ContextDespite evidence that a variety of continuing medical education (CME) techniques
can foster physician behavioral change, there have been no randomized trials comparing …

Over the past 3 decades, the prevalence of childhood obesity has increased dramatically in
North America, ushering in a variety of health problems, including type 2 diabetes mellitus (…

PURPOSE We wanted to describe how primary care clinicians care for patients with type 2
diabetes. METHODS We undertook a cross-sectional study of 95 primary care clinicians and …

… From the Department of Family and Community Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine,
Houston, Tex (Drs Volk and Spann), and the Department of Family Medicine, The University …

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate an entertainment-based patient decision aid for early stage breast
cancer surgery in low health literacy patients. METHODS: Newly diagnosed female patients …

OBJECTIVE: Over the last 3 decades, the prevalence of childhood obesity has increased
dramatically in North America, ushering in a variety of health problems, including type 2 …

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate an entertainment-based patient decision aid for prostate cancer
screening among patients with low or high health literacy. METHODS: Male primary care …

PURPOSE The efficacy of prostate cancer screening is uncertain, and professional organizations
recommend educating patients about potential harms and benefits. We evaluated the …

BACKGROUND To lay the groundwork for the development of a comprehensive strategy to
transform and renew the specialty of family medicine, this Future of Family Medicine task …

Objectives The role of reassurance in decision‐making about screening for health problems
is largely unknown. We examined the reassurance value of prostate cancer screening in …