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| Joshua J FentonSummaryAffiliation: University of California Country: USA Publications
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Physician counseling for colorectal cancer screening: impact on patient attitudes, beliefs, and behaviorJoshua J Fenton
Departments of Family and Community Medicine, University of California at Davis, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
J Am Board Fam Med 24:673-81. 2011....
External validation of Medicare claims codes for digital mammography and computer-aided detectionJoshua J Fenton
Department of Family and Community Medicine and Center for Healthcare Research and Policy, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, California 95817, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 21:1344-7. 2012..Claims codes for digital mammography and computer-aided detection (CAD), for example, have not been validated against a credible external reference standard...- The cost of satisfaction: a national study of patient satisfaction, health care utilization, expenditures, and mortalityJoshua J Fenton
Department of Family and Community Medicine and Center for Healthcare Policy and Research, University of California Davis, 4860 Y St, Ambulatory Care Center, Ste 2300, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
Arch Intern Med 172:405-11. 2012..Patient satisfaction is a widely used health care quality metric. However, the relationship between patient satisfaction and health care utilization, expenditures, and outcomes remains ill defined... - Influence of computer-aided detection on performance of screening mammographyJoshua J Fenton
University of California, Davis, Sacramento, USA
N Engl J Med 356:1399-409. 2007..Since the Food and Drug Administration approved the technology in 1998, it has been disseminated into practice, but its effect on the accuracy of interpretation is unclear... 
Continuity of care and cancer screening among health plan enrolleesJoshua J Fenton
Department of Family and Community Medicine and Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, California 95817, USA
Med Care 46:58-62. 2008..In addition, little is known about the relationship between continuity of care and receipt of colorectal and prostate cancer screening...- Effectiveness of computer-aided detection in community mammography practiceJoshua J Fenton
Department of Family and Community Medicine and Center for Healthcare Policy and Research, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
J Natl Cancer Inst 103:1152-61. 2011..Computer-aided detection (CAD) is applied during screening mammography for millions of US women annually, although it is uncertain whether CAD improves breast cancer detection when used by community radiologists... - Trends in colorectal cancer testing among Medicare subpopulationsJoshua J Fenton
Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California Davis, 4860 Y Street, Suite 2300, Sacramento CA 95817, USA
Am J Prev Med 35:194-202. 2008..In mid-2001, universal coverage was advanced to screening colonoscopy. This study sought to determine whether trends in CRC testing differed among racial/ethnic, age, or gender subgroups of the Medicare population... - Delivery of cancer screening: how important is the preventive health examination?Joshua J Fenton
Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
Arch Intern Med 167:580-5. 2007..Patients and physicians strongly endorse the importance of preventive or periodic health examinations (PHEs). However, the extent to which PHEs contribute to the delivery of cancer screening is uncertain... - Specificity of clinical breast examination in community practiceJoshua J Fenton
Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
J Gen Intern Med 22:332-7. 2007.... - Persistent racial and ethnic disparities in up-to-date colorectal cancer testing in medicare enrolleesJoshua J Fenton
Department of Family and Community Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, California 95817, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 57:412-8. 2009.... - Bringing geriatricians to the front lines: evaluation of a quality improvement intervention in primary careJoshua J Fenton
Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
J Am Board Fam Med 19:331-9. 2006..We evaluated the health utilization impacts of an innovative intervention emphasizing chronic disease self-management and physical activity promotion among frail elders in primary care... - Influence of primary care use on population delivery of colorectal cancer screeningJoshua J Fenton
Department of Family and Community Medicine and Center for Healthcare Policy and Research, University of California Davis, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 18:640-5. 2009..Within a defined population, we quantified the percent of CRC screening underuse that is potentially explained by low use of primary care visits... - Quality of preventive care for diabetes: effects of visit frequency and competing demandsJoshua J Fenton
Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, Calif 95817, USA
Ann Fam Med 4:32-9. 2006.... - Internal validation of procedure codes on Medicare claims for digital mammograms and computer-aided detectionJoshua J Fenton
Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 18:2186-9. 2009..Billing data, such as Medicare claims, are a potential data source for evaluative studies of new digital mammography technologies, such as digital mammography and computer-aided detection (CAD)... - Longitudinal adherence with fecal occult blood test screening in community practiceJoshua J Fenton
Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, California 95817, USA
Ann Fam Med 8:397-401. 2010..Among patients who had previously engaged in FOBT screening, we assessed subsequent adherence with FOBT screening... - Patient-provider sex and race/ethnicity concordance: a national study of healthcare and outcomesAnthony Jerant
Department of Family and Community Medicine, Center for Healthcare Policy and Research, University of California Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
