George R Parkerson
Biographic Data
| ID | 5535341 |
|---|---|
| NAME | George R Parkerson |
| GIVEN NAMES | George R |
| FAMILY NAME | Parkerson |
| SIGNATURE | PARKERSON G R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Duke Medical Center |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Implications of the WHO Child Growth Standards in rural Honduras
Objective The present study analysed the impact of using the 2006 WHO Child Growth Standards (‘the WHO standards’) compared with the 1977 National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) international growth reference (‘the NCHS reference’) on the calculated prevalence of chronic malnutrition in children aged 6·0–59·9 months. Design Anthropometric data were collected as part of a cross-sectional study exploring the association between household envir…
Risk Classification of Adult Primary Care Patients by Self-Reported Quality of Life
BACKGROUND: : Although patient-reported health-related quality of life (HRQOL) is known to predict health services utilization, most risk assessment systems use provider-reported diagnoses as predictors rather than HRQOL. OBJECTIVE: : We sought to classify adult primary care patients prospectively by utilization risk based on age, gender, and HRQOL at a single clinic visit. RESEARCH DESIGN: : Patients completed the Duke Health Profile. Providers …
Characteristics of Adult Primary Care Patients as Predictors of Future Health Services Charges
BACKGROUND: Utilization risk assessment is potentially useful for allocation of health care resources, but precise measurement is difficult. OBJECTIVE: Test the hypotheses that health-related quality of life (HRQOL), severity of illness, and diagnoses at a single primary care visit are comparable case-mix predictors of future 1-year charges in all clinical settings within a large health system, and that these predictors are more accurate in combi…
An International Comparison of the Reliability and Responsiveness of the Duke Health Profile for Measuring Health-Related Quality of Life of Patients Treated With Alprostadil for Erectile Dysfunction
OBJECTIVES: It is important that health measures are both reliable and responsive to clinical change. The aim of this study was to assess the reliability and responsiveness of the physical, mental, and social health scales of the Duke Health Profile (DUKE). METHODS: Impotent males self-administered the Duke Health Profile before and during treatment with alprostadil for erectile dysfunction during a 19-month period. Subjects were 490 patients in …
Health Status and Severity of Illness as Predictors of Outcomes in Primary Care
Two measures of health status and severity of illness were tested as indicators of patient case-mix to predict health-related outcomes in a rural primary care community health clinic, using a convenience sample of 413 ambulatory adults (mean age = 40.4 years: 58.6% women, and 47.2% black). At baseline; patients completed the Duke Health Profile, and providers completed the Duke Severity of Illness Checklist. During the 18-month follow-up study, p…
Disease-specific Versus Generic Measurement of Health-related Quality of Life in Insulin-dependent Diabetic Patients
The health-related quality of life of 170 adult insulin-dependent diabetic patients was measured cross-sectionally to compare a disease-specific instrument, Diabetes Quality of Life (DQOL) questionnaire, and two generic instruments, the Duke Health Profile (DUKE) and the General Health Perceptions Questionnaire (GHP). The generic measures provided as much or more information about health-related quality of life as the disease-specific instrument.…
Strategies for Improving and Expanding the Application of Health Status Measures in Clinical Settings: General Audience Discussion
Parkerson, George R. Jr MD, MPH; Deyo, Richard A. MD, MPH; Golden, William E. MD; Blim, R Don MD; Patrick, Donald L. PhD, MSPH; Tuteur, Peter G. MD; Ware, John E. Jr PhD; Bergner, Marilyn PhD; Spilker, Bert PhD, MD; Feinstein, Alvan R. MD; Neugebauer, Edmund PhD Author Information
Comparison of the Duke Health Profile and the MOS Short-Form in Healthy Young Adults
Parkerson, George R. Jr. MD, MPH; Broadhead, W E MD, PhD; Tse, Chiu-kit J. MSPH Author Information
The Duke Health Profile: A 17-ltem Measure of Health and Dysfunction
The Duke Health Profile (DUKE) is a 17-item generic self-report instrument containing six health measures (physical, mental, social, general, perceived health, and self-esteem), and four dysfunction measures (anxiety, depression, pain, and disability). Items were derived from the 63-item Duke-UNC Health Profile, based upon face validity and item-remainder correlations. The study population included 683 primary care adult patients. Reliability was…
The Effect of a Telephone Family Assessment Intervention on the Functional Health of Patients With Elevated Family Stress
A randomized trial of a telephone family assessment intervention was conducted during a 2.5 month period on 224 ambulatory primary care patients, aged 18-49 years, who were selected according to self-report of elevated family stress levels. Family physicians conducted telephone interviews to collect information from patients on their supportive and stressful family members. The working hypothesis was that this process would lead to reduction in t…
The Duke-UNC Health Profile: An Adult Health Status Instrument for Primary Care
The Duke--UNC Health Profile (DUHP) was developed as a brief 63-item instrument designed to measure adult health status in the primary care setting along four dimensions: symptom status, physical function, emotional function and social function. Reliability and validity were tested on a group of 395 ambulatory patients in a family medicine center. Temporal stability Spearman correlations ranged from 0.52 to 0.82 for the four dimensions. Cronbach'…
Improving Hypertension Control: Impact of Computer Feedback and Physician Education
Two interventions designed to help physicians manage hypertensive patients were evaluated in a controlled trial: 1) computer-generated feedback to facilitate identification of poorly controlled patients; and 2) a physician education program on clinical management strategies, emphasizing patient compliance. Four physician practice teams received either computer feedback, the education program, both, or neither. Feedback team physicians received se…
