OBJECTIVE: Our purpose was to determine whether various measures of poor psychosocial
status in pregnancy are associated with spontaneous preterm birth, fetal growth restriction, …

… Address reprint requests to Nancy C. Elder, MD, MSPH, Associate Professor, Department
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RESULTS Fiftypercent (57/113) of the respondents indicated that theyhad used or were
usingsome type of alternative medi¬ cine (Figure). No significant difference in the percent¬ age …

• To assess the prevalence and severity of acne vulgaris in young adolescent boys, we studied
219 black and 249 white boys in fifth through ninth grades in Cincinnati, Ohio. The mean …

BACKGROUND We undertook a study to understand how women who are victims of
intimate partner violence (IPV) want physicians to manage these abusive relationships in the …

As family physicians seek information to help them make decisions about incorporating new
therapies or theories in their practices, 1 they are occasionally confronted by clin ical …

BACKGROUND We wanted to describe errors and preventable adverse events identified by
family physicians during the office-based clinical encounter and to determine the physicians…

Background Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) is a public
health framework approach used to identify and deliver services to those at risk for substance-…

Background: Nearly all family physicians have patients that engender a sense of frustration
or dislike, often described as “difficult.” Most research in this area focuses on describing …

Context: Reporting of medical errors is a widely recognized mechanism for initiating patient
safety improvement, yet we know little about the feasibility of error reporting in physician …