Issue 8/2021
Content (69 Articles)
Association of Post-discharge Service Types and Timing with 30-Day Readmissions, Length of Stay, and Costs
Hyo Jung Tak, Andrew M. Goldsweig, Fernando A. Wilson, Andrew W. Schram, Milda R. Saunders, Michael Hawking, Tanush Gupta, Cindy Yuan, Li-Wu Chen
Patient Risk Interpretation of Symptoms Model (PRISM): How Patients Assess Cardiac Risk
Catherine Kreatsoulas, Cameron Taheri, Niveditha Pattathil, Puru Panchal, Tanya Kakkar
Care Coordination Strategies and Barriers during Medication Safety Incidents: a Qualitative, Cognitive Task Analysis
Alissa L. Russ-Jara, Cherie L. Luckhurst, Rachel A. Dismore, Karen J. Arthur, Amanda P. Ifeachor, Laura G. Militello, Peter A. Glassman, Alan J. Zillich, Michael Weiner
Association of Sustained Blood Pressure Control with Lower Risk for High-Cost Multimorbidities Among Medicare Beneficiaries in ALLHAT
C. Barrett Bowling, Richard Sloane, Carl Pieper, Alison Luciano, Barry R. Davis, Lara M. Simpson, Paula T. Einhorn, Suzanne Oparil, Paul Muntner
Where Do International Medical Graduates Matriculate for Internal Medicine Training? A National Longitudinal Study
Shalini T. Reddy, Michael Kisielewski, Lisa L. Willett, Sandhya Wahi-Gururaj, Vinny M. Arora, Furman S. McDonald, Himangi Kaushal, Saima Chaudhry
Effects of Including Epidemiologic Data in Lumbar Spine Imaging Reports on Prescribing Non-Opioid Medications for Pain
Zachary A. Marcum, Laura S. Gold, Kathryn T. James, Eric N. Meier, Judith A. Turner, David F. Kallmes, Daniel C. Cherkin, Richard A. Deyo, Karen J. Sherman, Patrick H. Luetmer, Andrew L. Avins, Brent Griffith, Janna L. Friedly, Pradeep Suri, Patrick J. Heagerty, Jeffrey G. Jarvik
Development and Validation of a 30-Day In-hospital Mortality Model Among Seriously Ill Transferred Patients: a Retrospective Cohort Study
Neetu Mahendraker, Mindy Flanagan, Jose Azar, Linda S. Williams
Gaps in Hospital and Skilled Nursing Facility Responsibilities During Transitions of Care: a Comparison of Hospital and SNF Clinicians’ Perspectives
Patricia A. Valverde, Roman Ayele, Chelsea Leonard, Ethan Cumbler, Rebecca Allyn, Robert E. Burke
Unmet Medical Needs Among Adults Who Move due to Unaffordable Housing: California Health Interview Survey, 2011–2017
Katherine L. Chen, Lauren E. Wisk, Teryl K. Nuckols, Joann G. Elmore, W. Neil Steers, Frederick J. Zimmerman
Impact of Clinical Decision Support on Azithromycin Prescribing in Primary Care Clinics
Alexandria May, Allison Hester, Kristi Quairoli, Jordan R. Wong, Sheetal Kandiah
Use of Video Telehealth Tablets to Increase Access for Veterans Experiencing Homelessness
Lynn A. Garvin, Jiaqi Hu, Cindie Slightam, D. Keith McInnes, Donna M. Zulman
Shared Clinical Decision-Making Recommendations for Adult Immunization: What Do Physicians Think?
