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Meditation or exercise for preventing acute respiratory infection: a randomized controlled trialBruce Barrett
Department of Family Medicine, University of Wisconsin Madison, 1100 Delaplaine Ct, Madison, WI 53715, USA
Ann Fam Med 10:337-46. 2012..This study was designed to evaluate potential preventive effects of meditation or exercise on incidence, duration, and severity of acute respiratory infection (ARI) illness...
Radiation risks: critical analysis and commentaryBruce Barrett
Department of Family Medicine at University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI 53715, USA
Prev Med 54:280-2. 2012..1) To review and summarize what is known about the health risks of radiation. 2) To compare risks from medical imaging to background radiation and to exposure from nuclear accidents...- Evidence, values, guidelines and rational decision-makingBruce Barrett
Department of Family Medicine, University of Wisconsin, 1100 Delaplaine Ct, Madison, WI, USA
J Gen Intern Med 27:238-40. 2012..This essay considers the cases of cancer screening and diabetes management, where guidelines often advocate universal implementation, without regard to informed choice and individual decision-making... 
The Wisconsin Upper Respiratory Symptom Survey is responsive, reliable, and validBruce Barrett
Department of Family Medicine, University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison, 53715, USA
J Clin Epidemiol 58:609-17. 2005..To assess reliability, responsiveness, importance to patients, and convergent validity for the Wisconsin Upper Respiratory Symptom Survey (WURSS-44) and to develop a short-form WURSS...- Clinical significance of common cold treatment: professionals' opinionsBruce Barrett
University of Wisconsin Madison, USA
WMJ 106:473-80. 2007..Little is known about professionals' knowledge and attitudes regarding the clinical significance of treatments for common cold (upper respiratory infection, presumed viral)... - Relations among questionnaire and laboratory measures of rhinovirus infectionB Barrett
University of Wisconsin Medical School, 777 S Mills, Madison, WI 53715, USA
Eur Respir J 28:358-63. 2006..The inclusion of functional and quality-of-life items in the Wisconsin Upper Respiratory Symptom Survey does not significantly decrease the strength of association with laboratory-assessed biomarkers... - Placebo, meaning, and healthBruce Barrett
Department of Family Medicine, University of Wisconsin Madison, 777 South Mills, 53715, USA
Perspect Biol Med 49:178-98. 2006..These clinical actions can empower patients to seek greater health and may provide a healthful sense of being cared for... - Comparison of anchor-based and distributional approaches in estimating important difference in common coldBruce Barrett
Department of Family Medicine, University of Wisconsin Medical School, 777 South Mills, Madison, WI 53715, USA
Qual Life Res 17:75-85. 2008..Several approaches to minimal important difference (MID) and responsiveness have been developed... - What a fair and rational health system would look likeBruce Barrett
Department of Family Medicine, University of Wisconsin Madison, 777 S Mills, Madison, WI 53715 1896, USA
WMJ 106:9-11. 2007..All comparable nations achieve better outcomes with fewer resources using this model. We can too... - Sufficiently important difference for common cold: severity reductionBruce Barrett
Department of Family Medicine, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisc 53715, USA
Ann Fam Med 5:216-23. 2007..We undertook a study to estimate the sufficiently important difference (SID) for the common cold. The SID is the smallest benefit that an intervention would require to justify costs and risks... - Using benefit harm tradeoffs to estimate sufficiently important difference: the case of the common coldBruce Barrett
Department of Family Medicine, University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison, WI 53715, USA
Med Decis Making 25:47-55. 2005..Little is known about patient preferences regarding benefits and harms of common cold treatments... - Rationale and methods for a trial assessing placebo, echinacea, and doctor-patient interaction in the common coldBruce Barrett
Department of Family Medicine, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
Explore (NY) 3:561-72. 2007.... - Placebo effects and the common cold: a randomized controlled trialBruce Barrett
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Ann Fam Med 9:312-22. 2011.... - Communicating benefits and risks of screening for prostate, colon, and breast cancerBruce Barrett
Department of Family Medicine, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 53715, USA
Fam Med 43:248-53. 2011.... - Validation of a short form Wisconsin Upper Respiratory Symptom Survey (WURSS-21)Bruce Barrett
Department of Family Medicine, School of Nursing, University of Wisconsin Madison 1100 Delaplaine Ct, Madison, WI 53715 USA
Health Qual Life Outcomes 7:76. 2009..The Wisconsin Upper Respiratory Symptom Survey (WURSS) is an illness-specific health-related quality-of-life questionnaire outcomes instrument... - Echinacea for upper respiratory infectionB Barrett
Department of Family Medicine, University of Wisconsin Madison, 53715, USA
J Fam Pract 48:628-35. 1999..To review the evidence regarding the effectiveness of orally ingested Echinacea extracts in reducing the incidence, severity, or duration of acute upper respiratory infections (URIs)... - Complementary and alternative medicine: what's it all about?B Barrett
