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Teaching the Art of Medicine: A Changing Portrait in Today's Medical Schools
(2008-03)
Objective: The purpose of the present study was to assess attitudes toward the value of the “art of medicine” in medical education, beliefs regarding whether it can be taught and, if so, the methods of teaching that would ...
Glycemic Control Patterns and Kidney Disease Progression among Primary Care Patients with Diabetes Mellitus
(2011-07)
Background: Reducing glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) to near or less than 7% in patients with diabetes is associated with diminished microvascular complications, but this level is not consistently achieved. The purpose of ...
Outpatient Colonoscopy by Rural Family Physicians
(East Carolina University, 2005-03)
PURPOSE Five percent of family physicians offer colonoscopy services, either in the office or the hospital, often in rural areas that have no gastroenterologist. Two previous large series have shown the quality and safety ...
Diabetes Education in Rural Appalachia
(2010-10-28)
Introduction:
Diabetes education has long been a problem at rural health sites like Tug River Health Association at Gary, WV. Many providers expressed a need of handouts on diabetic topics that are both informative and ...
Pitt County Memorial Hospital Plays a Role in the Eat Smart Move More North Carolina Movement
(2009)
Pitt County Memorial Hospital is taking the "Journey to Excellence" and as part of that journey, is creating a culture of wellness. This paper describes those efforts as well as the criteria for healthy food. Data ...
North Carolina's Plan to Address Obesity: Healthy Weight and Healthy Communities
(2013-02-07)
This presentation describes the 2013-2020 NC Obesity Plan. Evidence based core behaviors are described as well as strategies for encouraging the adoption of those behaviors in worksites, health care and colleges and ...
The UHS Nutrition Initiative: Enhancing the ability of patients, employees and the community to "Eat Smart and Move More"
(2005)
This article describes the obesity problem in eastern North Carolina and the responses that the Pitt County Memorial Hospital is taking locally to change policies and environments.
Creating Vidant Health's Healthy Food Environment
(2013-04)
The paper describes the journey taken by Vidant Health (formerly University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina) to create a healthy eating environmnet on its entire campus. Vidant Health was among the first hospitals in ...
Cancer mortality in Native Americans in North Carolina.
(East Carolina University, 1990-08)
his paper describes age-adjusted mortality from malignant neoplasms for Native Americans in North Carolina for 1968-72 and 1978-82. Sex-specific standardized mortality ratios were calculated from death certificate data, ...
Take Off 4-Health Healthy Lifestyle Camp Nutrition Education Curriculum
(2009-06-09)
Summer camps designed to produce weight loss are popular childhood obesity interventions. Nutrition education is a critical component of youth weight loss camps and we will present the curriculum developed for a 3 week ...