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A cluster randomized trial of standard quality improvement versus patient-centered interventions to enhance depression care for African Americans in the primary care setting: study protocol NCT00243425Lisa A Cooper
Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Implement Sci 5:18. 2010..TRIAL REGISTRATION: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT00243425...
Primary care physician perspective on management of patients with depressionDaniel E Ford
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Suite 2 500 Room 2 518, 2024 East Monument St, Baltimore, MD, 21287 0007, USA
J Manag Care Pharm 12:10-3. 2006..To discuss the relationship between the primary care physician and other health care professionals and best practice strategies in the management of depression...
Depression and C-reactive protein in US adults: data from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination SurveyDaniel E Ford
Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Arch Intern Med 164:1010-4. 2004..Our objective was to determine the association between major depression and elevated C-reactive protein (CRP) level in a nationally representative cohort...
Practice-based interventionsDaniel E Ford
Johns Hopkins University, 2024 E Monument Street, Suite 2 500, Baltimore, Maryland 21205 2223, USA
Ment Health Serv Res 4:199-204. 2002..More research is needed to develop programs to improve outcomes for children with depression and adults with bipolar disorders...
Marijuana use and cessation of tobacco smoking in adults from a community sampleDaniel E Ford
Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 2024 E Monument Street, Suite 2 500, Baltimore, MD, USA
Drug Alcohol Depend 67:243-8. 2002..Clinicians working with patients who are trying to stop tobacco smoking may be aided by routinely assessing marijuana use history, particularly with the recent increase in co-smoking of marijuana and tobacco...
Optimizing outcomes for patients with depression and chronic medical illnessesDaniel E Ford
Division of General Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21287, USA
Am J Med 121:S38-44. 2008..Further opportunities to improve care also exist at the healthcare system level, such as developing, funding, and implementing multimodal collaborative care models in the primary care setting...
Zeroing in on depression as a cardiovascular risk factor. Can lifting mood improve outcomes?Daniel E Ford
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Postgrad Med 114:6-13. 2003..Elucidation of the biologic mediators for the relationship between depression and CVD will help our understanding of the link and how to appropriately intervene early enough to improve outcomes...
The mediation effect of posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms on the relationship of intimate partner violence and IFN-gamma levelsAnne B Woods
Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, 525 N Wolfe Street, Room 442, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
Am J Community Psychol 36:159-75. 2005..Although an association between psychological stress and altered immune function has been shown, IPV studies have not investigated this relationship...
Adrenal gland volume and dexamethasone-suppressed cortisol correlate with total daily salivary cortisol in African-American womenSherita Hill Golden
Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, 2024 East Monument Street, Suite 2 616, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 92:1358-63. 2007..Alternative measures (salivary cortisol and adrenal gland volume) have not been systematically compared with 24-h urine free cortisol (UFC) in a healthy population...
Intensive meditation for refractory pain and symptomsMadhav Goyal
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
J Altern Complement Med 16:627-31. 2010..The objective of this study was to assess patient interest in intensive meditation training for chronic symptoms...
Association of childhood socioeconomic status with subsequent coronary heart disease in physiciansMichelle M Kittleson
Divisions of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Arch Intern Med 166:2356-61. 2006..Adult socioeconomic status (SES) is an independent risk factor for the development of coronary heart disease (CHD), but whether low childhood SES has an effect in adults who have achieved high SES is unknown...
Changes in depressive symptoms and metabolic control over 3 years among African Americans with type 2 diabetesTiffany L Gary
The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Int J Psychiatry Med 35:377-82. 2005..The objective of this study was to evaluate the longitudinal relationship between depressive symptoms and metabolic control...
Primary care patients' involvement in decision-making is associated with improvement in depressionSarah L Clever
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Med Care 44:398-405. 2006..Interventions to increase patient involvement in decision-making may be an important means of improving care for and outcomes of depression...
