Physicians

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "Conversational Advice": A mixed-methods analysis of medical residents' experiences co-managing primary care patients with behavioral health providers. 
  • "It Is Like Heart Failure. It Is Chronic … and It Will Kill You": A Qualitative Analysis of Burnout Among Hospice and Palliative Care Clinicians. 
  • "Not the 'grim reaper service'": an assessment of provider knowledge, attitudes, and perceptions regarding palliative care referral barriers in heart failure. 
  • "Righteous minds" in health care: measurement and explanatory value of social intuitionism in accounting for the moral judgments in a sample of U.S. physicians. 
  • "The Patient Is Dying, Please Call the Chaplain": The Activities of Chaplains in One Medical Center's Intensive Care Units. 
  • 2011 ACCF/AHA focused update of the Guidelines for the Management of Patients with Unstable Angina/Non-ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction (updating the 2007 guideline): a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines developed in collaboration with the American College of Emergency Physicians, Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, and Society of Thoracic Surgeons. 
  • A Mixed-Methods Investigation of the Motivations, Goals, and Aspirations of Male and Female Academic Medical Faculty. 
  • A National Survey of Pulmonologists' Views on Low-Dose Computed Tomography Screening for Lung Cancer. 
  • A brief symptom index for advanced lung cancer. 
  • A combined paging alert and web-based instrument alters clinician behavior and shortens hospital length of stay in acute pancreatitis. 
  • A comparison of several methods for scoring patient management problems. 
  • A comprehensive process for identifying and managing conflicts of interest reduced perceived bias at a specialty society annual meeting. 
  • A curricular model for the training of physician scientists: the evolution of the Duke University School of Medicine curriculum. 
  • A decade in diabetes specialist services, 2000 to 2011, in England: the views of consultant diabetologists and diabetes specialist nurses amidst persistent healthcare delivery change. 
  • A framework for revising preservice curriculum for nonphysician clinicians: The mozambique experience. 
  • A letter from CMAJ's editorial board to the CMA. 
  • A new primary care rostering and capitation system in Norway: lessons for Canada? 
  • A newsletter evaluation using the Title Rating Method. 
  • A physician surplus? 
  • A practical plan for medical direction of nursing homes. 
  • A randomized, controlled trial of a clinical pharmacist intervention to improve inappropriate prescribing in elderly outpatients with polypharmacy. 
  • A survey of the practices and opinions of the domestic members of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine. 
  • A walk on the beach. 
  • ACCF 2008 health policy statement on principles for public reporting of physician performance data: A Report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation Writing Committee to develop principles for public reporting of physician performance data. 
  • ACCF/AHA 2011 expert consensus document on hypertension in the elderly: a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation Task Force on Clinical Expert Consensus documents developed in collaboration with the American Academy of Neurology, American Geriatrics Society, American Society for Preventive Cardiology, American Society of Hypertension, American Society of Nephrology, Association of Black Cardiologists, and European Society of Hypertension. 
  • ACCF/AHA/SCAI 2013 update of the clinical competence statement on coronary artery interventional procedures: a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association/American College of Physicians Task Force on Clinical Competence and Training (Writing Committee to Revise the 2007 Clinical Competence Statement on Cardiac Interventional Procedures). 
  • ACCF/AHA/SCAI 2013 update of the clinical competence statement on coronary artery interventional procedures: a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association/American College of Physicians Task Force on Clinical Competence and Training (writing committee to revise the 2007 clinical competence statement on cardiac interventional procedures). 
  • Ability to generate patient registries among practices with and without electronic health records. 
  • Ability to perform registry functions among practices with and without electronic health records. 
  • Access to ophthalmologic care in Thailand: a regional analysis. 
  • Accuracy and congruence of patient and physician weight-related discussions: from project CHAT (Communicating Health: Analyzing Talk). 
  • Accuracy and reliability of apical S3 gallop detection. 
  • Accuracy of physician prognosis in heart failure and lung cancer: Comparison between physician estimates and model predicted survival. 
  • Acupuncture points are large fields: the fuzziness of acupuncture point localization by doctors in practice. 
  • Addressing Palliative Care Clinician Burnout in Organizations: A Workforce Necessity, an Ethical Imperative. 
  • Adequacy of the supply of pediatric subspecialists: so near, yet so far. 
  • Adherence to Measuring What Matters Items When Caring for Patients With Hematologic Malignancies Versus Solid Tumors. 
  • Adolescents, contraception and confidentiality: a national survey of obstetrician--gynecologists. 
  • Adopting TMR for physician/nurse use. 
  • Adoption of information technology by resident physicians. 
  • Agency is messy: get used to it. 
  • American College of Surgeons Resident Objective Structured Clinical Examination: a national program to assess clinical readiness of entering postgraduate year 1 surgery residents. 
  • An Ethical and Legal Framework for Physicians as Surrogate Decision-Makers for Their Patients. 
  • An MBA: the utility and effect on physicians' careers. 
  • An assessment of US physicians' training in religion, spirituality, and medicine. 
  • An evaluation of physician predictions of discharge on a general medicine service. 
  • Analysis of the workforce and workplace for rheumatology and the research activities of rheumatologists early in their careers. 
  • Anaphylaxis during cardiac surgery: implications for clinicians. 
  • Antibiotic overuse for acute respiratory tract infections in Sri Lanka: a qualitative study of outpatients and their physicians. 
