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Health Related Sciences Dissertations

Dissertations from the Ph.D. Program in Health Related Sciences, Virginia Commonwealth University.

Theses/Dissertations from 2014 2014

An Examination of the Relationship of ABO Blood Group and Lifespan in a Hospitalized Population in the Southeastern United States, Tara Moon

Community-dwelling Older Adults' Adherence to Fall Prevention Recommendations, Suzänne Fleming Taylor

Theses/Dissertations from 2013 2013

Exploring Substance Use Disorders Community Outpatient Counselors’ Experiences Treating Clients with Co-Occurring Medical Conditions: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis, Lauretta Cathers

Development and Validation of a Predictive Model of Return-to-Work Outcomes of Injured Employees in Minnesota, A. Bentley Hankins

Factors for Selecting a Consumer Directed Health Care Plan, David Jordan

Sensory Modulation Disorder: Impact on Coping and Occupational Performance, Audrey E. Kane

An Analysis of the External Environmental and Internal Organizational Factors Associated With Adoption of the Electronic Health Record, Clemens Kruse

The Impact of Imprecision in HCV Viral Load Test Results on Clinicians’ Therapeutic Management Decisions and on the Economic Value of the Test, Roberta M. Madej

Examining Caregiver Appraisal of Functional Capacity in Family Members with Dementia, Catherine Verrier Piersol

REHABILITATION SERVICE UTILIZATION AMONG AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN LIVING WITH HIV/AIDS: USING THE BEHAVIORAL MODEL FOR VULNERABLE POPULATIONS, Aisha Shamburger-Rousseau

Theses/Dissertations from 2012 2012

Use of Procalcitonin as a Biomarker of Bacterial Infection in Acute Liver Failure and Acute Liver Injury, Jody Balko

COHORT MEMBERSHIP, DENTAL INSURANCE AND UTILIZATION OF DENTAL SERVICES IN ADULTS AGE 47 AND OVER RECEIVING DENTAL CARE AT VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY’S SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY, Patricia Brown Bonwell

Workplace Discrimination and the Perception of Disability, William Draper

Pediatric Obesity and Peri-Operative Adverse Events, Torrey Hawley

The Pharmacist Supply in the United States, 1994-2009: A Population Ecology Perspective, Kevin S.J. Lett

Assessing the Effects of Stress Resilience Training on Visual Discrimination Skills: Implications for Perceptual Resilience in U.S. Warfighters, Andrea Taylor

Factors Associated with Access to Palliative Care in a Large Urban Public Teaching Hospital with a Formal Hospital-Based Palliative Care Program, Leland Waters

Theses/Dissertations from 2011 2011

The Relationship Between Physicians‘ Ownership of Physical Therapy Services and Referral Patterns to Hospital-Based Outpatient Rehabilitation Centers, Joy Bruce

Anesthesia Recordkeeping: Accuracy of Recall with Computerized and Manual Entry Recordkeeping, Thomas Corey Davis

Natural Disasters and Older Adults: The Social Construction of Disaster Planning, Elizabeth Fugate-Whitlock

An Examination of Spiritual and Religious Coping and Well-Being and their Impact on the Health-Related Quality of Life for Patients with Mechanical Circulatory Support, Angela Hardy-Duncan

The Reliability and Validity of a Simulated Airway Model that Quantifies Physical Forces Exerted During Endotracheal Intubation in a Clinically Demanding Scenario, Robert Matthews

SCREENING PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN EFFECTS ON RACIAL DISPARATE MORTALITY: A PROPENSITY SCORE ANALYSIS, R. David McNally

Sensory Modulation Disorder and Schizophrenia: Linking Behavioral Measures, Linda Olson

THE CULTURAL CONTEXT OF ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE: THE IMPACT OF PERCEPTION AND KNOWLEDGE ON WILLINGNESS TO SEEK MEDCIAL [i.e., medical] HELP AMONG GHANAIAN IMMIGRANTS IN THE UNITED STATES., Olivia Owusu-Boakyewaah