Issue 6/2019
Content (61 Articles)
From the Editors’ Desk: Why Does Not Improvement in Communication Lead to Improvement in “Hard” Outcomes?
Jeffrey L. Jackson
N-of-1 Trials in Hypertension Are Feasible, but Are They Worthwhile?
Richard L. Kravitz
Patients’ Perceptions of Hospitals Affiliated with America’s Highest-Rated Medical Centers
Kyle H. Sheetz, Hari Nathan, Justin B. Dimick
Changes in Outpatient Services and Medication Use Following a Non-fatal Opioid Overdose in the West Virginia Medicaid Program
Neel Koyawala, Rachel Landis, Colleen L. Barry, Bradley D. Stein, Brendan Saloner
Access and Affordability in Low- to Middle-Income Individuals Insured Through Health Insurance Exchange Plans: Analysis of Statewide Data
Uriel Kim, Johnie Rose, Siran Koroukian
Validation of Administrative Measures of Social and Behavioral Risk in Veterans Affairs Medical Records
Charlie M. Wray, Marzieh Vali, Ann Abraham, Alysandra Zhang, Louise C. Walter, Salomeh Keyhani
VA Primary Care and Mental Health Providers’ Comfort with Genetic Testing: Survey Results from the PRIME Care Study
Leland E. Hull, Kevin G. Lynch, David W. Oslin
Geriatric Conditions Among Formerly Homeless Older Adults Living in Permanent Supportive Housing
Benjamin F. Henwood, John Lahey, Harmony Rhoades, Deborah B. Pitts, Jon Pynoos, Rebecca T. Brown
Pharmacotherapy Prescribing to Patients with Concurrent Tobacco and Alcohol Use Disorder in a Large, Urban, Integrated Health System
Mat Kladney, Paul Joudrey, Chinazo O. Cunningham, Marcus A. Bachhuber
Coding Bias in Respiratory Tract Infections May Obscure Inappropriate Antibiotic Use
Kathryn A. Martinez, Mark Rood, Michael B. Rothberg
Increasing Advance Care Planning in Primary Care Practices: a Multi-site Quality Improvement Initiative
Marie B. Sandoval, John G. King, Vicki Hart, Allen B. Repp
Incremental Burden on Quality of Life and Health Care Expenditures in Adults with Diabetes Complications: MEPS 2013–2015
Manasi S. Suryavanshi, Yi Yang
Factors Underlying Increased Incidence of Sudden Unexpected Death in Rural Counties in North Carolina
Zoe Su Wen Gan, Wansuk Choi, Feng-Chang Lin, Rebecca Tippett, Golsa Joodi, Irion Pursell, Ross Joseph Simpson Jr
Primary Care Physician Stress Driven by Social and Financial Needs of Complex Patients
Jonathan Z. Weiner, Jodi K. McCloskey, Connie S. Uratsu, Richard W. Grant
Interpreter Provision and Hospital-Associated Outcomes Within the Limited English Proficiency Population: Analysis of Administrative Data
Nicole Blay, Marika Seremetkoska, Jenny Morris, Gael Holters, Sharelle Ioannou, Verily Thomas, Bronwyn Everett
Improving Longitudinal Survey Participation Among Internal Medicine Residents: Incorporating Behavioral Economic Techniques and Avoiding Friday or Saturday Invitations
Krisda H. Chaiyachati, Jason Roy, David A. Asch, C. Jessica Dine, Sanjay Desai, Lisa M. Bellini, Judy A. Shea
Correlation of Altmetric Attention Score and Citations for High-Impact General Medicine Journals: a Cross-sectional Study
Amr F. Barakat, Nayef Nimri, Mohamed Shokr, Dhruv Mahtta, Hend Mansoor, Ahmad Masri, Islam Y. Elgendy
The Views of Indian Practitioners on Deprescribing
Kumari Sweta, Doorva Bhat, Ganesan Rajalekshmi Saraswathy, E. Maheswari
Prompting Patients with Poorly Controlled Diabetes to Identify Visit Priorities Before Primary Care Visits: a Pragmatic Cluster Randomized Trial
Michelle T. Vo, Connie S. Uratsu, Karen R. Estacio, Andrea Altschuler, Eileen Kim, Stacey E. Alexeeff, Alyce S. Adams, Julie A. Schmittdiel, Michele Heisler, Richard W. Grant
Increasing the Precision of Hypertension Treatment Through Personalized Trials: a Pilot Study
