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| W E BarlowSummaryAffiliation: Group Health Cooperative Country: USA Publications
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The risk of seizures after receipt of whole-cell pertussis or measles, mumps, and rubella vaccineW E Barlow
Immunization Studies Program, Center for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative, Seattle, WA 98101-1448, USA
N Engl J Med 345:656-61. 2001....- Performance of diagnostic mammography for women with signs or symptoms of breast cancerWilliam E Barlow
W E Barlow, Center for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative, Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle 98101 1448, USA
J Natl Cancer Inst 94:1151-9. 2002..We evaluated whether age, breast density, self-reported breast lump, and previous mammography influence the performance of diagnostic mammography... - Cost comparison of mastectomy versus breast-conserving therapy for early-stage breast cancerW E Barlow
Center for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative, Seattle, WA 98101 1448, USA
J Natl Cancer Inst 93:447-55. 2001..We compared the costs of all medical care for women with early-stage breast cancer cases treated by breast-conserving therapy (BCT) or mastectomy... - Bone mineral density and endogenous hormones and risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women (United States)D S Buist
Center for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
Cancer Causes Control 12:213-22. 2001.... - Bone mineral density in women using depot medroxyprogesterone acetate for contraceptionD Scholes
Center for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound, Seattle, Washington 98101, USA
Obstet Gynecol 93:233-8. 1999..To evaluate the possible effects of depot medroxyprogesterone acetate injectable contraception on bone mineral density in reproductive-age women... - Depressive symptoms in users and non-users of depot medroxyprogesterone acetateD Civic
Center for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound, Seattle, Washington 98101, USA
Contraception 61:385-90. 2000..Our prospective analyses found an association between DMPA use and depressive symptoms but further research is needed to determine whether the relationship is causal... - Testing reminder and motivational telephone calls to increase screening mammography: a randomized studyS H Taplin
Department of Family Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
J Natl Cancer Inst 92:233-42. 2000..To better understand the effects of motivational calls and to maximize adherence, we conducted a randomized trial among women aged 50-79 years... - Hormone replacement therapy after a diagnosis of breast cancer in relation to recurrence and mortalityE S O'Meara
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
J Natl Cancer Inst 93:754-62. 2001..In this study, we sought to evaluate the impact of HRT on recurrence and mortality after a diagnosis of breast cancer... - Effects of contraceptive use on bone biochemical markers in young womenS M Ott
Departments of Medicine, University of Washington, and the Center for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound, Seattle, Washington 98195-6426, USA
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 86:179-85. 2001..086 +/- 0.085 g/cm(2) in the DMPA group, 1.103 +/- 0.095 g/cm(2) in the oral contraceptive group, and 1.093 +/- 0.090 g/cm(2) in nonusers (P = 0.051). The results suggest that in women using DMPA bone resorption exceeded bone formation... 
Formal education and back pain: a reviewC E Dionne
Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
J Epidemiol Community Health 55:455-68. 2001....- Bone mineral density and breast cancer risk in postmenopausal womenD S Buist
Center for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
J Clin Epidemiol 54:417-22. 2001..9 (1.1, 3.2), 1.5 (0.8, 2.6), and 1.5 (0.8, 2.7), respectively. An examination of other factors important in determining BMD may help explain the positive association between BMD and breast cancer... - Exercise and activity level in Alzheimer's disease: a potential treatment focusL Teri
Department of Psychosocial and Community Health, University of Washington, Seattle 98195 7263, USA
J Rehabil Res Dev 35:411-9. 1998..Further research is currently underway to determine the efficacy of this approach for reducing additional physical disability in these individuals... - Does litigation influence medical practice? The influence of community radiologists' medical malpractice perceptions and experience on screening mammographyJoann G Elmore
Dept of Internal Medicine, Univ of Washington School of Medicine, Harborview Medical Ctr, 325 Ninth Ave, Box 359780, Seattle, WA 98104 2499, USA
Radiology 236:37-46. 2005..To assess the relationship between radiologists' perception of and experience with medical malpractice and their patient-recall rates in actual community-based clinical settings... - Mammographers' perception of women's breast cancer riskJoseph R Egger
Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, WA 98104-2499, USA
Med Decis Making 25:283-9. 2005..However, only age was statistically significant. No association was found between radiologists' risk estimate and their recall rate. CONCLUSION: U.S. radiologists have a heightened perception of breast cancer risk... - Current realities of delivering mammography services in the community: do challenges with staffing and scheduling exist?Carl D'Orsi
Breast Imaging Center, Dept of Radiology, Emory Univ, W C I Building, 1701 Uppergate Drive, Suite C1104, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Radiology 235:391-5. 2005..To evaluate the current (2001-2002) capacity of community-based mammography facilities to deliver screening and diagnostic services in the United States... - Re: Breast cancer screening comes full circleStephen H Taplin
