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American Surgeon (77)2 2011
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We sought to evaluate the trends in the surgical workforce in southern states of the United States from 1981 to 2006 using the American Medical Association Masterfile data. Our study revealed that the general surgery workforce growth peaked in 1986 and has had negative growth per capita as a result...
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PMID: 21337867
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This study explores the drug resistance strategies of urban American Indian adolescents when they encounter people offering them alcohol, cigarettes, and marijuana. Data were collected in 2005 from 11 female and 9 male adolescents who self-identified as American Indian and attended two urban middle s...
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PMID: 21810074
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Epidemiology and Infection (138)12 2010
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We enrolled adults undergoing chest radiography at three Indian Health Service clinics in the Southwestern United States and collected acute and convalescent serum for measurement of PsaA and PspA titres and urine for pneumococcal antigen detection. Blood and sputum cultures were obtained at the dis...
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PMID: 20334727
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These results support the cross-cultural applicability of social cognitive theory to parenting in Mexican American families. An implication is that parenting interventions aimed at preventing adolescent conduct problems need to focus on elevating the PSE of Mexican American parents with low levels o...
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PMID: 20954762
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Family medicine (42)9 2010
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Perchlorate (ClO(4)(-)) has been detected widely in groundwater and soils of the southwestern United States. Much of this ClO(4)(-) appears to be natural, and it may have accumulated largely through wet and dry atmospheric deposition. This study evaluates the isotopic composition of natural ClO(4)(-...
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PMID: 20521813
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Forty-one parents and their children (20 girls and 21 boys, mean age = 4.33 years, SD = 1.30) participated in a study to examine how parents' personal use of mental health services related to their attitudes toward child mental health services as well as to their children's adjustment. Results indic...
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PMID: 19593640
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Errors in health care are a leading cause of death and injury, requiring new methods for evaluating the efficacy of health care services. A board of nursing staff member conducted a study to examine perceptions of registered nurses who had been sanctioned for practice errors to ascertain the level o...
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PMID: 20541077
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Virtual communities represent a new and innovative approach to learning within nursing education. Because this is an emerging trend, little is known about the use of virtual communities and the impact on students and their learning. This article reports the results of a study designed to assess the...
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PMID: 20210288
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Understanding social interactions is crucial for development of social competence. The present study was one of the first to utilize direct and indirect measures of social perception to explore possible differences among children with nonverbal learning disability (NLD), Asperger's Syndrome (AS), At...
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PMID: 20084452
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Journal of Homosexuality (57)4 2010
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Drawing on observation, autoethnography, and audio-taped interviews, this article explores the religious backgrounds and experiences of Bible Belt gays. In the Bible Belt, Christianity is not confined to Sunday worship. Christian crosses, messages, paraphernalia, music, news, and attitudes permeate...
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PMID: 20391006
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Indices of vegetation dynamics that include both green vegetation (GV) and non-photosynthetic vegetation (NPV), that is, brown vegetation, were applied to MODIS surface reflectance data from 2000 to 2006 for the southwestern United States. These indices reveal that the cover of NPV, a measure of veg...
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PMID: 20426333
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Carbon sequestration by forested ecosystems offers a potential climate change mitigation benefit. However, wildfire has the potential to reverse this benefit In the western United States, climate change and land management practices have led to increases in wildfire intensity and size. One potential...
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PMID: 20148581
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Nursing Research (59)3 2010
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There was a significant difference between groups in education. The participants in the intervention found the sessions to be helpful in recognizing resources. In addition, participants in the intervention group had significantly higher scores in the mediator purposeful participation in goal attainm...
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PMID: 20404773
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Navajo familial neurogenic arthropathy is a rare clinical entity, seen most commonly in the southwestern regions of the United States. Patients are found to have a myriad of orthopaedic abnormalities, and surgical intervention, while sometimes indicated, can be fraught with complications. LEVEL OF E...
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PMID: 20357597
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Public Health Reports (125 Suppl 4) 2010
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Alcohol abuse is an important contributor to HIV disease progression, and participants with lower CD4 counts were more likely to use traditional medicine. HIV care among this rural AI population should focus on addressing alcohol abuse and other socioeconomic risk factors and promote collaboration b...
