
Dr. Charles Joseph Bentz MD
Internist
2400 Sw Vermont St Portland OR, 97219About
Dr. Charles Bentz is an internist practicing in Portland, OR. Dr. Bentz specializes in the medical treatment of adults. Internists can act as a primary physician or a consultant to a primary physician. They manage both common and rare diseases. Dr. Bentz provides comprehensive care and manages treatment with surgeons as well. Internists establish long-term relationships with their patients and incorporate disease prevention and mental health care into their practice.
Education and Training
Med Coll of Wi, Milwaukee Wi 1988
Med College Of Wisconsin 1988
Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Regents University 1988
Medical College of Wisconsin 1988
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Implementing tobacco tracking codes in an individual practice association or a network model health maintenance organisation.
- Review: clonidine is more effective than placebo for long-term smoking cessation, but has side effects.
- The feasibility of connecting physician offices to a state-level tobacco quit line.
- Provider feedback to improve 5A's tobacco cessation in primary care: a cluster randomized clinical trial.
- An intensive smoking cessation intervention reduced mortality in high-risk smokers with cardiovascular disease.
- An intensive smoking cessation intervention reduced hospital admissions and mortality in high risk smokers with CVD.
- ACP Journal Club. Review: Nicotine gum and varenicline, but not behavioral interventions, reduce relapse in persons who have stopped smoking.
- ACP Journal Club. A personalized, cellular phone text-messaging program increased smoking cessation at 6 months.
- Referring Hospitalized Smokers to Outpatient Quit Services: A Randomized Trial.
Treatments
- Anxiety
- High Cholesterol
- Peripheral Neuropathy
- Arthritis
- Neuropathy
- Back Pain
- Hypothyroidism
- Pain
- Vascular Disease
Fellowships
- Oregon Health Sciences University Hospital GME (Internal Medicine)
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