Family Practice

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "E" book and its implications for family practice. 
  • "Family Medicine's Task in Population Health: Defining It and Owning It" Begins With the Community. 
  • "Success" in family nursing: experts describe phenomena. 
  • A comparison of students' clinical experience in family medicine and traditional clerkships. 
  • A multimethod quality improvement intervention to improve preventive cardiovascular care: a cluster randomized trial. 
  • A national survey on the current status of general internal medicine residency education in geriatric medicine. 
  • A problem-based approach to teaching outcomes research in family medicine residency. 
  • Ability to generate patient registries among practices with and without electronic health records. 
  • Academic family medicine chairs. 
  • Addressing Family Medicine's Capacity to Improve Health Equity Through Collaboration, Accountability and Coalition-Building. 
  • Adoption of thrombolytic therapy in the management of acute myocardial infarction. 
  • Advertisement breached code of practice 
  • Alternative models for academic family practices. 
  • American Heart Association guide for improving cardiovascular health at the community level: a statement for public health practitioners, healthcare providers, and health policy makers from the American Heart Association Expert Panel on Population and Prevention Science. 
  • An analysis of returning patients in family practice. 
  • Appropriateness of cardiac stress test use among primary care physicians and cardiologists in the United States. 
  • Assessing departments of family medicine. 
  • Assessing generalizability of trial results in general practice. 
  • Assessing the practices and perceptions of dually-trained physicians: a pilot study. 
  • Attitudes, experience, and influence of family medicine predoctoral education directors. 
  • Behavioral determinants of mental illness concerns: a comparison of "gatekeeper" professions. 
  • Behind the surgery doors. A look at what English general practitioners do. 
  • Big ideas to help your practice thrive. 
  • Blueprint for an Undergraduate Primary Care Curriculum. 
  • Breast cancer screening in older women: practices and barriers reported by primary care physicians. 
  • CTSAs and family medicine research--time to get connected. 
  • Change in functional disability of geriatric patients in a family medicine program: implications for patient care. 
  • Characteristics associated with glycemic control among family medicine patients with type 2 diabetes. 
  • Clinical and radiographic findings that lead to intervention in diabetic patients with foot ulcers. A nationwide survey of primary care physicians. 
  • Clinical evaluation for sinusitis. Making the diagnosis by history and physical examination. 
  • Clinical experience of medical students in model family practices and private family practices. 
  • Clinical inquiries. How effective are hypertension self-care interventions? 
  • Clinical practice plans in family practice residency programs. 
  • Clinical skills acquired during a clerkship in family medicine. 
  • Collaborating to Achieve the Optimal Family Medicine Workforce. 
  • Collaborative care management of late-life depression in the primary care setting: a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Communications: a compact course in family medicine for preclinical medical students. 
  • Computer-prompted diagnostic codes. 
  • Core content in-training assessment: another look. 
  • Cost-effectiveness of the clinical practice recommendations in the AHCPR guideline for smoking cessation. Agency for Health Care Policy and Research. 
  • Debating the current status of research in family medicine. 
  • Debating the current status of research in family medicine. 
  • Developing on outpatient care syllabus for a third-year clerkship in family medicine. 
  • Development and evaluation of a Computer-Assisted Management Protocol (CAMP): improved compliance with care guidelines for diabetes mellitus. 
  • Development and modification of a required family medicine clerkship. 
  • Diagnosing and managing cutaneous pigmented lesions: primary care physicians versus dermatologists. 
  • Diagnosing organic mental disorders in the elderly. 
  • Diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer disease and related disorders. Consensus statement of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, the Alzheimer's Association, and the American Geriatrics Society. 
  • Diagnosis of acute bronchitis in adults: a national survey of family physicians. 
  • Does increased access to primary care reduce hospital readmissions? Veterans Affairs Cooperative Study Group on Primary Care and Hospital Readmission. 
  • Does the label "fibromyalgia" alter health status, function, and health service utilization? A prospective, within-group comparison in a community cohort of adults with chronic widespread pain. 
  • Does this patient have sinusitis? Diagnosing acute sinusitis by history and physical examination. 
