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Journal of General Internal Medicine

Issue 12/2003

Content (16 Articles)

Original Articles

Effects of computerized guidelines for managing heart disease in primary care

William M. Tierney, J. Marc Overhage, Michael D. Murray, Lisa E. Harris, Xiao-Hua Zhou, George J. Eckert, Faye E. Smith, Nancy Nienaber, Clement J. McDonald, Fredric D. Wolinsky

Original Articles

Misperceptions about β-blockers and diuretics

Peter A. Ubel, Christopher Jepson, David A. Asch

Original Articles

Development and validation of the hyperlipidemia

Kathleen A. Foley, Joseph Vasey, Charles M. Alexander, Leona E. Markson

Original Articles

Primary care patients with depression are less accepting of treatment than those seen by mental health specialists

Benjamin W. Van Voorhees, Lisa A. Cooper, Kathryn M. Rost, Paul Nutting, Lisa V. Rubenstein, Lisa Meredith, Nae-Yuh Wang, Daniel E. Ford

Original Articles

Do depressed older adults who attribute depression to “old age” believe it is important to seek care?

Catherine A. Sarkisian, Mary H. Lee-Henderson, Carol M. Mangione

Original Articles

Patient and caregiver characteristics associated with depression in caregivers of patients with dementia

Kenneth E. Covinsky, Robert Newcomer, Patrick Fox, Joan Wood, Laura Sands, Kyle Dane, Kristine Yaffe

Original Articles

The disavowed curriculum

Shiphra Ginsburg, Glenn Regehr, Lorelei Lingard

Innovations In Education And Clinical Practice

A new curriculum using active learning methods and standardized patients to train residents in smoking cessation

Jean-Paul Humair, Jacques Cornuz

Populations At Risk

Racial and ethnic disparities in cancer screening the importance of foreign birth as a barrier to care

Mita Sanghavi Goel, Christina C. Wee, Ellen P. McCarthy, Roger B. Davis, Quyen Ngo-Metzger, Russell S. Phillips

Brief Report

A shortened instrument for literacy screening

Pat F. Bass III, John F. Wilson, Charles H. Griffith

Review

Framingham-based tools to calculate the global risk of coronary heart disease

Stacey Sheridan, Michael Pignone, Cynthia Mulrow

Editorials

The best of JGIM in 2003

Eric B. Bass

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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.

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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 discusses last year's major advances in heart failure and cardiomyopathies.