Screening mammography and Pap tests among older American women 1996-2000: results from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and Asset and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old (AHEAD).

abstract：:William Osler is quoted as saying, "Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in your humdrum routine, as perhaps it may be thought, the true poetry of life-the poetry of the commonplace, of the plain, toil-worn woman, with their loves and their joys, their sorrows and their griefs."(1) A fami...

journal_title：Annals of family medicine

authors： Colgan R

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Large panel sizes are often held responsible for worse access to appointments in primary care. We evaluated the relationship between appointment backlog, panel size, and primary care clinician time in clinic, using Spearman correlation and multiple regression in a retrospective analysis. We found no independent associ...

journal_title：Annals of family medicine

authors： Margolius D,Gunzler D,Hopkins M,Teng K

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:In this study, we aimed to assess (1) the agreement between patient self-reports and general practitioner (GP) reports of the chronic conditions affecting the patients and (2) the agreement between patients and GPs on health priorities in a primary care setting. METHOD:Patients were recruited in the Parisian a...

journal_title：Annals of family medicine

authors： Sidorkiewicz S,Malmartel A,Prevost L,Partouche H,Pinot J,Grangé-Cabane A,du Vaure CB,Gilberg S

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:We wanted to compare 2 screening instruments for problem drinking, the CAGE and a single question, assessing frequency of use, patient and clinician comfort, and patient engagement in change. METHODS:The study was a crossover, cluster-randomized clinical trial with 31 clinicians in Missouri and 13 in the Ameri...

journal_title：Annals of family medicine

authors： Vinson DC,Galliher JM,Reidinger C,Kappus JA

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The purpose of this study was to examine the association between the prevalence of both diabetes-concordant and diabetes-discordant conditions and the quality of diabetes care at the family practice level in England. We hypothesized that the prevalence of concordant (or discordant) conditions would be associate...

journal_title：Annals of family medicine

authors： Ricci-Cabello I,Stevens S,Kontopantelis E,Dalton AR,Griffiths RI,Campbell JL,Doran T,Valderas JM

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:We wanted to explore the context of help seeking for reproductive and nonreproductive health concerns by urban adolescent girls. METHODS:We undertook a qualitative study using in-depth interviews of African American and Latina girls (n = 22) aged 13 to 19 years attending public high schools in the Bronx, NY. ...

journal_title：Annals of family medicine

authors： McKee MD,Karasz A,Weber CM

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Most new mothers return to work soon after childbirth. A need exists to reexamine the definition of postpartum health and evaluate employed women's recovery from childbirth in association with such factors as delivery type and breastfeeding. METHODS:Using a prospective cohort design, we recruited Minnesota wom...

journal_title：Annals of family medicine

authors： McGovern P,Dowd B,Gjerdingen D,Gross CR,Kenney S,Ukestad L,McCaffrey D,Lundberg U

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Describe the duration of symptoms, proportion of parents seeking primary care consultations, and costs for respiratory tract infections (RTIs) of children in the community. METHODS:Community-based, online, prospective inception cohort study. General practitioners from socioeconomically diverse practices posted...

journal_title：Annals of family medicine

authors： Hay AD,Anderson E,Ingle S,Beck C,Hollingworth W

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The purpose of this study was to characterize graduates of family medicine (FM) residencies from 1994 to 2017 and determine whether they continue to practice family medicine after residency. METHOD:We sampled physicians who completed FM residency training from 1994-2017 using 2017 American Medical Association ...

journal_title：Annals of family medicine

authors： Dai M,Peterson LE

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PURPOSE We examined how the closure of a large safety-net hospital in Los Angeles County, California, affected local primary care physicians. METHODS We conducted semistructured interviews with 42 primary care physicians who practiced in both underserved and nonunderserved settings in Los Angeles County. Two investiga...

journal_title：Annals of family medicine

authors： Walker KO,Clarke R,Ryan G,Brown AF

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Modern medical care is a 2-edged sword. Technical advances have improved our ability to diagnosis and treat disease, but they can also create a frightening, painful and bewildering environment for the patient seeking care. In this essay, the author shares his recent encounter with a life-threatening disease, emphasizi...

journal_title：Annals of family medicine

authors： Rosenblatt RA

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Avoidable hospitalizations due to adverse drug events and high-risk prescribing are common in older people. Primary care physicians prescribe most on-going medicines. Deprescribing has long been essential to best prescribing practice. We sought to explore the views of primary care physicians on the barriers and...

journal_title：Annals of family medicine

authors： Wallis KA,Andrews A,Henderson M

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Primary care practices in the United Kingdom have received substantial financial rewards for achieving standards set out in the Quality and Outcomes Framework since April 2004. This article reviews the growing evidence for the impact of the framework on the quality of primary medical care. METHODS:Five hundred...

journal_title：Annals of family medicine

authors： Gillam SJ,Siriwardena AN,Steel N

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patient-choice cesarean delivery is increasing in the United States. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists supports this option, citing ethical premises of autonomy and informed consent, despite a lack of evidence for its safety. This increase in patient-choice cesarean delivery occurs during a time ...

journal_title：Annals of family medicine

authors： Leeman LM,Plante LA

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:We wanted to understand the views of patients and clinicians on the central concept of healing and to identify major facilitators of and barriers to promoting healing in primary care. METHODS:We undertook a qualitative analysis of focus group discussions. Participants were drawn from primary care clinics of a ...

journal_title：Annals of family medicine

authors： Hsu C,Phillips WR,Sherman KJ,Hawkes R,Cherkin DC

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:In a primary care context favoring group practices, we assessed the validity of 2 new continuity measures (both versions of known provider continuity, KPC) that capture the concentration of care over time from multiple physicians (multiple provider continuity, KPC-MP) or from the physician seen most often (pers...