  • Antithrombotic therapy for ischemic stroke: guidelines translated for the clinician. 
  • Approaches to promotion and implementation of action on Radiation Protection for children. 
  • Are gastroenterologists less tolerant of treatment risks than patients? Benefit-risk preferences in Crohn's disease management. 
  • Are physicians aware of which of their patients have indwelling urinary catheters? 
  • Assessing medical knowledge of emergency medicine residents. 
  • Assessing patients' risk of febrile neutropenia: is there a correlation between physician-assessed risk and model-predicted risk? 
  • Assessment of Self-Contamination During Removal of Personal Protective Equipment for Ebola Patient Care. 
  • Association of Hospital and Physician Characteristics and Care Processes With Racial Disparities in Procedural Outcomes Among Contemporary Patients Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Surgery. 
  • Association of Intrinsic Motivating Factors and Markers of Physician Well-Being: A National Physician Survey. 
  • Associations of patient demographic characteristics and regional physician density with early physician follow-up among medicare beneficiaries hospitalized with heart failure. 
  • Attitudes of Muslim physicians and nurses toward religious issues. 
  • Automated problem list generation and physicians perspective from a pilot study. 
  • Behavioral equipoise: a way to resolve ethical stalemates in clinical research. 
  • Blind internist passes board exam. 
  • Breakout IV. Health professional concerns in the practice setting. 
  • Build it and hope that enough of them will come. 
  • Building Resilience for Palliative Care Clinicians: An Approach to Burnout Prevention Based on Individual Skills and Workplace Factors. 
  • C-reactive protein: a novel marker of cardiovascular risk. 
  • Can this resident be saved? Identification and early intervention for struggling residents. 
  • Cancer therapy costs influence treatment: a national survey of oncologists. 
  • Cardiology and the critical care crisis: a perspective. 
  • Case mix controlled service use and expenditures in the social/health maintenance organization demonstration. 
  • Challenges for strengthening the health workforce in the Lao People's Democratic Republic: perspectives from key stakeholders. 
  • Changing physician knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs about migraine: evaluation of a new educational intervention. 
  • Channelling Aristotle: virtue-based professionalism training during residency. 
  • Characterizing the Hospice and Palliative Care Workforce in the U.S.: Clinician Demographics and Professional Responsibilities. 
  • Clash of definitions: controversies about conscience in medicine. 
  • Clinical decision making and views about psychiatric advance directives. 
  • Clinical decision support provided within physician order entry systems: a systematic review of features effective for changing clinician behavior. 
  • Clinicians' perspectives on and interest in participating in a clinical data research network across the Southeastern United States. 
  • Comparative effectiveness research in oncology. 
  • Comparing oncologist, nurse, and physician assistant attitudes toward discussions of negative emotions with patients. 
  • Comparison of medicine resident diabetes care between Veterans Affairs and academic health care systems. 
  • Computer-aided detection (CAD) of lung nodules in CT scans: radiologist performance and reading time with incremental CAD assistance. 
  • Confidentiality and health insurance fraud. 
  • Conflict and emotional exhaustion in obstetrician-gynaecologists: a national survey. 
  • Conscience is the means by which we engage the moral dimension of medicine. 
  • Conscientious refusals to refer: findings from a national physician survey. 
  • Contemporary performance of surgical ventricular restoration procedures: data from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons' National Cardiac Database. 
  • Continental Divide? The attitudes of US and Canadian oncologists on the costs, cost-effectiveness, and health policies associated with new cancer drugs. 
  • Criteria for selection of future physicians. 
  • Cross-sectional survey of Good Samaritan behaviour by physicians in North Carolina. 
  • Cultural competence and perceptions of community health workers' effectiveness for reducing health care disparities. 
  • Current indications for hand and face allotransplantation. 
  • David L. Epstein, MD, MMM (1944-2014). 
  • Death or hospitalization of patients on chronic hemodialysis is associated with a physician-based diagnosis of depression. 
  • Deciding for others. 
  • Depression care attitudes and practices of newer obstetrician-gynecologists: a national survey. 
  • Designing and conducting randomized controlled trials in palliative care: A summary of discussions from the 2010 clinical research forum of the Australian Palliative Care Clinical Studies Collaborative. 
  • Determining the predictors of innovation implementation in healthcare: a quantitative analysis of implementation effectiveness. 
  • Developing Teaching Strategies in the EHR Era: A Survey of GME Experts. 
  • Development and participant assessment of a practical quality improvement educational initiative for surgical residents. 
  • Development of a Tool to Assess Basic Competency in the Performance of Rigid Bronchoscopy. 
  • Development of a mobile phone-based intervention to improve adherence to secondary prevention of coronary heart disease in China. 
  • Development of validated disease activity and damage indices for the juvenile idiopathic inflammatory myopathies: I. Physician, parent, and patient global assessments. Juvenile Dermatomyositis Disease Activity Collaborative Study Group. 
  • Dignity in end-of-life care: results of a national survey of U.S. physicians. 
  • Directory of Internet documents for consumers on quality of care. 
  • Disturbing Trends in Physician Burnout and Satisfaction With Work-Life Balance: Dealing With Malady Among the Nation's Healers. 
  • Do clinicians read our reports? Integrating the radiology information system with the electronic patient record: experiences from the first 2 years. 
  • Do physicians' attitudes toward implantable cardioverter defibrillator therapy vary by patient age, gender, or race? 
