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Exposure to Sex on TV May Increase the Chance of Teen Pregnancy - 2008

Developing a Spanish-language Consumer Report for CAHPS Health Plan Surveys - 2007

Differences in HIV Care Between Patients With and Without Severe Mental Illness - 2007

Disenrollment Information and Medicare Plan Choice: Is More Information Better? - 2007

Mental Health and Substance Abuse Issues Among People with HIV: Lessons from HCSUS - 2007

Problem-Oriented Reporting of CAHPS Consumer Evaluations of Health Care - 2007

Religiosity, Denominational Affiliation, and Sexual Behaviors Among People With HIV in the United States - 2007

Understanding the Reporting Practices of CAHPS Sponsors - 2007

Co-Location of Health Care for Adults with Serious Mental Illness and HIV Infection - 2006

Cognitive-Behavioral Intervention to Enhance Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy: A Randomized Controlled Trial (CCTG 578) - 2006

Correlates of Sex Without Serostatus Disclosure Among a National Probability Sample of HIV Patients - 2006

Exposure to Degrading Versus Nondegrading Music Lyrics and Sexual Behavior Among Youth - 2006

Nondisclosure of Sexual Orientation to a Physician Among a Sample of Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Youth - 2006

Patterns and Correlates of Deliberate Abstinence among Men and Women with HIV/AIDS - 2006

Patterns of HIV Care for Patients with Serious Mental Illness - 2006

Sexual Readiness, Household Policies, and Other Predictors of Adolescents' Exposure to Sexual Content in Mainstream Entertainment Television - 2006

HIV-Infected Population National Data - 2005

Needs for Services Reported by Adults with Severe Mental Illness and HIV - 2005

Patients' Preferences for Technical Versus Interpersonal Quality When Selecting a Primary Care Physician - 2005

Perceived Discrimination in Clinical Care in a Nationally Representative Sample of HIV-Infected Adults Receiving Health Care - 2005

Racial and Ethnic Segmentation of Female Prostitution in Los Angeles County - 2005

Recruiting Drug-Using Men Who Have Sex with Men Into Behavioral Interventions: A Two-Stage Approach - 2005

Screening for Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Non-Traditional Settings: A Personal View - 2005

Social Cognitive Processes Mediating the Relationship Between Exposure to Television's Sexual Content and Adolescents' Sexual Behavior - 2005

Abuse in the Close Relationships of People With HIV - 2004

Behavior Patterns and Sexual Identity of Bisexual Males - 2004

Changing Practice Patterns in the Management of Primary Breast Cancer: Concensus Development Program - 2004

Correlates of HIV Antiretroviral Adherence in Persons with Serious Mental Illness - 2004

Does Watching Sex on Television Influence Teens’ Sexual Activity? - 2004

Healthy Passages: A Multilevel, Multimethod Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health - 2004

Identifying Likely Duplicates by Record Linkage in a Survey of Prostitutes - 2004

Reporting About Health Care Quality: A Guide to the Galaxy - 2004

Watching Sex on Television Predicts Adolescent Initiation of Sexual Behavior - 2004

Adherence to HIV Antiretrovirals among Persons with Serious Mental Illness - 2003

Assessing Usual Care in Clinical Trials of Adherence Interventions for Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy - 2003

Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use and Substitution for Conventional Therapy by HIV-Infected Patients - 2003

Entertainment Television As a Healthy Sex Educator: The Impact of Condom-Efficacy Information in an Episode of Friends - 2003

HIV Risk Behaviors and Their Correlates Among HIV-Positive Adults with Serious Mental Illness - 2003

Intervenciones Dirigidas a Personas Afroamericanas y Latinas Portadoras de VIH: Lecciones Aprendidas a Traves de la IAP (HIV Interventions for African American and Latinos: Lessons Learned from Participatory Action Research) - 2003

Sex Without Disclosure of Positive HIV Serostatus in a US Probability Sample of Persons Receiving Medical Care for HIV Infection - 2003

Substance Use and High-Risk Sex Among People with HIV: A Comparison Across Exposure Groups - 2003

After 9-11: Stress and Coping Across America - 2002

After 9/11: Stress and Coping Across America - 2002

Testimony

Effects of CAHPS Health Plan Performance Information on Plan Choices by New Jersey Medicaid Beneficiaries - 2002

Effects of CAHPS Performance Information on Health Plan Choices by Iowa Medicaid Beneficiaries - 2002

Health Information on the Internet: Accessibility, Quality, and Readability in English and Spanish - 2002

Assessing Symptoms Before Hysterectomy: Is the Medical Record Accurate? - 2001

Assessing the Usability and Usefulness of the CAHPS Decision Helper, Version 2.0 - 2001

Draft Report

Contraceptive Use by Couples When One Partner Is Infected With HIV: [Microbicides 2000: March 13-16, Hilton Alexandria Mark Center; Washington, DC: Conference Proceedings: Track C: Microbicides and Other Prevention Modalities: Wednesday, March 15, 2000] - 2001

Fertility Desires and Intentions of HIV-Positive Men and Women - 2001

A National Survey of Stress Reactions After the September 11, 2001, Terrorist Attacks - 2001

Promoting Adolescent Health: Worksite-Based Interventions with Parents of Adolescents - 2001

