Purpose: Many primary care physicians find caring for elderly patients difficult. The goal of
this study was to develop a detailed understanding of why physicians find primary care with …

Aims. To assess the effects of a smoking cessation program for recovering alcoholics on use
of alcohol, tobacco and illicit drugs after discharge from residential treatment. Design and …

BACKGROUND This study aimed to elucidate how clinical preventive services are delivered
in family practices and how this information might inform improvement efforts. METHODS …

The mental stress test protocol is used extensively in research, but different laboratories
often employ different stress tasks, utilize different dependent variables to index the stress …

Purpose: This study aims to develop an in-depth understanding of the issues important to
primary care physicians in providing care to cognitively impaired elders. Design and Methods: …

BACKGROUND. The'‘Put Prevention into Practice”(PPIP) program was designed to enhance
the capacity of health care providers to deliver clinical preventive services. This study was …

… From the Department of Family Medicine, University of Nebraska (Drs McIlvain, Backer, and
Lacy); and the Department of Family Medicine, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical …

Context: In studying physician shortage issues, few studies have utilized individual interviews,
allowing rural physicians to voice their own stories. Purpose: To explore rural physicians’ …

Depression is a highly prevalent disorder among patients in residential drug treatment, and
the pragnosis for recovery from chemical dependency among depressed persons is …

BACKGROUND. Despite years of intervention, few studies describe the extent to which
recommended tobacco use prevention and cessation activities occur in community-based family …