.org/cabinet/data/Field‐Guide.pdf (Field Guide for Integrated Pest Management in Hops).…”
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“…Human subjects and ethical review for the evaluability assessment has been granted by the Office of Human Subjects Research at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. DISCUSSION: Once completed, evaluability assessment results will provide evidence and products that have the potential to guide both evaluation research and service provision not only for the specific organization under study, but also for other anti-human trafficking programs worldwide. …”
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“…One experiment was conducted in 2018 in North Carolina (NC), and the second experiment was conducted in Illinois in 2020 (IL). …”
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