All Articles tagged Duke University

• Original Research
  March 18, 2024 EDT
  Identifying High-Risk ZIP Codes for Childhood Lead Exposure: A Statewide ZCTA-Level Priority List for North Carolina
  Rashida CallenderCarolina AvendanoMercedes A. BravoJoshua TootooEd NormanMarie Lynn Miranda

  This study demonstrates the utility of ZCTA-level census data in identifying high-risk ZIP codes for childhood lead exposure.

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• Original Research
  March 18, 2024 EDT
  Implementation of NCCARE360, a Digital Statewide Closed-Loop Referral Platform to Improve Health and Social Care Coordination: Evidence from the North Carolina COVID-19 Support Services Program
  Connor DrakeEugenia McPeek HinzBradi B. GrangerIsa GranadosAbigail RaderAriana PitcherShemecka McNeilWilliam K. BleserCarolyn AveryJanet Prvu BettgerElena TenenbaumMegan Shepherd-BaniganEleanor WertmanLisa McNerneyMarissa MortiboyJohn PurakalDev SangvaiSusan Spratt

  The shift to value-based care is an opportunity to embrace structural solutions to health and social care fragmentation.

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• Original Research
  March 17, 2024 EDT
  Opportunities for Integration in the Dual Medicare-Medicaid Population: North Carolina Landscape Analysis
  Salama S. FreedNicole FrascinoKelley A. JonesAbhigya GiriLucas StewartKeren HendelAmy G. ClarkCourtney Van HoutvenAparna HigginsBrystana G. Kaufman

  Medicare-Medicaid integration presents an opportunity to improve the value of care for dual-eligible beneficiaries and aligns with the goals of NC Medicaid transformation.

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• Policy Forum: Invited Commentaries & Sidebars
  January 09, 2024 EDT
  Advancing Equity in Cancer Research: Opportunities for Sponsors, Institutions, and Investigators
  Nadine J. BarrettKenisha BetheaLeigh BoehmerKimberly S. JohnsonDaniel Carrizosa

  To significantly move the needle toward greater diversity and inclusion in cancer research, it will take a full commitment to integrating an equity lens across the cancer research ecosystem.

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• Original Research
  July 17, 2023 EDT
  Leveraging Policy Changes Made in Response to COVID-19 to Advance Telehealth and Novel Treatment Approaches for People Who Use Opioids: Qualitative Perspectives From Two Rural North Carolina Counties
  Hillary ChenBrandon A. KnettelLisa Macon HarrisonAndrea Des MaraisAmanda NelliHilary A. CampbellAmnazo MuhirwaMehri S. McKellarPadma GulurShauna Guthrie

  Participants were strong proponents of the benefits of telehealth and identified strategies for continuing recent progress in rural access to opioid treatment through novel integrated and community-based approaches.

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• Policy Forum: Invited Commentaries & Sidebars
  July 05, 2023 EDT
  Preventing Firearm-Related Deaths Among Service Members and Veterans
  Harold Kudler

  This commentary offers a practical preventive approach employing lethal means reduction, addressing upstream factors, identifying current and former service members in community settings, and understanding their unique culture and concerns.

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• Original Research
  July 05, 2023 EDT
  Racial and Rural-Urban Disparities in Maternal Cardiac Disease Care in North Carolina: A Call to Action
  Julia M. MoyettLinda M. Zambrano GuevaraDivya P. MallampatiM. Kathryn MenardBrenna L. HughesMaria J. SmallElizabeth G. LivingstonJohanna Quist-NelsonMarie-Louise MengJerome J. Federspiel

  In North Carolina, there is a pronounced racial disparity in cardiac SMM during delivery hospitalizations, which is driven by patients with mWHO II/III–IV disease.

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• Original Research
  July 05, 2023 EDT
  Cross-Sector Intervention Strategies to Target Childhood Food Insecurity in North Carolina
  Sophie HurewitzLilianna SuarezAinsley BuckMichelle Scotton FranklinElizabeth J. GiffordGillian Sanders-SchmidlerRushina Cholera

  Health care systems are siloed from school and community efforts but have the opportunity to leverage ongoing innovative policy initiatives to construct novel cross-sector models.

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• Policy Forum: Invited Commentaries & Sidebars
  May 03, 2023 EDT
  Enhancing Trust During Complex Health Care Transformation
  David M. AndersonJillian C. Ryan

  Steps to reduce complexity in language and increase understanding of insurance contracts may improve trust and patience experiences.

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