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| Nancy L SohlerSummaryAffiliation: City University of New York Country: USA Publications
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Type and pattern of illicit drug use and access to health care services for HIV-infected peopleNancy L Sohler
Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education, City College of New York, New York, New York 10031, USA
AIDS Patient Care STDS 21:S68-76. 2007..We conclude that health care utilization is poorer for people who use illicit drugs than those who do not, and stopping drug use may facilitate improvements in health care utilization and HIV outcomes for this population...
Factors associated with complicated buprenorphine inductionsSusan D Whitley
New York University School of Medicine and Bellevue Hospital Center, New York, NY 10016, USA
J Subst Abuse Treat 39:51-7. 2010..Findings from this study and further investigation of patient characteristics and treatment characteristics associated with complicated inductions can help guide buprenorphine treatment strategies...
Gender disparities in HIV health care utilization among the severely disadvantaged: can we determine the reasons?Nancy L Sohler
Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education of the City College of New York, Department of Community Health and Social Medicine, New York, NY, USA
AIDS Patient Care STDS 23:775-83. 2009..Development of intervention strategies that specifically target severely disadvantaged women's HIV health care utilization is in great need...- Does self-report data on HIV primary care utilization agree with medical record data for socially marginalized populations in the United States?Nancy L Sohler
Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education, City College of New York, New York, NY 10031, USA
AIDS Patient Care STDS 23:837-43. 2009..g., CD4 counts), or incorporation of rigorous measures to increase reliability of self-report data may be needed. Limitations of this study include the lack of a true gold standard with which to compare self-report data... - Home- versus office-based buprenorphine inductions for opioid-dependent patientsNancy L Sohler
Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education, Community Health and Social Medicine, City College of the City University of New York, NY 10031, USA
J Subst Abuse Treat 38:153-9. 2010..We conclude that opioid dependence can be successfully managed in the primary care setting. Approaches that encourage patient involvement in treatment for opioid dependence can be beneficial... - Assessment of a medical outreach program to improve access to HIV care among marginalized individualsChinazo O Cunningham
Division of General Internal Medicine and Department of Family and Social Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY 10467, USA
Am J Public Health 97:1758-61. 2007..38; 95% CI = 1.05, 1.80; same-day appointments: AOR = 1.70; 95% CI = 1.03, 2.81). These findings demonstrate the importance of program-related characteristics in health services delivery to marginalized populations... - Income inequality and infant mortality in New York CityNancy L Sohler
Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Bronx, New York, USA
J Urban Health 80:650-7. 2003..This finding has important implications for public health practice and social epidemiological research in large urban areas, which face significant disparities both in health and in social and economic conditions... - Gaps in use of antipsychotics after discharge by first-admission patients with schizophrenia, 1989 to 1996Ramin Mojtabai
Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, USA
Psychiatr Serv 53:337-9. 2002.... - Medical and support service utilization in a medical program targeting marginalized HIV-infected individualsChinazo O Cunningham
Medicine and Family and Social Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10467, USA
J Health Care Poor Underserved 19:981-90. 2008..We developed a program that delivers HIV medical care and support services to marginalized people, and evaluated the association between support and medical services utilization... - Living with HIV but without medical care: barriers to engagementCarol R Tobias
Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
AIDS Patient Care STDS 21:426-34. 2007..Interventions to engage people in HIV medical care need to address barriers to care through linkages with mental health, substance abuse treatment and support services, and address the health beliefs that deter people from seeking care... - Utilization of health care services in hard-to-reach marginalized HIV-infected individualsChinazo O Cunningham
Montefiore Medical Center Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10467, USA
AIDS Patient Care STDS 21:177-86. 2007..These findings support HIV multidisciplinary care with marginalized populations. Understanding factors associated with health care utilization is essential for outreach programs to facilitate engagement in HIV care... - Health services utilization for people with HIV infection: comparison of a population targeted for outreach with the U.S. population in careWilliam E Cunningham
Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, Department of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
Med Care 44:1038-47. 2006..However, these hard-to-reach groups are important to study because they may be in greatest need of services... - Type of substance use and access to HIV-related health careChinazo O Cunningham
Montefiore Medical Center Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10467, USA
AIDS Patient Care STDS 20:399-407. 2006..It is important that clinicians and researchers working with substance-using populations understand how specific types of substance use differentially impact on health care... - Health care access and utilization patterns in unstably housed HIV-infected individuals in New York CityChinazo O Cunningham
Montefiore Medical Center Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10467 1005, USA
AIDS Patient Care STDS 19:690-5. 2005..These patterns of high levels of access to and utilization of health care services contradict clinical experiences and other studies, and require further exploration... - Barriers to obtaining waivers to prescribe buprenorphine for opioid addiction treatment among HIV physiciansChinazo O Cunningham
Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10467, USA
J Gen Intern Med 22:1325-9. 2007..Buprenorphine enables physicians to simultaneously treat HIV and opioid dependence, offering opportunities to improve health outcomes. Despite this, few physicians prescribe buprenorphine... - A comparison of HIV health services utilization measures in a marginalized population: self-report versus medical recordsChinazo O Cunningham
Montefiore Medical Center Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10467, USA
Med Care 45:264-8. 2007..Agreement between a subject's self-reports and medical records in marginalized populations is uncertain, yet important to understand, as this population is disproportionately affected by HIV... - Attending physicians' and residents' attitudes and beliefs about prescribing buprenorphine at an urban teaching hospitalChinazo O Cunningham
Montefiore Medical Center Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10467, USA
Fam Med 38:336-40. 2006..Physicians can now prescribe buprenorphine for opioid dependency in the primary care setting. This study assessed primary care providers' attitudes and beliefs about opioid addiction treatment with buprenorphine...