Biomedical subjects
W R Phillips
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Family physician beliefs about cancer screening. Development of a survey instrument.
To improve rates at which physicians provide cancer control procedures, it is first necessary to identify physician and environmental characteristics that explain variations in those rates. This study used an attitude-behavior model as a guiding framework to identify beliefs, sources of influence, facilitating conditions, and critical events that may be important determinants of physicians' rates for providing eight cancer control activities. Open-ended, semistructured interviews were conducted with 26 family physicians to discuss the factors that may have affected their policies for providing each of the eight cancer control activities. Content analysis of those interviews produced unique lists of beliefs, sources of influence, facilitating conditions, and critical events for each activity. These lists of factors are more comprehensive than those identified in previous studies. A questionnaire has been developed based on these findings, and a validation study is being conducted to identify the factors that best explain variation in rates at which cancer control activities are performed.
Psychological testing in family practice residency programs.
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Audit of obstetrical care and outcome in family medicine, obstetrics, and general practice.
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Attitudes toward social work in family medicine: a before and after survey.
An initial survey of attitudes among Family Medical Center staff rated social work as highly consistent with the values of family medicine, capable of competently addressing difficult problems, and contributing valuably to a team approach to continuous and comprehensive family medical care. After integration of a social worker into the practice, a repeat survey documented significant attitude changes, rating social work as more competent, passive, and difficult, and lowering the estimate of patients potentially helped by a social worker from 38 percent to 31 percent. Such attitudes may influence the evolution of the social worker's role in the family medicine patient care team.
On gonorrhea control programs.
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The interview in Family Practice Resident Selection.
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Pharmacological activity of coumarins isolated from Afraegle paniculata; Part II.
Xanthotoxin, xanthotoxol and marmesin, three coumarins isolated from Afraegle paniculata, have been treated for anti-inflammatory activity following oral administration. The investigations have shown that xanthotoxol and marmesin are devoid of such activity and that xanthotoxin has some activity. Xanthotoxin has been compared against aspirin.