Annals of Family Medicine Subject Index
Volume 2 (2004)

Reproductive system

Adolescents, female

McKee MD et al. Health care seeking among urban minority adolescent girls: the crisis at sexual debut, 2(6):40.
Editorials: In this issue: new model finances, systematic reviews, patients and health care (Stange) 530.

African Americans

Plescia M et al. A community oriented primary care demonstration project: refining interventions for cardiovascular disease and diabetes, 2(2):103.
Editorials: In this issue: research in the community and clinic (Phillips) 98; Motherhood, apple pie, and COPC (Williams) 100. eLetters: Structural barriers to health and the COPC model (Bettigole) 3/31/04; Rapid appraisal as a participatory approach to community oriented primary care (COPC) (Murray) 4/10/04; The strengths and challenges of excellence in COPC (Pathman) 4/12/04.

Mainous AG III et al. The association of race and rural residence on control of diabetes and hypertension , 2(6):563.
Editorials: In this issue: In this issue: new model finances, systematic reviews, patients and health care (Stange) 530.

Aged

Santibanez TA et al. Physician attitudes and beliefs associated with patient pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccination status, 2(1):41.
Editorials: In this issue: multimethod research (Stange) 2. eLetters: Further study of disparities needed (Costa) 1/28/04; Next step: overcoming barriers (Fink) 1/29/04; Author beliefs (Johnston) 4/26/2004 .

Gallo JJ et al. Primary care providers evaluate integrated and referral models of behavioral health care for older adults: results from a multisite effectiveness trial (PRISM-E), 2(4):305.
Editorials: In this issue: practice change and patient safety (Stange) 290. eLetters: Response to article: primary care clinicians evaluate integrated and referral models of behavioral health care for older adults: results from a multisite effectiveness trial (PRISM-E) (Baird) 7/30/04; Integrated mental health: translatability and sustainability vary by system (Aikens) 7/30/04; Implementing integrated behavioral health care in primary care (Fisher) 8/6/04; Response to Gallo et al: rural applications (McGovern, et al) 8/23/2004.

Mold JW et al. Prevalence and predictors of night sweats, day sweats, and hot flashes in older primary care patients: an OKPRN study, 2(5):391.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386. eLetters: OKPRN study (Silverberg) 10/25/04; Underlying panic disorder? (Katerndahl, et al.) 10/29/04; Authors respond to comments on panic attacks as cause of hot flashes (Mold) 11/1/04.

Aged, 80 and over

Jerant AF et al. The TLC model of palliative care in the elderly: prelminary application in assisted living, 2(1):54.
Editorials: In this issue: multimethod research (Stange) 2. eLetters: Improving palliative care for the elderly: moving a model forward (Hauser) 2/2/04; Will better assessment enhance end-of-life care? (Mehr) 2/24/04; One small step toward a comprehensive approach to palliative care in the elderly (Jerant) 3/2/04.

Alcohol drinking

Vinson DC et al. Comfortably engaging: which approach to alcohol screening should we use? 2(5):398.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386. eLetters: So what? It depends (Kessler) 10/14/04.

Grossberg PM et al. Brief physician advice for high-risk drinking among young adults, 2(5):474.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386.

Alcohol-induced disorders/diagnosis

Vinson DC et al. Comfortably engaging: which approach to alcohol screening should we use? 2(5):398.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386. eLetters: So what? It depends (Kessler) 10/14/04.

Alternative medicine

Barrett BP et al. What complementary and alternative medicine practitioners say abouthealth and health care, 2(3):253.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient voice, clinical research, clustered data, and the Wonca research conference (Stange) 194.

Amblyopia

US Preventive Services Task Force . Screening for visual impairment in children younger than age 5 years: recommendation statement , 2(3):263.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient voice, clinical research, clustered data, and the Wonca research conference (Stange) 194.

Ambulatory care information systems

McMullin ST et al. Impact of an evidence-based computerized decision support system on primary care prescription costs, 2(5):494.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386. eLetters: Interventions for rising prescription expenditures (Fink) 10/6/04; Important attributes of a successful decision support system (McMullin) 10/7/04; Integration into workflow (Green) 10/23/04.

Analysis bias

Zyzanski SJ et al. On the nature and analysis of clustered data (Editorial). 2(3):199.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient voice, clinical research, clustered data and the Wonca research conference (Stange) 194.

Anthrax

Temte JL et al. Rapid assessment of agents of biological terrorism: defining the differential diagnosis of inhalational Anthrax using electronic communication in a practice-based research network, 2(5):434.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386. eLetters: The role of family physicians and practice-based research networks in early detection of bioterrorist agents and emerging infections (Calmbach) 10/6/04; The generalizability question (Chen) 10/10/04; Training for public health preparedness (Temte) 10/10/04.

Temte JL et al. The primary care differential diagnosis of inhalational Anthrax, 2(5):438.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386. eLetters: Bioterrorism: the challenge for family medicine (Reamy) 10/7/04; Basic bioterrorism response tools and connections (Temte) 10/10/04; When is it a zebra? (Frazer, et al.) 10/17/04.

Asthma, symptoms & diagnosis

WinklerPrins V et al. The natural history of asthma in a primary care cohort, 2(2):110.
Editorials: In this issue: research in the community and clinic (Phillips) 98; Improving health care locally and globally (Stange) 368. eLetters: The natural history of asthma in a primary care cohort (Jackson) 4/6/04; Asthma natural history and diagnosis (Thomas et al) 4/15/04; The natural history of asthma in a primary care cohort (Fardy) 4/16/04; The natural history of asthma in a primary care cohort (van den Niewenhof, et al) 4/29/04; Natural history of asthma (Toelle, et al) 5/9/04; Natural history of asthma (van den Nieuwenhof, et al.) 5/27/04.

Attendance

Lacy NL et al. Why we don't come: patient perceptions on no-shows, 2(5):541.
Editorials: In this issue: new model finances, systematic reviews, patients and health care (Stange) 530.

Automatic data processing

Ariza AJ et al. Evaluating computer capabilities in a primary care practice-based research network, 2(5):418.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386. eLetters: Evaluating computer capabilities: wide variation acrross practices, over time (Reider) 11/15/04.

Azoospermia

Eisner B et al. A randomized clinical trial of the effect of intra-operative saline perfusion on post-vasectomy azoospermia, 2(3):221.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient voice, clinical research, clustered data, and the Wonca research conference (Stange) 194 .

Behavior

Gramling R et al. Family physician self-efficacy with screening for an inherited risk of cancer, 2(2):130.
Editorials: In this issue: research in the community and clinic (Phillips) 98. eLetters: Family physicians and the "new" genetics (Carroll) 4/7/04; Teachable moment for genetics in family medicine (David) 4/12/04; Family history in practice (Ewigman) 4/19/04.

Behavioral/psychological

Glazer JL. Bag of Worms , 2(6):609.
Editorials: In this issue: new model finances, systematic reviews, patients and health care (Stange) 530.

Beliefs

Walter FM et al. Lay understanding of familial risk of common chronic diseases: a systematic review and synthesis of qualitiative research. , 2(6):583.
Editorials: In this issue: new model finances, systematic reviews, patients and health care (Stange) 530; How do people interpret their family histories of diabetes, coronary disease, or cancer? (Acheson) 532.

Biopsychosocial model

Borrell-Carrio F et al. The biopsychosocial model 25 years later: principles, practice, and scientific inquiry. , 2(6):576.
Editorials: In this issue: new model finances, systematic reviews, patients and health care (Stange) 530.

Bioterrorism

Temte JL et al. Rapid assessment of agents of biological terrorism: defining the differential diagnosis of inhalational Anthrax using electronic communication in a practice-based research network, 2(5):434.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386. eLetters: The role of family physicians and practice-based research networks in early detection of bioterrorist agents and emerging infections (Calmbach) 10/6/04; The generalizability question (Chen) 10/10/04; Training for public health preparedness (Temte) 10/10/04.

Temte JL et al. The primary care differential diagnosis of inhalational Anthrax, 2(5):438.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386. eLetters: Bioterrorism: the challenge for family medicine (Reamy) 10/7/04; Basic bioterrorism response tools and connections (Temte) 10/10/04; When is it a zebra? (Frazer, et al.) 10/17/04.

Birth weight

Keeley RD et al. Parental attitudes about a pregnancy predict birthweight in a low-income population, 2(2):145.
Editorials: In this issue: research in the community and clinic (Phillips) 98. eLetters: An intriguing idea (French) 4/8/04.

Blood pressure

Tierney WM et al. Quantifying risk of adverse clinical events with one set of vital signs among primary care patients with hypertension, 2(3):209.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient voice, clinical research, clustered data, and the Wonca research conference (Stange) 194; Improving health care locally and globally (Stange) 368. eLetters: A bit of a wake-up call (Green) 6/7/04; Overcoming inertia (Tierney) 6/7/04; No more 5-day blood pressure checks, please (Crownover) 6/9/04; Author answers: definition of elevated blood pressure and pulse (Tierney) 6/9/04; Recognition does not assure appropriate intervention (Blum) 6/12/04; Controlling hypertension (Tierney) 6/13/04.

Borrelia burgdorferi

Ramsey AH et al. Use and appropriateness of Lyme disease serologic testing, 2(4):341.
Editorials: In this issue: practice change and patient safety (Stange) 290. eLetters: Appropriateness of Lyme disease testing: an appropriate analysis? (Stricker, et al) 8/4/04; Now if doctors would just order the right tests (Mervine) 8/18/2004; Appropriateness of Lyme diseases testing: an appropriate analysis? (Stricker et al) 8/18/2004; The authors respond (Ramsey, et al.) 08/31/04.

Breast neoplasms

Roetzheim RG et al. A randomized controlled trial to increase cancer screening among attendees of community health centers, 2(4):294.
Editorials: In this issue: practice change and patient safety (Stange) 290. eLetters: Use of Annals web resources (Dietrich) 7/31/04; Editor's response to: Re: use of Annals web resources (Stange) 7/31/04.

Brief intervention

Grossberg PM et al. Brief physician advice for high-risk drinking among young adults, 2(5):474.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386.

Bronchial hyperreactivity

WinklerPrins V et al. The natural history of asthma in a primary care cohort, 2(2):110.
Editorials: In this issue: research in the community and clinic (Phillips) 98; Improving health care locally and globally (Stange) 368. eLetters: The natural history of asthma in a primary care cohort (Jackson) 4/6/04; Asthma natural history and diagnosis (Thomas et al) 4/15/04; The natural history of asthma in a primary care cohort (Fardy) 4/16/04; The natural history of asthma in a primary care cohort (van den Niewenhof, et al) 4/29/04; Natural history of asthma (Toelle, et al) 5/9/04; Natural history of asthma (van den Nieuwenhof, et al.) 5/27/04.

Cancer

Walter FM et al. Lay understanding of familial risk of common chronic diseases: a systematic review and synthesis of qualitiative research. , 2(6):583.
Editorials: In this issue: new model finances, systematic reviews, patients and health care (Stange) 530; How do people interpret their family histories of diabetes, coronary disease, or cancer? (Acheson) 532.

Cancer/prevention & control

Gramling R et al. Family physician self-efficacy with screening for an inherited risk of cancer, 2(2):130.
Editorials: In this issue: research in the community and clinic (Phillips) 98. eLetters: Family physicians and the "new" genetics (Carroll) 4/7/04; Teachable moment for genetics in family medicine (David) 4/12/04; Family history in practice (Ewigman) 4/19/04.

Cardiovascular risk

Tierney WM et al. Quantifying risk of adverse clinical events with one set of vital signs among primary care patients with hypertension, 2(3):209.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient voice, clinical research, clustered data, and the Wonca research conference (Stange) 194; Improving health care locally and globally (Stange) 368. eLetters: A bit of a wake-up call (Green) 6/7/04; Overcoming inertia (Tierney) 6/7/04; No more 5-day blood pressure checks, please (Crownover) 6/9/04; Author answers: definition of elevated blood pressure and pulse (Tierney) 6/9/04; Recognition does not assure appropriate intervention (Blum) 6/12/04; Controlling hypertension (Tierney) 6/13/04.

Caregivers

Buetow SA. Towards a new understanding of provider continuity (Reflection). 2(5):509.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386.

Carpal tunnel syndrome

Goodyear-Smith F et al. What can family physicians offer patients with carpal tunnel syndrome other than surgery? A systematic review of non-surgical management , 2(3):267.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient voice, clinical research, clustered data, and the Wonca research conference (Stange) 194; Improving health care locally and globally (Stange) 368. eLetters: Laser acupuncture and microamps TENS, controlled study and open protocol study (Naeser) 6/2/04.

Cascade analysis

Woolf SH et al. A string of mistakes: the importance of cascade analysis in describing, counting, and preventing medical errors, 2(4):317.
Editorials: In this issue: practice change and patient safety (Stange) 290; Why isn't it better? (Wasson) 292. eLetters: A closer look at errors in primary care (Fernald, et al) 8/26/2004.

Child abuse

Shapiro E. Screening for family and intimate partner violence: recommendation statement , 2(2):156.
Editorials: In this issue: research in the community and clinic (Phillips) 98; Improving health care locally and globally (Stange) 368. eLetters: Thoughts from another perspective (Elliott, et al) 4/4/04; Screening for family and intimate partner violence: a new risk factor for future analysis? (Heldring) 4/2/04; We need effectiveness research concerning family/child/intimate partner violence screening and interventions (Ferris) 5/5/2004; Health system needs effectiveness research from clinical to intersectoral interventions (Taft) 5/16/2004; Authors respond to comments on screening children for family violence: clarifying the scope of the systematic review (Nygren, et al) 6/21/04; Competing priorities (Crownover) 6/27/04.

Nygren P et al. Screening Children for Family Violence: A Review of the Evidence for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, 2(2):161.
Editorials: In this issue: research in the community and clinic (Phillips) 98. eLetters: Screening children for violence (Flaherty) 4/4/04; Looking forward in dealing with child abuse (Alexander) 4/1/04; Evidence-based screening for child abuse and family violence: experience-based caution (Sirotnak) 5/4/2004.

Child neglect

Nygren P et al. Screening Children for Family Violence: A Review of the Evidence for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, 2(2):161.
Editorials: In this issue: research in the community and clinic (Phillips) 98. eLetters: Screening children for violence (Flaherty) 4/4/04; Looking forward in dealing with child abuse (Alexander) 4/1/04; Evidence-based screening for child abuse and family violence: experience-based caution (Sirotnak) 5/4/2004.

Cholesteral

Hueston WJ et al. Subclinical hypothyroidism and the risk of hypercholesterolemia, 2(4):351.
Editorials: In this issue: practice change and patient safety (Stange) 290. eLetters: So what does a mildly elevated TSH mean? (Scherger, et al) 8/2/04; Hypothyroidism and dyslipidemia (Garrison) 8/12/2004; Reply (Hueston, et al) 8/18/2004.

Circulatory system

Mainous AG III et al. The association of race and rural residence on control of diabetes and hypertension , 2(6):563.
Editorials: In this issue: In this issue: new model finances, systematic reviews, patients and health care (Stange) 530.

Clinical pharmacy information systems

McMullin ST et al. Impact of an evidence-based computerized decision support system on primary care prescription costs, 2(5):494.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386. eLetters: Interventions for rising prescription expenditures (Fink) 10/6/04; Important attributes of a successful decision support system (McMullin) 10/7/04; Integration into workflow (Green) 10/23/04.

Clinical practice patterns

Boyle R et al. Is making smoking status a vital sign sufficient to increase cessation support actions in clinical practice? 2(1):22.
Editorials: In this issue: multimethod research (Stange) 2. eLetters: Role for quality improvement processes (Petrulis) 1/27/04; Raise the flag of relationships (Miller) 1/28/04; Smoking as a vital sign just the first step (Halperin) 3/16/04.

Borrell-Carrio F et al. The biopsychosocial model 25 years later: principles, practice, and scientific inquiry. , 2(6):576.
Editorials: In this issue: new model finances, systematic reviews, patients and health care (Stange) 530.

Clinical reasoning

Borrell-Carrio F et al. Preventing errors in clinical practice: a call for self-awareness, 2(4):310.
Editorials: In this issue: practice change and patient safety (Stange) 290. eLetters: To err is human; to be aware is preventive (Saba) 7/30/04; Response to Dr Saba's letter (Epstein, et al) 8/19/2004; First, know thyself (Pace, et al) 8/26/2004; Individuals vs systems: other issues also important (Kirkegaard) 8/28/2004; Response to Dr. Pace (Epstein, et al.) 08/31/04.

Clinical trials

Reed JA III. Adjusted Chi-square statistics: application to clustered binary data in primary care, 2(3):201.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient voice, clinical research, clustered data, and the Wonca research conference (Stange) 194; On the nature and analysis of clustered data (Zyzanski) 199. eLetters: Analysis of clustered data (Mold) 6/5/04.

Cluster analysis

Killip S et al. What is an Intracluster Correlation Coefficient? Crucial Concepts for Primary Care Researchers, 2(3):204.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient voice, clinical research, clustered data, and the Wonca research conference (Stange) 194; On the nature and analysis of clustered data (Zyzanski) 199. eLetters: GRTs: A timely and useful tool in family practice research (Kryscio, et al.) 5/27/04; More on clusters (Diamond) 09/03/04.

Cluster trials

Reed JA III. Adjusted Chi-square statistics: application to clustered binary data in primary care, 2(3):201.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient voice, clinical research, clustered data, and the Wonca research conference (Stange) 194; On the nature and analysis of clustered data (Zyzanski) 199. eLetters: Analysis of clustered data (Mold) 6/5/04.

Clustered data analysis

Zyzanski SJ et al. On the nature and analysis of clustered data (Editorial). 2(3):199.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient voice, clinical research, clustered data and the Wonca research conference (Stange) 194.

Cohort

Oeffinger KC et al. Health care of young adult survivors of childhood cancer: a report from the childhood cancer survivor study, 2(1):61.
eLetters: Further thoughts on follow-up care (Goettina) 1/28/04; Recognizing the medical needs of childhood cancer survivors (Mahoney) 1/28/04; Important discussion regarding long-term follow-up care (Ulman) 1/28/04; Providing comprehensive care to adult survivors of childhood cancer (Hobbie) 1/28/04; Young adults cured of childhood cancer: what is the "quality" of the cure? (Buchanan) 1/28/04; Healthcare utilization by childhood cancer survivos - where do we go next? (Bhatia) 1/29/04; Clinical follow-up of childhood cancer survivors (Hawkins, et al) 1/29/04; Health care of adult survivors of childhood cancer (Sklar) 1/29/04; Additional comments on the insurance question (Goettina) 1/29/04; Childhood cancer survivors and long-term follow-up care (Zebrack) 1/29/04; Systemic and psychological barriers to survivor care: comment on Oeffinger et al (Recklitis) 1/30/2004; Needed: a study of the health care of older adult survivors of childhood cancer (McIver) 1/30/04; Long-term survivors of childhood cancers need help (Highfield) 2/2/2004; Assuring care for childhood cancer survivors (Greenberg) 2/4/04; A five point plan to help survivors (Culp) 2/4/04; Are post-traumatic stress and health care utilization related? (Smith) 2/4/04; What is the correlation between increasing health concerns yet decreasing medical visits among long-term survivors of childhood cancer? (McIver) 2/7/04; Health care of young adult survivors of childhood cancer: a report from the childhood cancer survivor study (Levitt) 2/9/04; The next action steps (Weiner) 2/26/04; Follow-up care for cancer survivors: developing the evidence base (Aziz) 7/18/04.

Cohort analysis

Mainous AG III et al. The mortality risk of elevated serum transferrin saturation and consumption of dietary iron, 2(2):139.
Editorials: In this issue: research in the community and clinic (Phillips) 98. eLetters: Potential and added value of secondary data analysis (Zyzanski) 4/1/04; Question conclusion (Gilbert) 3/31/04; Iron revisited (Billings) 4/13/04; Iron and mortality (Anderson et al) 4/15/04.

Cohort studies

Mainous AG III et al. Elevated serum transferrin saturation and mortality, 2(2):133.
Editorials: In this issue: research in the community and clinic (Phillips) 98. eLetters: Tsat% and mortality (Weinberg) 4/15/04; Professional and patient perspective (Alexander) 4/15/04; Online comment (Bonkovsky, et al) 5/3/2004.

Colorectal neoplasms

Roetzheim RG et al. A randomized controlled trial to increase cancer screening among attendees of community health centers, 2(4):294.
Editorials: In this issue: practice change and patient safety (Stange) 290. eLetters: Use of Annals web resources (Dietrich) 7/31/04; Editor's response to: Re: use of Annals web resources (Stange) 7/31/04.

Communication

Peltenburg M. The unexpected in primary care: a multicenter study on the emergence of unvoiced patient agenda2(6):534.
Editorials: In this issue: new model finances, systematic reviews, patients and health care (Stange) 530.

Borrell-Carrio F et al. The biopsychosocial model 25 years later: principles, practice, and scientific inquiry. , 2(6):576.
Editorials: In this issue: new model finances, systematic reviews, patients and health care (Stange) 530.

Community health centers

Roetzheim RG et al. A randomized controlled trial to increase cancer screening among attendees of community health centers, 2(4):294.
Editorials: In this issue: practice change and patient safety (Stange) 290. eLetters: Use of Annals web resources (Dietrich) 7/31/04; Editor's response to: Re: use of Annals web resources (Stange) 7/31/04.

Community health planning

Williams RL. Motherhood, apple pie and COPC (Editorial). 2(2):100.
Editorials: In this issue: research in the community and clinic (Phillips) 98; Improving health care locally and globally (Stange) 368. eLetters: Conundrum (Farley) 4/2/04; Commentary of Dr. Williams' editorial (Kaufman) 4/3/04; Whither COPC and family medicine practice-based research? (Like) 4/11/04; When all else fails (Smith) 4/22/2004; Community-oriented public health & primary care: learning to share mom's apple pie (Strelnick) 5/12/2004; The relevance of community oriented primary care (COPC) - A comment on the editorial of Annals of Family Medicine (Gofin, et al) 6/7/04; Community-oriented primary care: more pies than just apple (Cashman) 8/12/2004.

