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2004  
6/25/04 Using the Federated Council for Internal Medicine Curricular Guide and Administrative Codes to Assess IM Residents' Breadth of Experience
6/11/04 Patient Pain in Primary Care: Factors that Influence Physician Diagnosis
5/28/04 Preparticipation Physical Evaluations for High School Athletes: Time for a New Game Plan
5/14/04 Using Maximal Sterile Barriers to Prevent Central Venous Catheter-related Infection: A Systematic Evidence-based Review
5/07/04 First, Do No Harm. Avoiding the Near Misses
4/30/04 Clinically Important Differences in Health Status for Patients with Heart Disease: An Expert Consensus Panel Report
4/16/04 Sibutramine and the Management of Obesity
4/02/04 Profiles in Patient Safety: Medication Errors in the Emergency Department
3/26/04 Health Care for Children and Youth in the United States: 2002 Report
3/12/04 What is Evidence-based Medicine?
2/27/04 Efficacy of an Educational Web Site for Educating Physicians about Bioterrorism
2/13/04 The Balance of Harms, Benefits, and Costs of Screening for Cervical Cancer in Older Women: The Case for Continued Screening
2/6/04 Use of Erythropoietin in Cancer Patients: Assessment of Oncologists' Practice Patterns in the United States and Other Countries
1/30/04 Projecting Future Drug Expenditures—2004
1/23/04 Statistical Validation Based on Parametric Receiver Operating Characteristic Analysis of Continuous Classification Data
1/16/04 Promoting Safety in Child and Adolescent Health Care: Conference Overview
1/2/04 Health Care Utilization after Medical and Surgical Therapy for Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease
2003  
12/26/03 The Discrepancy Between Observational Studies and Randomized trials of Menopausal Hormone Therapy
12/12/03 Disaster and Terrorism Preparedness: What Pediatricians Need to Know
11/28/03 Researching Disparities: Strategies for Primary Data Collection
11/14/03 Neurologic Outcome Score for Infants and Children
10/31/03 Occupational Risk Factors for Selected Cancers Among African American and White Men in the United States
10/17/03 Developing Methods for Acupuncture Research
10/10/03 Comparing Asthma Care Provided to Medicaid-enrolled Children in a Primary Care Case Manager Plan and a Staff Model HMO
10/3/03 The Effect of HMO Competition on Gatekeeping, Usual Source of Care, and Evaluations of Physician Thoroughness
9/26/03 Standardized Reporting of Clinical Practice Guidelines
9/12/03 Reliability and Validity of a New Five-level Triage Instrument
9/5/03 Why Don't We See More Translation of Health Promotion Research to Practice?
8/29/03 An Exploratory Cost Analysis of Performing Hospital-based Concurrent Utilization Review
8/15/03 Mortality Trends for 23,505 Medicare Patients Hospitalized with Heart Failure in Northeast Ohio
8/1/03 Barriers to Anti-inflammatory Medication Use in Childhood Asthma
7/18/03 Substance Use and Mental Health Correlates of Nonadherence to Antiretroviral Medications in a Sample of Patients with Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection
7/11/03 Model-based Sampling for Persons with High Health Expenditures: Evaluating Accuracy and Yield with the 1997 MEPS
7/3/03 Computer Physician Order Entry: Benefits, Costs, and Issues
6/27/03 Hospital Competition, Resource Allocation and Quality of Care
6/20/03 Error, Blame, and the Law in Health Care—an Antipodean Perspective
6/13/03 A Review of the Evidence for the Effectiveness, Safety, and Cost of Acupuncture, Massage Therapy, and Spinal Manipulation for Back Pain
5/30/03 Advance Care Planning for Fatal Chronic Illness: Avoiding Commonplace Errors and Unwarranted Suffering
5/16/03 A Brief Risk-stratification Tool to Predict Repeat Emergency Department Visits and Hospitalizations in Older Patients
5/9/03 Crossing the Border for Health Care: Access and Primary Care Characteristics for Young Children of Latino Farm Workers
5/2/03 Process Utility for Imaging in Cerebrovascular Disease
4/4/03 Predictors and Outcomes of Frequent Emergency Department Use
3/14/03 Adherence to Practice Guidelines: The Role of Specialty Society Guidelines
2/28/03 Time-dependent Predictors of Primary Cardiac Arrest in Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction
2/14/03 Hospitalization for Firearm-related Injuries in the United States, 1997
1/24/03 Intermittent Lack of Health Insurance Coverage and Use of Preventive Services
1/10/03 Characteristics of Eye Care Practices with Managed Care Contracts
1/3/03 The Paradox of Human Subjects Protection in Research
2002  
12/27/02 An Outbreak of Web Sites Selling Ciprofloxacin Following an Outbreak of Anthrax by Mail
12/13/02 Adrenocortical, Autonomic, and Inflammatory Causes of the Metabolic Syndrome
11/29/02 Health Care for Children and Youth in the United States: 2001 Annual Report
11/8/02 In Search of Quality Healthcare: Helping Consumers Make Informed Choices
11/1/02 Improving the Care for Depression in Patients with Comorbid Medical Illness
10/25/02 When Is "Good Enough"? The Role and Responsibility of Physicians to Improve Patient Safety
10/11/02 Usual Source of Care and Nonurgent Emergency Department Use
9/13/02 Genetic Test Evaluation: Information Needs of Clinicians, Policy Makers, and the Public
9/6/02 Atypical Presentations among Medicare Beneficiaries with Unstable Angina Pectoris
8/16/02 Antipsychotics and Sudden Death: Is Thioridazine the Only Bad Actor?