  • Do religious physicians disproportionately care for the underserved? 
  • Doctor Who? A Quality Improvement Project to Assess and Improve Patients' Knowledge of Their Inpatient Physicians. 
  • Doctors' health centre visits in the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea. 
  • Does an offer for a free on-line continuing medical education (CME) activity increase physician survey response rate? A randomized trial. 
  • Doing all they can: physicians who deny medical futility. 
  • Dose response: intelligent rationing by physicians is the first step to a health-care system that society can afford. 
  • Early career investigator highlight-October. 
  • Early physician experience with laparoscopically assisted vaginal hysterectomy and rates of surgical complications and conversion to laparotomy. 
  • Economic benefits of less restrictive regulation of advanced practice nurses in North Carolina. 
  • Editorial by concerned physicians: Unintended effect of the orphan drug act on the potential cost of 3,4-diaminopyridine. 
  • Effect of Peer-to-Peer Nurse-Physician Collaboration on Attitudes Toward the Nurse-Physician Relationship. 
  • Effect of a Community-Based Service Learning Experience in Geriatrics on Internal Medicine Residents and Community Participants. 
  • Effect of physician and hospital experience on patient outcomes for endovascular treatment of aortoiliac occlusive disease. 
  • Effect of physician perspective on allocation of Medicare resources for patients with advanced cancer. 
  • Effects of a 12-Month Educational Intervention on Clinicians' Attitudes/Practices Regarding the Screening Spiritual History. 
  • Effects of state managed care patient protection laws on physician satisfaction. 
  • Elevator talk: observational study of inappropriate comments in a public space. 
  • Enhancing future acceptance of rural placement in Tanzania through peripheral hospital rotations for medical students. 
  • Evaluating physician performance in oncology: moneyball becomes impactball. 
  • Evaluation of the United States pediatric urology workforce and fellowships: a series of surveys performed in 2006-2010. 
  • Experience rating: does it make sense for medical malpractice insurance? 
  • FOCUS: the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists' initiative to improve quality and safety in the cardiovascular operating room. 
  • Factors Associated With Provider Burnout in the NICU. 
  • Factors associated with do-not-resuscitate orders: patients' preferences, prognoses, and physicians' judgments. SUPPORT Investigators. Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatment. 
  • Factors associated with use of preoperative chemoradiation therapy for rectal cancer in the Cancer Care Outcomes Research and Surveillance Consortium. 
  • Factors considered important at the end of life by patients, family, physicians, and other care providers. 
  • Factors influencing physicians' advice about female sterilization in USA: a national survey. 
  • Factors influencing plasma transfusion practices in paediatric intensive care units around the world. 
  • Factors influencing the participation of gastroenterologists and hepatologists in clinical research. 
  • Factors that influence practitioners' interpretations of evidence from alternative medicine trials: a factorial vignette experiment embedded in a national survey. 
  • Fear of litigation may increase resuscitation of infants born near the limits of viability. 
  • Final act. 
  • Financial incentives in primary care practice: the struggle to achieve population health goals. 
  • Findings of the 1998 Infectious Diseases Society of America membership survey. 
  • Florida's response to the Physician's National Cholesterol Education Program. 
  • Fully Capitated Payment Breakeven Rate for a Mid-Size Pediatric Practice. 
  • Future requirements for and supply of ophthalmologists for an aging population in Singapore. 
  • Gauging supply and demand: the challenging quest to predict the future physician workforce. 
  • Gender differences in resources and negotiation among highly motivated physician-scientists. 
  • Gender differences in salary in a recent cohort of early-career physician-researchers. 
  • Gender differences in the salaries of physician researchers. 
  • Gender differences in time spent on parenting and domestic responsibilities by high-achieving young physician-researchers. 
  • Getting physicians to respond: the impact of incentive type and timing on physician survey response rates. 
  • Gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist overuse: urologists' response to reimbursement and characteristics associated with persistent overuse. 
  • Guidelines for the use of intravenous thrombolytic agents in acute myocardial infarction. Ontario Medical Association Consensus Group on Thrombolytic Therapy. 
  • HCC Coding, Risk Adjustment, and Physician Income: What You Need to Know. 
  • HIV medical care provider practices for reducing high-risk sexual behavior: results of a qualitative study. 
  • Health care infrastructure post-Katrina: disaster planning to return health care workers to their home communities. 
  • Health care providers' use of a drug information service for pregnancy-related inquiries. 
  • Health manpower and the black community. 
  • Health values of the seriously ill. SUPPORT investigators. 
  • Helmut Drexler, MD, 1951-2009. 
  • History of the Department of Neurosurgery at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. 
  • Home blood pressure management and improved blood pressure control: results from a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Hostility, CHD incidence, and total mortality: a 25-year follow-up study of 255 physicians. 
  • How academic physicians can benefit from social media. 
  • How are religion and spirituality related to health? A study of physicians' perspectives. 
  • How do doctors use information in real-time? A qualitative study of internal medicine resident precepting. 
  • How do physician assessments of patient preferences for colorectal cancer screening tests differ from actual preferences? A comparison in Canada and the United States using a stated-choice survey. 
  • How do physicians weigh benefits and risks associated with treatments in patients with osteoarthritis in the United Kingdom? 
  • How do urology residents manage personal finances? 
  • How good are measures of physician quality of care? 
  • How long and how well: oncologists' attitudes toward the relative value of life-prolonging v. quality of life-enhancing treatments. 
