Referral and Consultation

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "Not the 'grim reaper service'": an assessment of provider knowledge, attitudes, and perceptions regarding palliative care referral barriers in heart failure. 
  • 10-year survey of referrals to a pediatric nephrology program. 
  • 2014 AHA/ACC guideline for the management of patients with valvular heart disease: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines. 
  • A 19-year retrospective investigation of maternal mortality at Point G National Hospital, Bamako, Mali. 
  • A Collaborative Paradigm for Improving Management of Sleep Disorders in Primary Care: A Randomized Clinical Trial. 
  • A Social Environment Inventory for the pediatric office. 
  • A Web-based communication aid for patients with cancer: the CONNECT Study. 
  • A comparison of health care use for physician-referred and self-referred episodes of outpatient physical therapy. 
  • A cost analysis of outpatient care for patients with Barrett's esophagus in a managed care setting. 
  • A framework for improving early detection of breast cancer in sub-Saharan Africa: A qualitative study of help-seeking behaviors among Malawian women. 
  • A large university medical center delivery system for therapeutic apheresis services. 
  • A major barrier to universal hepatitis B immunization of infants. 
  • A matched comparison of adjustment in children with cystic fibrosis and psychiatrically referred and nonreferred children. 
  • A model interdisciplinary diagnostic and treatment nursery. 
  • A motivational intervention can improve retention in PCIT for low-motivation child welfare clients. 
  • A randomized trial of a consultation service to reduce falls in nursing homes. 
  • A randomized, controlled clinical trial of a geriatric consultation team. Compliance with recommendations. 
  • A research development workshop to stimulate outcome research in consultation-liaison psychiatry. 
  • A survey of sports medicine physicians regarding psychological issues in patient-athletes. 
  • A systematic review of the volume-outcome relationship for radical prostatectomy. 
  • Abortion provision among practicing obstetrician-gynecologists. 
  • Absence of sex bias in the referral of patients for cardiac catheterization. 
  • Accuracy of diabetic retinopathy screening by trained non-physician graders using non-mydriatic fundus camera. 
  • Acute pulmonary embolism: cost-effectiveness analysis of the effect of artificial neural networks on patient care. 
  • Acute-onset floaters and flashes: is this patient at risk for retinal detachment? 
  • Adequacy of the supply of pediatric subspecialists: so near, yet so far. 
  • Adherence to mental health treatment in a primary care clinic. 
  • Adult ophthalmology inpatient consults at a tertiary care teaching hospital. 
  • Advanced imaging and hospice use in end-of-life cancer care. 
  • Advanced topics in evidence-based urological oncology: using results of a subgroup analysis. 
  • Affinity Chart Analysis: A Method for Structured Collection, Aggregation, and Response to Customer Needs in Radiology. 
  • Afterword: Giving good advice: it is not what doctors say, but how they say it. 
  • American Christian Engagement With Mental Health and Mental Illness. 
  • American Society of Clinical Oncology statement: achieving high-quality cancer survivorship care. 
  • An economic evaluation of screening 60- to 70-year-old adults for hearing loss. 
  • An international comparison of two systems of community mental health care. 
  • Analysis of semen parameters in male referrals: impact of reference limits, stratification by fertility categories, predictors of change, and comparison of normal semen parameters in subfertile couples. 
  • Antianginal therapy before percutaneous coronary intervention. 
  • Application of a proactive risk analysis to emergency department sickle cell care. 
  • Appropriate use of cardiac computed tomography: applying the yardstick to clinical practice. 
  • Appropriate use of echocardiography and relation to clinical decision making in both inpatients and outpatients in a developing country. 
  • Assessment of joint review of radiologic studies by a primary care physician and a radiologist. 
  • Association of US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Hospital 30-Day Risk-Standardized Readmission Metric With Care Quality and Outcomes After Acute Myocardial Infarction: Findings From the National Cardiovascular Data Registry/Acute Coronary Treatment and Intervention Outcomes Network Registry-Get With the Guidelines. 
  • Association of door-in to door-out time with reperfusion delays and outcomes among patients transferred for primary percutaneous coronary intervention. 
  • Association of hospital myocardial infarction volume with adherence to American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association performance measures: Insights from the National Cardiovascular Data Registry. 
  • Association of respiratory viruses with outcomes of severe childhood pneumonia in Botswana. 
  • Avoid "Cannot Exclude": Make a Diagnosis. 
  • Avoid "Short-Term": Use Units of Time for Follow-Up Recommendations. 
  • Balancing Contamination and Referral Bias in a Randomized Clinical Trial: An Application of Pseudo-Cluster Randomization. 
  • Bariatric surgery barriers: a review using Andersen's Model of Health Services Use. 
  • Barriers to Achieving Economies of Scale in Analysis of EHR Data. A Cautionary Tale. 
  • Behavior problems in children with the presenting problem of poor school performance. 
  • Behavioral observations reflected on consultation requests from primary medical-surgical services: are they predictive of delirium diagnosis and outcomes? 
  • Behavioral pediatrics and the practicing pediatrician. 
  • Behavioural assessment of children and adolescents. 
  • Benign breast disease: when to treat, when to reassure, when to refer. 
  • Best Practices in Oncology Distress Management: Beyond the Screen. 
