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Reducing Effects of Sensory Disorders with Innovative Technologies
(East Carolina University, 2021-05-28)Sensory Processing Disorders affect 5-16% of school aged children. In addition, 40% of children with ADHD also share the Sensory Processing Disorder. Furthermore, sensory deficits are prominent in the learning environment ... -
Reducing Effects of Sensory Disorders With Innovative Technologies
(East Carolina University, 2021-05-28)Sensory Processing Disorders affect 5-16% of school aged children. In addition, 40% of children with ADHD also share the Sensory Processing Disorder. Furthermore, sensory deficits are prominent in the learning environment ... -
Reducing Emergency Department Bounce-Back Through Nurse-Driven Discharge Education
(2024-04-23)A bounce-back is an emergency department (ED) visit by a patient previously treated and discharged who has subsequently checked back in within 48 hours for treatment (Montoy et al., 2019). Bounce-backs constitute a significant ... -
REDUCING ENVIORNMENTALLY INDUCED BIRTH DEFECTS WITH PRENATAL SUPPLEMENTION
(East Carolina University, 2019-05-02)Pollutant exposure during development has been shown to induce developmental malformations. For example, penis deformities are the most common birth defects occurring in boys born in the United States, and are associated ... -
Reducing Falls Within the Geriatric Psychiatry Unit
(2022-04-21)Falls are the leading cause of injury among older adults. Older adults with cognitive impairment and mental illness are at a higher risk of falls. Consequences of falls in the hospital setting increase length of stay, which ... -
Reducing Health Insurance Enrollment Barriers for Individuals Who are Homeless
(2021-04-21)Health insurance enrollment continues to be a problem for homeless adults in North Carolina (NC) compared to adults with stable housing. Factors acting as barriers to health insurance enrollment were identified as internal ... -
Reducing Heart Failure Readmissions Through Patient Education Program
(2019-07-22)The use of patient education as a tool to facilitate improved patient outcomes has been widely used by clinicians in healthcare. The aim of this quality improvement (QI) project was implementation of an outpatient heart ... -
REDUCING HOSPITAL READMISSIONS FOR CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE PATIENTS: A QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PROJECT IN A HOME HEALTH AGENCY
(2019-04-17)The cost of care for congestive heart failure (CHF) patients can be greatly reduced by utilizing home health services. However, baseline data analyzed on initial chart review of patients admitted to one local home health ... -
Reducing Length of Stay for Heart Failure Patients
(2022-07-19)Using laminated cards on a cardiac intermediate floor has potential benefits such as improved intake and output documentation. This quality improvement study focused on patient-centered care and empowering the patients. ... -
Reducing Maladaptive Sensory Neuronal Growth to Target Below-Level Pain Following Spinal Cord Injury
(2015-04-28)Chronic neuropathic pain is a common, debilitating consequence of spinal cord injury (SCI). Up to 94% of the SCI population suffers from SCI pain, with over half reporting it as their worst medical problem. Modern day ... -
Reducing Medication Use in Hospice Patients Residing in Long-Term Care
(2020-07-24)Polypharmacy has been identified as a significant issue in the elderly that leads to an increased risk of adverse drug events resulting in increased emergency room visits and falls, leading to rising costs to the healthcare ... -
Reducing Neurocognitive Impairment In Treating Limited Stage Small Cell Lung Cancer with Gamma Knife Radiosurgery
(2023-07-31)Small Cell Lung Cancer (SCLC) represents 15% of lung cancer and is characterized by rapid growth with metastasis resulting in poor survival rates.1 SCLC with a limited stage defined as disease limited to the hemithorax ... -
Reducing No-Shows and Cancellations at the ECU School of Dental Medicine
(East Carolina University, 2023-05-03)The East Carolina University School of Dental Medicine treats patients of all ages and provides several services, which are performed by dental students. Services performed include teeth cleanings, cavity fillings, surgical ... -
Reducing Restraint Use in an Intensive Care Unit Through Staff Education
(2022-04-25)Physical restraints are often used in intensive care units (ICUs) to prevent interference with medical devices. However, physical restraints are associated with adverse outcomes, such as delirium, stress, and injury. An ... -
Reduction of Intradialytic Complications Using Interactive Fluid Volume Technology
(2022-07-25)The Reduction of Intradialytic Complications Using Interactive Fluid Volume Technology is a quality improvement (QI) project that used Crit-line technology to manage intradialytic fluid volume during hemodialysis at the ... -
Reexamining Nebuchadnezzar II’s ‘Thirteen-Year’ Siege of Tyre in Phoenician Historiography
(2022-12-01)This study reexamines a lynchpin of Neo-Babylonian Levantine Phoenician historiography: Nebuchadnezzar II’s purported thirteen-year siege of Tyre in the early sixth century bce. This detail about the length of the siege ... -
Refereeing as a Post-Athletic Career Option
(2022)Athletes may be especially primed to become referees, yet we do not know what former athletes think about this career choice. To address the worldwide referee shortage, it is important to better understand athletes’ ... -
Reference Interviews: Getting Things Right
(2012-12)Few would disagree that successful communication between librarian and patron is critical to success in the reference process. Based on Atul Gawande's book, The Checklist Manifesto, the authors indicate how a well-executed ... -
Refinement of risk stratification for childhood rhabdomyosarcoma using FOXO1 fusion status in addition to established clinical outcome predictors: A report from the Children's Oncology Group
(2019-08-06)Background: Previous studies of the prognostic importance of FOXO1 fusion status in patients with rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) have had conflicting results. We re‐examined risk stratification by adding FOXO1 status to traditional ...