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| Monica E PeekSummaryAffiliation: Rush University Medical Center Country: USA Publications
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Disparities in screening mammography. Current status, interventions and implicationsMonica E Peek
Division of General Internal Medicine, Ruch Medical College, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Ill 60612, USA
J Gen Intern Med 19:184-94. 2004..We also describe the barriers to mammography and report effective interventions to enhance utilization...- Barriers and facilitators to shared decision-making among African-Americans with diabetesMonica E Peek
Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, 5841 S Maryland, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
J Gen Intern Med 24:1135-9. 2009..African-Americans have less SDM than Whites, which may contribute to diabetes racial disparities. To date, there has been little research on SDM among African-Americans... 
Compliance and self-reported barriers to follow-up of abnormal screening mammograms among women utilizing a county mobile mammography vanMonica E Peek
Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
Health Care Women Int 30:857-70. 2009..We concluded that programs that utilize mobile mammography should include intensive, multilingual tracking systems in order increase diagnostic follow-up for this vulnerable population...- A study of national physician organizations' efforts to reduce racial and ethnic health disparities in the United StatesMonica E Peek
University of Chicago, Section of General Internal Medicine, 5841 S Maryland, MC 2007, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Acad Med 87:694-700. 2012..To characterize national physician organizations' efforts to reduce health disparities and identify organizational characteristics associated with such efforts... - Early lessons from an initiative on Chicago's South Side to reduce disparities in diabetes care and outcomesMonica E Peek
Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 31:177-86. 2012..Our initiative neatly aligns with, and can inform the implementation of, the accountable care organization-a delivery system reform in which groups of providers take responsibility for improving the health of a defined population... 
An innovative partnership to address breast cancer screening among vulnerable populationsMonica E Peek
The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA
Educ Health (Abingdon) 20:52. 2007..S. women. Vulnerable populations such as low-income women, racial/ethnic minorities, and the uninsured have lower rates of screening mammography use and bear a disproportionate burden of disease...- Are there racial differences in patients' shared decision-making preferences and behaviors among patients with diabetes?Monica E Peek
Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Med Decis Making 31:422-31. 2011..Patient factors have not been fully explored as a potential contributor to communication disparities... - Using mobile health to support the chronic care model: developing an institutional initiativeShantanu Nundy
Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA Chicago Center for Diabetes Translation Research, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Int J Telemed Appl 2012:871925. 2012..The program supports self-management and team-based care in a way that we believe engages patients yet meets the limited availability of providers and needs of health plan administrators... - Race and shared decision-making: perspectives of African-Americans with diabetesMonica E Peek
The University of Chicago, Department of Medicine, 5841 S Maryland Avenue, MC 2007, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Soc Sci Med 71:1-9. 2010..Finding innovative ways to address such communication barriers is an important area of future research... - Fear, fatalism and breast cancer screening in low-income African-American women: the role of clinicians and the health care systemMonica E Peek
Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
J Gen Intern Med 23:1847-53. 2008..Cultural attitudes and beliefs, such as fear and fatalism, have not been fully explored as potential barriers to mammography among African-American women... - Gender differences in diabetes-related lower extremity amputationsMonica E Peek
Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, 5841 S Maryland Avenue MC 2007, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Clin Orthop Relat Res 469:1951-5. 2011..Only when we have a better understanding of the causes of such differences can we begin to make strides in addressing them... - Developing a behavioral model for mobile phone-based diabetes interventionsShantanu Nundy
Department of Medicine, University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Patient Educ Couns 90:125-32. 2013..Behavioral models for mobile phone-based diabetes interventions are lacking. This study explores the potential mechanisms by which a text message-based diabetes program affected self-management among African-Americans... - Feasibility and usability of a text message-based program for diabetes self-management in an urban African-American populationJonathan J Dick
Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
J Diabetes Sci Technol 5:1246-54. 2011.... - Adapting the everyday discrimination scale to medical settings: reliability and validity testing in a sample of African American patientsMonica E Peek
Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Ethn Dis 21:502-9. 2011..Consequently, we sought to test the psychometric properties of a modified version of the Everyday Discrimination scale, adapted for medical settings... - The use of quality improvement and health information technology approaches to improve diabetes outcomes in African American and Hispanic patientsArshiya A Baig
University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Med Care Res Rev 67:163S-197S. 2010.... - Mobile mammography: assessment of self-referral in reaching medically underserved womenMonica E Peek
Division of General Internal Medicine, The University of Chicago, IL 60637, USA
J Natl Med Assoc 99:398-403. 2007..Mobile mammography can be useful in reaching medically underserved women. However, it is not known whether self-referral for mobile mammography is the best approach for reaching the most vulnerable populations... - Interventions to enhance breast cancer screening, diagnosis, and treatment among racial and ethnic minority womenChristopher M Masi
The University of Chicago, Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Med Care Res Rev 64:195S-242S. 2007..Additional support for these and other proven health care organization-based interventions appears justified and may be necessary to eliminate racial and ethnic breast cancer disparities... - Screening mammography in the elderly: a review of the issuesMonica E Peek
Division of General Internal Medicine, Rush Medical College, Rush-Presbyterian-St Luke's Medical Center, Chicago, USA
J Am Med Womens Assoc 58:191-8. 2003..Ultimately, the decision to continue breast cancer screening should be made by the patient and her physician after carefully weighing the risks and benefits of the procedure, which generally become more favorable as women age... - National prevalence of lifestyle counseling or referral among African-Americans and whites with diabetesMonica E Peek
Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
J Gen Intern Med 23:1858-64. 2008..Despite this, little is known about how frequently physicians provide counseling or referral to address these risk factors, or whether such rates differ by patient race...