  • Beyond Thiamine: Treatment for Cognitive Impairment in Korsakoff's Syndrome. 
  • Bias in meta-analysis detected by a simple, graphical test. Asymmetry detected in funnel plot was probably due to true heterogeneity. 
  • Biomaterials use in Mulago National Referral Hospital in Kampala, Uganda: Access and affordability. 
  • Black race does not independently predict adverse outcome following radical retropubic prostatectomy at a tertiary referral center. 
  • Body mass index-percentile and diagnostic accuracy of childhood asthma. 
  • Breast cancer presentation in an urban health care Safety Net system. 
  • Brief psychosocial screening in outpatient pediatric practice. 
  • Building a medical neighborhood in the safety net: an innovative technology improves hematuria workups. 
  • CKD progression and mortality among older patients with diabetes. 
  • Causes of creatine kinase levels greater than 1000 IU/L in patients referred to rheumatology. 
  • Changes in Physician Decision Making after CT: A Prospective Multicenter Study in Primary Care Settings. 
  • Changes in anticholinergic load from regular prescribed medications in palliative care as death approaches. 
  • Changes in diagnostic decision-making after a computerized decision support consultation based on perceptions of need and helpfulness: a preliminary report. 
  • Characteristics of palliative care consultation at an academic level one trauma center. 
  • Characteristics of undiagnosed diseases network applicants: implications for referring providers. 
  • Children with Chronic Lung Disease: Facilitating Smoking Cessation for their Caregivers. 
  • Clinical characteristics and referral pattern of patients with left ventricular dysfunction and significant coronary artery disease undergoing radionuclide imaging. 
  • Clinical course outcomes for store and forward teledermatology versus conventional consultation: a randomized trial. 
  • Clinical diagnostic accuracy and magnetic resonance imaging of patients referred by physical therapists, orthopaedic surgeons, and nonorthopaedic providers. 
  • Clinical fellowships in substance abuse: a new curriculum strategy. 
  • Clinical implications of referral bias in the diagnostic performance of exercise testing for coronary artery disease. 
  • Clinical management of primary hyperparathyroidism and thresholds for surgical referral: a national study examining concordance between practice patterns and consensus panel recommendations. 
  • Clinical practice guideline: management of sinusitis. 
  • Clinical trial discussion, referral, and recruitment: physician, patient, and system factors. 
  • Clinical utility of transthoracic two-dimensional and Doppler echocardiography. 
  • Clinicians' utilization of child mental health telephone consultation in primary care: findings from Massachusetts. 
  • Commonalities and differences in the implementation of models of care for arthritis: key informant interviews from Canada. 
  • Complete primary repair of bladder exstrophy: a single institution referral experience. 
  • Compliance with referral for hepatitis C evaluation among veterans. 
  • Congenital diaphragmatic hernia: advances in prenatal therapy. 
  • Conscientious refusals to refer: findings from a national physician survey. 
  • Consensus statement on depression, anxiety, and oncology. 
  • Consensus statement on the primary care management of depression from the International Consensus Group on Depression and Anxiety. 
  • Consultation in university-based and community-based infectious disease practices: a prospective study. 
  • Consultative issues in surgical neuropathology: a retrospective review of the rationale for submitting cases for expert review. 
  • Consulting communities when patients cannot consent: a multicenter study of community consultation for research in emergency settings. 
  • Consulting to children in crisis. 
  • Contextual predictors of mental health service use among children open to child welfare. 
  • Cost and utilization outcomes of patients receiving hospital-based palliative care consultation. 
  • Cost minimization analysis of a store-and-forward teledermatology consult system. 
  • Cost-effectiveness of follow-up of pulmonary nodules incidentally detected on cardiac computed tomographic angiography in patients with suspected coronary artery disease. 
  • Costs, effectiveness, and workload impact of management strategies for women with an adnexal mass. 
  • Counseling and testing TB patients for HIV: evaluation of three implementation models in Kinshasa, Congo. 
  • Cultural and Social Challenges of Diabetes Self-Management Education Through Physicians' Voices. 
  • Delayed otolaryngology referral for voice disorders increases health care costs. 
  • Delineation of children's behavior problems: a basis for assessment and intervention. 
  • Depression and Engagement in Care Among Newly Diagnosed HIV-Infected Adults in Johannesburg, South Africa. 
  • Depression and Suicide in Children and Adolescents. 
  • Depression outcome in inpatients with congestive heart failure. 
  • Detection and treatment of major depression in older medically ill hospitalized patients. 
  • Determinants of peritoneal dialysis technique failure in incident US patients. 
  • Determinants of the need for early acute intervention in patients treated conservatively after thrombolytic therapy for acute myocardial infarction. TAMI-5 Study Group. 
  • Developing physicians as catalysts for change. 
  • Development of a breast cancer screening & research program. 
  • Development of a screening and brief intervention and referral for treatment for ED patients at risk for undiagnosed hypertension: a qualitative study. 
  • 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. 
  • Dialysis or transplantation: fitting the treatment to the patient. 
  • Differences between black and white patients with cancer of the uterine corpus in interval from symptom recognition to initial medical consultation (United States). 
  • Differences in understanding of specialist palliative care amongst service providers and commissioners in South London. 