  • How to Allow Conscientious Objection in Medicine While Protecting Patient Rights. 
  • How well does physician risk assessment predict stroke and bleeding in atrial fibrillation? Results from the Outcomes Registry for Better Informed Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation (ORBIT-AF). 
  • Identification of design features to enhance utilization and acceptance of systems for Internet-based decision support at the point of care. 
  • Image gently, step lightly: increasing radiation dose awareness in pediatric interventions through an international social marketing campaign. 
  • Impact of ambulatory computerized physician order entry on clinicians' time. 
  • Impact of physician and patient gender on pain management in the emergency department--a multicenter study. 
  • Impact of physician assistant care on office visit resource use in the United States. 
  • Implementation of a pharmacogenomics service in a community pharmacy. 
  • Improving ICU-Based Palliative Care Delivery: A Multicenter, Multidisciplinary Survey of Critical Care Clinician Attitudes and Beliefs. 
  • Improving Timely Resident Follow-Up and Communication of Results in Ambulatory Clinics Utilizing a Web-Based Audit and Feedback Module. 
  • In a survey, marked inconsistency in how oncologists judged value of high-cost cancer drugs in relation to gains in survival. 
  • Incremental and average cost-effectiveness ratios: will physicians make a distinction? 
  • Influence of changes in supply on the distribution of pediatric subspecialty care. 
  • Influence of electronic medical record implementation on provider retirement at a major academic medical centre. 
  • Influence of the Angioplasty Revascularization Investigation National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Diabetic Clinical Alert on practice patterns: results from the National Cardiovascular Network Database. 
  • Informational needs assessment of non-Hodgkin lymphoma survivors and their physicians. 
  • Informed Decision Making: Assessment of the Quality of Physician Communication about Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment. 
  • Informed consent for AIDS testing. Or: whose vein is it anyway? 
  • Informing patients of diagnostic mammography results: mammographer's opinions. 
  • Inspiring the next generation of physician-scientists. 
  • Insulin pump therapy in toddlers and preschool children with type 1 diabetes mellitus. 
  • Intentional sedation to unconsciousness at the end of life: findings from a national physician survey. 
  • Inter-rater agreement for diagnoses of epilepsy in pregnant women. 
  • Internal Medicine Residents' Ambulatory Management of Core Geriatric Conditions. 
  • International patient and physician consensus on a psoriatic arthritis core outcome set for clinical trials. 
  • Interphysician agreement in the diagnosis of subtypes of acute ischemic stroke: implications for clinical trials. The TOAST Investigators. 
  • Investigation momentum: the relentless pursuit to resolve uncertainty. 
  • Is tenure irrelevant for academic clinicians? 
  • Is there room for managed care in Canada? A preliminary inquiry of physicians. 
  • JURaSSiC: accuracy of clinician vs risk score prediction of ischemic stroke outcomes. 
  • Job satisfaction ratings: measurement equivalence across nurses and physicians. 
  • Juries and Medical Malpractice Claims: Empirical Facts versus Myths 
  • Knowledge and attitudes about depression among non-generalists and generalists. 
  • Knowledge of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's 2006 routine HIV testing recommendations among New York City internal medicine residents. 
  • Language barriers and patient-centered breast cancer care. 
  • Letter: Art of medicine for aged doctors. 
  • Letter: Possible needle-associated Rocky Mountain spotted fever. 
  • Licensure challenges in preventive medicine: a public policy issue. 
  • Limits and responsibilities of physicians addressing spiritual suffering in terminally ill patients. 
  • Lying for patients: physician deception of third-party payers. 
  • Lying to insurance companies: the desire to deceive among physicians and the public. 
  • Management of skin abscesses by primary care pediatricians. 
  • Managing Stigma Effectively: What Social Psychology and Social Neuroscience Can Teach Us. 
  • Measuring trust in medical researchers. 
  • Medical Facts versus Value Judgments--Toward Preference-Sensitive Guidelines. 
  • Medical education as moral formation: an Aristotelian account of medical professionalsim. 
  • Medical futility decisions and physicians' legal defensiveness: the impact of anticipated conflict on thresholds for end-of-life treatment. 
  • Medical malpractice and prostate brachytherapy. 
  • Medical oaths. 
  • Medicare costs and surgeon supply in hospital service areas. 
  • Meralgia paraesthetica in physicians. 
  • Mr. Piano Man: reflections on the life of physician, scientist, and humanitarian, William L. Young, MD (1954-2013). 
  • National randomized controlled trial of virtual house calls for Parkinson disease. 
  • NephMadness 2015: nephrology as a cornerstone of medicine. 
  • Non-verbal communication between primary care physicians and older patients: how does race matter? 
  • North Carolina law expands pool of eligible healthcare professionals to oversee executions by lethal injection. 
  • Novel method to collect medication adverse events in juvenile arthritis: results from the childhood arthritis and rheumatology research alliance enhanced drug safety surveillance project. 
  • Obstetric hemorrhage survey: Attitudes and practices of maternal-fetal medicine fellows. 
  • Obstetrician-gynaecologists' opinions about conscientious refusal of a request for abortion: results from a national vignette experiment. 
  • Obstetrician-gynecologist physicians' beliefs about emergency contraception: a national survey. 
  • Obstetrician-gynecologists' beliefs about when pregnancy begins. 
  • Obstetrician-gynecologists' objections to and willingness to help patients obtain an abortion. 
