Book reviews
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Book reviews
Clinic services for persons with AIDS. Experience in a high-prevalence state.
Published in Journal of general internal medicine
In this sample of clinics, hospital-based general medicine/primary care clinics managing the care of Medicaid enrollees with AIDS appeared to have more limited hours and availability of specific services than HIV specialty or community-based clinics.
Do physicians do what they say? The inclination to test and its association with coronary angiography rates.
Published in Journal of general internal medicine
Self-reported testing intensity by physicians is related to the population-based rates of coronary angiography. This relationship cuts across specialties, suggesting that there is a "medical signature" for the evaluation of patients with coronary artery disease.
Do internists and emergency physicians agree on the appropriateness of emergency department visits?
Published in Journal of general internal medicine
The purpose of this study was to determine the levels of agreement between three methods of assessing appropriateness of emergency department (ED) visits. In particular, we tested the agreement between internists and emergency physicians reviewing the ED nurses' triage notes, containing information that might be available by telephone to an interni...
Quality in HIV/AIDS care. Specialty-related or experience-related?
Published in Journal of general internal medicine
Race, gender, drug use, and participation in AIDS clinical trials. Lessons from a municipal hospital cohort.
Published in Journal of general internal medicine
Even when AIDS clinical trials are available on-site, persons of color, women, and drug users are less likely to participate. Educational efforts for patients and providers are needed to remedy continuing disparities in participation by race, gender, and risk factor group in AIDS clinical trials.
The physician and pharmacist team. An effective approach to cholesterol reduction.
Published in Journal of general internal medicine
Attempts to lower total cholesterol levels and achieve NCEP goals are likely to be more successful when combined with programs that include teamwork between physicians and pharmacists. Some programs, however, may be more successful for high-risk patients, for whom it is often easier to provide more aggressive therapies. Although altering adverse li...
Quantitative assessments from the clinical examination. How should clinicians integrate the numerous results?
Published in Journal of general internal medicine
Describing the rational clinical examination requires evaluating conditional independence of examination components. Conditional independence assumptions were violated when seven clinical examination items were used to estimate posterior probability of airflow limitation. Focusing on clinical examination items identified through logistic models ove...
Primary care physicians and capitated reimbursement. Experience, attitudes, and predictors.
Published in Journal of general internal medicine
Given the explosive expansion of capitated reimbursement for the services of primary care physicians, we conducted a national survey of a random sample of these practitioners to measure attitudes toward capitated payment and identify predictors of important attitudes. Descriptive, factor analytic, and regression techniques were used. The response r...
Are fourth-year medical students effective teachers of the physical examination to first-year medical students?
Published in Journal of general internal medicine
Fourth-year medical students were as successful as faculty in teaching first-year medical students the physical examination as measured by first-year student's performances on objective measures and ratings of teaching effectiveness.