  • Dr Carek's Commentary on Training PAs and NPs. 
  • Drug-prescribing in a family medicine residency program with a pharmacotherapeutics curriculum. 
  • Effect of general practitioner education on adherence to antihypertensive drugs: cluster randomised controlled trial. 
  • Effect of prepaid health plans on a family practice residency. 
  • Effective use of feedback. 
  • Effects of medical illness and somatic symptoms on treatment of depression in a family medicine residency practice. 
  • Empathy goes a long way in weight loss discussions. 
  • Evaluating domestic partner abuse in a family practice clinic. 
  • Evaluating without fear. 
  • Facing the challenge of HIV. Primary care physicians have an obligation to care for those infected. 
  • Factors responsible for immunizations referrals to health departments in North Carolina. 
  • Family medicine at Duke: excellence defined. 
  • Family medicine education in Canada. 
  • Family physician acceptance of universal hepatitis B immunization of infants. 
  • Family practice as a specialty. 
  • Family practice in Virginia: a comparative analysis of two years' data. 
  • Family therapy and the dementia patient. 
  • Feasibility of blood pressure telemonitoring in patients with poor blood pressure control. 
  • Free visits: a strategy to retain patients and improve continuity in a residency program. 
  • Gastroenterologist specialist care and care provided by generalists--an evaluation of effectiveness and efficiency. 
  • General practice orthopaedic outpatient referrals in North Staffordshire. 
  • General practitioner turnover and migration in England 1990-94. 
  • General practitioners' approach to hypertension in urban Pakistan: disturbing trends in practice. 
  • Generalists and oncologists show similar care practices and outcomes for hospitalized late-stage cancer patients. SUPPORT Investigators. Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks for Treatment. 
  • Geriatric fellowships in family medicine: status and directions. 
  • Glaucoma screening in a general practice. 
  • Health care of young adult survivors of childhood cancer: a report from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study. 
  • Health perception, pain, and disability as correlates of anxiety and depression symptoms in primary care patients. 
  • Healthcare utilization and cost trajectories post-stroke: role of caregiver and stroke factors. 
  • High blood pressure knowledge among primary care patients with known hypertension: a North Carolina Family Medicine Research Network (NC-FM-RN) study. 
  • House call patterns of New Jersey family physicians. 
  • House call training in the family practice curriculum. 
  • How do North Carolina prenatal care providers counsel and test pregnant women for HIV? Survey measures knowledge of HIV testing benefits. 
  • How necessary is practice experience? 
  • How primary care physicians treat psychiatric disorders: a national survey of family practitioners. 
  • Hypertensive patients' use of blood pressure monitors stationed in pharmacies and other locations: a cross-sectional mail survey. 
  • Immigrant and refugee health: cross-cultural communication. 
  • Impact of specialist follow-up in outpatients with congestive heart failure. 
  • Implementing advanced access in a family medicine practice: a new paradigm in primary care. 
  • Improving drug prescribing in a primary care practice. 
  • Incidence and natural history of Paget's disease of bone in England and Wales. 
  • Incidence of acute otitis media in infants in a general practice. 
  • Incorporating acupuncture in a university-based family medicine center: lessons learned. 
  • Increasing compliance with mammography recommendations: health assessment forms. 
  • Independent activities for student learning during community-based rotations. 
  • Infertility: a family practice approach. 
  • Information on occupational medicine for trainee general practitioners. 
  • Initial management of pediatric head trauma. 
  • Institutional impact of a part-time faculty development fellowship program for osteopathic community-based physicians. 
  • Institutional review board training for community practices: advice from the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality Practice-Based Research Network listserv. 
  • Integrating prevention education into the medical school curriculum: the role of departments of family medicine. 
  • Interactions between pharmaceutical representatives and doctors in training. A thematic review. 
  • Is religious devotion relevant to the doctor-patient relationship? 
  • Is specialty care associated with improved survival of patients with congestive heart failure? 
  • Knowledge and attitudes about depression among non-generalists and generalists. 
  • Legalizing physician-assisted suicide: some thoughts and concerns. 
  • Lessons learned from a course for practice nurses. 