  • Obstetrician-gynecologists, religious institutions, and conflicts regarding patient-care policies. 
  • Of more than one mind: obstetrician-gynecologists' approaches to morally controversial decisions in sexual and reproductive healthcare. 
  • One physician's perspective on the physician-PA relationship. 
  • Operator-specific outcomes. A call to professional responsibility. 
  • Organizational and physician factors associated with patient enrollment in cancer clinical trials. 
  • Organizational and provider characteristics fostering smoking cessation practice guideline adherence: an empirical look. 
  • Organizational characteristics and patient experiences with hospital care: a survey study of hospital chief patient experience officers. 
  • Outcomes of patients with acute decompensated heart failure managed by cardiologists versus noncardiologists. 
  • Outcomes of physician job satisfaction: a narrative review, implications, and directions for future research. 
  • Overcoming barriers to adopting and implementing computerized physician order entry systems in U.S. hospitals. 
  • Overcoming the barriers to the implementing computerized physician order entry systems in US hospitals: perspectives from senior management. 
  • Overestimation of test effects in clinical judgment. 
  • Package insert: view of a rural town practitioner. 
  • Patient and physician attitudes regarding risk and benefit in streamlined development programmes for antibacterial drugs: a qualitative analysis. 
  • Patient and physician decision styles and breast cancer chemotherapy use in older women: Cancer and Leukemia Group B protocol 369901. 
  • Patient and physician factors associated with participation in cervical and uterine cancer trials: an NRG/GOG247 study. 
  • Patient detection of a drug dispensing error by use of physician-provided drug samples. 
  • Patient question-asking about glaucoma and glaucoma medications during videotaped medical visits. 
  • Patients' Preferences Related to Benefits, Risks, and Formulations of Schizophrenia Treatment. 
  • Patients' views on surgeons' financial conflicts of interest. 
  • Pediatric Emergency Department Study of Cardiac Risk in the Novel Patient (PED SCReeN). 
  • Pediatric and Adult Physician Networks in Affordable Care Act Marketplace Plans. 
  • Pediatric workforce: a look at neonatal-perinatal medicine data from the American Board of Pediatrics. 
  • Pediatric workforce: a look at pediatric emergency medicine data from the American Board of Pediatrics. 
  • Pediatricians' own weight: self-perception, misclassification, and ease of counseling. 
  • Peer assessment of pediatric surgeons for potential risks of radiation exposure from computed tomography scans. 
  • Perceptions of Equipoise, Risk-Benefit Ratios, and "Otherwise Healthy Volunteers" in the Context of Early-Phase HIV Cure Research in the United States: A Qualitative Inquiry. 
  • Personality Traits and Performance Contracts: Evidence from a Field Experiment among Maternity Care Providers in India. 
  • Perspective on Ionizing Radiation Exposure to Neurosurgery Residents in the Modern Era. 
  • Physician Beliefs about Physical and Mental Competency of Patients Applying for Concealed Weapon Permits. 
  • Physician Experience and Attitudes Toward Addressing the Cost of Cancer Care. 
  • Physician Perspectives on Long-Term Relationships and Friendships with Patients: A National Assessment. 
  • Physician Recommendations Trump Patient Preferences in Prostate Cancer Treatment Decisions. 
  • Physician Satisfaction With Clinical Laboratory Services: A College of American Pathologists Q-Probes Study of 81 Institutions. 
  • Physician access and early nephrology care in elderly patients with end-stage renal disease. 
  • Physician agreement with pharmacist-suggested drug therapy changes for elderly outpatients. 
  • Physician assistant specialty choice: Distribution, salaries, and comparison with physicians. 
  • Physician attitudes and experience with permit applications for concealed weapons. 
  • Physician coaching to enhance well-being: a qualitative analysis of a pilot intervention. 
  • Physician communication in managed care organizations: opinions of primary care physicians. 
  • Physician communication styles in initial consultations for hematological cancer. 
  • Physician experience with viewing digital radiographs in an intensive care unit environment. 
  • Physician participation and nonparticipation in Medicaid managed care: the TennCare experience. 
  • Physician participation in health insurance plans: evidence on Blue Shield. 
  • Physician participation in research surveys. A randomized study of inducements to return mailed research questionnaires. 
  • Physician race and treatment preferences for depression, anxiety, and medically unexplained symptoms. 
  • Physician resource use and willingness to participate in assisted suicide. 
  • Physician subsidies for tobacco advertising. 
  • Physician's role in addressing spiritual needs. 
  • Physician-industry cooperation in the medical device industry. 
  • Physician-related barriers to breast cancer screening in older women. 
  • Physicians and electronic health records: a statewide survey. 
  • Physicians and health professionals with osteonecrosis of the femoral head: results of management with free vascularized fibular grafting. 
  • Physicians as science writers. 
  • Physicians recommend different treatments for patients than they would choose for themselves. 
  • Physicians who report health insurance fraud and their practice type: health maintenance organization vs fee-for-service. 
  • Physicians' assurances of confidentiality and time spent alone with adolescents during primary care visits. 
  • Physicians' attitudes about involvement in lethal injection for capital punishment. 
  • Physicians' attitudes and practices regarding treatment of HIV-infected patients. 
  • Physicians' beliefs about conscience in medicine: a national survey. 
  • Physicians' beliefs about discussing obesity: results from focus groups. 
  • Physicians' beliefs and U.S. health care reform--a national survey. 