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PMID: 20626192
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Little is known about obesity-related health issues among American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) populations.
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PMID: 20232606
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State trauma system managers from the western region meet annually to identify and address health care issues, particularly those related to trauma care access and delivery. In each of these states, policy makers face a host of convergent problems: declining populations, rapid growth, low incomes, an...
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PMID: 20838164
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Ecological Applications (20)1 2010
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We test the hypothesis that the distribution and success of Tamarix result from human modification of river-flow regimes. We conducted a natural experiment in eight ecoregions in arid and semiarid portions of the western United States, measuring Tamarix and native Populus recruitment and abundance a...
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PMID: 20349836
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Genetic and linguistic data suggest that the Na-Dene, of which the Athabaskans are the largest group, are part of a later immigration into the Americas than the first Amerind immigration. Whether a second and third immigration can be separated seems unlikely but continued cross-Bering Strait exchang...
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PMID: 19842189
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Few studies have investigated smoking and cognitive decline (CD) among older Mexican Americans. In this study, the authors explore the relationship between smoking status and cognitive changes over time in a large sample of community-dwelling older adults of Mexican descent.
Latent growth curve anal...
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PMID: 20104052
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Results from both studies indicated that a scrolling format reduced understanding of complex topics from Web pages, especially for readers who were lower in working memory capacity. CONCLUSION: These findings show that the way text is presented can interact with learner abilities to affect learning...
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PMID: 20196297
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Two percent of Navajo receiving IHS care were found to have an ICD-9-CM code consistent with epilepsy or seizures. Based on confirmed cases, the crude prevalence for the occurrence of any seizure (including febrile seizures and recurrent seizures that may have been provoked) in the geographic subpop...
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PMID: 19490040
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The antecedents and consequences of ethical leadership were examined in a study of 894 employees and their 222 immediate supervisors in a major financial institution in the United States. The leader personality traits of agreeableness and conscientiousness were positively related to direct reports'...
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PMID: 19702370
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This empirical study evaluated the moderating effects of unit customer orientation (CO) climate and climate strength on the relationship between service workers' level of CO and their performance of customer-oriented behaviors (COBs). In addition, the study examined whether aggregate COB performance...
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PMID: 19702367
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I areas in the region. The following work presents an analysis of these impacts using the Comprehensive Air Quality Model with extensions (CAMx). CAMx is a state-of-the-science, "one-atmosphere" Eulerian photochemical dispersion model that has been widely used in the assessment of gaseous and partic...
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PMID: 19785277
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We conducted a retrospective study of female members of a health maintenance organization in the southwestern United States to: determine the prevalence of CMR for 4 different groupings of CMR factors, identify differences between Hispanics and non-Hispanics, and quantify differences in 2-year healt...
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PMID: 19663619
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The high carriage prevalence among Navajo and Apache children reflects an intense exposure to pneumococcus. The lack of modifiable risk factors for carriage highlights the importance of preventive strategies for disease control....
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PMID: 19593248
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In this study, the authors contribute insight into the temporal nature of work attitudes, examining how job satisfaction changes across the 1st year of employment for a sample of organizational newcomers. The authors examined factors related to job change (i.e., voluntary turnover, prior job satisfa...
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PMID: 19594229
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We collected data from a predominately Anglo American student sample in the Southeastern United States and a predominately Hispanic student sample in the Southwestern United States. Along with an assessment of internal consistency reliability, we examined measurement invariance of the Toronto Alexit...
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PMID: 20017069
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We examined whether perceived competence moderated the relationships between implicit theories, 2 x 2 achievement goals, and intrinsic motivation for sports and physical activity. We placed 309 university students into high and moderate perceived competence groups. When perceived competence was high...
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PMID: 19650396
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Preventive Medicine (48)6 2009
Factors associated with response to a follow-up postal questionnaire in a cohort of American Indians
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We tested the effect of questionnaire length on response.
Cohort members were American Indian adults aged 18 and over who completed the baseline study visit. Study participants (N=1587), cohort members who completed the baseline study visit during the first year of enrollment, were r...
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PMID: 19285524
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PDF is available here.
Preventive Medicine (48)6 2009
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We tested the effect of questionnaire length on response.