  • Letter: Art of medicine for aged doctors. 
  • Low carbohydrate diets in family practice: what can we learn from an internet-based support group. 
  • Medical training debt and service commitments: the rural consequences. 
  • Medicines control agency takes over GP research database. 
  • Migration patterns of recent medical school graduates. 
  • Minor depression in family practice: functional morbidity, co-morbidity, service utilization and outcomes. 
  • My longest year. 
  • Negotiation: a fundamental process in family medicine. 
  • New advances in the management of acute coronary syndromes. 
  • New models of care in family medicine. 
  • Night sweats are commonly vasomotor symptoms. 
  • Nutrition, education, and family physicians. 
  • Nutrition, family physicians, and health. 
  • Obesity and departments of family medicine. 
  • Obstetric-enhanced family practice residency training. 
  • Office preparedness for pediatric emergencies: a randomized, controlled trial of an office-based training program. 
  • Open access in primary care: results of a North Carolina pilot project. 
  • Opportunities for improving management of advanced chronic kidney disease. 
  • Outcome of acute myocardial infarction according to the specialty of the admitting physician. 
  • Outcomes of physician job satisfaction: a narrative review, implications, and directions for future research. 
  • PBRN conference summary and update. 
  • Partnership changes in English general practice from 1990 to 1994. 
  • Partnerships to Care for Our Patients and Communities During COVID-19. 
  • Patient acceptance of two health status measures: the Medical Outcomes Study Short-form General Health Survey and the Duke Health Profile. 
  • Patient satisfaction and quality of care in walk-in clinics, family practices and emergency departments: the Ontario Walk-In Clinic Study. 
  • Patient satisfaction with medical students in family practice offices. 
  • Pediatricians are more supportive of the human papillomavirus vaccine than the general public. 
  • Perspectives of older adults on co-management of low back pain by doctors of chiropractic and family medicine physicians: a focus group study. 
  • Perspectives on posttraumatic fibromyalgia: a random survey of Canadian general practitioners, orthopedists, physiatrists, and rheumatologists. 
  • Physicians' experiences with prehospital do-not-resuscitate orders in North Carolina. 
  • Preparing the Next Generation of Family Physicians to Improve Population Health: A CERA Study. 
  • Primary care approach to dysphonia. 
  • Primary care for patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus: a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Primary care physician-reported secondary and tertiary stroke prevention practices. A comparison between the United States and the United Kingdom. 
  • Primary care physicians' approach to depressive disorders. Effects of physician specialty and practice structure. 
  • Primary care--lifelines and shortages. 
  • Promoting resilience through social connection: an intern workshop. 
  • Public attitudes to the storage of blood left over from routine general practice tests and its use in research. 
  • Racial disparities in health between white and African American family practice patients: clinical implications. 
  • Radon and lung cancer. 
  • Randomized trial of long-term follow-up for early-stage breast cancer: a comparison of family physician versus specialist care. 
  • Real returns to medical education: a comment. 
  • Reconsidering the family history in primary care. 
  • Recruitment, retention, and time commitment change of general practitioners in England and Wales, 1990-4: a retrospective study. 
  • Relationship between physician specialty and the selection and outcome of ischemic stroke patients. 
  • Religious beliefs and practices in family medicine. 
  • Religious commitment and health status: a review of the research and implications for family medicine. 
  • Research published in 2003 by U.S. family medicine authors. 
  • Residents' Confidence Providing Primary Care With Behavioral Health Integration. 
  • Retention of young general practitioners entering the NHS from 1991-1992. 
  • Retrospective analysis of census data on general practitioners who qualified in South Asia: who will replace them as they retire? 
  • Same Content, Different Methods: Comparing Lecture, Engaged Classroom, and Simulation. 
  • Selecting an electronic medical record system for small physician practices. 
  • Shared care of adult survivors of childhood cancers. 
  • Similar effectiveness of paroxetine, fluoxetine, and sertraline in primary care: a randomized trial. 
  • Specialist/generalist division of responsibility for patients with mental disorders. 
  • State responses to the malpractice insurance "crisis" of the 1970s: an empirical assessment. 
