Tackling the Triple Aim in Primary Care Residencies

Dr. Katrina Donahue published the baseline data from the I3 (Impact cubed) Collaborative that seeks to improve care of patients served by primary care residency practices in North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. This work was published in the February 2015 issue of Family Medicine with Ann Lefebvre from the North Carolina Area Health Education… Read more »

Statewide Study of Comprehensive Post-Stroke Treatment

$14 Million Funding Award to Support First Statewide Study of Comprehensive Post-Stroke Treatment, Based on Wake Forest Baptist Model In Collaboration with UNC- Chapel Hill and in Partnership with 51 Hospitals in the North Carolina Stroke Care Collaborative Jacquie Halladay MD, MPH, Codirector of NCNC and Doyle M. “Skip” Cummings, Pharm.D., FCP, FCCP of ECARE… Read more »

Patients who smoke ask to be treated with respect

What is it like to be someone who smokes in today’s increasingly smoke-free world? How can providers best interact with their patients who smoke and support their efforts to become tobacco-free? A new study by researchers from the University of North Carolina (UNC) Department of Family Medicine and the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center represents… Read more »

The North Carolina Network Consortium Webpage Relaunch

The Practice-Based Research Network (PBRN), North Carolina Network Consortium (NCNC), has relaunched their webpage.  We would like to thank the Sheps Center for all their support in the redesign and relaunch of the web page especially Brian Cass, Liuliu Fan and Dea Bell.  We hope this website will support investigators interested in taking research projects… Read more »

NCNC Presentations at the NAPCRG Conference

At the North American Primary Care Research Group (NAPCRG) PBRN meeting the collaborating PBRNs of the North Carolina Network Consortium (NCNC) are presenting a poster Lessons Learned During Year 1 of a State-Wide PBRN Collaboration on Dissemination of a Shared Decision Making Toolkit. This toolkit for shared decision making with asthma patients is being disseminated… Read more »

Frequent in-person home visits can reduce both readmission and death for patients with heart failure

CHAPEL HILL- Home-visiting programs and multidisciplinary heart failure clinic interventions can reduce hospital readmission and improve survival for patients with heart failure, according to research from RTI International and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The work, based on a report funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), was published… Read more »

Medications can help adults with alcohol use disorders reduce drinking

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Several medications can help people with alcohol use disorders maintain abstinence or reduce drinking, according to research from the RTI International-University of North Carolina Evidence-based Practice Center. The work, funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association, provides… Read more »

Dan Reuland and Michael Pignone | Invited Commentary at JAMA Internal Medicine

Dan Reuland, MD and Michael Pignone, MD, recently published an Invited Commentary at JAMA Internal Medicine.  The topic of this commentary is Improving the Quality of Decision-Making Processes for Prostate Cancer Screening Progress and Challenges. The commentary discusses a clinical trial on the use of prostate cancer screening decision aids to improve health care decision-making…. Read more »