  • Differential diagnosis of a patient referred to physical therapy for dizziness: a case report. 
  • Digital Audio Recording of Initial Patient Visits to an Ocular Oncology Clinic: A Pilot Study. 
  • Direct observation of prognosis communication in palliative care: a descriptive study. 
  • Discussion podcast--on "a comparison of health care use for physician-referred and self-referred episodes of outpatient physical therapy ". 
  • Dissemination of evidence-based mental health interventions: importance to the trauma field. 
  • Do hospitals and surgeons with higher coronary artery bypass graft surgery volumes still have lower risk-adjusted mortality rates? 
  • Do unmet expectations for specific tests, referrals, and new medications reduce patients' satisfaction? 
  • Does contact by a family nurse practitioner decrease early school absence? 
  • Does this patient have obstructive sleep apnea?: The Rational Clinical Examination systematic review. 
  • Does this patient with shoulder pain have rotator cuff disease?: The Rational Clinical Examination systematic review. 
  • Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS): posttreatment follow-up care among Latina and non-Latina White women. 
  • Early integration of palliative care into the care of patients with cancer. 
  • Eating Disorders in the Primary Care Setting. 
  • Echocardiographic Algorithm for Post-Myocardial Infarction LV Thrombus: A Gatekeeper for Thrombus Evaluation by Delayed Enhancement CMR. 
  • Editorial commentary: telephone consultation for Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia: opening Pandora's box. 
  • Effect of a geriatric consultation team on functional status of elderly hospitalized patients. A randomized, controlled clinical trial. 
  • Effect of antiepileptic drugs on bone density in ambulatory patients. 
  • Effect of primary care physicians' use of estimated glomerular filtration rate on the timing of their subspecialty referral decisions. 
  • Effect of store and forward teledermatology on quality of life: a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Effects of Acute-Postacute Continuity on Community Discharge and 30-Day Rehospitalization Following Inpatient Rehabilitation. 
  • Effects of an oncologist's recommendation to exercise on self-reported exercise behavior in newly diagnosed breast cancer survivors: a single-blind, randomized controlled trial. 
  • Elacytarabine has single-agent activity in patients with advanced acute myeloid leukaemia. 
  • Electronic medical records and improving the quality of the screening process. 
  • Eliciting and combining subjective judgments about uncertainty. 
  • Emergency room management of conversion disorders. 
  • Emergency/Adjunct services and attrition prevention for randomized clinical trials in children: the MTA manual-based solution. 
  • Enrollment and events of hospice patients with heart failure vs. cancer. 
  • Etiology of azoospermia in a large nonreferral inner-city population. 
  • Evaluating ethics consultation: framing the questions. 
  • Evaluation of Diabetic Retinal Screening and Factors for Ophthalmology Referral in a Telemedicine Network. 
  • Evaluation of a Preoperative Clinic for Women With Gynecologic Cancer. 
  • Evaluation of a consulting training course for international development assistance for health. 
  • Evaluation of specialist referrals at a rural health care clinic. 
  • Evaluation research and the future of ethics consultation. 
  • Evaluation, management, and referral of elderly emergency department patients with elevated blood pressure. 
  • Evidence-based community consultation for traumatic brain injury. 
  • Exploring the generalist-subspecialist interface in internal medicine. 
  • Extended and standard duration weight-loss programme referrals for adults in primary care (WRAP): a randomised controlled trial. 
  • Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation and Interfacility Transfer: A Regional Referral Experience. 
  • Facilitating palliative care referrals in the intensive care unit: a pilot project. 
  • Factors determining the rate of referral, transplantation, and survival on dialysis in women with ESRD. 
  • Factors in the referral of children for behavioral treatment: a comparison of mothers of clinic-referred deviant, clinic-referred non-deviant and non-clinic children. 
  • Factors influencing referral of patients with voice disorders from primary care to otolaryngology. 
  • Factors related to an effective referral and consultation process. 
  • Factors responsible for immunizations referrals to health departments in North Carolina. 
  • Failure of the mandatory domestic violence reporting law to increase medical facility referral to police. 
  • Feasibility of using technology to disseminate evidence to rural nurses and improve patient outcomes. 
  • Fellow As Teacher Curriculum: Improving Rheumatology Fellows' Teaching Skills During Inpatient Consultation. 
  • Fibromyalgia in rheumatology practice: a survey of Canadian rheumatologists. 
  • Fluoride supplement prescribing and dental referral patterns among academic pediatricians. 
  • Gaps in referral to cardiac rehabilitation of patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention in the United States. 
  • General medical and specialty mental health service use for major depression. 
  • General practice orthopaedic outpatient referrals in North Staffordshire. 
  • Geographic scope and accessibility of a centralized, electronic consult program for patients with recent fracture. 
  • Geriatric mental health care. 
  • God at the bedside. 
  • Guideline adjudicated fibrinolytic failure: incidence, findings, and management in a contemporary clinical trial. 
  • Guidelines on Diabetic Eye Care: The International Council of Ophthalmology Recommendations for Screening, Follow-up, Referral, and Treatment Based on Resource Settings. 
  • HIV Preexposure Prophylaxis Implementation at Local Health Departments: A Statewide Assessment of Activities and Barriers. 
  • Health promotion in primary care: a survey of U.S. family practitioners. 
