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Initial testing of an instrument to measure teacher identity in physiciansSusan Starr
Department of Pediatrics, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, 01655, USA
Teach Learn Med 18:117-25. 2006....- Determinants and impact of generalist-specialist communication about pediatric outpatient referralsChristopher J Stille
Department of Pediatrics, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts 01655, USA
Pediatrics 118:1341-9. 2006.... 
Patients' beliefs and preferences regarding doctors' medication recommendationsSarah L Goff
Meyers Primary Care Institute, Worcester, MA 0199, USA
J Gen Intern Med 23:236-41. 2008..Accepting a doctor's recommendation is the first step in medication adherence, yet little is known about patients' beliefs and preferences about how medications are prescribed...- Patient education about anticoagulant medication: is narrative evidence or statistical evidence more effective?Kathleen M Mazor
Meyers Primary Care Institute, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Fallon Clinic Foundation, and Fallon Community Health Plan, United States
Patient Educ Couns 69:145-57. 2007..To determine the relative impact of incorporating narrative evidence, statistical evidence or both into patient education about warfarin, a widely used oral anticoagulant medication... - The relationship between checklist scores on a communication OSCE and analogue patients' perceptions of communicationKathleen M Mazor
Meyers Primary Care Institute, USA
Adv Health Sci Educ Theory Pract 10:37-51. 2005..Determinants of patient perceptions of physician communication may be more subtle, more complex, and more case-specific than we were able to capture with the current checklist... - Teaching and medical errors: primary care preceptors' viewsKathleen M Mazor
Meyers Primary Care Institute, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts 01605, USA
Med Educ 39:982-90. 2005..In particular, we examined preceptors' responses to trainees involved in medical errors, factors influencing their response, and their perceptions of barriers to teaching from medical errors... - Factors influencing preceptors' responses to medical errors: a factorial surveyKathleen M Mazor
630 Plantation Street, Meyers Primary Care Institute, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01605, USA
Acad Med 80:S88-92. 2005..Preceptors must respond to trainees' medical errors, but little is known about what factors influence their responses... 
Cluster randomized trials to study the comparative effectiveness of therapeutics: stakeholders' concerns and recommendationsKathleen M Mazor
Meyers Primary Care Institute, Fallon Clinic, Fallon Community Health Plan and University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01605, USA
Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 18:554-61. 2009..An additional goal was to develop recommendations for increasing acceptability...- Disclosure of medical errors: what factors influence how patients respond?Kathleen M Mazor
Meyers Primary Care Institute, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Fallon Foundation and Fallon Community Health Plan, Worcester, MA 01605, USA
J Gen Intern Med 21:704-10. 2006..Disclosure of medical errors is encouraged, but research on how patients respond to specific practices is limited... - Communicating hospital infection data to the public: a study of consumer responses and preferencesKathleen M Mazor
University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA
Am J Med Qual 24:108-15. 2009..Consumers may be influenced by such data, but other factors are likely to be as or more important... - Collecting validity evidence for an assessment of professionalism: findings from think-aloud interviewsKathleen M Mazor
Acad Med 83:S9-12. 2008.... - Assessing professionalism in the context of an objective structured clinical examination: an in-depth study of the rating processKathleen M Mazor
Meyers Primary Care Institute, University of Massachusetts Medical School, MA, USA
Med Educ 41:331-40. 2007..This study investigated how raters assign professionalism ratings to medical students' performances in OSCE encounters... - The video-based test of communication skills: description, development, and preliminary findingsKathleen M Mazor
Meyers Primary Care Institute and Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts 01605, USA
Teach Learn Med 19:162-7. 2007..Clearly, it would be advantageous to develop alternative or supplemental methods for assessing communication skills of medical students, residents, and physicians... - Evaluation of missing data in an assessment of professional behaviorsKathleen Mazor
MPCI 630 Plantation St, Worcester MA, 01605, USA
Acad Med 82:S44-7. 2007..This study investigated whether missing responses on this tool can be considered random; evidence that missing values are not random would suggest response bias, a significant threat to score validity... - Cluster randomized trials: opportunities and barriers identified by leaders of eight health plansKathleen M Mazor
