Judy Shea

Summary

Affiliation: University of Pennsylvania
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Internal medicine trainees' views of training adequacy and duty hours restrictions in 2009
    Judy A Shea
    Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104 6021, USA
    Acad Med 87:889-94. 2012
  2. ncbi Anticipated consequences of the 2011 duty hours standards: views of internal medicine and surgery program directors
    Judy A Shea
    Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104 6021, USA
    Acad Med 87:895-903. 2012
  3. ncbi A RIME perspective on the quality and relevance of current and future medical education research
    Judy A Shea
    Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 1223 Blockley Hall, 423 Guardian Drive, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
    Acad Med 79:931-8. 2004
  4. ncbi Setting standards for teaching evaluation data: an application of the contrasting groups method
    Judy A Shea
    Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 423 Guardian Drive, Philadelphia, PA 19104 6021, USA
    Teach Learn Med 21:82-6. 2009
  5. ncbi Professionalism in clerkships: an analysis of MSPE commentary
    Judy A Shea
    University of Pennsylvania, 1223 Blockley Hall, 423 Guardian Drive, Philadelphia, PA 19104 6021, USA
    Acad Med 83:S1-4. 2008
  6. ncbi Commentary: the work of nonphysician medical educators: why we need historical context, conceptual models, training details, and evidence
    Judy A Shea
    PENN Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
    Acad Med 84:982-4. 2009
  7. ncbi Developing an illustrated version of the Consumer Assessment of Health Plans (CAHPS)
    Judy A Shea
    Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
    Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 31:32-42. 2005
  8. ncbi UME-21 local evaluation initiatives: contributions and challenges
    Judy A Shea
    Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, PA 19104 6021, USA
    Fam Med 36:S133-7. 2004
  9. ncbi Medical Student Performance Evaluations in 2005: an improvement over the former dean's letter?
    Judy A Shea
    Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 1223 Blockley Hall, 423 Guardian Drive, Philadelphia, PA 19104 6021, USA
    Acad Med 83:284-91. 2008
  10. ncbi Adapting a patient satisfaction instrument for low literate and Spanish-speaking populations: comparison of three formats
    Judy A Shea
    Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA
    Patient Educ Couns 73:132-40. 2008

Research Grants

  1. MEASURING PATIENT SATISFACTION: LOW LITERACY POPULATIONS
    Judy Shea; Fiscal Year: 2001

Detail Information

Publications82

  1. ncbi Internal medicine trainees' views of training adequacy and duty hours restrictions in 2009
    Judy A Shea
    Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104 6021, USA
    Acad Med 87:889-94. 2012
    ....
  2. ncbi Anticipated consequences of the 2011 duty hours standards: views of internal medicine and surgery program directors
    Judy A Shea
    Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104 6021, USA
    Acad Med 87:895-903. 2012
    ..To assess internal medicine (IM) and surgery program directors' views of the likely effects of the 2011 Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education duty hours regulations...
  3. ncbi A RIME perspective on the quality and relevance of current and future medical education research
    Judy A Shea
    Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 1223 Blockley Hall, 423 Guardian Drive, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
    Acad Med 79:931-8. 2004
    ..Programs to train and collaborate with clinical and administrative colleagues, as well as researchers in other fields, have great potential to improve the quality of research in the field...
  4. ncbi Setting standards for teaching evaluation data: an application of the contrasting groups method
    Judy A Shea
    Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 423 Guardian Drive, Philadelphia, PA 19104 6021, USA
    Teach Learn Med 21:82-6. 2009
    ..Teaching evaluations are widely used in retention and remediation decisions. Typically evaluations are reviewed in a global manner and some gestalt is reached...
  5. ncbi Professionalism in clerkships: an analysis of MSPE commentary
    Judy A Shea
    University of Pennsylvania, 1223 Blockley Hall, 423 Guardian Drive, Philadelphia, PA 19104 6021, USA
    Acad Med 83:S1-4. 2008
    ..Professionalism in medical school predicts future behaviors. The authors assessed prevalence of references to professionalism behaviors in the clerkship commentary portion of Medical School Performance Evaluations (MSPEs)...
