Physician activities during time out of the examination room.

Purpose: Comprehensive medical care requires direct physician-patient contact, other office-based medical activities, and medical care outside of the office. This study was a systematic investigation of family physician office-based activities outside of the examination room.

Methods: In the summer of 2000, 6 medical students directly observed and recorded the office-based activities of 27 northeastern Ohio community-based family physicians during 1 practice day.

Stages of change analysis of smokers attending clinics for the medically underserved.

Objective: To determine whether smokers at clinics providing care for the medically underserved can be characterized according to the transtheoretical stages of change model.

Study Design: Prospective, descriptive study.

Population: Smokers in the waiting rooms of clinics providing care for the medically underserved.