Office Visits

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A randomized trial of urodynamic testing before stress-incontinence surgery. 
  • Access to care: a home visitation program that links public health nurses, physicians, mothers, and babies. 
  • Assessing post-discharge costs of hepatopancreatic surgery: an evaluation of Medicare expenditure. 
  • Assessing the Effect of Personalized Diabetes Risk Assessments During Ophthalmologic Visits on Glycemic Control: A Randomized Clinical Trial. 
  • Association between the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 and patient wait times and travel distance for chemotherapy. 
  • Association of early physician follow-up and 30-day readmission after non-ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction among older patients. 
  • Association of post-discharge specialty outpatient visits with readmissions and mortality in high-risk heart failure patients. 
  • CORR Insights(®): Time Seeing a Hand Surgeon Is Not Associated With Patient Satisfaction. 
  • Changes in primary medical care delivery, 1975-1979: findings from the physician capacity utilization surveys. 
  • Clinical experience during family medicine residency training. 
  • Cocooning infants: Tdap immunization for new parents in the pediatric office. 
  • Comparing office-based and ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in clinical trials. 
  • Compassionate care: enhancing physician-patient communication and education in dermatology: Part I: Patient-centered communication. 
  • Computer-prompted diagnostic codes. 
  • Continuity of medical care, health insurance, and nonmedical advice in the first 3 years of life. 
  • Designing risk prediction models for ambulatory no-shows across different specialties and clinics. 
  • Do the Number of Visits and the Cost of Musculoskeletal Care Improve Outcomes? More May Not Be Better. 
  • Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS): posttreatment follow-up care among Latina and non-Latina White women. 
  • Economic evaluation of weekly epoetin alfa versus biweekly darbepoetin alfa for chemotherapy-induced anaemia: evidence from a 16-week randomised trial. 
  • Effect of Comorbid Knee and Hip Osteoarthritis on Longitudinal Clinical and Health Care Use Outcomes in Older Adults With New Visits for Back Pain. 
  • Effects of sex, age, and visits on receipt of preventive healthcare services: a secondary analysis of national data. 
  • Evening heart rate measured at home is associated with visceral obesity and abnormal fat distribution in patients with hypertension. 
  • Factors Associated With Emergency Department Visits and Hospital Admissions After Invasive Outpatient Procedures in the Veterans Health Administration. 
  • Factors affecting physician visits in Chinese and Chinese immigrant samples. 
  • Factors associated with persistently high-cost health care utilization for musculoskeletal pain. 
  • Follow-up visits by provider specialty for patients with major depressive disorder initiating antidepressant treatment. 
  • Food incentives to improve clinic attendance. 
  • Free visits: a strategy to retain patients and improve continuity in a residency program. 
  • Frequency and intensity of postoperative surveillance after curative treatment of pancreatic cancer: a cost-effectiveness analysis. 
  • Glaucoma patient-provider communication about vision quality-of-life. 
  • Guideline-concordant antidepressant use among patients with major depressive disorder. 
  • Health-related quality of life and health service use among older adults with osteoarthritis. 
  • How and when informative visit processes can bias inference when using electronic health records data for clinical research. 
  • Hypertensive patients' use of blood pressure monitors stationed in pharmacies and other locations: a cross-sectional mail survey. 
  • Impact of medicaid managed care on utilization of obstetric care: evidence from TennCare's early years. 
  • Impact of physician assistant care on office visit resource use in the United States. 
  • Incorporating acupuncture in a university-based family medicine center: lessons learned. 
  • Independent association of cognitive dysfunction with cardiac hypertrophy irrespective of 24-h or sleep blood pressure in older hypertensives. 
  • Index and follow-up costs of endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair from the Endurant Stent Graft System Post Approval Study (ENGAGE PAS). 
  • Integration of Personalized Health Planning and Shared Medical Appointments for Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus. 
  • Intensity and focus of heart failure disease management after hospital discharge. 
  • Jump starting shared medical appointments for diabetes with weight management: Rationale and design of a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Levels of office blood pressure and their operating characteristics for detecting masked hypertension based on ambulatory blood pressure monitoring. 
  • Linking clinical and public health approaches to improve access to health care for socially disadvantaged mothers and children. A feasibility study. 
