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Key Articles

Key articles published by General Internal Medicine faculty are listed below, sorted by research area.  To access a more complete record of faculty member publications please consult this site's Recent Publications page or advanced search websites such as PubMed and Google Scholar.


Health Communication

Cameron KA, Campo S.  Stepping back from social norms campaigns: Examining normative and other influences on health behaviors.  Health Commun.  2006; in press.

Campo S, Cameron KA.  Differential effects of exposure to social norms campaigns: a cause for concern.  Health Commun.  2006; 19(3): 209-19.

Clayman ML, Roter D, Wissow LS, Bandeen-Roche K.  Autonomy-related behaviors of patient companions and their effect on decision-making activity in geriatric primary care visits.  Soc Sci Med.  2005; 60(7): 1583-91.

Clayman ML, Wissow LS.  Pediatric residents' response to ambiguous words about child discipline and behavior.  Patient Educ Couns.  2004; 55(1): 16-21.

Davis TC, Wolf MS, Bass PF, et al.  Low literacy impairs comprehension of prescription drug warning labels.  J Gen Intern Med.  2006; in press.

Dolan NC, Ferreira R, Davis TC, Fitzgibbon ML, Rademaker A, Liu D, Schmitt BP, Gorby N, Wolf MS, Bennett CL.  Colorectal cancer screening knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs among veterans: Does literacy make a difference?  J Clin Onc.  2004; 22(13): 2617-22.

Makoul G.  Commentary: Communication skills: How simulation training supplements experiential and humanist learning.  Acad Med.  2006; 81(3): 271-74.

Makoul G, Clayman ML.  An integrative model of shared decision making in medical encounters.  Patient Educ Couns.  2006; 60(3): 301-12.

Makoul G, Curry RH, Tang PC.  The use of electronic medical records: Communication patterns in outpatient encounters.  J Am Med Inform Assoc.  2001; 8(6): 610-15.

Wolf MS, Davis TC, Arozullah A, Penn R, Arnold C, Bennett CL.  Relationship between literacy and HIV treatment knowledge among individuals enrolled in HAART regimens.  AIDS Care.  2005; 17(7): 863-73.

Wolf MS, Chang CH, Davis TC, Makoul G.  Development and validation of the Communication and Attitudinal Self-Efficacy (CASE) scale - Cancer version.  Patient Educ Couns.  2005; 57(3): 333-41.

  

Reducing Disparities for Vulnerable Populations

Baker DW, Cameron KA, Feinglass J, Georgas P, Foster S, Pierce D, Thompson JA, Hasnain-Wynia R.  Patients' attitudes toward health care providers collecting information about their race and ethnicity.  J Gen Intern Med.  2006; 20(10): 895-900.

Baker DW, Cameron KA, Feinglass J, Thompson JA, Georgas P, Foster S, Pierce D, Hasnain-Wynia R.  A system for rapidly and accurately collecting patients' race and ethnicity.  Am J Public Health.  2006; 96(3): 532-37.

Baker DW, Sudano JJ, Durazo-Arvizu R, Feinglass J, Witt WP, Thompson J.  Health insurance coverage and the risk of decline in overall health and death among the near elderly, 1992-2002.  Med Care.  2006; 44(3): 277-82.

Baker DW, Sudano JJ.  Health insurance coverage during the years preceding Medicare eligibility.  Arch Intern Med.  2005; 165(7): 770-76.

Chlebowski RT, Chen Z, Anderson GL, Rohan T, Aragaki A, Lane D, Dolan NC, Paskett ED, McTiernan A, Hubbell FA, Adams-Campbell LL, Prentice R.  Ethinicity and breast cancer: Factors influencing differences in incidence and outcome.  J Natl Cancer Inst.  2005; 97(6): 439-48.

Dolan NC, Ferreira R, Fitzgibbon ML, Davis TC, Rademaker A, Liu D, Lee J, Wolf MS, Schmitt BP, Bennett CL.  Colorectal cancer screeining among African-American and white male veterans.  Am J Prev Med.  2005; 28(5): 479-82.

