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A comparison study of multiple measures of adherence to HIV protease inhibitorsH Liu
Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Service Research, 911 Broxton Plaza, Room 102, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1736, USA
Ann Intern Med 134:968-77. 2001..Poor adherence to HIV protease inhibitors may compromise the effectiveness of treatment. Few studies have compared methods for measuring adherence or have related adherence measures to a clinical outcome...
MACH14: A Multi-Site Collaboration on ART Adherence Among 14 InstitutionsHonghu Liu
Division of Public Health and Community Dentistry, School of Dentistry, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
AIDS Behav 17:127-41. 2013....- Case finding for population-based studies of rheumatoid arthritis: comparison of patient self-reported ACR criteria-based algorithms to physician-implicit review for diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritisHonghu Liu
UCLA Department of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1736, USA
Semin Arthritis Rheum 33:302-10. 2004..To evaluate the interrater reliability of rheumatologist diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and the concordance between rheumatologist and computer algorithms for assessing the accuracy of a diagnosis of RA... - Substance abuse and medication adherence among HIV-positive women with histories of child sexual abuseHonghu Liu
UCLA Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, Los Angeles, California 90095 1736, USA
AIDS Behav 10:279-86. 2006..Additional research on how CSA experiences impact health behaviors is needed to help develop culturally congruent interventions to reduce risk behaviors and facilitate better medication adherence for this vulnerable population... - Repeated measures analyses of dose timing of antiretroviral medication and its relationship to HIV virologic outcomesHonghu Liu
UCLA Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1736, USA
Stat Med 26:991-1007. 2007..Investigations of adherence to antiretrovirals would benefit from measuring not only per cent adherence but dose timing adherence... - A practical method to calibrate self-reported adherence to antiretroviral therapyHonghu Liu
Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, Department of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1736, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 43:S104-12. 2006..We investigated methods to calibrate patients' self-reported adherence to match objectively measured adherence more closely for the purpose of developing a practical and more accurate self-reported adherence measure... - A comprehensive evaluation of survey questions for adherence to antiretroviral medications and exploratory analyses for identifying optimal sets of survey questionsHonghu Liu
Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, UCLA Department of Medicine, Los Angeles, California 90095 1736, USA
AIDS Patient Care STDS 20:760-72. 2006..Because these variables are readily obtainable in clinical settings, these selected questions may provide a clinically useful means of screening patients for antiretroviral medication nonadherence... - Repeated measures longitudinal analyses of HIV virologic response as a function of percent adherence, dose timing, genotypic sensitivity, and other factorsHonghu Liu
Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, Department of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles UCLA, 911 Broxton Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1736, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 41:315-22. 2006..The contribution of dose timing and other factors to achieving virologic suppression has received less scrutiny... 
Representativeness of the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System Internet panelHonghu Liu
UCLA Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, University of California Los Angeles, 911 Broxton Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
J Clin Epidemiol 63:1169-78. 2010..To evaluate the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS), which collected data from an Internet polling panel, and to compare PROMIS with national norms...- Calibration of self-reported oral health to clinically determined standardsHonghu Liu
Division of Public Health and Community Dentistry, UCLA School of Dentistry, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1668, USA
Community Dent Oral Epidemiol 38:527-39. 2010..We test hypotheses of trends across covariates, thereby creating optimal calibration models and tools that can adjust self-reported oral health to clinically determined standards... - Severity of child sexual abuse, post- traumatic stress and risky sexual behaviors among HIV-positive womenHector F Myers
Department of Psychology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