  6. ncbi Commentary: the work of nonphysician medical educators: why we need historical context, conceptual models, training details, and evidence
    Judy A Shea
    PENN Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
    Acad Med 84:982-4. 2009
    ..Overall, the message that clinical nonphysicians can be successful educators came through loud and clear...
  7. ncbi Developing an illustrated version of the Consumer Assessment of Health Plans (CAHPS)
    Judy A Shea
    Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
    Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 31:32-42. 2005
    ..An illustrated version of the CAHPS instrument was designed for low-literacy audiences; the illustrations were tested and were then revised toreflect respondents' feedback...
  8. ncbi UME-21 local evaluation initiatives: contributions and challenges
    Judy A Shea
    Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, PA 19104 6021, USA
    Fam Med 36:S133-7. 2004
    ..This paper explores these issues and challenges, using experiences from selected UME-21 schools...
  9. ncbi Medical Student Performance Evaluations in 2005: an improvement over the former dean's letter?
    Judy A Shea
    Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 1223 Blockley Hall, 423 Guardian Drive, Philadelphia, PA 19104 6021, USA
    Acad Med 83:284-91. 2008
    ....
  10. ncbi Adapting a patient satisfaction instrument for low literate and Spanish-speaking populations: comparison of three formats
    Judy A Shea
    Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA
    Patient Educ Couns 73:132-40. 2008
    ..To compare responses to print versions of the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems 2.0 survey (CAHPS) to those for an illustration enhanced format and a telephone based interactive voice response format...
  11. ncbi Assessing health literacy in African American and Caucasian adults: disparities in rapid estimate of adult literacy in medicine (REALM) scores
    Judy A Shea
    Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion CHERP, Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center, PA 19104 6021, USA
    Fam Med 36:575-81. 2004
    ..The influence of literacy on health and health care is an important area of investigation. Studies with a literacy focus are most valuable when literacy is assessed with psychometrically sound instruments...
  12. ncbi Evaluations of clinical faculty: the impact of level of learner and time of year
    Judy A Shea
    Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 1223 Blockley Hall, 423 Guardian Drive, Philadelphia, PA 19104 6021, USA
    Teach Learn Med 14:87-91. 2002
    ..Because of the importance of faculty evaluation data for faculty development, promotion, reappointment, and remuneration, the quantity and characteristics of evaluation data need study...
  13. ncbi Health literacy weakly but consistently predicts primary care patient dissatisfaction
    Judy A Shea
    Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, Philadelphia Vetrans Affairs Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA
    Int J Qual Health Care 19:45-9. 2007
    ..Moreover, the importance of health literacy in predicting satisfaction compared with other patient sociodemographics is underexplored...
  14. ncbi Performance of the English and Spanish S-TOFHLA among publicly insured Medicaid and Medicare patients
    Abigail Calkins Aguirre
    University of Pennsylvania, Family Practice and Community Medicine, 3508 Market Street, Suite 251, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
    Patient Educ Couns 56:332-9. 2005
    ..Variability in literacy skills within subgroups of patients highlights the importance of healthcare providers being sensitive to patients' literacy levels in both spoken and written communications...
  15. ncbi Development of a revised Health Care System Distrust scale
    Judy A Shea
    Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
    J Gen Intern Med 23:727-32. 2008
    ..Prior measures of health care system distrust have not reflected this multidimensional structure and may be limiting research into the role of health care system distrust in health and health care in the US...
  16. ncbi Mood change and empathy decline persist during three years of internal medicine training
    Lisa M Bellini
    University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, USA
    Acad Med 80:164-7. 2005
    ..Although graduating residents appear to be better off than the population norms, some domains of their mood disturbances and empathy never fully recover from their internship year...
  17. ncbi Residents' ratings of clinical excellence and teaching effectiveness: is there a relationship?
    Katherine S McOwen
    Office of Evaluation and Assessment, Academic Programs Office, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104 6021, USA
    Teach Learn Med 19:372-7. 2007
    ..Assessment of faculty teaching and clinical skills is often based on learners' ratings. It is not clear that differences between the constructs are detectable in the results...