Opioid prescriptions by U.S. primary care physicians from 1992 to 2001Yngvild Olsen
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21287, USA
J Pain 7:225-35. 2006..Several underlying factors, including regulatory and legal pressures, attitudes and knowledge of opioids, and publicized opioid-related events, may contribute to these differences...
Adverse events during medical and surgical hospitalizations for persons with schizophreniaGail L Daumit
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 63:267-72. 2006..These adverse events were associated with poor clinical and economic outcomes during the hospital admission. Efforts to reduce these adverse events should become a research priority...
The role of cardiovascular disease in the identification and management of depression by primary care physiciansHillary R Bogner
Department of Family Practice and Community Medicine, The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 14:71-8. 2006..The objective of this study was to describe the influence of cardiovascular disease (CVD) on identification and management of depression by primary care physicians...
Anger temperament is modestly associated with the risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus: the Atheroslcerosis Risk in Communities StudySherita Hill Golden
Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Psychoneuroendocrinology 31:325-32. 2006..The objective of this study was to determine if anger proneness predicted type 2 diabetes using prospective analyses...
Patient ethnicity and the identification and active management of depression in late lifeJoseph J Gallo
Department of Family Practice and Community Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Spruce St, 2 Gates Pavilion, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Arch Intern Med 165:1962-8. 2005..We investigated the association of ethnicity with the identification and active management of depression among older patients...
Stigma beliefs of Asian Americans with depression in an internet sampleJoshua Fogel
Department of Economics, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Can J Psychiatry 50:470-8. 2005..To study the beliefs of Asian Americans with depression about stigma associated with depression treatment among friends, employers, and family...
Role of depression in quality of life for patients with psoriasisJochen M Schmitt
Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
Dermatology 215:17-27. 2007..It has been proposed that depression plays a role in how psoriasis affects quality of life. However, primary data are limited...
Ethnicity and preferences for depression treatmentJane L Givens
Geriatrics Division, Boston University Medical Center, Boston, MA 02118, USA
Gen Hosp Psychiatry 29:182-91. 2007..The objective of this work was to describe ethnic differences in attitudes toward depression, depression treatment, stigma and preferences for depression treatment (counseling vs. medication)...
Introduction: chronic medical conditions and depression--the view from primary careRichard L Kravitz
Department of Internal Medicine, University of California-Davis, Sacramento, California 95817, USA
Am J Med 121:S1-7. 2008
Clinician- and organization-level factors in the adoption of evidence-based care for depression in primary careRachel M Henke
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Health Care Manage Rev 33:289-99. 2008..We explore organizational and clinician factors affecting patient receipt of guideline-concordant services...
A tailored Internet-delivered intervention for smoking cessation designed to encourage social support and treatment seeking: usability testing and user tracingTom K Houston
Deep South Center of Effectiveness Research, A HSR and D REAP, Birmingham VA Medical Center, Birmingham, AL, USA
Inform Health Soc Care 33:5-19. 2008..038). Changing the rationale and context of Web-based health information using a motivational introduction can change user behavior...
Can e-mail messages between patients and physicians be patient-centered?Debra L Roter
Department of Health, Behavior, and Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
Health Commun 23:80-6. 2008..E-mail has the potential to support the doctor-patient relationship by providing a medium through which patients can express worries and concerns and physicians can be patient-centered in response...
Testing for statistical discrimination by race/ethnicity in panel data for depression treatment in primary careThomas G McGuire
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, 180 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Health Serv Res 43:531-51. 2008..To test for discrimination by race/ethnicity arising from clinical uncertainty in treatment for depression, also known as "statistical discrimination."..
Blood pressure change and risk of hypertension associated with parental hypertension: the Johns Hopkins Precursors StudyNae Yuh Wang
Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Arch Intern Med 168:643-8. 2008..Parental hypertension is used to classify hypertension risk in young adults, but the long-term association of parental hypertension with blood pressure (BP) change and risk of hypertension over the adult life span has not been well studied...