AIDS Behav 10:191-9. 2006..The results support the need for interventions for HIV-positive women that address the full burden of abuse experienced and its sequelae... - Does concordance between data sources vary by medical organization type?Diana M Tisnado
Department of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1736, USA
Am J Manag Care 13:289-96. 2007..We tested whether concordance between patient selfreport and medical record data would vary with medical organization type, controlling for patient demographic characteristics, health status, and domain of medical care... - The complexity of care for patients with rheumatoid arthritis: metrics for better understanding chronic disease careKatherine L Kahn
University of California at Los Angeles, Greater Los Angeles VA Healthcare System, Los Angeles, California 90095 1736, USA
Med Care 45:55-65. 2007..Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) provide an important opportunity for understanding care of patients with a serious chronic condition... - Oral white patches in a national sample of medical HIV patients in the era of HAARTMarvin Marcus
Division of Public Health and Community Dentistry, UCLA School of Dentistry, International Center for Dental Health Policy, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1668, USA
Community Dent Oral Epidemiol 33:99-106. 2005..This paper examines the relationships between social, behavioral and medical aspects of HIV infection and reporting an occurrence of oral white patches (OWP) by HIV-infected patients... - Imputation of SF-12 health scores for respondents with partially missing dataHonghu Liu
Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, University of California, Los Angeles, 911 Broxton Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
Health Serv Res 40:905-21. 2005.... - What is the concordance between the medical record and patient self-report as data sources for ambulatory care?Diana M Tisnado
University of California at Los Angeles, CA 90095 1736, USA
Med Care 44:132-40. 2006..The validity of quality of care assessments relies upon data quality, yet little is known about the relative completeness and validity of data sources for evaluating the quality of care... - Does ambulatory process of care predict health-related quality of life outcomes for patients with chronic disease?Katherine L Kahn
Department of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, 911 Broxton Plaza, Box 951736, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1736, USA
Health Serv Res 42:63-83. 2007..We used empirical data from managed care patients enrolled in west coast physician organizations to test the hypothesis that observed changes in health-related quality of life across a 2.5-year window reflecting process of care... - Risk reduction for HIV-positive African American and Latino men with histories of childhood sexual abuseJohn K Williams
Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Semel Institute of Neuroscience and Human Behavior, University of California, Los Angeles, 760 Westwood Plaza, Suite C8 871C, Los Angeles, CA 90024 1759, USA
Arch Sex Behav 37:763-72. 2008.... - A pilot study of health beliefs and attitudes concerning measures of antiretroviral adherence among prisoners receiving directly observed antiretroviral therapyBecky L White
Department of Medicine, Center for Infectious Diseases, University of North Carolina Schools of Medicine and Public Health, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
AIDS Patient Care STDS 20:408-17. 2006..72; p < 0.001). This study provides preliminary support for the psychometric properties of the survey in this correctional setting... - Violence prevention among HIV-positive women with histories of violence: healing women in their communitiesGail E Wyatt
Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90024 1759, USA
Womens Health Issues 21:S255-60. 2011.... - Intimate partner violence and maternal depression during the perinatal period: a longitudinal investigation of LatinasMichael A Rodriguez
Department of Family Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, 10880 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 1800 Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
Violence Against Women 16:543-59. 2010..Findings support recommendations for routine depression and IPV screening of Latinas in perinatal clinical settings... - Adherence to directly observed antiretroviral therapy among human immunodeficiency virus-infected prison inmatesDavid A Wohl
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 27599, USA
Clin Infect Dis 36:1572-6. 2003..Different methods used to measure adherence revealed significantly different levels of adherence. These findings suggest that use of DOT does not ensure adherence to antiretroviral therapy... - No evidence of an association between transient HIV viremia ("Blips") and lower adherence to the antiretroviral medication regimenLoren G Miller
