Browsing by Title
Now showing items 1651-1670 of 10629
-
A Climatology of the Structure, Frequency, and Propagation of Midlatitude Cyclones that Affect North Carolina
(East Carolina University, 2013)The seasonal and interannual variability of midlatitude cyclone structure, frequency, and propagation was studied based on composites of precipitation over North Carolina. This analysis showed significant changes in the ... -
Clinic Staff Adherence to the CDC’s STD Treatment Guidelines: A QI Initiative in a Local Health Department
(2016-07-25)The Orange County Health Department (OCHD), a medium sized health department in central North Carolina, manages many patients for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) based on the CDC’s STD Treatment Guidelines and guidance ... -
Clinical and echocardiographic predictors of mortality in acute pulmonary embolism
(2016-10-28)Purpose: The aim of this study was to evaluate the utility of adding quantitative assessments of cardiac function from echocardiography to clinical factors in predicting the outcome of patients with acute pulmonary embolism ... -
Clinical assessment of medical students in the Emergency Department, A National Consensus Conference
(2017-01)BACKGROUND The clinical assessment of medical students in the emergency department (ED) is a highly variable process in which clerkship directors (CD) create and use institution-specific tools, many with unproven reliability ... -
Clinical differences between pulmonary and extrapulmonary tuberculosis: a 5-year retrospective study.
(East Carolina University, 1995-03)This article describes the clinical, epidemiologic, laboratory, and treatment characteristics of pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) and extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) in Eastern North Carolina, a primarily rural area. The ... -
Clinical Inquiries: Do preparticipation physical exams reduce morbidity and mortality for athletes?
(East Carolina University, 2005)This article reviews research to determine if preparticipation physical exams reduce morbidity and mortality for athletes. -
Clinical Inquiries: What interventions can help patients stop using chewing tobacco?
(East Carolina University, 2005)This review article examines current literature to recommend interventions to help patients stop using chewing tobacco. -
Clinical Internship Support: Instructional Coaching
(2013-07)The Instructional Coaching Model is a product of the Teacher Quality Partnership Grant funded 2009-2014. Over the last four years, instructional coaches have been introduced in the traditional internship model with the ... -
Clinical Ladder Mentoring: The Impact on Nursing Professional Development
(2019-07-17)Clinical ladder mentorship programs engage registered nurses in professional development, improve job satisfaction, and retention. The aim of this quality improvement project was to foster professional growth in early to ... -
Clinical Outcomes by Race and Ethnicity in the Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial (SPRINT): A Randomized Clinical Trial
(2017-08-23)BACKGROUND: The Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial (SPRINT) showed that targeting a systolic blood pressure (SBP) of ≤ 120 mm Hg (intensive treatment) reduced cardiovascular disease (CVD) events compared to SBP ... -
Clinical Practice Change: Suboxone Use in Inpatient Psychiatry
(2019-04-26)The opioid epidemic is public health crisis with veterans twice as likely as civilians to die from opioid overdose (National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence [NCADD], 2017). The VA prescribes Suboxone in the ... -
Clinical use of rifampicin during routine reporting of rifampicin susceptibilities: a lesson in selective reporting of antimicrobial susceptibility data
(1997-10)Increased use of rifampicin for in-patients was noted after the laboratory began reporting rifampicin susceptibilities routinely for all Gram-positive bacterial isolates. The appropriateness of rifampicin use was evaluated ... -
The Clinical, Operational, and Financial Worlds of Neonatal Palliative Care : An Ethnographic Investigation
(East Carolina University, 2011)In this focused ethnography the researcher sought to gain a multidisciplinary perspective on the cultural context of neonatal palliative care, including Peek's three world view of clinical, operational, and financial ... -
Clogging information flow in ALS
(2014-09-05)Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, is a devastating neurodegenerative disorder that causes a progressive loss of motor neurons, leading to paralysis and death typically within 2 to 5 ...