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Patient characteristics associated with care by a cardiologist among adults hospitalized with severe congestive heart failure. SUPPORT Investigators. Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of TreatmentsA D Auerbach
Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, 94143 0120, USA
J Am Coll Cardiol 36:2119-25. 2000..The goal of this study was to determine factors associated with receiving cardiologist care among patients with an acute exacerbation of congestive heart failure...
Ethical issues in patient-physician communication about therapy for cancer: professional responsibilities of the oncologistNeil S Wenger
Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
Oncologist 15:43-8. 2010..In this way, oncologists can ensure value in cancer care...- A practice-based intervention to improve primary care for falls, urinary incontinence, and dementiaNeil S Wenger
RAND, Santa Monica, California, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 57:547-55. 2009..To determine whether a practice-based intervention can improve care for falls, urinary incontinence, and cognitive impairment... 
A short functional survey is responsive to changes in functional status in vulnerable older peopleLillian C Min
Division of Geriatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 56:1932-6. 2008..To investigate whether an abbreviated five-item functional status survey consisting of five activities of daily living (ADLs) reflects changes measured over time in a full 12-item functional status survey...- Quality indicators for continuity and coordination of care in vulnerable eldersNeil S Wenger
Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 55:S285-92. 2007 - Implementation of Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment in nursing homes in California: evaluation of a novel statewide dissemination mechanismNeil S Wenger
UCLA Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, 911 Broxton Plaza 309, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
J Gen Intern Med 28:51-7. 2013..Coalitions engaged facilities, including nursing homes (NHs), to foster POLST adoption. Eighteen months after introduction of POLST, we studied POLST implementation in California NHs... 
Do proxies reflect patients' health concerns about urinary incontinence and gait problems?Takahiro Higashi
Department of Epidemiology and Healthcare Research, Kyoto University, Kyoto, 606 8501, Japan
Health Qual Life Outcomes 3:75. 2005..While falls and urinary incontinence are prevalent among older patients, who sometimes rely on proxies to provide their health information, the validity of proxy reports of concern about falls and urinary incontinence remains unknown...- Use of complementary/alternative therapies by women with advanced-stage breast cancerJoannie Shen
Laboratory of Clinical Sciences, National Institute of Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
BMC Complement Altern Med 2:8. 2002.... - Physicians' religiosity and end-of-life care attitudes and behaviorsNeil S Wenger
UCLA Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, 911 Broxton Plaza, Suite 309, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1736, USA
Mt Sinai J Med 71:335-43. 2004..We surveyed physicians of one religion to describe the relationship between religiosity and end-of-life care... - 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... - Introduction to the assessing care of vulnerable elders-3 quality indicator measurement setNeil S Wenger
RAND Health, Santa Monica, California, and Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90407, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 55:S247-52. 2007.... - Application of assessing care of vulnerable elders-3 quality indicators to patients with advanced dementia and poor prognosisNeil S Wenger
RAND Health, Santa Monica, CA 90407 2138, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 55:S457-63. 2007..To use a formal decision-making strategy to reach clinically appropriate, internally consistent decisions on the application of quality indicators (QIs) to vulnerable elders (VEs) with advanced dementia (AD) or poor prognosis (PP)... - Practice redesign to improve care for falls and urinary incontinence: primary care intervention for older patientsNeil S Wenger
University of California, Los Angeles, 90024, USA
Arch Intern Med 170:1765-72. 2010..In collaboration with the American College of Physicians, we augmented the Assessing Care of Vulnerable Elders practice redesign intervention to improve falls and UI care... - The quality of medical care provided to vulnerable community-dwelling older patientsNeil S Wenger
RAND Health, Santa Monica, California, USA
Ann Intern Med 139:740-7. 2003..Previous studies have focused on general medical conditions aimed at prolonging life, not on geriatric issues important for quality of life... - Hospital ethics committees in Israel: structure, function and heterogeneity in the setting of statutory ethics committeesN S Wenger
Division of General Internal Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
J Med Ethics 28:177-82. 2002..Israel has the distinction of having ethics committees legally required by a Patients' Rights Act. We studied the development of ethics committees in this legal environment... - Quality of care provided in a special needs plan using a nurse care manager modelNeil S Wenger
RAND Health, Santa Monica, California, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 59:1810-22. 2011.... - Evaluation of the research norms of scientists and administrators responsible for academic research integrityS G Korenman
Department of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles 90095 7041, USA
