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November-December 2015; Volume 28,Issue 6

Editors' Note

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    New Tools and Approaches for Family Physicians
    Dean A. Seehusen, Marjorie A. Bowman and Anne Victoria Neale
    The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine November 2015, 28 (6) 689-692; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2015.06.150298

Commentary

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    Family Physicians with a Sports Medicine Certificate of Added Qualification (CAQ): Well Prepared to Meet a Significant Patient Care Need
    John P. DiFiori and James Kinderknecht
    The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine November 2015, 28 (6) 693-694; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2015.06.150297

Policy Brief

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    Family Physicians with a Certificate of Added Qualifications (CAQs) in Sports Medicine Spend an Increasing Amount of Their Time Practicing Sports Medicine
    Wade M. Rankin, Anneli Cochrane, Lars E. Peterson and James C. Puffer
    The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine November 2015, 28 (6) 695-696; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2015.06.150179

Original Research

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    Ear Acupuncture for Acute Sore Throat: A Randomized Controlled Trial
    David A. Moss and Paul Crawford
    The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine November 2015, 28 (6) 697-705; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2015.06.150014
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    Assessment of Primary Care Physicians' Use of a Pocket Ultrasound DeviceTM to Measure Left Ventricular Mass in Patients with Hypertension
    Paul Bornemann, Jeremy Johnson, Samuel Tiglao, Amina Moghul, Sheila Swain, Gina Bornemann and Mike Lustik
    The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine November 2015, 28 (6) 706-712; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2015.06.140314
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    Expanding Access to Colorectal Cancer Screening: Benchmarking Quality Indicators in a Primary Care Colonoscopy Program
    David A. McClellan, Chinedum O. Ojinnaka, Robert Pope, John Simmons, Katie Fuller, Andrew Richardson, Janet W. Helduser, Phillip Nash, Marcia G. Ory and Jane N. Bolin
    The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine November 2015, 28 (6) 713-721; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2015.06.140342
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    Connecting Emergency Department Patients to Primary Care
    Randell Wexler, Jennifer L. Hefner, Cynthia Sieck, Christopher A. Taylor, Jennifer Lehman, Ashish R. Panchal, Alison Aldrich and Ann Scheck McAlearney
    The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine November 2015, 28 (6) 722-732; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2015.06.150044
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    Primary Care Attributes Associated with Receipt of Preventive Care Services: A National Study
    Emily C. White VanGompel, Anthony F. Jerant and Peter M. Franks
    The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine November 2015, 28 (6) 733-741; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2015.06.150092
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    Effect of Physician Participation in a Multi-element Health Information and Data Exchange Program on Chronic Illness Medication Adherence
    Samantha F. De Leon, Lucas Pauls, Vibhuti Arya, Sarah C. Shih, Jesse Singer and Jason J. Wang
    The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine November 2015, 28 (6) 742-749; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2015.06.150010
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    Experiences of Parents Caring for Infants with Rare Scalp Mass as Identified through a Disease-Specific Blog
    Miranda Worthen, Tara H. Leonard, Thomas R. Blair and Nalin Gupta
    The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine November 2015, 28 (6) 750-758; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2015.06.150080
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    Patient Preferences for Receiving Reports of Test Results
    Jeannine R. LaRocque, Christina L. Davis, Tina P. Tan, Frank J. D'Amico and Daniel J. Merenstein
    The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine November 2015, 28 (6) 759-766; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2015.06.150030
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    Participation in the Journey to Life Conversation Map Improves Control of Hypertension, Diabetes, and Hypercholesterolemia
    Paul Crawford and Scott Wiltz
    The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine November 2015, 28 (6) 767-771; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2015.06.140142
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    Intimate Partner Violence and Current Mental Health Needs Among Female Veterans
    Katherine M. Iverson, Dawne Vogt, Melissa E. Dichter, S. Louisa Carpenter, Rachel Kimerling, Amy E. Street and Megan R. Gerber
    The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine November 2015, 28 (6) 772-776; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2015.06.150154
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    Variations in Metformin Prescribing for Type 2 Diabetes
    Tiffany Goldberg, Miranda E. Kroehl, Kathleen Heist Suddarth and Katy E. Trinkley
    The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine November 2015, 28 (6) 777-784; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2015.06.150064
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    The Effect of Achieving Patient-Reported Outcome Measures on Satisfaction
    Leif I. Solberg, Stephen E. Asche, John Butler, David Carrell, Christine K. Norton, Jeffrey G. Jarvik, Rebecca Smith-Bindman, Juliana O. Tillema, Robin R. Whitebird and Jeanette Y. Ziegenfuss
    The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine November 2015, 28 (6) 785-792; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2015.06.150079

Special Communications

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    Direct Primary Care: Practice Distribution and Cost Across the Nation
    Philip M. Eskew and Kathleen Klink
    The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine November 2015, 28 (6) 793-801; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2015.06.140337
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    Health Considerations in Regulation and Taxation of Electronic Cigarettes
    Arch G. Mainous, Rebecca J. Tanner, Ryan W. Mainous and Jeffery Talbert
    The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine November 2015, 28 (6) 802-806; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2015.06.150114

Family Medicine World Perspective

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    Out-of-Hours Care Collaboration between General Practitioners and Hospital Emergency Departments in the Netherlands
    Elisabeth Sybilla Johanna van Gils-van Rooij, Christoffel Joris Yzermans, Sjoerd Michael Broekman, Berthold Rudy Meijboom, Gerben Paul Welling and Dingenus Herman de Bakker
    The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine November 2015, 28 (6) 807-815; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2015.06.140261

Research Letters

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    Association of Older Sister's HPV Vaccination Status on HPV Vaccine Receipt by Adolescents
    Sarah J. Clark, Anne E. Cowan, Stephanie L. Filipp, Allison M. Fisher and Shannon Stokley
    The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine November 2015, 28 (6) 816-818; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2015.06.150161
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    Optimizing Fracture Prevention in Patients with Osteoporosis
    Cheryl Lambing, Anna Moll and Michael Hite
    The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine November 2015, 28 (6) 819-821; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2015.06.150082

Clinical Review

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    Management of Chronic Hepatitis B: An Overview of Practice Guidelines for Primary Care Providers
    Steven-Huy Han and Tram T. Tran
    The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine November 2015, 28 (6) 822-837; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2015.06.140331

Brief Report

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    Cutaneous Sinus Tracts of Odontogenic Origin: Two Case Reports
    Rosa Giménez-García, Fernando Martinez-Vera and Leticia Fuentes-Vera
    The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine November 2015, 28 (6) 838-840; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2015.06.150046

Reflections in Family Medicine

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    Where I Practice: On the Spaces of Family Medicine
    William B. Ventres
    The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine November 2015, 28 (6) 841-844; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2015.06.150021

Board News

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    Pisacano Leadership Foundation Names 2015 Pisacano Scholars
    Jane Ireland
    The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine November 2015, 28 (6) 845-849; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2015.06.150284

Indices

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    Author Index to Volume to 28, 2015
    The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine November 2015, 28 (6) 850-856;
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    Subject Index to Volume 28, 2015
    The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine November 2015, 28 (6) 857-864;
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Vol. 28, Issue 6
November-December 2015
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  • New Tools and Approaches for Family Physicians
  • Family Physicians with a Sports Medicine Certificate of Added Qualification (CAQ): Well Prepared to Meet a Significant Patient Care Need
  • Family Physicians with a Certificate of Added Qualifications (CAQs) in Sports Medicine Spend an Increasing Amount of Their Time Practicing Sports Medicine
  • Ear Acupuncture for Acute Sore Throat: A Randomized Controlled Trial
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