Cohort members were American Indian adults aged 18 and over who completed the baseline study visit. Study participants (N=1587), cohort members who completed the baseline study visit during the first year of enrollment, were r...
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PMID: 19285524
PDF is available here.
PDF is available here.
Preventive Medicine (48)6 2009
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We tested the effect of questionnaire length on response.
Cohort members were American Indian adults aged 18 and over who completed the baseline study visit. Study participants (N=1587), cohort members who completed the baseline study visit during the first year of enrollment, were r...
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PMID: 19285524
PDF is available here.
PDF is available here.
Preventive Medicine (48)6 2009
Abstract
We tested the effect of questionnaire length on response.
Cohort members were American Indian adults aged 18 and over who completed the baseline study visit. Study participants (N=1587), cohort members who completed the baseline study visit during the first year of enrollment, were r...
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PMID: 19285524
PDF is available here.
PDF is available here.
Preventive Medicine (48)6 2009
Abstract
We tested the effect of questionnaire length on response.
Cohort members were American Indian adults aged 18 and over who completed the baseline study visit. Study participants (N=1587), cohort members who completed the baseline study visit during the first year of enrollment, were r...
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PMID: 19285524
PDF is available here.
PDF is available here.
Preventive Medicine (48)6 2009
Abstract
We tested the effect of questionnaire length on response.
Cohort members were American Indian adults aged 18 and over who completed the baseline study visit. Study participants (N=1587), cohort members who completed the baseline study visit during the first year of enrollment, were r...
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PMID: 19285524
PDF is available here.
PDF is available here.
Preventive Medicine (48)6 2009
Abstract
We tested the effect of questionnaire length on response.
Cohort members were American Indian adults aged 18 and over who completed the baseline study visit. Study participants (N=1587), cohort members who completed the baseline study visit during the first year of enrollment, were r...
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PMID: 19285524
PDF is available here.
PDF is available here.
Preventive Medicine (48)6 2009
Abstract
We tested the effect of questionnaire length on response.
Cohort members were American Indian adults aged 18 and over who completed the baseline study visit. Study participants (N=1587), cohort members who completed the baseline study visit during the first year of enrollment, were r...
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PMID: 19285524
PDF is available here.
PDF is available here.
Preventive Medicine (48)6 2009
Abstract
We tested the effect of questionnaire length on response.
Cohort members were American Indian adults aged 18 and over who completed the baseline study visit. Study participants (N=1587), cohort members who completed the baseline study visit during the first year of enrollment, were r...
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PMID: 19285524
PDF is available here.
PDF is available here.
Preventive Medicine (48)6 2009
Abstract
We tested the effect of questionnaire length on response.
Cohort members were American Indian adults aged 18 and over who completed the baseline study visit. Study participants (N=1587), cohort members who completed the baseline study visit during the first year of enrollment, were r...
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PMID: 19285524
PDF is available here.
PDF is available here.
Preventive Medicine (48)6 2009
Abstract
We tested the effect of questionnaire length on response.
Cohort members were American Indian adults aged 18 and over who completed the baseline study visit. Study participants (N=1587), cohort members who completed the baseline study visit during the first year of enrollment, were r...
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PMID: 19285524
PDF is available here.
PDF is available here.
Preventive Medicine (48)6 2009
Abstract
We tested the effect of questionnaire length on response.
Cohort members were American Indian adults aged 18 and over who completed the baseline study visit. Study participants (N=1587), cohort members who completed the baseline study visit during the first year of enrollment, were r...
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PMID: 19285524
PDF is available here.
PDF is available here.
Preventive Medicine (48)6 2009
Abstract
We tested the effect of questionnaire length on response.
Cohort members were American Indian adults aged 18 and over who completed the baseline study visit. Study participants (N=1587), cohort members who completed the baseline study visit during the first year of enrollment, were r...
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PMID: 19285524
PDF is available here.
PDF is available here.
Preventive Medicine (48)6 2009
Abstract
We tested the effect of questionnaire length on response.
Cohort members were American Indian adults aged 18 and over who completed the baseline study visit. Study participants (N=1587), cohort members who completed the baseline study visit during the first year of enrollment, were r...
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PMID: 19285524
PDF is available here.
PDF is available here.
