Editors' Note:

Anne Victoria Neale, Marjorie A. Bowman, and Cynthia Rose

Announcing New JABFM Feature: Editors' Note
J Am Board Fam Med 2006 19: 531-532. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Original Research:

Nancy Elder, Rick Ricer, and Barbara Tobias

How Respected Family Physicians Manage Difficult Patient Encounters
J Am Board Fam Med 2006 19: 533-541. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Dean A. Seehusen and John Edwards

Patient Practices and Beliefs Concerning Disposal of Medications
J Am Board Fam Med 2006 19: 542-547. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

William B. Weeks and Amy Wallace

The Influence of Race and Gender on Family Physicians’ Annual Incomes
J Am Board Fam Med 2006 19: 548-556. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

John A. Astin, Karen Soeken, Victor S. Sierpina, and Brian R. Clarridge

Barriers to the Integration of Psychosocial Factors in Medicine: Results of a National Survey of Physicians
J Am Board Fam Med 2006 19: 557-565. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Laura Howell, Komal Kochhar, Robert Saywell, Jr, Terrell Zollinger, Julie Koehler, Christina Mandzuk, Brittany Sutton, Javier Sevilla-Martir, and Deborah Allen

Use of Herbal Remedies by Hispanic Patients: Do They Inform Their Physician?
J Am Board Fam Med 2006 19: 566-578. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jeffrey J. Cain, W. Perry Dickinson, Douglas Fernald, Caroline Bublitz, L. Miriam Dickinson, and David West

Family Physicians and Youth Tobacco-free Education: Outcomes of the Colorado Tar Wars Program
J Am Board Fam Med 2006 19: 579-589. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Evidenced-Based Clinical Medicine:

John W. Ely, Colleen M. Kennedy, Elizabeth C. Clark, and Noelle C. Bowdler

Abnormal Uterine Bleeding: A Management Algorithm
J Am Board Fam Med 2006 19: 590-602. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Clinical Reviews:

Dennis A. Brooks and Richard Clover

Pertussis Infection in the United States: Role for Vaccination of Adolescents and Adults
J Am Board Fam Med 2006 19: 603-611. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Deborah Hinnen, Loretta L. Nielsen, Amy Waninger, and Pamela Kushner

Incretin Mimetics and DPP-IV Inhibitors: New Paradigms for the Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes
J Am Board Fam Med 2006 19: 612-620. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Disclosure Statements]  

Patricia A. Pastore, Dianne M. Loomis, and John Sauret

Appendicitis in Pregnancy
J Am Board Fam Med 2006 19: 621-626. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Special Communications:

Stephen C. Stripe, Lyle G. Best, Shirley Cole-Harding, Bryce Fifield, and Farzin Talebdoost

Aviation Model Cognitive Risk Factors Applied to Medical Malpractice Cases
J Am Board Fam Med 2006 19: 627-632. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Commentary:

Roni Peleg and Pesach Shvartzman

Where Should Family Medicine Papers be Published—Following the Impact Factor?
J Am Board Fam Med 2006 19: 633-636. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Brief Reports:

Karissa L. Hackelton

Acute Visual Loss as the Presenting Complaint of Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia
J Am Board Fam Med 2006 19: 637-640. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Donald J. Kovacs and Ted Berk

Gastrointestinal Bleeding of Obscure Origin Undetected by Multiple Tests for Fecal Occult Blood and Diagnosed Only by Capsule Endoscopy: A Case Report
J Am Board Fam Med 2006 19: 641-642. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Editorials:

Anne Victoria Neale, Kendra L. Schwartz, and Marjorie A. Bowman

Peer Reviewing for the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine: What Does It Take?
J Am Board Fam Med 2006 19: 643-647. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Research Letters:

Ariel Smits, Patricia A. Carney, Jeanene Smith, and John W. Saultz

Research Letter
J Am Board Fam Med 2006 19: 648. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Board News:

2006 Pisacano Scholars
J Am Board Fam Med 2006 19: 649-651. [Full Text] [PDF]  

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