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BACKGROUND: The "graying of the workforce" has generated concerns about the physical capacity of older...
While some studies of patients who undergo cardiac surgery have included such outcome measures as...
Students who violate school smoking policies present a difficult health and disciplinary issue for school...
CONTEXT: There is no validated, theory-based tool for assessing the onset of nicotine dependence. However,...
This study examined factors associated with the use of three free clinics located in Central...
This study examines the relationship between patient health status and the likelihood of missing appointments...
Preoperative predictors of postoperative employment status were studied in 228 patients (aged 25 to 64...
BACKGROUND: The increase in people with insufficient health insurance has largely been fueled by a...
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BACKGROUND: We evaluated the effect of international electives on the attitudes of preclinical and clinical-year...
OBJECTIVES: To assess pediatrician goals and practice in preventive counseling, and to use social learning...
BACKGROUND: Chronic pain is a common patient complaint in primary care, yet providers and patients...
OBJECTIVE: This study assessed maternal attitudes about the physician's role in child health promotion.
METHODS:...
The purpose of the study was to assess parent expectations and goals in child health...
PURPOSE: Evaluate the effectiveness of body mass index (BMI) tables placed in exam rooms as...
Eighty-nine patients receiving cardiac valve replacement or surgery consisting of valve replacement and coronary artery...
OBJECTIVE: To identify target areas for interventions to improve communication between pediatric generalists (PCPs) and...
Healthcare safety net providers are under increasing pressure to meet the physical and mental health--as...
BACKGROUND: Obesity is at epidemic proportions. This study examined the extent to which obesity is...
OBJECTIVE--To assess adolescent knowledge, perceptions, and attitudes about health care confidentiality.
DESIGN--Anonymous self-report survey with...
To evaluate the benefits of coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery, we interviewed and tested...
BACKGROUND: We evaluated the effect of an elective (the Global Multiculturalism Track), including international and...
BACKGROUND: As the workforce is rapidly ageing, research on the consequences of occupational injuries in...
The organizational responses of employers to work-related injuries is one of several significant influences on...
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Medication mismanagement is a serious health issue affecting elders and people...
The effect of a triage and care system, which employs continued patient education, alternatives to...
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Group visits have the potential to benefit patients with chronic illnesses....
BACKGROUND. Enforcement programs to halt the sale of tobacco to youths have been implemented across...
Fewer than 10% of children with moderate or severe asthma receive an annual influenza vaccination...
BACKGROUND: Several studies have suggested that type of medical insurance coverage is associated with hospital...
The Hooked on Nicotine Checklist (HONC) is a 10-item screening tool originally developed to assess...
The Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale (RCMAS) and the Hooked on Nicotine Checklist (HONC) were...
Clinical health information technologies (HIT) are widely viewed as essential tools for improving the quality...
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Our objective was to assess practicing family physicians' confidence and participation...
CONTEXT: It has not been determined if a youth's reaction to the first smoking experience...
OBJECTIVE: To determine whether the medical-legal advocacy screening questionnaire (MASQ), a simple 10-item questionnaire,...
OBJECTIVE: To determine if there is a minimum duration, frequency or quantity of tobacco use...
Tailored telephone counseling (TTC) is effective in increasing utilization of screening mammography, but has received...
Patient-associated delay in seeking medical care in the setting of acute coronary disease is assuming...
OBJECTIVE: To extend the findings of the first Development and Assessment of Nicotine Dependence in...
Diminished autonomy is a core feature common to all forms of dependence involving drugs or...
OBJECTIVES. This study evaluated the influence of age, gender, vending machine lockout devices, and tobacco...
We set out to identify predictors of successful voiding immediately after outpatient mid-urethral sling. The...
Two neuropsychological tests were administered to 227 men and women, ages 25 to 69 years,...
In spite of national interest in gender differences in the presentation and management of chronic...
Data from the 1997 and 1998 National Ambulatory Medical Care Surveys were analyzed to describe...
PURPOSE: Primary care physicians care for work-injured women and men, yet there is little information...
OBJECTIVES: This exploratory study uses nationally representative data to evaluate the extent to which ambulatory...
PURPOSE: With the rapid development (and complex prescribing patterns) of drugs for HIV/AIDS care, it...
Data from a nationally representative sample of smokers (ages 12-22 years, n=2,091) was examined to...
BACKGROUND: With a goal to reduce youth smoking rates, the U.S. federal government mandated...
OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this work was to identify characteristics that predict progression from the...
BACKGROUND: As high utilizers of health care resources, frequent attenders to medical practices pose a...
OBJECTIVE: To describe short term patterns of smoking acquisition exhibited by adolescent smokers.
DESIGN: Interview...
OBJECTIVE: To determine if the standard compliance check protocol is a valid measure of the...
OBJECTIVES: It has been assumed that nicotine dependence has a slow onset and occurs only...
OBJECTIVE: To assess the impact of fee-for-service (FFS) versus HMO medical insurance coverage on receipt...
CONTEXT: Small towns across the United States struggle to maintain an adequate primary care...
CONTEXT: Hospitals in rural communities may seek to increase specialty care access by establishing clinics...
To study the impact of abstinence on the number of cigarettes smoked per day upon...
Biomedical, behavioral, and psychological correlates of angina pectoris were identified in 204 men awaiting coronary...
PURPOSES: Job lock (inability to leave a job due to financial or benefits needs)...
OBJECTIVE: To examine age-related differences and temporal trends in the use of thrombolytic therapy in...
OBJECTIVES: To describe sex differences in symptom presentation after acute myocardial infarction (AMI) while controlling...
The peripheral white blood cell count on presentation with acute myocardial infarction directly correlates with...
As part of a population-based longitudinal study, we examined the use of lipid-lowering medication in...
PURPOSE: To determine current national radiographic skeletal survey imaging practices, including migration to digital technologies,...
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: While some family medicine residency programs are designed to train residents...
Three neuropsychological tests were administered to 245 men and women, ages 25 to 69 years,...