Feinglass J, Whitaker CR, Lindquist LA, McCarthy WJ, Pearce WH.  Racial differences in primary and repeat amputation, results from a multihospital study.  J Vasc Surg.  2005; 41(5): 823-29.

Goel MS, Wee CC, McCarthy EP, Davis RB, Ngo-Metzger Q, Phillips RS.  Racial and ethnic disparities in cancer screening: the importance of foreign-birth as a barrier to care.  J Gen Intern Med.  2003; 18(12): 1028-35.

Goel MS, McCarthy EP, Phillips RS, Wee CC.  Obesity among U.S. immigrant subgroups by duration of residence.  JAMA.  2004; 292(23): 2860-67.

Goel MS, Burns RB, Phillips RS, Davis RB, Ngo-Metzger Q, McCarthy EP.  Trends in breast conserving surgery among Asian American and Pacific Islanders, 1992-2000.  J Gen Intern Med.  2005; 20(7): 604-11.

Kandula NR, Wen M, Jacobs EA, Lauderdale DS.  Low rates of colorectal, cervical, and breast cancer screening in Asian Americans compared with non-Hispanic whites: Cultural influences or access to care?  Cancer.  2006; 107(1): 184-92.

Kandula NR, Lauderdale DS.  Leisure time, non-leisure time, and occupational physical activity in Asian Americans.  Ann Epidemiol.  2005; 15(4): 257-65.

Kandula NR, Grogan CM, Rathouz PJ, Lauderdale DS.  The unintended impact of welfare reform on the Medicaid enrollment of eligible immigrants.  Health Serv Res.  2004; 39(5): 1509-26.

Kandula NR, Kersey M, Lurie N.  Assuring the health of immigrants: What the leading health indicators tell us.  Annu Rev Public Health.  2004; 25: 357-76.

Kandula NR, Dworkin MS, Carroll MR, Lauderdale DS.  Tuberculosis prevention in Mexican immigrants: Limitations of short-course therapy.  Am J Prev Med.  2004; 26(2): 163-66.

Persell SD, Maviglia SM, Bates DW, Ayanian JZ.  Ambulatory hypercholesterolemia management in patients with atherosclerosis: sex and race differences in processes and outcomes.  J Gen Intern Med.  2005; 20(2): 123-30.

Sudano JJ, Baker DW.  Explaining US racial/ethnic disparities in health declines and mortality in late middle age: The roles of socioeconomic status, health behaviors, and health insurance.  Soc Sci Med.  2006; 62(4): 909-22.

Wolf MS, Satterlee M, Calhoun EA, et al.  Colorectal cancer screening among the medically underserved.  J Health Care Poor Underserved.  2006; 17(1): 47-55.

Wolf MS, Gazmararian JA, Baker DW.  Health literacy and functional health status among older adults.  Arch Intern Med.  2005; 165(17): 1946-52.



Improving Healthcare Quality and Safety

Asch SM, Baker DW, Keesey JW, Broder M, Schonlau M, Rosen M, Wallace PL, Keeler EB.  Does the collaborative model improve care for chronic heart failure?  Med Care.  2005; 43(7): 667-75.

Baker DW, Asch SM, Keesey JW, Brown JA, Chan KS, Joyce G, Keeler EB.  Differences in education, knowledge, self-management activities, and health outcomes for patients with heart failure cared for under the chronic disease model: the improving chronic illness care evaluation.  J Card Fail.  2005; 11(6): 405-13.

Feinglass J, Martin GJ, Lin E, Johnson MR, Gheorghiade M.  Is heart failure survival improving?  Evidence from 2323 elderly patients hospitalized between 1989-2000.  Am Heart J.  2003; 146(1): 111-14.

Persell SD, Lloyd-Jones DM, Baker DW.  Implications of changing National Cholesterol Education Program goals for the treatment and control of hypercholesterolemia.  J Gen Intern Med.  2006; 21(2): 171-76.

