Articles
Family medicine residency characteristics associated with practice in a health professions shortage area (with Warren J. Ferguson, Suzanne B. Cashman, and Daniel H. Lasser), Family medicine (2009)
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: While some family medicine residency programs are designed to train residents...
Symptoms of diminished autonomy over cigarettes with non-daily use (with Paul D. Mowery and Joseph R. DiFranza), International journal of environmental research and public health (2009)
Data from a nationally representative sample of smokers (ages 12-22 years, n=2,091) was examined to...
Enforcement of underage sales laws as a predictor of daily smoking among adolescents: a national study (with Joseph R. DiFranza and Kenneth E. Fletcher), BMC public health (2009)
BACKGROUND: With a goal to reduce youth smoking rates, the U.S. federal government mandated...
Community dimensions and HPSA practice location: 30 years of family medicine training (with Suzanne B. Cashman, Warren J. Ferguson, and Daniel H. Lasser), Family medicine (2009)
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Our objective was to assess practicing family physicians' confidence and participation...
Improving the health of diabetic patients through resident-initiated group visits (with Chris Wheelock, Hugh Silk, and Scott Lee), Family medicine (2009)
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Group visits have the potential to benefit patients with chronic illnesses....
Lesson in a pill box: teaching about the challenges of medication adherence (with Darlene M. O'Connor, David B. Centerbar, Kimberly N. Wamback, Jennifer S. Ingle, and Nicole J. Lomerson), Family medicine (2009)
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Medication mismanagement is a serious health issue affecting elders and people...
The primary care physician workforce in Massachusetts: implications for the workforce in rural, small town America (with Joseph Stenger and Suzanne B. Cashman), The Journal of rural health : official journal of the American Rural Health Association and the National Rural Health Care Association (2008)
CONTEXT: Small towns across the United States struggle to maintain an adequate primary care...
Development of a brief questionnaire to identify families in need of legal advocacy to improve child health (with David Keller, Nathan Jones, and Suzanne B. Cashman), Ambulatory pediatrics : the official journal of the Ambulatory Pediatric Association (2008)
OBJECTIVE: To determine whether the medical-legal advocacy screening questionnaire (MASQ), a simple 10-item questionnaire,...
Factors associated with retirement-related job lock in older workers with recent occupational injury (with Katy L. Benjamin and Glenn S. Pransky), Disability and rehabilitation (2008)
PURPOSES: Job lock (inability to leave a job due to financial or benefits needs)...
A shift in referral patterns for HIV/AIDS patients. (with Phillip O. Fournier and Robert A. Baldor), The Journal of family practice (2008)
PURPOSE: With the rapid development (and complex prescribing patterns) of drugs for HIV/AIDS care, it...
Understanding the role of sex differences in work injuries: implications for primary care practice. (with Leslie R. Harrold, Glenn S. Pransky, and Katy L. Benjamin), Disability and rehabilitation (2008)
PURPOSE: Primary care physicians care for work-injured women and men, yet there is little information...
Susceptibility to nicotine dependence: the Development and Assessment of Nicotine Dependence in Youth 2 study (with Joseph R. DiFranza, Kenneth E. Fletcher, Lori Pbert, Jennifer L. O'Loughlin, Ann D. McNeill, Judith K. Ockene, Karen Friedman, Jennifer Hazelton, Constance Wood, Gretchen Dussault, and Robert J. Wellman), Pediatrics (2007)
OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this work was to identify characteristics that predict progression from the...
Symptoms of tobacco dependence after brief intermittent use: the Development and Assessment of Nicotine Dependence in Youth-2 study (with Joseph R. DiFranza, Kenneth E. Fletcher, Jennifer L. O'Loughlin, Lori Pbert, Judith K. Ockene, Ann D. McNeill, Jennifer Hazelton, Karen Friedman, Gretchen Dussault, Constance Wood, and Robert J. Wellman), Archives of pediatrics and adolescent medicine (2007)
OBJECTIVE: To extend the findings of the first Development and Assessment of Nicotine Dependence in...
Symptoms of tobacco dependence after brief intermittent use: the Development and Assessment of Nicotine Dependence in Youth-2 study. (with Joseph R. DiFranza, Kenneth E. Fletcher, Jennifer L. O'Loughlin, Lori Pbert, Judith K. Ockene, Ann D. McNeill, Jennifer Hazelton, Karen Friedman, Gretchen Dussault, Constance Wood, and Robert J. Wellman), Archives of pediatrics & adolescent medicine (2007)
OBJECTIVE: To extend the findings of the first Development and Assessment of Nicotine Dependence in...