Rocca LG et al. Management of patients with hepatitis C in a community population: diagnosis, discussions, and decisions to treat, 2(2):116.
Editorials: In this issue: research in the community and clinic (Phillips) 98. eLetters: Management of hepatitis C in a very high risk population: corrections (Bauman) 3/31/04; Repairing the holes in the HCV safety net (Sandt, et al) 3/31/04; View from a hepatologist (Herrine) 4/12/04; Physician practice patterns with ethnic minority patients and the poor (Solorio ) 4/22/2004.

Community oriented primary care

Williams RL. Motherhood, apple pie and COPC (Editorial). 2(2):100.
Editorials: In this issue: research in the community and clinic (Phillips) 98; Improving health care locally and globally (Stange) 368. eLetters: Conundrum (Farley) 4/2/04; Commentary of Dr. Williams' editorial (Kaufman) 4/3/04; Whither COPC and family medicine practice-based research? (Like) 4/11/04; When all else fails (Smith) 4/22/2004; Community-oriented public health & primary care: learning to share mom's apple pie (Strelnick) 5/12/2004; The relevance of community oriented primary care (COPC) - A comment on the editorial of Annals of Family Medicine (Gofin, et al) 6/7/04; Community-oriented primary care: more pies than just apple (Cashman) 8/12/2004.

Plescia M et al. A community oriented primary care demonstration project: refining interventions for cardiovascular disease and diabetes, 2(2):103.
Editorials: In this issue: research in the community and clinic (Phillips) 98; Motherhood, apple pie, and COPC (Williams) 100. eLetters: Structural barriers to health and the COPC model (Bettigole) 3/31/04; Rapid appraisal as a participatory approach to community oriented primary care (COPC) (Murray) 4/10/04; The strenghts and challenges of excellence in COPC (Pathman) 4/12/04.

Complementary medicine

Barrett BP et al. What complementary and alternative medicine practitioners say abouthealth and health care, 2(3):253.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient voice, clinical research, clustered data, and the Wonca research conference (Stange) 194.

Comprehensive health care

Beasley JW et al. How many problems do family physicians manage at each encounter? A WReN study, 2(5):405.
eLetters: Commentary on Beasley article (Bloom) 10/7/04; Getting paid what we are worth! (Snyder) 10/10/04; You have hit the nail on the head!!! (White, et al.) 10/10/04; From the eyes of an industrial engineering prof (Karsh) 10/13/04.

Computer communication networks

Ariza AJ et al. Evaluating computer capabilities in a primary care practice-based research network, 2(5):418.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386. eLetters: Evaluating computer capabilities: wide variation acrross practices, over time (Reider) 11/15/04.

Temte JL et al. Rapid assessment of agents of biological terrorism: defining the differential diagnosis of inhalational Anthrax using electronic communication in a practice-based research network, 2(5):434.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386. eLetters: The role of family physicians and practice-based research networks in early detection of bioterrorist agents and emerging infections (Calmbach) 10/6/04; The generalizability question (Chen) 10/10/04; Training for public health preparedness (Temte) 10/10/04.

Computers

Main DS et al. Exploring patient reactions to pen-tablet computers: a report from CaReNet, 2(5):421.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386.

Consultation

Griffin SJ et al. The effect on health related outcomes of interventions to alter the interaction between patients and practitioners: a systematic review of trials, 2(6):595.
Editorials: Continuity, care, and commitment: the course of patient-clinician relationships (Stewart) 388; In this issue: new model finances, systematic reviews, patients and health care (Stange) 530.

Continuity of care

Rastegar DA. Health care becomes an industry (Reflection). 2(1):80.
Editorials: In this issue: multimethod research (Stange) 2. eLetters: The industrialization of medicine is not new (Scherger, et al) 1/30/04; Industrialization and its discontents (Lindenauer) 2/1/04; Healthcare and natural law (Kirkhoff MF) 2/4/04; Health-care has been an industry for a longtime (Silverberg LI) 2/8/04.

Continuity of patient care

Stewart M. Continuity, care, and commitment: the course of patient-clinician relationships (Editorial). 2(5):388.

Saultz JW et al. Interpersonal continuity of care and patient satisfaction: a critical review, 2(5):445.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386; Continuity, care, and commitment: the course of patient-clinician relationships (Stewart) 388. eLetters: Continuity and patient satisfaction (Baker) 10/12/04; Continuity of care in a changing health care system (Bayliss) 10/21/04; Importance of measuring the interpersonal element of continuity (Freeman) 11/9/04; Interpersonal continuity and health system reform (Saultz) 11/12/04; Measuring interpersonal continuity (Saultz) 11/13/04.

Mainous AG III et al. Patient-physician shared experiences and value patients place on continuity of care, 2(5):452.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386; Continuity, care, and commitment: the course of patient-clinician relationships (Stewart) 388. eLetters: Continuity and the doctor-patient relationship (Scott) 10/6/04; It is really about friendship (Bagley) 10/10/04; Understanding the relationship (Love) 11/6/04.

Schers H et al. Patients' needs for contact with their GP at the time of hospital admission and other life events: a quantitative and qualitative exploration, 2(5):462.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386; Continuity, care, and commitment: the course of patient-clinician relationships (Stewart) 388. eLetters: Can we find new ways of showing commitment? (Freeman) 10/19/04; Commitment and achievability (Schers) 10/22/04.

Buetow SA. Towards a new understanding of provider continuity (Reflection). 2(5):509.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386.

Justin RG. Linking Ruth to her past (Reflection). 2(5):512.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386. eLetters: Genetics and continuity (Acheson) 10/7/04.

Contraception

Karasz AK et al. The visit before the morning after: barriers to preprescribing emergency contraception, 2(4):345.
Editorials: In this issue: practice change and patient safety (Stange) 290. eLetters: 1) Effects on sexual behavior 2) Question about postfertilization concerns (Stanford) 09/12/04; Emergency contraception (Singh) 09/12/04; EC in Russia (Sherbakova) 09/23/04; Response to all three questions/concerns (Karasz) 10/29/04.

Coronary heart disease

Fiscella K et al. Should years of schooling be used to guide treatment of coronary risk factors? 2(5):469.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386. eLetters: What a great idea! (Jaen) 10/10/04; Where do we go from here? (Diaz) 10/10/04; Contribution of risk factors to educational disparities in CHD (Fiscella, et al.) 10/12/04; Commentary on Fiscella, et al. (Lenfant) 10/15/04.

Walter FM et al. Lay understanding of familial risk of common chronic diseases: a systematic review and synthesis of qualitiative research. , 2(6):583.
Editorials: In this issue: new model finances, systematic reviews, patients and health care (Stange) 530; How do people interpret their family histories of diabetes, coronary disease, or cancer? (Acheson) 532.

Cost-benefit analysis

Hueston WJ et al. A cost-benefit analysis of testing for influenza A in high risk adults, 2(1):33.
Editorials: In this issue: multimethod research (Stange) 2. eLetters: Clinical probability of influenzae (McCormick) 1/29/04; Importance of CBA for influenza A treatment (Dressler RL) 2/8/04; Authors underestimate hospitalizations from influenza (Rothberg MB) 2/26/04.

Costs and cost analysis

Fink KS et al. Changing prescribing patterns and increasing prescription expenditures in Medicaid, 2(5):488.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386. eLetters: Improving prescribing behavior may require additional incentives (McMullin) 10/6/04; Progress since 2000 in the NC Medicaid Pharmacy Program (Dobson) 10/10/04; Re: improving prescribing behavior may require additional incentives (Gibbons) 10/12/04.

Critical incident

Mainous AG III et al. Patient-physician shared experiences and value patients place on continuity of care, 2(5):452.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386; Continuity, care, and commitment: the course of patient-clinician relationships (Stewart) 388. eLetters: Continuity and the doctor-patient relationship (Scott) 10/6/04; It is really about friendship (Bagley) 10/10/04; Understanding the relationship (Love) 11/6/04.

Data collection

Creswell JW et al. Designing a mixed methods study in primary care, 2(1):7.
Editorials: In this issue: multimethod research (Stange) 2; Mixed methods studies: a foundation for primary care research (Borkan) 4 . eLetters: A good but incomplete proposal (Solberg) 1/29/04; Framework for understanding mixed methods (Katerndahl) 1/29/04; Paving the way for multi-methods research in primary care (Curry) 1/29/04; Emergence of a significant methodology for family medicine research (Vanasse) 1/29/04; Establishing mixed methods research as family medicine rigorous framework (Smith) 2/4/04; A practical application of mixed method research (Thommasen) 2/7/04; Mix, integrate or what? Reflections on combining methods in primary care research (Elverdam) 2/9/04; Developing methods for integrating qualitative and quantitative data (Buckley) 2/16/04; Designing a mixed methods study in primary care (Albedaiwi) 3/21/04.

Main DS et al. Exploring patient reactions to pen-tablet computers: a report from CaReNet, 2(5):421.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386.

Daaleman TP et al. The spirituality index of well-being: a new instrument for health-related quality-of-life research, 2(5):499.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386. eLetters: Kudos (Silverman) 10/12/04.

Data collection, methods

Creswell JW et al. Designing a mixed methods study in primary care, 2(1):7.
Editorials: In this issue: multimethod research (Stange) 2; Mixed methods studies: a foundation for primary care research (Borkan) 4 . eLetters: A good but incomplete proposal (Solberg) 1/29/04; Framework for understanding mixed methods (Katerndahl) 1/29/04; Paving the way for multi-methods research in primary care (Curry) 1/29/04; Emergence of a significant methodology for family medicine research (Vanasse) 1/29/04; Establishing mixed methods research as family medicine rigorous framework (Smith) 2/4/04; A practical application of mixed method research (Thommasen) 2/7/04; Mix, integrate or what? Reflections on combining methods in primary care research (Elverdam) 2/9/04; Developing methods for integrating qualitative and quantitative data (Buckley) 2/16/04; Designing a mixed methods study in primary care (Albedaiwi) 3/21/04.

Data interpretation

Killip S et al. What is an Intracluster Correlation Coefficient? Crucial Concepts for Primary Care Researchers, 2(3):204.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient voice, clinical research, clustered data, and the Wonca research conference (Stange) 194; On the nature and analysis of clustered data (Zyzanski) 199. eLetters: GRTs: A timely and useful tool in family practice research (Kryscio, et al.) 5/27/04; More on clusters (Diamond) 09/03/04.

Decision support systems, clinical

McMullin ST et al. Impact of an evidence-based computerized decision support system on primary care prescription costs, 2(5):494.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386. eLetters: Interventions for rising prescription expenditures (Fink) 10/6/04; Important attributes of a successful decision support system (McMullin) 10/7/04; Integration into workflow (Green) 10/23/04.

Decision-making/education

Borrell-Carrio F et al. Preventing errors in clinical practice: a call for self-awareness, 2(4):310.
Editorials: In this issue: practice change and patient safety (Stange) 290. eLetters: To err is human; to be aware is preventive (Saba) 7/30/04; Response to Dr Saba's letter (Epstein, et al) 8/19/2004; First, know thyself (Pace, et al) 8/26/2004; Individuals vs systems: other issues also important (Kirkegaard) 8/28/2004; Response to Dr. Pace (Epstein, et al.) 08/31/04.

Delivery of health care

Oeffinger KC et al. Health care of young adult survivors of childhood cancer: a report from the childhood cancer survivor study, 2(1):61.
eLetters: Further thoughts on follow-up care (Goettina) 1/28/04; Recognizing the medical needs of childhood cancer survivors (Mahoney) 1/28/04; Important discussion regarding long-term follow-up care (Ulman) 1/28/04; Providing comprehensive care to adult survivors of childhood cancer (Hobbie) 1/28/04; Young adults cured of childhood cancer: what is the "quality" of the cure? (Buchanan) 1/28/04; Healthcare utilization by childhood cancer survivos - where do we go next? (Bhatia) 1/29/04; Clinical follow-up of childhood cancer survivors (Hawkins, et al) 1/29/04; Health care of adult survivors of childhood cancer (Sklar) 1/29/04; Additional comments on the insurance question (Goettina) 1/29/04; Childhood cancer survivors and long-term follow-up care (Zebrack) 1/29/04; Systemic and psychological barriers to survivor care: comment on Oeffinger et al (Recklitis) 1/30/2004; Needed: a study of the health care of older adult survivors of childhood cancer (McIver) 1/30/04; Long-term survivors of childhood cancers need help (Highfield) 2/2/2004; Assuring care for childhood cancer survivors (Greenberg) 2/4/04; A five point plan to help survivors (Culp) 2/4/04; Are post-traumatic stress and health care utilization related? (Smith) 2/4/04; What is the correlation between increasing health concerns yet decreasing medical visits among long-term survivors of childhood cancer? (McIver) 2/7/04; Health care of young adult survivors of childhood cancer: a report from the childhood cancer survivor study (Levitt) 2/9/04; The next action steps (Weiner) 2/26/04; Follow-up care for cancer survivors: developing the evidence base (Aziz) 7/18/04.

Elder NC et al. The identification of medical errors by family physicians during outpatient visits, 2(2):125.
Editorials: In this issue: research in the community and clinic (Phillips) 98. eLetters: Seeking to further understand "real" medication error rates in primary care (Scott-Cawiezell) 4/1/04; Errors in primary care: what's on the radar screen? (Fetters) 3/31/04; Comment on "The identification of medical errors by family physicians during outpatient visits (Galliher) 3/31/04; Physician reports, and terminology, and the notion of harm (Kuzel) 4/6/04; Just the tip of the iceberg - comment on Elder, et al (Main) 4/8/04; Response from the author (Elder) 4/24/2004; Family medicine must do better (Riley) 4/26/2004.

Beasley JW et al. How many problems do family physicians manage at each encounter? A WReN study, 2(5):405.
eLetters: Commentary on Beasley article (Bloom) 10/7/04; Getting paid what we are worth! (Snyder) 10/10/04; You have hit the nail on the head!!! (White, et al.) 10/10/04; From the eyes of an industrial engineering prof (Karsh) 10/13/04.

Pearce KA et al. How and why to study the practice content of a practice-based research network, 2(5):425.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386.

Grossberg PM et al. Brief physician advice for high-risk drinking among young adults, 2(5):474.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386.

Fink KS et al. Changing prescribing patterns and increasing prescription expenditures in Medicaid, 2(5):488.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386. eLetters: Improving prescribing behavior may require additional incentives (McMullin) 10/6/04; Progress since 2000 in the NC Medicaid Pharmacy Program (Dobson) 10/10/04; Re: improving prescribing behavior may require additional incentives (Gibbons) 10/12/04.

Buetow SA. Towards a new understanding of provider continuity (Reflection). 2(5):509.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386.

Depression

Solberg LI et al. Diabetic patients who smoke: are they different? 2(1):26.
Editorials: In this issue: multimethod research (Stange) 2. eLetters: Toward more creative and consistent doctors (Standridge) 1/28/04; Tailoring individual risk in diabetes (Peterson) 2/4/04; Giving smoking the attention it deserves (Glasgow) 2/4/04; Diabetes patients who smoke are also treated differently (Denig) 2/26/04.

Dietrich AJ et al. Going to scale: re-engineering systems for primary care treatment of depression , 2(4):301.
Editorials: In this issue: practice change and patient safety (Stange) 290. eLetters: Tipping the scale: sustaining systems for primary care treatment of depression (Pincus) 7/30/04; Strategies for sustaining systems for primary care treatment of depression (Dietrich) 7/31/04; Lessons learned from the implementation of the three component model (Korsen) 8/5/04; Questions for the RESPECT team (Nease) 8/13/2004; RESPECT as a template for other practices (Seehusen) 8/18/2004; RESPECT team response to Dr. Donald Nease (Dietrich, et al.) 09/10/04.

Gallo JJ et al. Primary care providers evaluate integrated and referral models of behavioral health care for older adults: results from a multisite effectiveness trial (PRISM-E), 2(4):305.
Editorials: In this issue: practice change and patient safety (Stange) 290. eLetters: Response to article: primary care clinicians evaluate integrated and referral models of behavioral health care for older adults: results from a multisite effectiveness trial (PRISM-E) (Baird) 7/30/04; Integrated mental health: translatability and sustainability vary by system (Aikens) 7/30/04; Implementing integrated behavioral health care in primary care (Fisher) 8/6/04; Response to Gallo et al: rural applications (McGovern, et al) 8/23/2004.

Noel PH et al. Depression and comorbid illness in elderly primary care patients: impact on multiple domains of health status and well-being, 2(6):555.
Editorials: In this issue: new model finances, systematic reviews, patients and health care (Stange) 530.

Depressive disorder

Dietrich AJ et al. Going to scale: re-engineering systems for primary care treatment of depression , 2(4):301.
Editorials: In this issue: practice change and patient safety (Stange) 290. eLetters: Tipping the scale: sustaining systems for primary care treatment of depression (Pincus) 7/30/04; Strategies for sustaining systems for primary care treatment of depression (Dietrich) 7/31/04; Lessons learned from the implementation of the three component model (Korsen) 8/5/04; Questions for the RESPECT team (Nease) 8/13/2004; RESPECT as a template for other practices (Seehusen) 8/18/2004; RESPECT team response to Dr. Donald Nease (Dietrich, et al.) 09/10/04.

Developing countries

Sparks BL et al. Research in family medicine in developing countries (). 2(3):55.
eLetters: Family medicine/vested interests (Samuhanand, et al) 6/1/04; Classic evidence based research is unrealistic for physicians practicing in sub Saharan Africa (Nighswander) 6/8/04; Mobility of people, services and goods might influence the research culture (Pavlic) 6/11/04.

Diabetes mellitus

Solberg LI et al. Diabetic patients who smoke: are they different? 2(1):26.
Editorials: In this issue: multimethod research (Stange) 2. eLetters: Toward more creative and consistent doctors (Standridge) 1/28/04; Tailoring individual risk in diabetes (Peterson) 2/4/04; Giving smoking the attention it deserves (Glasgow) 2/4/04; Diabetes patients who smoke are also treated differently (Denig) 2/26/04.

Gill JM et al. Accuracy of screening for diabetic retinopathy by family physicians, 2(3):218.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient voice, clinical research, clustered data, and the Wonca research conference (Stange) 194. eLetters: Eye exams important but often overlooked (Donahue) 5/26/04; Is this practical for everyday practice use? (Markman) 6/5/04; Agree with limited practicality of routine retinopathy screening (Gill) 6/5/04; Intervention in our non-adherent patients that may help save their sight (Koopman) 6/10/04; Ophthalmoscopic technique (Corbett Jr) 8/9/04.

Mainous AG III et al. The association of race and rural residence on control of diabetes and hypertension , 2(6):563.
Editorials: In this issue: In this issue: new model finances, systematic reviews, patients and health care (Stange) 530.

Walter FM et al. Lay understanding of familial risk of common chronic diseases: a systematic review and synthesis of qualitiative research. , 2(6):583.
Editorials: In this issue: new model finances, systematic reviews, patients and health care (Stange) 530; How do people interpret their family histories of diabetes, coronary disease, or cancer? (Acheson) 532.

Diabetic retinopathy

Gill JM et al. Accuracy of screening for diabetic retinopathy by family physicians, 2(3):218.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient voice, clinical research, clustered data, and the Wonca research conference (Stange) 194. eLetters: Eye exams important but often overlooked (Donahue) 5/26/04; Is this practical for everyday practice use? (Markman) 6/5/04; Agree with limited practicality of routine retinopathy screening (Gill) 6/5/04; Intervention in our non-adherent patients that may help save their sight (Koopman) 6/10/04; Ophthalmoscopic technique (Corbett Jr) 8/9/04.

Diagnosis, differential

Temte JL et al. Rapid assessment of agents of biological terrorism: defining the differential diagnosis of inhalational Anthrax using electronic communication in a practice-based research network, 2(5):434.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386. eLetters: The role of family physicians and practice-based research networks in early detection of bioterrorist agents and emerging infections (Calmbach) 10/6/04; The generalizability question (Chen) 10/10/04; Training for public health preparedness (Temte) 10/10/04.

Temte JL et al. The primary care differential diagnosis of inhalational Anthrax, 2(5):438.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386. eLetters: Bioterrorism: the challenge for family medicine (Reamy) 10/7/04; Basic bioterrorism response tools and connections (Temte) 10/10/04; When is it a zebra? (Frazer, et al.) 10/17/04.

Diagnostic errors

Elder NC et al. The identification of medical errors by family physicians during outpatient visits, 2(2):125.
Editorials: In this issue: research in the community and clinic (Phillips) 98. eLetters: Seeking to further understand "real" medication error rates in primary care (Scott-Cawiezell) 4/1/04; Errors in primary care: what's on the radar screen? (Fetters) 3/31/04; Comment on "The identification of medical errors by family physicians during outpatient visits (Galliher) 3/31/04; Physician reports, and terminology, and the notion of harm (Kuzel) 4/6/04; Just the tip of the iceberg - comment on Elder, et al (Main) 4/8/04; Response from the author (Elder) 4/24/2004; Family medicine must do better (Riley) 4/26/2004.

Diagnostic techniques and procedures

Hueston WJ et al. A cost-benefit analysis of testing for influenza A in high risk adults, 2(1):33.
Editorials: In this issue: multimethod research (Stange) 2. eLetters: Clinical probability of influenzae (McCormick) 1/29/04; Importance of CBA for influenza A treatment (Dressler RL) 2/8/04; Authors underestimate hospitalizations from influenza (Rothberg MB) 2/26/04.

Diagnostic techniques, cardiovascular

Tierney WM et al. Quantifying risk of adverse clinical events with one set of vital signs among primary care patients with hypertension, 2(3):209.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient voice, clinical research, clustered data, and the Wonca research conference (Stange) 194; Improving health care locally and globally (Stange) 368. eLetters: A bit of a wake-up call (Green) 6/7/04; Overcoming inertia (Tierney) 6/7/04; No more 5-day blood pressure checks, please (Crownover) 6/9/04; Author answers: definition of elevated blood pressure and pulse (Tierney) 6/9/04; Recognition does not assure appropriate intervention (Blum) 6/12/04; Controlling hypertension (Tierney) 6/13/04.