Division of Infectious Diseases, Harbor UCLA Medical Center, and Harbor UCLA Research and Education Institute, and UCLA AIDS Institute Center for AIDS Research, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
J Infect Dis 189:1487-96. 2004..We investigated this relationship in a prospective observational cohort of 128 patients initiating a new regimen... - Readability estimates for commonly used health-related quality of life surveysSylvia H Paz
Department of Health Services, UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1772, USA
Qual Life Res 18:889-900. 2009..To estimate readability of seven commonly used health-related quality of life instruments: SF-36, HUI, EQ-5D, QWB-SA, HALex, Minnesota Living with Heart Failure Questionnaire (MLHFQ), and the NEI-VFQ-25... - A longitudinal analysis of unmet need for oral treatment in a national sample of medical HIV patientsMarvin Marcus
UCLA School of Dentistry, Box 951668, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1668, USA
Am J Public Health 95:73-5. 2005..Disparities in unmet need are related to socioeconomic status rather than to disease stage or ethnicity... - The influence of prenatal trauma, stress, social support, and years of residency in the US on postpartum maternal health status among low-income LatinasLekeisha A Sumner
Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Matern Child Health J 15:1046-54. 2011..Health professionals are encouraged to assess these factors in early pregnancy... - How much time does it take to prescribe a new medication?Derjung M Tarn
Department of Family Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
Patient Educ Couns 72:311-9. 2008..To measure the length of time spent discussing all aspects of new prescriptions and guideline-recommended aspects of counseling, and to evaluate factors associated with duration of discussion... - Item response theory analyses of physical functioning items in the medical outcomes studyRon D Hays
UCLA Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, Los Angeles, California 90024, USA
Med Care 45:S32-8. 2007..The initial focus of PROMIS is on 5 HRQOL domains: physical function, fatigue, pain, emotional distress, and social/role participation. Analysis of related, available data can inform construction of these new banks... - Effects of mode and order of administration on generic health-related quality of life scoresRon D Hays
UCLA Department of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1736, USA
Value Health 12:1035-9. 2009..We evaluate the effects of mode and order of administration on health-related quality of life (HRQOL) scores... - Acculturation of attitudes toward end-of-life care: a cross-cultural survey of Japanese Americans and JapaneseShinji Matsumura
Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Calif 90095-1736, USA
J Gen Intern Med 17:531-9. 2002..Recognition of the variability and acculturation gradient of end-of-life attitudes among Japanese Americans may facilitate decision making and minimize conflicts. Group decision making should be an option for Japanese Americans... - Waiting times in California's emergency departmentsSusan Lambe
Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 94143, USA
Ann Emerg Med 41:35-44. 2003..Yet few data are available on ED waiting times among a heterogeneous group of hospitals serving a distinct geographic region... - Socio-behavioral predictors of self-reported oral health-related quality of lifeCarl A Maida
School of Dentistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Box 951668, 10833 Le Conte Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1668, USA
Qual Life Res 22:559-66. 2013..To examine the relationship between social and financial support, behavioral and sociodemographic variables, and oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) in a national probability sample... - The efficacy of an integrated risk reduction intervention for HIV-positive women with child sexual abuse historiesGail E Wyatt
Neuropsychiatric Institute, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90024 1759, USA
AIDS Behav 8:453-62. 2004.... - Methodological challenges associated with patient responses to follow-up longitudinal surveys regarding quality of careKatherine L Kahn
UCLA School of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1736, USA
Health Serv Res 38:1579-98. 2003.... - Pilot assessment of HIV gene therapy-hematopoietic stem cell clinical trial acceptability among minority patients and their advisorsWilliam Douglas King
Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
J Natl Med Assoc 102:1123-8. 2010.... - Knowledge of antiretroviral regimen dosing and adherence: a longitudinal studyLoren G Miller
Division of Infectious Diseases, Harbor University of California, Los Angeles UCLA Medical Center, Torrance 90502, USA
Clin Infect Dis 36:514-8. 2003..03). Because knowledge deficits are common after antiretroviral regimen initiation, clinicians should assess patients' understanding of medication dosing soon after regimen initiation or change... - How well do clinicians estimate patients' adherence to combination antiretroviral therapy?Loren G Miller
