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Population-based breast cancer screening in a primary care networkSteven J Atlas
General Medicine Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Am J Manag Care 18:821-9. 2012..To assess the ability of a health information technology system to facilitate population- based breast cancer screening...
Do motor control genes contribute to interindividual variability in decreased movement in patients with pain?Bikash K Mishra
Clinical Pain Research Section, Laboratory of Sensory Biology, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institutes of Health, DHHS, Bethesda, MD, USA
Mol Pain 3:20. 2007..We demonstrate an analytic method that we applied to 14 of these genes in 290 patients with acute sciatica, whose reduction in movement was estimated by items from the Roland-Morris Disability Questionnaire...- A clinical genetic method to identify mechanisms by which pain causes depression and anxietyMitchell B Max
Clinical Pain Research Section, Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institutes of Health, DHHS, Bethesda, MD, USA
Mol Pain 2:14. 2006..We seek molecules that show a significant statistical interaction between (1) the amount of surgical pain relief, and (2) the alleles of the gene, on depression and anxiety during the first postoperative year... - Long-term outcomes of surgical and nonsurgical management of sciatica secondary to a lumbar disc herniation: 10 year results from the maine lumbar spine studySteven J Atlas
General Medicine Division and the Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Medical Services, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 30:927-35. 2005..A prospective cohort study... - Long-term outcomes of surgical and nonsurgical management of lumbar spinal stenosis: 8 to 10 year results from the maine lumbar spine studySteven J Atlas
General Medicine Division and the Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Medical Services, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 30:936-43. 2005..A prospective observational cohort study... - Development and validation of a new health-related quality of life instrument for patients with sinusitisSteven J Atlas
General Medicine Division and the Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Medical Services, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Qual Life Res 14:1375-86. 2005..This study used patient focus and pretesting groups followed by a prospective cohort study to develop and validate a HRQL instrument for patients with sinusitis... - The role of point of care testing for patients with acute pharyngitisSteven J Atlas
General Medicine Division, Medical Services, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
J Gen Intern Med 20:759-61. 2005..There is no consensus favoring a particular strategy for evaluating patients with pharyngitis... - Spinal stenosis: surgical versus nonsurgical treatmentSteven J Atlas
General Medicine Division and the Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Medical Services, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Clin Orthop Relat Res 443:198-207. 2006..LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Level V (expert opinion). See the Guidelines for Authors for a complete description of levels of evidence... - A cluster-randomized trial of a primary care informatics-based system for breast cancer screeningSteven J Atlas
General Medicine Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 50 Staniford Street, Boston, MA 02114, USA
J Gen Intern Med 26:154-61. 2011..Information technology offers the promise, as yet unfulfilled, of delivering efficient, evidence-based health care... - The impact of disability compensation on long-term treatment outcomes of patients with sciatica due to a lumbar disc herniationSteven J Atlas
General Medicine Division, Medical Services, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 31:3061-9. 2006..Prospective, observational study... - Patient-physician connectedness and quality of primary careSteven J Atlas
Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Ann Intern Med 150:325-35. 2009..Among all patients seen by a physician, some will be more strongly connected to their physician than others, but the effect of connectedness on measures of physician performance is not known... - What is different about workers' compensation patients? Socioeconomic predictors of baseline disability status among patients with lumbar radiculopathySteven J Atlas
General Medicine Division, Medical Services, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 32:2019-26. 2007..Combined analysis of 2 prospective clinical studies... - Is this "my" patient? Development and validation of a predictive model to link patients to primary care providersSteven J Atlas
General Medicine Division, Medical Services, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
J Gen Intern Med 21:973-8. 2006..Evaluating the quality of care provided by individual primary care physicians (PCPs) may be limited by failing to know which patients the PCP feels personally responsible for... - Primary care involvement and outcomes of care in patients with a workers' compensation claim for back painSteven J Atlas
General Medicine Division and the Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Medical Services, MA General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 29:1041-8. 2004..A retrospective case series of primary care patients receiving Workers' Compensation (WC) for back pain... - Evaluating and managing acute low back pain in the primary care settingS J Atlas
General Medicine Division and the Medical Practices Evaluation Center, Medical Services, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
J Gen Intern Med 16:120-31. 2001..The prognosis for most patients is good, although recurrence is common. Thus, educating patients about the natural history of acute low back pain and how to prevent future episodes can help ensure reasonable expectations... - Surgical and nonsurgical management of lumbar spinal stenosis: four-year outcomes from the maine lumbar spine studyS J Atlas
