This review sought to provide evidence for how to best communicate and disseminate evidence, including uncertain evidence to inform health care decisions. A secondary objective was to examine how the effectiveness of communication and dissemination strategies varies across target audiences, namely patients and clinicians. Principal Investigator: Stacey Sheridan, M.D. Funding: AHRQ
Improving Colon Cancer Screening for Diverse Populations
Diverse, vulnerable populations, especially Latinos, have low colon cancer screening rates. These groups are disproportionately affected by the many patient, provider, and system-level barriers that inhibit colon cancer screening. Latinos, the nation’s largest and fastest growing racial/ethnic minority group, face additional language and cultural barriers. Reducing disparities in colon cancer screening among vulnerable populations is… Read more »
A Systematic Review of Empathy Development in Medical Education
Understanding how empathy can be developed in medical education is an important component of advancing humanistic medicine. Two recent reviews of changes in empathy among medical students and residents reached disparate conclusions. In a systematic review, Neumann and colleagues (2011) determined that empathy declines during medical training as students engage more with patients. Colliver et… Read more »
Integration of Patient Reported Outcomes Measures Into Pain Management Practices for Patients With Hemophilia
More than 100 million people in the United States suffer from pain each year, at an estimated cost of $600 billion for pain treatments and lost productivity. 1) Deaths due to opioid pain medications are rising at an alarming rate. 2) Patients with hemophilia are particularly afflicted by pain, with more than half of adults… Read more »
Tweeting to Health
We hypothesize that our intervention, Tweeting to Health, can motivate and create behavioral changes that lead to healthier lifestyles and foster social support to help facilitate these changes through the novel use of Twitter, a social media platform, and FitBit technology
Decision Support Lab – Breast Cancer Project
This phase of the study will validate the reconstruction decision quality instruments in women who have been diagnosed with early stage breast cancer.
Comparative Effectiveness of CyberKnife Robotic Radiosurgery for Prostate Cancer
This is a prospective cohort study of over 1,000 patients in North Carolina who will complete surveys at baseline (pre-treatment) and then prospectively during follow-up.
Improving Decision Making for Patients with Prolonged Mechanical Ventilation
The investigators at UNC will help to refine the decision support tool during the study and train investigators with regard to presentation and explanation of the instrument.
Merck Program for Assistance with Transitions from Hospital to Home (PATHH)
The purpose of the study is to determine impact of the Hospital Transition in Care (HTiC) Service on metrics related to transition from hospital to home.
North Carolina IMPaCT: Advancing and Spreading Primary Care Transformation
For the IMPaCT project, we will enhance our current efforts by conducting a regional leadership development program that will enhance the effectiveness of the regional medical and quality improvement leaders. We will also enhance our current patient-centered medical home change package to included focused attention on the role of primary care in transitions between care settings.
Findings of Bayesian Mixed Treatment Comparison Meta-Analyses: Comparison and Exploration Using Real-World Trial Data and Simulation
he main objectives of this RTI-UNC-CH Evidence-based Practice Center methods project are to contribute to the body of literature on MTC meta-analysis.
Validation of Inverse-Probability of Missing Data Approach for the Inclusion of Laboratory Data in Healthcare Database Research
To construct rich predictive models for the availability of each of the laboratory test results of interest.
Family Members Influence Quality and Delivery of Care for Heart Failure Patients
The overall objective here, which is our next step in pursuit of our long-term goal, is to determine whether family accompaniment influences processes of care within the medical visit and use this information to inform intervention development.
Southern Piedmont Beacon Community Project (SPBC Project)
The SPBC Project builds on this community’s current advanced usage and penetration of health information technology (HIT) lo create a learning laboratory for the next generation of community-based HIT-enabled improvements to health and care.
Greater Cincinnati Beacon Community PCMH Collaborative
Drs. DeWalt and Scoville will work closely with the Health Improvement Collaborative (HIC) team to implement a PCMH and diabetes performance improvement learning collaborative.