Division of Infectious Diseases, Harbor UCLA Medical Center, Torrance Calif, 90509 USA
J Gen Intern Med 17:1-11. 2002..However, little is known about the accuracy of these assessments. We sought to describe the accuracy of clinicians' estimates of patients' adherence to combination antiretroviral therapy... - Rates and types of events reported to established incident reporting systems in two US hospitalsTeryl K Nuckols
THE RAND CORPORATION, Santa Monica, California, USA
Qual Saf Health Care 16:164-8. 2007..To facilitate substantial improvements in patient safety, the systems should capture incidents reflecting the spectrum of adverse events that are known to occur in hospitals... - Development and evaluation of a patient self-report case-finding method for rheumatoid arthritisAndrew L Wong
Olive View UCLA Medical Center, Sylmar, CA 91342, USA
Semin Arthritis Rheum 34:484-99. 2004..To describe the development and evaluation of a patient self-report case-finding method for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) not dependent on direct contact with the treating physicians... - Impact of antiretroviral regimen switches on adherenceLoren G Miller
Division of Infectious Diseases, Harbor UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California 90509, USA
HIV Clin Trials 3:355-60. 2002..We investigated whether a switch in antiretroviral medications affected adherence by examining a prospective observational cohort of 128 patients who began a new antiretroviral regimen... - Application of explicit process of care measurement to rheumatoid arthritis: Moving from evidence to practiceK L Kahn
Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1736, USA
Arthritis Rheum 55:884-91. 2006..To construct quality measures with measurement validity and meaning for clinicians... - Assessment of American College of Rheumatology quality criteria for rheumatoid arthritis in a pre-quality criteria patient cohortK L Kahn
University of California at Los Angeles, California 90095 1736, USA
Arthritis Rheum 57:707-15. 2007..To evaluate the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) starter set of quality measures for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in an actual patient cohort that preceded publication of the quality measures... - Modulation of hippocampal excitability and seizures by galaninA M Mazarati
Department of Neurology, University of California Los Angeles, School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California 90095 1769, USA mailto mazarati ucla edu
J Neurosci 20:6276-81. 2000.... - Polyadenylation of ribosomal RNA by Candida albicansJ Fleischmann
Department of Medicine, West Los Angeles VA Medical Center, UCLA School of Medicine, 11301 Wilshire Boulevard, 90073, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Gene 265:71-6. 2001..These data indicate that 25S rRNA polyadenylation is part of the biological repertoire of C. albicans and its transient upregulation just prior to hyphal development raises the possibility of a regulatory role in this transition... - End-of-life discussions and preferences among persons with HIVN S Wenger
University of California at Los Angeles Department of Medicine, GIM HSR, 911 Broxton Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1736, USA
JAMA 285:2880-7. 2001..Even though the prognosis has improved for many persons with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, a need for planning remains... - Circumstances at HIV diagnosis and progression of disease in older HIV-infected AmericansD S Zingmond
Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, UCLA Department of Medicine, 911 Broxton Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1736, USA
Am J Public Health 91:1117-20. 2001..This study identified age-related differences in diagnosis and progression of HIV by analyzing a nationally representative sample of HIV-infected adults under care in the United States... - Granule cell neurogenesis after status epilepticus in the immature rat brainR Sankar
Department of Neurology, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California 90095 1752, USA
Epilepsia 41:S53-6. 2000..We investigated seizure-induced granule cell neurogenesis in developing rat pups to study the association between hilar injury, granule cell neurogenesis, and epilepsy... - Patterns of status epilepticus-induced substance P expression during developmentH Liu
Epilepsy Research Laboratory, Veteran Administration Medical Center, Sepulveda, CA 91343, USA
Neuroscience 101:297-304. 2000..These results indicate that seizure activity selectively evokes age-dependent and region-selective expression of substance P... - Self-sustaining status epilepticus: a condition maintained by potentiation of glutamate receptors and by plastic changes in substance P and other peptide neuromodulatorsC G Wasterlain
Department of Neurology, VA Greater Los Angeles Health Care System, California 90073, USA
