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| Celeste A LemaySummaryAffiliation: University of Massachusetts Medical School Country: USA Publications
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A new approach to ensuring oral health care for people living with HIV/AIDS: the dental case managerCeleste A Lemay
Meyers Primary Care Institute, Worcester, MA 01605, USA
Prev Chronic Dis 9:E158. 2012....
Community health worker encounter forms: a tool to guide and document patient visits and worker performanceCeleste A Lemay
University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01605, USA
Am J Public Health 102:e70-5. 2012..We explored the benefits of using community health worker (CHW) encounter forms to collect data on patient interactions and assessed the effectiveness of these forms in guiding and directing interactions...
Lessons learned from a collaborative to improve care for patients with diabetes in 17 community health centers, Massachusetts, 2006Celeste A Lemay
University of Massachusetts Medical School, 55 Lake Ave N, Benedict Bldg, Worcester, MA 01655, USA
Prev Chronic Dis 7:A83. 2010..Our goal was to identify facilitators of and barriers to success reported by teams that participated in this collaborative...
A qualitative study of the meaning of fatherhood among young urban fathersCeleste A Lemay
Office of Community Programs, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts 01655 0002, USA
Public Health Nurs 27:221-31. 2010..To explore the beliefs, attitudes, and needs young men have regarding their role as a father...
Satisfaction with dental case management among people living with HIV/AIDSCeleste A Lemay
University of Massachusetts Medical School, 55 Lake Avenue North, Worcester, MA 01655, USA
J Community Health 35:43-52. 2010..The addition of the DCM to the dental facility appears to facilitate access to dental care for those connected to medical care through community outreach/partnerships and provides some respondents with an identified dental advocate...
Adolescent mothers' attitudes toward contraceptive use before and after pregnancyCeleste A Lemay
Division of Adolescent Medicine University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts 01655, USA
J Pediatr Adolesc Gynecol 20:233-40. 2007..To understand attitudes and beliefs influencing use and nonuse of contraceptive methods pre- and postpartum among a group of adolescent mothers...
The body mass index of teen mothers and their toddler childrenCeleste A Lemay
Division of Adolescent Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of Massachusetts Medical School, 55 Lake Avenue North, Benedict Building, A3 110, Worcester, MA, 01655, USA
Matern Child Health J 12:112-8. 2008..To evaluate: change in Body Mass Index (BMI) of adolescent mothers (14-19 years of age) from pre-pregnancy to 36 months postpartum; BMI of their children age 2 or older; relationship between maternal BMI and children's BMI...
Effect of a low-cost intervention on recording body mass index in patients' recordsCeleste A Lemay
Office of Community Programs, University of Massachusetts Medical School, 222 Maple Avenue Chang Building, Shrewsbury, MA 01545, USA
J Nurs Scholarsh 36:312-5. 2004..Evaluate the effectiveness of body mass index (BMI) tables placed in exam rooms as an intervention to encourage providers to calculate and record BMI scores in patients' medical records...
More than words: Patients' views on apology and disclosure when things go wrong in cancer careKathleen M Mazor
Meyers Primary Care Institute, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Fallon Clinic, Fallon Community Health Plan, Department of Medicine, Worcester, MA, USA Electronic address
Patient Educ Couns 90:341-6. 2013..This study examines whether patients consider recommended responses to be appropriate and desirable, and whether clinicians' actions after adverse events are consistent with recommendations...
Toward patient-centered cancer care: patient perceptions of problematic events, impact, and responseKathleen M Mazor
Meyers Primary Care Institute, Worcester, MA 01605, USA
J Clin Oncol 30:1784-90. 2012..Consequently, patients are vulnerable when breakdowns in care occur. This study explored cancer patients' perceptions of preventable, harmful events; the impact of these events; and interactions with clinicians after such events...
Community health workers assisting patients with diabetes in self-managementJ Lee Hargraves
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts 01655, USA
J Ambul Care Manage 35:15-26. 2012....
Underdiagnosis of obesity at a community health centerCeleste A Lemay
Office of Community Programs, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, USA
J Am Board Fam Pract 16:14-21. 2003..As evidenced by significantly higher BMI scores for provider-diagnosed obesity, the data suggest that the obesity diagnosis is made by appearance. The importance of teaching and modeling the use of BMI to diagnose obesity is underscored...
Adolescents' understanding of research concepts: a focus group studyDiane R Blake
Department of Pediatrics, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01655, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 165:533-9. 2011..To identify ways to improve adolescents' understanding of informed assent by exploring adolescent comprehension of concepts common to all clinical trials as well as those specific to a human immunodeficiency virus vaccine trial...
Performance of urine leukocyte esterase in asymptomatic male youth: another look with nucleic acid amplification testing as the gold standard for Chlamydia detectionDiane R Blake
Department of Pediatrics, University of Massachusetts Medical School, 55 Lake Avenue North, Worcester, MA 01655, USA
J Adolesc Health 36:337-41. 2005..To re-evaluate the sensitivity and specificity of leukocyte esterase (LE) for screening adolescent and young adult males for Chlamydia trachomatis using a nucleic acid amplification test (NAAT) as the gold standard...
Correlates of readiness to receive Chlamydia screening among 2 populations of youthsDiane R Blake
Department of Pediatrics, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01655, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 161:1088-94. 2007..To assess young people's preferences for Chlamydia testing venues and methods, attitudes about testing, sex differences among these variables, and their predictive associations with young people's readiness for screening...
Factors associated with preventive dental care-seeking behavior among people living with HIVCarol R Tobias
Department of Health Policy and Management, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
J Public Health Dent 72:60-7. 2012..This study examined factors associated with preventive dental care-seeking behavior among HIV-positive adults who participated in a federally funded demonstration project to expand access to oral health care...
Patient health status and appointment keeping in an urban community health centerSuzanne B Cashman
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, at The University of Massachusetts Medical School, USA
J Health Care Poor Underserved 15:474-88. 2004..Patient appointment keeping is predictable; definable, measurable characteristics of patients can contribute to setting priorities for customizing interventions...