Allison Kempe, Megan C. Lindley, Sean T. O’Leary, Lori A. Crane, Jessica R. Cataldi, Michaela Brtnikova, Brenda L. Beaty, Daniel D. Matlock, Carol Gorman, Laura P. Hurley
Optimizing Huddle Engagement Through Leadership and Problem Solving Within Primary Care: Results from a Cluster-Randomized Trial
Michelle A. Lampman, Aravind Chandrasekaran, Megan E. Branda, Marc D. Tumerman, Peter Ward, Bradley Staats, Timothy Johnson, Rachel Giblon, Nilay D. Shah, David R. Rushlow
Dissociation Between Long-term Weight Loss Intervention and Blood Pressure: an 18-month Randomized Controlled Trial
Yftach Gepner, Nir Goldstein, Ilan Shelef, Dan Schwarzfuchs, Hila Zelicha, Anat Yaskolka Meir, Gal Tsaban, Ehud Grossman
Smartphone Application Allowing Physicians to Call Patients Associated with Increased Physician Productivity
Christopher M. Whaley, Daniel J. Crespin, Tisamarie B. Sherry
Call Center Remote Triage by Nurse Practitioners Was Associated With Fewer Subsequent Face-to-Face Healthcare Visits
Peter J. Kaboli, Matthew R. Augustine, Danielle E. Rose, Neetu Chawla, Maria Bouchard, Paul Hebert
Comparing Receipt of Prescribed Post-acute Home Health Care Between Medicare Advantage and Traditional Medicare Beneficiaries: an Observational Study
Lacey Loomer, Cyrus M. Kosar, David J. Meyers, Kali S. Thomas
Challenges to Addressing Patient-Perpetrated Sexual Harassment in Veterans Affairs Healthcare Settings
Karissa M. Fenwick, Tana M. Luger, Karen E. Dyer, Joya G. Chrystal, Alison B. Hamilton, Elizabeth M. Yano, Ruth Klap
Factors Impacting Physician Referral To and Patient Attendance at Weight Management Programs Within a Large Integrated Health System
Elizabeth R. Pfoh, Leslie J. Heinberg, Michael B. Rothberg
Potentially Inappropriately Prescribed Medications Among Medicare Medication Therapy Management Eligible Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease: an Observational Analysis
Armando Silva-Almodóvar, Edward Hackim, Hailey Wolk, Milap C. Nahata
Changes in Medicaid Utilization and Spending Associated with Homeless Adults’ Entry into Permanent Supportive Housing
Mara A. G. Hollander, Evan S. Cole, Julie M. Donohue, Eric T. Roberts
Association Between Beta-Blockers and Mortality and Readmission in Older Patients with Heart Failure: an Instrumental Variable Analysis
Lauren Gilstrap, Andrea M. Austin, A. James O’Malley, Barbara Gladders, Amber E. Barnato, Anna Tosteson, Jonathan Skinner
Perspectives of Patients with Diverse Disabilities Regarding Healthcare Accommodations to Promote Healthcare Equity: a Qualitative Study
Megan A. Morris, Alicia A. Wong, Brooke Dorsey Holliman, Juliette Liesinger, Joan M. Griffin
Thirty-Day Post-Discharge Outcomes Following COVID-19 Infection
Justin R. Kingery, Paul BF Martin, Ben R. Baer, Laura C. Pinheiro, Mangala Rajan, Adrienne Clermont, Sabrina Pan, Khoi Nguyen, Khalid Fahoum, Graham T. Wehmeyer, Mark N. Alshak, Han A. Li, Justin J. Choi, Martin F. Shapiro, Margaret L. McNairy, Monika M. Safford, Parag Goyal
Patient Perspectives on the Quality of Professional Interpretation: Results from LASI Study