Epilepsia 41:S134-43. 2000..These changes and those in other limbic peptides may contribute to the maintenance of SSSE and to the modulation of hippocampal excitability during epileptic seizures. NMDA.. - Substance P is expressed in hippocampal principal neurons during status epilepticus and plays a critical role in the maintenance of status epilepticusH Liu
Epilepsy Research Laboratory, Veteran Administration Medical Center, Sepulveda, CA 91343, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 96:5286-91. 1999..Enhanced expression of SP during SSSE may modulate hippocampal excitability and contribute to the maintenance of SSSE. Thus, SPR antagonists may constitute a novel category of drugs in antiepileptic therapy... - Ontogeny of self-sustaining status epilepticusR Sankar
Department of Neurology, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Dev Neurosci 21:345-51. 1999..This model of SE differs from in vitro models of SE, in which immature animals show an increased susceptibility to epileptogenic stimuli, and provides us with a novel method to study epileptogenicity in the developing brain... - Resistance to excitotoxin-induced seizures and neuronal death in mice lacking the preprotachykinin A geneH Liu
Epilepsy Research Laboratory, Veterans Administration Medical Center, Sepulveda, CA 91343, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 96:12096-101. 1999..They suggest that these neurokinins are critical to the control of hippocampal excitability, hippocampal seizures, and hippocampal vulnerability... - Apoptosis in a neonatal rat model of cerebral hypoxia-ischemiaM R Pulera
Department of Neurology, Veteran s Affairs Medical Center, Sepulveda, Calif, USA
Stroke 29:2622-30. 1998..BACKGROUND and.. - The entry of underrepresented minority students into US medical schools: an evaluation of recent trendsD M Carlisle
Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles 90095 1736, USA
Am J Public Health 88:1314-8. 1998..Recent challenges to affirmative action suggest the need to reassess the status of the admission of underrepresented minority students to US medical schools... - A controlled trial of exercise rehabilitation after heart transplantationJ A Kobashigawa
Division of Cardiology, University of California at Los Angeles School of Medicine, 90095, USA
N Engl J Med 340:272-7. 1999..The role of physical exercise in the treatment of patients who have undergone cardiac transplantation has not been determined. We assessed the effects of training on the capacity for exercise early after cardiac transplantation... - Punishment for unethical behavior in the conduct of researchN S Wenger
Department of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles 90095 1736, USA
Acad Med 73:1187-94. 1998..To investigate the perceptions of scientists and institutional representatives (IRs) to the National Institutes of Health's Office of Research Integrity concerning appropriate punishment for unethical research behavior... - Approaches and recommendations for estimating minimally important differences for health-related quality of life measuresRon D Hays
School of Public Health, Division of Health Services, UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90095 1736, USA
COPD 2:63-7. 2005..In addition, we provide recommendations for estimating the MID in future research... - Complementary and alternative medicine use and substitution for conventional therapy by HIV-infected patientsAn Fu Hsiao
Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, Department of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, 911 Broxton Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1736, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 33:157-65. 2003..HIV-infected patients commonly use complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), but it is not known how often CAM is used as a complement or as a substitute for conventional HIV therapy... - Intimate partner violence and community service needs among pregnant and postpartum Latina womenDavid P Eisenman
Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
Violence Vict 24:111-21. 2009..We conclude that IPV may be associated with ongoing perceived needs for social and legal services among Latina perinatal patients... - Trust in one's physician: the role of ethnic match, autonomy, acculturation, and religiosity among Japanese and Japanese AmericansDerjung M Tarn
Department of Family Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
Ann Fam Med 3:339-47. 2005..We investigated the relation of patient characteristics, religiosity, acculturation, physician ethnicity, and insurance-mandated physician change to levels of trust in Japanese American and Japanese patients... - Cost-effectiveness of insuring the uninsured: the case of Korean American childrenJudy Y Chen
UCLA Department of Medicine and Health Services Research, University of California Los Angeles, 911 Boxton Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