  • Long-term blood pressure variability throughout young adulthood and cognitive function in midlife: the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) study. 
  • Low-income rural women and depression: factors associated with self-reporting. 
  • Managing healthcare: a view of tomorrow. 
  • Medicare costs for neovascular age-related macular degeneration, 1994-2007. 
  • Office management of female urinary incontinence. 
  • Outpatient management of heart failure in the United States, 2006-2008. 
  • Outpatient utilization patterns of integrated and split psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy for depression. 
  • Patient and family communication during consultation visits: The effects of a decision aid for treatment decision-making for localized prostate cancer. 
  • Patient-Physician Communication on Medication Cost during Glaucoma Visits. 
  • Patterns of NSAIDs Use and Their Association with Other Analgesic Use in CKD. 
  • Physician office visits of adults for anxiety disorders in the United States, 1985-1998. 
  • Physician practice competition and prices paid by private insurers for office visits. 
  • Post-discharge Follow-up Characteristics Associated With 30-Day Readmission After Heart Failure Hospitalization. 
  • Practice-Level Variation in Outpatient Cardiac Care and Association With Outcomes. 
  • Prescription and nonprescription drug use among black and white community-residing elderly. 
  • Preventive Care Delivery to Young Children With Sickle Cell Disease. 
  • Private insurers' payments for routine physician office visits vary substantially across the United States. 
  • Re-utilization outcomes and costs of minor acute illness treated at family physician offices, walk-in clinics, and emergency departments. 
  • Relationship of nutritional status to health and societal participation in children with cerebral palsy. 
  • Remote monitoring of implantable cardioverter defibrillators versus quarterly device interrogations in clinic: results from a randomized pilot clinical trial. 
  • Study on Incentives for Glaucoma Medication Adherence (SIGMA): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial to increase glaucoma medication adherence using value pricing. 
  • Survey analysis of patient experience using a practice-linked PHR for type 2 diabetes mellitus. 
  • Symptom complaints and health care seeking behavior in subjects with bowel dysfunction. 
  • The Effect of Clinical Care Location on Clinical Outcomes After Peripheral Vascular Intervention in Medicare Beneficiaries. 
  • The London Fibromyalgia Epidemiology Study: direct health care costs of fibromyalgia syndrome in London, Canada. 
  • The Use and Out-of-Pocket Cost of Urgent Care Clinics and Retail-Based Clinics by Adolescents and Young Adults Compared With Children. 
  • The delivery of immunizations and other preventive services in private practices. 
  • The high frequency of healthcare use in patients one year prior to a sarcoidosis diagnosis. 
  • The influence of physician communication style on overweight patients' perceptions of length of encounter and physician being rushed. 
  • The relationship of social environment, social networks, and health outcomes in the Seattle Longitudinal Study: two analytical approaches. 
  • Trends in common rhinologic illnesses: analysis of U.S. healthcare surveys 1995-2007. 
  • Use of combination antihypertensive therapy initiation in older Americans without prevalent cardiovascular disease. 
  • Visit-to-Visit Blood Pressure Variability and Mortality and Cardiovascular Outcomes Among Older Adults: The Health, Aging, and Body Composition Study. 
  • Visit-to-Visit Blood Pressure Variability in Young Adulthood and Hippocampal Volume and Integrity at Middle Age: The CARDIA Study (Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults). 
  • Visit-to-Visit Glycemic Variability and Risks of Cardiovascular Events and All-Cause Mortality: The ALLHAT Study. 
  • Visit-to-Visit Variability in Blood Pressure Is Related to Late-Life Cognitive Decline. 
  • What Strategies Do Physicians and Patients Discuss to Reduce Out-of-Pocket Costs? Analysis of Cost-Saving Strategies in 1,755 Outpatient Clinic Visits. 
  • When do older adults turn to the internet for health information? Findings from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study. 
  • Who Will Show? Predicting Missed Visits Among Patients in Routine HIV Primary Care in the United States. 
  • Women's reports of smoking cessation advice during reproductive health visits and subsequent smoking cessation. 
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  • Mruthyunjaya, Prithvi, Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Ophthalmology, Ophthalmology, Vitreoretinal Diseases & Surgery