JOURNAL OF THE NATIONAL MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
VOL. 100, NO. 11, NOVEMBER 2008
ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS
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Treating Patients with Multiple Cardiovascular Conditions: An Analysis of Outpatient Data in the United States, 2005
Byron S. Kennedy, MD, PhD, MPH
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Patient Centeredness, Cultural Competence and Healthcare Quality
Somnath Saha, MD, MPH; Mary Catherine Beach, MD, MPH; and Lisa A. Cooper, MD, MPH
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Retinal Diseases in a Tertiary Hospital: The Need for Establishment of a Vitreo-Retinal Care Unit
Oluwatoyin Helen Onakpoya, FWACS (Ophthal); Samuel Oluremi Olateju, FWACS (Ophthal); and Iyiade Adeseye Ajayi, MBBS
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Factors Associated with Patient Navigators’ Time Spent on Reducing Barriers to Cancer Treatment
Chyongchiou J. Lin, PhD; Karen A. Schwaderer, RN, BSN, OCN; Keith H. Morgenlander, MPH; Edmund M. Ricci, PhD; Laura Hoffman, BS; Elaine Martz, BS; Raymond H. Cosgrove; and Dwight E. Heron, MD
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Factors Influencing Physician Referrals of Patients to Clinical Trials
Arch G. Mainous III, PhD; Daniel W. Smith, PhD; Mark E. Geesey, MS; and Barbara C. Tilley, PhD
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Assessing Adult Health Literacy in Urban Healthcare Settings
La Vonne A. Downey, PhD and Leslie S. Zun, MD, MBA
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Predicting Regular Breast Cancer Screening in African-American Women with a Family History of Breast Cancer
Sharon S. Laing, PhD and Kepher Makambi, PhD
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Making a Business Case for Small Medical Practices to Maintain Quality while Addressing Racial Healthcare Disparities
Frances J. Dunston, MD, MPH; Andrew C. Eisenberg, MD, MHA; Evelyn L. Lewis, MD, MA; John M. Montgomery, MD, MPH; Diana Ramos, MD;
and Arthur Elster, MD; for the Ad-Hoc Committee of the Commission to End Health Care Disparities
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Health Literacy among Spanish-Speaking Patients in the Emergency Department
Jane H. Brice, MD, MPH; Debbie Travers, PhD, RN; Christopher S. Cowden, BS; Matthew D. Young, MD;
Antonio Sanhueza, PhD; and Yolanda Dunston, PhD
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The Digital Divide: A Comparison of Online Consumer Health Information for African-American and General Audiences
Terry Kind, MD, MPH Jasmine Wallace, MPH (candidate); and Rachel Y. Moon, MD
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Disclosure of Complementary and Alternative Medicine to Conventional Medical Providers: Variation by Race/Ethnicity and Type of CAM
Maria T. Chao, DrPH, MPA; Christine Wade, MPH; and Fredi Kronenberg, PhD
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Effectiveness and Safety of Donepezil in Hispanic Patients with Alzheimer’s Disease: A 12-Week Open- Label Study
Oscar L. Lopez, MD; Joan A. Mackell, PhD; Yijun Sun, PhD; Laurent M. Kassalow, MS; Yikang Xu, PhD; Thomas McRae, MD; and Honglan Li, PhD
CASE Report
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Diagnosis of Macroamylasemia in a Pregnant Patient
Adrienne J. Headley, MD and Andrew N. Blechman, MD
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