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CRU Research Projects

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Current Research Projects
 :: Health Services Research
Measuring the Costs of Language Barriers in Health Care
 :: Infectious diseases
Chlorhexidine cleansing of medical intensive care unit patients
Determinants of Repeat Chlamydial and Gonorrheal Infections
 :: Preventive Medicine
Adult Immunizations among Immigrant Hispanics
 :: Substance use
Screening brief intervention and referral to treatment
 :: Homelessness
Evaluation of the Housing First Initiative of the Chicago Housing for Health Partnership
 :: Asthma
Work-related asthma
Chicago Initiative to Raise Asthma Equity (CHIRAH)
 :: Heart Failure
Cook County Heart Improvement Study
 :: Central lines
Firm-based educational intervention to improve central line insertion practices
Completed Research Projects
 :: Asthma
Clinical characteristics of high-risk urban patients with severe asthma and predictors of adherence to asthma clinic appointment.
 :: Infectious Diseases
Development of algorithm to screen jail detainees for chlamydial or gonococcal urethritis
Randomized trial comparing the effectiveness of azithromycin to vitamin C for treating acute bronchitis.
 :: 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.
 :: 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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