JAMA 279:41-7. 1998..The professional integrity of scientists is important to society as a whole and particularly to disciplines such as medicine that depend heavily on scientific advances for their progress... - Changes in health-promoting behavior following diagnosis with HIV: prevalence and correlates in a national probability sampleR L Collins
RAND, Santa Monica, California 90407 2138, USA
Health Psychol 20:351-60. 2001..Most people with HIV improve their health behavior following diagnosis, but more might be helped to do so by targeting these behaviors in future interventions... - 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... - Patients' global ratings of their health care are not associated with the technical quality of their careJohn T Chang
the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and Greater Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Healthcare System, Los Angeles, California; RAND Health, Santa Monica, California; and RAND Health, Arlington, Virginia
Ann Intern Med 144:665-72. 2006..CONCLUSIONS: Vulnerable elders' global ratings of care should not be used as a marker of technical quality of care. Assessments of quality of care should include both patient evaluations and independent assessments of technical quality... - Unrestricted opiate administration for pain and suffering at the end of life: knowledge and attitudes as barriers to careIris Cohen Fineberg
Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90024-1736, USA
J Palliat Med 9:873-83. 2006..Clinician education and clarification of the appropriate use of this modality when there are differences in clinician and family perception of discomfort are needed... - A Self-Report Measure of Clinicians' Orientation toward Integrative MedicineAn-Fu Hsiao
UCLA Department of Medicine, Division of GIM/HSR, 911 Broxton Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1736, USA
Health Serv Res 40:1553-69. 2005..The IM-30 survey, which we estimate as requiring 5 minutes to complete, can be administered to both conventional and CAM clinicians... - The quality of pharmacologic care for vulnerable older patientsTakahiro Higashi
Division of General Internal Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, and the Greater Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Healthcare System, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
Ann Intern Med 140:714-20. 2004.... - Complementary and alternative medicine use among Asian-American subgroups: prevalence, predictors, and lack of relationship to acculturation and access to conventional health careAn Fu Hsiao
Center for Health Policy Research, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697 5800, USA
J Altern Complement Med 12:1003-10. 2006..Because of differences in health and cultural beliefs, we also hypothesized that patterns and predictors of CAM use would vary among Asian-American subgroups... - Appropriateness of quality indicators for older patients with advanced dementia and poor prognosisDavid H Solomon
RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 51:902-7. 2003..To evaluate the applicability of process-of-care quality indicators (QIs) to vulnerable elders and to measure the effect of excluding indicators based on patients' preferences and for advanced dementia and poor prognosis... - Identifying a short functional disability screen for older personsD Saliba
Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, VA Greater Los Angeles Health Care System, California, USA
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 55:M750-6. 2000..The inclusion of these items in population screens may be limited by variation in item performance across gender and age groups. Further, identification of shortened lists may encourage inclusion of these items in screens... - Prevalence and predictors of highly active antiretroviral therapy use in patients with HIV infection in the united states. HCSUS Consortium. HIV Cost and Services UtilizationW E Cunningham
Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, Department of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 25:115-23. 2000..It is not known whether high levels of HAART use have been sustained or whether socioeconomic and racial disparities have diminished over time... - End-of-life decision making: a qualitative study of elderly individualsK E Rosenfeld
Division of General Internal Medicine, Veterans Administration Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, CA 90073, USA
J Gen Intern Med 15:620-5. 2000..To identify the desired features of end-of-life medical decision making from the perspective of elderly individuals... - Measuring the quality of care provided to dually enrolled Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries living in nursing homesDavid S Zingmond
Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, 911 Broxton Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1736, USA
Med Care 47:536-44. 2009.... - Measuring the quality of care provided to community dwelling vulnerable elders dually enrolled in Medicare and MedicaidDavid S Zingmond
Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
Med Care 45:931-8. 2007..Small studies suggest that the quality of healthcare provided to older patients needs improvement. However, measuring the quality of care for larger groups of older adults is difficult... - Multimorbidity is associated with better quality of care among vulnerable eldersLillian C Min
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90095 1687, USA
Med Care 45:480-8. 2007..Possible reasons include competing guidelines for individual conditions, burden of numerous recommendations, and difficulty implementing treatments for multiple conditions... - The many faces of error disclosure: a common set of elements and a definitionStephanie P Fein
Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
