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Journal of General Internal Medicine

Issue 1/2014

Content (59 Articles)

From the Editor's Desk

The Innovator’s DNA and Health Care Improvement

Malathi Srinivasan

Editorial

Is Mortality Risk Reduced in Overweight or Obese Diabetics?

Gang Hu, Steven B. Heymsfield

Editorial

Inpatient Alcohol Withdrawal: Time to Prevent the Preventable?

Kendal Williams, Matthew Mitchell

Editorial Comment

The Superiority of Patient Engagement and Shared Decision-Making in Noninferiority Trials

Richard M. Hoffman, Mary McNaughton-Collins

Editorial Comment

10 Bold Steps to Prevent Burnout in General Internal Medicine

Mark Linzer, Rachel Levine, David Meltzer, Sara Poplau, Carole Warde, Colin P. West

Letter to the Editor

Evaluating the Brief Health Literacy Screen

Allison J. Louis, Vineet M. Arora, Valerie G. Press

Letter to the Editor

Evaluating the Brief Health Literacy Screen

Kenneth A. Wallston, Kathryn M. Goggins, Sunil Kripalani

Letter to the Editor

A Post-2011 Time Motion Study

Wei Wei Lee, Maria Alcocer Alkureishi, Jeanne Farnan

Letter to the Editor

A Post-2011 Time Motion Study

Lauren Block, Robert Habicht, Albert W. Wu, Sanjay V. Desai, Kevin Wang, Kathryn Novello Silva, Timothy Niessen, Nora Oliver, Leonard Feldman

Original Research

Body-Mass Index and All-Cause Mortality in US Adults With and Without Diabetes

Chandra L. Jackson, Hsin-Chieh Yeh, Moyses Szklo, Frank B. Hu, Nae-Yuh Wang, Rosemary Dray-Spira, Frederick L. Brancati

Original Research

Using the AUDIT-PC to Predict Alcohol Withdrawal in Hospitalized Patients

Anna Pecoraro, Edward Ewen, Terry Horton, Ruth Mooney, Paul Kolm, Patty McGraw, George Woody

Randomized, Controlled Trial of a Multimodal Intervention to Improve Cancer Screening Rates in a Safety-Net Primary Care Practice

Samantha Hendren, Paul Winters, Sharon Humiston, Amna Idris, Shirley X. L. Li, Patricia Ford, Raymond Specht, Stephen Marcus, Michael Mendoza, Kevin Fiscella

Original Research

Insights from the POWER Practice-Based Weight Loss Trial: A Focus Group Study on the PCP’s Role in Weight Management

Wendy L. Bennett, Kimberly A. Gudzune, Lawrence J. Appel, Jeanne M. Clark

Original Research

Clinic-Based Versus Outsourced Implementation of a Diabetes Health Literacy Intervention

Michael S. Wolf, Hilary Seligman, Terry C. Davis, David A. Fleming, Laura M. Curtis, Anjali U. Pandit, Ruth M. Parker, Dean Schillinger, Darren A. DeWalt

Original Research

Sex, Race, and Consideration of Bariatric Surgery Among Primary Care Patients with Moderate to Severe Obesity

Christina C. Wee, Karen W. Huskey, Dragana Bolcic-Jankovic, Mary Ellen Colten, Roger B. Davis, MaryBeth Hamel

Original Research

The Impact of Financial Barriers on Access to Care, Quality of Care and Vascular Morbidity Among Patients with Diabetes and Coronary Heart Disease

Puja B. Parikh, Jie Yang, Steven Leigh, Kunchok Dorjee, Roopali Parikh, Nicholas Sakellarios, Hongdao Meng, David L. Brown

Original Research

Guideline-Inconsistent Breast Cancer Screening for Women over 50: A Vignette-Based Survey

Hajar Kadivar, Barbara A. Goff, William R. Phillips, C. Holly A. Andrilla, Alfred O. Berg, Laura-Mae Baldwin

Original Research

Get Screened: A Randomized Trial of the Incremental Benefits of Reminders, Recall, and Outreach on Cancer Screening

Robert J. Fortuna, Amna Idris, Paul Winters, Sharon G. Humiston, Steven Scofield, Samantha Hendren, Patricia Ford, Shirley X. L. Li, Kevin Fiscella

Original Research

Measuring Primary Care Organizational Capacity for Diabetes Care Coordination: The Diabetes Care Coordination Readiness Assessment

Douglas L. Weeks, Jennifer M. Polello, Daniel T. Hansen, Benjamin J. Keeney, Douglas A. Conrad

Original Research

Sexual Violence and Mental Health Symptoms Among National Guard and Reserve Soldiers

Kate Walsh, Karestan C. Koenen, Gregory H. Cohen, Robert Ursano, Robert K. Gifford, Carol S. Fullerton, Sandro Galea