  • Physicians' experience and satisfaction with chaplains: a national survey. 
  • Physicians' knowledge and attitudes regarding implantable cardioverter-defibrillators. 
  • Physicians' legal defensiveness in end-of-life treatment decisions: comparing attitudes and knowledge in states with different laws. 
  • Physicians' observations and interpretations of the influence of religion and spirituality on health. 
  • Physicians' perspectives regarding pragmatic clinical trials. 
  • Physicians' stated trade-off preferences for chronic hepatitis B treatment outcomes in Germany, France, Spain, Turkey, and Italy. 
  • Practitioner acceptance of the dofetilide risk-management program. 
  • Predicting patient satisfaction from physicians' nonverbal communication skills. 
  • Prediction of rehospitalization and death in severe heart failure by physicians and nurses of the ESCAPE trial. 
  • Predictors of Physician Under-Recognition of Angina in Outpatients With Stable Coronary Artery Disease. 
  • Pregnancy After Bariatric Surgery: National Survey of Obstetrician's Comfort, Knowledge, and Practice Patterns. 
  • Preparedness planning before mechanical circulatory support: a "how-to" guide for palliative medicine clinicians. 
  • Preparing for the end of life: preferences of patients, families, physicians, and other care providers. 
  • Prescription patterns for children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis in Michigan Medicaid: a comparison by prescriber type. 
  • Prescriptions for justice: using social accounts to legitimate the exercise of professional control. 
  • Presidential address: physician accountability--winning the public trust. 
  • Prevalence and Predictors of Burnout Among Hospice and Palliative Care Clinicians in the U.S. 
  • Prevalence of health-related behaviors among physicians and medical trainees. 
  • Principal/agent theory and decision making in health care. 
  • Prioritizing treatment attributes and their impact on selecting an oral triptan: results from the TRIPSTAR Project. 
  • Privatization and just healthcare. 
  • Professionalism: etiquette or habitus? 
  • Professionalism: looking for your blind spots. 
  • Project on the Good Physician: Further Evidence for the Validity of a Moral Intuitionist Model of Virtuous Caring. 
  • Provider Use of a Novel EHR display in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. Large Customizable Interactive Monitor (LCIM). 
  • Provider perceptions in using outcomes data to improve clinical practice. 
  • Provider specialty and atrial fibrillation treatment strategies in United States community practice: findings from the ORBIT-AF registry. 
  • Psychological issues associated with terrorism: a guide for physicians. 
  • Qualifications for practitioners of neuromuscular ultrasound: position statement of the American Association of Neuromuscular and Electrodiagnostic Medicine. 
  • Race and trust in the health care system. 
  • Racial and ethnic disparities in care: the perspectives of cardiologists. 
  • Racial and ethnic disparities in care: the perspectives of cardiovascular surgeons. 
  • Racial differences in cardiac catheterization as a function of patients' beliefs. 
  • Randomized trial of 5 dollars versus 10 dollars monetary incentives, envelope size, and candy to increase physician response rates to mailed questionnaires. 
  • Randomized trial of physician alerts for thromboprophylaxis after discharge. 
  • Rates of cardiac catheterization cancelation for ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction after activation by emergency medical services or emergency physicians: results from the North Carolina Catheterization Laboratory Activation Registry. 
  • Real returns to medical education: a comment. 
  • Recommendations for the establishment of stroke systems of care: recommendations from the American Stroke Association's Task Force on the Development of Stroke Systems. 
  • Reflections: when the disease hits home. 
  • Regarding "predicted shortage of vascular surgeons in the United States: population and workload analysis". 
  • Relationship Between Labor and Delivery Unit Management Practices and Maternal Outcomes. 
  • Relationship between accurate auscultation of a clinically useful third heart sound and level of experience. 
  • Reliability and reproducibility of subaxial cervical injury description system: a standardized nomenclature schema. 
  • Reliability of the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale. Extension to non-neurologists in the context of a clinical trial. 
  • Reliability, validity and efficiency of various item formats in assessment of physician competence. 
  • Religion and United States physicians' opinions and self-predicted practices concerning artificial nutrition and hydration. 
  • Religion, clinicians, and the integration of complementary and alternative medicines. 
  • Religion, conscience, and controversial clinical practices. 
  • Religion, spirituality, and medicine: psychiatrists' and other physicians' differing observations, interpretations, and clinical approaches. 
  • Religion, spirituality, and medicine: research findings and implications for clinical practice. 
  • Religious characteristics of U.S. physicians: a national survey. 
  • Religious/spiritual characteristics of indian and indonesian physicians and their acceptance of spirituality in health care: a cross-cultural comparison. 
  • Resident Dyads Providing Transition Care to Adolescents and Young Adults With Chronic Illnesses and Neurodevelopmental Disabilities. 
  • Resident education in the era of patient safety: a nationwide analysis of outcomes and complications in resident-assisted oncologic surgery. 
  • Residents as Mentors: The Development of Resident Mentorship Milestones. 
  • Responding to requests regarding prayer and religious ceremonies by patients near the end of life and their families. 
  • Results of a North American survey of rapid-sequence MRI utilization to evaluate cerebral ventricles in children. 
  • Resuscitation preferences among patients with severe congestive heart failure: results from the SUPPORT project. Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatments. 
  • Routine measurement of natriuretic peptide to guide the diagnosis and management of chronic heart failure. 
