Annals of Family Medicine articles from July 2008

Annals of Family Medicine archives from July 2008

In this issue: community care, healing, and excellence in research.(EDITORIAL)(Editorial)
July 1, 2008... COMMUNITY CARE This issue of the Annals features a special report (1) describing how Community Care of North Carolina (CCNC) has improved quality and reduced total costs for care of Medicaid patients during the last decade. CCNC is a...

North Carolina Medicaid: a fruitful payer-practice collaboration.(EDITORIAL)(Editorial)
July 1, 2008... The article in this issue "Community Care of North Carolina: Improving Care Through Community Health Networks" describes a decade-long program of quality improvement and cost reduction created by North Carolina Medicaid. The article provides...

Integration of depression and hypertension treatment: a pilot, randomized controlled trial.
July 1, 2008... ABSTRACT PURPOSE We wanted to examine whether integrating depression treatment into care for hypertension improved adherence to antidepressant and antihypertensive medications, depression outcomes, and blood pressure control among older...

Self-rated cardiovascular risk and 15-year cardiovascular mortality.
July 1, 2008... ABSTRACT PURPOSE Many individuals perceive their cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk to be lower than established clinical tools would estimate, yet little is known about the long-term consequences of holding such optimistic beliefs. We...

Healing in primary care: a vision shared by patients, physicians, nurses, and clinical staff.
July 1, 2008... ABSTRACT PURPOSE We wanted to understand the views of patients and clinicians on the central concept of healing and to identify major facilitators of and barriers to promoting healing in primary care. METHODS We undertook a qualitative...

Understanding healing relationships in primary care.
July 1, 2008... ABSTRACT PURPOSE Clinicians often have an intuitive understanding of how their relationships with patients foster healing. Yet we know little empirically about the experience of healing and how it occurs between clinicians and patients....

Perceived accessibility as a predictor of youth smoking.
July 1, 2008... ABSTRACT PURPOSE Youths who smoke are more likely to perceive that cigarettes are easily accessible, but the relationship between perceived accessibility of cigarettes and the risk of smoking is not clear. The objective of this study was...

Evaluative criteria for qualitative research in health care: controversies and recommendations.
July 1, 2008... ABSTRACT PURPOSE We wanted to review and synthesize published criteria for good qualitative research and develop a cogent set of evaluative criteria. METHODS We identified published journal articles discussing criteria for rigorous...

Using multiple sources of knowledge to reach clinical understanding of chronic fatigue syndrome.
July 1, 2008... ABSTRACT PURPOSE Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), or myalgic encephalitis (ME), is a contentious condition and often a diagnosis of exclusion. Current policy in the United Kingdom recommends management in primary care. We explored how...

Skin diseases in family medicine: prevalence and health care use.
July 1, 2008... ABSTRACT PURPOSE Ongoing care for patients with skin diseases can be optimized by understanding the incidence and population prevalence of various skin diseases and the patient-related factors related to the use of primary, specialty, and...

The development of an instrument for measuring healing.
July 1, 2008... ABSTRACT PURPOSE Our lack of ability to measure healing attributes impairs our ability to research the topic. The specific aim of this project is to describe the psychological and social construct of healing and to create a valid and...

Community care of North Carolina: improving care through community health networks.
July 1, 2008... ABSTRACT The United States leads the world in health care costs but ranks far below many developed countries in health outcomes. Finding ways to narrow this gap remains elusive. This article describes the response of one state to establish...

Dinosaurs, hospital ecosystems, and the future of family medicine.(REFLECTION)
July 1, 2008... ABSTRACT The continued presence of the family physician within hospital systems is key to family medicine remaining an attractive, viable specialty in the ever-evolving world of medicine. One physician muses about her place in this complex...

A healthy conversation.(ON TRACK)
July 1, 2008... ARE WE ON TRACK? The Annals of Family Medicine aims to serve a worldwide community of inquiry in primary care. We have combined 2 technologiese-mail and electronic publishing-to provide an innovative system for electronic letters...

Correction.(Correction notice)
July 1, 2008... Ann Fam Med 2008;6:372. DOI: 10.1370/afm.881. Spiegelhalter DJ. Understanding uncertainty. Ann Fam Med. 6(3):196-197. In the print version of the May/June 2008 Annals of Family Medicine, the editorial by Speigelhalter refers to an...

National Institute For Program Director Development (NIPDD): a collaborative pursuit of excellence.(Family Medicine Updates)
July 1, 2008... The National Institute for Program Director Development (NIPDD) was born in 1994 due to the challenges facing residency program directors and as a result of the passion of the Association of Family Medicine Directors (AFMRD), through...

Transformed's national demonstration project concludes.(Family Medicine Updates)(TransforMED)
July 1, 2008... After nearly 2 years, TransforMED, a limited liability company wholly owned by the AAFP, marked the end of its national demonstration project (NDP) at an April meeting in Kansas City, Missouri. More than 70 family physicians and other health...

ABFM and MC-FP: second cohort on path to 3-year extension.(Family Medicine Updates)(American Board of Family Medicine)(Maintenance of Certification for Family Physicians)
July 1, 2008... The American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) is pleased to announce that more than 9,000 of the Diplomates who certified or recertified in 2004 successfully met the deadline to complete their Stage One requirements for Maintenance of...

STFM and the STFM Foundation announce the 2008 Group Project Fund winners.(Family Medicine Updates)(Awards list)
July 1, 2008... In 2008, The STFM Group Project Fund, supported by the STFM Foundation, was established to promote and support innovative educational projects proposed by STFM groups. It encourages STFM Group members to collaboratively plan, develop,...

Community faculty: caught between the dean's office, academic health centers, departments and the fiscal realities of primary care.(Family Medicine Updates)
July 1, 2008... Many departments of family medicine are at the threshold of a possible new beginning in undergraduate medical education-a beginning that will provide medical school leaders new opportunities to address anticipated physician workforce shortages...

Hospital care.
July 1, 2008... Ann Fam Med 2008;6:iii. DOI: 10.1370/afm.872. The Annals of Family Medicine encourages readers to develop a learning community of those seeking to improve health care and health through enhanced primary care. You can participate by...