Research Involving KAN

Listing of KAN Involved Studies / Projects:

  1. Terminate Lung Cancer
  2. Central Appalachia Interprofessional Pain Education Collaborative 
  3. Navigating high-risk in-patient clients using a lay-health worker model in Eastern Kentucky 
  4. Physicians' and Pharmacists' Opioid Prescribing Study
  5. Community to Clinic Navigation to Improve Diabetes Outcomes
  6. Evaluting the impact of Transitional Care Management (TCM) for Small to Medium Sized Primary Care Clinics on Patient-Centered Outcomes
  7. Patient- Engagement, Literacy, Adherence Study 
  8. Standards-Based Intelligent Tutoring Electronic Competency Record Build-Out and Evaluation
  9. Referral and Outcomes for Complementary and Alternative Therapies: Chronic Low Back Pain in Urban and Rural Primary Care
  10. Patient and Provider Attitudes Toward Obesity Care in the Primary Care Setting
  11. Best Practices in Achieving Meaningful Use of Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) in Primary Care
  12. How and Why to Study the Practice Content of a Practice-Based Research Network
  13. NAMCS Study Materials
  14. Practice Content in Residency Practice Compared with Community Practice
  15. Communication about Complementary and Alternative Medicine
  16. Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use among Patients in Kentucky Ambulatory Network Practices
  17. Current State of Information Technology Use in a US Primary Care Practice-Based Research Network
  18. Information-Seeking Behaviors of Practitioners in a Primary Care Practice-Based Research Network  (PBRN)
  19. Factors Influencing Providers’ Decisions to Accept Children on Government Sponsored Health Insurance
  20. Pilot Study on Prevalence of Chlamydia in Central Kentucky Private Primary Care Practices
  21. Bringing the Behavioral Health Improvement Program (BeHIP) to Rural Kentucky
  22. Setting Educational Priorities for Women’s Preventive Health:  Measuring Beliefs about Screening across Disease States
  23. Improving Rates of Colon Cancer Screening through Educational Outreach and a Practice Based Intervention
  24. Screening Mammography for Older Women: Challenges Clinicians Want to Tackle in Collaboration with their Regional PBRN and PBRN Clinicians’ “Best Practices” 
  25. Audit and Feedback to Enhance Colon Cancer Screening in Primary Care
  26. Survey of Interests in Quality Improvement Among Kentucky Primary Care Physicians (PCPs)
  27. Planting KANNED PEAs: Developing a Sustainable Practice Enhancement Assistant (PEA) Program
  28. Cardiovascular Risk Education and Social Support (CaRESS)
    1. Patients, practices, and relationships: challenges and lessons learned from the Kentucky Ambulatory Network (KAN) CaRESS clinical trial
    2. Cardiovascular risk education social support (CaRESS): report of a randomized controlled trial from the Kentucky Ambulatory Network (KAN)
  29. Enabling Quality Improvement in Primary Care Practice (EQUIP)
  30. Physician Colorectal Cancer Screening Recommendations
  31. Participatory Development of a Generic Detailing Program with a Primary Care Research Network
  32. Physician Identification of Hereditary Breast Cancer: Psychosocial Factors
  33. Increasing Colorectal Cancer Screening in Rural Kentucky
  34. Enabling Quality Improvement in Practice for Controlled Prescribing (EQUIP-4-CRx)
  35. Enabling Quality Improvement for Diabetes Management (EQUIP-4-DM)
  36. An Evaluation of the Public Health Response to the Outbreak of Novel Influenza
  37. Understanding the Cancer Information Needs of Appalachian Cancer Survivors and Primary Care Providers
  38. Is Kentucky Prepared for the Patient-Centered Medical Home?
  39. Have You heard about Vitamin D?
  40. Search I (Screening, Evaluating and Assessing Rate Changes of Diagnosing Respiratory Conditions in Primary Care): A Prospective Cluster Randomized Study
  41. Make Better Choices 2 (MBC2)
  42. Management of Moderate to Severe Asthma from a Primary Care Perspective 
  43. Research Study for Primary Care Professionals: Follow-Up Care for Child Cancer Survivors 
  44. Remote Alcohol Monitoring to Facilitate Abstinence Reinforcement with an Underserved Population 
  45. Flooding and Care of Patients with Respiratory Conditions and Weak Immune Systems 
  46. Prescribing Buprenorphine in Primary Care Video Research Study