  • Rule of rescue or the good of the many? An analysis of physicians' and nurses' preferences for allocating ICU beds. 
  • Science and behavior. 
  • Self-care as a professional imperative: physician burnout, depression, and suicide. 
  • Semantic and moral debates about hastening death: a survey of bioethicists. 
  • Should Physicians be Encouraged to use Generic Names and to Prescribe Generic Drugs? 
  • Should neurointerventional fellowship training be suspended indefinitely? 
  • Sickle cell-related pain: perceptions of medical practitioners. 
  • Significant variation in P2Y12 inhibitor use after peripheral vascular intervention in Medicare beneficiaries. 
  • Society of Gynecologic Oncology Future of Physician Payment Reform Task Force report: The Endometrial Cancer Alternative Payment Model (ECAP). 
  • Sources of bioterrorism information among emergency physicians during the 2001 anthrax outbreak. 
  • Spirituality, Religiosity, and Health: a Comparison of Physicians' Attitudes in Brazil, India, and Indonesia. 
  • Sports medicine and ethics. 
  • State scholarship, loan forgiveness, and related programs: the unheralded safety net. 
  • Study of the media's potential influence on prospective research participants' understanding of and motivations for participation in a high-profile phase I trial. 
  • Subjective rating of cosmetic treatment with botulinum toxin type A: do existing measures demonstrate interobserver validity? 
  • Substituted judgment in principle and practice: a national physician survey. 
  • Superiority of ambulatory to physician blood pressure is not an artifact of differential measurement reliability. 
  • Support for physician deception of insurance companies among a sample of Philadelphia residents. 
  • Surgeons' perceptions of public reporting of hospital and individual surgeon quality. 
  • Surgical Training and Education in Promoting Professionalism: a comparative assessment of virtue-based leadership development in otolaryngology-head and neck surgery residents. 
  • Surgical deserts in the U.S.: counties without surgeons. 
  • Surrogate and physician understanding of patients' preferences for living permanently in a nursing home. 
  • Survey of anesthesiologists practicing in American neurointensive care units as neurointensivists. 
  • Survey of emergency physicians regarding emergency contraception. 
  • Survey of genetic counselors and clinical geneticists' use and attitudes toward pharmacogenetic testing. 
  • Survey of in-house coverage by pediatric intensivists: characterization of 24/7 in-hospital pediatric critical care faculty coverage*. 
  • Survey of patient and physician influences and decision-making regarding CT utilization for minor head injury. 
  • TADA Is Still Unfair. 
  • Teaching Physicians Motivational Interviewing for Discussing Weight With Overweight Adolescents. 
  • Teaching health professionals to teach. 
  • Teen CHAT: Development and utilization of a web-based intervention to improve physician communication with adolescents about healthy weight. 
  • Text messaging to improve resident knowledge: a randomized controlled trial. 
  • The Act of Hospice: Understanding a Family's Perception of Palliative Care--When You're Family. 
  • The Arthroscopic Surgical Skill Evaluation Tool (ASSET). 
  • The Association Between a Sense of Calling and Physician Well-Being: A National Study of Primary Care Physicians and Psychiatrists. 
  • The Gun Violence Epidemic: Time for Perioperative Physicians to Act. 
  • The Physician as Dictator 
  • The competence debate. 
  • The contribution of physicians, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners toward rural primary care: findings from a 13-state survey. 
  • The differential effect of compensation structures on the likelihood that firms accept new patients by insurance type. 
  • The doctor and his taxes. 
  • The effect of race and sex on physicians' recommendations for cardiac catheterization. 
  • The gatekeeper disparity--why do some medical schools send more medical students into urology? 
  • The impact of emergency department structure and care processes in delivering care for non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes. 
  • The impact of medical school oaths and other professional codes of ethics: results of a national physician survey. 
  • The joys of international dermatology. 
  • The limits of proxy decisionmaking for incompetents. 
  • The localized scleroderma skin severity index and physician global assessment of disease activity: a work in progress toward development of localized scleroderma outcome measures. 
  • The mis-measure of physician performance. 
  • The moral psychology of rationing among physicians: the role of harm and fairness intuitions in physician objections to cost-effectiveness and cost-containment. 
  • The need to advance nutrition education in the training of health care professionals and recommended research to evaluate implementation and effectiveness. 
  • The network approach for prevention of healthcare-associated infections: long-term effect of participation in the Duke Infection Control Outreach Network. 
  • The other physician-scientist problem: where have all the young girls gone? 
  • The other side of the stethoscope. 
  • The relation between patients' outcomes and the volume of cardioverter-defibrillator implantation procedures performed by physicians treating Medicare beneficiaries. 
  • The relationship between psychiatry and religion among U.S. physicians. 
  • The significance of cognitive modeling in building healthcare interfaces. 
  • The society of thoracic surgeons national database. 
  • The spiritual history in outpatient practice: attitudes and practices of health professionals in the Adventist Health System. 
  • The tipping point: academic careers of women in medicine today. 
  • The unit of analysis error in studies about physicians' patient care behavior. 
  • Therapeutic Alliance between the Caregivers of Critical Illness Survivors and Intensive Care Unit Clinicians. 
  • Time to treatment and the impact of a physician on prehospital management of acute ST elevation myocardial infarction: insights from the ASSENT-3 PLUS trial. 
  • To Take Care of Patients Well, Physicians Must Take Care of Themselves. 