  • Health seeking behavior as a predictor of healthcare utilization in a population of patients with spinal pain. 
  • Health system preparedness for integration of mental health services in rural Liberia. 
  • Hospital-acquired complications in a randomized controlled clinical trial of a geriatric consultation team. 
  • How does family drug treatment court participation affect child welfare outcomes? 
  • How much do we gain by reducing time to reperfusion therapy? 
  • How primary care physicians treat psychiatric disorders: a national survey of family practitioners. 
  • I'm clear, you're clear, we're all clear: improving consultation communication skills in undergraduate medical education. 
  • Identification and referral of patients with progressive CKD: a national study. 
  • Identifying acute HIV infection in Rhode Island. 
  • Identifying and Referring Youths at Risk for Suicide Following Participation in School-Based Gatekeeper Training. 
  • Identifying depression in the first postpartum year: guidelines for office-based screening and referral. 
  • Impact of Society of Cardiovascular Patient Care accreditation on quality: an ACTION Registry®-Get With The Guidelines™ analysis. 
  • Impact of a geriatric consultation team on discharge placement and repeat hospitalization. 
  • Impact of an incomplete colonoscopy referral program on recommendations after incomplete colonoscopy. 
  • Impact of automatic infectious diseases consultation on the management of fungemia at a large academic medical center. 
  • Impact of depression and anxiety on the quality of life of constipated patients. 
  • Impact of estimated GFR reporting on patients, clinicians, and health-care systems: a systematic review. 
  • Implementation of a stroke thrombolysis service within a tertiary neurosciences centre in the United Kingdom. 
  • Improving ICU-Based Palliative Care Delivery: A Multicenter, Multidisciplinary Survey of Critical Care Clinician Attitudes and Beliefs. 
  • Improving Timeliness of Medical Evaluations for Children Entering Foster Care. 
  • Improving attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder treatment outcomes through use of a collaborative consultation treatment service by community-based pediatricians: a cluster randomized trial. 
  • Improving cardiac rehabilitation referral patterns using computerized physician order entry systems. 
  • Improving communication and recall of information in paediatric diabetes consultations: a qualitative study of parents' experiences and views. 
  • Improving the Documentation Process for Referrals into Diabetes Education: A Quality Improvement Project. 
  • Infertility: a family practice approach. 
  • Influence of changes in supply on the distribution of pediatric subspecialty care. 
  • Informal and formal care infrastructure and perceived need for caregiver training for frail US veterans referred to home and community-based services. 
  • Inpatient Consults and Complications During Primary Total Joint Arthroplasty in a Bundled Care Model. 
  • Institutional review of outside cytology materials: a retrospective analysis of two institutions' experiences. 
  • Integrated depression management: a proposed trial of a new model of care in a low vision rehabilitation setting. 
  • Integrating family planning services into HIV care and treatment clinics in Tanzania: evaluation of a facilitated referral model. 
  • Integrating palliative care information and hospice referral in medicaid primary care. 
  • Internal consistency of DSM-III diagnoses using the symptom scales of the Child Assessment Schedule. 
  • International guidelines for the selection of lung transplant candidates: 2006 update--a consensus report from the Pulmonary Scientific Council of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation. 
  • Interpreting Incidentally Identified Variants in Genes Associated With Catecholaminergic Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia in a Large Cohort of Clinical Whole-Exome Genetic Test Referrals. 
  • Interventional catheterization procedures and cardiothoracic surgical consultation. Cardiovascular Surgery Committee. 
  • Iodine -131 metaiodobenzylguanidine is an effective treatment for malignant pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma. 
  • Is more better? Examining whether enhanced consultation/coaching improves implementation. 
  • Is routine retinal examination useful in patients with acute ischemic stroke? 
  • Is tenure irrelevant for academic clinicians? 
  • Is the impact of hospital and surgeon volumes on the in-hospital mortality rate for coronary artery bypass graft surgery limited to patients at high risk? 
  • Is there a bias against performing coronary revascularization in women? 
  • Juxtaphyseal aneurysmal bone cysts. 
  • Keeping care connected: e-Consultation program improves access to nephrology care. 
  • Knowledge translation of the American College of Emergency Physicians clinical policy on hypertension. 
  • Latent classes of prognosis conversations in palliative care: a mixed-methods study. 
  • Letter: NICE referral criteria for lower gastrointestinal alarm features - not ideal but not poor either. Authors' reply. 
  • Local access to subspecialty care influences the chance of receiving a liver transplant. 
  • Lying for patients: physician deception of third-party payers. 
  • Major congenital malformations among neonatal referrals to a Nigerian university hospital. 
  • Management of After-Hours Pediatric Dental Emergencies Among Pediatric and General Dentists. 
  • Management of adolescents and adults with febrile illness in resource limited areas. 
  • Management of simple thoracic injuries at a level I trauma centre: can primary health care system take over? 
  • Maximizing value and minimizing barriers: Patient-centered community consultation for research in emergency settings. 
  • Measuring safety culture in the ambulatory setting: the safety attitudes questionnaire--ambulatory version. 
  • Measuring the impact of a quality improvement collaboration to decrease maternal mortality in a Ghanaian regional hospital. 
  • Mediation of employment discrimination disputes involving persons with psychiatric disabilities. 