  18. ncbi The influence of health care policies and health care system distrust on willingness to undergo genetic testing
    Katrina Armstrong
    Department of Medicine Abramson Cancer Center Departments of Biostatistics Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
    Med Care 50:381-7. 2012
    ..Characteristics of how genetic tests are delivered may influence willingness to undergo testing and, if they affect population subgroups differently, alter disparities in testing...
  19. ncbi Educational views and attitudes, and career goals of MD-PhD students at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
    Christopher D Watt
    University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 424 Stemmler Hall, 36th and Hamilton Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
    Acad Med 80:193-8. 2005
    ..The authors believe this information in aggregate will prove useful to current and future students, combined degree programs, policymakers, and residency directors...
  20. ncbi Development and psychometric assessment of the collaborative care for attention-deficit disorders scale
    James P Guevara
    Division of General Pediatrics, Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
    Ambul Pediatr 8:18-24. 2008
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  21. ncbi A randomized-controlled study of encounter cards to improve oral case presentation skills of medical students
    Sarang Kim
    Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
    J Gen Intern Med 20:743-7. 2005
    ....
  22. ncbi Health care economics, financing, organization, and delivery
    Malcolm Cox
    University of Pennsylvania, USA
    Fam Med 36:S20-30. 2004
    ..This article discusses the development, implementation, and evaluation of the first of the two areas...
  23. ncbi Development and testing of the health care system distrust scale
    Abigail Rose
    Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
    J Gen Intern Med 19:57-63. 2004
    ..This instrument can facilitate the investigation of the prevalence, causes, and effects of health care system distrust in the United States...
  24. ncbi Residents as members of intern selection committees: can they partially replace faculty?
    Caroline K Milne
    Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 423 Guardian Drive, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6021, USA
    Teach Learn Med 15:242-6. 2003
    ..The use of residents does not impact the match results. Developing a small, committed group of interviewers should benefit both programs and applicants...
  25. ncbi A nationwide VA palliative care quality measure: the family assessment of treatment at the end of life
    David Casarett
    Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, Philadelphia VAMC, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
    J Palliat Med 11:68-75. 2008
    ..To evaluate the FATE (Family Assessment of Treatment at End of Life) Survey for use as a nationwide quality measure in the VA health care system...
  26. ncbi Implementing feedback cards in core clerkships
    Jennifer R Kogan
    Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
    Med Educ 42:1071-9. 2008
    ..Reports of feedback processes are generally limited to a single course or specialty. There is a paucity of research detailing feedback across the core clerkship year...
  27. ncbi Do palliative consultations improve patient outcomes?
    David Casarett
    Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, Department of Veterans Affairs, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
    J Am Geriatr Soc 56:593-9. 2008
    ..To determine whether inpatient palliative consultation services improve outcomes of care...
  28. ncbi Important aspects of end-of-life care among veterans: implications for measurement and quality improvement
    David Casarett
    Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
    J Pain Symptom Manage 35:115-25. 2008
    ..VA efforts to evaluate end-of-life care for veterans should not only measure common aspects of care (e.g., pain management), but also examine performance in areas that are more specific to the veteran population...
  29. ncbi Evaluation of clinical faculty: gender and minority implications
    Katherine S McOwen
    GME Evaluation and Research, Suite 100 Stemmler Hall, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
    Acad Med 82:S94-6. 2007
    ..Learner ratings are an important source of data regarding teaching effectiveness. We examine ratings of faculty teaching for the effects of faculty-resident gender and underrepresented minority (URM) status concordance...
  30. ncbi Health literacy and perceived health status in Latinos and African Americans
    Carmen E Guerra
    Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104 6021, USA
    Ethn Dis 17:305-12. 2007
    ..To determine the association between functional health literacy and physical and mental health status in a sample of Latinos and African Americans...