Diet

Plescia M et al. A community oriented primary care demonstration project: refining interventions for cardiovascular disease and diabetes, 2(2):103.
Editorials: In this issue: research in the community and clinic (Phillips) 98; Motherhood, apple pie, and COPC (Williams) 100. eLetters: Structural barriers to health and the COPC model (Bettigole) 3/31/04; Rapid appraisal as a participatory approach to community oriented primary care (COPC) (Murray) 4/10/04; The strenghts and challenges of excellence in COPC (Pathman) 4/12/04.

Disease classification

Bentzen N. Family medicine research: implications for Wonca (). 2(3):45.

Documentation

Beasley JW et al. How many problems do family physicians manage at each encounter? A WReN study, 2(5):405.
eLetters: Commentary on Beasley article (Bloom) 10/7/04; Getting paid what we are worth! (Snyder) 10/10/04; You have hit the nail on the head!!! (White, et al.) 10/10/04; From the eyes of an industrial engineering prof (Karsh) 10/13/04.

Domestic violence

Shapiro E. Screening for family and intimate partner violence: recommendation statement , 2(2):156.
Editorials: In this issue: research in the community and clinic (Phillips) 98; Improving health care locally and globally (Stange) 368. eLetters: Thoughts from another perspective (Elliott, et al) 4/4/04; Screening for family and intimate partner violence: a new risk factor for future analysis? (Heldring) 4/2/04; We need effectiveness research concerning family/child/intimate partner violence screening and interventions (Ferris) 5/5/2004; Health system needs effectiveness research from clinical to intersectoral interventions (Taft) 5/16/2004; Authors respond to comments on screening children for family violence: clarifying the scope of the systematic review (Nygren, et al) 6/21/04; Competing priorities (Crownover) 6/27/04.

Zink TM et al. Medical management of intimate partner violence considering the stages of change: precontemplation and contemplation, 2(3):231.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient voice, clinical research, clustered data, and the Wonca research conference (Stange) 194; Improving health care locally and globally (Stange) 368. eLetters: Routine screening for intimate partner violence - an alternative perspective (Goodyear-Smith) 5/27/04; Can doctors always tell what stage someone is in? (Flanakin) 5/27/04; Important insights from theory to research and clinical practice (Elliott) 6/1/04; The importance of relapse (Cronholm) 6/1/04; Abused women and their physicians (Miedema) 6/5/04.

Domestic violence/prevention and control

Nygren P et al. Screening Children for Family Violence: A Review of the Evidence for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, 2(2):161.
Editorials: In this issue: research in the community and clinic (Phillips) 98. eLetters: Screening children for violence (Flaherty) 4/4/04; Looking forward in dealing with child abuse (Alexander) 4/1/04; Evidence-based screening for child abuse and family violence: experience-based caution (Sirotnak) 5/4/2004.

Drinking behavior

Vinson DC et al. Comfortably engaging: which approach to alcohol screening should we use? 2(5):398.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386. eLetters: So what? It depends (Kessler) 10/14/04.

Drug therapy

Kerse N et al. Physician-patient relationship and medication compliance: a primary care investigation, 2(5):455.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386, Continuity, care and commitment: the course of patient-clinician relationships (Stewart) 388. eLetters: Data needed on patient-provider relationships and long-term adherence in chronic illness (Aikens) 10/10/04.

Drug therapy, computer assisted

McMullin ST et al. Impact of an evidence-based computerized decision support system on primary care prescription costs, 2(5):494.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386. eLetters: Interventions for rising prescription expenditures (Fink) 10/6/04; Important attributes of a successful decision support system (McMullin) 10/7/04; Integration into workflow (Green) 10/23/04.

Drug utilization

McMullin ST et al. Impact of an evidence-based computerized decision support system on primary care prescription costs, 2(5):494.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386. eLetters: Interventions for rising prescription expenditures (Fink) 10/6/04; Important attributes of a successful decision support system (McMullin) 10/7/04; Integration into workflow (Green) 10/23/04.

Economics, hospital

Phillips RL Jr et al. The Balanced Budget Act of 1997 and the financial health of teaching hospitals, 2(1):71.
Editorials: In this issue: multimethod research (Stange) 2. eLetters: The balanced budget act and program closings? (Costa) 1/28/04; Full-text supplemental appendix link not live (Zimmerman) 1/29/04.

Economics, medical

Phillips RL Jr et al. The Balanced Budget Act of 1997 and the financial health of teaching hospitals, 2(1):71.
Editorials: In this issue: multimethod research (Stange) 2. eLetters: The balanced budget act and program closings? (Costa) 1/28/04; Full-text supplemental appendix link not live (Zimmerman) 1/29/04.

Education

Borrell-Carrio F et al. The biopsychosocial model 25 years later: principles, practice, and scientific inquiry. , 2(6):576.
Editorials: In this issue: new model finances, systematic reviews, patients and health care (Stange) 530.

Education, medical graduate

Phillips RL Jr et al. The Balanced Budget Act of 1997 and the financial health of teaching hospitals, 2(1):71.
Editorials: In this issue: multimethod research (Stange) 2. eLetters: The balanced budget act and program closings? (Costa) 1/28/04; Full-text supplemental appendix link not live (Zimmerman) 1/29/04.

Education/training

Rosenblatt RA. Getting the news, 2(2):175.
Editorials: In this issue: research in the community and clinic (Phillips) 98. eLetters: Does it have to be this way? (Kohrs) 3/31/04; Treating without caring (Scott) 3/31/04.

Elder abuse

Shapiro E. Screening for family and intimate partner violence: recommendation statement , 2(2):156.
Editorials: In this issue: research in the community and clinic (Phillips) 98; Improving health care locally and globally (Stange) 368. eLetters: Thoughts from another perspective (Elliott, et al) 4/4/04; Screening for family and intimate partner violence: a new risk factor for future analysis? (Heldring) 4/2/04; We need effectiveness research concerning family/child/intimate partner violence screening and interventions (Ferris) 5/5/2004; Health system needs effectiveness research from clinical to intersectoral interventions (Taft) 5/16/2004; Authors respond to comments on screening children for family violence: clarifying the scope of the systematic review (Nygren, et al) 6/21/04; Competing priorities (Crownover) 6/27/04.

Electronic mail

Temte JL et al. Rapid assessment of agents of biological terrorism: defining the differential diagnosis of inhalational Anthrax using electronic communication in a practice-based research network, 2(5):434.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386. eLetters: The role of family physicians and practice-based research networks in early detection of bioterrorist agents and emerging infections (Calmbach) 10/6/04; The generalizability question (Chen) 10/10/04; Training for public health preparedness (Temte) 10/10/04.

Empathy

Borrell-Carrio F et al. The biopsychosocial model 25 years later: principles, practice, and scientific inquiry. , 2(6):576.
Editorials: In this issue: new model finances, systematic reviews, patients and health care (Stange) 530.

Emergency medical services

Hildebrandt DE. . Are frequent callers to physicians high utilizers?, 2(6):546.
Editorials: In this issue: new model finances, systematic reviews, patients and health care (Stange) 530.

Emergency medicine

Glazer JL. Bag of Worms , 2(6):609.
Editorials: In this issue: new model finances, systematic reviews, patients and health care (Stange) 530.

Endocrinological system/metabolism

Mainous AG III et al. The association of race and rural residence on control of diabetes and hypertension , 2(6):563.
Editorials: In this issue: In this issue: new model finances, systematic reviews, patients and health care (Stange) 530.

Epidemiologic studies

Reed JA III. Adjusted Chi-square statistics: application to clustered binary data in primary care, 2(3):201.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient voice, clinical research, clustered data, and the Wonca research conference (Stange) 194; On the nature and analysis of clustered data (Zyzanski) 199. eLetters: Analysis of clustered data (Mold) 6/5/04.

Ethnic disparities

Kinchen KS et al. Referral of patients to specialists: factors affecting choice of specialist by primary care physicians, 2(3):245.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient voice, clinical research, clustered data, and the Wonca research conference (Stange) 194.

Evidence-based medicine

Nygren P et al. Screening Children for Family Violence: A Review of the Evidence for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, 2(2):161.
Editorials: In this issue: research in the community and clinic (Phillips) 98. eLetters: Screening children for violence (Flaherty) 4/4/04; Looking forward in dealing with child abuse (Alexander) 4/1/04; Evidence-based screening for child abuse and family violence: experience-based caution (Sirotnak) 5/4/2004.

Exercise

Plescia M et al. A community oriented primary care demonstration project: refining interventions for cardiovascular disease and diabetes, 2(2):103.
Editorials: In this issue: research in the community and clinic (Phillips) 98; Motherhood, apple pie, and COPC (Williams) 100. eLetters: Structural barriers to health and the COPC model (Bettigole) 3/31/04; Rapid appraisal as a participatory approach to community oriented primary care (COPC) (Murray) 4/10/04; The strenghts and challenges of excellence in COPC (Pathman) 4/12/04.

Family doctors

Bentzen N. Family medicine research: implications for Wonca (). 2(3):45.

Family medicine

Green LA. Annals of Family Medicine is one year old: so what and who cares? (). 2(3):197.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient voice, clinical research, clustered data, and the Wonca research conference (Stange) 194. eLetters: Systematic reviews aren't research? (Ebell) 5/27/04; New things appear as old things disappear (Frey) 5/27/04; Re: systematic reviews aren't research? (Stange) 5/27/04; Happy birthday to the Annals of Family Medicine! (Stusser) 6/8/04; I care (Rodriguez-Lopez) 09/10/04.

Beasley JW et al. How many problems do family physicians manage at each encounter? A WReN study, 2(5):405.
eLetters: Commentary on Beasley article (Bloom) 10/7/04; Getting paid what we are worth! (Snyder) 10/10/04; You have hit the nail on the head!!! (White, et al.) 10/10/04; From the eyes of an industrial engineering prof (Karsh) 10/13/04.

Family medicine research

Bentzen N. Family medicine research: implications for Wonca (). 2(3):45.

Sparks BL et al. Research in family medicine in developing countries (). 2(3):55.
eLetters: Family medicine/vested interests (Samuhanand, et al) 6/1/04; Classic evidence based research is unrealistic for physicians practicing in sub Saharan Africa (Nighswander) 6/8/04; Mobility of people, services and goods might influence the research culture (Pavlic) 6/11/04.

Family planning services

Karasz AK et al. The visit before the morning after: barriers to preprescribing emergency contraception, 2(4):345.
Editorials: In this issue: practice change and patient safety (Stange) 290. eLetters: 1) Effects on sexual behavior 2) Question about postfertilization concerns (Stanford) 09/12/04; Emergency contraception (Singh) 09/12/04; EC in Russia (Sherbakova) 09/23/04; Response to all three questions/concerns (Karasz) 10/29/04.

Family practice

Herbert CP. Future of research in family medicine: where to from here? (). 2(3):60.
eLetters: Building a culture of inquiry (Johnston) 5/27/04.

Beasley JW et al. How many problems do family physicians manage at each encounter? A WReN study, 2(5):405.
eLetters: Commentary on Beasley article (Bloom) 10/7/04; Getting paid what we are worth! (Snyder) 10/10/04; You have hit the nail on the head!!! (White, et al.) 10/10/04; From the eyes of an industrial engineering prof (Karsh) 10/13/04.

Pearce KA et al. How and why to study the practice content of a practice-based research network, 2(5):425.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386.

Justin RG. Linking Ruth to her past (Reflection). 2(5):512.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386. eLetters: Genetics and continuity (Acheson) 10/7/04.

Lacy NL et al. Why we don't come: patient perceptions on no-shows, 2(5):541.
Editorials: In this issue: new model finances, systematic reviews, patients and health care (Stange) 530.

Family practice / statistics & numerical data

Pace WD et al. Seasonal variation in diagnoses and visits to family physicians, 2(5):411.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386.

Family systems

Buetow SA. Towards a new understanding of provider continuity (Reflection). 2(5):509.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386.

Feedback

Verstappen WHJM et al. Improving test ordering in primary care: the added value of a small group quality improvement strategy over classic feedback only a multicenter randomized trial. , 2(6):569.
Editorials: In this issue: new model finances, systematic reviews, patients and health care (Stange) 530.

Genetics

Gramling R et al. Family physician self-efficacy with screening for an inherited risk of cancer, 2(2):130.
Editorials: In this issue: research in the community and clinic (Phillips) 98. eLetters: Family physicians and the "new" genetics (Carroll) 4/7/04; Teachable moment for genetics in family medicine (David) 4/12/04; Family history in practice (Ewigman) 4/19/04.

Geriatrics

Daaleman TP et al. Religion, spirituality, and health status in geriatric outpatients, 2(1):49.
Editorials: In this issue: multimethod research (Stange) 2. eLetters: Response to Daaleman and colleagues' article (King) 1/28/04; Full-text link to supplemental appendix not live (Zimmerman) 1/29/04; Re: response to Daaleman and colleagues' article (Hummel LM, et al) 2/16/04; Epistemological issues in measuring spirituality (Moberg) 3/16/04; Author response (Daaleman) 3/30/04.

Harms

Kuzel AJ et al. Patient reports of preventable problems and harms in primary health care, 2(4):333.
Editorials: In this issue: practice change and patient safety (Stange) 290; Why isn't it better? (Wasson) 292. eLetters: Response to "Patient reports of preventable problems and harms in primary health care" (LaBozetta) 7/30/04; Patient advocacy and medical errors (Kuzel) 7/31/04.

Health behavior

Walter FM et al. Lay understanding of familial risk of common chronic diseases: a systematic review and synthesis of qualitiative research. , 2(6):583.
Editorials: In this issue: new model finances, systematic reviews, patients and health care (Stange) 530; How do people interpret their family histories of diabetes, coronary disease, or cancer? (Acheson) 532.

Health care delivery

Rosenblatt RA. Getting the news, 2(2):175.
Editorials: In this issue: research in the community and clinic (Phillips) 98. eLetters: Does it have to be this way? (Kohrs) 3/31/04; Treating without caring (Scott) 3/31/04.

Health care providers

Buetow SA. Towards a new understanding of provider continuity (Reflection). 2(5):509.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386.

Health care seeking behavior

McKee MD et al. Health care seeking among urban minority adolescent girls: the crisis at sexual debut, 2(6):40.
Editorials: In this issue: new model finances, systematic reviews, patients and health care (Stange) 530.

Health care surveys

Jerant AF et al. Age-related disparities in cancer screening: analysis of 2001 behavioral risk factor surveillance system data, 2(5):481.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386. eLetters: Is ageism a factor in cancer screening? (Ahmed, et al.) 10/10/04.

Health expenditures

Fink KS et al. Changing prescribing patterns and increasing prescription expenditures in Medicaid, 2(5):488.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386. eLetters: Improving prescribing behavior may require additional incentives (McMullin) 10/6/04; Progress since 2000 in the NC Medicaid Pharmacy Program (Dobson) 10/10/04; Re: improving prescribing behavior may require additional incentives (Gibbons) 10/12/04.

Health knowledge, attitudes, practice

Gallo JJ et al. Primary care providers evaluate integrated and referral models of behavioral health care for older adults: results from a multisite effectiveness trial (PRISM-E), 2(4):305.
Editorials: In this issue: practice change and patient safety (Stange) 290. eLetters: Response to article: primary care clinicians evaluate integrated and referral models of behavioral health care for older adults: results from a multisite effectiveness trial (PRISM-E) (Baird) 7/30/04; Integrated mental health: translatability and sustainability vary by system (Aikens) 7/30/04; Implementing integrated behavioral health care in primary care (Fisher) 8/6/04; Response to Gallo et al: rural applications (McGovern, et al) 8/23/2004.

Karasz AK et al. The visit before the morning after: barriers to preprescribing emergency contraception, 2(4):345.
Editorials: In this issue: practice change and patient safety (Stange) 290. eLetters: 1) Effects on sexual behavior 2) Question about postfertilization concerns (Stanford) 09/12/04; Emergency contraception (Singh) 09/12/04; EC in Russia (Sherbakova) 09/23/04; Response to all three questions/concerns (Karasz) 10/29/04.

Health maintenance organizations

Solberg LI et al. Diabetic patients who smoke: are they different? 2(1):26.
Editorials: In this issue: multimethod research (Stange) 2. eLetters: Toward more creative and consistent doctors (Standridge) 1/28/04; Tailoring individual risk in diabetes (Peterson) 2/4/04; Giving smoking the attention it deserves (Glasgow) 2/4/04; Diabetes patients who smoke are also treated differently (Denig) 2/26/04.

Health policy

Green LA. Annals of Family Medicine is one year old: so what and who cares? (). 2(3):197.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient voice, clinical research, clustered data, and the Wonca research conference (Stange) 194. eLetters: Systematic reviews aren't research? (Ebell) 5/27/04; New things appear as old things disappear (Frey) 5/27/04; Re: systematic reviews aren't research? (Stange) 5/27/04; Happy birthday to the Annals of Family Medicine! (Stusser) 6/8/04; I care (Rodriguez-Lopez) 09/10/04.

Health services

Hildebrandt DE. . Are frequent callers to physicians high utilizers?, 2(6):546.
Editorials: In this issue: new model finances, systematic reviews, patients and health care (Stange) 530.

Health services accessibility

Jerant AF et al. Age-related disparities in cancer screening: analysis of 2001 behavioral risk factor surveillance system data, 2(5):481.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386. eLetters: Is ageism a factor in cancer screening? (Ahmed, et al.) 10/10/04.

Health services for the aged

Gallo JJ et al. Primary care providers evaluate integrated and referral models of behavioral health care for older adults: results from a multisite effectiveness trial (PRISM-E), 2(4):305.
Editorials: In this issue: practice change and patient safety (Stange) 290. eLetters: Response to article: primary care clinicians evaluate integrated and referral models of behavioral health care for older adults: results from a multisite effectiveness trial (PRISM-E) (Baird) 7/30/04; Integrated mental health: translatability and sustainability vary by system (Aikens) 7/30/04; Implementing integrated behavioral health care in primary care (Fisher) 8/6/04; Response to Gallo et al: rural applications (McGovern, et al) 8/23/2004.

Jerant AF et al. Age-related disparities in cancer screening: analysis of 2001 behavioral risk factor surveillance system data, 2(5):481.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386. eLetters: Is ageism a factor in cancer screening? (Ahmed, et al.) 10/10/04.

Health services research

Elder NC et al. The identification of medical errors by family physicians during outpatient visits, 2(2):125.
Editorials: In this issue: research in the community and clinic (Phillips) 98. eLetters: Seeking to further understand "real" medication error rates in primary care (Scott-Cawiezell) 4/1/04; Errors in primary care: what's on the radar screen? (Fetters) 3/31/04; Comment on "The identification of medical errors by family physicians during outpatient visits (Galliher) 3/31/04; Physician reports, and terminology, and the notion of harm (Kuzel) 4/6/04; Just the tip of the iceberg - comment on Elder, et al (Main) 4/8/04; Response from the author (Elder) 4/24/2004; Family medicine must do better (Riley) 4/26/2004.

Rosenblatt RA. Getting the news, 2(2):175.
Editorials: In this issue: research in the community and clinic (Phillips) 98. eLetters: Does it have to be this way? (Kohrs) 3/31/04; Treating without caring (Scott) 3/31/04.

Grossberg PM et al. Brief physician advice for high-risk drinking among young adults, 2(5):474.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386.

Fink KS et al. Changing prescribing patterns and increasing prescription expenditures in Medicaid, 2(5):488.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386. eLetters: Improving prescribing behavior may require additional incentives (McMullin) 10/6/04; Progress since 2000 in the NC Medicaid Pharmacy Program (Dobson) 10/10/04; Re: improving prescribing behavior may require additional incentives (Gibbons) 10/12/04.

Buetow SA. Towards a new understanding of provider continuity (Reflection). 2(5):509.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386.

Health services research, program evaluation

Dietrich AJ et al. Going to scale: re-engineering systems for primary care treatment of depression , 2(4):301.
Editorials: In this issue: practice change and patient safety (Stange) 290. eLetters: Tipping the scale: sustaining systems for primary care treatment of depression (Pincus) 7/30/04; Strategies for sustaining systems for primary care treatment of depression (Dietrich) 7/31/04; Lessons learned from the implementation of the three component model (Korsen) 8/5/04; Questions for the RESPECT team (Nease) 8/13/2004; RESPECT as a template for other practices (Seehusen) 8/18/2004; RESPECT team response to Dr. Donald Nease (Dietrich, et al.) 09/10/04.

Health status

Daaleman TP et al. Religion, spirituality, and health status in geriatric outpatients, 2(1):49.
Editorials: In this issue: multimethod research (Stange) 2. eLetters: Response to Daaleman and colleagues' article (King) 1/28/04; Full-text link to supplemental appendix not live (Zimmerman) 1/29/04; Re: response to Daaleman and colleagues' article (Hummel LM, et al) 2/16/04; Epistemological issues in measuring spirituality (Moberg) 3/16/04; Author response (Daaleman) 3/30/04.

Noel PH et al. Depression and comorbid illness in elderly primary care patients: impact on multiple domains of health status and well-being, 2(6):555.
Editorials: In this issue: new model finances, systematic reviews, patients and health care (Stange) 530.

Hemochromatosis

Mainous AG III et al. Elevated serum transferrin saturation and mortality, 2(2):133.
Editorials: In this issue: research in the community and clinic (Phillips) 98. eLetters: Tsat% and mortality (Weinberg) 4/15/04; Professional and patient perspective (Alexander) 4/15/04; Online comment (Bonkovsky, et al) 5/3/2004.

Hepatitis C, chronic

Rocca LG et al. Management of patients with hepatitis C in a community population: diagnosis, discussions, and decisions to treat, 2(2):116.
Editorials: In this issue: research in the community and clinic (Phillips) 98. eLetters: Management of hepatitis C in a very high risk population: corrections (Bauman) 3/31/04; Repairing the holes in the HCV safety net (Sandt, et al) 3/31/04; View from a hepatologist (Herrine) 4/12/04; Physician practice patterns with ethnic minority patients and the poor (Solorio ) 4/22/2004.

