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| Kimberly S H YarnallSummaryAffiliation: Duke University Medical Center Country: USA Publications
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Use of email in a family practice setting: opportunities and challenges in patient- and physician-initiated communicationAyaz Virji
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BMC Med 4:18. 2006..Electronic mail (email) has the potential to improve communication between physicians and patients...- Family physicians as team leaders: "time" to share the careKimberly S H Yarnall
Department of Community and Family Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
Prev Chronic Dis 6:A59. 2009..The creation of primary care teams that include members such as physician assistants, nurse practitioners, dietitians, health educators, and lay coaches is important to meeting patients' primary care needs... - Primary care: is there enough time for prevention?Kimberly S H Yarnall
Department of Community and Family Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
Am J Public Health 93:635-41. 2003..We sought to determine the amount of time required for a primary care physician to provide recommended preventive services to an average patient panel... 
Factors associated with condom use among at-risk women students and nonstudents seen in managed careKimberly S H Yarnall
Department of Community and Family Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
Prev Med 37:163-70. 2003..Sexually transmitted diseases (STD) research has focused on high-risk populations such as STD clinic patients and college students. This report examines predictors of unprotected sex among nonstudent women seen in primary care...- Estimated time spent on preventive services by primary care physiciansKathryn I Pollak
Department of Community and Family Medicine, Duke University Medical Center
BMC Health Serv Res 8:245. 2008..Delivery of preventive health services in primary care is lacking. One of the main barriers is lack of time. We estimated the amount of time primary care physicians spend on important preventive health services... - Influence of stereotyping in smoking cessation counseling by primary care residentsKathryn I Pollak
Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center, Cancer Prevention, Detection and Control Research Program, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27710 2949, USA
Ethn Dis 12:578-85. 2002..Future research on the role of stereotyping in medical settings is warranted... - Alternative models for academic family practicesJ Lloyd Michener
Department of Community and Family Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, USA
BMC Health Serv Res 6:38. 2006..Alternative models for academic family practices that are economically viable and consistent with the principles of family medicine are needed. This article presents several "experiments" to address these challenges... - Is there time for management of patients with chronic diseases in primary care?Truls Østbye
Department of Community and Family Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
Ann Fam Med 3:209-14. 2005..Despite the availability of national practice guidelines, many patients fail to receive recommended chronic disease care. Physician time constraints in primary care are likely one cause... - Just for Us: an academic medical center-community partnership to maintain the health of a frail low-income senior populationSusan D Yaggy
Division of Community Health, Department of Community and Family Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Box 2914, Durham, NC 27710, USA
Gerontologist 46:271-6. 2006..To promote health and maintain independence, Just for Us provides financially sustainable, in-home, integrated care to medically fragile, low-income seniors and disabled adults living in subsidized housing... - Pain predicts non-adherence to pap smear screening among middle-aged African American womenCathrine Hoyo
Department of Community and Family Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Box 2914, Durham, NC 27710, USA
Prev Med 41:439-45. 2005..Middle-aged African American women have the highest incidence and mortality of invasive cervical cancer in the United States and the lowest adherence to pap smear screening... - Reproducibility of self-reported pap test utilization in middle-aged African-American womenCathrine Hoyo
Department of Community and Family Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA
Ethn Dis 15:84-9. 2005..Not using self-reports to base clinic decisions may still be prudent among those with less education... - Risk classification of adult primary care patients by self-reported quality of lifeGeorge R Parkerson
Department of Community and Family Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA
Med Care 43:189-93. 2005..Although patient-reported health-related quality of life (HRQOL) is known to predict health services utilization, most risk assessment systems use provider-reported diagnoses as predictors rather than HRQOL... - Factors associated with patient-recalled smoking cessation advice in a low-income clinicKathryn I Pollak
Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center, Cancer Prevention, Detection and Control Research Program, Durham, North Carolina 27710-2949, USA
J Natl Med Assoc 94:354-63. 2002..Future studies should address the dynamics of patient-provider communication about smoking cessation, especially in populations that include ethnically diverse patients...