OBJECTIVE—Studies of the association between diabetes metabolic control and adherence
to drug therapy have yielded conflicting results. Because low socioeconomic and minority …

BACKGROUND: Voluntary reporting of near misses/adverse events is an important but
underutilized source of information on errors in medicine. To date, there is very little information …

Improving patient safety and quality in health care is one of medicine's most pressing
challenges. Residency training programs have a unique opportunity to meet this challenge by …

BACKGROUND Many have called for ambulatory training redesign in internal medicine (IM)
residencies to increase primary care career outcomes. Many believe dysfunctional, clinic …

PURPOSE:: To determine whether physician experience with and attitude towards computers
is associated with adoption of a voluntary ambulatory prescription writing expert system. …

Method All patients provided demographic and survey data at the time of their first visit to
the clinic. Patients were asked several questions about their usual source of care and …

Objectives To describe the scope and value of services provided by free clinics across the
United States. Methods Mail survey of directors of free clinics registered in the Free Clinic …

The pharmacokinetics and metabolism of the anti-human T-Iympho-trophic virus type llI/lymphadenopathy-associated
virus agent 2’, 3-dideoxycytidine have been examined in BDF1 …

Academic medical centers face barriers to training physicians in systems-and practice-based
learning competencies needed to function in the changing health care environment. To …

OBJECTIVE: To assess the reading habits and educational resources of primary care
internal medicine residents for their ambulatory medicine education. DESIGN: Cross-sectional, …