Department of Healthcare Epidemiology

• Association between living alone and perceived burden of dietary restriction in hemodialysis

Department of Health Informatics

• Development of healthcare quality indicators of low risk labor provided mainly by midwives in Japan: based on reviewing guidelines and the RAND/UCLA appropriateness method
• Healthcare information-seeking behavior of refugees who moved to Kyoto pref. after the Great East Japan Earthquake: Qualitative research
• Issues regarding the utilization and protection of personal information in the event of natural disaster: a collaborative case study with a support group and officials of four towns in Futaba-district of Fukushima prefecture after the Great East Japan Earthquake
• Population-based study of spectral analysis of heart rate variability
• Development of prehospital prediction system for been hospitalized or not of patients carried by ambulance: Quantitative text analysis of documents in a hospital
• Hepatocellular carcinoma surveillance in chronic hepatitis B and hepatitis C in Japan: Epidemiological research using receipt database

Department of Healthcare Economics and Quality Management

• Factor associated with high-dose prescription of antipsychotics in outpatients
• Outcome, process quality and spending in acute myocardial infarction

Department of Pharmacoepidemiology

• Prescription patterns and trend of anti-rheumatic drugs in Japanese patients with rheumatoid arthritis
• Factors causing thrombocytopenia and anemia as adverse reactions of linesolid in Japan: A retrospective cohort study

Department of Global Health and Socio-epidemiology

• A mixed method research on premenstrual syndrome among female university students
• Psychological Consequences of the Great East Japan Earthquake among health care providers: 3/11 complex disaster from Fukushima
• A mixed methods comparative study of healthcare workers and mothers on experiences of treatment-seeking behavior in children under five years old in urban East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea
• Qualitative research on elementary school teachers for better support to truant students in Japan
• A cross-sectional study on infection control practice, knowledge and attitude among Yemeni dental care providers in 5 regions,Yemen
• HIV risk perceptions and correlates of risky sexual behavior among Facebook users in Swaziland: Mixed methods research design

Department of Medical Communication

• Hospital structure and proposal for discharge planning from elderly patients – Dyadic approach –

Department of Biostatistics

• Learning objectives and user satisfaction for biostatistics in e-learning for clinical trials
• Survival analysis to estimate anti-cancer treatment effect excluding the impact of post-study therapies and an application to clinical trial data

Ecology with Emphasis on the Environment

• Research on and development od the method for detection of cholera toxin-producing Vibrio cholerae in seafood with and ultimate goal of establishing the global safety standard

Genetic counselor course

• A semi-structured interview-based study on the views and feelings of patients with hereditary, intractable, and rare diseases about heredity
• 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

• Efficacy estimation of antidepressants under blinder conditions: Meta-analysis of two-armed vs. three-armed randomized controlled trials
• “Cost-effectiveness of screening for Helicobacter pylori in voluntary health check to prevent gastric cancer in Japan
• Development of clinical prediction rule for post-ERCP pancreatitis (Protocol)
• Practice patterns and clinical outcomes in type 2 diabetic patients with insulin therapy: Tenri Cohort Study
• Evidence-practice gap in adjuvant chemotherapy in resected non-small-cell lung cancer: An observational study using the U.S. cancer registry database