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Medicare Under Age 65 and Medicaid Patients Have Poorer Bowel Preparations: Implications for Recommendations for an Early Repeat Colonoscopy
(2016-05-17)Colonoscopy is performed on patients across a broad spectrum of demographic characteristics. These characteristics may aggregate by patient insurance provider and influence bowel preparation quality and the prevalence of ... -
Medication Cost Savings in Hospice and Palliative Care Through Implementation of a Quick-Reference Medication Guide
(2022-04-21)Symptom management is an integral component of end-of-life care provided by hospice services. This project employed a list of alternative low-cost medication options for symptom management to decrease medication costs to ... -
Medication Deprescribing at End of Life in the Long-Term Care Population
(2020-07-26)Polypharmacy, generally defined as taking five or more medications, is the leading cause of adverse drug events for older patients and affects as many as 95% of patients residing in long-term care. Nearly half of all ... -
The Mediterranean Diet patient handout
(2022-01)This 2-sided handout was designed to help patients, clients, and providers understand the Mediterranean approach to eating which has been associated with health benefits like reduced risk of heart diseases, metabolic ... -
The Mediterranean way of eating at three USDA cost levels: A culinary medicine workshop for Family Medicine residents and culinary arts students - Facilitator Guide
(2022-02)Barriers to implementation of culinary medicine in resident training include lack of facilities, administrative support, and community engagement. This guide describes how ECU Family Medicine met those challenges to present ... -
The Mediterranean way of eating at three USDA cost levels: A culinary medicine workshop for Family Medicine residents and culinary arts students - Pre-work presentations and cooking demonstration
(2022-02)The Culinary Medicine Workshop was offered to ECU Family Medicine residents in response to growing interest in culinary medicine training as a way to improve nutrition counseling with patients. During this workshop, residents ... -
MEDLINE via PubMed Search Strategy for Cox et al., A systematic review of high-risk environmental circumstances for adolescent drinking
(2018-09-26)This is the MEDLINE via PubMed search strategy used to identify articles for a systematic review examining the environmental context of high-risk adolescent alcohol consumption. The search strategy was mapped across other ... -
Medspectives - the Podcast about Health Professionals, the Stories of Their Practice, and Their Diverse Perspectives into the World Around Us
(East Carolina University, 2021-05-28)Medspectives is the podcast about health professionals, the stories of their practice, and their diverse perspectives into the world around us. The goal of the show is to capture the viewpoints of health professionals in ... -
Meeting Eye To Eye : How Trained Designers And Typical Viewers See Design Pieces : And Their Implications For Contemporary Design Education
(East Carolina University, 2012)This study investigated and compared gaze patterns of typical viewers and trained designers to learn if there are differences in the gaze patterns between the two groups. Using eye tracking technology, participants were ... -
Meeting the Challenge of Providing Nutrition Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
(2021-01)Examples of Registered Dietitian Nutritionists (RDNs) who used their abilities to innovate and adapt to ensure the public, their patients and clients received continuous nutrition services, weight management services, ... -
Meeting the Madwomen : Mental Illness in Women in Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea, Hijuelos's Our House in the Last World, and Garcia's Dreaming in Cuban
(East Carolina University, 2012)This study seeks to examine the character of the madwoman in Caribbean literature in three novels: Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea, Oscar Hijuelos's Our House in the Last World, and Christina Garcia's Dreaming in Cuban. Four ... -
MEK inhibition enhances ABT-737-induced leukemia cell apoptosis via prevention of ERK-activated MCL-1 induction and modulation of MCL-1/BIM complex
(2012-04)Recently, strategies for acute myeloid leukemia (AML) therapy have been developed that target anti-apoptotic BCL2 family members using BH3-mimetic drugs such as ABT-737. Though effective against BCL2 and [BCL-X.sub.L], ... -
The Melancholic Subject : Exploring Loss and Relationships in African American and Asian American Fiction
(East Carolina University, 2014)The goal of this thesis is to closely examine the psychological effects of oppression for both African Americans and Asian Americans. The fiction created by writers of these ethnic groups and the characters they create ... -
Melding Research and Education in a Zoological Setting
(East Carolina University, 2016-07-27)The first zoo was opened in London in 1828 and was intended for scientific study, but was eventually opened to the public in 1847. Since then, public dogma has dictated the development, role, and standards concerning the ... -
MELPF Version 1: Modeling Error Learning Based Post-Processor Framework for Hydrologic Models Accuracy Improvement
(2019-09-23)This paper studies how to improve the accuracy of hydrologic models using machine-learning models as postprocessors and presents possibilities to reduce the workload to create an accurate hydrologic model by removing the ... -
MELPF version 1: Modeling Error Learning based Post-Processor Framework for Hydrologic Models Accuracy Improvement
(2019-09-23)This paper studies how to improve the accuracy of hydrologic models using machine-learning models as postprocessors and presents possibilities to reduce the workload to create an accurate hydrologic model by removing the ... -
Melting Away: Sifting through the Special Snowflakes
(2018-11-07)Medical practice books tend to become quickly outdated as clinical practice changes with ever-evolving research. For the past few years, Laupus Health Sciences Library has been ordering eBooks in addition to ordering books ... -
Membrane Localization of Pyrene-Trehalose Conjugates (PYRETs)
(East Carolina University, 2018-05-01)The disaccharide trehalose is found in many organisms that can survive in extremely cold or dry environments. According to the “hydration hypothesis,” trehalose interacts with the glycerol/phosphate regions of lipid bilayers ...