  • Support and rewards for scholarly activity in family medicine: a national survey. 
  • Teacher training in family practice: a preliminary report. 
  • Teaching family medicine: a longitudinal and modular competency-based approach. 
  • Teaching occupational and environmental medicine in primary care residency training programs: experience using three approaches during 1984-1991. 
  • Teaching physicians to teach: a three-year report. 
  • Teaching population health: a competency map approach to education. 
  • Text messaging to improve resident knowledge: a randomized controlled trial. 
  • The 'offset effect' of mental health treatment on ambulatory medical care utilization and charges. Month-by-month and grouped-month analyses of a five-year study. 
  • The Age/Sex Register: estimation of the practice population. 
  • The Emergency Physical. 
  • The effect of offering international health training opportunities on family medicine residency recruiting. 
  • The effects of physician specialty and patient comorbidities on the use and discontinuation of coxibs. 
  • The electronic house call. Consequences of telemedicine consultations for physicians, patients, and society. 
  • The family physician and HMO/IPA contracts. 
  • The feasibility of a randomised, placebo-controlled clinical trial of homeopathic treatment of depression in general practice. 
  • The medical record: a comprehensive computer system for the family physician. 
  • The new "normal" blood pressure: what are the implications for family medicine? 
  • The organization of a glaucoma screening in general practice. 
  • The primary care program at Duke. 
  • The proactive sexual health history. 
  • The relation between methods and recommendations in clinical practice guidelines for hypertension and hyperlipidemia. 
  • The role of psychiatric and behavioral factors in the practice of medicine. 
  • Time-dependent analysis in CHF follow-up. 
  • Toward Optimal Communication About HPV Vaccination for Preteens and Their Parents: Evaluation of an Online Training for Pediatric and Family Medicine Health Care Providers. 
  • Tracking medical students' clinical experiences with a computerized medical records system. 
  • Transformation of Care: Integrating the Registered Nurse Care Coordinator into the Patient-Centered Medical Home. 
  • Translation of clinical evidence into medical practice. 
  • Treatment of acute bronchitis in adults. A national survey of family physicians. 
  • Treatment of depression by mental health specialists and primary care physicians. 
  • Treatment of depression. 
  • Treatment of dysthymia and minor depression in primary care: A randomized controlled trial in older adults. 
  • Treatment of hyperlipidemia by specialists versus generalists as secondary prevention of coronary artery disease. 
  • Trends in physician management of uncomplicated acute myocardial infarction, 1970 to 1987. 
  • Tricyclic antidepressant prescribing for nonpsychiatric disorders. An analysis based on data from the 1985 National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey. 
  • Understanding interobserver agreement: the kappa statistic. 
  • Universal hepatitis B immunization of infants: reactions of pediatricians and family physicians over time. 
  • Update on immunizations in adults. 
  • Use of email in a family practice setting: opportunities and challenges in patient- and physician-initiated communication. 
  • Use of general medical care services by persons with mental disorders. 
  • Use of global coronary heart disease risk assessment in practice: a cross-sectional survey of a sample of U.S. physicians. 
  • Use of hypnosis with children. 
  • Walk-in clinics in Ontario. An atmosphere of tension. 
  • What Can a PA or NP Do for Your Practice? 
  • What We Can Do about Maternal Mortality - And How to Do It Quickly. 
  • What do you work with? 
  • What residents know about child abuse. Implications of a survey of knowledge and attitudes. 
  • Whose satisfaction? 
  • Why physicians need to be more than automated medical kiosks. 
  • [Computer systems for general practitioners. Status and development]. 
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  Keywords of People

  • O'Connor, Christopher Michael, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine, Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology
  • Olsen, Maren Karine, Professor of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • Railey, Kenyon Michael, Associate Professor in Family Medicine and Community Health, Orthopaedic Surgery, Physical Therapy
  • Strand de Oliveira, Justine, Professor Emeritus in Family Medicine and Community Health, Family Medicine and Community Health, Physician Assistant Program
  • Zipkin, Daniella Ann, Professor of Medicine, Medicine, General Internal Medicine