Heredity

Walter FM et al. Lay understanding of familial risk of common chronic diseases: a systematic review and synthesis of qualitiative research. , 2(6):583.
Editorials: In this issue: new model finances, systematic reviews, patients and health care (Stange) 530; How do people interpret their family histories of diabetes, coronary disease, or cancer? (Acheson) 532.

Home visits

Schers H et al. Patients' needs for contact with their GP at the time of hospital admission and other life events: a quantitative and qualitative exploration, 2(5):462.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386; Continuity, care, and commitment: the course of patient-clinician relationships (Stewart) 388. eLetters: Can we find new ways of showing commitment? (Freeman) 10/19/04; Commitment and achievability (Schers) 10/22/04.

Hot flashes/epidemiology

Mold JW et al. Prevalence and predictors of night sweats, day sweats, and hot flashes in older primary care patients: an OKPRN study, 2(5):391.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386. eLetters: OKPRN study (Silverberg) 10/25/04; Underlying panic disorder? (Katerndahl, et al.) 10/29/04; Authors respond to comments on panic attacks as cause of hot flashes (Mold) 11/1/04.

House calls

Jerant AF et al. The TLC model of palliative care in the elderly: prelminary application in assisted living, 2(1):54.
Editorials: In this issue: multimethod research (Stange) 2. eLetters: Improving palliative care for the elderly: moving a model forward (Hauser) 2/2/04; Will better assessment enhance end-of-life care? (Mehr) 2/24/04; One small step toward a comprehensive approach to palliative care in the elderly (Jerant) 3/2/04.

Hypertension

Tierney WM et al. Quantifying risk of adverse clinical events with one set of vital signs among primary care patients with hypertension, 2(3):209.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient voice, clinical research, clustered data, and the Wonca research conference (Stange) 194; Improving health care locally and globally (Stange) 368. eLetters: A bit of a wake-up call (Green) 6/7/04; Overcoming inertia (Tierney) 6/7/04; No more 5-day blood pressure checks, please (Crownover) 6/9/04; Author answers: definition of elevated blood pressure and pulse (Tierney) 6/9/04; Recognition does not assure appropriate intervention (Blum) 6/12/04; Controlling hypertension (Tierney) 6/13/04.

Mainous AG III et al. The association of race and rural residence on control of diabetes and hypertension , 2(6):563.
Editorials: In this issue: In this issue: new model finances, systematic reviews, patients and health care (Stange) 530.

Hypothyroidism

Hueston WJ et al. Subclinical hypothyroidism and the risk of hypercholesterolemia, 2(4):351.
Editorials: In this issue: practice change and patient safety (Stange) 290. eLetters: So what does a mildly elevated TSH mean? (Scherger, et al) 8/2/04; Hypothyroidism and dyslipidemia (Garrison) 8/12/2004; Reply (Hueston, et al) 8/18/2004.

Immunizations/in infancy and childhood

Shillaci MA et al. Immunization coverage and Medicaid managed care in New Mexico: a multi-method assessment, 2(1):13.
Editorials: In this issue: multimethod research (Stange) 2; Mixed methods studies: a foundation for primary care research (Borkan) 4 ; Improving health care locally and globally (Stange) 368. eLetters: Improving immunization rates in Medicaid managed care (Bocchini) 1/30/04; Outcomes of Medicaid managed care (Hambidge, et al) 2/7/04; Comment on "Immunization coverage and Medicaid managed care in New Mexico: A multimethod assessment" by Shillaci, et al (Smith) 3/5/04; Declining immunization coverage and Medicaid managed care in New Mexico: response to comments (Shillaci) 5/19/04.

In-depth interviews

Barrett BP et al. What complementary and alternative medicine practitioners say abouthealth and health care, 2(3):253.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient voice, clinical research, clustered data, and the Wonca research conference (Stange) 194.

Incident reporting

Fernald DH et al. Event reporting to a primary care patient safety reporting system: a report from the ASIPS collaborative (). 2(4):327.
Editorials: In this issue: practice change and patient safety (Stange) 290; Why isn't it better? (Wasson) 292. eLetters: Importance of clarifying purpose of error reports (Elder) 8/4/04; The submission of confidential error reports (Graham) 8/4/04.

Infant low birth weight

Keeley RD et al. Parental attitudes about a pregnancy predict birthweight in a low-income population, 2(2):145.
Editorials: In this issue: research in the community and clinic (Phillips) 98. eLetters: An intriguing idea (French) 4/8/04.

Influenza

Hueston WJ et al. A cost-benefit analysis of testing for influenza A in high risk adults, 2(1):33.
Editorials: In this issue: multimethod research (Stange) 2. eLetters: Clinical probability of influenzae (McCormick) 1/29/04; Importance of CBA for influenza A treatment (Dressler RL) 2/8/04; Authors underestimate hospitalizations from influenza (Rothberg MB) 2/26/04.

Information dissemination

Dietrich AJ et al. Going to scale: re-engineering systems for primary care treatment of depression , 2(4):301.
Editorials: In this issue: practice change and patient safety (Stange) 290. eLetters: Tipping the scale: sustaining systems for primary care treatment of depression (Pincus) 7/30/04; Strategies for sustaining systems for primary care treatment of depression (Dietrich) 7/31/04; Lessons learned from the implementation of the three component model (Korsen) 8/5/04; Questions for the RESPECT team (Nease) 8/13/2004; RESPECT as a template for other practices (Seehusen) 8/18/2004; RESPECT team response to Dr. Donald Nease (Dietrich, et al.) 09/10/04.

Injury or violence

Zink TM et al. Medical management of intimate partner violence considering the stages of change: precontemplation and contemplation, 2(3):231.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient voice, clinical research, clustered data, and the Wonca research conference (Stange) 194; Improving health care locally and globally (Stange) 368. eLetters: Routine screening for intimate partner violence - an alternative perspective (Goodyear-Smith) 5/27/04; Can doctors always tell what stage someone is in? (Flanakin) 5/27/04; Important insights from theory to research and clinical practice (Elliott) 6/1/04; The importance of relapse (Cronholm) 6/1/04; Abused women and their physicians (Miedema) 6/5/04.

Integrated health care

Barrett BP et al. What complementary and alternative medicine practitioners say abouthealth and health care, 2(3):253.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient voice, clinical research, clustered data, and the Wonca research conference (Stange) 194.

Internal-external control

Plescia M et al. A community oriented primary care demonstration project: refining interventions for cardiovascular disease and diabetes, 2(2):103.
Editorials: In this issue: research in the community and clinic (Phillips) 98; Motherhood, apple pie, and COPC (Williams) 100. eLetters: Structural barriers to health and the COPC model (Bettigole) 3/31/04; Rapid appraisal as a participatory approach to community oriented primary care (COPC) (Murray) 4/10/04; The strenghts and challenges of excellence in COPC (Pathman) 4/12/04.

Walter FM et al. Lay understanding of familial risk of common chronic diseases: a systematic review and synthesis of qualitiative research. , 2(6):583.
Editorials: In this issue: new model finances, systematic reviews, patients and health care (Stange) 530; How do people interpret their family histories of diabetes, coronary disease, or cancer? (Acheson) 532.

International classification of primary care - ICPC

Bentzen N. Family medicine research: implications for Wonca (). 2(3):45.

International cooperation

Green LA et al. Opportunities, challenges, and lessons of international research in practice-based research networks: the case of an international study of acute otitis media, 2(5):429.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386. eLetters: Not for the faint hearted (Macaulay) 10/14/04; Lessons for international collaboration on research (Graffy) 10/22/04; From joint frustrations to shared perspectives: building on the experience of the international otitis media study (van Weel) 10/29/04; Authors respond to comments: if there were another Wonca research conference... (Green) 11/2/04.

International research

Green LA et al. Opportunities, challenges, and lessons of international research in practice-based research networks: the case of an international study of acute otitis media, 2(5):429.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386. eLetters: Not for the faint hearted (Macaulay) 10/14/04; Lessons for international collaboration on research (Graffy) 10/22/04; From joint frustrations to shared perspectives: building on the experience of the international otitis media study (van Weel) 10/29/04; Authors respond to comments: if there were another Wonca research conference... (Green) 11/2/04.

Internship and residency

Glazer JL. Bag of Worms , 2(6):609.
Editorials: In this issue: new model finances, systematic reviews, patients and health care (Stange) 530.

Intervention research

Zayas LH et al. Adapting psychosocial intervention research to urban primary care environments: a case example, 2(5):504.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386. eLetters: Funding agencies and patient-subjects disagree about the nature of mental health problems and solutions (Aikens) 10/10/04; Reply to Aiken's letter (Zayas) 10/18/04; Who owns the problem and the solution? (Mauksch) 11/04/04.

Intraclass correlation

Zyzanski SJ et al. On the nature and analysis of clustered data (Editorial). 2(3):199.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient voice, clinical research, clustered data and the Wonca research conference (Stange) 194.

Investigative techniques

Creswell JW et al. Designing a mixed methods study in primary care, 2(1):7.
Editorials: In this issue: multimethod research (Stange) 2; Mixed methods studies: a foundation for primary care research (Borkan) 4 . eLetters: A good but incomplete proposal (Solberg) 1/29/04; Framework for understanding mixed methods (Katerndahl) 1/29/04; Paving the way for multi-methods research in primary care (Curry) 1/29/04; Emergence of a significant methodology for family medicine research (Vanasse) 1/29/04; Establishing mixed methods research as family medicine rigorous framework (Smith) 2/4/04; A practical application of mixed method research (Thommasen) 2/7/04; Mix, integrate or what? Reflections on combining methods in primary care research (Elverdam) 2/9/04; Developing methods for integrating qualitative and quantitative data (Buckley) 2/16/04; Designing a mixed methods study in primary care (Albedaiwi) 3/21/04.

Iron overload

Mainous AG III et al. Elevated serum transferrin saturation and mortality, 2(2):133.
Editorials: In this issue: research in the community and clinic (Phillips) 98. eLetters: Tsat% and mortality (Weinberg) 4/15/04; Professional and patient perspective (Alexander) 4/15/04; Online comment (Bonkovsky, et al) 5/3/2004.

Irrigation

Eisner B et al. A randomized clinical trial of the effect of intra-operative saline perfusion on post-vasectomy azoospermia, 2(3):221.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient voice, clinical research, clustered data, and the Wonca research conference (Stange) 194 .

Job satisfaction

Gask L. Powerlessness, control and complexity: The experience of family physicians in a group model HMO, 2(2):150.
Editorials: In this issue: research in the community and clinic (Phillips) 98. eLetters: Local vs central control: one issue that might influence powerlessness (Baird) 3/31/04; Family physician morale in practice-- large groups (Scherger) 4/1/04; Changing the identity of family medicine (Sibbald) 4/7/04; Powerlessness, frustration, and control -- so now what do we do? (Price) 4/11/04.

Knowledge, attitudes, practices

Santibanez TA et al. Physician attitudes and beliefs associated with patient pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccination status, 2(1):41.
Editorials: In this issue: multimethod research (Stange) 2. eLetters: Further study of disparities needed (Costa) 1/28/04; Next step: overcoming barriers (Fink) 1/29/04; Author beliefs (Johnston) 4/26/2004 .

Life change events

Schers H et al. Patients' needs for contact with their GP at the time of hospital admission and other life events: a quantitative and qualitative exploration, 2(5):462.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386; Continuity, care, and commitment: the course of patient-clinician relationships (Stewart) 388. eLetters: Can we find new ways of showing commitment? (Freeman) 10/19/04; Commitment and achievability (Schers) 10/22/04.

Logistic models

Pace WD et al. Seasonal variation in diagnoses and visits to family physicians, 2(5):411.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386.

Lyme disease

Ramsey AH et al. Use and appropriateness of Lyme disease serologic testing, 2(4):341.
Editorials: In this issue: practice change and patient safety (Stange) 290. eLetters: Appropriateness of Lyme disease testing: an appropriate analysis? (Stricker, et al) 8/4/04; Now if doctors would just order the right tests (Mervine) 8/18/2004; Appropriateness of Lyme diseases testing: an appropriate analysis? (Stricker et al) 8/18/2004; The authors respond (Ramsey, et al.) 08/31/04.

Mammography

Roetzheim RG et al. A randomized controlled trial to increase cancer screening among attendees of community health centers, 2(4):294.
Editorials: In this issue: practice change and patient safety (Stange) 290. eLetters: Use of Annals web resources (Dietrich) 7/31/04; Editor's response to: Re: use of Annals web resources (Stange) 7/31/04.

Managed care programs

Shillaci MA et al. Immunization coverage and Medicaid managed care in New Mexico: a multi-method assessment, 2(1):13.
Editorials: In this issue: multimethod research (Stange) 2; Mixed methods studies: a foundation for primary care research (Borkan) 4 ; Improving health care locally and globally (Stange) 368. eLetters: Improving immunization rates in Medicaid managed care (Bocchini) 1/30/04; Outcomes of Medicaid managed care (Hambidge, et al) 2/7/04; Comment on "Immunization coverage and Medicaid managed care in New Mexico: A multimethod assessment" by Shillaci, et al (Smith) 3/5/04; Declining immunization coverage and Medicaid managed care in New Mexico: response to comments (Shillaci) 5/19/04.

Mass screening

US Preventive Services Task Force . Screening for ovarian cancer: recommendation statement, 2(3):260.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient voice, clinical research, clustered data, and the Wonca research conference (Stange) 194. eLetters: Ovarian cancer screening (Quinn) 5/27/04; Ovarian cancer symptoms (Whitaker) 6/29/04; CA 125 vs PSA (Patrick) 6/29/04; The patient's point of view! (Pracht) 6/30/04; U.S. Preventive Services Task Force response to letters about the recommendation on ovarian cancer screening (Calonge, et al.) 09/14/04.

US Preventive Services Task Force . Screening for visual impairment in children younger than age 5 years: recommendation statement , 2(3):263.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient voice, clinical research, clustered data, and the Wonca research conference (Stange) 194.

Roetzheim RG et al. A randomized controlled trial to increase cancer screening among attendees of community health centers, 2(4):294.
Editorials: In this issue: practice change and patient safety (Stange) 290. eLetters: Use of Annals web resources (Dietrich) 7/31/04; Editor's response to: Re: use of Annals web resources (Stange) 7/31/04.

Hueston WJ et al. Subclinical hypothyroidism and the risk of hypercholesterolemia, 2(4):351.
Editorials: In this issue: practice change and patient safety (Stange) 290. eLetters: So what does a mildly elevated TSH mean? (Scherger, et al) 8/2/04; Hypothyroidism and dyslipidemia (Garrison) 8/12/2004; Reply (Hueston, et al) 8/18/2004.

US Preventive Services Task Force . Screening for Syphilis infection: recommendation statement, 2(4):362.
Editorials: In this issue: practice change and patient safety (Stange) 290. eLetters: A step in the right direction (Kennard) 8/4/04; New news or is it? (Graves, et al) 8/13/2004; Syphilis screening in men who have sex with men (Knight) 8/14/2004; A step in the right direction (Kennard) 8/18/2004; When will common sense prevail (Kelber) 8/18/2004; Screening for syphilis infection: caveat for HIV-infected patients (Goldschmidt) 09/26/04.

Vinson DC et al. Comfortably engaging: which approach to alcohol screening should we use? 2(5):398.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386. eLetters: So what? It depends (Kessler) 10/14/04.

Jerant AF et al. Age-related disparities in cancer screening: analysis of 2001 behavioral risk factor surveillance system data, 2(5):481.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386. eLetters: Is ageism a factor in cancer screening? (Ahmed, et al.) 10/10/04.

Maternal-fetal relations

Keeley RD et al. Parental attitudes about a pregnancy predict birthweight in a low-income population, 2(2):145.
Editorials: In this issue: research in the community and clinic (Phillips) 98. eLetters: An intriguing idea (French) 4/8/04.

Measurement

Daaleman TP et al. The spirituality index of well-being: a new instrument for health-related quality-of-life research, 2(5):499.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386. eLetters: Kudos (Silverman) 10/12/04.

Medicaid

Shillaci MA et al. Immunization coverage and Medicaid managed care in New Mexico: a multi-method assessment, 2(1):13.
Editorials: In this issue: multimethod research (Stange) 2; Mixed methods studies: a foundation for primary care research (Borkan) 4 ; Improving health care locally and globally (Stange) 368. eLetters: Improving immunization rates in Medicaid managed care (Bocchini) 1/30/04; Outcomes of Medicaid managed care (Hambidge, et al) 2/7/04; Comment on "Immunization coverage and Medicaid managed care in New Mexico: A multimethod assessment" by Shillaci, et al (Smith) 3/5/04; Declining immunization coverage and Medicaid managed care in New Mexico: response to comments (Shillaci) 5/19/04.

Fink KS et al. Changing prescribing patterns and increasing prescription expenditures in Medicaid, 2(5):488.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386. eLetters: Improving prescribing behavior may require additional incentives (McMullin) 10/6/04; Progress since 2000 in the NC Medicaid Pharmacy Program (Dobson) 10/10/04; Re: improving prescribing behavior may require additional incentives (Gibbons) 10/12/04.

Medical decision making, computer assisted

McMullin ST et al. Impact of an evidence-based computerized decision support system on primary care prescription costs, 2(5):494.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386. eLetters: Interventions for rising prescription expenditures (Fink) 10/6/04; Important attributes of a successful decision support system (McMullin) 10/7/04; Integration into workflow (Green) 10/23/04.

Medical errors

Elder NC et al. The identification of medical errors by family physicians during outpatient visits, 2(2):125.
Editorials: In this issue: research in the community and clinic (Phillips) 98. eLetters: Seeking to further understand "real" medication error rates in primary care (Scott-Cawiezell) 4/1/04; Errors in primary care: what's on the radar screen? (Fetters) 3/31/04; Comment on "The identification of medical errors by family physicians during outpatient visits (Galliher) 3/31/04; Physician reports, and terminology, and the notion of harm (Kuzel) 4/6/04; Just the tip of the iceberg - comment on Elder, et al (Main) 4/8/04; Response from the author (Elder) 4/24/2004; Family medicine must do better (Riley) 4/26/2004.

Borrell-Carrio F et al. Preventing errors in clinical practice: a call for self-awareness, 2(4):310.
Editorials: In this issue: practice change and patient safety (Stange) 290. eLetters: To err is human; to be aware is preventive (Saba) 7/30/04; Response to Dr Saba's letter (Epstein, et al) 8/19/2004; First, know thyself (Pace, et al) 8/26/2004; Individuals vs systems: other issues also important (Kirkegaard) 8/28/2004; Response to Dr. Pace (Epstein, et al.) 08/31/04.

Woolf SH et al. A string of mistakes: the importance of cascade analysis in describing, counting, and preventing medical errors, 2(4):317.
Editorials: In this issue: practice change and patient safety (Stange) 290; Why isn't it better? (Wasson) 292. eLetters: A closer look at errors in primary care (Fernald, et al) 8/26/2004.

Fernald DH et al. Event reporting to a primary care patient safety reporting system: a report from the ASIPS collaborative (). 2(4):327.
Editorials: In this issue: practice change and patient safety (Stange) 290; Why isn't it better? (Wasson) 292. eLetters: Importance of clarifying purpose of error reports (Elder) 8/4/04; The submission of confidential error reports (Graham) 8/4/04.

Kuzel AJ et al. Patient reports of preventable problems and harms in primary health care, 2(4):333.
Editorials: In this issue: practice change and patient safety (Stange) 290; Why isn't it better? (Wasson) 292. eLetters: Response to "Patient reports of preventable problems and harms in primary health care" (LaBozetta) 7/30/04; Patient advocacy and medical errors (Kuzel) 7/31/04.

Medical history taking

Gramling R et al. Family physician self-efficacy with screening for an inherited risk of cancer, 2(2):130.
Editorials: In this issue: research in the community and clinic (Phillips) 98. eLetters: Family physicians and the "new" genetics (Carroll) 4/7/04; Teachable moment for genetics in family medicine (David) 4/12/04; Family history in practice (Ewigman) 4/19/04.

Medical informatics applications

McMullin ST et al. Impact of an evidence-based computerized decision support system on primary care prescription costs, 2(5):494.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386. eLetters: Interventions for rising prescription expenditures (Fink) 10/6/04; Important attributes of a successful decision support system (McMullin) 10/7/04; Integration into workflow (Green) 10/23/04.

Medical mistakes

Borrell-Carrio F et al. Preventing errors in clinical practice: a call for self-awareness, 2(4):310.
Editorials: In this issue: practice change and patient safety (Stange) 290. eLetters: To err is human; to be aware is preventive (Saba) 7/30/04; Response to Dr Saba's letter (Epstein, et al) 8/19/2004; First, know thyself (Pace, et al) 8/26/2004; Individuals vs systems: other issues also important (Kirkegaard) 8/28/2004; Response to Dr. Pace (Epstein, et al.) 08/31/04.

Medical publishing

Green LA. Annals of Family Medicine is one year old: so what and who cares? (). 2(3):197.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient voice, clinical research, clustered data, and the Wonca research conference (Stange) 194. eLetters: Systematic reviews aren't research? (Ebell) 5/27/04; New things appear as old things disappear (Frey) 5/27/04; Re: systematic reviews aren't research? (Stange) 5/27/04; Happy birthday to the Annals of Family Medicine! (Stusser) 6/8/04; I care (Rodriguez-Lopez) 09/10/04.

Medical records systems, computerized

McMullin ST et al. Impact of an evidence-based computerized decision support system on primary care prescription costs, 2(5):494.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386. eLetters: Interventions for rising prescription expenditures (Fink) 10/6/04; Important attributes of a successful decision support system (McMullin) 10/7/04; Integration into workflow (Green) 10/23/04.

Medical writing

Green LA. Annals of Family Medicine is one year old: so what and who cares? (). 2(3):197.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient voice, clinical research, clustered data, and the Wonca research conference (Stange) 194. eLetters: Systematic reviews aren't research? (Ebell) 5/27/04; New things appear as old things disappear (Frey) 5/27/04; Re: systematic reviews aren't research? (Stange) 5/27/04; Happy birthday to the Annals of Family Medicine! (Stusser) 6/8/04; I care (Rodriguez-Lopez) 09/10/04.

