Physician
Internal Medicine
Dr. Allen L. Gifford, MD
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Dr. Allen L. Gifford works in the field of Internal Medicine. He researched medicine at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine is one of the top medical schools in the US. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine is ranked 22/2 in Research/PrimaryCare. Allen L. Gifford, MD is a published physician. He has 86 papers published. The most current publication "Pilot randomized trial of education to improve self-management skills of men with symptomatic HIV/AIDS."
Publications
- Integrated Care Increases Treatment and Improves Outcomes of Patients With Chronic Hepatitis C Virus Infection and Psychiatric Illness or Substance Abuse.
- Building Strong Research Partnerships Between Public Health and Researchers: A VA Case Study.
- Improving healthcare systems' disclosures of large-scale adverse events: a department of veterans affairs leadership, policymaker, research and stakeholder partnership.
- Resolute efforts to cure hepatitis C: Understanding patients' reasons for completing antiviral treatment.
- Retaining homeless veterans in outpatient care: a pilot study of mobile phone text message appointment reminders.
- The Potential for Health-Related Uses of Mobile Phones and Internet with Homeless Veterans: Results from a Multisite Survey.
- Delivering PACT-Principled Care: Are Specialty Care Patients Being Left Behind?
- Personal health record use and its association with antiretroviral adherence: survey and medical record data from 1871 US veterans infected with HIV.
- Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Direct-Acting Antiviral Therapy for Treatment-Naïve Patients with Chronic Hepatitis C Genotype 1 Infection in the Veterans Health Admini...
- Central Implementation Strategies Outperform Local Ones in Improving HIV Testing in Veterans Healthcare Administration Facilities.
- The Hepatitis C Self-Management Program: Sustainability of Primary Outcomes at 1 Year.
- HOXA1 drives melanoma tumor growth and metastasis and elicits an invasion gene expression signature that prognosticates clinical outcome.
- Use of electronic personal health record systems to encourage HIV screening: an exploratory study of patient and provider perspectives.
- Comparative Logic Modeling for Policy Analysis: The Case of HIV Testing Policy Change at the Department of Veterans Affairs.
- Update in HIV Medicine for the Generalist.
- Effectiveness of collaborative care for depression in human immunodeficiency virus clinics.
- How researchers define vulnerable populations in HIV/AIDS clinical trials.
- Embracing a health services research perspective on personal health records: lessons learned from the VA My HealtheVet system.
- Program characteristics associated with testing for HIV and hepatitis C in veterans substance use disorder clinics.
- HIV screening among substance-abusing veterans in care.
- Barriers and facilitators to routine HIV testing in VA primary care.
- Predictors of retention in HIV care among a national cohort of US veterans.
- Living with hepatitis C: qualitative interviews with hepatitis C-infected veterans.
- Optimizing measurement of self-reported adherence with the ACTG Adherence Questionnaire: a cross-protocol analysis.
- Perceptions of barriers and facilitators to participation in clinical trials in HIV-positive Latinas: a pilot study.
- Retention in care: a challenge to survival with HIV infection.
- A self-management approach to improving continuous positive airway pressure adherence and outcomes.
- Self-monitoring of a stress reduction technique using wrist-worn counters.
- Pilot randomized trial of the effect of wireless telemonitoring on compliance and treatment efficacy in obstructive sleep apnea.
- Relationship of frequent mantram repetition to emotional and spiritual well-being in healthcare workers.
- Effects of spiritual mantram repetition on HIV outcomes: a randomized controlled trial.
- Creating a crosswalk to estimate AIDS Clinical Trials Group quality of life scores in a nationally representative sample of persons in care for HIV in the United States.
- Psychosocial mediators of antiretroviral nonadherence in HIV-positive adults with substance use and mental health problems.
- The economic viability of antiretroviral adherence interventions.
- Substance use and mental health correlates of nonadherence to antiretroviral medications in a sample of patients with human immunodeficiency virus infection.
- Combination antiretroviral therapy and improvements in mental health: results from a nationally representative sample of persons undergoing care for HIV in the United ...
- Chronic disease self-management and adherence to HIV medications.
- Response to symptoms among a U.S. national probability sample of adults infected with human immunodeficiency virus.