Using The Internet to Access Health Information: Can It Deliver? - 2001

Changing the Policy Toward Homosexuals in the U.S. Military - 2000

HIV-Infected Parents and Their Children in the United States - 2000

Testing CAHPS Health Plan Performance Reports in the Florida Medicaid Program - 2000

Drawing a probability sample of female prostitutes in Los Angeles County - 1999

HIV and people with serious mental illness : the public sector's role in reducing HIV risk and improving care - 1999

Making survey results easy to report to consumers : how reporting needs guided survey design in CAHPS - 1999

Quality of life among women undergoing hysterectomies - 1999

Using qualitative methods to study the hidden world of offstreet prostitution in Los Angeles County - 1999

Impact of a High School Condom Availability Program on Sexual Attitudes and Behaviors - 1998

The Sexual Practices of Asian and Pacific Islander High School Students - 1998

Students' Acquisition and Use of School Condoms in a High School Condom Availability Program - 1998

Hysterectomy: Clinical Recommendations and Indications for Use - 1997

Sexual orientation and proscribed sexual behaviors - 1997

Treatment Adequacy for HIV-Related Pneumocystis Pneumonia: Quality Measures for Inpatient Care - 1997

Communication Between Adolescents and Physicians About Sexual Behavior and Risk Prevention - 1996

Derivation and properties of a brief health status assessment instrument for use in HIV disease - 1996

Dissemination of effectiveness and outcomes research - 1996

The impact of zidovudine compared with didanosine on health status and functioning in persons with advanced HIV infection and a varying duration of prior zidovudine therapy - 1996

Measuring Patient-Centered Outcomes in the Pfizer-CCTG Trial of Azithromycin vs. Rifabutin vs. Both for the Prevention of HIV-Associated Mycobacterium avium: Instruments, Methods, Application, and Results - 1996

Draft Report

The Sexual Practices of Adolescent Virgins: Genital Sexual Activities of High School Students Who Have Never Had Vaginal Intercourse - 1996

Health status and function with Zidovudine or Zalcitabine as initial therapy for AIDS : a randomized controlled trial - 1995

Measuring Patient-Centered Outcomes in ACTG 116/117: Instruments, Methods, Application, and Results - 1995

Draft Report

Analytic difficulties in applying quality of life outcomes to clinical trials of therapy for HIV disease - 1994

Measuring Patient-Reported Health Status in Advanced HIV Disease: HIV-PARSE Survey Instrument - 1994

Sexual Orientation and U.S. Military Personnel Policy: Options and Assessment - 1993

AIDS-Related Knowledge, Attitudes, Beliefs, and Behaviors in Los Angeles County - 1991

Modeling Heterogeneity in Susceptibility and Infectivity for HIV Infection - 1991

Response to the AIDS Epidemic: A Survey of Homosexual and Bisexual Men in Los Angeles County - 1991

Developing a Probability Sample of Prostitutes: Sample Design for the RAND Study of HIV Infection and Risk Behaviors in Prostitutes - 1990

Quality-of-care issues for HIV illness: clinical and health services research - 1990

Paper

The Relation Between Resource Use and In-Hospital Mortality for Patients with Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome-Related Pneumocystis Carinii Pneumonia - 1990

Changing Medical Practice Through Technology Assessment: An Evaluation of the NIH Consensus Development Program - 1989

Physician Response to a Mailed Survey: An Experiment in Timing of Payment - 1987

Physician Survey for Evaluating the NIH Consensus Development Program - 1987

Accounting for the Educational Shortfalls of Mothers - 1986

The Effects of Parenthood on the Career Orientation and Job Characteristics of Young Adults - 1986

Popular Press Coverage of Eight National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Topics - 1986

Treatment of Eight NIH Consensus Development Conferences in the Biomedical Literature - 1986

Changes in the Employment Activities of New Parents - 1985

The Consequences of Parenthood for the Marital Stability of Young Adults - 1985

Informing Consumers about Health Care Costs: A Review and Research Agenda - 1985

Changes in the Lifestyles of New Parents - 1984

Variations in the Content and Style of NIH Consensus Statements, 1979-1983 - 1984

Codebook for the attitude module of the landlord survey, site II, baseline - 1981

Consumer Reactions to the Tone of Written Drug Information - 1981

Design of the Prescription Drug Information Study - 1981

Informing Patients About Drugs: Analysis of Alternative Designs for Estrogen Leaflets - 1981

Informing Patients About Drugs: Analysis of Alternative Designs for Erythromycin Leaflets - 1981

Informing Patients About Drugs: Analysis of Alternative Designs for Flurazepam Leaflets - 1981

Informing Patients About Drugs: Summary Report on Alternative Designs for Prescription Drug Leaflets - 1981

Sample Selection for the Prescription Drug Information Study - 1981

Teenage Parents: Their Ambitions and Attainments - 1981

Effects of Postsecondary Experiences on Aspirations, Attitudes, and Self-Conceptions - 1980

Landlord Knowledge and Evaluation of Housing Allowances: St. Joseph County, Indiana, 1975 - 1980

Attribution and the drug use process - 1979

Paper

Public perceptions of housing allowances : the first two years - 1979