Meyers Primary Care Institute, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Fallon Clinic Foundation, and Fallon Community Health Plan, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
Med Care 45:S29-37. 2007.... - Communicating safety information to physicians: an examination of dear doctor lettersKathleen M Mazor
Meyers Primary Care Institute, Worcester, MA 01605, USA
Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 14:869-75. 2005..This study examined whether content, organization, and formatting of dear doctor letters (DDLs) influences physicians' responses to the letters... - A qualitative study of consumers' views on public reporting of health care-associated infectionsKathleen M Mazor
Meyers Primary Care Institute, Worcester, MA 01605, USA
Am J Med Qual 24:412-8. 2009..For public reporting of HAIs to be successful, attention to report content and format are necessary. Consumer involvement can help to identify potential sources of confusion and methods of improving reporting... - What do medicine clerkship preceptors do best?Kathleen M Mazor
Meyers Primary Care Institute, Fallon Healthcare System, and Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01605, USA
Acad Med 77:837-40. 2002.... - Older women's views about prescription osteoporosis medication: a cross-sectional, qualitative studyKathleen M Mazor
Meyers Primary Care Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
Drugs Aging 27:999-1008. 2010..Osteoporosis is a significant health problem, especially for older women. Prescription osteoporosis medication can reduce fractures, but many women do not accept treatment or discontinue treatment before benefits are achieved... - Does reading about stroke increase stroke knowledge? The impact of different print materialsKathleen M Mazor
Meyers Primary Care Institute, University of Massachusetts Medical School and Fallon Healthcare System, 630 Plantation Street, Worcester, MA 01605, USA
Patient Educ Couns 51:207-15. 2003..Further research is needed to determine whether fictional contexts make some information more memorable... - Communicating with patients about medical errors: a review of the literatureKathleen M Mazor
Meyers Primary Care Institute, University of Massachusetts Medical School, and Fallon Foundation, Worcester 01605, USA
Arch Intern Med 164:1690-7. 2004.... - Health plan members' views on forgiving medical errorsKathleen M Mazor
Meyers Primary Care Institute, University of Massachusetts Medical School and Fallon Foundation, Worcester, Mass 01605, USA
Am J Manag Care 11:49-52. 2005..Research is needed on how the circumstances that surround a medical error affect how patients respond... - The effect of a domestic violence interclerkship on the knowledge, attitudes, and skills of third-year medical studentsJ A Jonassen
Department of Physiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, USA
Acad Med 74:821-8. 1999..To determine whether participation in an intensive domestic violence interclerkship (DVI) improved the knowledge, attitudes, and skills of two successive cohorts of students at the University of Massachusetts Medical School... - A demonstration of the impact of response bias on the results of patient satisfaction surveysKathleen M Mazor
Meyers Primary Care Institute, Fallon Healthcare System and University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester 01605, USA
Health Serv Res 37:1403-17. 2002..Estimates of satisfaction may be most inflated for providers with the least satisfied patients, thereby threatening the validity of provider-level comparisons... - Learning from mistakes. Factors that influence how students and residents learn from medical errorsMelissa A Fischer
Department of Internal Medicine, Meyers Primary Care Institute, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01655, USA
J Gen Intern Med 21:419-23. 2006..Trainees are exposed to medical errors throughout medical school and residency. Little is known about what facilitates and limits learning from these experiences... - Health plan members' views about disclosure of medical errorsKathleen M Mazor
Meyers Primary Care Institute, University of Massachusetts Medical School, and Fallon Foundation, Worcester, Massachusetts 01605, USA
Ann Intern Med 140:409-18. 2004..In some circumstances, the desire to seek legal advice may not diminish despite full disclosure... - Detecting attitudinal changes about death and dying as a result of end-of-life care curricula for medical undergraduatesCarolyn E Schwartz
QualityMetric Incorporated, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA
J Palliat Med 8:975-86. 2005..There is heightened emphasis on teaching end-of-life (EOL) care in the medical school curriculum, but a relative paucity of tools focused on assessing key attitudinal changes due to curricula... - Identification of physician and patient attributes that influence the likelihood of screening for intimate partner violenceJulie A Jonassen
Department of Physiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester 01655, USA
Acad Med 78:S20-3. 2003..To identify potential barriers, paper-and-pencil case scenarios identified possible practitioner and patient attributes that influence IPV screening... - Nurse-physician communication in the long-term care setting: perceived barriers and impact on patient safetyJennifer Tjia