Patient-physician communication in the primary care visits of African Americans and whites with depressionBri K Ghods
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
J Gen Intern Med 23:600-6. 2008..Little research investigates the role of patient-physician communication in understanding racial disparities in depression treatment...
Depressive symptoms, inflammation, and ischemic stroke in older adults: a prospective analysis in the cardiovascular health studyJose J Arbelaez
Department of Epidemiology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 55:1825-30. 2007..To investigate the mediator role of inflammation in any relationship between depressive symptoms and ischemic stroke...
Temporal relation among depression symptoms, cardiovascular disease events, and mortality in end-stage renal disease: contribution of reverse causalityL Ebony Boulware
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Clin J Am Soc Nephrol 1:496-504. 2006..Attenuated risks from time-lag analyses indicate a partial role for reverse causality, suggesting that medical comorbidity may precede DS...
Effect of mental health care and shared decision making on patient satisfaction in a community sample of patients with depressionKaren A Swanson
School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Med Care Res Rev 64:416-30. 2007..Contrary to expectations, patient gender made no difference in the effects of quality of care on patient satisfaction...
Factors identifying high-frequency and low-frequency health service utilization among substance-using adultsTHOMAS P O'TOOLE
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
J Subst Abuse Treat 33:51-9. 2007....
Suicide compared to other causes of mortality in physiciansDario M Torre
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
Suicide Life Threat Behav 35:146-53. 2005..The findings for suicide are strikingly different than other causes of death and should provide impetus for new research on the mental health of physicians...
Physician conceptions of responsibility to individual patients and distributive justice in health careMary Catherine Beach
Division of General Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, 2024 East Monument Street, Suite 2 500, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
Ann Fam Med 3:53-9. 2005..We describe physician conceptions of responsibility to individual patients and distributive justice in health care, and explore whether these values are associated with type of managed care practice and professional satisfaction...
Experiences of physicians who frequently use e-mail with patientsThomas K Houston
Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Health Commun 15:515-25. 2003..Increasing integration into practice to enhance time-saving aspects and improve patient education might lead to more sustained use of this promising communication tool...
Life-sustaining treatments: what do physicians want and do they express their wishes to others?Joseph J Gallo
Department of Family Practice and Community Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 51:961-9. 2003....
Confronting depression and suicide in physicians: a consensus statementClaudia Center
Employment Law Center and the University of California, Hastings College of Law, San Francisco, USA
JAMA 289:3161-6. 2003..As barriers are removed and physicians confront depression and suicidality in their peers, they are more likely to recognize and treat these conditions in patients, including colleagues and medical students...
Managed care organizational complexity and access to high-quality mental health services: perspective of U.S. primary care physiciansBenjamin W Van Voorhees
Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Gen Hosp Psychiatry 25:149-57. 2003..PCPs who interact with a large number of managed care plans and different administrative models may have the most difficulty in obtaining high-quality mental health services for their patients...
The acceptability of treatment for depression among African-American, Hispanic, and white primary care patientsLisa A Cooper
Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Med Care 41:479-89. 2003..Ethnic minority patients are less likely than white patients to receive guideline-concordant care for depression. It is uncertain whether racial and ethnic differences exist in patient beliefs, attitudes, and preferences for treatment...
Outpatient prescriptions for atypical antipsychotics for African Americans, Hispanics, and whites in the United StatesGail L Daumit
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 2024 E Monument St, Suite 2 500, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 60:121-8. 2003..We examined whether ethnic minorities achieve access to these new advanced treatments...
Burden of illnessTom McGuire
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, 180 Longwood Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115 5899, USA
Ment Health Serv Res 4:179-85. 2002..Reserch should focus on improving measures of burden in general and on quantifying burden from the standpoint of diverse population groups...
Characteristics of primary care visits for individuals with severe mental illness in a national sampleGail L Daumit
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Gen Hosp Psychiatry 24:391-5. 2002....