Clinical health information technologies and the role of medicaid (with Shaun T. Alfreds, Michael A. Tutty, Scott Young, and Jay S. Himmelstein), Health care financing review (2007)
Clinical health information technologies (HIT) are widely viewed as essential tools for improving the quality...
The visiting specialist model of rural health care delivery: a survey in Massachusetts (with Jacob Drew, Suzanne B. Cashman, and Joseph Stenger), The Journal of rural health : official journal of the American Rural Health Association and the National Rural Health Care Association (2006)
CONTEXT: Hospitals in rural communities may seek to increase specialty care access by establishing clinics...
A comparison of the Hooked on Nicotine Checklist and the Fagerstrom Test for Nicotine Dependence in adult smokers (with Robert J. Wellman, Sameer Godiwala, Noelle Savageau, Karen Friedman, Jennifer Hazelton, and Joseph R. DiFranza), Nicotine and tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (2006)
Diminished autonomy is a core feature common to all forms of dependence involving drugs or...
Primary care provider concerns about management of chronic pain in community clinic populations (with Carole C. Upshur and Roger S. Luckmann), Journal of general internal medicine : official journal of the Society for Research and Education in Primary Care Internal Medicine (2006)
BACKGROUND: Chronic pain is a common patient complaint in primary care, yet providers and patients...
Effect of a global longitudinal pathway on medical students' attitudes toward the medically indigent (with Michael A. Godkin and Kenneth E. Fletcher), Teaching and learning in medicine (2006)
BACKGROUND: The increase in people with insufficient health insurance has largely been fueled by a...
Characteristics of frequent attenders at a community health center (with Martha McLoughlin, Alina Ursan, Yan Bai, Matthew J. Collins, and Suzanne B. Cashman), Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFM (2006)
BACKGROUND: As high utilizers of health care resources, frequent attenders to medical practices pose a...
Prediction of successful voiding immediately after outpatient mid-urethral sling (with Kenneth I. Barron, Stephen B. Young, Lisa C. Labin, and Abraham N. Morse), International urogynecology journal and pelvic floor dysfunction (2006)
We set out to identify predictors of successful voiding immediately after outpatient mid-urethral sling. The...
Factors affecting the organizational responses of employers to workers with injuries (with Yueng-Hsiang Huang, Glenn S. Pransky, William S. Shaw, and Katy L. Benjamin), Work (Reading, Mass.) (2005)
The organizational responses of employers to work-related injuries is one of several significant influences on...
The effect of abstinence on cigarette consumption upon the resumption of smoking (with Robert J. Wellman, Joseph R. DiFranza, Sameer Godiwala, Noelle Savageau, Karen Friedman, and Jennifer Hazelton), Addictive behaviors (2005)
To study the impact of abstinence on the number of cigarettes smoked per day upon...
Racial and ethnic variations in office-based medical care for work-related injuries and illnesses (with Allard E. Dembe, Benjamin C. Amick III, and Steven M. Banks), Journal of the National Medical Association (2005)
OBJECTIVES: This exploratory study uses nationally representative data to evaluate the extent to which ambulatory...
Measuring adults' loss of autonomy over nicotine use: the Hooked on Nicotine Checklist (with Robert J. Wellman, Joseph R. DiFranza, Sameer Godiwala, Karen Friedman, and Jennifer Hazelton), Nicotine and tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (2005)
The Hooked on Nicotine Checklist (HONC) is a 10-item screening tool originally developed to assess...
Early retirement due to occupational injury: who is at risk (with Glenn S. Pransky and Katy L. Benjamin), American journal of industrial medicine (2005)
BACKGROUND: As the workforce is rapidly ageing, research on the consequences of occupational injuries in...
Health status of a low-income vulnerable population in a community health center (with Suzanne B. Cashman, Maureen McMullen, Rebecca Kinney, Celeste A. Lemay, and Frances Anthes), The Journal of ambulatory care management (2005)
Healthcare safety net providers are under increasing pressure to meet the physical and mental health--as...
Outcomes in work-related injuries: a comparison of older and younger workers (with Glenn S. Pransky, Katy L. Benjamin, Douglas Currivan, and Kenneth E. Fletcher), American journal of industrial medicine (2005)
BACKGROUND: The "graying of the workforce" has generated concerns about the physical capacity of older...
