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Journal of General Internal Medicine

Issue 11/2014

Content (36 Articles)

Editorial

What Should We Tell Our Patients About E-cigarettes?

Lori A. Bastian, Cheryl Oncken

Editorial

Living Alone, Socially Isolated or Lonely—What are We Measuring?

Carla M. Perissinotto, Kenneth E. Covinsky

Editorial

Should We Take the C-TraIn to Reduce Hospital Readmissions?

Irfan A. Dhalla, Sumit R. Majumdar

Open Access Editorial

Graduate Medical Education Reform: Moving the Elephant

Frederick J. Meyers, Mark C. Henderson

Editorial Comment

Internet Support Groups for Health: Ready for the Affordable Care Act

Bruce L. Rollman, Bea Herbeck Belnap, Armando J. Rotondi

Letter to the Editor

Directly Observed Care: Can Unannounced Standardized Patients Address a Gap in Performance Measurement?

Sondra Zabar, Colleen Gillespie, Kathleen Hanley, Adina Kalet

Letter to the Editor

Midodrine Efficacy in Orthostatic Hypotension

W. Singer, M. J. Joyner, P. Sandroni, E. E. Benarroch, R. D. Fealey, J. Mandrekar, P. A. Low

Letter to the Editor

Midodrine Efficacy in Orthostatic Hypotension

M. Hassan Murad, Balwinder Singh, Ajay A. Parsaik

Original Research

E-Cigarette Versus Nicotine Inhaler: Comparing the Perceptions and Experiences of Inhaled Nicotine Devices

Michael B. Steinberg, Mia Hanos Zimmermann, Cristine D. Delnevo, M. Jane Lewis, Parth Shukla, Elliot J. Coups, Jonathan Foulds

Original Research

Association of Living Alone and Hospitalization Among Community-Dwelling Elders With and Without Dementia

Stephanie K. Ennis, Eric B. Larson, Louis Grothaus, Christian D. Helfrich, Steven Balch, Elizabeth A. Phelan

Original Research

Reducing Excess Cardiac Biomarker Testing at an Academic Medical Center

Marc R. Larochelle, Amy M. Knight, Hardin Pantle, Stefan Riedel, Jeffrey C. Trost

Original Research

Characteristics and Long-Term Follow-Up of Participants with Peripheral Arterial Disease During ALLHAT

Linda B. Piller, Lara M. Simpson, Sarah Baraniuk, Gabriel B. Habib, Mahboob Rahman, Jan N. Basile, Richard A. Dart, Allan J. Ellsworth, Herbert Fendley, Jeffrey L. Probstfield, Paul K. Whelton, Barry R. Davis

Original Research

Innovation in the Safety Net: Integrating Community Health Centers Through Accountable Care

Valerie A. Lewis, Carrie H. Colla, Karen E. Schoenherr, Stephen M. Shortell, Elliott S. Fisher

Original Research

Hospital Discharge Instructions: Comprehension and Compliance Among Older Adults

J. S. Albrecht, A. L. Gruber-Baldini, J. M. Hirshon, C. H. Brown, R. Goldberg, J. H. Rosenberg, A. C. Comer, J. P. Furuno

Original Research

Provider Collaboration: Cohesion, Constellations, and Shared Patients

Kenneth D. Mandl, Karen L. Olson, Daniel Mines, Chunfu Liu, Fang Tian

Original Research

Strategies Used by Older Adults with Asthma for Adherence to Inhaled Corticosteroids

Taylor L. Brooks, Howard Leventhal, Michael S. Wolf, Rachel O’Conor, Jose Morillo, Melissa Martynenko, Juan P. Wisnivesky, Alex D. Federman

Original Research

Assessing the Impact of Nurse Post-Discharge Telephone Calls on 30-Day Hospital Readmission Rates

James D. Harrison, Andrew D. Auerbach, Kathryn Quinn, Ellen Kynoch, Michelle Mourad

Open Access Original Research

Growing Literature, Stagnant Science? Systematic Review, Meta-Regression and Cumulative Analysis of Audit and Feedback Interventions in Health Care

Noah M. Ivers, Jeremy M. Grimshaw, Gro Jamtvedt, Signe Flottorp, Mary Ann O’Brien, Simon D. French, Jane Young, Jan Odgaard-Jensen

Perspective

Turning Evidence into Practice Under Payment Reform: The New Frontier of Translational Science

Anupam B. Jena, Warren Stevens, J. Michael McWilliams

Perspective

Addressing the Nation’s Physician Workforce Needs: The Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM) Recommendations on Graduate Medical Education Reform

Angela Jackson, Robert B. Baron, Jeffrey Jaeger, Mark Liebow, Margaret Plews-Ogan, Mark D. Schwartz

Open Access Innovations & Improvement

Improvement Happens: Impacting Health at its Roots

Michael Hochman

Clinical Practice: Clinical Images

Recurrent Melanoma Presenting as a Very Large Cardiac Mass with Concurrent Pancreatic Involvement

Avital Y. O’Glasser, Rebecca R. Sauerwein

Clinical Practice: Clinical Vignettes

Ciprofloxacin-Induced Tendinopathy of the Gluteal Tendons

Kaumakaokalani Shimatsu, Somasundaram Subramaniam, Helen Sim, Paul Aronowitz

Healing Arts

Up for Yes

Alessandra Colaianni

Healing Arts

Age’s Window

Gay Canaris

Obesity Clinical Trial Summary

At a glance: The STEP trials

A round-up of the STEP phase 3 clinical trials evaluating semaglutide for weight loss in people with overweight or obesity.

Developed by: Springer Medicine

Highlights from the ACC 2024 Congress

Year in Review: Pediatric cardiology

Watch Dr. Anne Marie Valente present the last year's highlights in pediatric and congenital heart disease in the official ACC.24 Year in Review session.

Year in Review: Pulmonary vascular disease

The last year's highlights in pulmonary vascular disease are presented by Dr. Jane Leopold in this official video from ACC.24.

Year in Review: Valvular heart disease

Watch Prof. William Zoghbi present the last year's highlights in valvular heart disease from the official ACC.24 Year in Review session.

Year in Review: Heart failure and cardiomyopathies

Watch this official video from ACC.24. Dr. Biykem Bozkurt discuss last year's major advances in heart failure and cardiomyopathies.