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  • Reflections on 18 Years in the Editor's Chair.
    Fam Med 42:208 (2010)
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  • Patients' Question-Asking Behavior During Primary Care Visits: A Report From the AAFP National Research Network.
    The study enrolled 834 eligible patients in 20 practices. There were no significant difference between the AM3 and control patients...
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  • Reviewer Acknowledgments.
    Fam Med 42:10 (2010)
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  • Geriatric education for the physicians of tomorrow.
    The world's population is aging and there is need for more geriatricians. Current training programs, however, are not producing a su...
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  • Is low literacy a risk factor for symptoms of depression in postpartum women?
    Of 235 women interviewed in the hospital, 138 (58.7%) were interviewed 6-10 weeks postpartum and completed the EPDS. The rate of EPD...
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  • Essays and commentaries in family medicine. The human side of health care.
    Fam Med 41:134 (2009)
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  • Do medication samples jeopardize patient safety?
    Most (43 of 55) products included CMI, either as a separate leaflet or directly on the packaging. Reading level of CMI leaflets rang...
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  • Reviewer acknowledgments.
    Fam Med 41:9 (2009)
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  • Will patients agree to have their literacy skills assessed in clinical practice?
    We randomized 20 private and public medical practices to an intervention group that implemented literacy assessments with the Newest...
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  • Relationship between health literacy and health-related quality of life among Tennesseans.
    We measured the health literacy skills of patients (n = 249) using the Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Medicine (REALM), dividin...
    Tenn Med 101:35 (2008)
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  • Suitability and readability of consumer medical information accompanying prescription medication samples.
    No CMI was present in 39 (46.9%) samples. In 19 (22.9%), CMI was contained in a package insert and in 25 (30.2%) it was printed on t...
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  • Breast cancer screening in an adult literacy program.
    Twenty-one women underwent screening. Three (14%) had significant abnormalities. CONCLUSIONS: Cancer screening can be provided on si...
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  • Readability of consumer medication information for intranasal corticosteroid inhalers.
    The mean +/- S.D. reading grade level of the CMI was 6.9 +/- 0.7 (range, 6-8). The mean +/- S.D. font size was 9.0 +/- 2.2 (range, 6...
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  • How long does it take to assess literacy skills in clinical practice?
    The average time to complete the NVS was 2.9 minutes (95% confidence limit, 2.6-3.1 min). CONCLUSION: The NVS is a health literacy s...
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  • Geriatrics: in our residents' future whether they know it and like it or not.
    Fam Med 40:741 (2008)
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  • Genitourinary Problems in Bicyclists
    Genitourinary complaints are common in cyclists. Bicycle fit, improper saddle type, and individual anatomic factors are important eva...
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  • Genitourinary problems in bicyclists.
    Genitourinary complaints are common in cyclists. Bicycle fit, improper saddle type, and individual anatomic factors are important ev...
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  • The impact of literacy on health-related quality of life measurement and outcomes in cancer outpatients.
    Most (97%) patients rated the TT easy to use. In IRT analysis, 6/27 FACT-G and 12/31 SF-36 items demonstrated literacy bias; this wa...
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  • Ask Me 3: improving communication in a Hispanic pediatric outpatient practice.
    No parents knew about Ask-Me-3 before implementation. Of 393 parents interviewed 6 months later, 42% knew about Ask-Me-3, and half o...
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  • Measuring adult literacy in health care: performance of the newest vital sign.
    The NVS demonstrated high sensitivity for detecting limited literacy and moderate specificity (area under the receiver operating cha...
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