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ADVANCE DIRECTIVES AND HEALTH DISPARITIES IN LUNG CANCER
(East Carolina University, 2017-12-04)The purpose of this study is to explore associations between disparities in the documentation of advance directives in the medical records of patients with lung cancer. Consecutive medical records of patients newly diagnosed ... -
An Advanced Practice Provider Advisory Group: Design and Structure
(2015-11-08)Advanced Practice Providers (APPs) are critical to the functioning of healthcare systems. The 2011 Institute of Medicine report describes an optimal environment for APPs to provide quality, safe, cost effective patient ... -
Advances in Targeting Signal Transduction Pathways
(2012-12)Over the past few years, significant advances have occurred in both our understanding of the complexity of signal transduction pathways as well as the isolation of specific inhibitors which target key components in those ... -
Advancing Research on Racial–Ethnic Health Disparities: Improving Measurement Equivalence in Studies with Diverse Samples
(2014-12)To conduct meaningful, epidemiologic research on racial–ethnic health disparities, racial–ethnic samples must be rendered equivalent on other social status and contextual variables via statistical controls of those extraneous ... -
Advancing the Knowledge of Public Health and Poverty in North Carolina through Oral History Interviews
(2019-10-05)Although several U.S. advances in public health began in North Carolina (NC), the state has long faced many social and physical challenges that contributed to a high incidence of disease. This is particularly true in the ... -
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) in Pregnancy: Screening, Identification and Referral
(2019-04-22)Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are traumatic events that occur between birth and eighteen years of age (Radcliffe, Crouch, & Strompolis, 2018). The ACEs questionnaire consists of ten “yes” or “no” questions that ... -
Aerobic-Type Ribonucleotide Reductase in the Anaerobe Bacteroides fragilis
(East Carolina University, 2002-02)Bacteroides fragilis, a component of the normal intestinal flora, is an obligate anaerobe capable of long-term survival in the presence of air. Survival is attributed to an elaborate oxidative stress response that controls ... -
Agent and method for treating disorders associated with cytidine deaminase or deoxycytidine deaminase overexpression
(2000-10-24)An agent of the chemical formula C.sub.7 N.sub.3 H.sub.8 O.sub.2 R.sup.1 R.sup.2 XX.sup.1, wherein X and X.sup.1 are each independently C or N but not simultaneously, R.sup.1 is lower alkyl, alkenyl or alkynyl, halogen or ... -
Agmatine reverses pain induced by inflammation, neuropathy, and spinal cord injury
(East Carolina University, 2000-09-12)Antagonists of glutamate receptors of the N-methyl-D-aspartate subclass (NMDAR) or inhibitors of nitric oxide synthase (NOS) prevent nervous system plasticity. Inflammatory and neuropathic pain rely on plasticity, presenting ... -
The agony of agonal respiration: is the last gasp necessary?
(East Carolina University, 2002-06)Gasping respiration in the dying patient is the last respiratory pattern prior to terminal apnoea. The duration of the gasping respiration phase varies; it may be as brief as one or two breaths to a prolonged period of ... -
The AKT Inhibitor MK-2206 is Cytotoxic in Hepatocarcinoma Cells Displaying Hyperphosphorylated AKT-1 and Synergizes with Conventional Chemotherapy
(2013-09)Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the most common potentially lethal human malignancies worldwide. Advanced or recurrent HCC is frequently resistant to conventional chemotherapeutic agents and radiation. Therefore, ... -
Alcohol Exposure While Serving in the United States Military
(East Carolina University, 2017-12-07)Over the past 30 years, alcohol use, misuse, and alcohol related problems have increased among military personnel. Researchers have tracked the rates of alcohol misuse and alcohol related problems among military personnel, ... -
An Algorithm for Using Hydroxyurea in Sickle Cell Disease
(2021-07-26)Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) is an inherited blood disorder that affects many African Americans globally. This disease is characterized by acute complications from chronic anemia, episodes of painful acute on chronic ... -
Allen Oldfather Whipple:The Father of Modern Pancreatic Surgery.
(2008-04-14)Laupus Library History Collections & the Department of Bioethics & Interdisciplinary Studies sponsor the History of Medicine Presentations as an educational service for the East Carolina University community. The Library ...