The purpose of this study is to identify specific barriers to preventing a late stage cancer diagnosis within communities identified in North Carolina as having a higher rate of advanced cancer diagnoses.
This project proposes to conduct a needs assessment of Arabic-speaking patients who visit the UNC Family Medicine Center at Chapel Hill to refine existing peri-visit communication workflows. The needs assessment will be done in collaboration with the Refugee Community Partnership (RCP) and will involve focus groups of their members to better assess clinic peri-visit communication needs. The goal is to deliver Arabic language-expansion interventions to clinic leadership that address these needs and implement at least one concrete communication workflow change.
To assess undergraduate and graduate student's attitudes regarding opioid overdose and harm reduction tools at a large, public university.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate and compare the survival outcome of patients with first recurrence of GBM undergoing surgical debulking/resection followed by either implantation of the SC9 device and repeat BBB opening in association with carboplatin chemotherapy or standard of care second line chemotherapy with either lomustine or temozolomide (per best physician's choice and best practice).
The aim of this project is thus to explore people's judgments (e.g., fairness, efficiency) of different allocation procedures .
The purpose of this study is to learn more about the long-term priorities of coastal community members.
The purpose of this study is to determine if a new medication is effective at treating cardiac amyloidosis.
To better understand how people learn information and how they update (or integrate) that information as related information is learned later.
We are interviewing primary care providers to get their thoughts on how best to provide care to patients with eating disorders.
Patients will undergo a blood draw for a gene classifier test. Some patients will have their physicians informed of the result, and another group of patients will be randomized to be managed by standard of care. Qualifying patients have incidentally identified lung nodules assessed as < 50% risk of cancer.