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Characteristics of primary care physicians and their practices associated with mammography rates for older women Barbara Threatt, M.D., was a consultant regarding mammography practice and physician's interactions with older women.
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2003-11-01)
BACKGROUND Mammography screening rates are below national recommendations for older women. Understanding the relation between the characteristics of primary care physicians (PCPs) and mammography rates for older women can ...
Generalizing the TITE-CRM to adapt for early- and late-onset toxicities
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2005)
Due to the staggered entry of subjects in phase I trials, some subjects will only be partially through the study when others are ready to be enrolled. Nonetheless, many phase I designs focus solely upon whether or not ...
Cancer-specific worry interference in women attending a breast and ovarian cancer risk evaluation program: impact on emotional distress and health functioning
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2001-09)
Intrusive thoughts about cancer, often identified as ‘cancer-specific worries’ or ‘cancer-specific distress’, have been postulated to be associated with dysfunction in women at increased risk of developing breast or ovarian ...
Heat shock factor 1-deficient mice exhibit decreased recovery of hearing following noise overstimulation
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2005-08-15)
Heat shock proteins (Hsps) can enhance cell survival in response to stress. Heat shock factor 1 (Hsf1) is the major transcription factor that regulates stress-inducible Hsp expression. We previously demonstrated the ...
Ki-67 Expression in Breast Cancer; Its Association with Grading Systems, Clinical Parameters and Other Prognostic Factors -- A Surrogate Marker?
(2003-03-01)
BACKGROUND. The number of mitoses and, thus, the proliferative capacity of a tumor
is one of the most crucial variables for tumor grading. The Ki-67 nuclear antigen may
be considered as an alternative to mitotic counts ...
Measurement Error in Prenatal Care Utilization: Evidence of Attenuation Bias in the Estimation of Impact on Birth Weight
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2000-03)
Objective: Errors in the measurement of the timing and number of prenatal care visits may produce downward bias in estimates of the impact of prenatal care use on birth outcomes. This paper examines the extent of attenuation ...
Social and Psychological Resources and Health Outcomes after the World Trade Center Disaster
(2006)
Previous studies on community disasters tend to assess non-representative samples and use nonstandard measures of
well-being. Additionally, few of these studies are longitudinal in design. In this report, we examine the ...