  • Medically unexplained physical symptoms, somatization disorder and abridged somatization: studies with the Diagnostic Interview Schedule. 
  • Medicine. Stroke--tPA and the clinic. 
  • Medico-legal risk associated with pediatric mental health telephone consultation programs. 
  • Mental disorders in primary care: epidemiologic, diagnostic, and treatment research directions. 
  • Mental health service use by adolescents in the 1970s and 1980s. 
  • Missed opportunities for timely diagnosis of pediatric lupus in South Africa: a qualitative study. 
  • Models of mental health training for primary care physicians: a validation study. 
  • Mother-child agreement on the child assessment schedule with nonreferred children: a research note. 
  • Multi-institutional Study of Voice Disorders and Voice Therapy Referral: Report from the CHEER Network. 
  • Multi-year study of human metapneumovirus infection at a large US Midwestern Medical Referral Center. 
  • Multicomponent intervention versus usual care for management of hypertension in rural Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka: study protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial. 
  • Multidisciplinary training in the College Mental Health Service. 
  • Neoadjuvant Systemic Therapy for Breast Cancer: Factors Influencing Surgeons' Referrals. 
  • Neuropsychological characterization of dementia patients. 
  • Newborn screening for Krabbe disease: the New York State model. 
  • Newborn, carrier, and early childhood screening recommendations for fragile X. 
  • Nurse-monitored cardiac recovery: a description of the first 8 weeks. 
  • Observational Assessment of Preschool Disruptive Behavior, Part I: reliability of the Disruptive Behavior Diagnostic Observation Schedule (DB-DOS). 
  • Obstacles and opportunities in the design of ethics consultation evaluation. 
  • Obstetric practice patterns in pregnancies complicated by fetal trisomy 13 or 18. 
  • Obstetrician-gynaecologists' opinions about conscientious refusal of a request for abortion: results from a national vignette experiment. 
  • Of more than one mind: obstetrician-gynecologists' approaches to morally controversial decisions in sexual and reproductive healthcare. 
  • Optimal Screening for Prediction of Referral and Outcome (OSPRO) for Musculoskeletal Pain Conditions: Results From the Validation Cohort. 
  • Organizational network strengthening effects on antiretroviral therapy initiation and adherence. 
  • Outcome of cancer pain consultations. 
  • Outcomes According to Cardiac Catheterization Referral and Clopidogrel Use Among Medicare Patients With Non-ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction Discharged Without In-hospital Revascularization. 
  • Outcomes of a consult fall prevention screening clinic. 
  • Outcomes of older cognitively impaired individuals with current and past depression in the NCODE study. 
  • Overlooked and underserved: "action signs" for identifying children with unmet mental health needs. 
  • Palliative care. 
  • Parental knowledge of fecal incontinence in children. 
  • Parental misinterpretations of over-the-counter pediatric cough and cold medication labels. 
  • Patient and Referring Practitioner Characteristics Associated With the Likelihood of Undergoing Bariatric Surgery: A Systematic Review. 
  • Patient and clinician satisfaction with a store-and-forward teledermatology consult system. 
  • Patient and family communication during consultation visits: The effects of a decision aid for treatment decision-making for localized prostate cancer. 
  • Patient and provider perspectives on implementation models of HIV counseling and testing for patients with TB. 
  • Patient selection for advanced heart failure therapy referral. 
  • Patient-reported frequency of taking aspirin in a population with coronary artery disease. 
  • Patients' reflections on communication in the second-opinion hematology-oncology consultation. 
  • Pediatrician approach to dysphonia. 
  • Performance of Consultative Palliative Care Model in Achieving Quality Metrics in the ICU. 
  • Peripheral vascular disease. Diagnosing and treating the 3 most common peripheral vasculopathies. 
  • Perspective of a pediatric nephrology program: an 18 year retrospective. 
  • Physical therapists' clinical knowledge of multidisciplinary low back pain treatment guidelines. 
  • Physician Networks and Ambulatory Care-sensitive Admissions. 
  • Physician agreement with pharmacist-suggested drug therapy changes for elderly outpatients. 
  • Physician communication in managed care organizations: opinions of primary care physicians. 
  • Physician communication styles in initial consultations for hematological cancer. 
  • Physician intention to recommend complete diagnostic evaluation in colorectal cancer screening. 
  • Physicians' experience and satisfaction with chaplains: a national survey. 
  • Physicians' knowledge and attitudes regarding implantable cardioverter-defibrillators. 
  • Physicians' preferences for active-controlled versus placebo-controlled trials of new antihypertensive drugs. 
  • Poor predictive value of lower gastrointestinal alarm features in the diagnosis of colorectal cancer in 1981 patients in secondary care. 
  • Practice Guidelines for Teledermatology. 
  • Practice patterns in the diagnosis and treatment of anxiety and depression in the medically ill. A survey of psychiatrists. 
  • Predicting 6- and 12-Month Risk of Mortality in Patients With Platinum-Resistant Advanced-Stage Ovarian Cancer: Prognostic Model to Guide Palliative Care Referrals. 
  • Prediction of Persistent Musculoskeletal Pain at 12 Months: A Secondary Analysis of the Optimal Screening for Prediction of Referral and Outcome (OSPRO) Validation Cohort Study. 
