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J Resnick
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A pilot study of the prevalence of herpes genitalis among selected groups of patients seeking care in a family practice center.
Herpes genitalis is typically studied in patient panels identified at specialized sexually transmitted disease clinics or with information obtained from herpes self-help groups. This article reports the results of a descriptive pilot study of the prevalence of herpes genitalis in family practice. The feasibility of obtaining psychosexual information on sexually transmitted diseases from more than 600 patients from five family practice practices was assessed. These initial data show that in the family practices participating in this study: 1) genital herpes is a low prevalence disease; 2) psychosocial adjustment to the disease among infected persons is usually reported as good, apart from sexual effects; and 3) close to 30% of the study population reported having prior sexually transmitted diseases. Problems involved in generalizing the results of this research and the limitations of conducting collaborative clinical research in family practice settings are reviewed.
The development of an information resource center for academic family medicine.
The discipline of family medicine covers a broad area of interests which often leads to duplication of information and lack of awareness of useful information resources. In an era of limited financial and time resources, it is in the best interest of large departments to consolidate departmental and scholarly information and to educate faculty members, residents, and medical students in the effective use of information retrieval systems and other sources of information. This paper presents the development of a small departmental center to organize and manage family medicine related information and resources and implementation of that information in the activities of an academic family medicine department to support teaching, research, and patient care.
An enhancement of inpatient diagnosis clusters: applications to residency training.
The diagnosis cluster method has recently been used effectively to compare inpatient and outpatient clinical experiences across data sets for practicing physicians and family practice residents. This paper describes the use of the diagnosis cluster method to study the three-year experience of a class of family practice residents in one university program and three community hospital programs. A group of 10 additional clusters based on the criteria of frequency, clinical homogeneity, and educational importance were identified covering 14.3% of the diagnoses not falling within the established 52-cluster method. These residency-specific clusters require review and validation by further analysis of clinical data and peer review by faculty involved in residency education.