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Devdutta Gangadhar Sangvai

Professor Emeritus in Family Medicine and Community Health
Family Medicine and Community Health
Duke Box 3886, Durham, NC 27710
Family Medicine Center Pickens, 2100 Erwin Road, Durham, NC 27710

Featured Works


Despite 'welcome to Medicare' benefit, one in eight enrollees delay first use of part B services for at least two years.

Journal article Health Aff (Millwood) · June 2012 Featured Work Much research has focused on the possible overuse of health care services within Medicare, but there is also substantial evidence of underuse. In recent years, Congress has added a "welcome to Medicare" physician visit and a number of preventive services w ... Full text Link to item Cite

Primary and subspecialty care: building a collaborative relationship.

Journal article Am Fam Physician · February 1, 2012 Featured Work Link to item Cite

Training the next generation of physician-executives: an innovative residency pathway in management and leadership.

Journal article Acad Med · May 2011 Featured Work The rapidly changing field of medicine demands that future physician-leaders excel not only in clinical medicine but also in the management of complex health care enterprises. However, many physicians have become leaders "by accident," and the active culti ... Full text Link to item Cite

An Infection Control Program for a 2009 influenza A H1N1 outbreak in a university-based summer camp.

Journal article J Am Coll Health · 2011 Featured Work OBJECTIVES: Describe two 2009-H1N1 influenza outbreaks in university-based summer camps and the implementation of an infection control program. PARTICIPANTS: 7,906 campers across 73 residential camps from May 21-August 2, 2009. METHODS: Influenza-like-illn ... Full text Link to item Cite

Clinical presentation and response to treatment of novel influenza A H1N1 in a university-based summer camp population.

Journal article J Clin Virol · March 2010 Featured Work BACKGROUND: Little is known about the clinical presentation and course of novel H1N1 influenza in summer camps. OBJECTIVES: To describe the clinical course and evaluate the effect of influenza treatment in a summer camp population. STUDY DESIGN: Two large ... Full text Link to item Cite

Neighborhood clinics: an academic medical center-community health center partnership.

Journal article J Health Care Poor Underserved · August 2007 Featured Work This report describes a clinic run by a federally-qualified health center and an academic medical center. The clinic expands the community's primary care capacity, combining advantages of big and small settings, and of its dual affiliation. Survey data sug ... Full text Link to item Cite

Mercury water and cauterizing stones: Nicolas André and tic douloureux.

Journal article J Neurosurg · May 1999 Featured Work In his 1756 text, Observations pratiques sur les maladies de l'urèthre et sur plusiers faits convulsifs, Nicolas André coined the term "tic douloureux." He believed that this pain originated from compression of facial sensory peripheral nerves. Using scien ... Full text Link to item Cite