Ian M. Kronish, Ying Kuen Cheung, Daichi Shimbo, Jacob Julian, Benjamin Gallagher, Faith Parsons, Karina W. Davidson
Behavioral Economics Interventions to Improve Outpatient Antibiotic Prescribing for Acute Respiratory Infections: a Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
Cynthia L. Gong, Kenneth M. Zangwill, Joel W. Hay, Daniella Meeker, Jason N. Doctor
Quantifying Social Reinforcement Among Family Members on Adherence to Medications for Chronic Conditions: a US-Based Retrospective Cohort Study
Julie C. Lauffenburger, Nazleen F. Khan, Gregory Brill, Niteesh K. Choudhry
Predictors of Neuropsychiatric Adverse Events with Smoking Cessation Medications in the Randomized Controlled EAGLES Trial
Robert M. Anthenelli, Michael Gaffney, Neal L. Benowitz, Robert West, Thomas McRae, Cristina Russ, David Lawrence, Lisa St. Aubin, Alok Krishen, A. Eden Evins
Effect of Integrating Substance Use Disorder Treatment into Primary Care on Inpatient and Emergency Department Utilization
Sarah E. Wakeman, Nancy A. Rigotti, Yuchiao Chang, Grace E. Herman, Ann Erwin, Susan Regan, Joshua P. Metlay
How Have 30-Day Readmission Penalties Affected Racial Disparities in Readmissions?: an Analysis from 2007 to 2014 in Five US States
Cameron M. Kaplan, Michael P. Thompson, Teresa M. Waters
Association of Income Disparities with Patient-Reported Healthcare Experience
Victor Okunrintemi, Rohan Khera, Erica S. Spatz, Joseph A. Salami, Javier Valero-Elizondo, Haider J. Warraich, Salim S. Virani, Ron Blankstein, Michael J. Blaha, Timothy M. Pawlik, Kumar Dharmarajan, Harlan M. Krumholz, Khurram Nasir
Assessment of Internal Medicine Resident Preparedness to Care for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer/Questioning Patients
Carl G. Streed Jr, Helene F. Hedian, Amanda Bertram, Stephen D. Sisson
Patients’ and Providers’ Views on Causes and Consequences of Healthcare Fragmentation in the Ambulatory Setting: a Qualitative Study
Lisa M. Kern, Monika M. Safford, Masha J. Slavin, Evguenia Makovkina, Ahd Fudl, J. Emilio Carrillo, Erika L. Abramson
Reliability and Validity of SymTrak, a Multi-Domain Tool for Monitoring Symptoms of Older Adults with Multiple Chronic Conditions
Patrick O. Monahan, Kurt Kroenke, Christopher M. Callahan, Tamilyn Bakas, Amanda Harrawood, Phillip Lofton, Danielle Frye, Claire Draucker, Timothy Stump, Debra Saliba, James E. Galvin, Amanda Keegan, Mary G. Austrom, Malaz Boustani
Development and Feasibility of SymTrak, aMulti-domain Tool for Monitoring Symptoms of Older Adults in Primary Care
Patrick O. Monahan, Kurt Kroenke, Christopher M. Callahan, Tamilyn Bakas, Amanda Harrawood, Phillip Lofton, Danielle Frye, Claire Draucker, Timothy Stump, Debra Saliba, James E. Galvin, Amanda Keegan, Mary G. Austrom, Malaz Boustani
The Relationship of Illness Beliefs with Hospital and Emergency Department Utilization in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Himali Weerahandi, Juan P. Wisnivesky, Rachel O’Conor, Michael S. Wolf, Alex D. Federman
Milestone Implementation’s Impact on Narrative Comments and Perception of Feedback for Internal Medicine Residents: a Mixed Methods Study
Sonja E. Raaum, Katie Lappe, Jorie M. Colbert-Getz, Caroline K. Milne
The Role of Primary Care in Improving Access to Medication-Assisted Treatment for Rural Medicaid Enrollees with Opioid Use Disorder
Evan S. Cole, Ellen DiDomenico, Gerald Cochran, Adam J. Gordon, Walid F. Gellad, Janice Pringle, Jack Warwick, Chung-Chou H. Chang, Joo Yeon Kim, Julie Kmiec, David Kelley, Julie M. Donohue
Diabetes-Multimorbidity Combinations and Disability Among Middle-aged and Older Adults