  31. ncbi Are physicians discussing prostate cancer screening with their patients and why or why not? A pilot study
    Carmen E Guerra
    Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 1221 Blockley Hall, 423 Guardian Drive, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
    J Gen Intern Med 22:901-7. 2007
    ..This study assessed whether primary care physicians routinely discuss PCS and explored the barriers to and facilitators of these discussions...
  32. ncbi Mentoring at the University of Pennsylvania: results of a faculty survey
    Alan G Wasserstein
    Office of Faculty Affairs, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
    J Gen Intern Med 22:210-4. 2007
    ..Research suggests mentoring is related to career satisfaction and success. Most studies have focused on junior faculty...
  33. ncbi Differences in the patterns of health care system distrust between blacks and whites
    Katrina Armstrong
    Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
    J Gen Intern Med 23:827-33. 2008
    ....
  34. ncbi Validation of the questionnaire for impulsive-compulsive disorders in Parkinson's disease
    Daniel Weintraub
    Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
    Mov Disord 24:1461-7. 2009
    ..A positive screen should be followed by a comprehensive, clinical interview to determine the range and severity of symptoms, as well as need for clinical management...
  35. ncbi Effect of race on patient expectations regarding their primary care physicians
    Carmen E Guerra
    Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104 6021, USA
    Fam Pract 25:49-55. 2008
    ..Fulfilment of patients' expectations has been associated with greater patient satisfaction with care and greater adherence to medical advice. However, little is know about how race influences patient expectations...
  36. ncbi Effect of guidelines on primary care physician use of PSA screening: results from the Community Tracking Study Physician Survey
    Carmen E Guerra
    Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104 6021, USA
    Med Decis Making 28:681-9. 2008
    ..The objective of this study was to determine the association between physicians' perceived effect of guidelines on clinical practice and self-reported prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening patterns...
  37. ncbi Recruitment of live donors by candidates for kidney transplantation
    PETER P REESE
    Renal Division, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 1 Founders, 3400 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
    Clin J Am Soc Nephrol 3:1152-9. 2008
    ..It was hypothesized that preference for live donor kidney transplantation and greater knowledge about live donor transplantation are associated with candidates' initiating conversations about donation with potential donors...
  38. ncbi Tensions in antibiotic prescribing: pitting social concerns against the interests of individual patients
    Joshua P Metlay
    Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 712 Blockley Hall, 423 Guardian Drive, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
    J Gen Intern Med 17:87-94. 2002
    ..However, optimal use from the perspective of the community (reserving newer agents for future use) is not always consistent with optimal use from the perspective of the individual patient (prescribing newer, broader agents)...
  39. ncbi Hospital protocols for the inpatient care of older adults: results from a statewide survey
    Mark D Neuman
    Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
    J Am Geriatr Soc 58:1959-64. 2010
    ..To assess the prevalence of protocols or guidelines for selected domains of inpatient care for older adults; to explore associations between hospital characteristics and adoption of these guidelines or protocols...
  40. ncbi Elapsed time between teaching and evaluation: does it matter?
    Katherine S McOwen
    University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
    Acad Med 83:S29-32. 2008
    ..Web-based course evaluation systems offer the potential advantage of timely evaluations. The authors examined whether elapsed time between teaching and student evaluation of teaching impacts preclinical courses' quality ratings...
  41. ncbi Predictive validity of the mini-Clinical Evaluation Exercise (mcex): do medical students' mCEX ratings correlate with future clinical exam performance?
    Erin M Ney
    Acad Med 84:S17-20. 2009
    ..The degree to which scores on the mini-Clinical Evaluation Exercise (mCEX), a feedback tool, correlate with performance on future clinical skills examinations is unknown...
  42. ncbi Are successful resident clinicians good teachers? Multidimensional resident assessment
    Katherine S McOwen
    Acad Med 84:S46-9. 2009
    ..We examined the relationship between faculty evaluations of residents' clinical performance and student evaluations of residents' teaching performance...
  43. ncbi The impact of the internal medicine sub-internship on medical student career choice
    Jennifer R Kogan
    University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Suite 640, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
    J Gen Intern Med 25:403-7. 2010
    ..Medical student interest in internal medicine is decreasing. Whether the internal medicine sub-internship affects intent to pursue internal medicine is unknown...