  • To die, to sleep: US physicians' religious and other objections to physician-assisted suicide, terminal sedation, and withdrawal of life support. 
  • Toward the development of criteria for global flares in juvenile systemic lupus erythematosus. 
  • Treatment Availability Influences Physicians' Portrayal of Robotic Surgery During Clinical Appointments. 
  • Treatment decision-making at the end of life: a survey of Australian doctors' attitudes towards patients' wishes and euthanasia. 
  • Treatment decisions for terminally ill patients: physicians' legal defensiveness and knowledge of medical law. 
  • U.S. Physicians' Opinions About Accommodating Religiously Based Requests for Continued Life-Sustaining Treatment. 
  • US National Survey of Physician Practices for the Secondary and Tertiary Prevention of Ischemic Stroke. Carotid endarterectomy. 
  • US Physicians Overwhelmingly Endorse Hospice as the Better Option for Most Patients at the End of Life. 
  • US Physicians' Opinions about Distinctions between Withdrawing and Withholding Life-Sustaining Treatment. 
  • US national survey of physician practices for the secondary and tertiary prevention of ischemic stroke. Design, service availability, and common practices. 
  • US physician practices for diagnosing familial hypercholesterolemia: data from the CASCADE-FH registry. 
  • US physicians' attitudes toward genetic testing for cancer susceptibility. 
  • Unilateral Do Not Resuscitate Orders: Physician Attitudes and Practices. 
  • Universal acceptance of computerized physician order entry: what would it take? 
  • Unwarranted variability in antibiotic prophylaxis for cesarean section delivery: a national survey of anesthesiologists. 
  • Upgrading a Social Media Strategy to Increase Twitter Engagement During the Spring Annual Meeting of the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine. 
  • Usability and Acceptability of the QDACT-PC, an Electronic Point-of-Care System for Standardized Quality Monitoring in Palliative Care. 
  • Use and perceptions of clinical practice guidelines by internal medicine physicians. 
  • Use of a non-monetary incentive to improve physician responses to a mail survey. 
  • Using health communication best practices to develop a web-based provider-patient communication aid: the CONNECT study. 
  • Using internal communication as a marketing strategy: gaining physician commitment. 
  • Utilization of Manipulative Treatment for Spine and Shoulder Conditions Between Different Medical Providers in a Large Military Hospital. 
  • Variability of Burnout and Stress Measures in Pediatric Residents: An Exploratory Single-Center Study From the Pediatric Resident Burnout-Resilience Study Consortium. 
  • Vascular neurologists and neurointerventionalists on endovascular stroke care: polling results. 
  • Views of US physicians about controlling health care costs. 
  • Was This Readmission Preventable? Qualitative Study of Patient and Provider Perceptions of Readmissions. 
  • Weighing the Social and Ethical Considerations of Maternal-Fetal Surgery. 
  • What about physician assistants? 
  • What are physicians' and patients' beliefs about diet, weight, exercise, and smoking cessation counseling? 
  • What rheumatologists in the United States think of complementary and alternative medicine: results of a national survey. 
  • When I stopped yelling, everybody started listening. 
  • When patients choose faith over medicine: physician perspectives on religiously related conflict in the medical encounter. 
  • Who Should Ration? 
  • Who should perform liver transplantation? Should that be the transplant surgeon, the hepatobilary surgeon, or the general surgeon? Part I: the transplant surgeon. 
  • Why gerontologists should care about empirical research on religion and health: transdisciplinary perspectives. 
  • Will the clinicians support the researchers and teachers? Results of a salary satisfaction survey of 947 academic surgeons. 
  • Work-life balance in academic medicine: narratives of physician-researchers and their mentors. 
  • Working together in the neonatal intensive care unit: provider perspectives. 
  • Y2K: effects on pacemaker and implantable defibrillator programmers. 
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  • Abbruzzese, James, D. C. I. Professor of Medical Oncology, Medicine, Medical Oncology
  • Alexander, John Hunter Peel, Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Cardiology
  • Andolsek, Kathryn Marijoan, Professor in Family Medicine and Community Health, School of Medicine
  • Barbeito, Atilio, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Anesthesiology
  • Barfield, Raymond Carlton, Professor of Pediatrics, Duke Science & Society
  • Freemark, Michael Scott, Robert C. Atkins, M.D. and Veronica Atkins Professor of Pediatrics, in the School of Medicine, Pediatrics, Endocrinology
  • Grambow, Steven C., Assistant Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • James, Michael Lucas, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Anesthesiology, Neuroanesthesia
  • Lee, Walter T, Associate Professor of Surgery, Radiation Oncology
  • Morgan, Perri Anne, Professor in Family Medicine and Community Health, Community and Family Medicine
  • Patel, Uptal Dinesh, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine, Medicine, Nephrology
  • Preminger, Glenn Michael, James F. Glenn, M.D. Professor of Urology, Surgery
  • Routh, Jonathan Charles, Paul H. Sherman, M.D. Associate Professor of Surgery, Pediatrics
  • Schanberg, Laura Eve, Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatrics, Rheumatology
  • Sparks, Matthew A., Assistant Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Nephrology
  • Strand de Oliveira, Justine, Professor Emeritus in Family Medicine and Community Health, Community and Family Medicine
  • Turner, David Ashley, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatrics, Critical Care Medicine
  • Warner, David Samuel, Distinguished Professor of Anesthesiology, in the School of Medicine, Neurobiology