J Gen Intern Med 22:755-61. 2007..Surveys of physicians show that they believe harmful errors should be disclosed to patients, yet errors are often not disclosed... - The effect of a quality improvement initiative on the quality of other aspects of health care: the law of unintended consequences?David A Ganz
Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Health Care System, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90024, USA
Med Care 45:8-18. 2007..Policymakers and clinicians are concerned that initiatives to improve the quality of care for some conditions may have unintended negative consequences for quality in other conditions... - 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... - 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... - 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... - Physician communication about the cost and acquisition of newly prescribed medicationsDerjung M Tarn
Department of Family Medicine, The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, 10880 Wilshire Blvd, Ste 1800, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
Am J Manag Care 12:657-64. 2006..To describe the frequency and content of physician discussions about the cost and acquisition of new medications... - Physician communication when prescribing new medicationsDerjung M Tarn
Department of Family Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, 10880 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 1800, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
Arch Intern Med 166:1855-62. 2006..This article describes and assesses the quality of physician communication with patients about newly prescribed medications... - 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... - Evidence-based recommendations for information and care planning in cancer careAnne Walling
David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
J Clin Oncol 26:3896-902. 2008..The standards presented here for information and care planning in cancer care should be incorporated into care pathways and should become the expectation rather than the exception... - 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... - Nurse practitioner comanagement for patients in an academic geriatric practiceDavid A Ganz
Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, University of California, Los Angeles, 11301 Wilshire Blvd, Bldg 220, Rm 313 11G, Los Angeles, CA 90073, USA
Am J Manag Care 16:e343-55. 2010..To determine whether nurse practitioner (NP) comanagement can improve the quality of care for 5 chronic conditions in an academic geriatrics practice. STUDY DESIGN and.. - The quality of care provided to hospitalized patients at the end of lifeAnne M Walling
Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
Arch Intern Med 170:1057-63. 2010..However, when lifesaving treatments are unsuccessful, patients often die in the hospital with distressing symptoms while receiving burdensome care. Systematic measurement of the quality of care planning and symptom palliation is needed... - Assessing care of vulnerable elders--Alzheimer's disease: a pilot study of a practice redesign intervention to improve the quality of dementia careDavid B Reuben
Multicampus Program in Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, California, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 58:324-9. 2010..To determine whether a practice redesign intervention coupled with referral to local Alzheimer's Association chapters can improve the quality of dementia care... - How do physicians conduct medication reviews?Derjung M Tarn
Department of Family Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, 10880 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 1800, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
J Gen Intern Med 24:1296-302. 2009..The medical literature suggests that it is an exhaustive evaluation, but what physicians actually ask about their patients' medication regimens has been little studied... - The vulnerable elders-13 survey predicts 5-year functional decline and mortality outcomes in older ambulatory care patientsLillian Min
Division of Geriatrics, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 57:2070-6. 2009..To test the predictive properties of the Vulnerable Elders-13 Survey (VES-13) a short tool that predicts functional decline and mortality over a 1- to 2-year follow-up interval over a 5-year interval... - Prescribing new medications: a taxonomy of physician-patient communicationDerjung M Tarn
Department of Family Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90024 4142, USA
Commun Med 5:195-208. 2008..The coding system also can be used to measure the quality of new medication discussions for linkage to outcomes and can inform interventions to improve communication when prescribing new drugs... - Which providers should communicate which critical information about a new medication? Patient, pharmacist, and physician perspectivesDerjung M Tarn
Department of Family Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90024, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 57:462-9. 2009..To investigate older patient, pharmacist, and physician perspectives about what information is essential to impart to patients receiving new medication prescriptions and who should provide the information... - Assessment of implementation of an order protocol for end-of-life symptom managementAnne M Walling
Department of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
J Palliat Med 11:857-65. 2008..We evaluated the implementation of an inpatient end-of-life symptom management order (ESMO) protocol that guides the use of opiate medications and other modalities to provide palliation... - 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... - Quality of osteoarthritis care for community-dwelling older adultsDavid A Ganz
Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, V A Greater Los Angeles Health Care System, STAR Program, University of California Los Angeles, 911 Broxton Plaza 3rd Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
Arthritis Rheum 55:241-7. 2006..To describe the quality of osteoarthritis care provided to community-dwelling elderly patients and to characterize arthritis-related function in these patients... - Quality of care for older persons at the dawn of the third millenniumDavid B Reuben
Multicampus Program in Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 51:S346-50. 2003..Despite substantial progress in defining and measuring high-quality care for older persons, the goal of ensuring that older persons receiving such care remains a distant hope... - Restructuring primary care practices to manage geriatric syndromes: the ACOVE-2 interventionDavid B Reuben
Multicampus Program in Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 51:1787-93. 2003..Moreover, the costs of the intervention are low. The effectiveness of the intervention in improving the processes of care for these conditions and clinical outcomes will need to be evaluated in controlled trials... - Regional and institutional variation in the initiation of early do-not-resuscitate ordersDavid S Zingmond
Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1736, USA
Arch Intern Med 165:1705-12. 2005..We examined these influences on the use of early DNR orders (written <24 hours after admission)... - 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... - Disparities in HIV treatment and physician attitudes about delaying protease inhibitors for nonadherent patientsMitchell D Wong
Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095 1736, USA
J Gen Intern Med 19:366-74. 2004..Current HIV treatment guidelines recommend delaying antiretroviral therapy for nonadherent patients, which some fear may disproportionately affect certain populations and contribute to disparities in care... - Detection and management of falls and instability in vulnerable elders by community physiciansLaurence Z Rubenstein
UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 52:1527-31. 2004..To investigate quality of care for falls and instability provided to vulnerable elders... - Interdisciplinary education: evaluation of a palliative care training intervention for pre-professionalsIris Cohen Fineberg
Division of Cancer Prevention and Control Research, UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center and School of Public Health, Box 956900, Room A2 125 CHS, Los Angeles, CA 90095 6900, USA
Acad Med 79:769-76. 2004..This study developed and evaluated an innovative interdisciplinary educational program in palliative care designed to promote interdisciplinary exchange and understanding... - 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... - 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... - The quality of medical care provided to vulnerable older patients with chronic painJoshua Chodosh
Greater Los Angeles VA Healthcare System, Los Angeles, California, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 52:756-61. 2004..To assess the quality of chronic pain care provided to vulnerable older persons... - Quality of care is associated with survival in vulnerable older patientsTakahiro Higashi
RAND Health, Santa Monica, California 90407-2138, USA
Ann Intern Med 143:274-81. 2005..CONCLUSIONS: Better performance on process quality measures is strongly associated with better survival among community-dwelling vulnerable older adults... - 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... - 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... - Predictors of overall quality of care provided to vulnerable older peopleLillian C Min
Division of Geriatrics, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 53:1705-11. 2005..In this study, the influences of clinical conditions, types of care processes, and sociodemographic characteristics on the quality of care received by vulnerable older people were evaluated... - Differences in symptom expression in older HIV-positive patients: The Veterans Aging Cohort 3 Site Study and HIV Cost and Service Utilization Study experienceDavid S Zingmond
Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, University of Southern California at Los Angeles, 90095 1736, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 33:S84-92. 2003..Nonwhites appeared less likely to report symptoms. Age is a determinant of reporting certain symptoms in HIV disease but may be masked or accentuated by other factors such as race... - Higher vulnerable elders survey scores predict death and functional decline in vulnerable older peopleLillian C Min
Division of Geriatrics and General Internal Medicine and Health Services Researchm University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 54:507-11. 2006..To examine whether the Vulnerable Elders Survey (VES-13) score predicts risk of death and functional decline in vulnerable older adults... - 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... - Comparison of administrative data and medical records to measure the quality of medical care provided to vulnerable older patientsCatherine H Maclean
Greater Los Angeles VA Healthcare System, California, USA
Med Care 44:141-8. 2006..However, it is unclear how performance based on administrative data and medical records compare... - Documentation of advance care planning for community-dwelling eldersVictoria Y Yung
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
J Palliat Med 13:861-7. 2010..We assessed the flow of advance care planning information from patients to medical records in a community sample of older adults to better understand why advance care planning is not more successful... - Reduction of high-risk sexual behavior among heterosexuals undergoing HIV antibody testing: a randomized clinical trialN S Wenger