  44. ncbi Barriers of and facilitators to physician recommendation of colorectal cancer screening
    Carmen E Guerra
    Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
    J Gen Intern Med 22:1681-8. 2007
    ..Patients cite physician recommendation as the most important motivator of screening. This study explored the barriers of and facilitators to physician recommendation of CRCS...
  45. ncbi Literacy and knowledge, attitudes and behavior about mammography in Latinas
    Carmen E Guerra
    Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, USA
    J Health Care Poor Underserved 16:152-66. 2005
    ..Future research should target increasing the knowledge about and rates of screening mammography in patients with low functional health literacy...
  46. ncbi Variation of mood and empathy during internship
    Lisa M Bellini
    University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
    JAMA 287:3143-6. 2002
    ..Internship is a time of great transition, during which mood disturbances are common. However, variations in mood and empathy levels throughout the internship year have not been investigated...
  47. ncbi Psychometric characteristics of a write-up assessment form in a medicine core clerkship
    Jennifer R Kogan
    University of Pennsylvania Health System, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
    Teach Learn Med 17:101-6. 2005
    ..Case write ups are ubiquitous in medicine clerkships, yet few studies have examined how they are assessed...
  48. ncbi The impact of resident duty hour reform in a medicine core clerkship
    Jennifer R Kogan
    Acad Med 79:S58-61. 2004
    ..This study's purpose was to determine if there are differences in medicine clerkship students' activities, associations, and perceptions of educational value before and after duty hour reform...
  49. ncbi Feasibility, reliability, and validity of the mini-clinical evaluation exercise (mCEX) in a medicine core clerkship
    Jennifer R Kogan
    Acad Med 78:S33-5. 2003
    ..To determine the feasibility, reliability and validity of the mCEX when used to evaluate medical students' clinical skills in a medicine core clerkship...
  50. ncbi Designing an illustrated patient satisfaction instrument for low-literacy populations
    Janet Weiner
    Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA
    Am J Manag Care 10:853-60. 2004
    ..All pictures were revised, with the majority revised at least 4 times. We report on this iterative design process as well as on lessons we learned in illustrating questions for low-literacy populations...
  51. ncbi Effect of race on ratings of hypothetical candidates for a research scholarship/research assistant position
    Judith A Long
    Philadelphia VA Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, USA
    Teach Learn Med 16:355-60. 2004
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  52. ncbi Antibiotic prescribing decisions of generalists and infectious disease specialists: thresholds for adopting new drug therapies
    Joshua P Metlay
    Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, Department of Veterans Affairs, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
    Med Decis Making 22:498-505. 2002
    ..Thus, the adoption of recommendations to limit overuse of newer antibiotics may be variable across clinical settings and providers, reducing the impact of these recommendations on emerging resistance...
  53. ncbi Effectiveness of report cards based on chart audits of residents' adherence to practice guidelines on practice performance: a randomized controlled trial
    Jennifer R Kogan
    Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Health System, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
    Teach Learn Med 15:25-30. 2003
    ..Medical record audits have been used to provide physicians with feedback about their compliance with preventive health and disease management recommendations...
  54. ncbi Literacy and knowledge, attitudes, and behavior about colorectal cancer screening
    Carmen E Guerra
    Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104 6021, USA
    J Health Commun 10:651-63. 2005
    ....
  55. ncbi Evolution of sleep quantity, sleep deprivation, mood disturbances, empathy, and burnout among interns
    Ilene M Rosen
    Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
    Acad Med 81:82-5. 2006
    ..To explore the relationships between sleep deprivation and the evolution of mood disturbances, empathy, and burnout among a cohort of interns...
  56. ncbi Missing race/ethnicity data in Veterans Health Administration based disparities research: a systematic review
    Judith A Long
    Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, USA
    J Health Care Poor Underserved 17:128-40. 2006
    ....