Med Decis Making 29:51-60. 2009..The objective of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of different school-based health insurance strategies to provide coverage to uninsured Korean American children... - Interleukin 6 and interleukin 8 as potential biomarkers for oral cavity and oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinomaMaie A R St John
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 130:929-35. 2004..CONCLUSIONS: Our findings indicate that IL-8 in saliva and IL-6 in serum hold promise as biomarkers for OSCC. A saliva-based test could be a cost-effective adjunctive tool in the diagnosis and follow-up of patients with OSCC... - Variation in the readability of items within surveysJosé L Calderón
RCMI Health Services Research Center, Charles R Drew University of Medicine and Science, Los Angeles, California, CA 90059, USA
Am J Med Qual 21:49-56. 2006..Standards for measuring the readability of surveys are needed... - The basic helix-loop-helix transcription factor Cph2 regulates hyphal development in Candida albicans partly via TEC1S Lane
Department of Biological Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, California 92697-1700, USA
Mol Cell Biol 21:6418-28. 2001..Therefore, the function of Cph2 in hyphal transcription is mediated, in part, through Tec1. We further show that this function of Cph2 is independent of the Cph1- and Efg1-mediated pathways... - Constitutively activated Akt-1 is vital for the survival of human monocyte-differentiated macrophages. Role of Mcl-1, independent of nuclear factor (NF)-kappaB, Bad, or caspase activationH Liu
Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Northwestern University Medical School, and the VA Chicago Health Care System, Lakeside Division, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
J Exp Med 194:113-26. 2001..Thus, our findings demonstrate that the constitutive activation of Akt-1 regulates macrophage survival through Mcl-1, which is independent of caspases, NF-kappaB, or Bad... - Social support and dental visitsMelanie W Gironda
Division of Public Health and Community Dentistry, School of Dentistry, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
J Am Dent Assoc 144:188-94. 2013..The authors conducted a study to examine the influence of social support on dental visits among an adult population... - Mental health and health-related quality of life among adult Latino primary care patients living in the United States with previous exposure to political violenceDavid P Eisenman
Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, Department of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles 90095 1736, USA
JAMA 290:627-34. 2003..Although political violence continues in parts of Central America, South America, and Mexico, little is known about its relationship to the health of Latino immigrants living in the United States... - Linking hospital discharge and death records--accuracy and sources of biasDavid S Zingmond
Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, 911 Broxton Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1736, USA
J Clin Epidemiol 57:21-9. 2004..The aim of this study was to develop and apply an automated linkage algorithm to 10 years of California hospitalization discharge abstracts and death records (1990 to 1999), evaluate linkage accuracy, and identify sources of bias... - DNA array studies demonstrate convergent regulation of virulence factors by Cph1, Cph2, and Efg1 in Candida albicansS Lane
Department of Biological Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, California 92697-1700, USA
J Biol Chem 276:48988-96. 2001..Perhaps, C. albicans utilizes converging pathways to regulate its vital virulence factors to ensure its survival and pathogenicity in various host environments... - A G1 cyclin is necessary for maintenance of filamentous growth in Candida albicansJ D Loeb
Department of Biological Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California 92697 1700, USA
Mol Cell Biol 19:4019-27. 1999..Our results suggest that CaCln1 may coordinately regulate hyphal development with signal transduction pathways in response to various environmental cues... - Age-related differences in Na+-dependent Ca2+ accumulation in rabbit hearts exposed to hypoxia and acidificationS E Anderson
Department of Human Physiology, University of California, Davis, California 95616 8644, USA
Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 284:C1123-32. 2003..However, for similar hypoxia and acidification protocols, this increase in [Ca](i) is less in newborn than adult hearts... - Correlates of attributing new disability to old age. Study of Osteoporotic Fractures Research GroupC A Sarkisian
Department of Medicine, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California 90095 1687, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 49:134-41. 2001..To describe women who attribute new disability to old age and to identify demographic, medical, behavioral, and psychosocial characteristics that correlate with attributing new disability to old age... - Are Latinos less satisfied with communication by health care providers?L S Morales
