The Medical Home Experience of Low-income Children with Non-Urgent Encounters in Acute Care Settings.

Purpose: Assess relationships between having a medical home and health care-seeking behavior attitudes among parents of low-income children with non-urgent encounters in acute settings (emergency, urgent care centers).

Methods: We analyzed data from 1,743 publicly insured children within non-urgent encounters. Parents completed surveys assessing medical home access and attitudes regarding health care-seeking behavior.

A national study of breast and colorectal cancer patients' decision-making for novel personalized medicine genomic diagnostics.

Aim: Molecular diagnostics are increasingly being used to help guide decision-making for personalized medical treatment of breast and colorectal cancer patients. The main aim of this study was to better understand and determine breast and colorectal cancer patients' decision-making strategies and the trade-offs they make in deciding about characteristics of molecular genomic diagnostics for breast and colorectal cancer.

Patients & Methods: We surveyed a nationally representative sample of 300 breast and colorectal cancer patients using a previously developed web-administered instrument.