id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_adltjnxumja75ibv5jdsxnizsa Richard L. Kravitz From the Editors' Desk: The Power of First Impressions 2010 1 .pdf application/pdf 1244 258 43 Division of General Medicine, University of California at Davis, Sacramento, CA, USA. In this issue of JGIM, two articles illustrate the power of thinslicing in medicine. walk a quarter-mile) predicts future functional status, hospitalization rates, and health care costs. measurement, in which clinical impressions are replaced by self-reported health scales begat the SF-36, which begat the Their paper describes the results of a study in poor patient self-reported health, defined as >=2 standard In short, first impressions convey useful information. Also in this issue of JGIM are several articles related to screening for cancer and mental health conditions, including Kravitz, MD, MSPH, UC Davis Division of General This article is published with open access at Corresponding Author: Richard L. /ENU (Use these settings to create Adobe PDF documents best suited for on-screen display, e-mail, and the Internet. Created PDF documents can be opened with Acrobat and Adobe Reader 5.0 and later.) ./cache/work_adltjnxumja75ibv5jdsxnizsa.pdf ./txt/work_adltjnxumja75ibv5jdsxnizsa.txt