University of California Los Angeles, School of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research 90095 1736, USA
J Gen Intern Med 14:409-17. 1999..To examine associations of patient ratings of communication by health care providers with patient language (English vs Spanish) and ethnicity (Latino vs white)... - Do STD clinics correctly diagnose STDs? An assessment of STD management in Hefei, ChinaH Liu
School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1772, USA
Int J STD AIDS 14:665-71. 2003..Over half of those previously infected had not received education to prevent reinfection. Thus, the quality of clinic laboratory testing was not high and physicians often misdiagnosed STDs... - Effects of augmented delivery of pyruvate on myocardial high-energy phosphate metabolism at high workstateK Ochiai
Department of Medicine, and Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455, USA
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 281:H1823-32. 2001.... - Saccharomyces cerevisiae G1 cyclins are differentially involved in invasive and pseudohyphal growth independent of the filamentation mitogen-activated protein kinase pathwayJ D Loeb
Department of Biological Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, California 92687, USA
Genetics 153:1535-46. 1999..Potential targets for G1 cyclin/Cdks during filamentous growth are discussed... - Dentonin, a fragment of MEPE, enhanced dental pulp stem cell proliferationH Liu
Box 0640, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143-0640, USA
J Dent Res 83:496-9. 2004..This study shows that Dentonin can promote DPSC proliferation, with a potential role in pulp repair. Further studies are required to determine the usefulness of this material in vivo... - Mice resistant to experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis have increased thymic expression of myelin basic protein and increased MBP specific T cell toleranceH Liu
UCLA Dept. of Neurology, 710 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
J Neuroimmunol 115:118-26. 2001..Together, these data indicate that the list of non-MHC genes involved in susceptibility to autoimmune disease should include genes which regulate expression of autoantigens in thymi... - A prospective study of predictors of adherence to combination antiretroviral medicationCarol E Golin
Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Sheps Center for Health Services Research, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 7590, USA
J Gen Intern Med 17:756-65. 2002..We sought to assess predictors of long-term (up to 1 year) adherence to newly initiated combination ART using an accurate, objective adherence measure... - Psychometric evaluation and calibration of health-related quality of life item banks: plans for the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS)Bryce B Reeve
National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
Med Care 45:S22-31. 2007..The construction and evaluation of item banks to measure unidimensional constructs of health-related quality of life (HRQOL) is a fundamental objective of the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) project... - Life satisfaction and adverse effects in renal transplant recipients: a longitudinal analysisArthur J Matas
Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
Clin Transplant 16:113-21. 2002..This report examines the longitudinal relationship between adverse effects and QOL, with particular attention to the relative impact of adverse effects associated with immunosuppression... - Correlates of relationship, psychological, and sexual behavioral factors for HIV risk among Indian womenR N Gupta
Indian Council of Medical Research, Division of Reproductive Health and Nutrition, New Delhi, India
Cultur Divers Ethnic Minor Psychol 14:256-65. 2008..Implications for future research and culturally relevant interventions are discussed... - Measuring patient adherenceHonghu Liu
Ann Intern Med 137:72-3; author reply 72-3. 2002 - Trends in the use and capacity of California's emergency departments, 1990-1999Susan Lambe
Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program
Ann Emerg Med 39:389-96. 2002..Data supporting perceptions of inadequate capacity are sparse and conflicting. We describe changes in the use and capacity of California's EDs between 1990 and 1999, as well as trends in severity of patient illness or injury... - The influence of military service on outpatient care use among racial/ethnic groups in Department of Veterans Affairs medical centersNancy D Harada
Department of Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, CA 90073, USA
Mil Med 167:525-31. 2002..Racial/ethnic differences in military service characteristics influence the use of VA outpatient care and should be understood in delivering outpatient care to veterans...