Receipt of preventive medical services at psychiatric visits by patients with severe mental illnessGail L Daumit
School of Medicine and the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21287, USA
Psychiatr Serv 53:884-7. 2002..Preventive services were less likely to have been provided during visits to health maintenance organizations and visits that took place later in the study period...
Sports ability in young men and the incidence of cardiovascular diseaseThomas K Houston
Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Am J Med 112:689-95. 2002..Sustainability of activity should be considered when developing physical education programs for young adults...
Do family physicians and internists differ in knowledge, attitudes, and self-reported approaches for depression?Joseph J Gallo
Department of Family Practice and Community Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104, USA
Int J Psychiatry Med 32:1-20. 2002..The purpose of this investigation was to assess the relationship of primary care specialty training with self-assessed skill, knowledge, attitudes, and behavior toward depression recognition and management...
Anger in young men and subsequent premature cardiovascular disease: the precursors studyPatricia P Chang
Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Arch Intern Med 162:901-6. 2002..Anger can trigger myocardial ischemia and may be an independent risk factor for coronary heart disease, but its effect on early compared with late onset of disease is unclear...
Urinary incontinence and psychological distress in community-dwelling older adultsHillary R Bogner
Department of Family Practice and Community Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 50:489-95. 2002..We hypothesized that persons with UI associated with condition-specific functional loss would be most likely to report psychological distress...
Patient-centered communication, ratings of care, and concordance of patient and physician raceLisa A Cooper
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21205 2223, USA
Ann Intern Med 139:907-15. 2003..Little research has investigated the communication process in race-concordant and race-discordant medical visits...
Prevalence and correlates of obesity in a community sample of individuals with severe and persistent mental illnessGail L Daumit
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 2024 East Monument Street, Suite 2-500, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
J Nerv Ment Dis 191:799-805. 2003..A fourfold association between atypical antipsychotics and prevalent obesity was found in men but not in women; further work should clarify mechanisms of obesity in the SPMI...
Coffee intake and risk of hypertension: the Johns Hopkins precursors studyMichael J Klag
The Johns Hopkins Precursors Study, 2024 E Monument St, Suite 2-200, Baltimore, MD 21205-2223, USA
Arch Intern Med 162:657-62. 2002..CONCLUSION: Over many years of follow-up, coffee drinking is associated with small increases in blood pressure, but appears to play a small role in the development of hypertension...
Beliefs and attitudes associated with the intention to not accept the diagnosis of depression among young adultsBenjamin W Van Voorhees
Department of Medicine, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Ann Fam Med 3:38-46. 2005....
Association of sleep disturbance with chronicity and remission of alcohol dependence: data from a population-based prospective studyRosa M Crum
Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 28:1533-40. 2004....
Incident hypertension associated with depression in the Baltimore Epidemiologic Catchment area follow-up studyChristina M Meyer
Department of Medicine, Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD 21204, USA
J Affect Disord 83:127-33. 2004....
Experiences of patients who were early adopters of electronic communication with their physician: satisfaction, benefits, and concernsThomas K Houston
Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Ala 35294, USA
Am J Manag Care 10:601-8. 2004..To explore the experiences of patients who were early adopters of e-mail communication with their physicians...
What do physicians tell patients about themselves? A qualitative analysis of physician self-disclosureMary Catherine Beach
Division of General Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
J Gen Intern Med 19:911-6. 2004..Physician self-disclosure (PSD) has been alternatively described as a boundary violation or a means to foster trust and rapport with patients. We analyzed a series of physician self-disclosure statements to inform the current controversy...
Is physician self-disclosure related to patient evaluation of office visits?Mary Catherine Beach
Division of General Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
J Gen Intern Med 19:905-10. 2004..Physician self-disclosure has been viewed either positively or negatively, but little is known about how patients respond to physician self-disclosure...
Sleep disturbance and risk for alcohol-related problemsRosa M Crum
Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research, Johns Hopkins Health Institutions, 2024 E Monument Street, Suite 2 500, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Am J Psychiatry 161:1197-203. 2004..Using prospective data, the authors assessed the risk of alcohol-related problems among individuals with self-reported sleep disturbances because of worry...
