Scholars@Duke
Martha Bennett Adams

Martha Bennett Adams

Professor Emerita of Medicine
Medicine, General Internal Medicine
1101B Hospital North, Box 3703, Durham, NC 27710
710 W. Main Street, 1st Floor, Durham, NC 27701

Selected Publications

Development of the Quality Data Collection Tool for Prospective Quality Assessment and Reporting in Palliative Care.

Journal Article J Palliat Med · November 2016 BACKGROUND: Assessing and reporting the quality of care provided are increasingly important in palliative care, but we currently lack practical, efficient approaches for collection and reporting. OBJECTIVE: In response, the Global Palliative Care Quality A ... Full text Link to item Cite

Does Academic Blogging Enhance Promotion and Tenure? A Survey of US and Canadian Medicine and Pediatric Department Chairs.

Journal Article JMIR Med Educ · June 23, 2016 BACKGROUND: Electronic educational (e-learning) technology usage continues to grow. Many medical journals operate companion blogs (an application of e-learning technology) that enable rapid dissemination of scientific knowledge and discourse. Faculty membe ... Full text Link to item Cite

Randomized Trial of Telegenetics vs. In-Person Cancer Genetic Counseling: Cost, Patient Satisfaction and Attendance.

Journal Article J Genet Couns · December 2015 Telegenetics-genetic counseling via live videoconferencing-can improve access to cancer genetic counseling (CGC) in underserved areas, but studies on cancer telegenetics have not applied randomized methodology or assessed cost. We report cost, patient sati ... Full text Link to item Cite

Learning from colleagues about healthcare IT implementation and optimization: lessons from a medical informatics listserv.

Journal Article J Med Syst · January 2015 Communication among medical informatics communities can suffer from fragmentation across multiple forums, disciplines, and subdisciplines; variation among journals, vocabularies and ontologies; cost and distance. Online communities help overcome these obst ... Full text Link to item Cite

What Medical Informaticians Do With and Think About an International Medical Informatics Listserv: Member Survey Preliminary Findings.

Journal Article Stud Health Technol Inform · 2015 A survey of members of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) listserv Forum on implementation and optimization asked how members perceived the Forum, and suggestions for improvement. Respondents appear to be remarkably engaged with the Forum' ... Link to item Cite

AMIA members' "vital signs": what the HIT implementation listserv says about goals for AMIA and for medical informatics.

Journal Article AMIA Annu Symp Proc · 2015 The health information technology (HIT) implementation listserv was conceived as a way to combine a substantial portion of American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) members who belonged to four working groups (WGs): CIS, Evaluation, ELSI, and POI. Ot ... Link to item Cite

Calling for collaboration: piloting smartphones to discover differences between users and devices.

Journal Article Teach Learn Med · 2014 BACKGROUND: Healthcare technologies and patient care have evolved rapidly. Healthcare communication techniques and technologies have lagged. PURPOSES: This pilot study was conducted at Duke University Hospital to investigate the benefits of using smartphon ... Full text Link to item Cite

Secondary prevention risk interventions via telemedicine and tailored patient education (SPRITE): a randomized trial to improve postmyocardial infarction management.

Journal Article Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes · March 2011 Featured Publication BACKGROUND: Secondary prevention by risk factor modification improves patient outcomes, yet it is often not achieved in clinical practice. Reasons for failure stem from challenges of prioritizing risk factor reduction and engaging patients in changing thei ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Economic evaluation of home blood pressure monitoring with or without telephonic behavioral self-management in patients with hypertension.

Journal Article Am J Hypertens · February 2010 Featured Publication BACKGROUND: The Take Control of Your Blood Pressure trial evaluated the effect of a multicomponent telephonic behavioral lifestyle intervention, patient self-monitoring, and both interventions combined compared with usual care on reducing systolic blood pr ... Full text Link to item Cite

Perspective: Autonomic care systems for hospitalized patients.

Journal Article Acad Med · December 2009 Featured Publication With advancements of medical technology and improved diagnostic and treatment options, children with severe birth defects who would otherwise have no chance of surviving post birth survive to go home every day. The average lifespan in the United States has ... Full text Link to item Cite

Two self-management interventions to improve hypertension control: a randomized trial.

Journal Article Ann Intern Med · November 17, 2009 Featured Publication BACKGROUND: Fewer than 40% of persons with hypertension in the United States have adequate blood pressure (BP) control. OBJECTIVE: To compare 2 self-management interventions for improving BP control among hypertensive patients. DESIGN: A 2 x 2 randomized t ... Full text Link to item Cite

Leveraging time and learning style, iPod vs. realtime attendance at a series of medicine residents conferences: a randomised controlled trial.

Journal Article Inform Prim Care · 2009 Featured Publication OBJECTIVE: To determine whether participation in educational conferences utilising iPod technology enhances both medical knowledge and accessibility to educational content among medical residents in training. DESIGN/MEASUREMENTS: In May 2007, the authors l ... Full text Link to item Cite

Take Control of Your Blood Pressure (TCYB) study: a multifactorial tailored behavioral and educational intervention for achieving blood pressure control.

Journal Article Patient Educ Couns · March 2008 Featured Publication OBJECTIVE: Evaluating a randomized controlled trial involving a tailored behavioral intervention conducted to improve blood pressure control. METHODS: Adults with hypertension from two outpatient primary care clinics were randomly allocated to receive a nu ... Full text Link to item Cite

Utilization of the PICO framework to improve searching PubMed for clinical questions.

Journal Article BMC Med Inform Decis Mak · June 15, 2007 Featured Publication BACKGROUND: Supporting 21st century health care and the practice of evidence-based medicine (EBM) requires ubiquitous access to clinical information and to knowledge-based resources to answer clinical questions. Many questions go unanswered, however, due t ... Full text Link to item Cite

The Take Control of Your Blood pressure (TCYB) study: study design and methodology.

Journal Article Contemp Clin Trials · January 2007 Featured Publication BACKGROUND: Among the 65 million Americans with hypertension, only approximately 31% have their blood pressure under control (<140/90 mm/Hg). Despite the damaging impact of hypertension and the availability of evidence-based target values for blood pressur ... Full text Link to item Cite

Information technology for optimizing the management of infectious diseases.

Journal Article Am J Health Syst Pharm · May 15, 2006 Featured Publication Full text Link to item Cite

Glycemic monitoring in diabetics with sickle cell plus beta-thalassemia hemoglobinopathy.

Journal Article Ann Pharmacother · September 2005 Featured Publication OBJECTIVE: To report a case of diabetes management in a patient with a hemoglobinopathy that caused her clinician to seek a different measure of glycemic control, fructosamine, rather than glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c). CASE SUMMARY: A 53-year-old Africa ... Full text Link to item Cite

How well do clinic-based blood pressure measurements agree with the mercury standard?

Journal Article J Gen Intern Med · July 2005 Featured Publication BACKGROUND: Obtaining accurate blood pressure (BP) readings is a challenge faced by health professionals. Clinical trials implement strict protocols, whereas clinical practices and studies that assess quality of care utilize a less rigorous protocol for BP ... Full text Link to item Cite

Urine sediment as an indicator of urinary tract infection

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