Jeanne M Ferrante

..Further research is needed to determine if interventions to increase knowledge of physicians will lead to less negative attitudes toward weight loss and extremely obese patients...

..To study this, we analyzed a patient cohort from an urban university medical center where these women made up the majority of the patient population...

..We evaluated the pilot use of a patient navigator (PN), someone who helps patients use the health care system effectively and efficiently, in primary care practices...

..Educating men in the community through mass media about benefits and limitations of prostate cancer screening may be more effective to promote and facilitate shared decision making with their physicians...

..We examined whether PCMH principles (personal physician, physician-directed team, whole-person orientation, coordination of care, quality and safety, and enhanced access) are associated with receipt of preventive services...

..Future research studies testing the effectiveness of these strategies are needed to improve cancer outcomes in this high-risk population...

..We examined the association between primary care utilization and CRC screening, stage at diagnosis, CRC mortality, and all-cause mortality...

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..In addition, little is known about family physicians' knowledge and practices regarding chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection or monitoring for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC)...

..3 vs. 2.9; p<.001). Patient navigation is an effective strategy to improve timely diagnostic resolution, significantly decrease anxiety, and increase patient satisfaction among urban minority women with abnormal mammograms...

..This study evaluated associations between body mass index (BMI) and receipt of and adherence to physician recommendations for mammography and Pap smear...

..It is unknown if specialty of usual provider of care affects time from discovery of a breast screening abnormality to diagnostic resolution...

..Previous studies using telephone survey data showed that obese women were less likely to receive colorectal cancer screening. It is unknown if this is true among patients in primary care practices...

..It is unclear if these findings are true in nonwhite women. Using chart audit data, we examined the relationship between obesity and mammography and Pap smear screening among minority women...

..Little is known regarding characteristics associated with patient adherence to physician recommendations in community and academic based primary care settings...

..We used the Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results (SEER)-Medicare database to explore the association between primary care and breast cancer outcomes...

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..Increased-risk participants had 32% decreased odds of screening (OR 0.68, 95% CI 0.42-1.08). Low screening rates among increased-risk individuals highlight the need for screening interventions targeting these patients...

..Our research therefore suggests that personality may act as an important mediator in health behavior, and should be taken into account in future theoretical models and health behavior interventions, particularly for obese women...

..This study examines whether primary care practices that involve staff in general forms of health education have higher CRC screening rates than practices that do not...

..To describe and evaluate participant recruitment for a research study conducted in primary care offices...

..We assessed the relationship between diabetes flow sheet use and diabetes patient care outcomes in the everyday practice of primary care...

..CONCLUSION Survivors have concerns about seeing their primary care physician for cancer-related follow-up care. Research interventions to address these issues are necessary to enhance the quality of care received by cancer survivors...

..CONCLUSIONS: Empiric treatment for an asymptomatic, minimally abnormal Papanicolaou smear with 0.75% metronidazole vaginal gel before a repeated cytologic examination did not improve the rate of reversion to normal cytologic findings...

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