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Evaluation of a Novel Equity-Focused Curriculum for Early-Stage Medical Students by Roper, Karen L, South, Anna-Maria, Palmer, Skyler, Johnson, Julia, Sims, Lillian, Hustedde, Carol, Mangino, Anthony A

“…Medical school curricula have increasingly incorporated topics and content related to health equity and affiliated social determinants of health. However,…”
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Pulmonary Function Tests Overestimate Chronic Pulmonary Disease in Patients With Severe Aortic Stenosis by Magee, Mitchell J., MD, Herbert, Morley A., PhD, Roper, Karen L., PhD, Holper, Elizabeth, MD, Dewey, Todd M., MD, Snelus, Tricia, BA, Mack, Michael J., MD

“…Background Pulmonary dysfunction is an important risk factor for postoperative complications after cardiac surgery, and severe chronic obstructive pulmonary…”
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Mixed Methods Study of Patient and Primary Care Provider Perceptions of Chronic Pain Treatment by Roper, Karen L., Jones, Jarred, Rowland, Courtney, Thomas-Eapen, Neena, Cardarelli, Roberto

“…•Patient-centered communication is difficult in pain management discussions•Interventions need to overcome frustration, fear and discordant goals or…”
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Ensuring the “health” of a curricular program evaluation: Alignment and analytic quality of two instruments for use in evaluating the effectiveness of an interprofessional collaboration curriculum by Sampson, Shannon, Nelson, Andrew, Cardarelli, Roberto, Roper, Karen L.

“…To cultivate competencies in interprofessional collaboration (IPC) for patient-centered, team-based care, a multi-faceted training enhancement initiative was…”
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346-OR: Primary Care Implementation Study to Increase Diabetes Prevention Program Referrals by KECK, JAMES W., ROPER, KAREN L., THOMAS, ALISHA, HIERONYMUS, LAURA

“…Background: Intensive lifestyle change programs effectively prevent or delay type 2 diabetes but are underutilized. We evaluated patient and clinician…”
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Prediabetes Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices at an Academic Family Medicine Practice by Keck, James W, Thomas, Alisha R, Hieronymus, Laura, Roper, Karen L

“…Lifestyle change programs are an effective but underutilized approach to prevent or delay type 2 diabetes in people with prediabetes. Understanding clinician…”
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Lessons Learned: A Mixed Methods Analysis of Barriers to Swing Bed Utilization in Critical Access Hospitals in Montana by Jones, Faith, Sabin, Tawnie, Roper, Karen L, Crocker, Samuel, Cardarelli, Roberto

“…Purpose: Critical access hospitals (CAHs) provide access to care and economic stability to rural regions. At times rural populations need higher-level health…”
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Physical Aggression and Coronary Artery Calcification: A North Texas Healthy Heart Study by Fulda, Kimberly G., Roper, Karen L., Dotson, Claude H., Cardarelli, Roberto

“…Background The purpose of this study was to determine the association between aspects of hostility and coronary artery calcification (CAC) scores…”
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Migraine care practices in primary care: results from a national US survey by Callen, Elisabeth, Clay, Tarin, Alai, Jillian, Crawford, Paul, Visconti, Adam, Nederveld, Andrea, Cruz, Inez, Perez, Bailey, Roper, Karen L, Oser, Tamara K, Saint Laurent, May-Lorie, Jabbarpour, Yalda

“…Primary care clinicians play a critical role in diagnosis and treatment of migraine, yet barriers exist. This national survey assessed barriers to diagnosis…”
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Primary Care Cluster RCT to Increase Diabetes Prevention Program Referrals by Keck, James W., Roper, Karen L., Hieronymus, Laura B., Thomas, Alisha R., Huang, Zhengyuan, Westgate, Philip M., Fowlkes, John L., Cardarelli, Roberto

“…The Diabetes Prevention Program, an intensive lifestyle change program, effectively reduces the risk of progression from prediabetes to type 2 diabetes but is…”
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Effect of Ambulatory Transitional Care Management on 30-Day Readmission Rates by Ballard, Jonathan, Rankin, Wade, Roper, Karen L., Weatherford, Sarah, Cardarelli, Roberto

“…A process improvement initiative for transitional care management (TCM) was evaluated for effectiveness in reducing 30-day readmission rates in a retrospective…”
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Systematic Review of Ambulatory Transitional Care Management (TCM) Visits on Hospital 30-Day Readmission Rates by Roper, Karen L., Ballard, Jonathan, Rankin, Wade, Cardarelli, Roberto

“…To reduce readmission rates and prevent adverse outcomes after discharge, hospitals have begun implementing “transitional care” initiatives. This systematic…”
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An examination of the perceived impact of a continuing interprofessional education experience on opiate prescribing practices by Cardarelli, Roberto, Elder, William, Weatherford, Sarah, Roper, Karen L., King, Dana, Workman, Charlotte, Stewart, Kathryn, Kim, Chong, Betz, William

“…Chronic pain is increasingly recognized as a public health problem. We assessed the effectiveness of a multi-modal, interprofessional educational approach…”
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Terminate lung cancer (TLC) study—A mixed-methods population approach to increase lung cancer screening awareness and low-dose computed tomography in Eastern Kentucky by Cardarelli, Roberto, Reese, David, Roper, Karen L, Cardarelli, Kathryn, Feltner, Frances J, Studts, Jamie L, Knight, Jennifer R, Armstrong, Debra, Weaver, Anthony, Shaffer, Dana

“…Highlights • Lung cancer screening information was developed and disseminated to a high-risk rural population using community-engaged methods. • Statistical…”
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Identifying Community Perspectives for a Lung Cancer Screening Awareness Campaign in Appalachia Kentucky: The Terminate Lung Cancer (TLC) Study by Cardarelli, Roberto, Roper, Karen L., Cardarelli, Kathryn, Feltner, Frances J., Prater, Shirley, Ledford, Karen Michelle, Justice, Barbara, Reese, David R., Wagner, Patsy, Cantrell, Christine

“…Lung cancer screening with low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) scan is now covered by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services following an evidence-based…”
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Patient and Clinician Perceptions of Prediabetes: A Mixed-Methods Primary Care Study by Roper, Karen L., Thomas, Alisha R., Hieronymus, Laura, Brock, Audrey, Keck, James

“…Purpose The purpose of the study was to assess patient and clinician perceptions of prediabetes in an academic family medicine practice. Data were collected in…”
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Transfer of directed-forgetting cues across discrimination tasks with pigeons by ROPER, Karen L, CHAPONIS, Deviney M, BLAISDELL, Aaron P

“…Directed forgetting is shown as impaired performance on a memory test following an instruction that the presented items will not be tested. Experiments…”
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Observing Behavior in Pigeons: The Effect of Reinforcement Probability and Response Cost Using a Symmetrical Choice Procedure by Roper, Karen L., Zentall, Thomas R.

“…Observing behavior allows an organism to observe discriminative stimuli without affecting the overall probability of reinforcement. Several explanations have…”
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The two-alternative observing response procedure in rats: Preference for nondiscriminative stimuli and the effect of delay by Roper, Karen L., Baldwin, Emilee R.

“…A two-alternative choice procedure was used with rats to examine preference for discriminative stimuli (correlated with the occurrence of reinforcement) versus…”
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Directed Forgetting in Animals by Roper, Karen L, Zentall, Thomas R

“…Directed-forgetting research with animals suggests that animals show disrupted test performance only under certain conditions. Important variables are (a)…”
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