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Differential use of available genetic tests among primary care physicians in the United States: results of a national surveyAlexandra E Shields
Harvard MGH Center on Genomics, Vulnerable Populations, and Health Disparities, Massachusetts General Hospital Partners HealthCare, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Genet Med 10:404-14. 2008..This study assesses primary care physicians' experience ordering and referring patients for genetic testing, and whether minority-serving physicians are less likely than those serving fewer minorities to offer such services...
Primary care physicians' concerns about offering a genetic test to tailor smoking cessation treatmentDouglas E Levy
Harvard MGH Center on Genomics, Vulnerable Populations, and Health Disparities, Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Genet Med 9:842-9. 2007..We assessed the importance assigned by primary care physicians to eight factors influencing whether they would order a genetic test to individually tailor smoking cessation treatment...- The natural history of light smokers: a population-based cohort studyDouglas E Levy
Tobacco Research and Treatment Center, MGH Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, 50 Staniford Street, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Nicotine Tob Res 11:156-63. 2009..The relationship between cigarette consumption and smoking frequency (daily or nondaily) is not well characterized, and the natural history of light smoking (defined here as smoking < or =10 CPD) is poorly understood... 
Primary care physicians' willingness to offer a new genetic test to tailor smoking treatment, according to test characteristicsAlexandra E Shields
Harvard MGH Center on Genomics, Vulnerable Populations and Health Disparities, Institute for Health Policy, Boston, MA 02111, USA
Nicotine Tob Res 10:1037-45. 2008..0007). Effective education of primary care physicians will be critical to successful integration of promising new pharmacogenetic treatment strategies for smoking...- Electronic health records in ambulatory care--a national survey of physiciansCatherine M DesRoches
Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston 02114, USA
N Engl J Med 359:50-60. 2008..This study assessed physicians' adoption of outpatient electronic health records, their satisfaction with such systems, the perceived effect of the systems on the quality of care, and the perceived barriers to adoption... - Black and White adults' perspectives on the genetics of nicotine addiction susceptibilityElyse R Park
Harvard MGH Center on Genomics, Vulnerable Populations, and Health Disparities, Boston, MA 02114, United States
Addict Behav 36:769-72. 2011..The purpose of this study was to explore individuals' beliefs and attitudes about genetic testing in this context, and how these may differ across racial groups... - Use of nicotine replacement therapy to reduce or delay smoking but not to quit: prevalence and association with subsequent cessation effortsDouglas E Levy
Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, 50 Staniford Street, 9th Floor, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Tob Control 16:384-9. 2007..To assess the prevalence of nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) use for purposes other than quitting smoking and examine the relation of this non-standard NRT use (NSNRT) with subsequent smoking cessation efforts... - Underutilization of BRCA1/2 testing to guide breast cancer treatment: black and Hispanic women particularly at riskDouglas E Levy
Harvard MGH Center for Genomics, Vulnerable Populations and Health Disparities, 50 Staniford Street, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Genet Med 13:349-55. 2011..Knowledge of BRCA1/2 mutation status is useful in guiding treatment decisions. To date, there has been no national study of BRCA1/2 testing among newly diagnosed women... - Food choices of minority and low-income employees: a cafeteria interventionDouglas E Levy
Mongan Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
Am J Prev Med 43:240-8. 2012..Effective strategies are needed to address obesity, particularly among minority and low-income individuals... - School absenteeism among children living with smokersDouglas E Levy
Mongan Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
Pediatrics 128:650-6. 2011..Involuntary tobacco smoke exposure causes substantial morbidity in children. We hypothesized that children exposed to tobacco smoke in the home would have increased school absenteeism with associated costs due to lost caregiver wages/time... - Medicaid expenditures for children living with smokersDouglas E Levy
Mongan Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
BMC Health Serv Res 11:125. 2011..Children's exposure to secondhand smoke is associated with increased morbidity. We estimated Medicaid expenditures for children living with smokers compared to those living with no smokers in the United States... - The effect of the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement on prenatal smokingDouglas E Levy
Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Health Econ 25:276-94. 2006..Overall, adjusting for secular trends in smoking, prenatal smoking declined by less than half what was predicted in response to the MSA... - Offering population-based tobacco treatment in a healthcare setting: a randomized controlled trialNancy A Rigotti
Tobacco Research and Treatment Center, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA
Am J Prev Med 41:498-503. 2011..Brief clinic-based interventions are effective but not reliably offered. Population management strategies might improve tobacco treatment delivery in a healthcare system... - Tobacco smoke exposure in a sample of Boston public housing residentsDouglas E Levy
Mongan Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Am J Prev Med 44:63-6. 2013..There is no safe level of tobacco smoke exposure. Nonsmoking residents of public housing are at particular risk of suffering the health consequences of tobacco smoke exposure... - Comparative effectiveness of post-discharge interventions for hospitalized smokers: study protocol for a randomized controlled trialSandra J Japuntich
Tobacco Research and Treatment Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA
Trials 13:124. 2012..This paper describes the design of a comparative effectiveness trial testing a hospital-initiated intervention against standard care... - Guidelines for genetic risk assessment of hereditary breast and ovarian cancer: early disagreements and low utilizationDouglas E Levy
Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, 50 Staniford St, Suite 901, Boston, MA 02114, USA
J Gen Intern Med 24:822-8. 2009..BRCA1/2 testing is one of the most well-established genetic tests to predict cancer risk. Guidelines are available to help clinicians determine who will benefit most from testing... - A 2-phase labeling and choice architecture intervention to improve healthy food and beverage choicesAnne N Thorndike
General Medicine Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Am J Public Health 102:527-33. 2012..We assessed whether a 2-phase labeling and choice architecture intervention would increase sales of healthy food and beverages in a large hospital cafeteria... - Adoption of health information technology in community health centers: results of a national surveyAlexandra E Shields
Harvard Massachusetts General Hospital, Center on Genomics, Vulnerable Populations, and Health Disparities, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 26:1373-83. 2007..Ensuring comparable health IT capacity among providers that disproportionately serve disadvantaged patients will have increasing relevance for disparities; thus, monitoring adoption among such providers should be a priority... - Employer-sponsored insurance coverage of smoking cessation treatmentsDouglas E Levy
Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, 50 Staniford Street, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Am J Manag Care 12:553-62. 2006..To investigate the costs and benefits of covering smoking cessation interventions from insurers' and employers' perspectives...