Differences in patient and bed partner-assessed quality of life in sleep-disordered breathingJ Gabrielle Breugelmans
Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
Am J Respir Crit Care Med 170:547-52. 2004..This study suggests that systematic differences exist between patient- and bed partner-assessed quality of life in SDB. Bed partner ratings provide supplemental information on quality of life impairment in SDB...
Prospective association between hypotension and idiopathic chronic fatigueKatherine E Lucas
Bloomberg School of Public Health and School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21205-2233, USA
J Hypertens 22:691-5. 2004..4 to 17.4) and in men was 1.7 (95% exact confidence interval = 0.8, to 3.5). CONCLUSION: These preliminary findings suggest that hypotension may be a risk factor for the development of idiopathic chronic fatigue in women...
Physical functioning, depression, and preferences for treatment at the end of life: the Johns Hopkins Precursors StudyJoseph B Straton
Department of Family Practice and Community Medicine, and Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvannia School of Medicine, Philadelphia, 19104, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 52:577-82. 2004..To examine the relationship between worsening physical function and depression and preferences for life-sustaining treatment...
Depressive symptoms and the risk of type 2 diabetes: the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities studySherita Hill Golden
Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
Diabetes Care 27:429-35. 2004..The goal of this study was to determine whether depressive symptoms predict type 2 diabetes...
Primary care patients with depression are less accepting of treatment than those seen by mental health specialistsBenjamin W Van Voorhees
Division of General Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
J Gen Intern Med 18:991-1000. 2003..These differences in attitudes and beliefs may contribute to lower quality depression care observed in comparisons of primary care and specialty mental health providers...
Prevalence of depression in survivors of acute myocardial infarctionBrett D Thombs
Johns Hopkins University Evidence-Based Practice Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
J Gen Intern Med 21:30-8. 2006..CONCLUSIONS: Depression is common and persistent in AMI survivors. Prevalence varies depending on assessment method, likely reflecting treatment of somatic symptoms...
The effect of adherence to practice guidelines on depression outcomesKimberly A Hepner
RAND Health Program, Santa Monica, California 90407, USA
Ann Intern Med 147:320-9. 2007..Few studies have assessed clinician adherence to depression practice guidelines and the relationship between clinician adherence and depression outcomes...
Work limitations and productivity loss are associated with health-related quality of life but not with clinical severity in patients with psoriasisJochen M Schmitt
Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
Dermatology 213:102-10. 2006..According to current guidelines the cost of productivity loss should be considered in pharmacoeconomic analyses. The cost of health-related productivity loss in psoriasis patients is unknown...
Doctors who are using e-mail with their patients: a qualitative explorationMadhavi R Patt
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
J Med Internet Res 5:e9. 2003....
Computer-administered screening of reproductive-aged women for diabetes risk in primary care settings, feasibility and acceptability of such screening, and validity of risk assessments based on self-reported weightShazia Hussain
State University of New York at Albany, School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Rensselaer, NY 12144 3456, USA
Prev Chronic Dis 4:A54. 2007..The purpose of this study was to determine whether technology can streamline risk assessment and leave more time to educate patients. We also tested the validity of self-reported weight in assessing diabetes risk...
Research Grants
- Development of Internet Intervention for DepressionDaniel Ford; Fiscal Year: 2007..The data from these pilot studies will allow us to design a more definitive study of the role of Internet peer support groups for patients presenting to primary care settings with depression. ..
- QUALITY IMPROVEMENT FOR DEPRESSIONDaniel Ford; Fiscal Year: 2002....
- Smoking Cessation Coach--An Internet Tailoring ProgramDaniel Ford; Fiscal Year: 2002..Such a program has a high potential of reaching a large number of smokers. The plan will be to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of the Smoking Cessation Coach in the next study. ..
