OBJECTIVE AND DESIGN: This study used qualitative and quantitative methods to examine
the reasons primary care physicians and nurses offered for their inability to initiate guideline…

… From the Department of Family Medicine (Drs Nutting and Rost and Messrs Smith and
Elliot), Program in Health and Behavioral Science (Mr Werner), University of Colorado …

These are popular and appropriate questions to ask and investigate in 1999 but challenged
conventional medical wisdom in the early to mid 1980s, when a group of practicing family …

* BACKGROUND The Family APGAR has been widely used to study the relationship of family
function and health problems in family practice offices. * METHODS Data were collected …

Research has illuminated the problem of untreated mental illness among young adults,
including evidence that young people who exit public care systems often discontinue mental …

BACKGROUND The multiple competing demands of the busy office visit have been shown
to interfere with delivery of preventive services. In this study we used physician …

PURPOSE We compared the completeness of data collection using paper forms and using
electronic forms loaded on handheld computers in an office-based patient interview survey …

Complex interventions, which have been shown to improve primary care depression
outcomes, are difficult to disseminate to routine practice settings. To address this problem, we …

Purpose: To test the effect of an Appreciative Inquiry (AI) quality improvement strategy on
clinical quality management and practice development outcomes. Appreciative inquiry enables …

Purpose Practice-based research networks (PBRNs) are a part of many National Institutes
of Health (NIH)-funded Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) sites. PBRNs, …