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Healthy Hospital Food Environment: Policy & Programs in Practice
(2012-05-07)This invited presentation highlights the state of weight at Vidant Health, a health care system serving 29 counties in eastern North Carolina and its innovative Health Food Environment program. A policy, effective in 2012, ... -
Healthy Hospital Food Environment: the PCMH Story.
(2006)This paper describes Pitt Memorial Hospital's response to the call to become a healthy worksite. It describes the hospital's effots to partner in the North Carolina Plan to Prevent Overweight and Obesity and Related Chronic ... -
Healthy living best remedy for brain fog
(2022-07-13)This is a weekly Q and A newspaper column under the byline of Dr. Kathy Kolasa. Today's column is about ways to improve symptoms of brain fog through nutrition and physical activity. -
Hearing aids in older adults: audibility, outcomes, status, characteristics, and skills
(East Carolina University, 2013)The current study explored hearing aid outcomes for a group of participants who were dispenser fit rather than protocol fit. Participants could have been fit and followed by any hearing aid practitioner increasing the ... -
Heart Failure 30-Day Readmissions: Causes, Prediction, Prevention in a Rural Hospital
(2015-10-27)Readmissions of heart failure (HF) patients are a costly and potentially avoidable expenditure for our healthcare systems. In 2015, acute care facilities who exceed pre-determined benchmarks for 30-day HF readmission rates ... -
Heart Failure Hospital Readmission Assessment: A Tool to Guide Transitional Care
(2023-07-18)Background: Heart failure cost and disease burden are significant (Patel, 2021). Objective: This project implemented a heart failure (HF) hospital readmission risk assessment tool to guide transitional care and decrease ... -
Heart healthy Diet Helps Prevent Prostate Cancer
(2020-11-04)This is a weekly Q and A newspaper column under the byline of Dr. Kathy Kolasa. This column edition is meant to educate and inform readers about dietary strategies that are associated with decreased prostate cancer risk. -
The heart healthy lenoir project-an intervention to reduce disparities in hypertension control: study protocol
(2013)Background Racial disparities in blood pressure control are well established; however the impact of low health literacy (LHL) on blood pressure has garnered less attention. Office based interventions that are created with ... -
The Heart of the Matter: Bringing the R Back to SBAR
(2018-07-14)This paper focuses on a quality improvement (QI) project implemented in a home health setting among a population of patients with heart failure (HF). It was discovered there was a lack of nurse-led recommendations and ... -
Heart rate as a physiologic response to scenarios on the driving simulator
(East Carolina University, 2012)Introduction: Since driving is such a big part of the American culture and considered an instrumental activity of daily living, it is a critical area for assessment and intervention for occupational therapists. The overall ... -
Helping Hands: A Guidebook for Volunteer Meal Providers
(2011-09-27)Helping Hands: A Guidebook for Volunteer Meal Providers Author(s): J. Jennings,1 R. Ward,2 K. Kolasa3; 1Nutrition Science, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, 2East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, 3Family ... -
High major histocompatibility complex class I polymorphism despite bottlenecks in wild and domesticated populations of the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata)
(2015-12-01)Background Two subspecies of zebra finch, Taeniopygia guttata castanotis and T. g. guttata are native to Australia and the Lesser Sunda Islands, respectively. The Australian subspecies has been domesticated and is now an ... -
High-fiber food may help decrease risk of colon cancer
(2024-01-31)This is a weekly Q and A newspaper column under the byline of Dr. Kathy Kolasa. Today's column is about how increasing dietary fiber may decrease the risk of developing colon cancer. -
High-Frame-Rate Full-Vocal-Tract 3D Dynamic Speech Imaging
(2017-04-21)