Medical Practices Evaluation Center and the General Medicine Division, Medical Services, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 25:556-62. 2000..A prospective cohort study of patients with lumbar spinal stenosis recruited from the practices of orthopedic surgeons and neurosurgeons throughout Maine... - Surgical and nonsurgical management of sciatica secondary to a lumbar disc herniation: five-year outcomes from the Maine Lumbar Spine StudyS J Atlas
General Medicine Division and the Medical Practices Evaluation Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston 02114, USA
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 26:1179-87. 2001..A prospective cohort study... - Long-term disability and return to work among patients who have a herniated lumbar disc: the effect of disability compensationS J Atlas
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston 02114, USA
J Bone Joint Surg Am 82:4-15. 2000..Therefore, we believe that it is important to describe the long-term outcomes for patients who have herniation of a lumbar disc and sciatica according to the Workers' Compensation status at the time of the preoperative consultation... - Evaluation and treatment of low back pain: an evidence-based approach to clinical careSteven J Atlas
General Medicine Division, Medical Services, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 50 Staniford Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
Muscle Nerve 27:265-84. 2003..Patients with radicular pain and little or no neurological findings should receive conservative treatment, but elective surgery is appropriate for those with nerve root compression who are unresponsive to conservative therapy... - The Maine-Seattle back questionnaire: a 12-item disability questionnaire for evaluating patients with lumbar sciatica or stenosis: results of a derivation and validation cohort analysisSteven J Atlas
General Medicine Division and the Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Medical Services, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston 02114, USA
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 28:1869-76. 2003..Analysis of health-related quality of life data obtained from a prospective cohort study of patients with sciatica due to an intervertebral disc herniation or lumbar spinal stenosis... - The Maine Lumbar Spine Study, Part III. 1-year outcomes of surgical and nonsurgical management of lumbar spinal stenosisS J Atlas
Medical Practices Evaluation Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 21:1787-94; discussion 1794-5. 1996..Comparisons of outcomes by treatment received must be made cautiously because of differences in baseline characteristics. A determination of whether the outcomes observed persist requires long-term follow-up... - The Maine Lumbar Spine Study, Part II. 1-year outcomes of surgical and nonsurgical management of sciaticaS J Atlas
Medical Practices Evaluation Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 21:1777-86. 1996..These results should be interpreted cautiously, because surgical treatment was not assigned randomly. Long-term follow-up will determine if these differences persist... - The Quebec Task Force classification for Spinal Disorders and the severity, treatment, and outcomes of sciatica and lumbar spinal stenosisS J Atlas
Medical Practices Evaluation Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 21:2885-92. 1996..These results provide validation for the classification and its wider adoption. Nonetheless, improved diagnostic classifications are needed to predict outcomes better in patients with sciatica who undergo surgery... - Safely increasing the proportion of patients with community-acquired pneumonia treated as outpatients: an interventional trialS J Atlas
Medical Practices Evaluation Center and the General Medicine Division, Medical Services, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston 02114, USA
Arch Intern Med 158:1350-6. 1998..Such patients should be candidates for outpatient treatment, yet many are hospitalized... - The impact of workers' compensation on outcomes of surgical and nonoperative therapy for patients with a lumbar disc herniation: SPORTSteven J Atlas
General Medicine Division, Medical Services, MA General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 35:89-97. 2010..Prospective randomized and observational cohorts... - Processes of care, illness severity, and outcomes in the management of community-acquired pneumonia at academic hospitalsJ Dedier
Section of General Internal Medicine Research Unit, Department of Medicine, Boston Medical Center, 91 E Concord St, Suite 200, Boston, MA 02118 2393, USA
Arch Intern Med 161:2099-104. 2001.... - Mammography FastTrack: an intervention to facilitate reminders for breast cancer screening across a heterogeneous multi-clinic primary care networkWilliam T Lester
Laboratory of Computer Science, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 50 Staniford Street, 7th Floor, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
J Am Med Inform Assoc 16:187-95. 2009..Overall, 63% of patients were successfully contacted. Systematic population-based efforts are promising tools to improve preventative care... - A culturally tailored navigator program for colorectal cancer screening in a community health center: a randomized, controlled trialSanja Percac-Lima
Chelsea HealthCare Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Chelsea, MA 02150, USA
J Gen Intern Med 24:211-7. 2009..Minority racial/ethnic groups have low colorectal cancer (CRC) screening rates... - Barriers to follow-up of an abnormal Pap smear in Latina women referred for colposcopySanja Percac-Lima
Chelsea HealthCare Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, 151 Everett Avenue, Chelsea, MA 02150, USA
J Gen Intern Med 25:1198-204. 2010..Lower rates of follow-up after an abnormal Pap smear in racial and ethnic minorities may contribute to the higher incidence and mortality rates of cervical cancer seen in these groups... 
