1 Division of Infectious Disease and Immunology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America, 2 Division of Epidemiology and Immunization, Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, 3 Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 4 Departments of Health Poli...

OBJECTIVE To assess the prevalence of white-coat normortension, white-coat hypertension, and white-coat effect. METHODS We assessed 670 medical records of patients from the League of Hypertension of the Hospital das Clínicas of the Medical School of the University of S o Paulo. White-coat hypertension (blood pressure at the medical office: mean of 3 measurements with the oscillometric device ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the acceptance and attitudes of family medicine physicians, clinical and nonclinical office staff, pharmacists, and patients during pharmacist integration into a medical home. DESIGN Qualitative study. SETTING Pittsburgh, PA, area from August 2009 to June 2010. PARTICIPANTS Physicians, staff, pharmacists, and patients at four single-specialty family medicine office ...

PURPOSE We undertook a study to evaluate the effects of medical home transformation on job satisfaction in the primary care setting. METHODS We collected primary data from 20 primary care practices participating in medical home pilot projects in Rhode Island and Colorado from 2009 to 2011. We surveyed clinicians and staff about the quality of their practice environments (eg, office chaos, com...

These guidelines were developed by the Division of Global Migration and Quarantine (DGMQ), CDC and the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) Health Work Group. Please see the HHS Office of Refugee Resettlement page for more information regarding the special health challenges of refugees. In order to address such needs, ORR provides guidance, resources and oversight for refugee medical assistance...

Office procedures in chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) can be considered before and after medical management, as well as before and after surgical management. This article focuses specifically on refractory CRS, meaning those patients who have failed medical and surgical management already. The options available in the management of refractory CRS depend on the personnel, equipment, and instrumentat...

In December 1868 we pointed out that in these days of report writing, when the existence of sundry departments absolutely depends on the labors of the medical executive, the amount of clerical work imposed on Civil Surgeons was getting formidable, and that by an official quibble they were supposed to have no office, and therefore no clerk or office allowance. Civil Surgeons were, therefore, com...

Office-based anesthesia (OBA) has developed in the United States as an important field for the anesthesia provider. Both the numbers and types of procedures performed in offices around the country have steadily increased, as has the invasiveness of these procedures. New anesthetic considerations arise. For example, most training programs have not addressed this area of practice. Indeed many pra...

BACKGROUND The availability of Internet-based continuing medical education is rapidly increasing, but little is known about recruitment of physicians to these interventions. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to examine predictors of physician participation in an Internet intervention designed to increase screening of young women at risk for chlamydiosis. METHODS Eligibility was based ...

A collaborative study, initiated under the auspices of the Health Industry Manufacturers Association (HIMA), was designed to establish the relationship of Escherichia coli O55:B5 endotoxin (the control standard endotoxin of HIMA and the Food and Drug Administration's Office of Medical Devices) to the U.S. National Reference Standard Endotoxin and to two internationally used control standard end...