The UNC Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research compiles an Annual Report each year to summarize research activities, products and publications. The 2014-2015 was published January 20th. As in the past, this year’s annual report is organized into several sections. Initially, the mission of the Center is discussed, followed by a narrative review of… Read more »
Carey discusses importance of exercise in treating low back pain on NPR
Dr. Tim Carey, director of the UNC Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research and an internist at UNC Chapel Hill, discussed the impact exercise can have on reducing low back pain on NPR’s All Things Considered January 11. Dr. Carey and Janet Freburger, PhD, Associate Director, Medical Practice and Prevention Program, co-wrote an editorial… Read more »
Researchers Measure NC Psychiatric Bed Shortage
Researchers at Duke University and University of North Carolina recently published an article “Increasing Access to State Psychiatric Hospital Beds: Exploring Supply-Side Solutions” in the Psychiatric Services Journal. The objective of this study was to identify supply-side interventions to reduce state psychiatric hospital admission delays. The researchers concluded that without more robust community-based hospital and residential… Read more »
Study: Cognitive behavioral therapy can be as effective as second-generation antidepressants to treat major depressive disorder
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC— Major depressive disorder affects more than 32 million Americans, and their first stop for treatment is often their primary care provider. A recent evidence review of several alternatives to medication found that using cognitive behavioral therapy as the first treatment for depression can be equally effective as using a second generation… Read more »
Alexa Waters’ poster won the student competition at the NCAFP
Alexa Waters, a medical student at UNC and a Primary Care and Population Health (PCPH) Scholar, has been working with NCNC on the Monitor Trial. Her poster presenting her work has won the student competition at the NC Academy of Family Physicians (NCAFP). The Monitor Trial is is funded by by the Patient-Centered Outcomes… Read more »
Positive reinforcement from physician can help glaucoma patients remember to take medication
Almost half of all glaucoma patients stop taking the eye drops essential to preventing loss of eyesight. A study published in Health Education Research on September 2 shows that achieving better adherence to medication could be as simple as ophthalmologists saying, “Keep up the good work.” Researchers at the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health… Read more »
Sheps Center receives $3.4 million grant to study inappropriate and excessive use of antipsychotic medications
National Institute on Aging study targets use of medications in assisted living communities (Chapel Hill, N.C. — Nov. 2, 2015) – Researchers in aging at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have been awarded a nearly $3.4 million federal grant to examine the inappropriate and excessive use of antipsychotic medications in assisted living… Read more »
UNC-Chapel Hill Selected as Center for New Leadership Initiative of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
UNC-Chapel Hill to lead an unprecedented national push to equip clinicians with leadership, team-building and cultural competence skills to improve the health status of Americans. (Chapel Hill, N.C. – Nov. 2, 2015) — The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has been selected by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to serve as the… Read more »
Collaboration to Improve Blood Pressure in the U.S. Black Belt
September 28, 2015 UNC Part of Collaborative Receiving Large Award to Reduce Health Disparities in Rural South Researchers from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, in partnership with researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and East Carolina University, were awarded… Read more »
Kaluzny’s book addresses quality of care and access to research for cancer patients in the community setting
Reprinted from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health A new book, published this month by Oxford University Press, calls for an increase in patient access to high-quality cancer care in the community and an improvement in community hospitals’ capacity to support research and genomically informed medicine. Managing Disruptive Change in Healthcare: Lessons from… Read more »
Sheps researchers awarded seed grant for quality improvement in lung cancer screening implementation
Daniel Reuland, MD MPH, was recently awarded a seed grant from the UNC Institute for Healthcare Quality Improvement (https://www.med.unc.edu/ihqi) to address quality gaps related to implementation of lung cancer screening. Alison Brenner, PhD, who is joining the Sheps Center as a Research Scientist, helped to develop this proposal during her postdoctoral fellowship, and will serve… Read more »
UNC Receives $15M AHRQ Award to Advance Heart Health in NC Primary Care
Chapel Hill NC (May 26, 2015) – The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a cooperative team of health care and quality improvement experts were recently awarded a $15M federal grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to help primary care practices use the latest evidence to improve the heart… Read more »
Phil Sloane receives Mentor Award for Lifetime Achievement | 2015 University Teaching Award
Phil Sloane, a Sheps Center Senior Research Fellow and Co-Director of the Sheps Center Program on Aging, Disability and Long Term Care, recently received the Mentor Award for Lifetime Achievement, a 2015 University Teaching Award. “This award, created in 1997, acknowledges a lifetime of contributions to a broad range of teaching and learning, particularly mentoring… Read more »
Holmes receives 2015 Outstanding Researcher Award from the National Rural Health Association
Originally published April 8, 2015 by the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health Mark Holmes, PhD, director of the Rural Health Research Program at UNC Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research and associate professor of health policy and management at the UNC-Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health, is the 2015… Read more »
Dr. Thomas Ricketts to give 2015 Gordon H. DeFriese Lecture April 1
Dr. Thomas Ricketts will give the Gordon H. DeFriese lecture on Health Services Research at the Carolina Club at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus on April 1st at 3:00pm. The lecture is the largest event of the year sponsored by the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research. The speaker is… Read more »
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