Department of Biostatistics

• Efficient design for large-scale epidemiologic studies
• The development of genetic risk calculation software and its calculation algorithms for X-linked recessive inheritance
• A Bayesian approach for evaluating the consistency of treatment effects among regions in multi-regional clinical trials

Department of Pharmacoepidemiology

• Risk of meningeal carcinomatosis and exploratory analysis of medical resource consumption in non-small cell lung cancer patients with meningeal carcinomatosis
• Use of barcode medication administration system in cancer chemotherapy infusion
• Adherence to treatment with biologics by self-injection in patients with rheumatoid arthritis

Department of Healthcare Economics and Quality Management

• Development of a financial performance dashboard for municipal hospitals/li>
• The problems and proposed solutions associated with the transition from sub-acute rehabilitation to home-based rehabilitation

Department of Health Informatics

• Evaluation of the training workshop for school teachers and problems to implement life skills education program in schools systematically – cross sectional study by analyzing questionnaire of participants
• What information do family and medical staff need in “shared decision-making”?: Gastrostomy and tube feeding in elderly people with dementia

Management of Technology and Intellectual Property

• Management of intellectual property in industry-academia collaborative research in the United States:

Department of Medical Communication

• Employment factors of patients with higher brain dysfunction: Questionnaire research from a patient’s perspective

Department of Ecology with Emphasis on the Environment

• Role of ATP binding cassette sub-family member 1 a/b (ABCB1b) in renal excretion of Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA)
• Relationship between endoplasmic reticulum stress and Box C/D small nucleolar ribonucleoproteins in insulinoma cell line established from Akita mouse
• Analysis of Porfluoroalkyl carboxylic acids (PFCAs) in house dust and investigation on their determinants
• Detection of dicofol and related pesticides in human breast milk from China, Korea and Japan

Department of Field Medicine

• Usefulness and limitation of “Check-list” developed by Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare for screening elderly with higher risk for frailty

Genetic Counselor Course

• Thanatophoric Dysplasia: Validity of its name and current status
• Inductive analysis of hospice ‘philosophies’ from websites: Children’s hospices in the UK
• Information and support for parents of children with chromosomal abnormalities – Content analysis of a parents’ association questionnaire –

Master of Clinical Research

• Evaluation and development of clinical trial consent forms
• Perspectives on informing clinical study participants of study results in Japan

Master of Clinical Research

• Low oxygen saturation during hemodialysis and long-term outcomes in patients with maintenance hemodialysis: a protocol of prospective cohort study
• Patient-physician contact and subjective outcomes of dialysis patients: results from J-DOPPS
• A social skills intervention for children with high-functioning autism: A pilot randomized controlled trial (research project)
• Characteristics of individuals deemed to be hyperglycemic through screening but who had not made follow-up clinical visits: analytical epidemiologic study
• The effect of using topical sugar for diabetic foot ulcers: A clinical-record-based retrospective patient cohort study (protocol)