Effect of a low-cost intervention on recording body mass index in patients' records (with Celeste A. Lemay, Suzanne B. Cashman, and Patricia A. Reidy), Journal of nursing scholarship : an official publication of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing / Sigma Theta Tau (2005)
PURPOSE: Evaluate the effectiveness of body mass index (BMI) tables placed in exam rooms as...
Characteristics of patients at three free clinics (with Rachel Mott Keis, Linda Gifford DeGeus, and Suzanne B. Cashman), Journal of health care for the poor and underserved (2004)
This study examined factors associated with the use of three free clinics located in Central...
Patient health status and appointment keeping in an urban community health center (with Suzanne B. Cashman, Celeste A. Lemay, and Warren Ferguson), Journal of health care for the poor and underserved (2004)
This study examines the relationship between patient health status and the likelihood of missing appointments...
Suspected infant abuse: radiographic skeletal survey practices in pediatric health care facilities (with Patricia L. Kleinman and Paul K. Kleinman), Radiology (2004)
PURPOSE: To determine current national radiographic skeletal survey imaging practices, including migration to digital technologies,...
Short term patterns of early smoking acquisition (with Robert J. Wellman, Joseph R. DiFranza, and Gretchen Dussault), Tobacco control (2004)
OBJECTIVE: To describe short term patterns of smoking acquisition exhibited by adolescent smokers.
DESIGN: Interview...
Trait anxiety and nicotine dependence in adolescents: a report from the DANDY study (with Joseph R. DiFranza, Nancy A. Rigotti, Judith K. Ockene, Ann D. McNeill, Mardia A. Coleman, and Constance Wood), Addictive behaviors (2004)
The Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale (RCMAS) and the Hooked on Nicotine Checklist (HONC) were...
Recollections and repercussions of the first inhaled cigarette (with Joseph R. DiFranza, Kenneth E. Fletcher, Judith K. Ockene, Nancy A. Rigotti, Ann D. McNeill, Mardia A. Coleman, and Constance Wood), Addictive behaviors (2004)
CONTEXT: It has not been determined if a youth's reaction to the first smoking experience...
Generalist-subspecialist communication for children with chronic conditions: a regional physician survey (with Christopher J. Stille and William A. Primack), Pediatrics (2003)
OBJECTIVE: To identify target areas for interventions to improve communication between pediatric generalists (PCPs) and...
A randomized trial of telephone counseling to promote screening mammography in two HMOs (with Roger Luckmann, Lynn Clemow, Anne M. Stoddard, and Mary E. Costanza), Cancer detection and prevention (2003)
Tailored telephone counseling (TTC) is effective in increasing utilization of screening mammography, but has received...
Symptoms of nicotine dependence and other predictors of student smoking at school: implications for school smoking policy (with Elpidoforos S. Soteriades, Joseph R. DiFranza, and Michael Nicolaou), The Journal of school health (2003)
Students who violate school smoking policies present a difficult health and disciplinary issue for school...
The effect of medical students' international experiences on attitudes toward serving underserved multicultural populations (with Michael A. Godkin), Family medicine (2003)
BACKGROUND: We evaluated the effect of international electives on the attitudes of preclinical and clinical-year...
Underdiagnosis of obesity at a community health center (with Celeste A. Lemay, Suzanne B. Cashman, Kenneth E. Fletcher, Rebecca Kinney, and Ellen Long-Middleton), The Journal of the American Board of Family Practice / American Board of Family Practice (2003)
BACKGROUND: Obesity is at epidemic proportions. This study examined the extent to which obesity is...
Office-based medical care for work-related conditions: findings from the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, 1997-1998 (with Allard E. Dembe, Benjamin C. Amick III, and Steven M. Banks), Journal of occupational and environmental medicine / American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (2002)
Data from the 1997 and 1998 National Ambulatory Medical Care Surveys were analyzed to describe...
Development of symptoms of tobacco dependence in youths: 30 month follow up data from the DANDY study (with Joseph R. DiFranza, Nancy A. Rigotti, Kenneth E. Fletcher, Judith K. Ockene, Ann D. McNeill, Mardia A. Coleman, and Constance Wood), Tobacco control (2002)
OBJECTIVE: To determine if there is a minimum duration, frequency or quantity of tobacco use...