  57. ncbi Are discharge summaries teachable? The effects of a discharge summary curriculum on the quality of discharge summaries in an internal medicine residency program
    Jennifer S Myers
    Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Spruce Street, Penn Tower Suite 2009, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
    Acad Med 81:S5-8. 2006
    ..We investigated the impact of a curriculum aimed at improving the quality (i.e., complete, organized, succinct, internally consistent, and readable) of interns' discharge summaries...
  58. ncbi Factors associated with undertreatment of medical student depression
    Jennifer Tjia
    University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
    J Am Coll Health 53:219-24. 2005
    ..The authors' findings support the need for targeted messages to help medical students recognize their depression and refer themselves for appropriate treatment...
  59. ncbi An assessment measure to evaluate case write-ups in a medicine core clerkship
    Jennifer R Kogan
    University of Pennsylvania Health System, Edward S Cooper Practice of Internal Medicine, 3701 Market Street - 6th Floor, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
    Med Educ 37:1035-6. 2003
  60. ncbi Improvement of resident perceptions of nurse practitioners after the introduction of a collaborative care model: a benefit of work hour reform?
    Lisa M Bellini
    Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
    Teach Learn Med 18:233-6. 2006
    ..Nurse practitioners (NPs) are assuming larger roles in many residency programs as a result of work hour reform, which is creating the potential for collaboration with interns and residents...
  61. ncbi Sleep behaviors and attitudes among internal medicine housestaff in a U.S. university-based residency program
    Ilene M Rosen
    Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Health System, Philadelphia, 19104, USA
    Acad Med 79:407-16. 2004
    ....
  62. ncbi Formation and validation of a telephone battery to assess cognitive function in acute respiratory distress syndrome survivors
    Jason D Christie
    Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
    J Crit Care 21:125-32. 2006
    ..Describe initial development and validation of a test battery composed of established instruments designed to detect, via telephone interview, cognitive abnormalities in survivors of acute respiratory distress syndrome...
  63. ncbi Measuring adherence to mammography screening recommendations among low-income women
    Katrina Armstrong
    Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104 6021, USA
    Prev Med 38:754-60. 2004
    ....
  64. ncbi Distrust of the health care system and self-reported health in the United States
    Katrina Armstrong
    Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Pennsylvania, PA, USA
    J Gen Intern Med 21:292-7. 2006
    ....
  65. ncbi The development of a rapid screen for caregiver burden
    Karen B Hirschman
    School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
    J Am Geriatr Soc 52:1724-9. 2004
    ..To develop a shortened screen for burden associated with caring for a patient with Alzheimer's disease (AD)...
  66. ncbi Disparities in patient satisfaction among Hispanics: the role of language preference
    Matthew O'Brien
    Department of Internal Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
    J Immigr Minor Health 13:408-12. 2011
    ..The analysis of local data in this study provides a crude adjustment for healthcare quality that is missing from previous research...
  67. ncbi Program directors' views of the importance and prevalence of mentoring in internal medicine residencies
    Analia Castiglioni
    Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 35294, USA
    J Gen Intern Med 19:779-82. 2004
    ..Overall, although program directors' attitudes are favorable and at least half have formal mentoring programs, the programs are largely unstructured, loosely monitored, and underevaluated...
  68. ncbi Obstetric decision-making and counseling at the limits of viability
    Brownsyne Tucker Edmonds
    Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program, The Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
    Am J Obstet Gynecol 206:248.e1-5. 2012
    ..The purpose of this study was to examine factors that influence obstetric decision-making and counseling for periviable deliveries and to describe counseling challenges...
  69. ncbi Clinic-based treatment for opioid dependence: a qualitative inquiry
    Suzanne McMurphy
    University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 19104, USA
    Am J Health Behav 30:544-54. 2006
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  70. ncbi How well are we supporting hospice staff? Initial results of the Survey of Team Attitudes and Relationships (STAR) validation study
    Brye Qaseem
    The Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, VAMC Research, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
    J Pain Symptom Manage 34:350-8. 2007
    ..74-0.84). These results suggest that the STAR offers a unique instrument to measure the work environment hospices provide to their staff...