Relationship between patient panel characteristics and primary care physician clinical performance rankingsClemens S Hong
School of Medicine, Harvard University, and General Medicine Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
JAMA 304:1107-13. 2010..Physicians have increasingly become the focus of clinical performance measurement...- Barriers to screening colonoscopy for low-income Latino and white patients in an urban community health centerAlexander R Green
The Disparities Solutions Center at the Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
J Gen Intern Med 23:834-40. 2008..Colonoscopy is a screening modality for the early detection of colonic polyps and cancers but is underutilized, particularly among minorities... - Health-related quality of life in patients with sinusitisJeffrey A Linder
Division of General Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, 1620 Tremont Street, BC 3 2X, Boston, MA 02120, USA
Curr Allergy Asthma Rep 4:490-5. 2004..In this article, we review the definition of HRQL, the meaning and importance of validating HRQL measures, the impact of sinusitis on HRQL, and validated measures of HRQL for use in research and in clinical practice... - Measures of health-related quality of life for adults with acute sinusitis. A systematic reviewJeffrey A Linder
Division of General Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital and the General Medicine Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Mass, USA
J Gen Intern Med 18:390-401. 2003..We identified symptom scores and HRQL instruments for adults with sinusitis and assessed their performance characteristics... - Validity of a new health-related quality of life instrument for patients with chronic sinusitisSteven J Atlas
General Medicine Division and the Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Medical Services, Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Department of Otolaryngology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Laryngoscope 115:846-54. 2005..If validated in other patient populations, this disease-specific instrument may be useful in assessing severity and outcomes of treatment for sinusitis... - The effect of surgical and nonsurgical treatment on longitudinal outcomes of lumbar spinal stenosis over 10 yearsYuchiao Chang
General Medicine Division and the Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Medical Services, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 53:785-92. 2005..To assess the relative effect of initial surgical and nonsurgical treatment on longitudinal outcomes of patients with lumbar spinal stenosis over a 10-year follow-up period... - Classics from the spine literature revisited: a randomized trial of 2 versus 7 days of recommended bed rest for acute low back painS J Atlas
Medical Practices Evaluation Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 22:2331-7. 1997..In spite of this, bed rest recommendations for episodes of low back pain remain common. Additional efforts are needed to change clinical practice... - Performance on preventive cancer screening tests in the ambulatory setting by internal medicine resident physiciansPerry G An
Medical Services, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Teach Learn Med 22:45-9. 2010..Limited information exists about the quality and determinants of ambulatory care by resident physicians... - Symptoms of distress as prospective predictors of pain-related sciatica treatment outcomesRobert R Edwards
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 600 N Wolfe Street, Meyer 1 108, Baltimore, MD 21287, United States
Pain 130:47-55. 2007..Future research should determine whether the prospective identification and treatment of patients with high levels of distress (a "yellow flag") is associated with improved treatment outcomes... - Automated identification of a physician's primary patientsThomas A Lasko
MIT CSAIL, 32 Vassar Street, 32 252, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
J Am Med Inform Assoc 13:74-9. 2006..To develop and validate an automated method for determining the set of patients for whom a given primary care physician holds overall clinical responsibility... - Is there a continuing role for prospective observational studies in spine research?Robert B Keller
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 30:847-9. 2005 - GTP cyclohydrolase and tetrahydrobiopterin regulate pain sensitivity and persistenceIrmgard Tegeder
Neural Plasticity Research Group, Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 149 13th Street, Room 4309, Charlestown, Massachusetts 02129, USA
Nat Med 12:1269-77. 2006..BH4 is therefore an intrinsic regulator of pain sensitivity and chronicity, and the GTP cyclohydrolase haplotype is a marker for these traits...