Measuring the loss of autonomy over nicotine use in adolescents: the DANDY (Development and Assessment of Nicotine Dependence in Youths) study (with Joseph R. DiFranza, Kenneth E. Fletcher, Judith K. Ockene, Nancy A. Rigotti, Ann D. McNeill, Mardia A. Coleman, and Constance Wood), Archives of pediatrics and adolescent medicine (2002)
CONTEXT: There is no validated, theory-based tool for assessing the onset of nicotine dependence. However,...
Is the standard compliance check protocol a valid measure of the accessibility of tobacco to underage smokers (with Joseph R. DiFranza and Joseph Bouchard), Tobacco control (2001)
OBJECTIVE: To determine if the standard compliance check protocol is a valid measure of the...
The effect of a global multiculturalism track on cultural competence of preclinical medical students (with Michael A. Godkin), Family medicine (2001)
BACKGROUND: We evaluated the effect of an elective (the Global Multiculturalism Track), including international and...
What is the potential cost-effectiveness of enforcing a prohibition on the sale of tobacco to minors (with Joseph R. DiFranza, Richard M. Peck, and Thomas E. Radecki), Preventive medicine (2001)
BACKGROUND. Enforcement programs to halt the sale of tobacco to youths have been implemented across...
Initial symptoms of nicotine dependence in adolescents (with Joseph R. DiFranza, Nancy A. Rigotti, Ann D. McNeill, Judith K. Ockene, Dorothy M. St. Cyr, and Mardia A. Coleman), Tobacco control (2000)
OBJECTIVES: It has been assumed that nicotine dependence has a slow onset and occurs only...
Determinants of counseling in primary care pediatric practice: physician attitudes about time, money, and health issues (with Tina L. Cheng, Thomas G. DeWitt, and Karen G. O'Connor), Archives of pediatrics and adolescent medicine (1999)
OBJECTIVES: To assess pediatrician goals and practice in preventive counseling, and to use social learning...
Differences in discharge medication after acute myocardial infarction in patients with HMO and fee-for-service medical insurance (with Danny McCormick, Jerry H. Gurwitz, Jorge L. Yarzebski, Joel M. Gore, and Robert J. Goldberg), Journal of general internal medicine : official journal of the Society for Research and Education in Primary Care Internal Medicine (1999)
OBJECTIVE: To assess the impact of fee-for-service (FFS) versus HMO medical insurance coverage on receipt...
Sex differences in symptom presentation associated with acute myocardial infarction: a population-based perspective (with Robert J. Goldberg, Caitlin O'Donnell, Jorge L. Yarzebski, Carol Bigelow, and Joel M. Gore), American heart journal (1998)
OBJECTIVES: To describe sex differences in symptom presentation after acute myocardial infarction (AMI) while controlling...
Prehospital delay in patients with acute coronary heart disease: concordance between patient interviews and medical records (with Robert J. Goldberg, Paul G. McGovern, Thomas Guggina, Wayne D. Rosamond, and Russell V. Luepker), American heart journal (1998)
Patient-associated delay in seeking medical care in the setting of acute coronary disease is assuming...
Use of lipid-lowering medication in patients with acute myocardial infarction (Worcester Heart Attack Study) (with Robert J. Goldberg, Ira S. Ockene, Jorge L. Yarzebski, and Joel M. Gore), The American journal of cardiology (1997)
As part of a population-based longitudinal study, we examined the use of lipid-lowering medication in...
Age-related trends (1986-1993) in the use of thrombolytic agents in patients with acute myocardial infarction. The Worcester Heart Attack Study (with Harish Chandra, Jorge L. Yarzebski, Robert J. Goldberg, Colleen Singleton, Jerry H. Gurwitz, and Joel M. Gore), Archives of internal medicine (1997)
OBJECTIVE: To examine age-related differences and temporal trends in the use of thrombolytic therapy in...
Health insurance coverage and outcome following acute myocardial infarction. A community-wide perspective (with Silvia Kreindel, Ronald Rosetti, Robert J. Goldberg, Jorge L. Yarzebski, Joel M. Gore, Arthur Russo, and Carol Bigelow), Archives of internal medicine (1997)
BACKGROUND: Several studies have suggested that type of medical insurance coverage is associated with hospital...