Medically underserved areas

Mainous AG III et al. The association of race and rural residence on control of diabetes and hypertension , 2(6):563.
Editorials: In this issue: In this issue: new model finances, systematic reviews, patients and health care (Stange) 530.

Medicare

Phillips RL Jr et al. The Balanced Budget Act of 1997 and the financial health of teaching hospitals, 2(1):71.
Editorials: In this issue: multimethod research (Stange) 2. eLetters: The balanced budget act and program closings? (Costa) 1/28/04; Full-text supplemental appendix link not live (Zimmerman) 1/29/04.

Medicare payment advisory committee

Phillips RL Jr et al. The Balanced Budget Act of 1997 and the financial health of teaching hospitals, 2(1):71.
Editorials: In this issue: multimethod research (Stange) 2. eLetters: The balanced budget act and program closings? (Costa) 1/28/04; Full-text supplemental appendix link not live (Zimmerman) 1/29/04.

Medication errors

Elder NC et al. The identification of medical errors by family physicians during outpatient visits, 2(2):125.
Editorials: In this issue: research in the community and clinic (Phillips) 98. eLetters: Seeking to further understand "real" medication error rates in primary care (Scott-Cawiezell) 4/1/04; Errors in primary care: what's on the radar screen? (Fetters) 3/31/04; Comment on "The identification of medical errors by family physicians during outpatient visits (Galliher) 3/31/04; Physician reports, and terminology, and the notion of harm (Kuzel) 4/6/04; Just the tip of the iceberg - comment on Elder, et al (Main) 4/8/04; Response from the author (Elder) 4/24/2004; Family medicine must do better (Riley) 4/26/2004.

Woolf SH et al. A string of mistakes: the importance of cascade analysis in describing, counting, and preventing medical errors, 2(4):317.
Editorials: In this issue: practice change and patient safety (Stange) 290; Why isn't it better? (Wasson) 292. eLetters: A closer look at errors in primary care (Fernald, et al) 8/26/2004.

Mental health

Zayas LH et al. Adapting psychosocial intervention research to urban primary care environments: a case example, 2(5):504.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386. eLetters: Funding agencies and patient-subjects disagree about the nature of mental health problems and solutions (Aikens) 10/10/04; Reply to Aiken's letter (Zayas) 10/18/04; Who owns the problem and the solution? (Mauksch) 11/04/04.

Methods: qualitative

Zink TM et al. Medical management of intimate partner violence considering the stages of change: precontemplation and contemplation, 2(3):231.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient voice, clinical research, clustered data, and the Wonca research conference (Stange) 194; Improving health care locally and globally (Stange) 368. eLetters: Routine screening for intimate partner violence - an alternative perspective (Goodyear-Smith) 5/27/04; Can doctors always tell what stage someone is in? (Flanakin) 5/27/04; Important insights from theory to research and clinical practice (Elliott) 6/1/04; The importance of relapse (Cronholm) 6/1/04; Abused women and their physicians (Miedema) 6/5/04.

Methods: quantitative

Killip S et al. What is an Intracluster Correlation Coefficient? Crucial Concepts for Primary Care Researchers, 2(3):204.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient voice, clinical research, clustered data, and the Wonca research conference (Stange) 194; On the nature and analysis of clustered data (Zyzanski) 199. eLetters: GRTs: A timely and useful tool in family practice research (Kryscio, et al.) 5/27/04; More on clusters (Diamond) 09/03/04.

Minority groups

Fink KS et al. Changing prescribing patterns and increasing prescription expenditures in Medicaid, 2(5):488.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386. eLetters: Improving prescribing behavior may require additional incentives (McMullin) 10/6/04; Progress since 2000 in the NC Medicaid Pharmacy Program (Dobson) 10/10/04; Re: improving prescribing behavior may require additional incentives (Gibbons) 10/12/04.

McKee MD et al. Health care seeking among urban minority adolescent girls: the crisis at sexual debut, 2(6):40.
Editorials: In this issue: new model finances, systematic reviews, patients and health care (Stange) 530.

Mainous AG III et al. The association of race and rural residence on control of diabetes and hypertension , 2(6):563.
Editorials: In this issue: In this issue: new model finances, systematic reviews, patients and health care (Stange) 530.

Mortality

Mainous AG III et al. The mortality risk of elevated serum transferrin saturation and consumption of dietary iron, 2(2):139.
Editorials: In this issue: research in the community and clinic (Phillips) 98. eLetters: Potential and added value of secondary data analysis (Zyzanski) 4/1/04; Question conclusion (Gilbert) 3/31/04; Iron revisited (Billings) 4/13/04; Iron and mortality (Anderson et al) 4/15/04.

Neoplasms

Oeffinger KC et al. Health care of young adult survivors of childhood cancer: a report from the childhood cancer survivor study, 2(1):61.
eLetters: Further thoughts on follow-up care (Goettina) 1/28/04; Recognizing the medical needs of childhood cancer survivors (Mahoney) 1/28/04; Important discussion regarding long-term follow-up care (Ulman) 1/28/04; Providing comprehensive care to adult survivors of childhood cancer (Hobbie) 1/28/04; Young adults cured of childhood cancer: what is the "quality" of the cure? (Buchanan) 1/28/04; Healthcare utilization by childhood cancer survivos - where do we go next? (Bhatia) 1/29/04; Clinical follow-up of childhood cancer survivors (Hawkins, et al) 1/29/04; Health care of adult survivors of childhood cancer (Sklar) 1/29/04; Additional comments on the insurance question (Goettina) 1/29/04; Childhood cancer survivors and long-term follow-up care (Zebrack) 1/29/04; Systemic and psychological barriers to survivor care: comment on Oeffinger et al (Recklitis) 1/30/2004; Needed: a study of the health care of older adult survivors of childhood cancer (McIver) 1/30/04; Long-term survivors of childhood cancers need help (Highfield) 2/2/2004; Assuring care for childhood cancer survivors (Greenberg) 2/4/04; A five point plan to help survivors (Culp) 2/4/04; Are post-traumatic stress and health care utilization related? (Smith) 2/4/04; What is the correlation between increasing health concerns yet decreasing medical visits among long-term survivors of childhood cancer? (McIver) 2/7/04; Health care of young adult survivors of childhood cancer: a report from the childhood cancer survivor study (Levitt) 2/9/04; The next action steps (Weiner) 2/26/04; Follow-up care for cancer survivors: developing the evidence base (Aziz) 7/18/04.

Night sweats

Mold JW et al. Prevalence and predictors of night sweats, day sweats, and hot flashes in older primary care patients: an OKPRN study, 2(5):391.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386. eLetters: OKPRN study (Silverberg) 10/25/04; Underlying panic disorder? (Katerndahl, et al.) 10/29/04; Authors respond to comments on panic attacks as cause of hot flashes (Mold) 11/1/04.

No-shows

Lacy NL et al. Why we don't come: patient perceptions on no-shows, 2(5):541.
Editorials: In this issue: new model finances, systematic reviews, patients and health care (Stange) 530.

Occult blood

Roetzheim RG et al. A randomized controlled trial to increase cancer screening among attendees of community health centers, 2(4):294.
Editorials: In this issue: practice change and patient safety (Stange) 290. eLetters: Use of Annals web resources (Dietrich) 7/31/04; Editor's response to: Re: use of Annals web resources (Stange) 7/31/04.

Office visits

Kerse N et al. Physician-patient relationship and medication compliance: a primary care investigation, 2(5):455.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386, Continuity, care and commitment: the course of patient-clinician relationships (Stewart) 388. eLetters: Data needed on patient-provider relationships and long-term adherence in chronic illness (Aikens) 10/10/04.

Griffin SJ et al. The effect on health related outcomes of interventions to alter the interaction between patients and practitioners: a systematic review of trials, 2(6):595.
Editorials: Continuity, care, and commitment: the course of patient-clinician relationships (Stewart) 388; In this issue: new model finances, systematic reviews, patients and health care (Stange) 530.

Office visits, no shows

Lacy NL et al. Why we don't come: patient perceptions on no-shows, 2(5):541.
Editorials: In this issue: new model finances, systematic reviews, patients and health care (Stange) 530.

Otitis media

Green LA et al. Opportunities, challenges, and lessons of international research in practice-based research networks: the case of an international study of acute otitis media, 2(5):429.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386. eLetters: Not for the faint hearted (Macaulay) 10/14/04; Lessons for international collaboration on research (Graffy) 10/22/04; From joint frustrations to shared perspectives: building on the experience of the international otitis media study (van Weel) 10/29/04; Authors respond to comments: if there were another Wonca research conference... (Green) 11/2/04.

Outcome and process assessment (health care)

Woolf SH et al. A string of mistakes: the importance of cascade analysis in describing, counting, and preventing medical errors, 2(4):317.
Editorials: In this issue: practice change and patient safety (Stange) 290; Why isn't it better? (Wasson) 292. eLetters: A closer look at errors in primary care (Fernald, et al) 8/26/2004.

Griffin SJ et al. The effect on health related outcomes of interventions to alter the interaction between patients and practitioners: a systematic review of trials, 2(6):595.
Editorials: Continuity, care, and commitment: the course of patient-clinician relationships (Stewart) 388; In this issue: new model finances, systematic reviews, patients and health care (Stange) 530.

Ovarian neoplasms

US Preventive Services Task Force . Screening for ovarian cancer: recommendation statement, 2(3):260.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient voice, clinical research, clustered data, and the Wonca research conference (Stange) 194. eLetters: Ovarian cancer screening (Quinn) 5/27/04; Ovarian cancer symptoms (Whitaker) 6/29/04; CA 125 vs PSA (Patrick) 6/29/04; The patient's point of view! (Pracht) 6/30/04; U.S. Preventive Services Task Force response to letters about the recommendation on ovarian cancer screening (Calonge, et al.) 09/14/04.

Over-the-counter drugs

Shi C et al. Consumer knowledge of over-the-counter Phenazopyridine, 2(3):240.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient voice, clinical research, clustered data, and the Wonca research conference (Stange) 194; Improving health care locally and globally (Stange) 368. eLetters: Moving research into the community (Ganiats) 6/7/04.

Pain

Bertakis KD et al. Patient pain in primary care: factors that influence physician diagnosis, 2(3):224.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient voice, clinical research, clustered data, and the Wonca research conference (Stange) 194; Improving health care locally and globally (Stange) 368. eLetters: Consider quality of life when identifying and evaluating pain (Cowan, et al.) 5/26/04; Outpatient use of pain scales (Novak) 7/8/04.

Palliative care

Jerant AF et al. The TLC model of palliative care in the elderly: prelminary application in assisted living, 2(1):54.
Editorials: In this issue: multimethod research (Stange) 2. eLetters: Improving palliative care for the elderly: moving a model forward (Hauser) 2/2/04; Will better assessment enhance end-of-life care? (Mehr) 2/24/04; One small step toward a comprehensive approach to palliative care in the elderly (Jerant) 3/2/04.

Paternal behavior

Keeley RD et al. Parental attitudes about a pregnancy predict birthweight in a low-income population, 2(2):145.
Editorials: In this issue: research in the community and clinic (Phillips) 98. eLetters: An intriguing idea (French) 4/8/04.

Patient acceptance of health care

Vinson DC et al. Comfortably engaging: which approach to alcohol screening should we use? 2(5):398.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386. eLetters: So what? It depends (Kessler) 10/14/04.

Peltenburg M. The unexpected in primary care: a multicenter study on the emergence of unvoiced patient agenda2(6):534.
Editorials: In this issue: new model finances, systematic reviews, patients and health care (Stange) 530.

Patient care

Rosenblatt RA. Getting the news, 2(2):175.
Editorials: In this issue: research in the community and clinic (Phillips) 98. eLetters: Does it have to be this way? (Kohrs) 3/31/04; Treating without caring (Scott) 3/31/04.

Patient centered care

Wasson JH. Why isn't it better? (Editorial). 2(4):292.
Editorials: In this issue: practice change and patient safety (Stange) 290. eLetters: Revert to first principles to make it better (Granat) 8/17/2004.

Kuzel AJ et al. Patient reports of preventable problems and harms in primary health care, 2(4):333.
Editorials: In this issue: practice change and patient safety (Stange) 290; Why isn't it better? (Wasson) 292. eLetters: Response to "Patient reports of preventable problems and harms in primary health care" (LaBozetta) 7/30/04; Patient advocacy and medical errors (Kuzel) 7/31/04.

Griffin SJ et al. The effect on health related outcomes of interventions to alter the interaction between patients and practitioners: a systematic review of trials, 2(6):595.
Editorials: Continuity, care, and commitment: the course of patient-clinician relationships (Stewart) 388; In this issue: new model finances, systematic reviews, patients and health care (Stange) 530.

Peltenburg M. The unexpected in primary care: a multicenter study on the emergence of unvoiced patient agenda2(6):534.
Editorials: In this issue: new model finances, systematic reviews, patients and health care (Stange) 530.

Patient compliance

Kerse N et al. Physician-patient relationship and medication compliance: a primary care investigation, 2(5):455.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386, Continuity, care and commitment: the course of patient-clinician relationships (Stewart) 388. eLetters: Data needed on patient-provider relationships and long-term adherence in chronic illness (Aikens) 10/10/04.

Lacy NL et al. Why we don't come: patient perceptions on no-shows, 2(5):541.
Editorials: In this issue: new model finances, systematic reviews, patients and health care (Stange) 530.

Patient education

Grossberg PM et al. Brief physician advice for high-risk drinking among young adults, 2(5):474.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386.

Patient noncompliance

Gianakos DG. Pounds (Reflection). 2(4):366.
Editorials: In this issue; practice change and patient safety (Stange) 290. eLetters: Weighty matters (Shapiro) 7/30/04; Chronic illness management in the real world (Scott) 8/2/04; Narrative based medicine (Reis, et al) 8/10/2004; The importance of context (Gianakos) 8/17/2004.

Patient perspective

Kuzel AJ et al. Patient reports of preventable problems and harms in primary health care, 2(4):333.
Editorials: In this issue: practice change and patient safety (Stange) 290; Why isn't it better? (Wasson) 292. eLetters: Response to "Patient reports of preventable problems and harms in primary health care" (LaBozetta) 7/30/04; Patient advocacy and medical errors (Kuzel) 7/31/04.

Patient preferences

Schers H et al. Patients' needs for contact with their GP at the time of hospital admission and other life events: a quantitative and qualitative exploration, 2(5):462.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386; Continuity, care, and commitment: the course of patient-clinician relationships (Stewart) 388. eLetters: Can we find new ways of showing commitment? (Freeman) 10/19/04; Commitment and achievability (Schers) 10/22/04.

Patient safety

Elder NC et al. The identification of medical errors by family physicians during outpatient visits, 2(2):125.
Editorials: In this issue: research in the community and clinic (Phillips) 98. eLetters: Seeking to further understand "real" medication error rates in primary care (Scott-Cawiezell) 4/1/04; Errors in primary care: what's on the radar screen? (Fetters) 3/31/04; Comment on "The identification of medical errors by family physicians during outpatient visits (Galliher) 3/31/04; Physician reports, and terminology, and the notion of harm (Kuzel) 4/6/04; Just the tip of the iceberg - comment on Elder, et al (Main) 4/8/04; Response from the author (Elder) 4/24/2004; Family medicine must do better (Riley) 4/26/2004.

Woolf SH et al. A string of mistakes: the importance of cascade analysis in describing, counting, and preventing medical errors, 2(4):317.
Editorials: In this issue: practice change and patient safety (Stange) 290; Why isn't it better? (Wasson) 292. eLetters: A closer look at errors in primary care (Fernald, et al) 8/26/2004.

Kuzel AJ et al. Patient reports of preventable problems and harms in primary health care, 2(4):333.
Editorials: In this issue: practice change and patient safety (Stange) 290; Why isn't it better? (Wasson) 292. eLetters: Response to "Patient reports of preventable problems and harms in primary health care" (LaBozetta) 7/30/04; Patient advocacy and medical errors (Kuzel) 7/31/04.

Patient satisfaction

Wasson JH. Why isn't it better? (Editorial). 2(4):292.
Editorials: In this issue: practice change and patient safety (Stange) 290. eLetters: Revert to first principles to make it better (Granat) 8/17/2004.

Stewart M. Continuity, care, and commitment: the course of patient-clinician relationships (Editorial). 2(5):388.

Saultz JW et al. Interpersonal continuity of care and patient satisfaction: a critical review, 2(5):445.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386; Continuity, care, and commitment: the course of patient-clinician relationships (Stewart) 388. eLetters: Continuity and patient satisfaction (Baker) 10/12/04; Continuity of care in a changing health care system (Bayliss) 10/21/04; Importance of measuring the interpersonal element of continuity (Freeman) 11/9/04; Interpersonal continuity and health system reform (Saultz) 11/12/04; Measuring interpersonal continuity (Saultz) 11/13/04.

Mainous AG III et al. Patient-physician shared experiences and value patients place on continuity of care, 2(5):452.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386; Continuity, care, and commitment: the course of patient-clinician relationships (Stewart) 388. eLetters: Continuity and the doctor-patient relationship (Scott) 10/6/04; It is really about friendship (Bagley) 10/10/04; Understanding the relationship (Love) 11/6/04.

Lacy NL et al. Why we don't come: patient perceptions on no-shows, 2(5):541.
Editorials: In this issue: new model finances, systematic reviews, patients and health care (Stange) 530.

Peltenburg M. The unexpected in primary care: a multicenter study on the emergence of unvoiced patient agenda2(6):534.
Editorials: In this issue: new model finances, systematic reviews, patients and health care (Stange) 530.

Patients

Main DS et al. Exploring patient reactions to pen-tablet computers: a report from CaReNet, 2(5):421.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386.

Perfusion

Eisner B et al. A randomized clinical trial of the effect of intra-operative saline perfusion on post-vasectomy azoospermia, 2(3):221.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient voice, clinical research, clustered data, and the Wonca research conference (Stange) 194 .

Personal autonomy

Borrell-Carrio F et al. The biopsychosocial model 25 years later: principles, practice, and scientific inquiry. , 2(6):576.
Editorials: In this issue: new model finances, systematic reviews, patients and health care (Stange) 530.

Perinatal depression

Zayas LH et al. Adapting psychosocial intervention research to urban primary care environments: a case example, 2(5):504.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386. eLetters: Funding agencies and patient-subjects disagree about the nature of mental health problems and solutions (Aikens) 10/10/04; Reply to Aiken's letter (Zayas) 10/18/04; Who owns the problem and the solution? (Mauksch) 11/04/04.

Pharmacy

Shi C et al. Consumer knowledge of over-the-counter Phenazopyridine, 2(3):240.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient voice, clinical research, clustered data, and the Wonca research conference (Stange) 194; Improving health care locally and globally (Stange) 368. eLetters: Moving research into the community (Ganiats) 6/7/04.

Phenazopyridine

Shi C et al. Consumer knowledge of over-the-counter Phenazopyridine, 2(3):240.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient voice, clinical research, clustered data, and the Wonca research conference (Stange) 194; Improving health care locally and globally (Stange) 368. eLetters: Moving research into the community (Ganiats) 6/7/04.

Physician practice patterns

McCord G et al. Discussing spirituality with patients: a rational and ethical approach, 2(4):356.
Editorials: In this issue: practice change and patient safety (Stange) 290. eLetters: Undertrained other than by personality (Parrish) 8/1/04; Challenges and trends in spirituality research (Ehman, et al) 8/2/04; Addressing spiritual issues (Puchalski, et al) 8/2/04; Need of chaplain and physician dialogue about spirituality (Austin) 8/4/04; Response to readers' comments (McCord) 8/4/04; Compassion and spiritual suffering: can brief screening questions open the window to our souls? (Anandarajah) 8/5/04; Re: response to readers' comments (Austin) 8/5/04; Sprituality is essential to relationship and patient centered, whole person medicine (Marchand) 8/9/04; Actually quite amazing (King) 8/10/2004; Understanding and nurturing patients' spiritual resources (Craigie) 8/13/2004; Context matters (Daaleman) 8/14/2004; Response to reader comments (McCord) 08/31/04; Re: response to reader comments (Austin) 09/02/04; Spirituality or religious beliefs are also needed in treatments (Tonnu) 09/13/04; Team work (Jacobs) 09/26/04; Learning to incorporate spirituality and meaning with patients (Feldstein, et al.) 10/18/04.

Beasley JW et al. How many problems do family physicians manage at each encounter? A WReN study, 2(5):405.
eLetters: Commentary on Beasley article (Bloom) 10/7/04; Getting paid what we are worth! (Snyder) 10/10/04; You have hit the nail on the head!!! (White, et al.) 10/10/04; From the eyes of an industrial engineering prof (Karsh) 10/13/04.

Pearce KA et al. How and why to study the practice content of a practice-based research network, 2(5):425.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386.

Fink KS et al. Changing prescribing patterns and increasing prescription expenditures in Medicaid, 2(5):488.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386. eLetters: Improving prescribing behavior may require additional incentives (McMullin) 10/6/04; Progress since 2000 in the NC Medicaid Pharmacy Program (Dobson) 10/10/04; Re: improving prescribing behavior may require additional incentives (Gibbons) 10/12/04.

Physician workforce diversity

Kinchen KS et al. Referral of patients to specialists: factors affecting choice of specialist by primary care physicians, 2(3):245.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient voice, clinical research, clustered data, and the Wonca research conference (Stange) 194.

Physician's practice patterns

Boyle R et al. Is making smoking status a vital sign sufficient to increase cessation support actions in clinical practice? 2(1):22.
Editorials: In this issue: multimethod research (Stange) 2. eLetters: Role for quality improvement processes (Petrulis) 1/27/04; Raise the flag of relationships (Miller) 1/28/04; Smoking as a vital sign just the first step (Halperin) 3/16/04.

Bertakis KD et al. Patient pain in primary care: factors that influence physician diagnosis, 2(3):224.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient voice, clinical research, clustered data, and the Wonca research conference (Stange) 194; Improving health care locally and globally (Stange) 368. eLetters: Consider quality of life when identifying and evaluating pain (Cowan, et al.) 5/26/04; Outpatient use of pain scales (Novak) 7/8/04.

