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Michael Pignone, Russell Harris, and Linda Kinsinger A decision aid consisting of an education video, brochure, and chart marker increased ordering and performance of colon cancer screening tests.
Yun Su and Michael Swift Carriers of mutations at the ataxia-telangiectasia locus, who make up 1.4% to 2% of the general population, have a higher mortality rate and an earlier age at death from cancer and ischemic heart disease than noncarriers.
Dick Menzies, Anne Fanning, Lilian Yuan, J. Mark FitzGerald the Canadian Collaborative Group in Nosocomial Transmission of TB* Tuberculin conversion among health care workers was strongly associated with inadequate ventilation in general patient rooms and with type and duration of work. Conversion was not related to ventilation of respiratory isolation rooms.
Brief Communications
Steven Grinspoon, Elizabeth Thomas, Sarah Pitts, Erin Gross, Diane Mickley, Karen Miller, David Herzog, and Anne Klibanski Bone mineral density is reduced at several skeletal sites in most women with anorexia nervosa. Weight, but not estrogen use, is a significant predictor of bone mineral density at all skeletal sites in this population.
Charles N. Bernstein, James F. Blanchard, William Leslie, Andre Wajda, and B. Nancy Yu Patients with inflammatory bowel disease are at increased risk for fracture compared with the general population.
Academia and Clinic
Michael E. Whitcomb and Deborah L. Walter Few internal medicine subspecialty training programs are currently designed to provide adequate research training as defined by the Institute of Medicine and American Board of Internal Medicine.
Reviews
David A. Fiellin, M. Carrington Reid, and Patrick G. O'Connor This case-based discussion focuses on the clinical management of a patient whose hazardous drinking progresses to alcohol dependence and requires coordinated care.
Editorials
Gregory R. Mundy The reports by Grinspoon and Bernstein and their colleagues in this issue are examples of the detailed clinical observations on secondary osteoporosis that are necessary for understanding normal and disordered bone remodeling.
Leon E. Rosenberg In this issue, Whitcomb and Walter prompt us to think about the role of departments of internal medicine in being responsible for the national problems in clinical research and in helping resolve them.
On Being a Doctor
Raymond D. Hobbs If I made house calls, it was usually for the Amish. One special house call gave me a glimpse of what it must have been like to be a physician long ago.
Letters Acquired C1 Esterase Inhibitor Deficiency
Correction: Propranolol and Thyroid Storm
Karen M. Freund
Alan Rubin
Deborah Gesensway
George N. Braman
Judith M.E. Walsh, Nancy C. Dolan, and Pamela Charney The main areas of focus for this Update are coronary heart disease, osteoporosis, breast cancer prevention, hormone replacement therapy and oral contraceptives, weight loss, cancer screening, domestic violence, and sexual dysfunction. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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