Sarita Pathak, Steven E. Gregorich, Lisa C. Diamond, Sunita Mutha, Esme Seto, Jennifer Livaudais-Toman, Leah Karliner
The Role of Gender in Careers in Medicine: a Systematic Review and Thematic Synthesis of Qualitative Literature
Abigail Ford Winkel, Beatrice Telzak, Jacquelyn Shaw, Calder Hollond, Juliana Magro, Joseph Nicholson, Gwendolyn Quinn
Medical Procedure Services in Internal Medicine Residencies in the US: a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Muhammad H. Hayat, Matthew H. Meyers, Ioannis A. Ziogas, Majd A. El-Harasis, Lawrence T. Heller, John A. McPherson, Kevin G. Buell
Tolerance for Uncertainty and Professional Development: a Normative Analysis
Samuel Reis-Dennis, Martha S. Gerrity, Gail Geller
Comparative Efficacy and Safety of Ultra-Long-Acting, Long-Acting, Intermediate-Acting, and Biosimilar Insulins for Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus: a Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis
Andrea C. Tricco, Huda M. Ashoor, Jesmin Antony, Zachary Bouck, Myanca Rodrigues, Ba’ Pham, Paul A. Khan, Vera Nincic, Nazia Darvesh, Fatemeh Yazdi, Marco Ghassemi, John D. Ivory, Areti Angeliki Veroniki, Catherine H. Yu, Lorenzo Moja, Sharon E. Straus
Development, Validation, and Performance of a New Physical Functioning–Weighted Multimorbidity Index for Use in Administrative Data
Melissa Y. Wei, Jamie E. Luster, David Ratz, Kenneth J. Mukamal, Kenneth M. Langa
Accelerating Implementation of Virtual Care in an Integrated Health Care System: Future Research and Operations Priorities
Allison A. Lewinski, Caitlin Sullivan, Kelli D. Allen, Matthew J. Crowley, Jennifer M. Gierisch, Karen M. Goldstein, Kaileigh Gray, Susan N. Hastings, George L. Jackson, Felicia McCant, Abigail Shapiro, Matthew Tucker, Carolyn Turvey, Leah L. Zullig, Hayden B. Bosworth
The ACLGIM LEAD Program: a Leadership Program for Junior-Mid-Career Faculty
April S. Fitzgerald, Michele Fang, Rita S. Lee, Jillian Gann, Deborah L. Burnet
Advanced Inpatient Management of Opioid Use Disorder in a Patient Requiring Serial Surgeries
Parisa Mortaji, Dale Terasaki, Jaime Moo-Young
The Reverse Halo Sign in an Immunocompromised Host
John C. Penner, Timothy G. Dyster, Jennifer M. Babik
A Case of Necrotic Hepatocellular Carcinoma in a Young Male with Hepatitis B
Muhammad Hashim Hayat, Abdul Wahab, Raseen Tariq
Scalloped Tongue in Primary Amyloidosis
Alex Q. Lee, Paul Aronowitz
Chronotherapy in COVID-19 Disease
Alexis LACOUT, Pierre Yves MARCY, Christian PERRONNE
Reply to the Letter to Editor by Lacout and colleagues: Chloroquine and Hydroxychloroquine for the Treatment of COVID-19: a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Manya Prasad, Arunmozhimaran Elavarasi, Pramod Garg
Overlooked Bias with Thermometer Evaluations Using Quickly Retaken Temperatures in EHR: Axillary, Oral, Temporal Artery, and Tympanic Thermometry
Charles Harding, Marybeth Pompei, Dmitriy Burmistrov, Francesco Pompei
Hypoglycemia Communication in Primary Care
Jan Brož, Klára Brožová
Response to "Alcohol and COVID-19: How Do We Respond to This Growing Public Health Crisis?”
