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ARTICLES
Health-Related Quality of Life among North Carolina Adults with Diabetes Mellitus
Deborah Patrick-Wubben, MD, MPH, and Deborah Porterfield, MD, MPH
Protecting Workers from Secondhand Smoke in North Carolina
Marcus Plescia, MD, MPH, Sally Herndon Malek, MPH, Donald R. Shopland, Christy M. Anderson, and David M. Burns, MD
POLICY FORUM: Innovations in Primary Care
Introduction
Gordon H. DeFriese, PhD, and Kristie Weisner Thompson, MA
Issue Brief: New Developments in Primary Care Practice
Warren P. Newton, MD, MPH, C. Annette DuBard, MD, and Thomas H. Wroth, MD, MPH
COMMENTARIES
Low-Overhead Practice Models and the Uninsured: Harnessing the Power of Small
Scale to Address Large Unmet Health Needs
Steven D. Crane, MD
Access Healthcare: A Model to Provide Improved Access to High-Quality and Affordable Healthcare
Brian R. Forrest, MD
Creating a National Health Information Network:The Importance of Individual Provider Participation
Edward B. Ermini, MD
Transformation of a Dinosaur: Revising Healthcare Documentation
Karen L. Smith, MD
Application of Quality-Improvement Methods in a Community Practice:The Sandhills Pediatrics Asthma Initiative
Thomas H. Wroth, MD, MPH, and Joseph C. Boals IV, MD
Disease Management in Primary Care: Rapid Cycle Quality Improvement of Asthma Care
Samuel S. Weir, MD
Implementing Advanced Access in a Family Medicine Practice: A New Paradigm in Primary Care
John B. Anderson, MD, and Carlos A. Sotolongo, MD
Where Next for Advanced Access: Will It Be Embraced by Specialties?
J. Greg D. Randolf, MD, MPH
Community Care of North Carolina: Saving the State Money and Improving Patient Care
Charles F. Willson, MD
Cabarrus County:A Study of Collaboration
L. Allen Dobson, Jr.,MD, and Torlen L.Wade,MSPH
Clinician-Patient E-mail Communication: Challenges for Reimbursement
Eugenie M. Komives, MD
Innovations in the Practice of Primary Care: Communicating with Patients through E-mail
Donald C. Spencer, MD, MBA
SPECIAL ARTICLE
Emerging Trends in Medical Education:What Are They? And Why Are They Important?
David W. Musick, PhD
REMEMBRANCE
Remembering Eben Alexander, Jr., MD
David L. Kelly, Jr.,MD
DEPARTMENTS
Running the Numbers
Reader's Forum
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