Original Research

Psychometric Properties of the Brief Health Literacy Screen in Clinical Practice

Kenneth A. Wallston, Courtney Cawthon, Candace D. McNaughton, Russell L. Rothman, Chandra Y. Osborn, Sunil Kripalani

Original Research

Sustainability of Quality Improvement Following Removal of Pay-for-Performance Incentives

Justin K. Benzer, Gary J. Young, James F. Burgess Jr, Errol Baker, David C. Mohr, Martin P. Charns, Peter J. Kaboli

Original Research

No Detectable Association Between Frequency of Marijuana Use and Health or Healthcare Utilization Among Primary Care Patients Who Screen Positive for Drug Use

Daniel Fuster, Debbie M. Cheng, Donald Allensworth-Davies, Tibor P. Palfai, Jeffrey H. Samet, Richard Saitz

Original Research

Racial/Ethnic Differences in Trust in Health Care: HIV Conspiracy Beliefs and Vaccine Research Participation

Ryan P. Westergaard, Mary Catherine Beach, Somnath Saha, Elizabeth A. Jacobs

Original Research

Phase Angle, Frailty and Mortality in Older Adults

Emilee R. Wilhelm-Leen, Yoshio N. Hall, Ralph I. Horwitz, Glenn M. Chertow

Original Research

A Survey of U.S. Physicians and Their Partners Regarding the Impact of Work–Home Conflict

Liselotte N. Dyrbye, Wayne Sotile, Sonja Boone, Colin P. West, Litjen Tan, Daniel Satele, Jeff Sloan, Mick Oreskovich, Tait Shanafelt

Original Research

A Randomized Clinical Trial of Alcohol Care Management Delivered in Department of Veterans Affairs Primary Care Clinics Versus Specialty Addiction Treatment

David W. Oslin, Kevin G. Lynch, Stephen A. Maisto, Larry J. Lantinga, James R. McKay, Kyle Possemato, Erin Ingram, Michael Wierzbicki

Original Research

Social Service Barriers Delay Care Among Women with Abnormal Cancer Screening

Sarah W. Primeau, Karen M. Freund, Ambili Ramachandran, Sharon M. Bak, Timothy Heeren, Clara A. Chen, Samantha Morton, Tracy A. Battaglia

Review Article

Crowdsourcing—Harnessing the Masses to Advance Health and Medicine, a Systematic Review

Benjamin L. Ranard, Yoonhee P. Ha, Zachary F. Meisel, David A. Asch, Shawndra S. Hill, Lance B. Becker, Anne K. Seymour, Raina M. Merchant

Review Aritcle

SSRIs for Hot Flashes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Trials

Taghreed Shams, Belal Firwana, Farida Habib, Abeer Alshahrani, Badria AlNouh, Mohammad Hassan Murad, Mazen Ferwana

Documenting Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Efforts: The Quality Portfolio. A Statement from the Academic Hospitalist Taskforce

Benjamin B. Taylor, Vikas Parekh, Carlos A. Estrada, Anneliese Schleyer, Bradley Sharpe

Original Research

Exploring Public Attitudes Towards Approaches to Discussing Costs in the Clinical Encounter

Marion Danis, Roseanna Sommers, Jean Logan, Beverly Weidmer, Shirley Chen, Susan Goold, Steven Pearson, Elizabeth McGlynn

Potential Savings Associated with Drug Substitution in Medicare Part D: The Translating Research into Action for Diabetes (TRIAD) Study

O. Kenrik Duru, Susan L. Ettner, Norman Turk, Carol M. Mangione, Arleen F. Brown, Jeffery Fu, Leslie Simien, Chien-Wen Tseng

Original Research

The Impact of Managed Care Contracting on Physicians

Dan P. Ly, Sherry A. Glied

A Leathery Lining

Rushi V. Parikh, Nicholas Frost, Adrienne Green, Madhavi Dandu

Clinical Image

Adult Diffuse Hepatic Hemangiomatosis: A Rare Cause of Dilated Cardiomyopathy and Sudden Cardiac Arrest

Rodjawan Supakul, Saeed T. Vakili, Suthat Liangpunsakul

Calcinosis in Adult-Onset Dermatomyositis: Metastatic or Dystrophic?

Barry Ladizinski, Ali Khan, Christopher Sankey

Warfarin-Induced Skin Necrosis

Natalia Kozac, Ami Schattner

Clinical Practice: Clinical Vignettes

Recurrent Hypoglycemia from Insulin Autoimmune Syndrome

Sophia L. Wong, Anne Priestman, Daniel T. Holmes

Clinical Practice: Exercises in Clinical Reasoning

Back Attack

Andres Anaya, Lee Plantmason, Gurpreet Dhaliwal

Theory of Relativity

Daniel Becker

Healing Arts

Highway Tollbooth Worker

Ryan Childers

Healing Arts

Visiting

Leslie G. Cohen