Persell SD, Baker DW.  Aspirin use among adults with diabetes: recent trends and emerging sex disparities.  Arch Intern Med.  2004; 164(22): 2492-99.

Persell SD, Keating NL, Landrum MB, Landon BE, Ayanian JZ, Borbas C, Guadagnoli E.  Relationship of diabetes-specific knowledge to self-management activities, ambulatory quality of care, and metabolic outcomes.  Prev Med.  2004; 39(4): 746-52.

Clinical Epidemiology and Clinical Trials

Feinglass J, Thompson JA, He X, Witt W, Chang RW, Baker DW.  The effect of physical activity on functional status among older middle age adults with arthritis.  Arthritis Rheum.  2005; 53(6): 879-85.

He XZ, Baker DW.  Body mass index, physical activity, and the risk of decline in overall health and physical functioning in late middle age.  Am J Public Health.  2004; 94(9): 1567-73.

McDermott MM, Liu K, Greenland P, Guralnik JM, Criqui MH, Chan C, Pearce WH, Schneider JR, Ferrucci L, Celic L, Taylor LM, Vonesh E, Martin GJ, Clark E.  Functional decline in peripheral arterial disease: Associations with the ankle brachial index and leg symptoms.  JAMA.  2004; 292(4): 453-61.

McDermott MM, Liu K, Ferrucci L, et al.  Physical performance in peripheral arterial disease: a slower rate of decline in patients who walk more.  Ann Intern Med.  2006; 144(1): 10-20.

McDermott MM, Greenland P, Green D, et al.  D-dimer, inflammatory markers, and lower extremity functioning in patients with and without lower extremeity peripheral arterial disease.  Circulation.  2003; 107(25): 3191-98.

McDermott MM, Liu K, Cirqui MH, et al.  Ankle-brachial index and subclinical cardiac and carotid disease: the multi ethnic study of atherosclerosis.  Am J Epidemiol.  2005; 162(1): 33-41.

Ruo B, Capra AM, Jensvold NG, Go AS.  Racial variation in the prevalence of atrial fibrillation among patients with heart failure: the epidemiology, practice, outcomes, and costs of heart failure (EPOCH) study.  J Am Coll Cardiol.  2004; 43(3): 429-35.

Ruo B, Rumsfeld JS, Hlatky MA, Liu H, Browner HS, Whooley MA.  Depressive symptoms and health-related quality of life: the Heart and Soul study.  JAMA.  2003; 290(2): 215-21.

Ruo B, Rumsfeld JS, Pipkin S, Whooley MA.  Relation between depressive symptoms and treadmill exercise capacity in the Heart and Soul study.  Am J Cardiol.  2004; 94(1): 96-99.

Medical Education

Fleming VM, Schindler N, Martin GJ, DaRosa DA.  Separate and equitable promotion tracks for clinician-educators.  JAMA.  2005; 294(9): 1101-04.

Wayne DB, Butter J, Siddall VJ, Fudala MJ, Wade LD, Feinglass J, McGaghie WC.  Mastery learning of advanced cardiac life support skills by internal medicine residents using simulation technology and deliberate practice.  J Gen Intern Med.  2006; 21(3): 251-56.

Wayne DB, Fudala MJ, Butter J, Siddall VJ, Feinglass J, Wade LD, McGaghie WC.  Comparison of two standard-setting methods for advanced cardiac life support training.  Acad Med.  2005; 80(10): S63-S66.

Wayne DB, Butter J, Siddall VJ, Fudala MJ, Lindquist LA, Feinglass J, Wade LD, McGaghie WC.  Simulation-based training on internal medicine residents in advanced cardiac life support protocols: A randomized trial.  Teach Learn Med.  2005; 17(3): 202-08.

Wayne DB, DaRosa DA.  Evaluating and enhancing a women's health curriculum in an internal medicine residency program.  J Gen Intern Med.  2004; 19(7): 754-59.