Annals ofClinical Medicine

Volume: 5 - Number: 102 - October 15, 2005

Outstanding

Superoxide production during sepsis development

The Cost of White Lies

Travel Immunizations

The Genesis of the North American Primary Care Research Group

Articles

Superoxide production during sepsis development

Sympathetic Vasomotor Response of the Radial Artery in Patients With Diabetic Foot Syndrome

The Cost of White Lies

The Health Effects of Economic Sanctions and Embargoes: The Role of Health Professionals

The Impact of Bariatric Surgery on Severely Obese Patients With Diabetes

The Importance of Physical Activity and Cardiorespiratory Fitness for Patients With Type 2 Diabetes

The Physician Workforce and Financing of Graduate Medical Education

Thrombin-activatable Fibrinolysis Inhibitor and Protein C Inhibitor in Interstitial Lung Disease

Travel Immunizations

Treatment of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome with Recombinant Surfactant Protein C Surfactant

Understanding Your Medical Bills

Urinary Connective Tissue Growth Factor Excretion in Patients With Type 1 Diabetes and Nephropathy

Using a Tracking Book for Unresolved Issues

Viral DNA Polymerase Mutations Associated with Drug Resistance in Human Cytomegalovirus

Voluntary Purchasing Pools: A Market Model for Improving Access, Quality, and Cost in Health Care

Why Every Practice Needs a Payment Policy

The EFQM excellence model is useful for primary health care teams

Unravelling empowering internal voices—a case study on the interactive use of illness diaries

West Nile Virus in the United States: An Update on an Emerging Infectious Disease

Cancer

The Stromal Derived Factor–1/CXCL12–CXC Chemokine Receptor 4 Biological Axis in Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer Metastases

Trastuzumab and Vinorelbine as First-Line Therapy for HER2-Overexpressing Metastatic Breast Cancer: Multicenter Phase II Trial With Clinical Outcomes, Analysis of Serum Tumor Markers as Predictive Factors, and Cardiac Surveillance Algorithm

Editorial

The Cost-Effectiveness of Preventing Diabetes

The diagnostic process in general practice: has it a two-phase structure?

The Disappearance of Insurance Coverage for Weight Reduction Surgery

The Growing Mandate for Clinical Preventive Medicine

To Clot or Not to Clot, That Is the Question in Pulmonary Fibrosis

Trials in Neuropathic Diabetic Foot Ulceration: Time for a paradigm shift?

U.S. Preventive Services Task Force: Recommendations and Rationale

We Make the Road by Walking" With the People

Why does primary care need more implementation research?

Two Cheers for Ecology

Welcome to the Annals of Family Medicine

Family Medicine Updates

The Genesis of the North American Primary Care Research Group

The Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Presents its 2003 STFM Best Research Paper Award to David Mehr, MD, MS

Family medicine updates

Swotting’ Departments: Issues and Challenges in Academic Family Medicine

Teaching Tomorrow’s Leaders Today

The Role of Research Directors in Departments of Family Medicine

Infectious diseases

The effect of introduction of a guideline on the management of vaginal discharge and in particular bacterial vaginosis in primary care

The prevalence of potential pathogenic bacteria in nasopharyngeal samples from individuals with a respiratory tract infection and a sore throat—implications for the diagnosis of pharyngotonsillitis

Laboratory and animal investigations

Two Aerosolized Nitric Oxide Adducts as Selective Pulmonary Vasodilators for Acute Pulmonary Hypertension

Methodology

The Face of Cancer

Original papers

The development of a routine NHS data-based index of performance in general practice (NHSPPI)

The genetics liaison nurse role as a means of educating and supporting primary care professionals

The patient as a source to improve the medical record

The relevance of continuity of care: a solution for the chaos in the emergency services

Thinking about risk. Can doctors and patients talk the same language?