Division of Geriatric Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts 01605, USA
J Patient Saf 5:145-52. 2009..The goal of this study was to describe nurses' perceptions of nurse-physician communication in the long-term care (LTC) setting... - Patients and providers view gout differently: a qualitative studyLeslie R Harrold
Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Meyers Primary Care Institute and Fallon Clinic, Worcester, USA
Chronic Illn 6:263-71. 2010..We sought to examine patients' and providers' views on the treatment of gout to better understand why management is suboptimal... - Effects of review on medical students' recall of different types of neuroanatomical contentSusan Billings-Gagliardi
University of Massachusetts Medical School, Department of Cell Biology S7 147, 55 Lake Avenue North, Worcester, MA 01655, USA
Acad Med 84:S34-7. 2009..This study examined ways in which structured review impacted students' recall and use of different types of neuroanatomical information, categorized as general constructs, fundamental content, and advanced content... - Student decisions about lecture attendance: do electronic course materials matter?Susan Billings-Gagliardi
Department of Cell Biology S7 147, University of Massachusetts Medical School, 55 Lake Ave North, Worcester MA 01655, USA
Acad Med 82:S73-6. 2007..If so, it sought to identify factors that influence these decisions, specifically addressing the potential impact of electronic materials... - Interpreting course evaluation results: insights from thinkaloud interviews with medical studentsSusan Billings-Gagliardi
Department of Cell Biology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts 01655, USA
Med Educ 38:1061-70. 2004.... - Development and validation of the stroke action testSusan Billings-Gagliardi
Department of Cell Biology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Mass 01655, USA
Stroke 36:1035-9. 2005..The purpose of this study was to develop and evaluate a new written instrument whose items require the respondent to associate individual symptoms with the most appropriate action... - Prescribers and pharmaceutical representatives: why are we still meeting?Melissa A Fischer
University of Massachusetts Medical School, 55 Lake Ave N, Worcester, MA 01655, USA
J Gen Intern Med 24:795-801. 2009..This work has primarily been with physicians and physician-trainees. Questions remain regarding why prescribers continue to meet with pharmaceutical representatives (PRs)... - Managed care education: what medical students are telling usKathleen M Mazor
Meyers Primary Care Institute, University of Massachusetts Medical School and Fallon Healthcare System, Worcester 01605, USA
Acad Med 77:1128-33. 2002.... - Assessing third-year medical students' breast cancer screening skillsSusan V Barrett
Office of Medical Evaluation, Division of Research and Evaluation, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester 01655, USA
Acad Med 77:905-10. 2002..Although confidence in counseling was related to counseling performance, the stability of this perception and how that translates into future cancer-control practices remain in question... - Patient decision to initiate therapy for osteoporosis: the influence of knowledge and beliefsRobert A Yood
Fallon Clinic, Worcester, MA 01605, USA
J Gen Intern Med 23:1815-21. 2008..There are effective treatments to prevent osteoporotic fractures, but these treatments are underutilized... - Adverse drug events resulting from patient errors in older adultsTerry S Field
Meyers Primary Care Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts 01605, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 55:271-6. 2007..To characterize the types of patient-related errors that lead to adverse drug events (ADEs) and identify patients at high risk of such errors... - Development and testing of a new instrument for measuring concerns about dying in health care providersKathleen M Mazor
Department of Medicine, Meyers Primary Care Institute, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA
Assessment 11:230-7. 2004..The CAD has the advantage of being very brief and of explicitly assessing concerns about working with patients who are dying... - Bone density consequences of initiation and compliance with therapy for osteoporosisRobert A Yood
Fallon Clinic and Meyers Primary Care Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts 01605, USA
Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken) 62:1440-5. 2010..We sought to determine the bone density consequences of the decision to initiate and comply with therapy for OP... - Media messages about cancer: what do people understand?Kathleen M Mazor
University of Massachusetts Medical School, and Meyers Primary Care Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
J Health Commun 15:126-45. 2010..Additional research is needed to identify message characteristics that enhance understandability and improve comprehension of spoken media messages about cancer...