Winter 2005 - Volume 9 Number 1
Original Research and Contributions
Intrauterine Contraception: Study to Evaluate Clinical Practice and to Increase Utilization
Debbie Postlethwaite, RNP, MPH
Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy for Patients with Breast Cancer: Five-Year Experience.
Richard S Godfrey, MD; Dennis R Holmes, MD; Anjali S Kumar, MD, MPH; Susan E Kutner, MD
Management of Menopause and Midlife Health Issues: What Do Midlife Women Want from Primary Care Clinicians?
Tracy Flanagan, MD; Carl A Serrato, PhD; Andrea Altschuler, PhD; Karen Tallman, PhD; Elizabeth Thomas, MD
Health Systems
Doctor, Should I Take Hormones?
By Laura Kale, MD
Narrative Medicine
Disaster Relief--"What Can I Do to Help?"
Lee Jacobs, MD
Prompted by the Tsunami disaster in the Indian Ocean, this article gives tips on effective disaster relief for medical personnel from an experienced professional.
Case Study
Laparoscopically Assisted Vaginal Extraction of the Kidney after Laparoscopic Radical Nephrectomy.
Christian S Sunoo, MD; Randal A Aaberg, MD; Joyce K Nakamura, MD
Clinical Medicine
Fragile Fracture Care Management Program
Maggie Che, MD; Bruce Ettinger, MD; Jennifer Johnston, MPH; Alice Pressman, MS; Judy Liang, PharmD
The Perinatal Patient Safety Project: New Can Be Great!
Julie Nunes, RN, MS, CPHRM; Sharon McFerran, RN, PhD, CPHQ
Managing High-Risk Obstetric Cases and Analyzing Neonatal Outcome: The KP Northern California Regional Perinatal Service Center
Yvonne Crites, MD; Jenny Ching, RN, BSN; Connie Lessner, RN; Deborah Ray, MD
Family Violence Prevention Program: Another Way to Save a Life.
Brigid McCaw, MD, MS, MPH, FACP; Krista Kotz, PhD, MPH
Mammography Screening: Addressing Myths and Other Reasons for Noncompliance.
Adrienne D Mims, MD, MPH; John Zetzsche, MS; Kecia A Leatherwood, MS
Minilaparotomy: A Minimally Invasive Alternative for Major Gynecologic Abdominal Surgery.
Mark H Glasser, MD
Preventing Unintended Pregnancy: Eight Years of Effort at KP San Diego.
Charles I Jones, MD; Wansu Chen, MS; Karen S Mulligan, RNC, CPHQ
Commentary
Normal Birth
Ione Brunt, CNM
Why Research at KP?
Joseph Selby, MD
The Women’s Health Research Institute: Mission Overview with Featured Research Projects
Ruth Shaber, MD
Can Patients and Physicians Thrive in the 21st Century?
Scott M Gee, MD; Rachelle Mirkin, MPH
The Women's Health Track of the Kaiser Permanente National Primary Care Conference.
Ruth Shaber, MD
Translating Research into Innovative Practice.
Debbie Postlethwaite, RNP, MPH
The Emergency Contraception Online Learning Module
Debbie Postlethwaite, RNP, MPH
Teen Challenges
Jennifer Cullen
Kaiser Permanente Women's Health Center of Excellence in Culturally Competent Care.
David Newhouse, MD; Maria Servin, MSW; Mala Seshagiri, MS, RD
Fighting Breast Cancer: A Call for a New Paradigm.
Mark Binstock, MD, MPH
Vision, Research, Innovation, and Influence: Early Start's 15-Year Journey from Pilot Project to Regional Program.
Leslie Lieberman, MSW; Cosette Taillac, LCSW, BCD; Nancy Goler, MD
Women at Risk for Coronary Heart Disease: How Research is Translated Into Innovation and Quality Outcomes at Kaiser Permanente.
Eleanor Levin, MD, FACC; Joyce Arango, DrPH
The Kaiser Permanente Interregional Breast Care Leaders.
Douglas Shearer; Mark Littlewood, MPA, CHE, CPHRM
Review Article
Four Decades of Research on Hormonal Contraception.
Diana B Petitti, MD, MPH; Stephen Sidney, MD, MPH
Editorial
Women's Health Kaiser Permanente--Improving Women's Lives through Health Care Research, Innovation and Education.
Letters to the Editor
From our Readers
Soul of the Healer
“Bolinas Ridge”
By Julie Nunes, RN, MS, CPHRM
“Jessie”
By Marsha Balian, NP
“Egg Whites”
By Julie Nunes, RN, MS, CPHRM
Domestic Violence in the KP Workplace: Letter from a Physician Survivor
By Marta Moreno, MD
"Canine Cake Walk"
By Marsha Balian, NP
Faces of AIDS: Photographic Display
By Debbie Postlethwaite, RNP, MPH
Book Reviews
Focus on Living: Portraits of Americans with HIV and AIDS
Photographs and interviews by Roslyn Banish;
introduction by Paul M Volberding, MD
Review by Richard Wolitz, MD
A Woman's Guide to Surgical Options in the New Millennium: A Gentler Approach
by Udo Wahn, MD
Review by Linda Starr-Seaman
The Sexy Years: Discover the Hormone Connection--The Secret to Fabulous Sex, Great Health, and Vitality, for Women and Men
by Suzanne Somers
Review by Valerie Ozsu, MSN, CNM, NPIII
Prostitution, Trafficking, and Traumatic Stress
By Melissa Farley, PhD, Editor
Review by Stephen Stolzberg, MD
On The Cover
"Things that are round"