J Natl Cancer Inst 97:461. 2005 - Breast cancer yield for screening mammographic examinations with recommendation for short-interval follow-upKarla Kerlikowske
Dept of Medicine and Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Univ of California, San Francisco, CA 94121, USA
Radiology 234:684-92. 2005..To compare cancer yield for screening examinations with recommendation for short-interval follow-up after diagnostic imaging work-up versus after screening mammography only... - Change in bone mineral density among adolescent women using and discontinuing depot medroxyprogesterone acetate contraceptionDelia Scholes
Center for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative, Seattle, Wash 98101, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 159:139-44. 2005..Adolescents, who are still gaining bone, may be particularly affected, but there has been little study of the association in adolescent users and none following discontinuation... - Association between mammography timing and measures of screening performance in the United StatesBonnie C Yankaskas
Department of Radiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, CB 7515, 106 Mason Farm Rd, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 7515, USA
Radiology 234:363-73. 2005..S. community-based screening mammography... - Efficacy of breast cancer screening in the community according to risk levelJoann G Elmore
School of Medicine, Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
J Natl Cancer Inst 97:1035-43. 2005..The efficacy of breast cancer screening in the community may differ from that suggested by the results of randomized trials, and no data have been available on efficacy among women who have different levels of breast cancer risk... - Pathologic findings from the Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium: population-based outcomes in women undergoing biopsy after screening mammographyDonald L Weaver
Department of Pathology, University of Vermont, Burlington, 05405, USA
Cancer 106:732-42. 2006..To the authors' knowledge, a comprehensive analysis of pathology outcomes after screening mammography, as it is practiced clinically in the U.S. general population, has not been performed... - Does utilization of screening mammography explain racial and ethnic differences in breast cancer?Rebecca Smith-Bindman
University of California and San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, California 94115, USA
Ann Intern Med 144:541-53. 2006..Reasons for persistent differences in breast cancer mortality rates among various racial and ethnic groups have been difficult to ascertain... - Prospective breast cancer risk prediction model for women undergoing screening mammographyWilliam E Barlow
Cancer Research and Biostatistics, 1730 Minor Avenue, Suite 1900, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
J Natl Cancer Inst 98:1204-14. 2006..We used prospective risk information to predict a diagnosis of breast cancer in a cohort of 1 million women undergoing screening mammography... - Specificity of clinical breast examination in community practiceJoshua J Fenton
Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
J Gen Intern Med 22:332-7. 2007.... - Influence of computer-aided detection on performance of screening mammographyJoshua J Fenton
University of California, Davis, Sacramento, USA
N Engl J Med 356:1399-409. 2007..Since the Food and Drug Administration approved the technology in 1998, it has been disseminated into practice, but its effect on the accuracy of interpretation is unclear... - Evidence-based target recall rates for screening mammographyMichael J Schell
Biostatistics Division, Department of Interdisciplinary Oncology, Moffitt Research Center, 12902 Magnolia Dr, Tampa, FL 33612 9497, USA
Radiology 243:681-9. 2007..To retrospectively identify target recall rates for screening mammography on the basis of how sensitivity shifts with recall rate... - Using clinical factors and mammographic breast density to estimate breast cancer risk: development and validation of a new predictive modelJeffrey A Tice
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143 1732, USA
Ann Intern Med 148:337-47. 2008..Current models for assessing breast cancer risk are complex and do not include breast density, a strong risk factor for breast cancer that is routinely reported with mammography... - Mammography facility characteristics associated with interpretive accuracy of screening mammographyStephen Taplin
Applied Research Program, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA
J Natl Cancer Inst 100:876-87. 2008..Understanding sources of facility variation could become a foundation for improving interpretive performance... - Accuracy of screening mammography interpretation by characteristics of radiologistsWilliam E Barlow
Cancer Research and Biostatistics, 1730 Minor Ave, Ste 1900, Seattle WA 98101, USA
J Natl Cancer Inst 96:1840-50. 2004..Radiologists differ in their ability to interpret screening mammograms accurately. We investigated the relationship of radiologist characteristics to actual performance from 1996 to 2001... - Reason for late-stage breast cancer: absence of screening or detection, or breakdown in follow-up?Stephen H Taplin
Group Health Cooperative, Seattle, WA, USA
J Natl Cancer Inst 96:1518-27. 2004..However, despite high national mammography screening rates, late-stage breast cancers still occur, possibly because of failures in screening implementation... - The association between obesity and screening mammography accuracyJoann G Elmore
Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Harborview Medical Center, 325 Ninth Avenue, Box 359780, Seattle, WA 98104 2499, USA
Arch Intern Med 164:1140-7. 2004..Obesity is increasing among American women, especially as they age. The influence of obesity on the accuracy of screening mammography has not been studied extensively... - Concordance of breast imaging reporting and data system assessments and management recommendations in screening mammographyStephen H Taplin
Center for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound, 1730 Minor Ave, Suite 1600, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
Radiology 222:529-35. 2002..To examine how frequently Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System (BI-RADS) mammographic screening assessments were associated with expected clinical management recommendations... - Use of the American College of Radiology BI-RADS to report on the mammographic evaluation of women with signs and symptoms of breast diseaseBerta M Geller
Dept of Health Promotion Research, Univ of Vermont, 1 S Prospect St, Burlington, VT 05401 3444, USA
Radiology 222:536-42. 2002..To examine whether mammographic assessments and recommendations are linked as expected, based on the Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System (BI-RADS), for the evaluation of women with signs and symptoms of breast disease... - Injectable hormone contraception and bone density: results from a prospective studyDelia Scholes
Center for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
Epidemiology 13:581-7. 2002..Depot medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA) injectable contraception may decrease bone density and increase the risk for osteoporosis in later life. Prospective data are scarce, especially of the effects of DMPA discontinuation on bone... - Detection of ductal carcinoma in situ in women undergoing screening mammographyVirginia L Ernster
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, USA
J Natl Cancer Inst 94:1546-54. 2002..Given uncertainty about the natural history of DCIS, the clinical significance of screen-detected DCIS needs further investigation... - Training, quality assurance, and assessment of medical record abstraction in a multisite studyLisa M Reisch
Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA 98104-2499, USA
Am J Epidemiol 157:546-51. 2003..Additionally, a masking study with a subsample of subjects may be a feasible and cost-effective alternative to the time- and cost-intensive methodological approach of masking all medical records... - Effectiveness of pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine in older adultsLisa A Jackson
Center for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
N Engl J Med 348:1747-55. 2003..In a large population of older adults, we assessed the effectiveness of the pneumococcal vaccine... - Mammography surveillance following breast cancerBerta M Geller
Office of Health Promotion Research, College of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05401 3444, USA
Breast Cancer Res Treat 81:107-15. 2003..To describe when women diagnosed with breast cancer return for their first mammography, and to identify factors predictive of women returning for mammographic surveillance... - Effect of breast augmentation on the accuracy of mammography and cancer characteristicsDiana L Miglioretti
Center for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative, Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, Wash 98101, USA
JAMA 291:442-50. 2004..Breast augmentation is not associated with an increased risk of breast cancer; however, implants may interfere with the detection of breast cancer thereby delaying cancer diagnosis in women with augmentation... - The association between depot medroxyprogesterone acetate contraception and bone mineral density in adolescent womenDelia Scholes
The Center for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative, 1730 Minor Avenue, 16th Floor, Seattle, WA, USA
Contraception 69:99-104. 2004..06). This study did not find a strong association between DMPA use and bone density. Further prospective evaluation of bone density changes with DMPA use and after DMPA discontinuation are needed in this age group... - Efficacy of prophylactic mastectomy in women with unilateral breast cancer: a cancer research network projectLisa J Herrinton
Cancer Research Network, Division of Research, Northern California Kaiser Permanente, 2000 Broadway Ave, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
J Clin Oncol 23:4275-86. 2005..We investigated the efficacy of contralateral prophylactic mastectomy (CPM) in reducing contralateral breast cancer incidence and breast cancer mortality among women who have already been diagnosed with breast cancer... - Residual tumor uptake of [99mTc]-sestamibi after neoadjuvant chemotherapy for locally advanced breast carcinoma predicts survivalLisa K Dunnwald
Division of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Radiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
Cancer 103:680-8. 2005..Given the association between MIBI uptake and tumor blood flow, this prognostic capability may be related to retained tumor vascularity after treatment... - Radiologist uncertainty and the interpretation of screeningPatricia A Carney
Department of Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover and Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA
Med Decis Making 24:255-64. 2004..To determine radiologists' reactions to uncertainty when interpreting mammography and the extent to which radiologist uncertainty explains variability in interpretive performance... - Expanding developmental and behavioral services for newborns in primary care; Effects on parental well-being, practice, and satisfactionBrian D Johnston
Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Am J Prev Med 26:356-66. 2004..No additional benefit could be ascribed to prenatal institution of services. A combination of universal and risk-based support for new parents is recommended, rather than the provision of risk-based services alone... - Proposal for standardized definitions for efficacy end points in adjuvant breast cancer trials: the STEEP systemClifford A Hudis
Breast Cancer Medicine Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10021, USA
J Clin Oncol 25:2127-32. 2007.... - Differences among the elderly in the treatment costs of colorectal cancer: how important is race?George E Wright
Department of Family Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle 98195 4982, USA
Med Care 45:420-30. 2007..Medical expenditures adjusted for price differences are a barometer of total resources devoted to patient care and thus may reflect treatment differentials... - Influenza vaccination is not associated with a reduction in the risk of recurrent coronary eventsLisa A Jackson
Center for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative, Seattle, WA 98101 1448, USA
Am J Epidemiol 156:634-40. 2002..06, 95% CI: 0.63, 1.78) or inactivity (May through October) (HR = 1.34, 95% CI: 0.76, 2.36). These results suggest that the benefit of influenza vaccine for older adults does not extend to protection against recurrent coronary events... - Intensive dose-dense compared with high-dose adjuvant chemotherapy for high-risk operable breast cancer: Southwest Oncology Group/Intergroup study 9623Halle C F Moore
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA
J Clin Oncol 25:1677-82. 2007.... - Expanding developmental and behavioral services for newborns in primary care: program design, delivery, and evaluation frameworkColleen E Huebner
Maternal and Child Health Program, Department of Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
Am J Prev Med 26:344-55. 2004..Participating families received more services and a greater variety of services than families in usual care. Whether these differences result in beneficial outcomes for families or the health plan are topics of the subsequent papers... - p27(Kip1) and cyclin E expression and breast cancer survival after treatment with adjuvant chemotherapyPeggy L Porter
Division of Human Biology and Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Ave N, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
J Natl Cancer Inst 98:1723-31. 2006..We studied these markers in a clinical trial setting with patients with breast cancer treated by a uniform drug regimen so that treatment was not associated with variability in outcome... - Performance benchmarks for screening mammographyRobert D Rosenberg
Department of Radiology, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, MSC10 5530, USA
Radiology 241:55-66. 2006..S. radiologists to allow development of performance benchmarks for screening mammography... - Effect of low-dose thiazide diuretics on plasma lipids: results from a double-blind, randomized clinical trial in older men and womenSusan M Ott
University of Washington and Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound, 1959 NE Pacific Street, Room BB 545, Seattle, WA 98195
J Am Geriatr Soc 51:340-7. 2003..To determine the effects of low doses of hydrochlorothiazide (HCTZ) on plasma lipids in healthy older men and women... - Assessing accuracy of mammography in the presence of verification bias and intrareader correlationYingye Zheng
Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Avenue, North Seattle, Washington 98109, USA
Biometrics 61:259-68. 2005..We apply the methodology to mammography as performed by community radiologists... - A population-based study of bilateral prophylactic mastectomy efficacy in women at elevated risk for breast cancer in community practicesAnn M Geiger
Research and Evaluation Department, Southern California Permanente Medical Group, 100 S Los Robles, Pasadena, CA 91101, USA
Arch Intern Med 165:516-20. 2005..We studied the efficacy of bilateral prophylactic mastectomy in women with elevated breast cancer risk cared for in community practices... - Longitudinal changes in bone density in relation to oral contraceptive useSusan D Reed
Group Health Cooperative, Seattle, WA, USA
Contraception 68:177-82. 2003..All p-values for between-group differences were >0.55. In conclusion, within the limitations of this study, OCs did not appear to impact bone density over time in this cohort of reproductive-age women... - Prognostic characteristics of breast cancer among postmenopausal hormone users in a screened populationKarla Kerlikowske
San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, General Internal Medicine Section, 111A1, 4150 Clement St, San Francisco, CA 94121, USA
J Clin Oncol 21:4314-21. 2003..We determined the risk of breast cancer and tumor characteristics among current postmenopausal hormone therapy users compared with nonusers, by duration of use... - Tumor metabolism and blood flow changes by positron emission tomography: relation to survival in patients treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy for locally advanced breast cancerLisa K Dunnwald
Department of Bioengineering, Division of Nuclear Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
J Clin Oncol 26:4449-57. 2008..Serial positron emission tomography (PET) has been shown to predict pathologic response in this setting. We evaluated serial quantitative PET tumor blood flow (BF) and metabolism as in vivo measurements to predict patient outcome...