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The Duke-UNC Health Profile: An Adult Health Status Instrument for Primary Care
The Duke--UNC Health Profile (DUHP) was developed as a brief 63-item instrument designed to measure adult health status in the primary care setting along four dimensions: symptom status, physical function, emotional function and social function. Reliability and validity were tested on a group of 395 ambulatory patients in a family medicine center. Temporal stability Spearman correlations ranged from 0.52 to 0.82 for the four dimensions. Cronbach'…
Improving Hypertension Control: Impact of Computer Feedback and Physician Education
Two interventions designed to help physicians manage hypertensive patients were evaluated in a controlled trial: 1) computer-generated feedback to facilitate identification of poorly controlled patients; and 2) a physician education program on clinical management strategies, emphasizing patient compliance. Four physician practice teams received either computer feedback, the education program, both, or neither. Feedback team physicians received se…
The Effect of a Telephone Family Assessment Intervention on the Functional Health of Patients With Elevated Family Stress
A randomized trial of a telephone family assessment intervention was conducted during a 2.5 month period on 224 ambulatory primary care patients, aged 18-49 years, who were selected according to self-report of elevated family stress levels. Family physicians conducted telephone interviews to collect information from patients on their supportive and stressful family members. The working hypothesis was that this process would lead to reduction in t…
The Duke Health Profile: A 17-ltem Measure of Health and Dysfunction
The Duke Health Profile (DUKE) is a 17-item generic self-report instrument containing six health measures (physical, mental, social, general, perceived health, and self-esteem), and four dysfunction measures (anxiety, depression, pain, and disability). Items were derived from the 63-item Duke-UNC Health Profile, based upon face validity and item-remainder correlations. The study population included 683 primary care adult patients. Reliability was…
Comparison of the Duke Health Profile and the MOS Short-Form in Healthy Young Adults
Parkerson, George R. Jr. MD, MPH; Broadhead, W E MD, PhD; Tse, Chiu-kit J. MSPH Author Information
Strategies for Improving and Expanding the Application of Health Status Measures in Clinical Settings: General Audience Discussion
Parkerson, George R. Jr MD, MPH; Deyo, Richard A. MD, MPH; Golden, William E. MD; Blim, R Don MD; Patrick, Donald L. PhD, MSPH; Tuteur, Peter G. MD; Ware, John E. Jr PhD; Bergner, Marilyn PhD; Spilker, Bert PhD, MD; Feinstein, Alvan R. MD; Neugebauer, Edmund PhD Author Information
Disease-specific Versus Generic Measurement of Health-related Quality of Life in Insulin-dependent Diabetic Patients
The health-related quality of life of 170 adult insulin-dependent diabetic patients was measured cross-sectionally to compare a disease-specific instrument, Diabetes Quality of Life (DQOL) questionnaire, and two generic instruments, the Duke Health Profile (DUKE) and the General Health Perceptions Questionnaire (GHP). The generic measures provided as much or more information about health-related quality of life as the disease-specific instrument.…
Health Status and Severity of Illness as Predictors of Outcomes in Primary Care
Two measures of health status and severity of illness were tested as indicators of patient case-mix to predict health-related outcomes in a rural primary care community health clinic, using a convenience sample of 413 ambulatory adults (mean age = 40.4 years: 58.6% women, and 47.2% black). At baseline; patients completed the Duke Health Profile, and providers completed the Duke Severity of Illness Checklist. During the 18-month follow-up study, p…
An International Comparison of the Reliability and Responsiveness of the Duke Health Profile for Measuring Health-Related Quality of Life of Patients Treated With Alprostadil for Erectile Dysfunction
OBJECTIVES: It is important that health measures are both reliable and responsive to clinical change. The aim of this study was to assess the reliability and responsiveness of the physical, mental, and social health scales of the Duke Health Profile (DUKE). METHODS: Impotent males self-administered the Duke Health Profile before and during treatment with alprostadil for erectile dysfunction during a 19-month period. Subjects were 490 patients in …
Characteristics of Adult Primary Care Patients as Predictors of Future Health Services Charges
BACKGROUND: Utilization risk assessment is potentially useful for allocation of health care resources, but precise measurement is difficult. OBJECTIVE: Test the hypotheses that health-related quality of life (HRQOL), severity of illness, and diagnoses at a single primary care visit are comparable case-mix predictors of future 1-year charges in all clinical settings within a large health system, and that these predictors are more accurate in combi…
Risk Classification of Adult Primary Care Patients by Self-Reported Quality of Life
BACKGROUND: : Although patient-reported health-related quality of life (HRQOL) is known to predict health services utilization, most risk assessment systems use provider-reported diagnoses as predictors rather than HRQOL. OBJECTIVE: : We sought to classify adult primary care patients prospectively by utilization risk based on age, gender, and HRQOL at a single clinic visit. RESEARCH DESIGN: : Patients completed the Duke Health Profile. Providers …
Implications of the WHO Child Growth Standards in rural Honduras
Objective The present study analysed the impact of using the 2006 WHO Child Growth Standards (‘the WHO standards’) compared with the 1977 National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) international growth reference (‘the NCHS reference’) on the calculated prevalence of chronic malnutrition in children aged 6·0–59·9 months. Design Anthropometric data were collected as part of a cross-sectional study exploring the association between household envir…
Medicine (12 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Gerontology (5 works) · Gerontology (5 works) · Internal Medicine (5 works) · Internal Medicine (5 works) · Psychiatry (5 works) · Chronic Disease Management Strategies (4 works) · Family medicine (4 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (4 works)