Issue 2/2011
Content (27 Articles)
From the Editors’ Desk: The Power of First Impressions
Richard L. Kravitz
N-of-1 Trials: Not Just for Academics
Daniel G. Federman, Michael L. Shelling, Robert S. Kirsner
Patient Perspectives of Clinical Care and Patient Navigation in Follow-up of Abnormal Mammography
Karen Donelan, Johanna R. Mailhot, David Dutwin, Kristen Barnicle, Sarah Abernethy Oo, Karin Hobrecker, Sanja Percac-Lima, Bruce A. Chabner
Patient Navigation to Increase Mammography Screening Among Inner City Women
Christine E. Phillips, Jessica D. Rothstein, Kristine Beaver, Bonnie J. Sherman, Karen M. Freund, Tracy A. Battaglia
Ability to Walk 1/4 Mile Predicts Subsequent Disability, Mortality, and Health Care Costs
Susan E. Hardy, Yihuang Kang, Stephanie A. Studenski, Howard B. Degenholtz
Is Looking Older than One’s Actual Age a Sign of Poor Health?
Stephen W. Hwang, Mina Atia, Rosane Nisenbaum, Dwayne E. Pare, Steve Joordens
Patient-Provider Language Concordance and Colorectal Cancer Screening
Amy Linsky, Nathalie McIntosh, Howard Cabral, Lewis E. Kazis
Incidence of Adverse Drug Events and Medication Errors in Japan: the JADE Study
Takeshi Morimoto, Mio Sakuma, Kunihiko Matsui, Nobuo Kuramoto, Jinichi Toshiro, Junji Murakami, Tsuguya Fukui, Mayuko Saito, Atsushi Hiraide, David W. Bates
A Cluster-Randomized Trial of a Primary Care Informatics-Based System for Breast Cancer Screening
Steven J. Atlas, Richard W. Grant, William T. Lester, Jeffrey M. Ashburner, Yuchiao Chang, Michael J. Barry, Henry C. Chueh
Alcohol Screening and Risk of Postoperative Complications in Male VA Patients Undergoing Major Non-cardiac Surgery
Katharine A. Bradley, Anna D. Rubinsky, Haili Sun, Chris L. Bryson, Michael J. Bishop, David K. Blough, William G. Henderson, Charles Maynard, Mary T. Hawn, Hanne Tønnesen, Grant Hughes, Lauren A. Beste, Alex H. S. Harris, Eric J. Hawkins, Thomas K. Houston, Daniel R. Kivlahan
Language Barriers, Physician-Patient Language Concordance, and Glycemic Control Among Insured Latinos with Diabetes: The Diabetes Study of Northern California (DISTANCE)
Alicia Fernandez, Dean Schillinger, E. Margaret Warton, Nancy Adler, Howard H. Moffet, Yael Schenker, M. Victoria Salgado, Ameena Ahmed, Andrew J. Karter
Are Physicians’ Recommendations For Colorectal Cancer Screening Guideline-Consistent?
K. Robin Yabroff, Carrie N. Klabunde, Gigi Yuan, Timothy S. McNeel, Martin L. Brown, Dana Casciotti, Dennis W. Buckman, Stephen Taplin
Behaviorally Defined Patient-Centered Communication—A Narrative Review of the Literature
Robert C. Smith, Francesca C. Dwamena, Madhusudan Grover, John Coffey, Richard M. Frankel
Gut Feelings as a Third Track in General Practitioners’ Diagnostic Reasoning
Erik Stolper, Margje Van de Wiel, Paul Van Royen, Marloes Van Bokhoven, Trudy Van der Weijden, Geert Jan Dinant
Personalized Medicine: Understanding Probabilities and Managing Expectations
Zachary Laksman, Allan S. Detsky
Update in Women’s Health for the General Internist
Eleanor Bimla Schwarz, Megan McNamara, Redonda G. Miller, Judith M.E. Walsh
Concurrent Sweet’s Syndrome and Erythema Nodosum
Tracie Harris, Mark C. Henderson
Syndrome of Inappropriate Secretion of Antidiuretic Hormone Associated with Localized Herpes Zoster Ophthalmicus
Chih-Chiang Wang, Jeng-Chuan Shiang, Jiann-Tomg Chen, Shih-Hua Lin
Teaching Internal Medicine Residents to Sustain Their Improvement Through the Quality Assessment and Improvement Curriculum
Julie Oyler, Lisa Vinci, Julie K. Johnson, Vineet M. Arora
The Crucible of Physician Performance Reports
Hawkin E. Woo
Erratum to: Literacy Skills and Calculated 10-Year Risk of Coronary Heart Disease
Laurie T. Martin, Matthias Schonlau, Ann Haas, Kathryn Pitkin Derose, Rima Rudd, Eric B. Loucks, Lindsay Rosenfeld, Stephen L. Buka