  • Prediction of healthcare utilization following an episode of physical therapy for musculoskeletal pain. 
  • Predictors of Rapid Aortic Root Dilation and Referral for Aortic Surgery in Marfan Syndrome. 
  • Predictors of cardiac rehabilitation referral in coronary artery disease patients: findings from the American Heart Association's Get With The Guidelines Program. 
  • Predictors of delivery of hospital-based heart failure patient education: a report from OPTIMIZE-HF. 
  • Predictors of two-year post-hospitalization mortality among elderly veterans in a study evaluating a geriatric consultation team. 
  • Prenatal diagnosis and the pediatric surgeon: the impact of prenatal consultation on perinatal management. 
  • Presenting problems of sexually abused girls receiving psychiatric services. 
  • Presumed sinus-related strabismus. 
  • Pretransplantation Supportive and Palliative Care Consultation for High-Risk Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Patients. 
  • Prevalence and Prognostic Significance of Left Ventricular Noncompaction in Patients Referred for Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging. 
  • Prevalence of dyspepsia, heartburn, and peptic ulcer disease in veterans. 
  • Prevalence, characteristics, and outcomes of HIV-positive women diagnosed with invasive cancer of the cervix in Kenya. 
  • Preventing suicide in primary care patients: the primary care physician's role. 
  • Primary and subspecialty care: building a collaborative relationship. 
  • Primary care approach to dysphonia. 
  • Primary care approach to hearing loss: the hidden disability. 
  • Primary care pediatrics and child psychopathology: a review of diagnostic, treatment, and referral practices. 
  • Primary care physician-reported secondary and tertiary stroke prevention practices. A comparison between the United States and the United Kingdom. 
  • Primary care physicians' and psychiatrists' approaches to treating mild depression. 
  • Primary care physicians' and psychiatrists' willingness to refer to religious mental health providers. 
  • Primary care provider views of the current referral-to-eye-care process: focus group results. 
  • Primary care-specialist collaboration in the care of patients with chronic kidney disease. 
  • Proactive community case-finding to facilitate treatment seeking for mental disorders, Nepal. 
  • Profile of chronic and recurrent angina pectoris in a referral population. 
  • Project Universal Preschool Vision Screening: a demonstration project. 
  • Prospective tracking of pediatric urology consults: knowing is half the battle. 
  • Prospectively collected characteristics of adult patients, their consultations and outcomes as they report breathlessness when presenting to general practice in Australia. 
  • Prostate cancer in North Carolina. 
  • Provider self-report and practice: reassessment and referral of emergency department patients with elevated blood pressure. 
  • Psychiatric co-morbidities and patients with head and spinal cord trauma. Effects on acute hospital care. 
  • Psychiatric education of the internist: a teaching conference approach. 
  • Psychiatric syncope: a new look at an old disease. 
  • Psychometric properties of the UCLA PTSD reaction index. part II: investigating factor structure findings in a national clinic-referred youth sample. 
  • Qualitative evaluation of South Carolina's Postpartum/Infant Home Visit program. 
  • Quality in echocardiography: choosing to succeed. 
  • Quality measures for the use of adjuvant chemotherapy and radiation therapy in patients with colorectal cancer: a systematic review. 
  • Race, sex, and physicians' referrals for cardiac catheterization. 
  • Rate versus rhythm control for management of atrial fibrillation in clinical practice: results from the Outcomes Registry for Better Informed Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation (ORBIT-AF) registry. 
  • Rates of infectious disease consultations in hospitals of different sizes and types, 1986-1987. 
  • Rationing by any other name. 
  • Recent experiences of weight-based stigmatization in a weight loss surgery population: psychological and behavioral correlates. 
  • Recognition of CKD after the introduction of automated reporting of estimated GFR in the Veterans Health Administration. 
  • Recruiting older women for screening mammography. 
  • Referral bias may underestimate number of very elderly patients eligible for rtPA. 
  • Referral patterns for coronary artery disease treatment: gender bias or good clinical judgment? 
  • Referrals to psychiatrists. Assessing the communication interface between psychiatry and primary care. 
  • Referring heroin users from compulsory detoxification centers to community methadone maintenance treatment: a comparison of three models. 
  • Regional variation in prosthesis choice for aortic valve replacement in older patients. 
  • Regulations to promote healthy sleep practices in child care. 
  • Reimbursement update: looking toward the 1990s. 
  • Relationship between nephrologist care and progression of chronic kidney disease. 
  • Relationship of the distance between non-PCI hospitals and primary PCI centers, mode of transport, and reperfusion time among ground and air interhospital transfers using NCDR's ACTION Registry-GWTG: a report from the American Heart Association Mission: Lifeline Program. 
  • Religion and anxiety treatments in primary care patients. 
  • Religion and beliefs about treating medically unexplained symptoms: a survey of primary care physicians and psychiatrists. 
  • Religion, spirituality and health: an American physician's response. 
  • Religious perspectives of doctors, nurses, patients, and families. 
  • Removing a major barrier to universal hepatitis B immunization in infants. 
  • Reperfusion paradox in ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction. 
  • Replication analysis for composition of the Delirium Motor Subtype Scale (DMSS) in a referral cohort from Northern India. 
