Issue 4/2014
Content (33 Articles)
Evidence-Based Medicine and the Hard Problem of Multimorbidity
Cynthia M. Boyd, David M. Kent
New Ways to Look at Old Patterns? Sequence Analysis to Analyze Patterns of Clinical Stability in Community-Acquired Pneumonia
Marisha Burden, Eric M. Mortensen
Does Patient-Centered Care Mean that Informed Consent is Necessary for Clinical Performance Measures?
R. Scott Braithwaite, Arthur Caplan
Patient Engagement and Shared Decision-Making
Gordon H. Guyatt, Sohail M. Mulla, Ian A. Scott, Cynthia A. Jackevicius, John J. You
Sequence Patterns in the Resolution of Clinical Instabilities in Community-Acquired Pneumonia and Association with Outcomes
Gavin W. Hougham, Sandra A. Ham, Gregory W. Ruhnke, Elizabeth Schulwolf, Andrew D. Auerbach, Jeffrey L. Schnipper, Peter J. Kaboli, Tosha B. Wetterneck, David Gonzalez, Vineet M. Arora, David O. Meltzer
Variation in the Risk of Readmission Among Hospitals: The Relative Contribution of Patient, Hospital and Inpatient Provider Characteristics
Siddhartha Singh, Yu-Li Lin, Yong-Fang Kuo, Ann B. Nattinger, James S. Goodwin
Cost-Effectiveness of Procalcitonin-Guided Antibiotic Therapy for Outpatient Management of Acute Respiratory Tract Infections in Adults
Constantinos I. Michaelidis, Richard K. Zimmerman, Mary Patricia Nowalk, Michael J. Fine, Kenneth J. Smith
Who Needs Inpatient Detox? Development and Implementation of a Hospitalist Protocol for the Evaluation of Patients for Alcohol Detoxification
John R. Stephens, E. Allen Liles, Ria Dancel, Michael Gilchrist, Jonathan Kirsch, Darren A. DeWalt
The Intersection of Patient Complexity, Prescriber Continuity and Acute Care Utilization
Matthew L. Maciejewski, Benjamin J. Powers, Linda L. Sanders, Joel F. Farley, Richard A. Hansen, Betsy Sleath, Corrine I. Voils
Race/Ethnicity, Disability, and Medication Adherence Among Medicare Beneficiaries with Heart Failure
Yuting Zhang, Seo Hyon Baik
Internists’ Attitudes About Assessing and Maintaining Clinical Competence
Thomas H. Gallagher, Carolyn D. Prouty, Douglas M. Brock, Joshua M. Liao, Arlene Weissman, Eric S. Holmboe
The Mini Mental Status Exam as a Surrogate Measure of Health Literacy
Allison R. Dahlke, Laura M. Curtis, Alex D. Federman, Michael S. Wolf
National Study of Health Insurance Type and Reasons for Emergency Department Use
Roberta Capp, Sean P. Rooks, Jennifer L. Wiler, Richard D. Zane, Adit A. Ginde
Improving Mammography Screening Among the Medically Underserved
Terry C. Davis, Alfred Rademaker, Charles L. Bennett, Michael S. Wolf, Edson Carias, Cristalyn Reynolds, Dachao Liu, Connie L. Arnold
Utilization of Primary and Obstetric Care After Medically Complicated Pregnancies: An Analysis of Medical Claims Data
Wendy L. Bennett, Hsien-Yen Chang, David M. Levine, Lin Wang, Donna Neale, Erika F. Werner, Jeanne M. Clark
Capsule commentary on Zhang et al., Race/ethnicity, Disability, and Medication Adherence Among Medicare Beneficiaries with Heart Failure
Paul A. Heidenreich
Capsule Commentary on Gallagher et al., Internists’ Attitudes About Assessing and Maintaining Clinical Competence
Danette Waller McKinley
Capsule Commentary on Dahlke et al., The Mini Mental Status Exam as a Surrogate Measure of Health Literacy
Michael H. Perskin
Capsule Commentary on Capp et al., National Study of Health Insurance Type and Reasons for Emergency Department Use
Maria C. Raven
Capsule Commentary on Davis et al., Improving Mammography Screening among the Medically Underserved
Judith Lee Smith
Multimorbidity and Evidence Generation
Carlos O. Weiss, Ravi Varadhan, Milo A. Puhan, Andrew Vickers, Karen Bandeen-Roche, Cynthia M. Boyd, David M. Kent
Addressing Multimorbidity in Evidence Integration and Synthesis
Thomas A. Trikalinos, Jodi B. Segal, Cynthia M. Boyd
A Framework for Crafting Clinical Practice Guidelines that are Relevant to the Care and Management of People with Multimorbidity
Katrin Uhlig, Bruce Leff, David Kent, Sydney Dy, Klara Brunnhuber, Jako S. Burgers, Sheldon Greenfield, Gordon Guyatt, Kevin High, Rosanne Leipzig, Cynthia Mulrow, Kenneth Schmader, Holger Schunemann, Louise C. Walter, James Woodcock, Cynthia M. Boyd
An HIV-Positive Patient with Back Pain: Too Many Choices
Cecilia T. Costiniuk, Feras M. Ghazawi, Stephen Kravcik
Fungating Mass as First Presentation of Advanced Breast Cancer
Caroline E. McCoach, Paul Aronowitz