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Dean Schillinger
Public Health
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Accuracy of Primary Care Medical Home Designation in a Specialty Mental Health Clinic
To assess whether primary care medical homes (PCMHs) are accurately identified for patients receiving care in a specialty mental health clinic within an integrated public delivery system. This study reviewed t...
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Open AccessCollaborative research and actions on both sides of the US-Mexico border to counteract type 2 diabetes in people of Mexican origin
Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) is now a massive epidemic in both California and Mexico, with serious consequences for social and economic well-being. A large proportion of these populations share common ethnic backgrou...
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Cancer genetic counseling communication with low-income Chinese immigrants
As genetics and genomics become part of mainstream medicine, these advances have the potential to either reduce or exacerbate health disparities. Relatively, little research has explored the quality of genetic...
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Open AccessLanguage-concordant automated telephone queries to assess medication adherence in a diverse population: a cross-sectional analysis of convergent validity with pharmacy claims
Clinicians have difficulty accurately assessing medication non-adherence within chronic disease care settings. Health information technology (HIT) could offer novel tools to assess medication adherence in dive...
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Open AccessUtilization of the Behavior Change Wheel framework to develop a model to improve cardiometabolic screening for people with severe mental illness
Individuals with severe mental illness (e.g., schizophrenia, bipolar disorder) die 10–25 years earlier than the general population, primarily from premature cardiovascular disease (CVD). Contributing factors a...
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Erratum to: Information Mismatch: Cancer Risk Counseling with Diverse Underserved Patients
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Open AccessInformation Mismatch: Cancer Risk Counseling with Diverse Underserved Patients
As genetics and genomics become part of mainstream Medicine, these advances have the potential to reduce or exacerbate health disparities. Gaps in effective communication (where all parties share the same mean...
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Open AccessMobilizing for a war on the home front against sugar-related morbidity and mortality
In Israel today, there are 420,200 Israelis diagnosed with diabetes, and every year, Israelis sustain thousands of diabetes-related deaths and tens of thousands of diabetes-related amputations. As such, in Isr...
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Police-Recorded Crime and Perceived Stress among Patients with Type 2 Diabetes: the Diabetes Study of Northern California (DISTANCE)
While stress has been linked to poor health outcomes, little is known about the impact of objective measures of neighborhood crime on stress in patients with chronic disease. Using the Kaiser Permanente Diabet...
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Open AccessCoordinated performance measurement and improvement efforts in California's safety net systems: early experience and lessons
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Open AccessSpatial pattern of body mass index among adults in the diabetes study of Northern California (DISTANCE)
The role that environmental factors, such as neighborhood socioeconomics, food, and physical environment, play in the risk of obesity and chronic diseases is not well quantified. Understanding how spatial dist...
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Open AccessQuasi-experimental trial of diabetes Self-Management Automated and Real-Time Telephonic Support (SMARTSteps) in a Medicaid managed care plan: study protocol
Health information technology can enhance self-management and quality of life for patients with chronic disease and overcome healthcare barriers for patients with limited English proficiency. After a randomize...
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Open AccessAccuracy of Physician Self-Report of Spanish Language Proficiency
As health systems strive to meet the needs of linguistically diverse patient populations, determining a physician’s non-English language proficiency is becoming increasingly important. However, brief, validate...
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Open AccessComparison of a one-time educational intervention to a teach-to-goal educational intervention for self-management of heart failure: design of a randomized controlled trial
Heart failure (HF) is common, costly and associated with significant morbidity and poor quality of life, particularly for patients with low socioeconomic status. Self-management training has been shown to redu...