  • Resource use and survival of patients hospitalized with congestive heart failure: differences in care by specialty of the attending physician. SUPPORT Investigators. Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatments. 
  • Results from the New Jersey statewide critical congenital heart defects screening program. 
  • Revisiting the effect of referral bias on the clinical spectrum of infective endocarditis in adults. 
  • Risk Factors for Delayed Referral to a Craniofacial Specialist for Treatment of Craniosynostosis. 
  • School Scoliosis Screenings: Family Experiences and Potential Anxiety After Orthopaedic Referral. 
  • Screening Commercial Vehicle Drivers for Obstructive Sleep Apnea: Tools, Barriers, and Recommendations. 
  • Screening examination of premature infants for retinopathy of prematurity. 
  • Screening for Obesity in Children and Adolescents: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement. 
  • Screening instruments for substance use and brief interventions targeting adolescents in primary care: a literature review. 
  • Secondary amenorrhea: Diagnostic approach and treatment considerations. 
  • Selection of patients for coronary angiography and coronary revascularization early after myocardial infarction: is there evidence for a gender bias? 
  • Self-selection factors in the participation of mental health professionals in competency for execution evaluations. 
  • Sensitivity of a clinical examination to predict need for radiography in children with ankle injuries: a prospective study. 
  • Service utilization and psychiatric diagnosis in pediatric primary care: the role of the gatekeeper. 
  • Sex differences in the referral process for invasive cardiac procedures. 
  • Sexual abuse in young children: its clinical presentation and characteristic patterns. 
  • Sexual abuse of human immunodeficiency virus-positive children. Outcomes for perpetrators and evaluation of other household children. 
  • Shifts in surgical revascularization and valve procedures among Medicare beneficiaries. 
  • Should hepatic resections be performed at high-volume referral centers? 
  • Should physicians screen for oral disease? A physical examination study of the oral cavity. 
  • Sickle cell disease pain: 2. Predicting health care use and activity level at 9-month follow-up. 
  • Six-year molecular analysis of Burkholderia cepacia complex isolates among cystic fibrosis patients at a referral center for lung transplantation. 
  • Specialist and primary care physicians' views on barriers to adequate preparation of patients for renal replacement therapy: a qualitative study. 
  • Stanford University Network for Diagnosis of Retinopathy of Prematurity (SUNDROP): 18-month experience with telemedicine screening. 
  • State of the art: interventional pulmonology. 
  • Statin intolerance in a referral lipid clinic. 
  • Stem cells, multiorgan failure in radiation emergency medical preparedness: a U.S./European Consultation Workshop. 
  • Store-and-forward teledermatology results in similar clinical outcomes to conventional clinic-based care. 
  • Strategies used in the detection of acute/early HIV infections. The NIMH Multisite Acute HIV Infection Study: I. 
  • Structural brain anomalies in healthy adolescents in the NCANDA cohort: relation to neuropsychological test performance, sex, and ethnicity. 
  • Structured Reporting of Magnetic Resonance Enterography for Pediatric Crohn's Disease: Effect on Key Feature Reporting and Subjective Assessment of Disease by Referring Physicians. 
  • Substance abuse consultation in a teaching hospital. 
  • Successful recruitment strategies for women in postpartum mental health trials. 
  • Supporting family adaptation to presymptomatic and "untreatable" conditions in an era of expanded newborn screening. 
  • Supporting patient care beyond the clinical encounter: three informatics innovations from partners health care. 
  • Surgical clearance for the patient with chronic liver disease. 
  • Sustainable impact of a primary care depression intervention. 
  • Symptom Burden of Chronic Lung Disease Compared with Lung Cancer at Time of Referral for Palliative Care Consultation. 
  • Symptoms of gastro-oesophageal reflux disease and the severity of obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome are not related in sleep disorders center patients. 
  • Targeting telestroke: benchmarking time performance in telestroke consultations. 
  • Teaching neuraxial anesthesia techniques for obstetric care in a Ghanaian referral hospital: achievements and obstacles. 
  • Teledermatology's impact on time to intervention among referrals to a dermatology consult service. 
  • Teledermatology. 
  • Telehealth Applications to Enhance CKD Knowledge and Awareness Among Patients and Providers. 
  • Telephone protocols for pediatric assessment and advice. 
  • Temporal Trends and Factors Associated With Cardiac Rehabilitation Referral Among Patients Hospitalized With Heart Failure: Findings From Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure Registry. 
  • Temporal Trends in Disease Severity and Predicted Surgical Risk at the Time of Referral for Echocardiography in Patients Diagnosed with Aortic Stenosis. 
  • Testing an intervention to increase cardiac rehabilitation enrollment after coronary artery bypass grafting. 
  • The "Hassle Factor": what motivates physicians to manipulate reimbursement rules? 
  • The 5Cs of Consultation: Training Medical Students to Communicate Effectively in the Emergency Department. 
  • The Bakri tamponade balloon as an adjunct treatment for refractory postpartum hemorrhage. 
  • The Clinical Specialty Unit: the use of the psychiatry inpatient unit to treat chronic pain syndromes. 
  • The Impact of Whole-Genome Sequencing on the Primary Care and Outcomes of Healthy Adult Patients: A Pilot Randomized Trial. 