Ana R. Quiñones, Sheila Markwardt, Anda Botoseneanu
Provider and Staff Morale, Job Satisfaction, and Burnout over a 4-Year Medical Home Intervention
Robert S. Nocon, Paige C. Fairchild, Yue Gao, Kathryn E. Gunter, Sang Mee Lee, Michael Quinn, Elbert S. Huang, Marshall H. Chin
Real-world Performance of Meta-analysis Methods for Double-Zero-Event Studies with Dichotomous Outcomes Using the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
Yanan Ren, Lifeng Lin, Qinshu Lian, Hui Zou, Haitao Chu
Why Content and Cognition Matter: Integrating Conceptual Knowledge to Support Simulation-Based Procedural Skills Transfer
Jeffrey J. H. Cheung, Kulamakan M. Kulasegaram, Nicole N. Woods, Ryan Brydges
Factors Affecting Adherence in a Pragmatic Trial of Annual Fecal Immunochemical Testing for Colorectal Cancer
Carrie M. Nielson, William M. Vollmer, Amanda F. Petrik, Erin M. Keast, Beverly B. Green, Gloria D. Coronado
Cigarette Smoking and Quitting-Related Factors Among US Adult Health Center Patients with Serious Mental Illness
Sara Kalkhoran, Anne N. Thorndike, Nancy A. Rigotti, Vicki Fung, Travis P. Baggett
Provider Counseling and Weight Loss Outcomes in a Primary Care-Based Digital Obesity Treatment
Megan McVay, Dori Steinberg, Sandy Askew, Gary G. Bennett
Capsule Commentary on Okunrintemi et al., Association of Income Disparities with Patient Reported Healthcare Experience
Joel Schectman
Capsule Commentary for Rattray et al., “Do You Know What I Know?”: How Communication Norms and Recipient Design Shape the Content and Effectiveness of Patient Handoffs
Sara Dunbar, Kathlyn E. Fletcher
The Role of Health Literacy in Diabetes Knowledge, Self-Care, and Glycemic Control: a Meta-analysis
Laura Marciano, Anne-Linda Camerini, Peter J. Schulz
Symptom-Triggered Therapy for Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome: a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials
Jürgen L. Holleck, Naseema Merchant, Craig G. Gunderson
Evaluation of Trainee Competency with Point-of-Care Ultrasonography (POCUS): a Conceptual Framework and Review of Existing Assessments
Andre Kumar, John Kugler, Trevor Jensen
Core Functions and Forms of Complex Health Interventions: a Patient-Centered Medical Home Illustration
Mónica Perez Jolles, Rebecca Lengnick-Hall, Brian S. Mittman
Methadone Matters: What the United States Can Learn from the Global Effort to Treat Opioid Addiction
S. L. Calcaterra, P. Bach, A. Chadi, N. Chadi, S. D. Kimmel, K. L. Morford, P. Roy, J. H. Samet
Strategies for Building Delivery Science in an Integrated Health Care System
Tracy A. Lieu, Philip R. Madvig
Trauma-Informed Care: a Strategy to Improve Primary Healthcare Engagement for Persons with Criminal Justice System Involvement
Simran Chaudhri, Kimberly Caramanica Zweig, Preetha Hebbar, Sonia Angell, Ashwin Vasan
Stiff Person Syndrome and Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus: a Case of the Chicken or the Egg?
John Tyler Rathbun, Jacob Imber
A Patient with Sjogren’s Syndrome and Subsequent Diagnosis of Inclusion Body Myositis and Light-Chain Amyloidosis
Jason Hom, Shruti Marwaha, Anna Postolova, Jessie Kittle, Rosaline Vasquez, Jean Davidson, Jennefer Kohler, Annika Dries, Liliana Fernandez-Betancourt, Marta Majcherska, Joanna Dearlove, Shyam Raghavan, Hannes Vogel, Jonathan A. Bernstein, Paul Fisher, Euan Ashley, Jacinda Sampson, Matthew Wheeler
Keeping a Flexible Differential Diagnosis: an Exercise in Clinical Reasoning
Paul A. Bergl, Reza Manesh, Donald Basel, Andrew P. J. Olson
Urate Bulla: a Rare Manifestation of Gout
Paul F. Ehlers, Kip Mihara