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CERTs Projects
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Project Description
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Year Begun
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Status | Center |
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| NC asthma improvement project |
1
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Completed | UNC |
| Drug metabolism in children with and without cystic fibrosis |
1
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Completed | UNC |
| Tailored implementation strategy for pediatric therapeutic guidelines |
1
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Completed | UNC |
| Evidence-based tools to assess pediatric population |
1
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Ongoing | UNC |
| Efficacy, safety, and pharmacokinetics of drugs in pediatric HIV |
1
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Ongoing | UNC |
| Prevalence of Type 2 diabetes in childhood |
1
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Ongoing | UNC |
| Prescribing patterns of psychotropic drugs for adolescents |
1
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Ongoing | UNC |
| Fellowships and education programs: pediatric pharmacology, pediatric clinical trials, and public outreach |
1
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Ongoing | UNC |
| CERTs Summer Institute: Using the Evidence on Therapeutics to Enhance Quality of Care |
1
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Ongoing | UNC |
| MedMARx monitoring and surveillance project |
1
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Ongoing | UNC |
| Aspirin use and nonuse in cardiovascular disease |
1
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Ongoing | Duke |
| Beta-blocker use in heart failure |
1
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Ongoing | Duke |
| Dofetilide in atrial fibrillation |
1
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Ongoing | Duke |
| Transmyocardial laser revascularization devices |
1
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Ongoing | Duke |
| Identification of, testing of, and education about drug interactions, especially in women |
1
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Ongoing | Georgetown |
| International registry for drug-induced arrhythmias |
1
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Ongoing | Georgetown |
| National medication-errors survey of third-year medical students, internal medicine clerkship, and residency programs |
1
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Ongoing | Georgetown |
| Postmarketing/pharmacoeconomic study of cyclooxygenase (COX)-2 anti-inflammatory drugs in Medicaid population |
1
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Ongoing | Vanderbilt |
| Study of policy changes as they relate to quality of pharmacotherapy in Medicaid population: loss of coverage in pediatric asthma, change in third-party mental-health carrier, differences in drug formularies |
1
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Ongoing | Vanderbilt |
| Effects of separate mental-health coverage on compliance in schizophrenia |
1
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Ongoing | Vanderbilt |
| Use of beta-blocker, aspirin, and lipid-lowering therapy after heart attack |
1
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Ongoing | Vanderbilt |
| Long-term safety and toxicity monitoring of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs |
1
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Ongoing | UAB |
| Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) project |
2
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Ongoing | UNC |
| Pediatric adverse drug event and reaction reporting program |
2
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Ongoing | UNC |
| Skeletal effects of oral replacement of vitamin D and calcium in adolescents with cystic fibrosis |
2
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Ongoing | UNC |
| Prevalence of vitamin D-deficient rickets in minority infants |
2
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Ongoing | UNC |
| Optimizing prescribing and treatment for otitis media |
2
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Planned | UNC |
| Usefulness of large HMO databases in studying oral drugs for diabetes |
2
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Planned | HMO Research |
| Effect of provider profiling on management of glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis (GIOP) |
2
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Planned | UAB |
| Selecting cost-effective treatments for rheumatoid arthritis |
2
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Planned | UAB |
| Increasing adherence to drugs to prevent osteoporosis |
2
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Planned | UAB |
| Secondary prevention of fractures due to osteoporosis |
2
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Planned | Duke/UAB |
| Reducing the use of antibiotics for acute bronchitis in outpatients |
2
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Planned | Penn |
| Effect of formulary changes on the resistance patterns of E. coli and Klebsiella |
2
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Planned | Penn |
| Use of tetracycline for acne in an outpatient clinic: effects on antibiotic resistance patterns |
2
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Planned | Penn |
| Using a large database to study the epidemiology of resistant Pneumococcus pneumonia |
2
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Planned | Penn |
| Expanding the use of meta-analysis to study rare side effects of antibiotics |
2
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Planned | Penn |
| Usefulness of large HMO database for studying the safety and efficacy of antibiotics in children |
2
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Planned | HMO Research |
| Usefulness of a large HMO database for studying the safety and efficacy of drugs to prevent heart failure |
2
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Planned | HMO Research |
| NC immunization registry |
3
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Planned | UNC |