BRENDA SIROVICH

Summary

Affiliation: Dartmouth Medical School
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Screening men for prostate and colorectal cancer in the United States: does practice reflect the evidence?
    Brenda E Sirovich
    VA Outcomes Group, 111B, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, White River Junction, VT 05009, USA
    JAMA 289:1414-20. 2003
  2. ncbi Discretionary decision making by primary care physicians and the cost of U.S. Health care
    BRENDA SIROVICH
    Outcomes Group, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, White River Junction, Vermont, USA
    Health Aff (Millwood) 27:813-23. 2008
  3. ncbi Regional variations in health care intensity and physician perceptions of quality of care
    Brenda E Sirovich
    Veterans Affairs Medical Center Outcomes Group, White River Junction, Vermont 05009, USA
    Ann Intern Med 144:641-9. 2006
  4. ncbi Too Little? Too Much? Primary care physicians' views on US health care: a brief report
    Brenda E Sirovich
    VA Outcomes Group, 111B, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 215 N Main St, White River Junction, VT 05009, USA
    Arch Intern Med 171:1582-5. 2011
  5. ncbi Variation in the tendency of primary care physicians to intervene
    Brenda E Sirovich
    VA Outcomes Group, White River Junction, VT 05009, USA
    Arch Intern Med 165:2252-6. 2005
  6. ncbi Screening for cervical cancer: will women accept less?
    Brenda E Sirovich
    VA Outcomes Group, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, White River Junction, Vermont 05009, USA
    Am J Med 118:151-8. 2005
  7. ncbi Cervical cancer screening among women without a cervix
    Brenda E Sirovich
    VA Outcomes Group, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, White River Junction, VT, USA
    JAMA 291:2990-3. 2004
  8. ncbi The frequency of Pap smear screening in the United States
    Brenda E Sirovich
    VA Outcomes Group 111B, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, White River Junction, VT 50009, USA
    J Gen Intern Med 19:243-50. 2004
  9. ncbi The burden of prevention: downstream consequences of Pap smear testing in the elderly
    B E Sirovich
    White River Junction VA Hospital, Vermont, and Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
    J Med Screen 10:189-95. 2003
  10. ncbi Esophageal adenocarcinoma incidence: are we reaching the peak?
    Heiko Pohl
    The VA Outcomes Group, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, White River Junction, Vermont 05009, USA
    Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 19:1468-70. 2010

Detail Information

Publications12

  1. ncbi Screening men for prostate and colorectal cancer in the United States: does practice reflect the evidence?
    Brenda E Sirovich
    VA Outcomes Group, 111B, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, White River Junction, VT 05009, USA
    JAMA 289:1414-20. 2003
    ..If practice were evidence-based, PSA screening would be less common among men than colorectal cancer screening, a preventive service of broad acceptance and proven efficacy...
  2. ncbi Discretionary decision making by primary care physicians and the cost of U.S. Health care
    BRENDA SIROVICH
    Outcomes Group, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, White River Junction, Vermont, USA
    Health Aff (Millwood) 27:813-23. 2008
    ..Greater attention should be paid to the local factors that influence physicians' clinical judgment in discretionary settings...
  3. ncbi Regional variations in health care intensity and physician perceptions of quality of care
    Brenda E Sirovich
    Veterans Affairs Medical Center Outcomes Group, White River Junction, Vermont 05009, USA
    Ann Intern Med 144:641-9. 2006
    ....
  4. ncbi Too Little? Too Much? Primary care physicians' views on US health care: a brief report
    Brenda E Sirovich
    VA Outcomes Group, 111B, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 215 N Main St, White River Junction, VT 05009, USA
    Arch Intern Med 171:1582-5. 2011
    ..The views of primary care physicians-the frontline of health care delivery-are not known...
  5. ncbi Variation in the tendency of primary care physicians to intervene
    Brenda E Sirovich
    VA Outcomes Group, White River Junction, VT 05009, USA
    Arch Intern Med 165:2252-6. 2005
    ..We sought to measure the tendency of primary care physicians to intervene across regions that differ in their levels of local health care spending...
  6. ncbi Screening for cervical cancer: will women accept less?
    Brenda E Sirovich
    VA Outcomes Group, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, White River Junction, Vermont 05009, USA
    Am J Med 118:151-8. 2005
    ..We sought to describe the attitudes of women in the United States toward less intense screening, specifically, less frequent screening and eventual cessation of screening...
  7. ncbi Cervical cancer screening among women without a cervix
    Brenda E Sirovich
    VA Outcomes Group, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, White River Junction, VT, USA
    JAMA 291:2990-3. 2004
    ..In 1996, the US Preventive Services Task Force recommended that routine Papanicolaou (Pap) smear screening is unnecessary for these women...
  8. ncbi The frequency of Pap smear screening in the United States
    Brenda E Sirovich
    VA Outcomes Group 111B, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, White River Junction, VT 50009, USA
    J Gen Intern Med 19:243-50. 2004
    ..There are no data, however, regarding the frequency at which women actually undergo screening...
  9. ncbi The burden of prevention: downstream consequences of Pap smear testing in the elderly
    B E Sirovich
    White River Junction VA Hospital, Vermont, and Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
    J Med Screen 10:189-95. 2003
    ..Context: Although cervical cancer is an unusual cause of death among women 65 and older, most elderly women in the US report continuing to undergo periodic Pap smear screening...
  10. ncbi Esophageal adenocarcinoma incidence: are we reaching the peak?
    Heiko Pohl
    The VA Outcomes Group, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, White River Junction, Vermont 05009, USA
    Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 19:1468-70. 2010
    ..A steep increase in the incidence of esophageal adenocarcinoma has been observed between 1973 and 2001, but recent trends have not been reported. Our aim was to examine recent trends in esophageal adenocarcinoma incidence...
  11. ncbi Current antibiotic therapy for isolated urinary tract infections in women
    Alexander J Kallen
    VA Outcomes Group, VA Medical Center, White River Junction, VT 05009, USA
    Arch Intern Med 166:635-9. 2006
    ..However, increasing sulfa resistance among Escherichia coli may have led to changes in prescribing practices...
  12. ncbi Colorectal cancer risk following a negative colonoscopy
    Douglas J Robertson
    JAMA 296:2437; author reply 2437-8. 2006