Physician's role

Gask L. Powerlessness, control and complexity: The experience of family physicians in a group model HMO, 2(2):150.
Editorials: In this issue: research in the community and clinic (Phillips) 98. eLetters: Local vs central control: one issue that might influence powerlessness (Baird) 3/31/04; Family physician morale in practice-- large groups (Scherger) 4/1/04; Changing the identity of family medicine (Sibbald) 4/7/04; Powerlessness, frustration, and control -- so now what do we do? (Price) 4/11/04.

Schers H et al. Patients' needs for contact with their GP at the time of hospital admission and other life events: a quantitative and qualitative exploration, 2(5):462.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386; Continuity, care, and commitment: the course of patient-clinician relationships (Stewart) 388. eLetters: Can we find new ways of showing commitment? (Freeman) 10/19/04; Commitment and achievability (Schers) 10/22/04.

Physician-patient relations

Bertakis KD et al. Patient pain in primary care: factors that influence physician diagnosis, 2(3):224.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient voice, clinical research, clustered data, and the Wonca research conference (Stange) 194; Improving health care locally and globally (Stange) 368. eLetters: Consider quality of life when identifying and evaluating pain (Cowan, et al.) 5/26/04; Outpatient use of pain scales (Novak) 7/8/04.

Wasson JH. Why isn't it better? (Editorial). 2(4):292.
Editorials: In this issue: practice change and patient safety (Stange) 290. eLetters: Revert to first principles to make it better (Granat) 8/17/2004.

Kuzel AJ et al. Patient reports of preventable problems and harms in primary health care, 2(4):333.
Editorials: In this issue: practice change and patient safety (Stange) 290; Why isn't it better? (Wasson) 292. eLetters: Response to "Patient reports of preventable problems and harms in primary health care" (LaBozetta) 7/30/04; Patient advocacy and medical errors (Kuzel) 7/31/04.

McCord G et al. Discussing spirituality with patients: a rational and ethical approach, 2(4):356.
Editorials: In this issue: practice change and patient safety (Stange) 290. eLetters: Undertrained other than by personality (Parrish) 8/1/04; Challenges and trends in spirituality research (Ehman, et al) 8/2/04; Addressing spiritual issues (Puchalski, et al) 8/2/04; Need of chaplain and physician dialogue about spirituality (Austin) 8/4/04; Response to readers' comments (McCord) 8/4/04; Compassion and spiritual suffering: can brief screening questions open the window to our souls? (Anandarajah) 8/5/04; Re: response to readers' comments (Austin) 8/5/04; Sprituality is essential to relationship and patient centered, whole person medicine (Marchand) 8/9/04; Actually quite amazing (King) 8/10/2004; Understanding and nurturing patients' spiritual resources (Craigie) 8/13/2004; Context matters (Daaleman) 8/14/2004; Response to reader comments (McCord) 08/31/04; Re: response to reader comments (Austin) 09/02/04; Spirituality or religious beliefs are also needed in treatments (Tonnu) 09/13/04; Team work (Jacobs) 09/26/04; Learning to incorporate spirituality and meaning with patients (Feldstein, et al.) 10/18/04.

Gianakos DG. Pounds (Reflection). 2(4):366.
Editorials: In this issue; practice change and patient safety (Stange) 290. eLetters: Weighty matters (Shapiro) 7/30/04; Chronic illness management in the real world (Scott) 8/2/04; Narrative based medicine (Reis, et al) 8/10/2004; The importance of context (Gianakos) 8/17/2004.

Stewart M. Continuity, care, and commitment: the course of patient-clinician relationships (Editorial). 2(5):388.

Saultz JW et al. Interpersonal continuity of care and patient satisfaction: a critical review, 2(5):445.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386; Continuity, care, and commitment: the course of patient-clinician relationships (Stewart) 388. eLetters: Continuity and patient satisfaction (Baker) 10/12/04; Continuity of care in a changing health care system (Bayliss) 10/21/04; Importance of measuring the interpersonal element of continuity (Freeman) 11/9/04; Interpersonal continuity and health system reform (Saultz) 11/12/04; Measuring interpersonal continuity (Saultz) 11/13/04.

Mainous AG III et al. Patient-physician shared experiences and value patients place on continuity of care, 2(5):452.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386; Continuity, care, and commitment: the course of patient-clinician relationships (Stewart) 388. eLetters: Continuity and the doctor-patient relationship (Scott) 10/6/04; It is really about friendship (Bagley) 10/10/04; Understanding the relationship (Love) 11/6/04.

Kerse N et al. Physician-patient relationship and medication compliance: a primary care investigation, 2(5):455.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386, Continuity, care and commitment: the course of patient-clinician relationships (Stewart) 388. eLetters: Data needed on patient-provider relationships and long-term adherence in chronic illness (Aikens) 10/10/04.

Schers H et al. Patients' needs for contact with their GP at the time of hospital admission and other life events: a quantitative and qualitative exploration, 2(5):462.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386; Continuity, care, and commitment: the course of patient-clinician relationships (Stewart) 388. eLetters: Can we find new ways of showing commitment? (Freeman) 10/19/04; Commitment and achievability (Schers) 10/22/04.

Justin RG. Linking Ruth to her past (Reflection). 2(5):512.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386. eLetters: Genetics and continuity (Acheson) 10/7/04.

Peltenburg M. The unexpected in primary care: a multicenter study on the emergence of unvoiced patient agenda2(6):534.
Editorials: In this issue: new model finances, systematic reviews, patients and health care (Stange) 530.

Physicians

Santibanez TA et al. Physician attitudes and beliefs associated with patient pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccination status, 2(1):41.
Editorials: In this issue: multimethod research (Stange) 2. eLetters: Further study of disparities needed (Costa) 1/28/04; Next step: overcoming barriers (Fink) 1/29/04; Author beliefs (Johnston) 4/26/2004 .

Pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccination

Santibanez TA et al. Physician attitudes and beliefs associated with patient pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccination status, 2(1):41.
Editorials: In this issue: multimethod research (Stange) 2. eLetters: Further study of disparities needed (Costa) 1/28/04; Next step: overcoming barriers (Fink) 1/29/04; Author beliefs (Johnston) 4/26/2004 .

Practice guidelines

Solberg LI et al. Diabetic patients who smoke: are they different? 2(1):26.
Editorials: In this issue: multimethod research (Stange) 2. eLetters: Toward more creative and consistent doctors (Standridge) 1/28/04; Tailoring individual risk in diabetes (Peterson) 2/4/04; Giving smoking the attention it deserves (Glasgow) 2/4/04; Diabetes patients who smoke are also treated differently (Denig) 2/26/04.

US Preventive Services Task Force . Screening for ovarian cancer: recommendation statement, 2(3):260.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient voice, clinical research, clustered data, and the Wonca research conference (Stange) 194. eLetters: Ovarian cancer screening (Quinn) 5/27/04; Ovarian cancer symptoms (Whitaker) 6/29/04; CA 125 vs PSA (Patrick) 6/29/04; The patient's point of view! (Pracht) 6/30/04; U.S. Preventive Services Task Force response to letters about the recommendation on ovarian cancer screening (Calonge, et al.) 09/14/04.

US Preventive Services Task Force . Screening for visual impairment in children younger than age 5 years: recommendation statement , 2(3):263.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient voice, clinical research, clustered data, and the Wonca research conference (Stange) 194.

US Preventive Services Task Force . Screening for Syphilis infection: recommendation statement, 2(4):362.
Editorials: In this issue: practice change and patient safety (Stange) 290. eLetters: A step in the right direction (Kennard) 8/4/04; New news or is it? (Graves, et al) 8/13/2004; Syphilis screening in men who have sex with men (Knight) 8/14/2004; A step in the right direction (Kennard) 8/18/2004; When will common sense prevail (Kelber) 8/18/2004; Screening for syphilis infection: caveat for HIV-infected patients (Goldschmidt) 09/26/04.

Practice-based research

Killip S et al. What is an Intracluster Correlation Coefficient? Crucial Concepts for Primary Care Researchers, 2(3):204.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient voice, clinical research, clustered data, and the Wonca research conference (Stange) 194; On the nature and analysis of clustered data (Zyzanski) 199. eLetters: GRTs: A timely and useful tool in family practice research (Kryscio, et al.) 5/27/04; More on clusters (Diamond) 09/03/04.

Mold JW et al. Prevalence and predictors of night sweats, day sweats, and hot flashes in older primary care patients: an OKPRN study, 2(5):391.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386. eLetters: OKPRN study (Silverberg) 10/25/04; Underlying panic disorder? (Katerndahl, et al.) 10/29/04; Authors respond to comments on panic attacks as cause of hot flashes (Mold) 11/1/04.

Ariza AJ et al. Evaluating computer capabilities in a primary care practice-based research network, 2(5):418.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386. eLetters: Evaluating computer capabilities: wide variation acrross practices, over time (Reider) 11/15/04.

Pearce KA et al. How and why to study the practice content of a practice-based research network, 2(5):425.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386.

Practice-based research network

Fernald DH et al. Event reporting to a primary care patient safety reporting system: a report from the ASIPS collaborative (). 2(4):327.
Editorials: In this issue: practice change and patient safety (Stange) 290; Why isn't it better? (Wasson) 292. eLetters: Importance of clarifying purpose of error reports (Elder) 8/4/04; The submission of confidential error reports (Graham) 8/4/04.

Pace WD et al. Seasonal variation in diagnoses and visits to family physicians, 2(5):411.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386.

Temte JL et al. Rapid assessment of agents of biological terrorism: defining the differential diagnosis of inhalational Anthrax using electronic communication in a practice-based research network, 2(5):434.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386. eLetters: The role of family physicians and practice-based research networks in early detection of bioterrorist agents and emerging infections (Calmbach) 10/6/04; The generalizability question (Chen) 10/10/04; Training for public health preparedness (Temte) 10/10/04.

Practice-based research/methods

Green LA et al. Opportunities, challenges, and lessons of international research in practice-based research networks: the case of an international study of acute otitis media, 2(5):429.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386. eLetters: Not for the faint hearted (Macaulay) 10/14/04; Lessons for international collaboration on research (Graffy) 10/22/04; From joint frustrations to shared perspectives: building on the experience of the international otitis media study (van Weel) 10/29/04; Authors respond to comments: if there were another Wonca research conference... (Green) 11/2/04.

Pregnancy, unwanted

Keeley RD et al. Parental attitudes about a pregnancy predict birthweight in a low-income population, 2(2):145.
Editorials: In this issue: research in the community and clinic (Phillips) 98. eLetters: An intriguing idea (French) 4/8/04.

Preoperative care

Green LA et al. What can family physicians offer patients with carpal tunnel syndrome other than surgery? A systematic review of non-surgical management , 2(3):267.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient voice, clinical research, clustered data, and the Wonca research conference (Stange) 194; Improving health care locally and globally (Stange) 368. eLetters: Laser acupuncture and microamps TENS, controlled study and open protocol study (Naeser) 6/2/04.

Prescriptions, drug

Kerse N et al. Physician-patient relationship and medication compliance: a primary care investigation, 2(5):455.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386, Continuity, care and commitment: the course of patient-clinician relationships (Stewart) 388. eLetters: Data needed on patient-provider relationships and long-term adherence in chronic illness (Aikens) 10/10/04.

Fink KS et al. Changing prescribing patterns and increasing prescription expenditures in Medicaid, 2(5):488.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386. eLetters: Improving prescribing behavior may require additional incentives (McMullin) 10/6/04; Progress since 2000 in the NC Medicaid Pharmacy Program (Dobson) 10/10/04; Re: improving prescribing behavior may require additional incentives (Gibbons) 10/12/04.

Preventive health services

Jerant AF et al. Age-related disparities in cancer screening: analysis of 2001 behavioral risk factor surveillance system data, 2(5):481.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386. eLetters: Is ageism a factor in cancer screening? (Ahmed, et al.) 10/10/04.

Primary care

Green LA. Annals of Family Medicine is one year old: so what and who cares? (). 2(3):197.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient voice, clinical research, clustered data, and the Wonca research conference (Stange) 194. eLetters: Systematic reviews aren't research? (Ebell) 5/27/04; New things appear as old things disappear (Frey) 5/27/04; Re: systematic reviews aren't research? (Stange) 5/27/04; Happy birthday to the Annals of Family Medicine! (Stusser) 6/8/04; I care (Rodriguez-Lopez) 09/10/04.

Killip S et al. What is an Intracluster Correlation Coefficient? Crucial Concepts for Primary Care Researchers, 2(3):204.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient voice, clinical research, clustered data, and the Wonca research conference (Stange) 194; On the nature and analysis of clustered data (Zyzanski) 199. eLetters: GRTs: A timely and useful tool in family practice research (Kryscio, et al.) 5/27/04; More on clusters (Diamond) 09/03/04.

Gill JM et al. Accuracy of screening for diabetic retinopathy by family physicians, 2(3):218.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient voice, clinical research, clustered data, and the Wonca research conference (Stange) 194. eLetters: Eye exams important but often overlooked (Donahue) 5/26/04; Is this practical for everyday practice use? (Markman) 6/5/04; Agree with limited practicality of routine retinopathy screening (Gill) 6/5/04; Intervention in our non-adherent patients that may help save their sight (Koopman) 6/10/04; Ophthalmoscopic technique (Corbett Jr) 8/9/04.

Bertakis KD et al. Patient pain in primary care: factors that influence physician diagnosis, 2(3):224.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient voice, clinical research, clustered data, and the Wonca research conference (Stange) 194; Improving health care locally and globally (Stange) 368. eLetters: Consider quality of life when identifying and evaluating pain (Cowan, et al.) 5/26/04; Outpatient use of pain scales (Novak) 7/8/04.

Primary care physicians

Kinchen KS et al. Referral of patients to specialists: factors affecting choice of specialist by primary care physicians, 2(3):245.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient voice, clinical research, clustered data, and the Wonca research conference (Stange) 194.

Primary care, research

Bentzen N. Family medicine research: implications for Wonca (). 2(3):45.

Primary health care

Rastegar DA. Health care becomes an industry (Reflection). 2(1):80.
Editorials: In this issue: multimethod research (Stange) 2. eLetters: The industrialization of medicine is not new (Scherger, et al) 1/30/04; Industrialization and its discontents (Lindenauer) 2/1/04; Healthcare and natural law (Kirkhoff MF) 2/4/04; Health-care has been an industry for a longtime (Silverberg LI) 2/8/04.

Williams RL. Motherhood, apple pie and COPC (Editorial). 2(2):100.
Editorials: In this issue: research in the community and clinic (Phillips) 98; Improving health care locally and globally (Stange) 368. eLetters: Conundrum (Farley) 4/2/04; Commentary of Dr. Williams' editorial (Kaufman) 4/3/04; Whither COPC and family medicine practice-based research? (Like) 4/11/04; When all else fails (Smith) 4/22/2004; Community-oriented public health & primary care: learning to share mom's apple pie (Strelnick) 5/12/2004; The relevance of community oriented primary care (COPC) - A comment on the editorial of Annals of Family Medicine (Gofin, et al) 6/7/04; Community-oriented primary care: more pies than just apple (Cashman) 8/12/2004.

Plescia M et al. A community oriented primary care demonstration project: refining interventions for cardiovascular disease and diabetes, 2(2):103.
Editorials: In this issue: research in the community and clinic (Phillips) 98; Motherhood, apple pie, and COPC (Williams) 100. eLetters: Structural barriers to health and the COPC model (Bettigole) 3/31/04; Rapid appraisal as a participatory approach to community oriented primary care (COPC) (Murray) 4/10/04; The strenghts and challenges of excellence in COPC (Pathman) 4/12/04.

Rocca LG et al. Management of patients with hepatitis C in a community population: diagnosis, discussions, and decisions to treat, 2(2):116.
Editorials: In this issue: research in the community and clinic (Phillips) 98. eLetters: Management of hepatitis C in a very high risk population: corrections (Bauman) 3/31/04; Repairing the holes in the HCV safety net (Sandt, et al) 3/31/04; View from a hepatologist (Herrine) 4/12/04; Physician practice patterns with ethnic minority patients and the poor (Solorio ) 4/22/2004.

Gramling R et al. Family physician self-efficacy with screening for an inherited risk of cancer, 2(2):130.
Editorials: In this issue: research in the community and clinic (Phillips) 98. eLetters: Family physicians and the "new" genetics (Carroll) 4/7/04; Teachable moment for genetics in family medicine (David) 4/12/04; Family history in practice (Ewigman) 4/19/04.

Gask L. Powerlessness, control and complexity: The experience of family physicians in a group model HMO, 2(2):150.
Editorials: In this issue: research in the community and clinic (Phillips) 98. eLetters: Local vs central control: one issue that might influence powerlessness (Baird) 3/31/04; Family physician morale in practice-- large groups (Scherger) 4/1/04; Changing the identity of family medicine (Sibbald) 4/7/04; Powerlessness, frustration, and control -- so now what do we do? (Price) 4/11/04.

Wasson JH. Why isn't it better? (Editorial). 2(4):292.
Editorials: In this issue: practice change and patient safety (Stange) 290. eLetters: Revert to first principles to make it better (Granat) 8/17/2004.

Roetzheim RG et al. A randomized controlled trial to increase cancer screening among attendees of community health centers, 2(4):294.
Editorials: In this issue: practice change and patient safety (Stange) 290. eLetters: Use of Annals web resources (Dietrich) 7/31/04; Editor's response to: Re: use of Annals web resources (Stange) 7/31/04.

Dietrich AJ et al. Going to scale: re-engineering systems for primary care treatment of depression , 2(4):301.
Editorials: In this issue: practice change and patient safety (Stange) 290. eLetters: Tipping the scale: sustaining systems for primary care treatment of depression (Pincus) 7/30/04; Strategies for sustaining systems for primary care treatment of depression (Dietrich) 7/31/04; Lessons learned from the implementation of the three component model (Korsen) 8/5/04; Questions for the RESPECT team (Nease) 8/13/2004; RESPECT as a template for other practices (Seehusen) 8/18/2004; RESPECT team response to Dr. Donald Nease (Dietrich, et al.) 09/10/04.

Gallo JJ et al. Primary care providers evaluate integrated and referral models of behavioral health care for older adults: results from a multisite effectiveness trial (PRISM-E), 2(4):305.
Editorials: In this issue: practice change and patient safety (Stange) 290. eLetters: Response to article: primary care clinicians evaluate integrated and referral models of behavioral health care for older adults: results from a multisite effectiveness trial (PRISM-E) (Baird) 7/30/04; Integrated mental health: translatability and sustainability vary by system (Aikens) 7/30/04; Implementing integrated behavioral health care in primary care (Fisher) 8/6/04; Response to Gallo et al: rural applications (McGovern, et al) 8/23/2004.

Woolf SH et al. A string of mistakes: the importance of cascade analysis in describing, counting, and preventing medical errors, 2(4):317.
Editorials: In this issue: practice change and patient safety (Stange) 290; Why isn't it better? (Wasson) 292. eLetters: A closer look at errors in primary care (Fernald, et al) 8/26/2004.

Fernald DH et al. Event reporting to a primary care patient safety reporting system: a report from the ASIPS collaborative (). 2(4):327.
Editorials: In this issue: practice change and patient safety (Stange) 290; Why isn't it better? (Wasson) 292. eLetters: Importance of clarifying purpose of error reports (Elder) 8/4/04; The submission of confidential error reports (Graham) 8/4/04.

Stewart M. Continuity, care, and commitment: the course of patient-clinician relationships (Editorial). 2(5):388.

Mold JW et al. Prevalence and predictors of night sweats, day sweats, and hot flashes in older primary care patients: an OKPRN study, 2(5):391.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386. eLetters: OKPRN study (Silverberg) 10/25/04; Underlying panic disorder? (Katerndahl, et al.) 10/29/04; Authors respond to comments on panic attacks as cause of hot flashes (Mold) 11/1/04.

Ariza AJ et al. Evaluating computer capabilities in a primary care practice-based research network, 2(5):418.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386. eLetters: Evaluating computer capabilities: wide variation acrross practices, over time (Reider) 11/15/04.

Temte JL et al. Rapid assessment of agents of biological terrorism: defining the differential diagnosis of inhalational Anthrax using electronic communication in a practice-based research network, 2(5):434.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386. eLetters: The role of family physicians and practice-based research networks in early detection of bioterrorist agents and emerging infections (Calmbach) 10/6/04; The generalizability question (Chen) 10/10/04; Training for public health preparedness (Temte) 10/10/04.

Temte JL et al. The primary care differential diagnosis of inhalational Anthrax, 2(5):438.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386. eLetters: Bioterrorism: the challenge for family medicine (Reamy) 10/7/04; Basic bioterrorism response tools and connections (Temte) 10/10/04; When is it a zebra? (Frazer, et al.) 10/17/04.

Saultz JW et al. Interpersonal continuity of care and patient satisfaction: a critical review, 2(5):445.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386; Continuity, care, and commitment: the course of patient-clinician relationships (Stewart) 388. eLetters: Continuity and patient satisfaction (Baker) 10/12/04; Continuity of care in a changing health care system (Bayliss) 10/21/04; Importance of measuring the interpersonal element of continuity (Freeman) 11/9/04; Interpersonal continuity and health system reform (Saultz) 11/12/04; Measuring interpersonal continuity (Saultz) 11/13/04.

Kerse N et al. Physician-patient relationship and medication compliance: a primary care investigation, 2(5):455.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386, Continuity, care and commitment: the course of patient-clinician relationships (Stewart) 388. eLetters: Data needed on patient-provider relationships and long-term adherence in chronic illness (Aikens) 10/10/04.

Grossberg PM et al. Brief physician advice for high-risk drinking among young adults, 2(5):474.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386.

Zayas LH et al. Adapting psychosocial intervention research to urban primary care environments: a case example, 2(5):504.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386. eLetters: Funding agencies and patient-subjects disagree about the nature of mental health problems and solutions (Aikens) 10/10/04; Reply to Aiken's letter (Zayas) 10/18/04; Who owns the problem and the solution? (Mauksch) 11/04/04.

