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Journal of General Internal Medicine

Issue 12/2019

Content (44 Articles)

From the Editors' Desk

From the Editors’ Desk: Peer Review at JGIM

Carol K Bates, Jeffrey L Jackson, Steven Asch

Care Concise Research Reports

Improving Care for Patients with Sickle Cell Disease: a Qualitative Study of Hospitalized Sickle Cell Patients

Amira del Pino-Jones, Kasey Bowden, Gregory Misky, Christine D. Jones

Concise Research Reports

Uncitedness in the Top General Medical Journals

M. Hossein Nowroozzadeh, Mohammad Salehi-Marzijarani

Concise Research Report

Racial and Ethnic Differences in Healthcare Utilization among Medicare Fee-For-Service Enrollees

Eun Ji Kim, Victoria A. Parker, Jane M. Liebschutz, Joseph Conigliaro, Jean DeGeorge, Amresh D. Hanchate

Affective Disorder Concise Research Report

Quality of Mental Health Care in Integrated Veterans Affairs Patient-Centered Medical Homes: a National Observational Study

Lucinda B. Leung, Edward P. Post, Erin Jaske, Kenneth B. Wells, Lisa V. Rubenstein

Care Concise Research Report

Comparing Comprehensiveness in Primary Care Specialties and Their Effects on Healthcare Costs and Hospitalizations in Medicare Beneficiaries

Tracey L. Henry, Stephen Petterson, Russell S. Phillips, Robert L. Phillips Jr., Andrew Bazemore

Care Concise Research Reports

Who Orders Screening Mammograms in Older Women with Limited Life Expectancy?

Nancy L. Schoenborn, Jin Huang, Cynthia M. Boyd, Sarah Nowak, Craig E. Pollack

Addiction Concise Research Reports

Access to Treatment for Drug Use Disorders at US Health Centers: a National Study

Benjamin Bearnot, Danielle R. Fine, Nancy A. Rigotti, Travis P. Baggett

Care Concise Research Report

Training Primary Care Physicians to Serve Underserved Communities: Follow-up Survey of Primary Care Graduates

Lisa Altshuler, Harriet Fisher, Kathleen Hanley, Jasmine Ross, Sondra Zabar, Jennifer Adams, Mack Lipkin

Concise Research Reports

Association Between Community Economic Distress and Receipt of Recommended Services Among Medicare Fee-for-Service Enrollees

William B. Weeks, Stacey Y. Cao, Chris M. Lester, James N. Weinstein, Nancy E. Morden

Concise Research Report

Gender Differences and Themes in Peer Nominations for Chief Resident: a Qualitative Analysis

Maureen D. Lyons, Michelle K. Martinchek, Patrick G. Lyons, Justin R. Boike, John F. McConville, Jeanne M. Farnan

Probiotics Concise Research Reports

More Information Needed on Probiotic Supplement Product Labels

Daniel Merenstein, John Guzzi, Mary Ellen Sanders

Concise Research Report

“This institution was never meant for me”: the Impact of Institutional Historical Portraiture on Medical Students

Elizabeth Fitzsousa, Nientara Anderson, Anna Reisman

Stroke Original Research

The Medicare Shared Savings Program and Outcomes for Ischemic Stroke Patients: a Retrospective Cohort Study

Brystana G. Kaufman, Emily C. O’Brien, Sally C. Stearns, Roland Matsouaka, G. Mark Holmes, Morris Weinberger, Paula H. Song, Lee H. Schwamm, Eric E. Smith, Gregg C. Fonarow, Ying Xian

Opioids Original Research

Mortality After Discontinuation of Primary Care–Based Chronic Opioid Therapy for Pain: a Retrospective Cohort Study

Jocelyn R. James, JoAnna M. Scott, Jared W. Klein, Sara Jackson, Christy McKinney, Matthew Novack, Lisa Chew, Joseph O. Merrill

Obesity Original Research

Food Insecurity and Chronic Disease in US Young Adults: Findings from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health

Jason M. Nagata, Kartika Palar, Holly C. Gooding, Andrea K. Garber, Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, Sheri D. Weiser

Opioids Original Research

Association between Physician Intensity of Antibiotic Prescribing and the Prescription of Benzodiazepines, Opioids and Proton-Pump Inhibitors to Nursing Home Residents: a Population-Based Observational Study

