Quality improvement inititiatives in primary care settings can improve patient outcomes in diabetics in a study published in JABFM by Halladay, et al.
New NCIOM Task Force on Patient and Family Engagement
The NCIOM has received grant support from The Duke Endowment to create a task force on patient and family engagement.
Mouth Care Without a Battle to be distributed to all North Carolina community colleges
The Mouth Care Without a Battle training program and DVD will be distributed to all North Carolina community colleges through a collaboration with the North Carolina Foundation for Advanced Health Programs. Mouth Care Without a Battle is an evidence-based approach to person-centered daily mouth care for persons with cognitive and physical impairment. Philip Sloane, MD,… Read more »
Using “Plasticity” to Model a Community’s Need for Health Care Services
Researchers at the University of North Carolina’s Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research have introduced a new way of thinking about how to determine physician supply and medical specialty configurations in order to meet health care needs. In an article published in Academic Medicine (November 2013), the authors explore how the concept of… Read more »
States continue to place clinicians where they are in short supply, despite recession
Despite the recent recession, states increased the overall number of loan repayment programs designed to recruit health care professionals to live and practice in underserved communities, according to research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
UNC Center for Health Equity Research Postdoctoral Fellow Announcement – January 7, 2014 deadline
The UNC Center for Health Equity Research (CHER) brings together scholars, trainees, and community members from diverse disciplines to form multidisciplinary teams with a shared commitment to health equity, innovation and translational research. The CHER’s Postdoctoral Program provides early stage investigators with unique opportunities to perform innovative research and strengthen skills in: understanding and addressing… 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 »
Sheryl Zimmerman and Colleagues Win Outstanding Research Paper Award
Program on Aging, Disability, and Long-term Care researchers Sheryl Zimmerman, Lauren Cohen, David Reed, and Philip Sloane were awarded the 2013 Prudential Real Estate Investors Award for Outstanding Research Paper for their article Families Matter in Long-Term Care: Results of a Group-Randomized Trial published in the 2013 issue of Seniors Housing and Care. The award… Read more »
Assisted Living Comparison Experts website featured in Carolina Woman magazine
The September issue of Carolina Woman magazine includes an article reviewing the many types of residential care and assisted living options available to consumers, and highlights Sheryl Zimmerman and Phil Sloane’s Assisted Living Comparison Experts website as one helpful resource in choosing among them. http://www.carolinawoman.com/articles.php
New study aims to improve mouth care, reduce disease in older adults
People, especially older adults, can be at risk for pneumonia when bacteria that accumulates on teeth is inhaled. A new UNC study could pinpoint just how significant an effect improved brushing and flossing could have on infection prevention in older adults.
NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow Sandy Sulzer featured in ScienceNews article
Sandy Sulzer, PhD recently presented at the American Sociological Association’s annual meeting and her presentation was featured in a ScienceNews article. Dr. Sulzer is a NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow here at the Sheps Center. CLICK HERE to read the article.
Dr. Dan Jonas is new director of Sheps Program on Medical Practice and Prevention
Dr. Dan Jonas is the new director of the Sheps Center Program on Medical Practice and Prevention. Dan is a general internist with a diverse range of interests in health services research, but special expertise and national leadership in the area of comparative effectiveness research (CER). Dan leads the UNC component of our Evidence-based Practice… Read more »
UNC Center for Health Equity Research’s Postdoctoral Program – deadline July 15
The UNC Center for Health Equity Research’s Postdoctoral Program provides early stage investigators with unique opportunities to perform innovative research and strengthen capacities in eliminating health disparities, understanding and addressing social determinants of health and contributing to policy change. Deadline is July 15, 2013 Post Doctoral Announcement For more information
UNC-CH has a new Graduate Certificate in Participatory Research
Graduate Certificate in Participatory Research
New Center for Health Equity Research at UNC – CHER
Center for Health Equity Research members generate new knowledge and contribute to the science of health equity research.
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