Professor, Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin

Internal Medicine

Marilyn Schapira practices Internal Medicine. He attended University of Michigan Medical School. Marilyn Schapira is a published doctor and has 64 publications published. The lastest was: 'Kirschner wire embolization to the heart: an unusual cause of pericardial tamponade.'

Publications

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• Inpatient Housestaff Discontinuity of Care and Patient Adverse Events.
• Public engagement with scientific evidence in health: A qualitative study among primary-care patients in an urban population.
• Development and validation of the numeracy understanding in medicine instrument short form.
• Quality of life among a population-based cohort of older patients with breast cancer.
• Measuring Health Literacy in Caregivers of Children: A Comparison of the Newest Vital Sign and S-TOFHLA.
• Caregiver Low Health Literacy and Nonurgent Use of the Pediatric Emergency Department for Febrile Illness.
• A Randomized Trial of Peer-Delivered Self-Management Support for Hypertension.
• Patient perceptions of osteoporosis treatment thresholds.
• Meaningful Use and the Patient Portal: Patient Enrollment, Use, and Satisfaction With Patient Portals at a Later-Adopting Center.
• The composition of intern work while on call.
• The development and validation of the hypertension evaluation of lifestyle and management knowledge scale.
• The Importance of Physicians' Risk Perception in Osteoporosis Treatment Decision Making.
• It's the writing on the wall: Whiteboards improve inpatient satisfaction with provider communication.
• A comparison of outcomes of general medical inpatient care provided by a hospitalist-physician assistant model vs a traditional resident-based model.
• The Meaning of Numbers in Health: Exploring Health Numeracy in a Mexican-American Population.
• Ethical challenges in a randomized controlled trial of peer education among veterans service organizations.
• Contextual errors and failures in individualizing patient care: a multicenter study.
• A randomized study of the effect of 5-year and lifetime hip fracture risk information on physician recommendations for management of low bone density.
• Faculty development for the 21st century: lessons from the Society of General Internal Medicine-Hartford Collaborative Centers for the Care of Older Adults.
• Black-white differences in risk perceptions of breast cancer survival and screening mammography benefit.
• The continuing evolution of women's health.
• Agreement between scales in the measurement of breast cancer risk perceptions.
• Predictors of pessimistic breast cancer risk perceptions in a primary care population.
• Methodological issues in the use of administrative claims data to study surveillance after cancer treatment.
• The influence of graphic format on breast cancer risk communication.
• Decision-making at Menopause: a randomized controlled trial of a computer-based hormone therapy decision-aid.
• A framework for health numeracy: how patients use quantitative skills in health care.
• Evaluating existing measures of health numeracy using item response theory.
• The relationship of health numeracy to cancer screening.
• Menopausal hormone therapy decisions: insights from a multi-attribute model.
• How do hospitalized patients feel about resident work hours, fatigue, and discontinuity of care?
• Work hour rules and contributors to patient care mistakes: a focus group study with internal medicine residents.
• Enhanced decision-making: the use of a videotape decision-aid for patients with prostate cancer.
• Underutilization of mammography in older breast cancer survivors.
• Treatment of localized prostate cancer in African-American compared with Caucasian men. Less use of aggressive therapy for comparable disease.
• Effect of treatment on quality of life among men with clinically localized prostate cancer.
• The value of the forced expiratory time in the physical diagnosis of obstructive airways disease.
• Generalizability of the surveillance, epidemiology, and end results registry population: factors relevant to epidemiologic and health care research.
• Frequency or probability? A qualitative study of risk communication formats used in health care.
• Relation between appropriateness of primary therapy for early-stage breast carcinoma and increased use of breast-conserving surgery.
• The effectiveness of ovarian cancer screening. A decision analysis model.
• Mentorship in general internal medicine: investment in our future.
• The effect of an illustrated pamphlet decision-aid on the use of prostate cancer screening tests.
• Pyuria among chronically incontinent but otherwise asymptomatic nursing home residents.
• Osteoporosis: evaluation and treatment.
• Kirschner wire embolization to the heart: an unusual cause of pericardial tamponade.
• Accuracy of pelvic examination.
• Accuracy of rapid urine screening tests among incontinent nursing home residents with asymptomatic bacteriuria.
• Does eradicating bacteriuria affect the severity of chronic urinary incontinence in nursing home residents?
• Urine specimen collection from incontinent female nursing home residents.
• Impact of hepatitis C virus infection on the aetiology of cirrhosis and hepatocarcinoma in three affiliated hospitals in southern Belgium.
• Surveillance for hepatocellular carcinoma: compliance and results according to the aetiology of cirrhosis in a cohort of 141 patients.
• Upper gastrointestinal bleeding: what has changed during the last 20 years?
• Formation and properties of C1-inhibitor polymers.
• Colonoscopy as a screening test for colorectal cancer.
• [Lipoprotein (a) in liver diseases. Correlation between low levels and liver function].
• [Prevention of bacterial infection using selective intestinal decontamination in patients with cirrhosis admitted to intensive care. Controlled study in 120 patients].
• Gait velocity in senior people. An easy test for detecting mobility impairment in community elderly.
• Report on the Belgian consensus meeting on colorectal cancer screening.
• Regulated translation initiation controls stress-induced gene expression in mammalian cells.
• Prediction of the binding energy for small molecules, peptides and proteins.
• Subunit rearrangement accompanies sequence-specific DNA binding by the bovine papillomavirus-1 E2 protein.
• Low caregiver health literacy is associated with higher pediatric emergency department use and nonurgent visits.

Schools

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• University Of Michigan Medical School

• Emory University

• Moses Cone Hospital

• Duke University

Conditions Treated

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• Menopause

Doctors Specialties

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• Internal Medicine

Accepted Insurances

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• GEHA
• Medicare Advantage PFFS
• Medicare MCR

Education

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• Emory University
• University of Michigan Medical School

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