Background: In addition to nonmodifiable genetic risk factors, potentially modifiable factors
such as hypertension, hyperlipidemia and environmental exposures have been identified as …

Objective: To develop evidence based consensus statements on which to build clinical
practice guidelines for primary care physicians toward the recognition, assessment and …

… Feightner is with the Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Western
… subjects treated in a combined behavioural modification program Int J Obes 1992;16:623-5. …

Health: Deborah Assayag, Elizabeth Barnett, Jennifer Blake, Beverly Brockest, Giovani Burgos,
Glenn Campbell, Andrea Chambers, Angie Chan, Maryann Cheetham, Walter Delpero, …

Most formal studies of the clinical reasoning process have been carried out on physicians in
the sub-specialties and do not permit generalizations about the nature of the process in the …

The evolution of clinical reasoning in medical students was studied. A cross‐sectional sample
consisted of randomly‐selected medical students from three classes. Additionally, twenty‐…

A consistent finding in the literature on measures of clinical problem‐solving scores is that
there are very low correlations across different problems. This phenomenon is commonly …

BACKGROUND: Stroke, dementia, and cognitive impairment no dementia (CIND) pose
major threats to the elderly but have rarely been studied together in the same population. We …

… Feightner, MD … Feightner is an associate professor in the Department of Family Medicine.
All are at McMaster … J. Med Educ., 47:789-792, 1972. , SANSON-FISHER, RW, and PooLE, AD …

Purpose: This article examines factors within the long-term-care work environment that
impact the effectiveness of continuing education. Design & Methods: In Study 1, focus group …