Eileen Barrett, Krystle Apodaca
Response to Letter to Editor from Drs. Barrett and Apodaca
Shelly F. Greenfield, Dawn E. Sugarman
Waste in the Medicare Program: a National Cross-Sectional Analysis of 2017 Low-Value Service Use and Spending
Rachel O. Reid, John N. Mafi, Lesley H. Baseman, A. Mark Fendrick, Cheryl L. Damberg
Effect of a Scoring Rubric on the Review of Scientific Meeting Abstracts
Nia S. Mitchell, Kelly Stolzmann, Lauren V. Benning, Jolie B. Wormwood, Amy M. Linsky
Overcoming Barriers to Early Dementia Diagnosis and Management in Primary Care
Emily Morgan, Bryanna De Lima, Tatyana Aleksandrova, Lisa Sanders, Elizabeth Eckstrom
Effects of Changes to Hospitalist Admitter Staffing on Hospitalist Perception of Workload
Ajay Bhasin, G. Randy Smith Jr., Ashish Gupta, Shuhan Zhou, Chen Yeh, Jungwha Lee, Kevin J. O’Leary
Predicting Losses from Medicare Shared Savings Program Departures
Nicholas M. Moloci, Yajuan Si, Edward C. Norton, Andrew M. Ryan, John M. Hollingsworth
Trends in Industry Payments to Physicians for Antihyperglycemic Therapies Between 2014 and 2018
Kosuke Inoue, O. Kenrik Duru, Carol M. Mangione, Yusuke Tsugawa
Mental Distress and Mental Health Services Receipt in Foreign-Born Survivors of Cancer: a National Health Interview Survey Analysis
Melaku A. Arega, Edward Christopher Dee, Vinayak Muralidhar, Paul L. Nguyen, Idalid Franco, Nina N. Sanford, Brandon A. Mahal
Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias and Episode Spending Under Medicare’s Bundled Payment for Care Improvements Advanced (BPCI-A)
Geoffrey J. Hoffman, Ushapoorna Nuliyalu, Julie Bynum, Andrew M. Ryan
Estimating Discounts for Top Spending Drugs in Medicare Part D
Inmaculada Hernandez, Alvaro San-Juan-Rodriguez, Chester B. Good, Walid F. Gellad
Longitudinal Assessment of Personal and Professional Development Competencies in Medical Students
Hannah D. Caldwell, Sandra A. Ham, Christopher D. Mattson, James N. Woodruff, Wei Wei Lee
Impact of Pass/Fail USMLE Step 1 Scoring on the Internal Medicine Residency Application Process: a Program Director Survey
Arrush Choudhary, Alan T. Makhoul, Nishant Ganesh Kumar, Brian C. Drolet
Improving Burnout Through Reducing Administrative Burden: a Pilot of Pharmacy-Driven Medication Histories on a Hospital Medicine Service
William Hillmann, Bryan D. Hayes, John Marshall, Marjory Bravard, Susan Jacob, Rosy Gil, David Lucier
The Prevalence and Characteristics of Clinicians Who Provide Care in Assisted Living Facilities, 2014–2017
Mark Aaron Unruh, Yuting Qian, Lawrence P. Casalino, Paul R. Katz, Kira L. Ryskina, Hye-Young Jung
Changes in Mortality in Top 10 Causes of Death from 2011 to 2018
Jamal S. Rana, Sadiya S. Khan, Donald M. Lloyd-Jones, Stephen Sidney
Consumer Trust in Public and Private Organizations to Use Their Digital Data for COVID-19 Control
David Grande, Xochitl Luna Marti, Raina Merchant, Nandita Mitra, Meghana Sharma, David Asch, Carolyn Cannuscio
Socioeconomic and Demographic Characteristics of Both Inpatients and Outpatients with Positive Testing for SARS-CoV-2
Jason H. Wasfy, Michael K. Hidrue, Helaine Rockett, Elizabeth T. Cafiero-Fonseca, Timothy G. Ferris, Marcela G. del Carmen
Psychological Distress, Persistent Physical Symptoms, and Perceived Recovery After COVID-19 Illness
Nadia A. Liyanage-Don, Talea Cornelius, Jose E. Sanchez, Alison Trainor, Nathalie Moise, Milton Wainberg, Ian M. Kronish
The Association Between Convalescent Plasma Treatment and Survival of Patients with COVID-19
Toshiki Kuno, Mai Takahashi, Natalia N. Egorova
Accuracy of ICD-10 Diagnostic Codes to Identify COVID-19 Among Hospitalized Patients
Ankeet S. Bhatt, Erin E. McElrath, Brian L. Claggett, Deepak L. Bhatt, Dale S. Adler, Scott D. Solomon, Muthiah Vaduganathan
Capsule Commentary on Castellon-Lopez et al.: “Psychometric Properties of the Altarum Consumer Engagement (ACE) Measure of Activation in Patients with Prediabetes”
Ana M. Palacio, Elizabeth Bast