Preventive Medicine (48)6 2009
Abstract
We tested the effect of questionnaire length on response.
Cohort members were American Indian adults aged 18 and over who completed the baseline study visit. Study participants (N=1587), cohort members who completed the baseline study visit during the first year of enrollment, were r...
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PMID: 19285524
PDF is available here.
PDF is available here.
Preventive Medicine (48)6 2009
Abstract
We tested the effect of questionnaire length on response.
Cohort members were American Indian adults aged 18 and over who completed the baseline study visit. Study participants (N=1587), cohort members who completed the baseline study visit during the first year of enrollment, were r...
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PMID: 19285524
PDF is available here.
PDF is available here.
Preventive Medicine (48)6 2009
Abstract
We tested the effect of questionnaire length on response.
Cohort members were American Indian adults aged 18 and over who completed the baseline study visit. Study participants (N=1587), cohort members who completed the baseline study visit during the first year of enrollment, were r...
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PMID: 19285524
PDF is available here.
PDF is available here.
Preventive Medicine (48)6 2009
Abstract
We tested the effect of questionnaire length on response.
Cohort members were American Indian adults aged 18 and over who completed the baseline study visit. Study participants (N=1587), cohort members who completed the baseline study visit during the first year of enrollment, were r...
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PMID: 19285524
PDF is available here.
PDF is available here.
Preventive Medicine (48)6 2009
Abstract
We tested the effect of questionnaire length on response.
Cohort members were American Indian adults aged 18 and over who completed the baseline study visit. Study participants (N=1587), cohort members who completed the baseline study visit during the first year of enrollment, were r...
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PMID: 19285524
PDF is available here.
PDF is available here.
Preventive Medicine (48)6 2009
Abstract
We tested the effect of questionnaire length on response.
Cohort members were American Indian adults aged 18 and over who completed the baseline study visit. Study participants (N=1587), cohort members who completed the baseline study visit during the first year of enrollment, were r...
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PMID: 19285524
PDF is available here.
PDF is available here.
Preventive Medicine (48)6 2009
Abstract
We tested the effect of questionnaire length on response.
Cohort members were American Indian adults aged 18 and over who completed the baseline study visit. Study participants (N=1587), cohort members who completed the baseline study visit during the first year of enrollment, were r...
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PMID: 19285524
PDF is available here.
PDF is available here.
Preventive Medicine (48)6 2009
Abstract
We tested the effect of questionnaire length on response.
Cohort members were American Indian adults aged 18 and over who completed the baseline study visit. Study participants (N=1587), cohort members who completed the baseline study visit during the first year of enrollment, were r...
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PMID: 19285524
PDF is available here.
PDF is available here.
Preventive Medicine (48)6 2009
Abstract
We tested the effect of questionnaire length on response.
Cohort members were American Indian adults aged 18 and over who completed the baseline study visit. Study participants (N=1587), cohort members who completed the baseline study visit during the first year of enrollment, were r...
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PMID: 19285524
PDF is available here.
PDF is available here.
Preventive Medicine (48)6 2009
Abstract
We tested the effect of questionnaire length on response.
Cohort members were American Indian adults aged 18 and over who completed the baseline study visit. Study participants (N=1587), cohort members who completed the baseline study visit during the first year of enrollment, were r...
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PMID: 19285524
PDF is available here.
PDF is available here.
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The objective of this study was to evaluate a dairy located in the arid southwest United States to determine the concentrations and seasonal variation of airborne fungi and bacteria and to determine the percentage of antibiotic resistant Staphylococcus aureus. The authors used two-stage ambient air...
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PMID: 19452834
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PDF is available here.
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The UT Southwestern Virtual Wound Care Clinic provides care to disabled institutional residents in an urban setting. The program offers flexible financial mechanisms for residents of the facility to access specialty care. Telemedicine improves quality-of-life and reduces costs by minimizing patient...
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PMID: 19395838
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PDF is available here.
American Journal of Preventive Medicine (36)4 Suppl 2009
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We describe how to better assess the food environment in specific ethnic minority settings for designing and implementing interventions, based on a review of our previous work on the food environment in American Indian reservations, Canadian First Nations reserves, the Republic of the Marshall Islan...
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PMID: 19285208
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PDF is available here.