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Healthy colon, healthy life (colon sano, vida sana): colorectal cancer screening among Latinos in Santa Clara, CaliforniaJudith M E Walsh
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94115, USA
J Cancer Educ 25:36-42. 2010..CRC screening among Latinos is low. Younger patients, women, and patients of female physicians receive more screening...
Healthy colon, healthy life: a novel colorectal cancer screening interventionJudith M E Walsh
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94115, USA
Am J Prev Med 39:1-14. 2010..Colorectal cancer (CRC) screening rates are increasing, but they are still low, particularly in ethnic minority groups. In many resource-poor settings, fecal occult blood test (FOBT) is the main screening option...- The FLU-FOBT Program in community clinics: durable benefits of a randomized controlled trialJudith M E Walsh
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California at San Francisco, 1600 Divisadero Street San Francisco, CA 94115, USA
Health Educ Res 27:886-94. 2012..Clinic leaders acknowledged barriers to maintenance but also observed several beneficial practice changes. Many components of the FLU-FOBT Program were maintained, with beneficial outcomes for participating practices... - Preferences for genetic testing to identify hereditary colorectal cancer: perspectives of high-risk patients, community members, and cliniciansJudith Walsh
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
J Cancer Educ 27:112-9. 2012..High-risk patients, community members, and health care providers had different priorities. Health care professionals should be aware of differences between their own considerations about GT and those that are important to patients... 
Implementing effective hypertension quality improvement strategies: barriers and potential solutionsJudith M E Walsh
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94115, USA
J Clin Hypertens (Greenwich) 10:311-6. 2008..Future research must address which components of quality improvement interventions are most successful in achieving blood pressure control...- Physicians' approaches to recommending colorectal cancer screening: a qualitative studyJudith M E Walsh
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, 1635 Divisadero Street, Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94115 1793, USA
J Cancer Educ 25:385-90. 2010..Tailoring to cultural background or ethnicity was not prominent. Most physicians reported a typical approach to CRCS and reported some tailoring based on gender, education, and language, but not on ethnicity... - Association between cancer risk perception and screening behavior among diverse womenSue E Kim
Department of Medicine, Medical Effectiveness Research Center for Diverse Populations, University of California, San Francisco, 400 Parnassus Ave, A 405, Box 0856, San Francisco, CA 94143 0856, USA
Arch Intern Med 168:728-34. 2008..We measured the perception of breast, cervical, and colon cancer risks and screening in diverse women to examine the association between risk perception and screening behavior... - Willingness to use tamoxifen to prevent breast cancer among diverse womenCelia Patricia Kaplan
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, 3333 California Street, San Francisco, CA 94143 0856, USA
Breast Cancer Res Treat 133:357-66. 2012..Factors affecting women's willingness to take breast cancer chemoprevention drugs vary and are not determined solely by knowledge of risk/benefit or risk perception... - Offering annual fecal occult blood tests at annual flu shot clinics increases colorectal cancer screening ratesMichael B Potter
Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143, USA
Ann Fam Med 7:17-23. 2009..We wanted to determine whether providing home fecal occult blood test (FOBT) kits to eligible patients during influenza inoculation (flu shot) clinics can contribute to higher colorectal cancer screening (CRCS) rates... - Promoting use of colorectal cancer screening tests. Can we change physician behavior?Judith M E Walsh
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA
J Gen Intern Med 20:1097-101. 2005..Colorectal cancer (CRC) screening is underutilized despite evidence that screening reduces mortality... - Barriers to colorectal cancer screening in Latino and Vietnamese Americans. Compared with non-Latino white AmericansJudith M E Walsh
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, Calif 94115, USA
J Gen Intern Med 19:156-66. 2004..To identify current colorectal cancer (CRC) screening practices and barriers to screening in the Latino, Vietnamese, and non-Latino white populations... - Improving colorectal cancer screening: a partnership between primary care practices and the American Cancer SocietyMichael B Potter
The School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
J Cancer Educ 24:22-7. 2009..The American Cancer Society (ACS) is interested in facilitating colorectal cancer screening (CRCS) in primary care... - Colorectal cancer screening: clinical applicationsJudith M E Walsh
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Women s Health Clinical Research Center, University of California San Francisco, Campus Box 1793, 1635 Divisadero Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94115, USA