Department of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles
Am J Public Health 81:1580-5. 1991..Additional strategies will be necessary if behaviors risky for HIV transmission are to be further reduced... - The Vulnerable Elders Survey: a tool for identifying vulnerable older people in the communityD Saliba
RAND, Santa Monica, California 90401, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 49:1691-9. 2001..Self-reported diagnoses and conditions, when added to the system, do not enhance predictive ability. The function-based targeting system relies on self-report and is easily transported across care settings... - 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... - Religiousness and spirituality among HIV-infected AmericansK A Lorenz
Veterans Integrated Palliative Program, Div of General Internal Medicine, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, West Los Angeles VAMC, 11303 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90073, USA
J Palliat Med 8:774-81. 2005..To describe the demographic and clinical factors associated with the importance of religiousness and spirituality among patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in the United States... - Internal medicine work hours: trends, associations, and implications for the futureLori M Shiotani
UCLA Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, Los Angeles, Calif 90095, USA
Am J Med 121:80-5. 2008 - Didactic teaching conferences for IM residents: who attends, and is attendance related to medical certifying examination scores?John D FitzGerald
University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1670, USA
Acad Med 78:84-9. 2003..This study determines the factors associated with residents' attendance at didactic teaching conferences and the relationship of attendance to residents' scores on medical certification examinations... - Preventing and managing visual disability in primary care: clinical applicationsCaroline L Goldzweig
Greater Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Health Care System, Los Angeles, Calif 90073, USA
JAMA 291:1497-502. 2004..Finally, clinicians can direct patients with low vision from any cause to resources designed to help enhance patient function and emotional support... - Physician specialization and antiretroviral therapy for HIVBruce E Landon
Received from the Division of General Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center BEL and the Department of Health Care Policy BEL, PDC, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass 02115, USA
J Gen Intern Med 18:233-41. 2003..The changing nature of HIV care has important implications for the types of physicians that can best care for patients with HIV infection... - The quality of care provided to vulnerable older community-based patients with urinary incontinenceNallini Gnanadesigan
Los Angeles Jewish Home for the Aging, 7150 Tampa Avenue, Reseda, CA, USA
J Am Med Dir Assoc 5:141-6. 2004..The objective of this study was to assess the quality of care provided to vulnerable older community-based patients with urinary incontinence (UI)... - Specialty training and specialization among physicians who treat HIV/AIDS in the United StatesBruce E Landon
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Gen Intern Med 17:12-22. 2002..To assess the association of specialty training and experience in the care of HIV disease with HIV-specific knowledge, referral patterns, and HIV-related education activities... - Variations in provider conceptions of integrative medicineAn Fu Hsiao
UCI Center for Health Policy Research Irvine, CA, USA
Soc Sci Med 62:2973-87. 2006..They advocated an open-minded perspective about other healing traditions, promoting co-management with and making referrals to practitioners of other paradigms, and treating patients with both CAM and conventional healing modalities... - 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... - Relationship between number of medical conditions and quality of careTakahiro Higashi
Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
N Engl J Med 356:2496-504. 2007..We therefore sought to study the relationship between the quality of care and the number of medical conditions a patient has... - Acculturation and end-of-life decision making: comparison of Japanese and Japanese-American focus groupsSeiji Bito
Division of Clinical Epidemiology, National Tokyo Medical Center Clinical Research Center, Tokyo, Japan
Bioethics 21:251-62. 2007..These findings suggest that in the United States Japanese cultural values concerning end-of-life care and decision-making process are largely preserved... - Quality indicators for the care of depression in vulnerable eldersGene A Nakajima
Center for Special Problems, San Francisco, CA, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 55:S302-11. 2007 - Comorbidity and quality of care: clarification from author: response to Min et al, June 2007 Medical CareNeil S Wenger
Med Care 45:1233. 2007 - A new approach to developing cross-cultural communication skillsJoel Rosen
Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of New Mexico, Albequerque, 87131, USA
Med Teach 26:126-32. 2004..CCT in the context of medical student clinical training can be carried out effectively and efficiently using a dedicated multi-modal workshop including standardized patients... - Variation in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use across racial/ethnic groups and the development of ethnic-specific measures of CAM useAn Fu Hsiao
UCI Center for Health Policy Research, Irvine, CA 92697 5800, USA
J Altern Complement Med 12:281-90. 2006.... - Measuring patient adherenceHonghu Liu
Ann Intern Med 137:72-3; author reply 72-3. 2002