8/2/02 The Importance of Outcomes Research in Pediatric Emergency Medicine
7/12/02 AHRQ's Fiscal Year 2003 Budget Proposal
6/28/02 Effect of Biocompatibility of Hemodialysis Membranes on Mortality in Acute Renal Failure
6/14/02 Differences in Health Care Quality for Children and Adults under Managed Care
5/24/02 Disparities in Hospital Transfer: Inequities, Patient-centered Care, or Both.
5/10/02 Relationship Between Patients'Perceptions of Disadvantage and Discrimination and Listing for Kidney Transplantation
4/26/02 The Impact of Realignment on Utilization and Cost of Community-based Mental Health Services in California
4/12/02 Specialty Referrals Made During Telephone Conversations with Parents: A Study from the Pediatric Research in Office Settings Network
3/29/02 Aspirin: Redundant in Users of Nonaspirin, Nonsteroidal Antiinflammatory Agents?
3/8/02 Projecting Future Drug Expenditures—2002
2/22/02 Modifiable Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Adults with Diabetes
2/15/02 The Impact of Outpatient Diabetes Management on Serum Lipids in Urban African-Amiercans with Type 2 Diabetes
2/8/02 Variability in Cost of Coronary Bypass Surgery in New York State
1/18/02 Provider Adherence to a Clinical Practice Guideline for Acute Asthma in a Pediatric Emergency Department
1/11/02 Determinants of Delayed Nephrologist Referral in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease
2001  
12/28/01 Racial and Ethnic Disparities and Primary Care Experience
12/21/01 Clinical Inertia
12/14/01 Risk of Abruptio Placentae by Region of Birth and Residence among African-American Women in the USA
12/7/01 Recent Evidence on the Effectiveness of Prenatal Care
11/30/01 Performance of Comorbidity Scores to Control for Confounding in Epidemiologic Studies Using Claims Data
11/5/01 Epidemiology of Thoracolumbar Spine Injury in Blunt Trauma
10/5/01 Psychiatric Disorders and Drug Use among HIV-infected Adults in the U.S.
9/21/01 Racial Disparity in Influenza Vaccination
9/14/01 Use of Screening and Preventive Services among Women with Disabilities
8/31/01 Quality of Ambulatory Care after Myocardial Infarction among Medicare Patients
7/27/01 Primary Care Physician Job Satisfaction and Turnover
7/6/01 Preoperative Correlates of the Cost of Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery
6/15/01 Mismanaging Prescription Medications among Rural Elders
6/8/01 Impact of Age on Perioperative Complications and Length of Stay in Patients Undergoing Noncardiac Surgery
4/27/01 Randomized Trial Comparing Traditional Chinese Medical Acupuncture, Therapeutic Massage, and Self-care Education for Chronic Low Back Pain
4/13/01 Pain in U.S. Nursing Homes: Validating a Pain Scale for the Minimum Data Set
4/6/01 Electron-beam Computed Tomography in the Diagnosis of Coronary Artery Disease
3/23/01 Market Forces and Organizational Evolution at Freestanding Children's Hospitals in the United States
3/9/01 National Guideline Clearinghouse™ is the Place to go for Practice Guidelines
3/2/01 Comparison of Cesarean Section Rates in Fee-for-Service vs. Managed Care Patients in the Ohio Medicaid Population, 1992-1997
2/23/01 Relationship between Smoking and Weight Control Efforts among Adults in the United States
2/16/01 A System of Analyzing Medical Errors to Improve GME Curricula and Programs
2/2/01 Evidence Syntheses in Child Health
1/26/01 Annual Report on Access to and Utilization of Health Care for Children and Youth in the United States—2000
1/5/01 Health Status of the Pakistani Population
2000  
12/29/00 The Positive Predictive Value of Cervical Smears in Previously Screened Postmenopausal Women
12/22/00 Building a Community of Health Services Research Training
12/15/00 Classifying Health Networks and Systems
12/8/00 Cost-effectiveness of Radiofrequency Ablation for Supraventricular Tachycardia
12/1/00 Survival, Functional Limitations, and Self-rated Health in the NHANES I Epidemiologic Follow-up Study, 1992
11/24/00 Substance Use Measures Among Women in Early Pregnancy
11/17/00 Outcome of Patients with Cystic Fibrosis Awaiting Lung Transplantation
11/10/00 Racial/ethnic Differences in Children's Access to Care
11/3/00 Friend or Foe? How Primary Care Physicians Perceive Hospitalists
10/20/00 Dimensions of Vulnerability in Emergency Nurses' Narratives
10/13/00 Coping, Conflictual Social Interactions, Social Support, and Mood among HIV-infected Persons
9/22/00 Delayed Medical Care after Diagnosis in a U.S. National Probability Sample of Persons Infected with HIV
9/15/00 Quality of Care and Mortality for Medicare Patients with Acute MI
9/8/00 Diagnosis and Treatment of Chronic a bacterial prostatitis
9/5/00 Comparing the Medical Expenses of Children with Medicaid and Commercial Insurance in an HMO
9/1/00 Medical Errors and Patient Safety
8/18/00 The Effects of Outpatient Geriatric Evaluation and Management on Caregiver Burden
7/14/00 National Estimates of HIV-Related Symptom Prevalence from the HIV Cost and Services Utilization Study
7/7/00 Perceived Unmet Need for Oral Treatment Among a National Population of HIV-positive Medical Patients
6/30/00 The Cause of Delirium in Patients with Hip Fracture
6/23/00 The Effects of Medicaid Expansions and Reimbursement Increases on Dentists' Participation
6/16/00 Quality Research for Quality Healthcare
5/26/00 Factors Influencing Use of the Prostate-specific Antigen Screening Test in Primary Care
4/28/00 Reporting Medical Errors

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