JAMA 289:1297-302. 2003..Many potential barriers to colorectal cancer screening exist for the patient and the physician. Strategies to increase compliance for colorectal cancer screening are proposed... - Preferences for human papillomavirus testing with routine cervical cancer screening in diverse older womenAlison J Huang
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
J Gen Intern Med 23:1324-9. 2008..Little is known about women's attitudes toward HPV testing or how these attitudes may influence medical discussions about cervical cancer screening... - Brief report: Coronary heart disease events associated with hormone therapy in younger and older women. A meta-analysisShelley R Salpeter
Department of Medicine, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, San Jose, CA 95128, USA
J Gen Intern Med 21:363-6. 2006..To assess the effect of hormone therapy (HT) on coronary heart disease (CHD) events in younger and older postmenopausal women... - Acculturation and colorectal cancer screening among older Latino adults: differential associations by national originAimee Afable-Munsuz
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California, 3333 California Street, Box 0856, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
J Gen Intern Med 24:963-70. 2009..Although modest improvements in colorectal cancer (CRC) screening utilization have occurred, rates remain low among Latinos. It is unclear whether acculturation plays a role in the utilization of CRC screening... - Lipids in women: screening and treatmentJudith M E Walsh
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco 94115, USA
J Am Med Womens Assoc 58:240-7. 2003..This article presents guidelines for screening and treatment of hyperlipidemia in women with CHD, in healthy women, and in women at risk for CHD... - Colorectal cancer screening: what do women from diverse ethnic groups want?Judith M E Walsh
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, 1545 Divisadero Street, Room 316, Box 0320, San Francisco, CA 94143 0320, USA
J Gen Intern Med 28:239-46. 2013..Little is known about factors associated with willingness to undergo colorectal cancer (CRC) screening for personal or public health benefit among women from diverse race/ethnic groups... - Quality improvement strategies for hypertension management: a systematic reviewJudith M E Walsh
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
Med Care 44:646-57. 2006..A focus on hypertension by someone in addition to the patient's physician was associated with substantial improvement. Future research should examine the contributions of individual QI strategies and their relative costs... - Effectiveness and Reach of the FLU-FIT Program in an Integrated Health Care System: A Multisite Randomized TrialMichael B Potter
Michael B Potter is with the Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California, San Francisco Lynn M Ackerson, Vicky Gomez, Theodore R Levin, and Carol P Somkin are with the Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland Judith M E Walsh is with the Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco Lawrence W Green is with the Helen Diller Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco
Am J Public Health 103:1128-33. 2013..001). Conclusions. This intervention may increase CRCS among those not reached by other forms of CRCS outreach. Future research should include the extent to which these programs can be disseminated and implemented nationally... - Colorectal cancer screening: scientific reviewJudith M E Walsh
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Women s Health Clinical Research Center, University of California San Francisco, Campus Box 1793, 1635 Divisadero Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94115, USA
JAMA 289:1288-96. 2003..Clinicians are challenged to ensure that eligible patients undergo colorectal cancer screening and to guide patients in choosing what tests to receive... - Prevention in the year 2002: some news, some issuesJudith M E Walsh
Division of General Internal Medicine, Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, 1701 Divisadero St, Suite 500, San Francisco, CA 94115, USA
Prim Care 29:727-49, xi. 2002..Although we have made progress, many challenges remain... - Mortality associated with hormone replacement therapy in younger and older women: a meta-analysisShelley R Salpeter
Department of Medicine, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, San Jose, CA 95128, USA
J Gen Intern Med 19:791-804. 2004..To assess mortality associated with hormone replacement in younger and older postmenopausal women... - Colon cancer screening in the ambulatory settingJudith M E Walsh
Division of General Internal Medicine, University of California San Francisco, Box 1732, 1701 Divisadero, San Francisco, CA 94115, USA
Prev Med 35:209-18. 2002..The objective of this study was to determine patient and clinician factors associated with screening for colon cancer... - Raloxifene and colorectal cancerJudith M E Walsh
Division of General Internal Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, USA
J Womens Health (Larchmt) 14:299-305. 2005..To determine the effect of raloxifene on colorectal cancer (CRC) risk... - Drug treatment of hyperlipidemia in womenJudith M E Walsh
Division of General Internal Medicine and Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, USA
JAMA 291:2243-52. 2004..Many of the trials have not included enough women to allow sex-specific analyses or have not reported results in women separately... - Breast cancer screening is risky businessRene Salazar
J Gen Intern Med 21:393-4. 2006