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Journal of General Internal Medicine

Issue 7/2015

Content (36 Articles)

Editorial

Don’t Believe Everything You Think

Mitchell D. Feldman

Editorial

In the Office and In-Between: The Role of Panel Management in Primary Care

Catherine P. Kaminetzky, Karin M. Nelson

Letter to the Editor

Pocket-sized Ultrasound for Physical Diagnosis

Benjamin T. Galen, Daniel J. Schnobrich

Letter to the Editor

Pocket-Sized Ultrasound for Physical Diagnosis

Jason C. Ojeda, James Colbert, Maria Yialamas

Letter to the Editor

Maintaining Competence in General Internal Medicine

Marianne M. Green

Original Research

Tailoring Outreach Efforts to Increase Primary Care Use Among Homeless Veterans: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial

Thomas P. O’Toole, Erin E. Johnson, Matthew L. Borgia, Jennifer Rose

Original Research

Minnesota’s Early Experience with Medical Home Implementation: Viewpoints from the Front Lines

Patricia Fontaine, Robin Whitebird, Leif I. Solberg, Juliana Tillema, Angela Smithson, Benjamin F. Crabtree

Original Research

A Patient Navigator Intervention to Reduce Hospital Readmissions among High-Risk Safety-Net Patients: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Richard B. Balaban, Alison A. Galbraith, Marguerite E. Burns, Catherine E. Vialle-Valentin, Marc R. Larochelle, Dennis Ross-Degnan

Original Research

Panel Management to Improve Smoking and Hypertension Outcomes by VA Primary Care Teams: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial

Mark D. Schwartz, Ashley Jensen, Binhuan Wang, Katelyn Bennett, Anne Dembitzer, Shiela Strauss, Antoinette Schoenthaler, Colleen Gillespie, Scott Sherman

Original Research

Self-Reported Health Status Predicts Other-Cause Mortality in Men with Localized Prostate Cancer: Results from the Prostate Cancer Outcomes Study

Richard M. Hoffman, Tatsuki Koyama, Peter C. Albertsen, Michael J. Barry, Timothy J. Daskivich, Michael Goodman, Ann S. Hamilton, Janet L. Stanford, Antoinette M. Stroup, Arnold L. Potosky, David F. Penson

Original Research

Chronic Pain and DepressionAmong Primary Care Patients Treated with Buprenorphine

Michael D. Stein, Debra S. Herman, Genie L. Bailey, John Straus, Bradley J. Anderson, Lisa A. Uebelacker, Risa B. Weisberg

Original Article

Building Equity Improvement into Quality Improvement: Reducing Socioeconomic Disparities in Colorectal Cancer Screening as Part of Population Health Management

Seth A. Berkowitz, Sanja Percac-Lima, Jeffrey M. Ashburner, Yuchiao Chang, Adrian H. Zai, Wei He, Richard W. Grant, Steven J. Atlas

Original Research

Results from a Geographically Focused, Community-Based HCV Screening, Linkage-to-Care and Patient Navigation Program

Stacey B. Trooskin, Joanna Poceta, Caitlin M. Towey, Annajane Yolken, Jennifer S. Rose, Najia L. Luqman, Ta-Wanda L. Preston, Philip A. Chan, Curt Beckwith, Sophie C. Feller, Hwajin Lee, Amy S. Nunn

Open Access Original Research

Cognitive Function and Health Literacy Decline in a Cohort of Aging English Adults

Lindsay C. Kobayashi, Jane Wardle, Michael S. Wolf, Christian von Wagner

Original Research

Functional Status and Hospital Readmissions Using the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey

Marina Soley-Bori, Rene Soria-Saucedo, Colleen M. Ryan, Jeffrey C. Schneider, Alex B. Haynes, Paul Gerrard, Howard J. Cabral, Keith D. Lillemoe, Lewis E. Kazis

Original Research

The Quality of Written Feedback by Attendings of Internal Medicine Residents

Jeffrey L Jackson, Cynthia Kay, Wilkins C Jackson, Michael Frank

Original Research

Association of Care Practices with Suicide Attempts in US Veterans Prescribed Opioid Medications for Chronic Pain Management

Jinwoo J. Im, Ross D. Shachter, Elizabeth M. Oliva, Patricia T. Henderson, Meenah C. Paik, Jodie A. Trafton

Original Research

Variation in Inpatient Consultation Among Older Adults in the United States

Jennifer P. Stevens, David Nyweide, Sha Maresh, Alan Zaslavsky, William Shrank, Michael D. Howell MD, Bruce E. Landon

Review Paper

Community Health Worker Interventions to Improve Glycemic Control in People with Diabetes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Walter Palmas, Dana March, Salima Darakjy, Sally E. Findley, Jeanne Teresi, Olveen Carrasquillo, José A. Luchsinger

Perspective

The Patient-Centered Medical Home: Preparation of the Workforce, More Questions than Answers

P. Preston Reynolds, Kathleen Klink, Stuart Gilman, Larry A. Green, Russell S. Phillips, Scott Shipman, David Keahey, Kathryn Rugen, Molly Davis

Original Research

Medical Students’ Views and Knowledge of the Affordable Care Act: A Survey of Eight U.S. Medical Schools

Tyler N. A. Winkelman, Lisa Soleymani Lehmann, Navjyot K. Vidwan, Meredith Niess, Cynthia S. Davey, Derek Donovan, Joseph Cofrancesco Jr., Mia Mallory, Sandi Moutsios, Ryan M. Antiel, John Y. Song

Original Research

Tell Me Your Story: A Pilot Narrative Medicine Curriculum During the Medicine Clerkship

Katherine C. Chretien, Rebecca Swenson, Bona Yoon, Ricklie Julian, Jonathan Keenan, James Croffoot, Raya Kheirbek

Clinical Practice: Exercises in Clinical Reasoning

A Problematic Palsy: An Exercise in Clinical Reasoning

David J. Einstein, Robert L. Trowbridge, Joseph Rencic

Clinical Practice: Clinical Images

Palmar Crease Pallor

Reza Sedighi Manesh, R. Jeffrey Kohlwes

Clinical Practice: Clinical Images

Wellens’ Syndrome in an Elderly Patient with Dementia

Qi Zheng, Benjamin T. Galen

Clinical Practice: Clinical Vignettes

Renal Cell Carcinoma Presenting with Paraneoplastic Hallucinations and Cognitive Decline from Limbic Encephalitis

Joshua W. Harrison, Ramesh Cherukuri, Debra Buchan

Healing Arts: Materia Medica

Fragile

Hedy S. Wald

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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.