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Warren J. Ferguson
Researcher at University of Massachusetts Medical School
Publications - 40
Citations - 1413
Warren J. Ferguson is an academic researcher from University of Massachusetts Medical School. The author has contributed to research in topics: Health care & Community health. The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 40 publications receiving 1235 citations. Previous affiliations of Warren J. Ferguson include UMass Memorial Health Care & Palo Alto Medical Foundation.
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Culture, language, and the doctor-patient relationship.
TL;DR: Evidence supports the admonition that "majority" physicians need to be more effective in developing relationships and in their communication with ethnic and racial minority patients.
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Professional Language Interpretation and Inpatient Length of Stay and Readmission Rates
TL;DR: The length of a hospital stay for LEP patients was significantly longer when professional interpreters were not used at admission or both admission/discharge and when the rate of interpretation at admission and/or discharge was analyzed.
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Patient health status and appointment keeping in an urban community health center.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relationship between patient health status and the likelihood of missing appointments in a community health center serving low-income patients, and found that the number of appointments scheduled and diagnosed psychological conditions, as well as patient age were significant predictors of missed appointments.
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Community preceptors' views of their identities as teachers.
TL;DR: Community physicians described a variety of factors that contribute to their identity as teachers, including genuine recognition for their efforts by the medical school, and opportunities to strengthen teacher identity and foster relationships between teaching programs and community-based faculty.
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Development and implementation of an objective structured teaching exercise (OSTE) to evaluate improvement in feedback skills following a faculty development workshop.
Sarah L. Stone,Kathleen M. Mazor,Sarah Devaney-O'Neil,Susan Starr,Warren J. Ferguson,Scott Wellman,Eric W. Jacobson,David S. Hatem,Mark E. Quirk +8 more
TL;DR: Results suggest that an OSTE may be sensitive to changes in preceptor skill level for skills that are relatively easy to incorporate immediately into practice and lack of differences in other skill areas may be due to lack of sensitivity of the measure.