Issue 5/2008
Content (34 Articles)
Cost-effectiveness of Chlorthalidone, Amlodipine, and Lisinopril as First-step Treatment for Patients with Hypertension: An Analysis of the Antihypertensive and Lipid-Lowering Treatment to Prevent Heart Attack Trial (ALLHAT)
Paul A. Heidenreich, Barry R. Davis, Jeffrey A. Cutler, Curt D. Furberg, David R. Lairson, Michael G. Shlipak, Sara L. Pressel, Chuke Nwachuku, Lee Goldman
Patient Safety and Telephone Medicine
Harvey P. Katz, Dawn Kaltsounis, Liz Halloran, Maureen Mondor
Caring and Dominance Affect Participants’ Perceptions and Behaviors During a Virtual Medical Visit
Marianne Schmid Mast, Judith A. Hall, Debra L. Roter
Random Plasma Glucose in Serendipitous Screening for Glucose Intolerance: Screening for Impaired Glucose Tolerance Study 2
David C. Ziemer, Paul Kolm, Jovonne K. Foster, William S. Weintraub, Viola Vaccarino, Mary K. Rhee, Rincy M. Varughese, Circe W. Tsui, David D. Koch, Jennifer G. Twombly, K. M. Venkat Narayan, Lawrence S. Phillips
A Pilot Test of the Effect of Guided Care on the Quality of Primary Care Experiences for Multimorbid Older Adults
Cynthia M. Boyd, Efrat Shadmi, Leslie Jackson Conwell, Michael Griswold, Bruce Leff, Rosemarie Brager, Martha Sylvia, Chad Boult
Failure to Intensify Antihypertensive Treatment by Primary Care Providers: A Cohort Study in Adults with Diabetes Mellitus and Hypertension
Shari Danielle Bolen, T. Alafia Samuels, Hsin-Chieh Yeh, Spyridon S. Marinopoulos, Maura McGuire, Marcela Abuid, Frederick L. Brancati
Primary Versus Specialty Care Outcomes for Depressed Outpatients Managed with Measurement-Based Care: Results from STAR*D
Bradley N. Gaynes, A. John Rush, Madhukar H. Trivedi, Stephen R. Wisniewski, G.K. Balasubramani, Patrick J. McGrath, Michael E. Thase, Michael Klinkman, Andrew A. Nierenberg, William R. Yates, Maurizio Fava
Validation of Screening Questions for Limited Health Literacy in a Large VA Outpatient Population
Lisa D. Chew, Joan M. Griffin, Melissa R. Partin, Siamak Noorbaloochi, Joseph P. Grill, Annamay Snyder, Katharine A. Bradley, Sean M. Nugent, Alisha D. Baines, Michelle VanRyn
Depressive Symptoms, Bone Loss, and Fractures in Postmenopausal Women
Leslie Spangler, Delia Scholes, Robert L. Brunner, John Robbins, Susan D. Reed, Katherine M. Newton, Jennifer L. Melville, Andrea Z. LaCroix
Variations in Practice Guideline Adherence for Abnormal Cervical Cytology in a County Healthcare System
Rita Singhal, Lisa V. Rubenstein, Mingming Wang, Martin L. Lee, Anwar Raza, Christine H. Holschneider
Discussing Weight with Obese Primary Care Patients: Physician and Patient Perceptions
K. Allen Greiner, Wendi Born, Sandra Hall, Qingjiang Hou, Kim S. Kimminau, Jasjit S. Ahluwalia
Why Don’t Diabetes Patients Achieve Recommended Risk Factor Targets? Poor Adherence versus Lack of Treatment Intensification
Julie A. Schmittdiel, Connie S. Uratsu, Andrew J. Karter, Michele Heisler, Usha Subramanian, Carol M. Mangione, Joe V. Selby
Sexual Intercourse and Risk of Symptomatic Urinary Tract Infection in Post-Menopausal Women
Elya E. Moore, Stephen E. Hawes, Delia Scholes, Edward J. Boyko, James P. Hughes, Stephan D. Fihn
Patient–Physician Communication in the Primary Care Visits of African Americans and Whites with Depression
Bri K. Ghods, Debra L. Roter, Daniel E. Ford, Susan Larson, Jose J. Arbelaez, Lisa A. Cooper
Patients Do not Know the Level of Training of Their Doctors Because Doctors Do not Tell Them
Sally A. Santen, Tricia S. Rotter, Robin R. Hemphill
Impact of Fixed-Dose Combination Drugs on Adherence to Prescription Medications
Feng Pan, Michael E. Chernew, A. Mark Fendrick
Expectation to Improve Cardiovascular Risk Factors Control in Participants to a Health Promotion Program
Arnaud Chiolero, John Prior, Pascal Bovet, Jean-Christophe Masson, Roger Darioli
Complementary and Alternative Medicine for Menopause: A Qualitative Analysis of Women’s Decision Making
Laura E. Hill-Sakurai, Jessica Muller, David H. Thom
How Do Hospitalized Patients Feel About Resident Work Hours, Fatigue, and Discontinuity of Care?
Kathlyn E. Fletcher, Francine C. Wiest, Lakshmi Halasyamani, Jeffrey Lin, Victoria Nelson, Samuel R. Kaufman, Sanjay Saint, Marilyn Schapira
Patients with Depression are at Increased Risk for Secondary Cardiovascular Events after Lower Extremity Revascularization
Gregory S. Cherr, Pamela M. Zimmerman, Jiping Wang, Hasan H. Dosluoglu
Tips for Teachers of Evidence-Based Medicine: Understanding Odds Ratios and Their Relationship to Risk Ratios
Kameshwar Prasad, Roman Jaeschke, Peter Wyer, Sheri Keitz, Gordon Guyatt
Renal Artery Embolism
Sheru Kansal, Myra Feldman, Stephen Cooksey, Susanj Patel
Live, Attenuated Varicella Zoster Vaccination of an Immunocompromised Patient
Kelly K. Curtis, Megan K. Connolly, Donald W. Northfelt
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the VA Health Care System: A Systematic Review
Somnath Saha, Michele Freeman, Joahd Toure, Kimberly M. Tippens, Christine Weeks, Said Ibrahim
Reducing Disparities Downstream: Prospects and Challenges
Peter Franks, Kevin Fiscella
Primary-care Clinician Perceptions of Racial Disparities in Diabetes Care
Thomas D. Sequist, John Z. Ayanian, Richard Marshall, Garret M. Fitzmaurice, Dana Gelb Safran
Transforming Clinical Practice to Eliminate Racial–Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare
Donna L. Washington, Jacqueline Bowles, Somnath Saha, Carol R. Horowitz, Sandra Moody-Ayers, Arleen F. Brown, Valerie E. Stone, Lisa A. Cooper
Racial Differences in Blood Pressure Control: Potential Explanatory Factors
Hayden B. Bosworth, Benjamin Powers, Janet M. Grubber, Carolyn T. Thorpe, Maren K. Olsen, Melinda Orr, Eugene Z. Oddone
Racial Segregation and Disparities in Cancer Stage for Seniors
Jennifer S. Haas, Craig C. Earle, John E. Orav, Phyllis Brawarsky, Bridget A. Neville, David R. Williams
The Future of Health Disparities Research: 2008 and Beyond
Leonard E. Egede, Hayden Bosworth