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CRU Research Projects
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Current Research Projects
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Health Services Research
Measuring the Costs of Language Barriers in Health Care
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Infectious diseases
Chlorhexidine cleansing of medical intensive care unit patients
Determinants of Repeat Chlamydial and Gonorrheal Infections
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Preventive Medicine
Adult Immunizations among Immigrant Hispanics
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Substance use
Screening brief intervention and referral to treatment
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Homelessness
Evaluation of the Housing First Initiative of the Chicago Housing for Health Partnership
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Asthma
Work-related asthma
Chicago Initiative to Raise Asthma Equity (CHIRAH)
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Heart Failure
Cook County Heart Improvement Study
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Central lines
Firm-based educational intervention to improve central line insertion practices
Completed Research Projects
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Asthma
Clinical characteristics of high-risk urban patients with severe asthma and predictors of adherence to asthma clinic appointment.
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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.
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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.
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Antibiotic Resistance
Survey of internal medicine physicians’ knowledge, beliefs, and attitudes about antibiotic resistance.
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Alternative and Complimentary Medicine
Use of herbal medicines among hypertensive patients in a general medicine clinic.
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Chest Pain
Impact of a clinical decision rule on the triage of patients with suspected acute cardiac ischemia in the emergency department
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Risk Perceptions
Randomized trial of two methods of informing women about the risks and benefits of hormone replacement therapy.
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Information Technology
The effect of literature searching on attending physicians’ treatment recommendations for a random sample of medicine inpatients.