- Development and Field Testing of an HIV Medication Touch Screen Computer Patient Adherence Tool with Telephone-Based, Targeted Adherence Counseling.
- Feasibility and Acceptability of a Real-Time Adherence Device among HIV-Positive IDU Patients in China.
- Development of the hepatitis C self-management program.
- Pilot study demonstrating effectiveness of targeted education to improve informed consent understanding in AIDS clinical trials.
- Exportability of an intervention to increase HIV testing in the Veterans Health Administration.
- Evaluation of the sustainability of an intervention to increase HIV testing.
- Disparities in health-related internet use by US veterans: results from a national survey.
- Viral RNA testing in hepatitis C antibody-positive veterans.
- Implementing and evaluating a regional strategy to improve testing rates in VA patients at risk for HIV, utilizing the QUERI process as a guiding framework: QUERI Series.
- Measuring persistence of implementation: QUERI Series.
- A system-wide intervention to improve HIV testing in the Veterans Health Administration.
- Behind the scenes in health care improvement: the complex structures and emergent strategies of Implementation Science.
- Implementation of buprenorphine in the Veterans Health Administration: results of the first 3 years.
- Participation in research and access to experimental treatments by HIV-infected patients.
- Complementary and alternative medicine use and substitution for conventional therapy by HIV-infected patients.
- Underdiagnosis of depression in HIV: who are we missing?
- Balancing disfigurement and fear of disease progression: Patient perceptions of HIV body fat redistribution.
- Predictors of self-reported adherence and plasma HIV concentrations in patients on multidrug antiretroviral regimens.
- Underuse of primary Mycobacterium avium complex and Pneumocystis carinii prophylaxis in the United States.
- Quality indicators for depression care in HIV patients.
- Changes in health-promoting behavior following diagnosis with HIV: prevalence and correlates in a national probability sample.
- Propensity of HIV patients to seek urgent and emergent care. HIV Cost and Services Utilization Study Consortium.
- Self-management health education for chronic HIV infection.
- Update in HIV care.
- Symptom-based framework for assessing quality of HIV care.
- Quality Enhancement Research Initiative for human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome: framework and plan. HIV-QUERI Executive Committee.
- Self-reported adherence to antiretroviral medications among participants in HIV clinical trials: the AACTG adherence instruments. Patient Care Committee & Adherence Wo...
- Access of vulnerable groups to antiretroviral therapy among persons in care for HIV disease in the United States. HCSUS Consortium. HIV Cost and Services Utilization S...
- Measurement of fatigue in HIV-positive adults: reliability and validity of the Global Fatigue Index.
- Pilot randomized trial of education to improve self-management skills of men with symptomatic HIV/AIDS.
- National estimates of HIV-related symptom prevalence from the HIV Cost and Services Utilization Study.
- Prevalence and predictors of highly active antiretroviral therapy use in patients with HIV infection in the united states. HCSUS Consortium. HIV Cost and Services Util...
- Preventive care among HIV-positive patients in a general medicine practice.
- Improving HIV screening and receipt of results by nurse-initiated streamlined counseling and rapid testing.
- End-of-life discussions and preferences among persons with HIV.
- Measuring medication: do interviews agree with medical record and pharmacy data?
- The impact of integrated HIV care on patient health outcomes.
- The hepatitis C self-management programme: a randomized controlled trial.
- Development and implementation of collaborative care for depression in HIV clinics.
- Evaluating HIV-infected patients with headache: who needs computed tomography?
- Barriers to use of electronic adherence monitoring in an HIV clinic.
- Predictors of treatment in patients with chronic hepatitis C infection - role of patient versus nonpatient factors.
- Justification for a new cohort study of people aging with and without HIV infection.
- Development and validation of a self-completed HIV symptom index.
- Hepatitis C testing practices and prevalence in a high-risk urban ambulatory care setting.
- Therapeutic conversion from fosinopril to benazepril at a Veterans Affairs medical center.
- Evaluation of patient reporting of adverse drug reactions to the UK ''Yellow Card Scheme'': literature review, descriptive and qualitative analyses, and questionnaire ...
Schools
University of North Carolina At Chapel Hill
Doctors Specialties
- Internal Medicine
Accepted Insurances
- Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Medicare MCR
- United Healthcare
Education
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UCSF -
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine
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