The mission of the Collaborative Islet Transplant Registry (CITR) is to expedite progress and promote safety in islet/beta cell transplantation through the collection, analysis, and communication of comprehensive and current data on all islet/beta cell transplants performed in North America, Europe and Australia.
We are studying how exposure to a natural disaster, the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, affects population health over time. For fifteen years we have been interviewing a group of people who were part of a government survey before the tsunami, in 2004. Our goal is to understand the evolution of well-being after a disaster and how government and private assistance programs affect people.
To examine the differences in diabetic health when comparing two different interventions (medically tailored meals and food debit cards).
The 2019 Health Professions Accreditors Collaborative (HPAC) outlined a dual-identity framework that highlights the role of one's personal professional identity and interprofessional identity in interprofessional teams. The purpose of this study is to investigate the personal and interprofessional competencies representative of pharmacists on interprofessional healthcare teams.
We are doing a diagnostic evaluation of patients with Primary Immunodeficiencies (PID) and Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia (PCD) to see if we can determine clinic differences between the two groups. This information will help us to define future studies.
(1) To translate a remote developmental assessment into Spanish with feedback from the Spanish-speaking community (2) To try out the assessment with Latinx infants who are showing risk signs of a developmental disability. After completing the assessment, we will interview families about their experiences. We hope that this information will help us improve remote assessments for Latinx families to better match their culture and language.
This study trains health care providers in a children's asthma clinic to talk to families about concerns about the financial cost of asthma care. We will examine whether training providers increases the number of cost conversations and families' satisfaction with care.
The purpose of this study is to explore areas of discrimination experienced by our community of providers as well as determining areas of implicit bias that may affect how we practice medicine. By confronting and understanding these issues we can better understand our American Urogynecologic Society (AUGS) community and improve the care we provide all women with pelvic floor disorders.
Outcome measures are ways we tell how well babies are doing in the hospital or after going home. Outcome measures used in research may not be the best. One reason is that medications, devices, or care practices can affect many different organ systems, so it is important evaluate more than one area. Another is deciding whether to measure outcomes while the infant is still in the hospital or to wait see how the infant is doing after going home. That decision is complex; one consideration is that some families cannot be reached after going home and their valuable information is lost. Finally, researchers and doctors often view outcomes differently than families. While it is important researchers and doctors make sure outcomes are valid and medically relevant, it is just as important to understand parents' and caregivers' opinions on outcome measures.
Our goal is to compare the research experiences of people who are in the Accelerated Research Program at UNC to people who are not in the program to see how well the program is working.