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Home Mental Health Care For Gunshot Victims
RWJF Health & Society Scholar Jooyoung Lee advocates home-based mental health care for gunshot victims to recover from the lingering effects of their injuries.
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Increasing Life Expectancy Could Undercut Social Security Viability
Americans’ life expectancy is increasing more quickly than official government forecasts, RWJF Health & Society Scholar Samir Soneji finds.
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Prevalence of Chlamydial and Gonococcal Infections Among Young Adults in the United States
May 1, 2004 | Journal Article
The sexually transmitted diseases, chlamydia and gonorrhea, are easy to cure but often go undiagnosed because they are mostly asymptomatic. Untreated, they can cause ectopic pregnancies, PID (pelvic inflammatory disease) and infertility. This study ...
Racial Differences in Survival Among Men with Prostate Cancer and Comorbidity at Time of Diagnosis
May 1, 2004 | Journal Article
Black men with prostate cancer have poorer disease-specific and overall survival rates than do their U.S. White counterparts. Comorbidity at the time of diagnosis has been shown to predict both overall survival and cause-specific mortality among Whi ...
Effects of Participation in the Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) Program on Women Faculty's Perceived Leadership Capabilities
April 1, 2004 | Journal Article
While the proportion of women both attending and teaching at medical schools has increased substantially, there is still a gender gap in medical academia between women and men in leadership positions. The Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in ...
Young Adults' Attitudes, Beliefs, and Feelings about Testing for Curable STDs Outside of Clinic Settings
April 1, 2004 | Journal Article
The development of new technology has now made it possible to screen for certain curable sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) outside the clinical setting. Early reports about the possible advantages of these developments show a great deal of variat ...
Factors Associated with Caregiver Burden Among Caregivers of Terminally Ill Patients with Cancer
April 1, 2004 | Journal Article
In the future, the task of caring for dying patients will probably shift increasingly from medical personnel to family and friends because so many people prefer not to die in a hospital. The resulting burden is likely to take a toll on the caregiver ...
Direct Observation and Patient Recall of Health Behavior Advice
March 1, 2004 | Journal Article
The ability of a patient to recall the advice of his doctor is crucial to ensuring that he adheres to physician recommendations. Information about the degree of patient recall can help physicians give useful and well-tailored advice. This study is p ...
Sex Influences on Shared Risk Factors for Bulimia Nervosa and Other Psychiatric Disorders
March 1, 2004 | Journal Article
Research has documented that bulimia nervosa (BN) co-occurs with a number of psychiatric disorders, such as depression, anxiety, and psychoactive substance dependence. However, a gap in the research exists as to whether sex influences the shared pre ...
Will Mothers Discuss Parenting Stress and Depressive Symptoms with Their Child's Pediatrician?
March 1, 2004 | Journal Article
Mothers often turn to family and friends for emotional support. The study suggests that they are interested in receiving information about stress and depression. The authors suggest that their research could point toward development of a strategy to ...
The Effect of Point-of-Care Personal Digital Assistant Use on Resident Documentation Discrepancies
March 1, 2004 | Journal Article
The authors recently found documentation discrepancies in 60 percent of resident daily-progress notes with respect to patient weight, medications, or vascular lines. To what extent information systems can decrease such discrepancies is unknown. The ...
Clinical Considerations in Premenopausal Osteoporosis
March 1, 2004 | Journal Article
Although osteoporosis is usually considered a disorder of postmenopausal women, certain groups of premenopausal women are also at high risk for osteoporosis through a number of factors such as disease, certain environments and genetic disposition. T ...