Med Care 49:1012-20. 2011..Increasing patient-provider sex and race/ethnicity concordance has been proposed to improve healthcare and help mitigate health disparities, but the relationship between concordance and health outcomes remains unclear... - Geographic variation of racial/ethnic disparities in colorectal cancer testing among medicare enrolleesThomas J Semrad
Division of Hematology Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of California Davis Sacramento, California 95817, USA
Cancer 117:1755-63. 2011..The Medicare population has documented racial/ethnic disparities in colorectal cancer (CRC) screening, but it is unknown whether these disparities differ across geographic regions... - Reality check: perceived versus actual performance of community mammographersJoshua J Fenton
Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California, Davis, 4860 Y St, Ste 2300, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
AJR Am J Roentgenol 187:42-6. 2006..2%). CONCLUSION: Despite regular performance feedback, community radiologists may overestimate their true rates of recommending further evaluation after screening mammography and underestimate their true positive predictive value... - Extended office hours and health care expenditures: a national studyAnthony Jerant
Department of Family and Community Medicine, Center for Healthcare Policy and Research, University of California Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, California 95817, USA
Ann Fam Med 10:388-95. 2012..We examined the association between reported access to extended office hours and both health care expenditures and mortality... - Primary care attributes and mortality: a national person-level studyAnthony Jerant
Department of Family and Community Medicine, Center for Healthcare Policy and Research, University of California Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, California 95817, USA
Ann Fam Med 10:34-41. 2012..We examined whether patient-reported access to selected primary care attributes, including some emphasized in the medical home literature, is associated with lower individual mortality risk... - Does applicant personality influence multiple mini-interview performance and medical school acceptance offers?Anthony Jerant
Department of Family and Community Medicine, Center for Healthcare Policy and Research, University of California, Davis, School of Medicine, Sacramento, California 95817, USA
Acad Med 87:1250-9. 2012..To examine relationships among applicant personality, Multiple Mini-Interview (MMI) performance, and medical school acceptance offers... - Determinants of racial/ethnic colorectal cancer screening disparitiesAnthony F Jerant
Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California Davis School of Medicine, 4860 Y St, Ste 2300, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
Arch Intern Med 168:1317-24. 2008..The contributions of demographic, socioeconomic, access, language, and nativity factors to racial/ethnic colorectal cancer (CRC) screening disparities are uncertain... - Variation in reported safety of lumbar interbody fusion: influence of industrial sponsorship and other study characteristicsJoshua J Fenton
Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 32:471-80. 2007..Systematic review... - Gender of physician as the usual source of care and patient health care utilization and mortalityAnthony Jerant
Department of Family and Community Medicine, Center for Healthcare Policy and Research, University of California Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
J Am Board Fam Med 26:138-48. 2013..The objective of this study was to examine associations of the gender of a patient's usual source of health care (USOC) with health care utilization and mortality... - Interventions to support diabetes self-management: the key role of the patient in diabetes careJim Nuovo
Chronic Disease Management Program, UC Davis Health System, 4860 Y Street, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
Curr Diabetes Rev 3:226-8. 2007..In this paper we define and characterize the elements of self-management and review the published literature for the evidence of the benefit of interventions that support patient self-management... - Mammography facility characteristics associated with interpretive accuracy of screening mammographyStephen Taplin
Applied Research Program, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA
J Natl Cancer Inst 100:876-87. 2008..Understanding sources of facility variation could become a foundation for improving interpretive performance... - Balancing mammography's benefits and harmsJoshua J Fenton
BMJ 328:E301-2. 2004 - Patient self-referral for radiologic screening tests: clinical and ethical concernsJoshua J Fenton
Department of Family Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle 98195 7183, USA
J Am Board Fam Pract 16:494-501. 2003..Primary care physicians and their professional societies should emphasize the uncertain benefits and potential hazards of indiscriminate imaging among healthy, asymptomatic consumers... - Frequency and priority of pain patients' health care useMichael Von Korff
Center for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound, 1730 Minor Avenue, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
Clin J Pain 23:400-8. 2007..This study assesses reasons for health care visits of pain patients versus controls, and compares characteristics of pain patients who differ in frequency and priority of service use... - Active management of the third stage of labor among American Indian womenJoshua J Fenton
Department of Family Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195 4694, USA
Fam Med 37:410-4. 2005..This study's objective was to judge whether active management of the third stage of labor is as effective in reducing maternal blood loss among rural American Indian women as in randomized trials... - Screening computed tomography: will it result in overdiagnosis of renal carcinoma?Joshua J Fenton
Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, Department of Family Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195 7183, USA
Cancer 100:986-90. 2004..S. One plausible harm is the detection and treatment of renal carcinoma cases that otherwise would have remained clinically silent during the patient's lifetime... - Screening for coronary calcificationJoshua J Fenton
JAMA 290:1576-7; author reply 1577. 2003