Justin RG. Linking Ruth to her past (Reflection). 2(5):512.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386. eLetters: Genetics and continuity (Acheson) 10/7/04.

Peltenburg M. The unexpected in primary care: a multicenter study on the emergence of unvoiced patient agenda2(6):534.
Editorials: In this issue: new model finances, systematic reviews, patients and health care (Stange) 530.

Hildebrandt DE. . Are frequent callers to physicians high utilizers?, 2(6):546.
Editorials: In this issue: new model finances, systematic reviews, patients and health care (Stange) 530.

Noel PH et al. Depression and comorbid illness in elderly primary care patients: impact on multiple domains of health status and well-being, 2(6):555.
Editorials: In this issue: new model finances, systematic reviews, patients and health care (Stange) 530.

Process of change

Zink TM et al. Medical management of intimate partner violence considering the stages of change: precontemplation and contemplation, 2(3):231.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient voice, clinical research, clustered data, and the Wonca research conference (Stange) 194; Improving health care locally and globally (Stange) 368. eLetters: Routine screening for intimate partner violence - an alternative perspective (Goodyear-Smith) 5/27/04; Can doctors always tell what stage someone is in? (Flanakin) 5/27/04; Important insights from theory to research and clinical practice (Elliott) 6/1/04; The importance of relapse (Cronholm) 6/1/04; Abused women and their physicians (Miedema) 6/5/04.

Professional autonomy

Rastegar DA. Health care becomes an industry (Reflection). 2(1):80.
Editorials: In this issue: multimethod research (Stange) 2. eLetters: The industrialization of medicine is not new (Scherger, et al) 1/30/04; Industrialization and its discontents (Lindenauer) 2/1/04; Healthcare and natural law (Kirkhoff MF) 2/4/04; Health-care has been an industry for a longtime (Silverberg LI) 2/8/04.

Professional practice

Gallo JJ et al. Primary care providers evaluate integrated and referral models of behavioral health care for older adults: results from a multisite effectiveness trial (PRISM-E), 2(4):305.
Editorials: In this issue: practice change and patient safety (Stange) 290. eLetters: Response to article: primary care clinicians evaluate integrated and referral models of behavioral health care for older adults: results from a multisite effectiveness trial (PRISM-E) (Baird) 7/30/04; Integrated mental health: translatability and sustainability vary by system (Aikens) 7/30/04; Implementing integrated behavioral health care in primary care (Fisher) 8/6/04; Response to Gallo et al: rural applications (McGovern, et al) 8/23/2004.

Borrell-Carrio F et al. Preventing errors in clinical practice: a call for self-awareness, 2(4):310.
Editorials: In this issue: practice change and patient safety (Stange) 290. eLetters: To err is human; to be aware is preventive (Saba) 7/30/04; Response to Dr Saba's letter (Epstein, et al) 8/19/2004; First, know thyself (Pace, et al) 8/26/2004; Individuals vs systems: other issues also important (Kirkegaard) 8/28/2004; Response to Dr. Pace (Epstein, et al.) 08/31/04.

Beasley JW et al. How many problems do family physicians manage at each encounter? A WReN study, 2(5):405.
eLetters: Commentary on Beasley article (Bloom) 10/7/04; Getting paid what we are worth! (Snyder) 10/10/04; You have hit the nail on the head!!! (White, et al.) 10/10/04; From the eyes of an industrial engineering prof (Karsh) 10/13/04.

Prognosis

Tierney WM et al. Quantifying risk of adverse clinical events with one set of vital signs among primary care patients with hypertension, 2(3):209.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient voice, clinical research, clustered data, and the Wonca research conference (Stange) 194; Improving health care locally and globally (Stange) 368. eLetters: A bit of a wake-up call (Green) 6/7/04; Overcoming inertia (Tierney) 6/7/04; No more 5-day blood pressure checks, please (Crownover) 6/9/04; Author answers: definition of elevated blood pressure and pulse (Tierney) 6/9/04; Recognition does not assure appropriate intervention (Blum) 6/12/04; Controlling hypertension (Tierney) 6/13/04.

Prostate cancer

Rosenblatt RA. Getting the news, 2(2):175.
Editorials: In this issue: research in the community and clinic (Phillips) 98. eLetters: Does it have to be this way? (Kohrs) 3/31/04; Treating without caring (Scott) 3/31/04.

Psychosocial treatment

Zayas LH et al. Adapting psychosocial intervention research to urban primary care environments: a case example, 2(5):504.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386. eLetters: Funding agencies and patient-subjects disagree about the nature of mental health problems and solutions (Aikens) 10/10/04; Reply to Aiken's letter (Zayas) 10/18/04; Who owns the problem and the solution? (Mauksch) 11/04/04.

Qualitative methods

Barrett BP et al. What complementary and alternative medicine practitioners say abouthealth and health care, 2(3):253.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient voice, clinical research, clustered data, and the Wonca research conference (Stange) 194.

Qualitative research

Creswell JW et al. Designing a mixed methods study in primary care, 2(1):7.
Editorials: In this issue: multimethod research (Stange) 2; Mixed methods studies: a foundation for primary care research (Borkan) 4 . eLetters: A good but incomplete proposal (Solberg) 1/29/04; Framework for understanding mixed methods (Katerndahl) 1/29/04; Paving the way for multi-methods research in primary care (Curry) 1/29/04; Emergence of a significant methodology for family medicine research (Vanasse) 1/29/04; Establishing mixed methods research as family medicine rigorous framework (Smith) 2/4/04; A practical application of mixed method research (Thommasen) 2/7/04; Mix, integrate or what? Reflections on combining methods in primary care research (Elverdam) 2/9/04; Developing methods for integrating qualitative and quantitative data (Buckley) 2/16/04; Designing a mixed methods study in primary care (Albedaiwi) 3/21/04.

Kuzel AJ et al. Patient reports of preventable problems and harms in primary health care, 2(4):333.
Editorials: In this issue: practice change and patient safety (Stange) 290; Why isn't it better? (Wasson) 292. eLetters: Response to "Patient reports of preventable problems and harms in primary health care" (LaBozetta) 7/30/04; Patient advocacy and medical errors (Kuzel) 7/31/04.

Karasz AK et al. The visit before the morning after: barriers to preprescribing emergency contraception, 2(4):345.
Editorials: In this issue: practice change and patient safety (Stange) 290. eLetters: 1) Effects on sexual behavior 2) Question about postfertilization concerns (Stanford) 09/12/04; Emergency contraception (Singh) 09/12/04; EC in Russia (Sherbakova) 09/23/04; Response to all three questions/concerns (Karasz) 10/29/04.

McKee MD et al. Health care seeking among urban minority adolescent girls: the crisis at sexual debut, 2(6):40.
Editorials: In this issue: new model finances, systematic reviews, patients and health care (Stange) 530.

Quality assurance, health care

Kuzel AJ et al. Patient reports of preventable problems and harms in primary health care, 2(4):333.

Verstappen WHJM et al. Improving test ordering in primary care: the added value of a small group quality improvement strategy over classic feedback only a multicenter randomized trial. , 2(6):569.
Editorials: In this issue: new model finances, systematic reviews, patients and health care (Stange) 530.

Quality of health care

Gill JM et al. Accuracy of screening for diabetic retinopathy by family physicians, 2(3):218.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient voice, clinical research, clustered data, and the Wonca research conference (Stange) 194. eLetters: Eye exams important but often overlooked (Donahue) 5/26/04; Is this practical for everyday practice use? (Markman) 6/5/04; Agree with limited practicality of routine retinopathy screening (Gill) 6/5/04; Intervention in our non-adherent patients that may help save their sight (Koopman) 6/10/04; Ophthalmoscopic technique (Corbett Jr) 8/9/04.

Borrell-Carrio F et al. Preventing errors in clinical practice: a call for self-awareness, 2(4):310.
Editorials: In this issue: practice change and patient safety (Stange) 290. eLetters: To err is human; to be aware is preventive (Saba) 7/30/04; Response to Dr Saba's letter (Epstein, et al) 8/19/2004; First, know thyself (Pace, et al) 8/26/2004; Individuals vs systems: other issues also important (Kirkegaard) 8/28/2004; Response to Dr. Pace (Epstein, et al.) 08/31/04.

Verstappen WHJM et al. Improving test ordering in primary care: the added value of a small group quality improvement strategy over classic feedback only a multicenter randomized trial. , 2(6):569.
Editorials: In this issue: new model finances, systematic reviews, patients and health care (Stange) 530.

Quality of life

Mold JW et al. Prevalence and predictors of night sweats, day sweats, and hot flashes in older primary care patients: an OKPRN study, 2(5):391.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386. eLetters: OKPRN study (Silverberg) 10/25/04; Underlying panic disorder? (Katerndahl, et al.) 10/29/04; Authors respond to comments on panic attacks as cause of hot flashes (Mold) 11/1/04.

Daaleman TP et al. The spirituality index of well-being: a new instrument for health-related quality-of-life research, 2(5):499.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386. eLetters: Kudos (Silverman) 10/12/04.

Noel PH et al. Depression and comorbid illness in elderly primary care patients: impact on multiple domains of health status and well-being, 2(6):555.
Editorials: In this issue: new model finances, systematic reviews, patients and health care (Stange) 530.

Questionnaires

Daaleman TP et al. The spirituality index of well-being: a new instrument for health-related quality-of-life research, 2(5):499.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386. eLetters: Kudos (Silverman) 10/12/04.

Race disparities

Kinchen KS et al. Referral of patients to specialists: factors affecting choice of specialist by primary care physicians, 2(3):245.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient voice, clinical research, clustered data, and the Wonca research conference (Stange) 194.

Randomized controlled trials

Dietrich AJ et al. Going to scale: re-engineering systems for primary care treatment of depression , 2(4):301.
Editorials: In this issue: practice change and patient safety (Stange) 290. eLetters: Tipping the scale: sustaining systems for primary care treatment of depression (Pincus) 7/30/04; Strategies for sustaining systems for primary care treatment of depression (Dietrich) 7/31/04; Lessons learned from the implementation of the three component model (Korsen) 8/5/04; Questions for the RESPECT team (Nease) 8/13/2004; RESPECT as a template for other practices (Seehusen) 8/18/2004; RESPECT team response to Dr. Donald Nease (Dietrich, et al.) 09/10/04.

Griffin SJ et al. The effect on health related outcomes of interventions to alter the interaction between patients and practitioners: a systematic review of trials, 2(6):595.
Editorials: Continuity, care, and commitment: the course of patient-clinician relationships (Stewart) 388; In this issue: new model finances, systematic reviews, patients and health care (Stange) 530.

Referrals

Kinchen KS et al. Referral of patients to specialists: factors affecting choice of specialist by primary care physicians, 2(3):245.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient voice, clinical research, clustered data, and the Wonca research conference (Stange) 194.

Registries/epidemiology

WinklerPrins V et al. The natural history of asthma in a primary care cohort, 2(2):110.
Editorials: In this issue: research in the community and clinic (Phillips) 98; Improving health care locally and globally (Stange) 368. eLetters: The natural history of asthma in a primary care cohort (Jackson) 4/6/04; Asthma natural history and diagnosis (Thomas et al) 4/15/04; The natural history of asthma in a primary care cohort (Fardy) 4/16/04; The natural history of asthma in a primary care cohort (van den Niewenhof, et al) 4/29/04; Natural history of asthma (Toelle, et al) 5/9/04; Natural history of asthma (van den Nieuwenhof, et al.) 5/27/04.

Religion and medicine

Daaleman TP et al. Religion, spirituality, and health status in geriatric outpatients, 2(1):49.
Editorials: In this issue: multimethod research (Stange) 2. eLetters: Response to Daaleman and colleagues' article (King) 1/28/04; Full-text link to supplemental appendix not live (Zimmerman) 1/29/04; Re: response to Daaleman and colleagues' article (Hummel LM, et al) 2/16/04; Epistemological issues in measuring spirituality (Moberg) 3/16/04; Author response (Daaleman) 3/30/04.

McCord G et al. Discussing spirituality with patients: a rational and ethical approach, 2(4):356.
Editorials: In this issue: practice change and patient safety (Stange) 290. eLetters: Undertrained other than by personality (Parrish) 8/1/04; Challenges and trends in spirituality research (Ehman, et al) 8/2/04; Addressing spiritual issues (Puchalski, et al) 8/2/04; Need of chaplain and physician dialogue about spirituality (Austin) 8/4/04; Response to readers' comments (McCord) 8/4/04; Compassion and spiritual suffering: can brief screening questions open the window to our souls? (Anandarajah) 8/5/04; Re: response to readers' comments (Austin) 8/5/04; Sprituality is essential to relationship and patient centered, whole person medicine (Marchand) 8/9/04; Actually quite amazing (King) 8/10/2004; Understanding and nurturing patients' spiritual resources (Craigie) 8/13/2004; Context matters (Daaleman) 8/14/2004; Response to reader comments (McCord) 08/31/04; Re: response to reader comments (Austin) 09/02/04; Spirituality or religious beliefs are also needed in treatments (Tonnu) 09/13/04; Team work (Jacobs) 09/26/04; Learning to incorporate spirituality and meaning with patients (Feldstein, et al.) 10/18/04.

Reproductive system

Eisner B et al. A randomized clinical trial of the effect of intra-operative saline perfusion on post-vasectomy azoospermia, 2(3):221.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient voice, clinical research, clustered data, and the Wonca research conference (Stange) 194 .

Research

Rosser W et al. Research in Family/General Practice is Essential for Improving Health Globally (). 2(3):5.
eLetters: Academic primary care in the UK (Kendrick) 6/1/04; Implementing the Kingston recommendations (Gan Goh) 6/1/04; Primary care and family medicine ehealth research to help achieve the millennium development goals (Stusser, et al) 6/5/04; Re: academic primary care in the UK (Rosser, et al) 6/6/04; Re: implementing the Kingston recommendations (Rosser) 6/6/04.

Herbert CP. Future of research in family medicine: where to from here? (). 2(3):60.
eLetters: Building a culture of inquiry (Johnston) 5/27/04.

Research design

Killip S et al. What is an Intracluster Correlation Coefficient? Crucial Concepts for Primary Care Researchers, 2(3):204.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient voice, clinical research, clustered data, and the Wonca research conference (Stange) 194; On the nature and analysis of clustered data (Zyzanski) 199. eLetters: GRTs: A timely and useful tool in family practice research (Kryscio, et al.) 5/27/04; More on clusters (Diamond) 09/03/04.

Mold JW et al. Prevalence and predictors of night sweats, day sweats, and hot flashes in older primary care patients: an OKPRN study, 2(5):391.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386. eLetters: OKPRN study (Silverberg) 10/25/04; Underlying panic disorder? (Katerndahl, et al.) 10/29/04; Authors respond to comments on panic attacks as cause of hot flashes (Mold) 11/1/04.

Pearce KA et al. How and why to study the practice content of a practice-based research network, 2(5):425.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386.

Green LA et al. Opportunities, challenges, and lessons of international research in practice-based research networks: the case of an international study of acute otitis media, 2(5):429.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386. eLetters: Not for the faint hearted (Macaulay) 10/14/04; Lessons for international collaboration on research (Graffy) 10/22/04; From joint frustrations to shared perspectives: building on the experience of the international otitis media study (van Weel) 10/29/04; Authors respond to comments: if there were another Wonca research conference... (Green) 11/2/04.

Research design, practice-based

Main DS et al. Exploring patient reactions to pen-tablet computers: a report from CaReNet, 2(5):421.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386.

Research design/methods

Creswell JW et al. Designing a mixed methods study in primary care, 2(1):7.
Editorials: In this issue: multimethod research (Stange) 2; Mixed methods studies: a foundation for primary care research (Borkan) 4 . eLetters: A good but incomplete proposal (Solberg) 1/29/04; Framework for understanding mixed methods (Katerndahl) 1/29/04; Paving the way for multi-methods research in primary care (Curry) 1/29/04; Emergence of a significant methodology for family medicine research (Vanasse) 1/29/04; Establishing mixed methods research as family medicine rigorous framework (Smith) 2/4/04; A practical application of mixed method research (Thommasen) 2/7/04; Mix, integrate or what? Reflections on combining methods in primary care research (Elverdam) 2/9/04; Developing methods for integrating qualitative and quantitative data (Buckley) 2/16/04; Designing a mixed methods study in primary care (Albedaiwi) 3/21/04.

Research methods

Dietrich AJ et al. Going to scale: re-engineering systems for primary care treatment of depression , 2(4):301.
Editorials: In this issue: practice change and patient safety (Stange) 290. eLetters: Tipping the scale: sustaining systems for primary care treatment of depression (Pincus) 7/30/04; Strategies for sustaining systems for primary care treatment of depression (Dietrich) 7/31/04; Lessons learned from the implementation of the three component model (Korsen) 8/5/04; Questions for the RESPECT team (Nease) 8/13/2004; RESPECT as a template for other practices (Seehusen) 8/18/2004; RESPECT team response to Dr. Donald Nease (Dietrich, et al.) 09/10/04.

Residential facilities

Jerant AF et al. The TLC model of palliative care in the elderly: prelminary application in assisted living, 2(1):54.
Editorials: In this issue: multimethod research (Stange) 2. eLetters: Improving palliative care for the elderly: moving a model forward (Hauser) 2/2/04; Will better assessment enhance end-of-life care? (Mehr) 2/24/04; One small step toward a comprehensive approach to palliative care in the elderly (Jerant) 3/2/04.

Review, academic

Nygren P et al. Screening Children for Family Violence: A Review of the Evidence for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, 2(2):161.
Editorials: In this issue: research in the community and clinic (Phillips) 98. eLetters: Screening children for violence (Flaherty) 4/4/04; Looking forward in dealing with child abuse (Alexander) 4/1/04; Evidence-based screening for child abuse and family violence: experience-based caution (Sirotnak) 5/4/2004.

Review literature

Goodyear Smith F et al. What can family physicians offer patients with carpal tunnel syndrome other than surgery? A systematic review of non-surgical management , 2(3):267.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient voice, clinical research, clustered data, and the Wonca research conference (Stange) 194; Improving health care locally and globally (Stange) 368. eLetters: Laser acupuncture and microamps TENS, controlled study and open protocol study (Naeser) 6/2/04.

Walter FM et al. Lay understanding of familial risk of common chronic diseases: a systematic review and synthesis of qualitiative research. , 2(6):583.
Editorials: In this issue: new model finances, systematic reviews, patients and health care (Stange) 530; How do people interpret their family histories of diabetes, coronary disease, or cancer? (Acheson) 532.

Risk assessment

Tierney WM et al. Quantifying risk of adverse clinical events with one set of vital signs among primary care patients with hypertension, 2(3):209.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient voice, clinical research, clustered data, and the Wonca research conference (Stange) 194; Improving health care locally and globally (Stange) 368. eLetters: A bit of a wake-up call (Green) 6/7/04; Overcoming inertia (Tierney) 6/7/04; No more 5-day blood pressure checks, please (Crownover) 6/9/04; Author answers: definition of elevated blood pressure and pulse (Tierney) 6/9/04; Recognition does not assure appropriate intervention (Blum) 6/12/04; Controlling hypertension (Tierney) 6/13/04.

Fiscella K et al. Should years of schooling be used to guide treatment of coronary risk factors? 2(5):469.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386. eLetters: What a great idea! (Jaen) 10/10/04; Where do we go from here? (Diaz) 10/10/04; Contribution of risk factors to educational disparities in CHD (Fiscella, et al.) 10/12/04; Commentary on Fiscella, et al. (Lenfant) 10/15/04.

Risk factors, genetics

Walter FM et al. Lay understanding of familial risk of common chronic diseases: a systematic review and synthesis of qualitiative research. , 2(6):583.
Editorials: In this issue: new model finances, systematic reviews, patients and health care (Stange) 530; How do people interpret their family histories of diabetes, coronary disease, or cancer? (Acheson) 532.

Risk management

Wasson JH. Why isn't it better? (Editorial). 2(4):292.
Editorials: In this issue: practice change and patient safety (Stange) 290. eLetters: Revert to first principles to make it better (Granat) 8/17/2004.

Borrell-Carrio F et al. Preventing errors in clinical practice: a call for self-awareness, 2(4):310.
Editorials: In this issue: practice change and patient safety (Stange) 290. eLetters: To err is human; to be aware is preventive (Saba) 7/30/04; Response to Dr Saba's letter (Epstein, et al) 8/19/2004; First, know thyself (Pace, et al) 8/26/2004; Individuals vs systems: other issues also important (Kirkegaard) 8/28/2004; Response to Dr. Pace (Epstein, et al.) 08/31/04.

Fernald DH et al. Event reporting to a primary care patient safety reporting system: a report from the ASIPS collaborative (). 2(4):327.
Editorials: In this issue: practice change and patient safety (Stange) 290; Why isn't it better? (Wasson) 292. eLetters: Importance of clarifying purpose of error reports (Elder) 8/4/04; The submission of confidential error reports (Graham) 8/4/04.

Root cause analysis

Woolf SH et al. A string of mistakes: the importance of cascade analysis in describing, counting, and preventing medical errors, 2(4):317.
Editorials: In this issue: practice change and patient safety (Stange) 290; Why isn't it better? (Wasson) 292. eLetters: A closer look at errors in primary care (Fernald, et al) 8/26/2004.

Rural health services

Mainous AG III et al. The association of race and rural residence on control of diabetes and hypertension , 2(6):563.
Editorials: In this issue: In this issue: new model finances, systematic reviews, patients and health care (Stange) 530.

Safety management

Woolf SH et al. A string of mistakes: the importance of cascade analysis in describing, counting, and preventing medical errors, 2(4):317.
Editorials: In this issue: practice change and patient safety (Stange) 290; Why isn't it better? (Wasson) 292. eLetters: A closer look at errors in primary care (Fernald, et al) 8/26/2004.

Sample size estimation

Zyzanski SJ et al. On the nature and analysis of clustered data (Editorial). 2(3):199.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient voice, clinical research, clustered data and the Wonca research conference (Stange) 194.

Seasonal variation

Pace WD et al. Seasonal variation in diagnoses and visits to family physicians, 2(5):411.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386.

