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Journal of General Internal Medicine

Issue 5/2016

Content (33 Articles)

Editorial

Promoting Health Literacy to Prevent Hospital Readmissions: Necessary but not Sufficient

Michael S. Wolf, Bruce L. Lambert, John Hickner

Original Research

Association of Opioids with Falls, Fractures, and Physical Performance among Older Men with Persistent Musculoskeletal Pain

Erin E. Krebs, Misti Paudel, Brent C. Taylor, Douglas C. Bauer, Howard A. Fink, Nancy E. Lane, Kristine E. Ensrud

Original Research

Effect of Pharmacist Counseling Intervention on Health Care Utilization Following Hospital Discharge: A Randomized Control Trial

Susan P. Bell, Jeffrey L. Schnipper, Kathryn Goggins, Aihua Bian, Ayumi Shintani, Christianne L. Roumie, Anuj K. Dalal, Terry A. Jacobson, Kimberly J. Rask, Viola Vaccarino, Tejal K. Gandhi, Stephanie A. Labonville, Daniel Johnson, Erin B. Neal, Sunil Kripalani

Original Research

Opioid Prescribing at Hospital Discharge Contributes to Chronic Opioid Use

Susan L. Calcaterra, Traci E. Yamashita, Sung-Joon Min, Angela Keniston, Joseph W. Frank, Ingrid A. Binswanger

Original Research

Primary Care Patients with Drug Use Report Chronic Pain and Self-Medicate with Alcohol and Other Drugs

Daniel P. Alford, Jacqueline S. German, Jeffrey H. Samet, Debbie M. Cheng, Christine A. Lloyd-Travaglini, Richard Saitz

Original Research

The Association Between Receipt of Guideline-Concordant Long-Term Opioid Therapy and All-Cause Mortality

Julie R. Gaither, Joseph L. Goulet, William C. Becker, Stephen Crystal, E. Jennifer Edelman, Kirsha Gordon, Robert D. Kerns, David Rimland, Melissa Skanderson, Amy C. Justice, David A. Fiellin

Original Research

Statin Use, Diabetes Incidence and Overall Mortality in Normoglycemic and Impaired Fasting Glucose Patients

M. Regina Castro, Gyorgy Simon, Stephen S. Cha, Barbara P. Yawn, L. Joseph Melton III, Pedro J. Caraballo

Original Research

Impact of Collaborative Care for Underserved Patients with PTSD in Primary Care: a Randomized Controlled Trial

Lisa S. Meredith, David P. Eisenman, Bing Han, Bonnie L. Green, Stacey Kaltman, Eunice C. Wong, Melony Sorbero, Christine Vaughan, Andrea Cassells, Douglas Zatzick, Claudia Diaz, Scot Hickey, Jeremy R. Kurz, Jonathan N. Tobin

Original Research

Rating the Quality of Entrustable Professional Activities: Content Validation and Associations with the Clinical Context

Jason A. Post, Christopher M. Wittich, Kris G. Thomas, Denise M. Dupras, Andrew J. Halvorsen, Jay N. Mandrekar, Amy S. Oxentenko, Thomas J. Beckman

Original Research

VA and Medicare Utilization Among Dually Enrolled Veterans with Type 2 Diabetes: A Latent Class Analysis

Thomas R. Radomski, Xinhua Zhao, Carolyn T. Thorpe, Joshua M. Thorpe, Chester B. Good, Maria K. Mor, Michael J. Fine, Walid F. Gellad

Review Paper

An Individualized Approach to Cancer Screening Decisions in Older Adults: A Multilevel Framework

Erica S. Breslau, Sherri Sheinfeld Gorin, Heather M. Edwards, Mara A. Schonberg, Nicole Saiontz, Louise C. Walter

Review Paper

Impact of Electronic Medical Record Use on the Patient–Doctor Relationship and Communication: A Systematic Review

Maria Alcocer Alkureishi, Wei Wei Lee, Maureen Lyons, Valerie G. Press, Sara Imam, Akua Nkansah-Amankra, Deb Werner, Vineet M. Arora

Clinical Practice: Clinical Vignettes

That Which Bends Up: A Case Report and Literature Review of Chikungunya Virus

Shana M. Peper, Benjamin J. Monson, Trevor Van Schooneveld, Christopher J. Smith

Clinical Practice: Clinical Images

Scrub Typhus (Tsutsugamushi Disease) Presenting as Fever with an Eschar

Kiyoshi Shikino, Yoshiyuki Ohira, Masatomi Ikusaka

Muscle Hypertrophy in a Patient with Immunoglobulin D Multiple Myeloma

Shingo Suzuki, Yoshiyuki Ohira, Masatomi Ikusaka

Clinical Images

Pyoderma Gangrenosum After Enzymatic Debridement

Mark Duncan, Scott Worswick

Healing Arts: Materia Medica

Codes and Pheos

Steven Lin

Erratum

Erratum to: Provider patient-sharing networks and multiple-provider prescribing of benzodiazepines

Mei-Sing Ong, Karen L. Olson, Aurel Cami, Chunfu Liu, Fang Tian, Nandini Selvam, Kenneth D. Mandl

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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.

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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.