Issue 7/2009
Content (24 Articles)
Primary Care Validation of a Single-Question Alcohol Screening Test
Peter C. Smith, Susan M. Schmidt, Donald Allensworth-Davies, Richard Saitz
Association Between Prior Experiences of Discrimination and Patients’ Attitudes Towards Health Care Providers Collecting Information About Race and Ethnicity
Namratha R. Kandula, Romana Hasnain-Wynia, Jason A. Thompson, E. Richard Brown, David W. Baker
Prescribers and Pharmaceutical Representatives: Why Are We Still Meeting?
Melissa A. Fischer, Mary Ellen Keough, Joann L. Baril, Laura Saccoccio, Kathleen M. Mazor, Elissa Ladd, Ann Von Worley, Jerry H. Gurwitz
Retrospective Analysis of Diabetes Care in California Medicaid Patients with Mental Illness
Jim E. Banta, Elaine H. Morrato, Scott W. Lee, Mark G. Haviland
Activation and Perceived Expectancies: Correlations with Health Outcomes Among Veterans with Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Gregory W. Munson, Kenneth A. Wallston, Robert S. Dittus, Theodore Speroff, Christianne L. Roumie
Physicians’ Decisions About Continuing or Stopping Colon Cancer Screening in the Elderly: A Qualitative Study
Carmen L. Lewis, Jennifer Griffith, Michael P. Pignone, Carol Golin
Guidelines for Genetic Risk Assessment of Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer: Early Disagreements and Low Utilization
Douglas E. Levy, Judy E. Garber, Alexandra E. Shields
Primary Care Physicians Treat Somatization
Robert C. Smith, Joseph C. Gardiner, Zhehui Luo, Susan Schooley, Lois Lamerato, Kathryn Rost
Relationship Between Organizational Factors and Performance Among Pay-for-Performance Hospitals
Ernest R. Vina, David C. Rhew, Scott R. Weingarten, Jason B. Weingarten, John T. Chang
Rising Inability to Obtain Needed Health Care Among Homeless Persons in Birmingham, Alabama (1995–2005)
Stefan G. Kertesz, Stephen W. Hwang, Jay Irwin, Ferris J. Ritchey, Mark E. LaGory
Pharmacological Management of Delirium in Hospitalized Adults – A Systematic Evidence Review
Noll Campbell, Malaz A. Boustani, Amir Ayub, George C. Fox, Stephanie L. Munger, Carol Ott, Oscar Guzman, Mark Farber, Adetayo Ademuyiwa, Ranjeet Singh
High Quality Care and Ethical Pay-for-Performance: A Society of General Internal Medicine Policy Analysis
J. Frank Wharam, Michael K. Paasche-Orlow, Neil J. Farber, Christine Sinsky, Lisa Rucker, Kimberly J. Rask, M. Kathleen Figaro, Clarence Braddock III, Michael J. Barry, Daniel P. Sulmasy
Filling the Gap: The Importance of Medicaid Continuity for Former Inmates
Sarah E. Wakeman, Margaret E. McKinney, Josiah D. Rich
Perioperative Medicine Update
Amir K. Jaffer, Gerald W. Smetana, Steven Cohn, Barbara Slawski
A Sore Throat—Potentially Life-Threatening?
Hai-Yan Li, Mandy Grubb, Mukta Panda, Roger Jones
Brief Approaches to Alcohol Screening: Practical Alternatives for Primary Care
Katharine A. Bradley, Daniel R. Kivlahan, Emily C. Williams
The Risks of Rewards in Health Care: How Pay-for-performance Could Threaten, or Bolster, Medical Professionalism
Matthew K. Wynia
The SGIM Policy Analysis: Supporting the Generalist Voice for Participation in Policymaking
Lisa V. Rubenstein, Nancy A. Rigotti
PHQ-9 and PHQ-2 in Western Kenya
James C. Coyne, Brett D. Thombs, Alex J. Mitchell