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The Journal of the American Board of Family Practice

The Journal of the American Board of Family Practice is a scientific journal, published since 1988 in English. The journal's country of origin is United States and its primary focus area is public health.

Details
Abbr. J Am Board Fam Pract
Start 1988
End 2005
Frequency Bimonthly <July-Aug. 1991>-Nov./Dec. 2005
p-ISSN 0893-8652
e-ISSN 1544-8770
Country United States
Language English
Specialty Public Health
Recent Articles
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Dresang L
J Am Board Fam Pract . 2005 Dec; 18(6):570-3. PMID: 16322422
This case report summarizes the sequence of events that led to the detection of a molar pregnancy missed by ultrasound and initial pathology examinations. This patient illustrates that following serial...
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Volkov I, Rudoy I, Press Y
J Am Board Fam Pract . 2005 Dec; 18(6):567-9. PMID: 16322421
A 38-year-old woman presented with painful lesions on both shins that first appeared a few days earlier. Physical examination revealed multiple red tender nodules on both legs. The patient had...
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Walling A, Woolley D, Molgaard C, Kallail K
J Am Board Fam Pract . 2005 Dec; 18(6):563-6. PMID: 16322420
Over 70% of the estimated 5 million office visits per year for migraine headache are to family physicians. Both the number of visits and proportion of migraine patients seeking medical...
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Cohrssen A, Anderson M, Merrill A, McKee D
J Am Board Fam Pract . 2005 Dec; 18(6):561-2. PMID: 16322419
No abstract available.
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Partridge C, Holman J
J Am Board Fam Pract . 2005 Dec; 18(6):555-60. PMID: 16322418
Purpose: A prenatal care guideline that decreased scheduled visits to 9 was introduced at a military community hospital in 2000. We hypothesized patients would have fewer clinic visits with no...
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Norris T, Rovinelli R, Puffer J, Rinaldo J, Price D
J Am Board Fam Pract . 2005 Dec; 18(6):546-54. PMID: 16322417
The American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) is committed to offering cognitive examinations that are both pertinent to the specialty of family medicine and psychometrically sound. This article reviews the...
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Green L, Seifert C
J Am Board Fam Pract . 2005 Dec; 18(6):541-5. PMID: 16322416
Translation of new knowledge into practice proceeds through 3 stages, from awareness through acceptance to adoption. Translational research focuses almost exclusively on the first 2 stages. We argue that improving...
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Kirshner H, Biller J, Callahan 3rd A
J Am Board Fam Pract . 2005 Dec; 18(6):528-40. PMID: 16322415
Cerebrovascular disease is the third leading cause of mortality and the leading cause of long-term neurological disability in the United States. Most strokes are of ischemic origin and, other than...
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Solberg L, Trangle M, Wineman A
J Am Board Fam Pract . 2005 Dec; 18(6):520-7. PMID: 16322414
Certainly we could improve our identification, diagnosis, and initial treatment approaches to the large numbers of depressed patients we see in primary care. However, until we have established the kind...
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Innes K, Bourguignon C, Taylor A
J Am Board Fam Pract . 2005 Dec; 18(6):491-519. PMID: 16322413
Objective: To conduct a systematic review of published literature regarding the effects of yoga, a promising mind-body therapy, on specific anthropometric and physiologic indices of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk and...