  71. ncbi Residents' work hours
    Ilene M Rosen
    N Engl J Med 348:664-6; author reply 664-6. 2003
  72. ncbi Development and testing of a measure of health-related quality of life for men with urinary incontinence
    Joanne P Robinson
    College of Nursing, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark, New Jersey 07102, USA
    J Am Geriatr Soc 50:935-45. 2002
    ..To describe the development and psychometric testing of male versions of the Urogenital Distress Inventory (UDI) and Incontinence Impact Questionnaire (IIQ)...
  73. ncbi Self-reported visual dysfunction in multiple sclerosis: new data from the VFQ-25 and development of an MS-specific vision questionnaire
    Siu-Ling Ma
    Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
    Am J Ophthalmol 133:686-92. 2002
    ..A brief MS-specific vision questionnaire may provide additional useful information when administered concurrently with the VFQ-25 in future investigations of MS and other neuroophthalmologic disorders...
  74. ncbi Resident identification of learning objectives after performing self-assessment based upon the ACGME core competencies
    Kelly J Caverzagie
    Division of Hospitalist Medicine, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI, USA
    J Gen Intern Med 23:1024-7. 2008
    ..Self-assessment is increasingly being incorporated into competency evaluation in residency training. Little research has investigated the characteristics of residents' learning objectives and action plans after self-assessment...
  75. ncbi Variation in internal medicine residency clinic practices: assessing practice environments and quality of care
    Jeanette Mladenovic
    University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA
    J Gen Intern Med 23:914-20. 2008
    ..Few studies have systematically and rigorously examined the quality of care provided in educational practice sites...
  76. ncbi Residents' work hours
    Ilene M Rosen
    Ann Intern Med 141:741-2; author reply 742. 2004
  77. ncbi Association of health literacy with self-management behavior in patients with diabetes
    Sarang Kim
    Clinical Academic Building, 2nd Floor, 125 Paterson St, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
    Diabetes Care 27:2980-2. 2004
  78. ncbi The development of the pediatric cardiac quality of life inventory: a quality of life measure for children and adolescents with heart disease
    Bradley S Marino
    Department of Pediatrics, Divisions of Cardiology and Critical Care Medicine, Cincinnati Children s Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH 45229, USA
    Qual Life Res 17:613-26. 2008
    ..Quality of life (QOL) assessment in survivors has become increasingly important. The purpose of this project was to create the Pediatric Cardiac Quality of Life Inventory (PCQLI)...
  79. ncbi Attitudes and misconceptions about predictive genetic testing for cancer risk
    Abigail L Rose
    Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
    Community Genet 8:145-51. 2005
    ..In many cases, misconceptions may be barriers to uptake of genetic testing. Dispelling these misconceptions is an important step in the translation of advances in human genomics into improvements in health...
  80. ncbi Implementation of the mini-CEX to evaluate medical students' clinical skills
    Jennifer R Kogan
    University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, USA
    Acad Med 77:1156-7. 2002
    ..We also plan to evaluate the impact on the quality and specificity of end-of-clerkship summative ratings...
  81. ncbi Educating future leaders of medical research: analysis of student opinions and goals from the MD-PhD SAGE (Students' Attitudes, Goals, and Education) survey
    Jaimo Ahn
    Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
    Acad Med 82:633-45. 2007
    ..To collect national trainee-derived data about the educational process and experience of MD-PhD students...
  82. ncbi Development and validation of an instrument to measure asthma symptom control in children
    Joseph J Zorc
    Department of Pediatrics, Division of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, The Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, 34th Street and Civic Center Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
    J Asthma 43:753-8. 2006
    ..Few instruments exist to measure control of asthma symptoms in children. A brief instrument administered at healthcare visits could provide a more consistent approach to symptom recognition for patients and providers...

Research Grants6

  1. MEASURING PATIENT SATISFACTION: LOW LITERACY POPULATIONS
    Judy Shea; Fiscal Year: 2001
    ..Finally, we will randomize eligible enrollees to receive the standard form or one of the alternative versions, to determine how the instruments perform in the typical way in which they would be used. ..