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Polypharmacy among Older Adults in Primary Care
(2018-11-19)
Polypharmacy among community-dwelling older adults was identified as a significant problem facing primary care providers. Medication reconciliation was identified as a necessary process to aptly identify polypharmacy. ...
Improving Staff and Patient Education to Increase Chlamydia Screening Rates
(2018-11-25)
Chlamydia Trachomatis is the most common bacterial sexually transmitted infection in the United States. Infection rates increase yearly and are highest in women ages 16-24. Untreated infections can lead to chronic pelvic ...
Implementation of an Opioid Overdose Prevention Program in a Health Department
(2018-11-25)
Opioid overdose is pandemic in the United States. North Carolinians are not exempt from hazardous health behavior. Opioid overdose prevention programs are one method of providing naloxone to laypersons in the community. ...
Improving Depression Screening in the Adult Rural Primary Care Setting
(2018-11-27)
An estimated 16 million adults are diagnosed each year with depression with primary care providers most commonly making the diagnosis. Depression screening guidelines from the United States Preventive Services Task Force ...
Implementation of a Sensory Modulation Room on an Acute Care Psychiatric Unit
(2018-11-26)
The application of sensory modulation approaches in psychiatric mental health hospital settings
is growing in recognition and implementation internationally. This treatment modality offers
alternatives to use of more ...
Improving HPV Vaccination in Adolescents: A Quality Improvement Initiative
(2018-11-28)
Background: Human Papillomavirus (HPV) related cancers are preventable if vaccinated. Opportunities to administer the HPV vaccination to adolescents were being missed with a rural, primary care clinic due to lack of ...
Enhancing Provider Education to Increase HPV Vaccination Rates in Adolescents
(2018-11-29)
Human papillomavirus (HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted infection in the world and in the United States. Despite ACIP recommendations and Healthy People 2020 goals, HPV vaccination completion rates in North ...
Improving Documentation of Symptom Management in General In-Patient Hospice
(2018-11-08)
The purpose of this quality improvement (QI) project was to evaluate nursing compliance of using an evidence-based flowsheet for General In-Patient (GIP) symptom management with a secondary purpose of improving nursing ...
Understanding the Experience and Management of Musculoskeletal Symptoms in Breast Cancer Survivors on Aromatase Inhibitor Therapy
(East Carolina University, 2018-05-03)
PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES:
To explore the perception of women currently receiving or who have received adjuvant AI therapy of the side effects (specifically MSK symptoms) and their methods of managing these symptoms
RESEARCH ...
PAIN SUPPORT FROM FAMILY AND PROVIDERS IN THE DIABETIC AMPUTEE: A LIVED EXPERIENCE
(East Carolina University, 2018-05-03)
Chronic pain after lower extremity amputation surgery has been reported in up to 80% of patients. Amputations, which are among the most debilitating chronic complication of diabetes have a variety of consequences including ...