journal_title：Annals of family medicine

authors： Tousignant P,Diop M,Fournier M,Roy Y,Haggerty J,Hogg W,Beaulieu MD

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Little is known about the impact of pay-for-performance incentives on health care disparities. We examined ethnic disparities in the management of hypertension among patients with and without cardiovascular comorbidities after the implementation of a major pay-for-performance incentive scheme in UK primary care...

journal_title：Annals of family medicine

authors： Millett C,Gray J,Bottle A,Majeed A

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The American Board of Family Medicine routinely surveys its Diplomates in each national graduating cohort 3 years out of training. These data were used to characterize early career family physicians whose services include management of pregnancy and prescribing buprenorphine. A total of 261 (5.1%) respondents both pro...

journal_title：Annals of family medicine

authors： Louis JS,Eden AR,Morgan ZJ,Barreto TW,Peterson LE,Phillips RL Jr

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Hot tea and coffee have been found to have antimicrobial properties. The purpose of this study was to determine whether the consumption of tea, coffee, or both is associated with less frequent nasal carriage of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). METHODS:We performed a secondary analysis of dat...

journal_title：Annals of family medicine

authors： Matheson EM,Mainous AG 3rd,Everett CJ,King DE

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:In 2004, we undertook a consultation with Canadian primary health care experts to define the attributes that should be evaluated in predominant and proposed models of primary health care in the Canadian context. METHOD:Twenty persons considered to be experts in primary health care or recommended by at least 2 ...

journal_title：Annals of family medicine

authors： Haggerty J,Burge F,Lévesque JF,Gass D,Pineault R,Beaulieu MD,Santor D

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Hearing loss, the second most common disability in the United States, is under-diagnosed and under-treated. Identifying it in early stages could prevent its known substantial adverse outcomes. METHODS:A multiple baseline design was implemented to assess a screening paradigm for identifying and referring patien...

journal_title：Annals of family medicine

authors： Zazove P,Plegue MA,McKee MM,DeJonckheere M,Kileny PR,Schleicher LS,Green LA,Sen A,Rapai ME,Mulhem E

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Clinicians are faced with a plethora of guidelines. To rate guidelines, they can select from a number of evaluation tools, most of which are long and difficult to apply. The goal of this project was to develop a simple, easy-to-use checklist for clinicians to use to identify trustworthy, relevant, and useful...

journal_title：Annals of family medicine

authors： Shaughnessy AF,Vaswani A,Andrews BK,Erlich DR,D'Amico F,Lexchin J,Cosgrove L

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Our goal was to describe an approach to patient-centered medical home (PCMH) measurement based on delineating the desired properties of the measurement relative to assumptions about the PCMH and the uses of the measure by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan (BCBSM) and health services researchers. METHODS:We de...

journal_title：Annals of family medicine

authors： Alexander JA,Paustian M,Wise CG,Green LA,Fetters MD,Mason M,El Reda DK

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Studies among adults suggest that patient-provider racial concordance is associated with higher satisfaction and partnership with physicians. It remains unknown whether similar findings are true for children. This study examines the association of race/ethnicity concordance with parent reports of children's pri...

journal_title：Annals of family medicine

authors： Stevens GD,Shi L,Cooper LA

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Notions about the most common errors in medicine currently rest on conjecture and weak epidemiologic evidence. We sought to determine whether cascade analysis is of value in clarifying the epidemiology and causes of errors and whether physician reports are sensitive to the impact of errors on patients. METH...

journal_title：Annals of family medicine

authors： Woolf SH,Kuzel AJ,Dovey SM,Phillips RL Jr

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:In screening for type 2 diabetes, guidelines recommend targeting high-risk individuals. Our objectives were to assess the yield of opportunistic targeted screening for type 2 diabetes in primary care and to assess the diagnostic value of various risk factors. METHODS:In 11 family practices (total practice popu...

journal_title：Annals of family medicine

authors： Klein Woolthuis EP,de Grauw WJ,van Gerwen WH,van den Hoogen HJ,van de Lisdonk EH,Metsemakers JF,van Weel C

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:In this study, we compared the rate of depression diagnoses in adults with and without diabetes mellitus, while carefully controlling for number of primary care visits. METHODS:We matched adults with incident diabetes (n = 2,932) or prevalent diabetes (n = 14,144) to nondiabetic control patients based on (1) a...

journal_title：Annals of family medicine

authors： O'Connor PJ,Crain AL,Rush WA,Hanson AM,Fischer LR,Kluznik JC

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Few studies have attempted to link patients' beliefs about racism in the health care system with how they use and experience health care. METHODS:Using telephone survey data from a national sample of 1,479 whites, 1,189 African Americans, and 983 Latinos, we explored patients' beliefs about racism, their prefe...

journal_title：Annals of family medicine

authors： Chen FM,Fryer GE Jr,Phillips RL Jr,Wilson E,Pathman DE

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:We wanted to describe family physicians' use of information from an electronic knowledge resource for answering clinical questions, and their perception of subsequent patient health outcomes; and to estimate the number needed to benefit from information (NNBI), defined as the number of patients for whom clinica...

journal_title：Annals of family medicine

authors： Pluye P,Grad RM,Johnson-Lafleur J,Granikov V,Shulha M,Marlow B,Ricarte IL

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Behavioral change is at the heart of effective primary care, but when patients don't change, how do we account for our days? In this personal essay, I relate an encounter with a patient who wants to quit smoking, lose weight, and control her diabetes. I am discouraged when she deflects my recommendations, but a collea...

journal_title：Annals of family medicine

authors： de Schweinitz P

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00