Kieran L. Quinn, Michael A. Campitelli, Christina Diong, Nick Daneman, Nathan M. Stall, Andrew M. Morris, Allan S. Detsky, Lianne Jeffs, Colleen J. Maxwell, Chaim M. Bell, Susan E. Bronskill

Computed Tomography Original Research

Low Awareness of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in a Population-Based Cohort Sample: the CARDIA Study

Erin R. Cleveland, Hongyan Ning, Miriam B. Vos, Cora E. Lewis, Mary E. Rinella, John Jeffrey Carr, Donald M. Lloyd-Jones, Lisa B. VanWagner

Original Research

Expert Recommendations on Frequency of Utilization of Common Laboratory Tests in Medical Inpatients: a Canadian Consensus Study

Anshula Ambasta, Stefana Pancic, Brian M. Wong, Todd Lee, Deirdre McCaughey, Irene W. Y. Ma

Addiction Original Research

Inpatient Addiction Medicine Consultation and Post-Hospital Substance Use Disorder Treatment Engagement: a Propensity-Matched Analysis

Honora Englander, Konrad Dobbertin, Bonnie K. Lind, Christina Nicolaidis, Peter Graven, Claire Dorfman, P. Todd Korthuis

Care Original Research

Impact of Adding Telephone-Based Care Coordination to Standard Telephone-Based Smoking Cessation Counseling Post-hospital Discharge: a Randomized Controlled Trial

Edward F. Ellerbeck, Lisa Sanderson Cox, Siu-kuen Azor Hui, John Keighley, Tresza D. Hutcheson, Sharon A. Fitzgerald, A. Paula Cupertino, K. Allen Greiner, Nancy A. Rigotti, Nancy Houston Miller, Vance Rabius, Kimber P. Richter

Opioids Original Research

Teaching Safe Opioid Prescribing During the Opioid Epidemic: Results of the 2018 Clerkship Directors in Internal Medicine Survey

Mim Ari, Michael Kisielewski, Nora Y. Osman, Karen Szauter, Clifford D. Packer, Amber T. Pincavage

Chronic Kidney Disease Original Research

Electronic Health Record Phenotypes for Identifying Patients with Late-Stage Disease: a Method for Research and Clinical Application

Natalie C. Ernecoff, Kathryn L. Wessell, Laura C. Hanson, Adam M. Lee, Christopher M. Shea, Stacie B. Dusetzina, Morris Weinberger, Antonia V. Bennett

Care Original Research

Screening for Substance Use in Rural Primary Care: a Qualitative Study of Providers and Patients

Elizabeth C. Saunders, Sarah K. Moore, Trip Gardner, Sarah Farkas, Lisa A. Marsch, Bethany McLeman, Andrea Meier, Noah Nesin, John Rotrosen, Olivia Walsh, Jennifer McNeely

Care Review Paper

Impact of Project ECHO Models of Medical Tele-Education: a Systematic Review

Ryan K. McBain, Jessica L. Sousa, Adam J. Rose, Sangita M. Baxi, Laura J. Faherty, Caroline Taplin, Andre Chappel, Shira H. Fischer

Pharmacotherapy for Cocaine Use Disorder—a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Brian Chan, Karli Kondo, Michele Freeman, Chelsea Ayers, Jessica Montgomery, Devan Kansagara

Efficacy of Biofeedback for Medical Conditions: an Evidence Map

Karli Kondo, Katherine M. Noonan, Michele Freeman, Chelsea Ayers, Benjamin J. Morasco, Devan Kansagara

Care Perspective

Primary Care: the New Frontier for Reducing Readmissions

Sonali Saluja, Michael Hochman, Angel Bourgoin, James Maxwell

Collaborator Conundrums

Stephanie Parks Taylor, Marc Kowalkowski

Care Viewpoint

Unpacking the Potential for Virtual Care

Jordan Anderson, Ishani Ganguli

Viewpoint

Asylum Seekers: Our Patients at the Border

Samuel G. Ruchman

Healing Arts

A Phone Call

Cosimo Nicola Storniolo

Innovations in Medical Education

“Getting Everyone on the Same Page”: Interprofessional Team Training to Develop Shared Mental Models on Interprofessional Rounds

Sok Ying Liaw, Ling Ting Wu, Lai Fun Wong, Shawn Leng Hsien Soh, Yeow Leng Chow, Charlotte Ringsted, Tang Ching Lau, Wee Shiong Lim

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.