PURPOSE We aimed to advance the internal and external validity of research by sharing our
empirical experience and recommendations for systematically reporting contextual factors. …

Objective: When counseling women experiencing intimate partner violence (IPV), healthcare
providers can benefit from understanding the factors contributing to a women's motivation …

Objective. —To determine the relationship between efficiency in use of resources and quality
of care provided by physicians serving as the usual source of care for patients in a state …

Intimate partner violence (IPV) victimization is a women’s health problem that imposes a
significant health and health care cost burden. Although IPV victims cannot change the …

Objectives: Postpartum depression, the most prevalent complication of childbirth, is often
unrecognized. Our objective was to compare the effectiveness of three screening instruments—…

OBJECTIVE: For women who are experiencing intimate partner violence (IPV), making
changes toward safety is often a gradual process. When providing counseling and support, …

Efforts to improve the care of depression in primary care patients have largely ignored the
potential of obstetrics/gynecology (OB/GYN) practices. We describe feasibility studies of a …

Objective Consensus that enhanced teamwork is necessary for efficient and effective
primary care delivery is growing. We sought to identify how electronic health records (EHRs) …

Objective: To examine the reliability of quality measures to assess physician performance,
which are increasingly used as the basis for quality improvement efforts, contracting decisions…

Following up on its Crossing the Quality Chasm report, in 2006 the Institute of Medicine
issued a report that included sweeping recommendations to improve the quality of behavioral …