US military veterans' perceptions of the conventional medical care system and their use of complementary and alternative medicine

Walk-in clinics: patient expectations and family physician availability

Who cares for the carers? The district nurse perspective

Pathophysiology

The Hepatic Vagus Mediates Fat-Induced Inhibition of Diabetic Hyperphagia

The Metabolic Syndrome and Antioxidant Concentrations: Findings From the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey

Tissue Transglutaminase and the Progression of Human Renal Scarring

Physiopathology in Renal Diseases

Urokinase Receptor Deficiency Accelerates Renal Fibrosis in Obstructive Nephropathy

Urokinase Receptor Modulates Cellular and Angiogenic Responses in Obstructive Nephropathy

Practice therapeutics

The Nature and Management of Labor Pain: Part I. Nonpharmacologic Pain Relief

The Nature and Management of Labor Pain: Part II. Pharmacologic Pain Relief

Vaccinations in Pregnancy

Refutation

The Fine Art of Refusal

Reports

Sympathetic Nerve Activity in the Congenital Long-QT Syndrome

The Gifts of Giving

Tracheobronchomalacia and Tracheal Hemorrhage in Patients With Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Receiving Long-term Ventilation With Uncuffed Tracheostomies

Transcutaneous Oxygen Pressure Measurements on the Buttocks During Exercise to Detect Proximal Arterial Ischemia: Comparison With Arteriography

Twin-Twin Transfusion Syndrome: The Influence of Intrauterine Laser Photocoagulation on Arterial Distensibility in Childhood

Vasopeptidase Inhibitor Omapatrilat Induces Profound Insulin Sensitization and Increases Myocardial Glucose Uptake in Zucker Fatty Rats: Studies Comparing a Vasopeptidase Inhibitor, Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitor, and Angiotensin II Type I Recept

Visceral Larva Migrans Mimicking Lymphoma

What Induces the Warm-Up Ischemia/Angina Phenomenon: Exercise or Myocardial Ischemia?

Research

Test-Retest Reproducibility of Heart Rate Recovery After Treadmill Exercise

The Balanced Budget Act of 1997 and the Financial Health of Teaching Hospitals

The Effectiveness of Primary Care-Based Interventions to Promote Breastfeeding: Systematic Evidence Review and Meta-Analysis for the US Preventive Services Task Force

The Identification of Medical Errors by Family Physicians During Outpatient Visits

The impact of chronic pain in the community

The Influence of Infection on Hospital Mortality for Patients Requiring > 48 h of Intensive Care

The Mortality Risk of Elevated Serum Transferrin Saturation and Consumption of Dietary Iron

The Natural History of Asthma in a Primary Care Cohort

The Potential Role of Direct Thrombin Inhibitors in the Prevention and Treatment of Venous Thromboembolism

The Protein C Pathway

The TLC Model of Palliative Care in the Elderly: Preliminary Application in the Assisted Living Setting

The use of pre-conceptional folic acid as an indicator of uptake of a health message amongst white and Bangladeshi women in Tower Hamlets, east London

Thrombin and Fibrinolysis

Thrombin and Platelet Activation

Thrombin Formation

Thrombin Interactions

Thrombin, Inflammation, and Cardiovascular Disease: An Epidemiologic Perspective

Thrombin: Can’t Live Without It; Probably Die From It

Tissue Factor, Thrombin, and Cancer

Towards improvement of the accuracy and completeness of medication registration with the use of an electronic medical record (EMR)

Treatments for late life depression in primary care—a systematic review

Validation study of a diary for use in acute lower respiratory tract infection

Variation in the Ecology of Medical Care

Who First Suggests the Diagnosis of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder?

Who is Caring for the Underserved? A Comparison of Primary Care Physicians and Nonphysician Clinicians in California and Washington

Women’s Experiences of Abnormal Cervical Cytology: Illness Representations, Care Processes, and Outcomes

Reviews

The Endocrine Society Meeting: Topics in Insulin Sensitivity and Hypertension

Use of Helium-Oxygen Mixtures in the Treatment of Acute Asthma: A Systematic Review