Self-awareness

Borrell-Carrio F et al. Preventing errors in clinical practice: a call for self-awareness, 2(4):310.
Editorials: In this issue: practice change and patient safety (Stange) 290. eLetters: To err is human; to be aware is preventive (Saba) 7/30/04; Response to Dr Saba's letter (Epstein, et al) 8/19/2004; First, know thyself (Pace, et al) 8/26/2004; Individuals vs systems: other issues also important (Kirkegaard) 8/28/2004; Response to Dr. Pace (Epstein, et al.) 08/31/04.

Sensitivity and specificity

Gill JM et al. Accuracy of screening for diabetic retinopathy by family physicians, 2(3):218.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient voice, clinical research, clustered data, and the Wonca research conference (Stange) 194. eLetters: Eye exams important but often overlooked (Donahue) 5/26/04; Is this practical for everyday practice use? (Markman) 6/5/04; Agree with limited practicality of routine retinopathy screening (Gill) 6/5/04; Intervention in our non-adherent patients that may help save their sight (Koopman) 6/10/04; Ophthalmoscopic technique (Corbett Jr) 8/9/04.

Serologic tests/utilization

Ramsey AH et al. Use and appropriateness of Lyme disease serologic testing, 2(4):341.
Editorials: In this issue: practice change and patient safety (Stange) 290. eLetters: Appropriateness of Lyme disease testing: an appropriate analysis? (Stricker, et al) 8/4/04; Now if doctors would just order the right tests (Mervine) 8/18/2004; Appropriateness of Lyme diseases testing: an appropriate analysis? (Stricker et al) 8/18/2004; The authors respond (Ramsey, et al.) 08/31/04.

Signs and symptoms

Boyle R et al. Is making smoking status a vital sign sufficient to increase cessation support actions in clinical practice? 2(1):22.
Editorials: In this issue: multimethod research (Stange) 2. eLetters: Role for quality improvement processes (Petrulis) 1/27/04; Raise the flag of relationships (Miller) 1/28/04; Smoking as a vital sign just the first step (Halperin) 3/16/04.

Jerant AF et al. The TLC model of palliative care in the elderly: prelminary application in assisted living, 2(1):54.
Editorials: In this issue: multimethod research (Stange) 2. eLetters: Improving palliative care for the elderly: moving a model forward (Hauser) 2/2/04; Will better assessment enhance end-of-life care? (Mehr) 2/24/04; One small step toward a comprehensive approach to palliative care in the elderly (Jerant) 3/2/04.

Bertakis KD et al. Patient pain in primary care: factors that influence physician diagnosis, 2(3):224.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient voice, clinical research, clustered data, and the Wonca research conference (Stange) 194; Improving health care locally and globally (Stange) 368. eLetters: Consider quality of life when identifying and evaluating pain (Cowan, et al.) 5/26/04; Outpatient use of pain scales (Novak) 7/8/04.

Small-group quality improvement

Verstappen WHJM et al. Improving test ordering in primary care: the added value of a small group quality improvement strategy over classic feedback only a multicenter randomized trial. , 2(6):569.
Editorials: In this issue: new model finances, systematic reviews, patients and health care (Stange) 530.

Smoking

Boyle R et al. Is making smoking status a vital sign sufficient to increase cessation support actions in clinical practice? 2(1):22.
Editorials: In this issue: multimethod research (Stange) 2. eLetters: Role for quality improvement processes (Petrulis) 1/27/04; Raise the flag of relationships (Miller) 1/28/04; Smoking as a vital sign just the first step (Halperin) 3/16/04.

Solberg LI et al. Diabetic patients who smoke: are they different? 2(1):26.
Editorials: In this issue: multimethod research (Stange) 2. eLetters: Toward more creative and consistent doctors (Standridge) 1/28/04; Tailoring individual risk in diabetes (Peterson) 2/4/04; Giving smoking the attention it deserves (Glasgow) 2/4/04; Diabetes patients who smoke are also treated differently (Denig) 2/26/04.

Park E et al. Does enhancing partner support and interaction improve smoking cessation?: a meta-analysis, 2(2):170.
Editorials: In this issue: research in the community and clinic (Phillips) 98. eLetters: The thorny problem of the influence of partner support in smoking cessation (McIlvain) 4/1/04.

Smoking cessation

Boyle R et al. Is making smoking status a vital sign sufficient to increase cessation support actions in clinical practice? 2(1):22.
Editorials: In this issue: multimethod research (Stange) 2. eLetters: Role for quality improvement processes (Petrulis) 1/27/04; Raise the flag of relationships (Miller) 1/28/04; Smoking as a vital sign just the first step (Halperin) 3/16/04.

Solberg LI et al. Diabetic patients who smoke: are they different? 2(1):26.
Editorials: In this issue: multimethod research (Stange) 2. eLetters: Toward more creative and consistent doctors (Standridge) 1/28/04; Tailoring individual risk in diabetes (Peterson) 2/4/04; Giving smoking the attention it deserves (Glasgow) 2/4/04; Diabetes patients who smoke are also treated differently (Denig) 2/26/04.

Park E et al. Does enhancing partner support and interaction improve smoking cessation?: a meta-analysis, 2(2):170.
Editorials: In this issue: research in the community and clinic (Phillips) 98. eLetters: The thorny problem of the influence of partner support in smoking cessation (McIlvain) 4/1/04.

Social factors in health and health care

Zink TM et al. Medical management of intimate partner violence considering the stages of change: precontemplation and contemplation, 2(3):231.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient voice, clinical research, clustered data, and the Wonca research conference (Stange) 194; Improving health care locally and globally (Stange) 368. eLetters: Routine screening for intimate partner violence - an alternative perspective (Goodyear-Smith) 5/27/04; Can doctors always tell what stage someone is in? (Flanakin) 5/27/04; Important insights from theory to research and clinical practice (Elliott) 6/1/04; The importance of relapse (Cronholm) 6/1/04; Abused women and their physicians (Miedema) 6/5/04.

Social sciences

Creswell JW et al. Designing a mixed methods study in primary care, 2(1):7.
Editorials: In this issue: multimethod research (Stange) 2; Mixed methods studies: a foundation for primary care research (Borkan) 4 . eLetters: A good but incomplete proposal (Solberg) 1/29/04; Framework for understanding mixed methods (Katerndahl) 1/29/04; Paving the way for multi-methods research in primary care (Curry) 1/29/04; Emergence of a significant methodology for family medicine research (Vanasse) 1/29/04; Establishing mixed methods research as family medicine rigorous framework (Smith) 2/4/04; A practical application of mixed method research (Thommasen) 2/7/04; Mix, integrate or what? Reflections on combining methods in primary care research (Elverdam) 2/9/04; Developing methods for integrating qualitative and quantitative data (Buckley) 2/16/04; Designing a mixed methods study in primary care (Albedaiwi) 3/21/04.

Social support

Park E et al. Does enhancing partner support and interaction improve smoking cessation?: a meta-analysis, 2(2):170.
Editorials: In this issue: research in the community and clinic (Phillips) 98. eLetters: The thorny problem of the influence of partner support in smoking cessation (McIlvain) 4/1/04.

Socioeconomic factors

Fiscella K et al. Should years of schooling be used to guide treatment of coronary risk factors? 2(5):469.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386. eLetters: What a great idea! (Jaen) 10/10/04; Where do we go from here? (Diaz) 10/10/04; Contribution of risk factors to educational disparities in CHD (Fiscella, et al.) 10/12/04; Commentary on Fiscella, et al. (Lenfant) 10/15/04.

Socioeconomic status

Fiscella K et al. Should years of schooling be used to guide treatment of coronary risk factors? 2(5):469.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386. eLetters: What a great idea! (Jaen) 10/10/04; Where do we go from here? (Diaz) 10/10/04; Contribution of risk factors to educational disparities in CHD (Fiscella, et al.) 10/12/04; Commentary on Fiscella, et al. (Lenfant) 10/15/04.

Specialism

Rastegar DA. Health care becomes an industry (Reflection). 2(1):80.
Editorials: In this issue: multimethod research (Stange) 2. eLetters: The industrialization of medicine is not new (Scherger, et al) 1/30/04; Industrialization and its discontents (Lindenauer) 2/1/04; Healthcare and natural law (Kirkhoff MF) 2/4/04; Health-care has been an industry for a longtime (Silverberg LI) 2/8/04.

Specialists

Kinchen KS et al. Referral of patients to specialists: factors affecting choice of specialist by primary care physicians, 2(3):245.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient voice, clinical research, clustered data, and the Wonca research conference (Stange) 194.

Spirituality

Daaleman TP et al. Religion, spirituality, and health status in geriatric outpatients, 2(1):49.
Editorials: In this issue: multimethod research (Stange) 2. eLetters: Response to Daaleman and colleagues' article (King) 1/28/04; Full-text link to supplemental appendix not live (Zimmerman) 1/29/04; Re: response to Daaleman and colleagues' article (Hummel LM, et al) 2/16/04; Epistemological issues in measuring spirituality (Moberg) 3/16/04; Author response (Daaleman) 3/30/04.

McCord G et al. Discussing spirituality with patients: a rational and ethical approach, 2(4):356.
Editorials: In this issue: practice change and patient safety (Stange) 290. eLetters: Undertrained other than by personality (Parrish) 8/1/04; Challenges and trends in spirituality research (Ehman, et al) 8/2/04; Addressing spiritual issues (Puchalski, et al) 8/2/04; Need of chaplain and physician dialogue about spirituality (Austin) 8/4/04; Response to readers' comments (McCord) 8/4/04; Compassion and spiritual suffering: can brief screening questions open the window to our souls? (Anandarajah) 8/5/04; Re: response to readers' comments (Austin) 8/5/04; Sprituality is essential to relationship and patient centered, whole person medicine (Marchand) 8/9/04; Actually quite amazing (King) 8/10/2004; Understanding and nurturing patients' spiritual resources (Craigie) 8/13/2004; Context matters (Daaleman) 8/14/2004; Response to reader comments (McCord) 08/31/04; Re: response to reader comments (Austin) 09/02/04; Spirituality or religious beliefs are also needed in treatments (Tonnu) 09/13/04; Team work (Jacobs) 09/26/04; Learning to incorporate spirituality and meaning with patients (Feldstein, et al.) 10/18/04.

Daaleman TP et al. The spirituality index of well-being: a new instrument for health-related quality-of-life research, 2(5):499.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386. eLetters: Kudos (Silverman) 10/12/04.

Spouse abuse

Shapiro E. Screening for family and intimate partner violence: recommendation statement , 2(2):156.
Editorials: In this issue: research in the community and clinic (Phillips) 98; Improving health care locally and globally (Stange) 368. eLetters: Thoughts from another perspective (Elliott, et al) 4/4/04; Screening for family and intimate partner violence: a new risk factor for future analysis? (Heldring) 4/2/04; We need effectiveness research concerning family/child/intimate partner violence screening and interventions (Ferris) 5/5/2004; Health system needs effectiveness research from clinical to intersectoral interventions (Taft) 5/16/2004; Authors respond to comments on screening children for family violence: clarifying the scope of the systematic review (Nygren, et al) 6/21/04; Competing priorities (Crownover) 6/27/04.

Stage of readiness for change

Plescia M et al. A community oriented primary care demonstration project: refining interventions for cardiovascular disease and diabetes, 2(2):103.
Editorials: In this issue: research in the community and clinic (Phillips) 98; Motherhood, apple pie, and COPC (Williams) 100. eLetters: Structural barriers to health and the COPC model (Bettigole) 3/31/04; Rapid appraisal as a participatory approach to community oriented primary care (COPC) (Murray) 4/10/04; The strenghts and challenges of excellence in COPC (Pathman) 4/12/04.

Statistics

Killip S et al. What is an Intracluster Correlation Coefficient? Crucial Concepts for Primary Care Researchers, 2(3):204.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient voice, clinical research, clustered data, and the Wonca research conference (Stange) 194; On the nature and analysis of clustered data (Zyzanski) 199. eLetters: GRTs: A timely and useful tool in family practice research (Kryscio, et al.) 5/27/04; More on clusters (Diamond) 09/03/04.

Subjective well-being

Daaleman TP et al. The spirituality index of well-being: a new instrument for health-related quality-of-life research, 2(5):499.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386. eLetters: Kudos (Silverman) 10/12/04.

Substance abuse

Glazer JL. Bag of Worms , 2(6):609.
Editorials: In this issue: new model finances, systematic reviews, patients and health care (Stange) 530.

Substance-abuse screening

Grossberg PM et al. Brief physician advice for high-risk drinking among young adults, 2(5):474.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386.

Substance-related disorders/therapy

Gallo JJ et al. Primary care providers evaluate integrated and referral models of behavioral health care for older adults: results from a multisite effectiveness trial (PRISM-E), 2(4):305.
Editorials: In this issue: practice change and patient safety (Stange) 290. eLetters: Response to article: primary care clinicians evaluate integrated and referral models of behavioral health care for older adults: results from a multisite effectiveness trial (PRISM-E) (Baird) 7/30/04; Integrated mental health: translatability and sustainability vary by system (Aikens) 7/30/04; Implementing integrated behavioral health care in primary care (Fisher) 8/6/04; Response to Gallo et al: rural applications (McGovern, et al) 8/23/2004.

Surveillance

Temte JL et al. The primary care differential diagnosis of inhalational Anthrax, 2(5):438.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386. eLetters: Bioterrorism: the challenge for family medicine (Reamy) 10/7/04; Basic bioterrorism response tools and connections (Temte) 10/10/04; When is it a zebra? (Frazer, et al.) 10/17/04.

Survey

Shi C et al. Consumer knowledge of over-the-counter Phenazopyridine, 2(3):240.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient voice, clinical research, clustered data, and the Wonca research conference (Stange) 194; Improving health care locally and globally (Stange) 368. eLetters: Moving research into the community (Ganiats) 6/7/04.

Surveys

Main DS et al. Exploring patient reactions to pen-tablet computers: a report from CaReNet, 2(5):421.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386.

Survivors

Oeffinger KC et al. Health care of young adult survivors of childhood cancer: a report from the childhood cancer survivor study, 2(1):61.
eLetters: Further thoughts on follow-up care (Goettina) 1/28/04; Recognizing the medical needs of childhood cancer survivors (Mahoney) 1/28/04; Important discussion regarding long-term follow-up care (Ulman) 1/28/04; Providing comprehensive care to adult survivors of childhood cancer (Hobbie) 1/28/04; Young adults cured of childhood cancer: what is the "quality" of the cure? (Buchanan) 1/28/04; Healthcare utilization by childhood cancer survivos - where do we go next? (Bhatia) 1/29/04; Clinical follow-up of childhood cancer survivors (Hawkins, et al) 1/29/04; Health care of adult survivors of childhood cancer (Sklar) 1/29/04; Additional comments on the insurance question (Goettina) 1/29/04; Childhood cancer survivors and long-term follow-up care (Zebrack) 1/29/04; Systemic and psychological barriers to survivor care: comment on Oeffinger et al (Recklitis) 1/30/2004; Needed: a study of the health care of older adult survivors of childhood cancer (McIver) 1/30/04; Long-term survivors of childhood cancers need help (Highfield) 2/2/2004; Assuring care for childhood cancer survivors (Greenberg) 2/4/04; A five point plan to help survivors (Culp) 2/4/04; Are post-traumatic stress and health care utilization related? (Smith) 2/4/04; What is the correlation between increasing health concerns yet decreasing medical visits among long-term survivors of childhood cancer? (McIver) 2/7/04; Health care of young adult survivors of childhood cancer: a report from the childhood cancer survivor study (Levitt) 2/9/04; The next action steps (Weiner) 2/26/04; Follow-up care for cancer survivors: developing the evidence base (Aziz) 7/18/04.

Syphilis

US Preventive Services Task Force . Screening for Syphilis infection: recommendation statement, 2(4):362.
Editorials: In this issue: practice change and patient safety (Stange) 290. eLetters: A step in the right direction (Kennard) 8/4/04; New news or is it? (Graves, et al) 8/13/2004; Syphilis screening in men who have sex with men (Knight) 8/14/2004; A step in the right direction (Kennard) 8/18/2004; When will common sense prevail (Kelber) 8/18/2004; Screening for syphilis infection: caveat for HIV-infected patients (Goldschmidt) 09/26/04.

Systematic review

Griffin SJ et al. The effect on health related outcomes of interventions to alter the interaction between patients and practitioners: a systematic review of trials, 2(6):595.
Editorials: Continuity, care, and commitment: the course of patient-clinician relationships (Stewart) 388; In this issue: new model finances, systematic reviews, patients and health care (Stange) 530.

Test-ordering behavior

Verstappen WHJM et al. Improving test ordering in primary care: the added value of a small group quality improvement strategy over classic feedback only a multicenter randomized trial. , 2(6):569.
Editorials: In this issue: new model finances, systematic reviews, patients and health care (Stange) 530.

Theory

Killip S et al. What is an Intracluster Correlation Coefficient? Crucial Concepts for Primary Care Researchers, 2(3):204.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient voice, clinical research, clustered data, and the Wonca research conference (Stange) 194; On the nature and analysis of clustered data (Zyzanski) 199. eLetters: GRTs: A timely and useful tool in family practice research (Kryscio, et al.) 5/27/04; More on clusters (Diamond) 09/03/04.

Buetow SA. Towards a new understanding of provider continuity (Reflection). 2(5):509.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient-clinician relationship and practice-based network research (Stange) 386.

Transferrin

Mainous AG III et al. Elevated serum transferrin saturation and mortality, 2(2):133.
Editorials: In this issue: research in the community and clinic (Phillips) 98. eLetters: Tsat% and mortality (Weinberg) 4/15/04; Professional and patient perspective (Alexander) 4/15/04; Online comment (Bonkovsky, et al) 5/3/2004.

Mainous AG III et al. The mortality risk of elevated serum transferrin saturation and consumption of dietary iron, 2(2):139.
Editorials: In this issue: research in the community and clinic (Phillips) 98. eLetters: Potential and added value of secondary data analysis (Zyzanski) 4/1/04; Question conclusion (Gilbert) 3/31/04; Iron revisited (Billings) 4/13/04; Iron and mortality (Anderson et al) 4/15/04.

Transtheoretical model

Plescia M et al. A community oriented primary care demonstration project: refining interventions for cardiovascular disease and diabetes, 2(2):103.
Editorials: In this issue: research in the community and clinic (Phillips) 98; Motherhood, apple pie, and COPC (Williams) 100. eLetters: Structural barriers to health and the COPC model (Bettigole) 3/31/04; Rapid appraisal as a participatory approach to community oriented primary care (COPC) (Murray) 4/10/04; The strenghts and challenges of excellence in COPC (Pathman) 4/12/04.

Zink TM et al. Medical management of intimate partner violence considering the stages of change: precontemplation and contemplation, 2(3):231.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient voice, clinical research, clustered data, and the Wonca research conference (Stange) 194; Improving health care locally and globally (Stange) 368. eLetters: Routine screening for intimate partner violence - an alternative perspective (Goodyear-Smith) 5/27/04; Can doctors always tell what stage someone is in? (Flanakin) 5/27/04; Important insights from theory to research and clinical practice (Elliott) 6/1/04; The importance of relapse (Cronholm) 6/1/04; Abused women and their physicians (Miedema) 6/5/04.

Triage

Hildebrandt DE. . Are frequent callers to physicians high utilizers?, 2(6):546.
Editorials: In this issue: new model finances, systematic reviews, patients and health care (Stange) 530.

Vaccination

Shillaci MA et al. Immunization coverage and Medicaid managed care in New Mexico: a multi-method assessment, 2(1):13.
Editorials: In this issue: multimethod research (Stange) 2; Mixed methods studies: a foundation for primary care research (Borkan) 4 ; Improving health care locally and globally (Stange) 368. eLetters: Improving immunization rates in Medicaid managed care (Bocchini) 1/30/04; Outcomes of Medicaid managed care (Hambidge, et al) 2/7/04; Comment on "Immunization coverage and Medicaid managed care in New Mexico: A multimethod assessment" by Shillaci, et al (Smith) 3/5/04; Declining immunization coverage and Medicaid managed care in New Mexico: response to comments (Shillaci) 5/19/04.

Vaginal smears

Roetzheim RG et al. A randomized controlled trial to increase cancer screening among attendees of community health centers, 2(4):294.
Editorials: In this issue: practice change and patient safety (Stange) 290. eLetters: Use of Annals web resources (Dietrich) 7/31/04; Editor's response to: Re: use of Annals web resources (Stange) 7/31/04.

Vas deferens

Eisner B et al. A randomized clinical trial of the effect of intra-operative saline perfusion on post-vasectomy azoospermia, 2(3):221.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient voice, clinical research, clustered data, and the Wonca research conference (Stange) 194 .

Vasectomy

Eisner B et al. A randomized clinical trial of the effect of intra-operative saline perfusion on post-vasectomy azoospermia, 2(3):221.
Editorials: In this issue: the patient voice, clinical research, clustered data, and the Wonca research conference (Stange) 194 .

Virus diseases

Hueston WJ et al. A cost-benefit analysis of testing for influenza A in high risk adults, 2(1):33.
Editorials: In this issue: multimethod research (Stange) 2. eLetters: Clinical probability of influenzae (McCormick) 1/29/04; Importance of CBA for influenza A treatment (Dressler RL) 2/8/04; Authors underestimate hospitalizations from influenza (Rothberg MB) 2/26/04.

Women's health

Karasz AK et al. The visit before the morning after: barriers to preprescribing emergency contraception, 2(4):345.
Editorials: In this issue: practice change and patient safety (Stange) 290. eLetters: 1) Effects on sexual behavior 2) Question about postfertilization concerns (Stanford) 09/12/04; Emergency contraception (Singh) 09/12/04; EC in Russia (Sherbakova) 09/23/04; Response to all three questions/concerns (Karasz) 10/29/04.

McKee MD et al. Health care seeking among urban minority adolescent girls: the crisis at sexual debut, 2(6):40.
Editorials: In this issue: new model finances, systematic reviews, patients and health care (Stange) 530.