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| Joshua J FentonSummaryAffiliation: University of Washington Country: USA Publications
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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...- 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... - 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 for coronary calcificationJoshua J Fenton
JAMA 290:1576-7; author reply 1577. 2003 
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...- 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... - 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... - 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.... - 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... - Balancing mammography's benefits and harmsJoshua J Fenton
BMJ 328:E301-2. 2004 
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...