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Department of Medicine Research Projects

The Department of Medicine and the Collaborative Research Unit promote action research on highly prevalent problems affecting the health of the vulnerable and diverse patient population of Cook County. The scope of research activities is broad—clinical care, health services research, medical education, and community-based studies.

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Current Research Projects
 :: Health Disparities
Barriers to colorectal cancer screening
 :: Health Services Research
Effectiveness of Screening for Intimate Partner Violence using Audio Computer Assisted Structured Interview (aCASI) techniques
 :: Infectious diseases
Probiotics to prevent Clostridium difficile infection
Scrub the hub: Evaluation of antiseptic agent and duration of scrub
 :: Asthma
A Community-Based Approach to Improve Medication Adherence in Urban Latino Children with Asthma
 :: Intensive Care
Evaluation of a model to improve the care of complex chronically ill hospitalized patients
 :: Central lines
Development of a model to estimate the probability that a patient had a central-line associated bloodstream infection
Comparison of computer algorithmic to infection prevention specialists determinations of central-line associated bloodstream infections
 :: Information Technology
Development of servers with software that can standardize hospital databases for public health reporting modules
CRE registry
Completed Research Projects
 :: Health Services Research
Measuring the Costs of Language Barriers in Health Care
 :: Substance use
Screening brief intervention and referral to treatment
 :: Asthma
Work-related asthma
Chicago Initiative to Raise Asthma Equity (CHIRAH)
Clinical characteristics of high-risk urban patients with severe asthma and predictors of adherence to asthma clinic appointment.
 :: Homelessness
Evaluation of the Housing First Initiative of the Chicago Housing for Health Partnership
 :: Infectious Diseases
Development of algorithm to screen jail detainees for chlamydial or gonococcal urethritis
Chlorhexidine cleansing of medical intensive care unit patients
Determinants of Repeat Chlamydial and Gonorrheal Infections
Randomized trial comparing the effectiveness of azithromycin to vitamin C for treating acute bronchitis.
 :: Heart Failure
Cook County Heart Improvement Study
 :: Medical Education
Firm-based trial comparing three methods for teaching cardiovascular examination skills to internal medicine residents.
Survey of academic internal medicine physicians’ beliefs and attitudes about teaching evidence based medicine to residents.
 :: Antibiotic Resistance
Survey of internal medicine physicians’ knowledge, beliefs, and attitudes about antibiotic resistance.
 :: Central lines
Firm-based educational intervention to improve central line insertion practices
 :: Alternative and Complimentary Medicine
Use of herbal medicines among hypertensive patients in a general medicine clinic.
 :: Chest Pain
Impact of a clinical decision rule on the triage of patients with suspected acute cardiac ischemia in the emergency department
 :: Risk Perceptions
Randomized trial of two methods of informing women about the risks and benefits of hormone replacement therapy.
 :: Information Technology
The effect of literature searching on attending physicians’ treatment recommendations for a random sample of medicine inpatients.
 
 
 
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