Department of Family Medicine, University of Wisconsin Medical School, 777 S Mills, Madison, WI 53715, USA
WMJ 100:20-6. 2001..Whether the CAM phenomenon represents a short-lived social movement or the beginnings of a radical transformation of medicine has yet to be determined... - Sufficiently important difference: expanding the framework of clinical significanceBruce Barrett
Department of Family Medicine at the University of Wisconsin Madison, USA
Med Decis Making 25:250-61. 2005..quot;.. - Qualitative aspects of nasal irrigation use by patients with chronic sinus disease in a multimethod studyDavid Rabago
Department of Family, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53715, USA
Ann Fam Med 4:295-301. 2006..We qualitatively assessed attitudes regarding use of hypertonic saline nasal irrigation (HSNI) for frequent rhinosinusitis and chronic sinonasal symptoms in a 3-part, multimethod study... - Efficacy of daily hypertonic saline nasal irrigation among patients with sinusitis: a randomized controlled trialDavid Rabago
Department of Family Medicine, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 53715, USA
J Fam Pract 51:1049-55. 2002..To test whether daily hypertonic saline nasal irrigation improves sinus symptoms and quality of life and decreases medication use in adult subjects with a history of sinusitis... - Themes of holism, empowerment, access, and legitimacy define complementary, alternative, and integrative medicine in relation to conventional biomedicineBruce Barrett
Department of Family Medicine, University of Wisconsin Medical School, 777 South Mills, Madison, WI 53715, USA
J Altern Complement Med 9:937-47. 2003..By incorporating a more holistic, empowering and accessible therapeutic approach, conventional medicine could build on its present legitimacy, and thereby enhance its power to "HEAL.".. - Alternative, complementary, and conventional medicine: is integration upon us?Bruce Barrett
Department of Family Medicine, University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison, WI 53715, USA
J Altern Complement Med 9:417-27. 2003..This paper identifies potential barriers and facilitators to potential integration, of medical disciplines and argues for an accessible, multidisciplinary and evidence-based, yet humanistic and patient-oriented approach... - The efficacy of hypertonic saline nasal irrigation for chronic sinonasal symptomsDavid Rabago
Department of Family Medicine, University of Wisconsin Medical School Madison, 53715, USA
Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 133:3-8. 2005..To assess quality of life (QOL) in patients with sinonasal symptoms in response to hypertonic saline nasal irrigation (HSNI), and to assess HSNI use patterns... - What complementary and alternative medicine practitioners say about health and health careBruce Barrett
Department of Family Medicine, University of Wisconsin Madison Medical School, Madison, Wisc 53715, USA
Ann Fam Med 2:253-9. 2004..We wanted to explore the beliefs and practices of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) practitioners... - Hmong/medicine interactions: improving cross-cultural health careB Barrett
Department of Family Medicine, University of Wisconsin Madison, USA
Fam Med 30:179-84. 1998..This study examined interactions between Hmong patients and their health care providers and identified specific factors that either enable or obstruct health care delivery... - Medicinal properties of Echinacea: a critical reviewB Barrett
Department of Family Medicine, University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison WI 53715, USA
Phytomedicine 10:66-86. 2003..Hence, while there is a great deal of moderately good-quality scientific data regarding E. purpurea, effectiveness in treating illness or in enhancing human health has not yet been proven beyond a reasonable doubt... - Assessing the risks and benefits of herbal medicine: an overview of scientific evidenceB Barrett
Department of Family Medicine, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
Altern Ther Health Med 5:40-9. 1999.... - The Wisconsin Upper Respiratory Symptom Survey (WURSS): a new research instrument for assessing the common coldBruce Barrett
Department of Family Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
J Fam Pract 51:265. 2002..The instrument fits comfortably on the front and back of a single sheet of paper. CONCLUSIONS: The Wisconsin Upper Respiratory Symptom Survey (WURSS) is ready for formal validity testing or practical use in common cold research... - Bridging the gap between conventional and alternative medicineB Barrett
Department of Family Medicine, University of Wisconsin, Madison 53715, USA
J Fam Pract 49:234-9. 2000..The use of various forms of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) has become widespread. We investigated this use in Madison, Wisconsin... - Nasal irrigation as adjunctive care for acute sinusitisDavid Rabago
J Fam Pract 53:137. 2004 - Nasal irrigation to treat acute bacterial rhinosinusitisDavid Rabago
Am Fam Physician 72:1661-2; author reply 1662-3. 2005 - Medicine and the pharmaceutical industry: a call to actionMelissa M Stiles
Am Fam Physician 75:1447, 1451; discussion 1451. 2007 - Natural and traditional medicine in Cuba: lessons for U.S. medical educationDiane Appelbaum
Emory University, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Atlanta, GA, USA
Acad Med 81:1098-103. 2006..S. medical educators and institutions in their endeavors to comply with the IOM recommendations and to incorporate CAM into medical school curricula...