  • The Influence of Patient Choice of First Provider on Costs and Outcomes: Analysis From a Physical Therapy Patient Registry. 
  • The Medical Interview Satisfaction Scale: development of a scale to measure patient perceptions of physician behavior. 
  • The Optimal Screening for Prediction of Referral and Outcome (OSPRO) in patients with musculoskeletal pain conditions: a longitudinal validation cohort from the USA. 
  • The U.S. Thrombosis and Hemostasis Centers pilot sites program. 
  • The availability of community ties predicts likelihood of peer referral for mammography: geographic constraints on viral marketing. 
  • The benefit of implementing a heart failure disease management program. 
  • The effect of palliative care on patient functioning. 
  • The effect of physician characteristics and their practice environment on surgical referral patterns for early-stage breast cancer in Iowa. 
  • The effect of race on the referral process for invasive cardiac procedures. 
  • The effectiveness of mental health consultation and referral in ambulatory primary care: a research lacuna. 
  • The electronic house call. Consequences of telemedicine consultations for physicians, patients, and society. 
  • The emerging role of percutaneous intervention in adults with congenital heart disease. 
  • The evolution of anesthesiology and perioperative medicine. 
  • The familial incidence of symptoms of scotopic sensitivity/Irlen syndrome: comparison of referred and mass-screened groups. 
  • The great imitator: Rocky Mountain spotted fever occurring after hospitalization for unrelated illnesses. 
  • The immediate impact of the Clinical Outcomes Utilizing Revascularization and Aggressive Drug Evaluation (COURAGE) trial on the management of stable angina. 
  • The impact of a prospective payment system on psychosocial service delivery in the general hospital. 
  • The impact of physician weight discussion on weight loss in US adults. 
  • The management of bulbar urethral stricture disease before referral for definitive repair: have practice patterns changed? 
  • The medicalization of society: is there a way to turn back? 
  • The necessity of self-promotion: A key component to early practice building. 
  • The pediatrician as gatekeeper to mental health care for children: do parents' concerns open the gate? 
  • The severely mentally ill in general hospital psychiatric units. 
  • The structure of critical care transfer networks. 
  • The third delay: understanding waiting time for obstetric referrals at a large regional hospital in Ghana. 
  • The wait for the waitlist: The next challenge in the lung allocation system. 
  • Therapeutic value of eptifibatide at community hospitals transferring patients to tertiary referral centers early after admission for acute coronary syndromes. PURSUIT Investigators. 
  • Treatment patterns and costs associated with sessile colorectal polyps. 
  • Trends in Otolaryngology Consultation Patterns at an Academic Quaternary Care Center. 
  • Trends in fetal echocardiography and implications for clinical practice: 1985 to 2003. 
  • Trends in neurosurgical care in Western Uganda: an interrupted time series analysis. 
  • Trends in referral to cardiac rehabilitation after myocardial infarction: data from the National Cardiovascular Data Registry 2007 to 2012. 
  • Trends in the Use of Guideline-Directed Therapies Among Dialysis Patients Hospitalized With Systolic Heart Failure: Findings From the American Heart Association Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure Program. 
  • US Physicians Overwhelmingly Endorse Hospice as the Better Option for Most Patients at the End of Life. 
  • US primary care physicians' opinions about conscientious refusal: a national vignette experiment. 
  • Undiagnosed hypertension in the ED setting--an unrecognized opportunity by emergency nurses. 
  • Urology Consultation and Emergency Department Revisits for Children with Urinary Stone Disease. 
  • Use and predictors of heart failure disease management referral in patients hospitalized with heart failure: insights from the Get With the Guidelines Program. 
  • Use of Expert Consultation in a Complex Case of Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome Requiring Electroconvulsive Therapy. 
  • Use of cancer susceptibility testing among primary care physicians. 
  • Use of hand carried ultrasound, B-type natriuretic peptide, and clinical assessment in identifying abnormal left ventricular filling pressures in patients referred for right heart catheterization. 
  • Use of health care services in seasonal affective disorder. 
  • Users and nonusers of university-based dermatology services following a teledermatology encounter: a retrospective descriptive analysis. 
  • Using Clinical Decision Support to Improve Referral Rates in Severe Symptomatic Aortic Stenosis: A Quality Improvement Initiative. 
  • Using electronic health record data for substance use Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment among adults with type 2 diabetes: Design of a National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network study. 
  • Utilization of hospital services: the roles of teaching, case mix, and reimbursement. 
  • Validity of the NIMH Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children: a comparison between psychiatric and pediatric referrals. 
  • Very brief psychological interventions with university students. 
  • Vision and eye health in children 36 to <72 months: proposed data system. 
  • Weight change in pediatric TennCare recipients referred to a commercial weight loss program. 
  • When and why should patients with hematologic malignancies see a palliative care specialist? 
  • Who gets treated? Factors associated with referral in children with psychiatric disorders. 
  • Who should be doing laparoscopic bariatric surgery? 
  • [Electronic house call]. 
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  • Cohen, Seth Morris, Associate Professor of Surgery, Surgery, Head and Neck Surgery and Communication Sciences
  • O'Connor, Christopher Michael, Richard Sean Stack, M.D. / Guidant Foundation Professor of Cardiology, Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology
  • Patel, Uptal Dinesh, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine, Medicine, Nephrology