Assessing mothers' attitudes about the physician's role in child health promotion (with Tina L. Cheng, Carol Bigelow, Evan Charney, Sanjaya Kumar, and Thomas G. DeWitt), American journal of public health (1996)
OBJECTIVE: This study assessed maternal attitudes about the physician's role in child health promotion.
METHODS:...
Effect of elevated leukocyte count on in-hospital mortality following acute myocardial infarction (with Mark I. Furman, Richard C. Becker, Jorge L. Yarzebski, Joel M. Gore, and Robert J. Goldberg), The American journal of cardiology (1996)
The peripheral white blood cell count on presentation with acute myocardial infarction directly correlates with...
Expectations, goals, and perceived effectiveness of child health supervision: a study of mothers in a pediatric practice (with Tina L. Cheng, Thomas G. DeWitt, Carol Bigelow, and Evan Charney), Clinical pediatrics (1996)
The purpose of the study was to assess parent expectations and goals in child health...
Youth access to tobacco: the effects of age, gender, vending machine locks, and "it's the law" programs (with Joseph R. DiFranza and Bryan F. Aisquith), American journal of public health (1996)
OBJECTIVES. This study evaluated the influence of age, gender, vending machine lockout devices, and tobacco...
Gender differences and factors associated with the receipt of thrombolytic therapy in patients with acute myocardial infarction: a community-wide perspective (with Jorge L. Yarzebski, Nananda Col, Paul Pagley, Joel M. Gore, and Robert J. Goldberg), American heart journal (1996)
In spite of national interest in gender differences in the presentation and management of chronic...
Emergency department utilization in a large pediatric group practice (with D. MacKoul, M. Feldman, and A. Krumholz), American journal of medical quality : the official journal of the American College of Medical Quality (1995)
The effect of a triage and care system, which employs continued patient education, alternatives to...
Confidentiality in health care. A survey of knowledge, perceptions, and attitudes among high school students (with Tina L. Cheng, Ann L. Sattler, and Thomas G. DeWitt), JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association (1993)
OBJECTIVE--To assess adolescent knowledge, perceptions, and attitudes about health care confidentiality.
DESIGN--Anonymous self-report survey with...
Improving influenza vaccination rates in children with asthma: a test of a computerized reminder system and an analysis of factors predicting vaccination compliance (with Peter G. Szilagyi, Lance E. Rodewald, Lorrie Yoos, and Cynthia Doane), Pediatrics (1992)
Fewer than 10% of children with moderate or severe asthma receive an annual influenza vaccination...
Functional benefits following coronary artery bypass graft surgery (with Babette-Ann Stanton, C. David Jenkins, and Robert L. Thurer), The Annals of thoracic surgery (1984)
While some studies of patients who undergo cardiac surgery have included such outcome measures as...
Physical, psychologic, social, and economic outcomes after cardiac valve surgery (with C. David Jenkins, Babette-Ann Stanton, Ira S. Ockene, Philip Denlinger, and Michael D. Klein), Archives of internal medicine (1983)
Eighty-nine patients receiving cardiac valve replacement or surgery consisting of valve replacement and coronary artery...
Coronary artery bypass surgery. Physical, psychological, social, and economic outcomes six months later (with C. David Jenkins, Babette-Ann Stanton, Philip Denlinger, and Michael D. Klein), JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association (1983)
To evaluate the benefits of coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery, we interviewed and tested...
Correlates of angina pectoris among men awaiting coronary by-pass surgery (with C. David Jenkins, Babette-Ann Stanton, Michael D. Klein, and Dwight E. Harken), Psychosomatic medicine (1983)
Biomedical, behavioral, and psychological correlates of angina pectoris were identified in 204 men awaiting coronary...
Predictors of employment status after cardiac surgery (with Babette-Ann Stanton, C. David Jenkins, Philip Denlinger, Ronald M. Weintraub, and R. L. Goldstein), JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association (1983)
Preoperative predictors of postoperative employment status were studied in 228 patients (aged 25 to 64...
Neuropsychological dysfunction following elective cardiac operation. I. Early assessment (with Babette-Ann Stanton, C. David Jenkins, and Michael D. Klein), The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery (1982)
Two neuropsychological tests were administered to 227 men and women, ages 25 to 69 years,...
Neuropsychological dysfunction following elective cardiac operation. II. A six-month reassessment (with Babette-Ann Stanton, C. David Jenkins, and Robert W. Frater), The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery (1982)
Three neuropsychological tests were administered to 245 men and women, ages 25 to 69 years,...