Issue 9/2020
Content (67 Articles)
From the Editors Desk: the Quandary of Difficult Patients
Jeffrey L Jackson, April Choi
Changes in Coverage, Access, and Health Following Implementation of Healthy Behavior Incentive Medicaid Expansions vs. Traditional Medicaid Expansions
Daniel B. Nelson, Benjamin D. Sommers, Phillip M. Singer, Emily K. Arntson, Renuka Tipirneni
Barriers to Medications for Opioid Use Disorder Among Veterans Involved in the Legal System: a Qualitative Study
Andrea K. Finlay, Erica Morse, Matthew Stimmel, Emmeline Taylor, Christine Timko, Alex H. S. Harris, David Smelson, Mengfei Yu, Jessica Blue-Howells, Ingrid A. Binswanger
Diversity Within the Most Competitive Internal Medicine Fellowships: Examining Trends from 2008 to 2018
Praneet Mylavarapu, Nealansh E. Gupta, Varun Gudi, Apoorva Mylavarapu, Lori B. Daniels, Mitul Patel
Perioperative Serum 25-Hydroxyvitamin D Levels as a Predictor of Postoperative Opioid Use and Opioid Use Disorder: a Cohort Study
Yuhree Kim, Fang Zhang, Katherine Su, Marc LaRochelle, Matthew Callahan, David Fisher, J. Frank Wharam, Maryam M. Asgari
Variation in Breast Cancer Screening Recommendations by Primary Care Providers Surveyed in Wisconsin
Emily Nachtigal, Noelle K. LoConte, Sarah Kerch, Xiao Zhang, Amanda Parkes
Hospital Readmission and Emergency Department Revisits of Homeless Patients Treated at Homeless-Serving Hospitals in the USA: Observational Study
Atsushi Miyawaki, Kohei Hasegawa, Jose F. Figueroa, Yusuke Tsugawa
An Effectiveness Evaluation of a Primary Care–Embedded Clinical Pharmacist–Led Intervention Among Blacks with Diabetes
Kimberly Danae Cauley Narain, Danielle Doppee, Ning Li, Gerardo Moreno, Douglas S. Bell, Amanda L. Do, Robert W. Follett, Carol M. Mangione
Association of Homelessness with Hospital Readmissions—an Analysis of Three Large States
Sameed Ahmed M. Khatana, Rishi K. Wadhera, Eunhee Choi, Peter W. Groeneveld, Dennis P. Culhane, Margot Kushel, Dhruv S. Kazi, Robert W. Yeh, Changyu Shen
Opioid Prescribing by Primary Care Providers: a Cross-Sectional Analysis of Nurse Practitioner, Physician Assistant, and Physician Prescribing Patterns
M. James Lozada, Mukaila A. Raji, James S. Goodwin, Yong-Fang Kuo
Comparing VA and Community-Based Care: Trends in Sleep Studies Following the Veterans Choice Act
Frances M. Weaver, Alex Hickok, Bharati Prasad, Elizabeth Tarlov, Qiuying Zhang, Amanda Taylor, Brian Bartle, Howard Gordon, Rebecca Young, Kathleen Sarmiento, Denise M. Hynes
The Association Between Physician Race/Ethnicity and Patient Satisfaction: an Exploration in Direct to Consumer Telemedicine
Kathryn A. Martinez, Kaitlin Keenan, Radhika Rastogi, Joud Roufael, Adrianne Fletcher, Mark N. Rood, Michael B. Rothberg
A Typology of New Long-term Opioid Prescribing in the Veterans Health Administration
Katherine Hadlandsmyth, Hilary J. Mosher, Emine O. Bayman, Justin G. Wikle, Brian C. Lund
Communication About Health Information Technology Use Between Patients and Providers
Joy L. Lee, Susan M. Rawl, Stephanie Dickinson, Evgenia Teal, Layla B. Baker, Chen Lyu, Will L. Tarver, David A. Haggstrom
Identifying Performance Outliers for Stroke Care Based on Composite Score of Process Indicators: an Observational Study in China
Chao Wang, Shaofei Su, Xi Li, Jingkun Li, Xiaoqiang Bao, Meina Liu
Orphan Drugs Offer Larger Health Gains but Less Favorable Cost-effectiveness than Non-orphan Drugs
James D. Chambers, Madison C. Silver, Flora C. Berklein, Joshua T. Cohen, Peter J. Neumann
Effectiveness of Lifestyle Intervention for Type 2 Diabetes in Primary Care: the REAL HEALTH-Diabetes Randomized Clinical Trial
Linda M. Delahanty, Douglas E. Levy, Yuchiao Chang, Bianca C. Porneala, Valerie Goldman, Jeanna McCarthy, Laurie Bissett, Anthony Romeo Rodriguez, Barbara Chase, Rajani LaRocca, Amy Wheeler, Deborah J. Wexler
Human Papillomavirus Vaccination and Physical and Mental Health Complaints Among Female Students in Secondary Education Institutions in Denmark
Tatjana Gazibara, Lau Caspar Thygesen, Maria Holst Algren, Janne Schurmann Tolstrup
Middle-aged Women’s Experiences of Intimate Partner Violence Screening and Disclosure: “It’s a private matter. It’s an embarrassing situation”
Melissa E. Dichter, Lena Makaroun, Anaïs Tuepker, Gala True, Ann Elizabeth Montgomery, Katherine Iverson
Impact of a Comprehensive Guideline Dissemination Strategy on Diabetes Diagnostic Test Rates: an Interrupted Time Series
Jennica Nichols, Baiju R. Shah, Priscila Pequeno, Carolyn Gall Casey, Catherine H. Yu
Impact of Hospitalist Team Structure on Patient-Reported Satisfaction with Physician Performance
Katie L. Lappé, Sonja E. Raaum, Claire E. Ciarkowski, Santosh P. Reddy, Stacy A. Johnson
Building Telemedicine Capacity for Trainees During the Novel Coronavirus Outbreak: a Case Study and Lessons Learned
Katharine Lawrence, Kathleen Hanley, Jennifer Adams, Daniel J Sartori, Richard Greene, Sondra Zabar
Ethnic Differences in Participation in Medical Check-ups Among the Elderly: Evidence from Malaysia
Yong Kang Cheah, David Meltzer
Selecting Patient-Reported Outcome Measures to Contribute to Primary Care Performance Measurement: a Mixed Methods Approach
San Keller, Sydney Dy, Renee Wilson, Vadim Dukhanin, Claire Snyder, Albert Wu
Antithrombotic Therapies in COVID-19 Disease: a Systematic Review
Edward Maldonado, Derrick Tao, Katherine Mackey
Using Electronic Monitoring Devices to Assess Medication Adherence: a Research Methods Framework
Meghan E. McGrady, Rachelle R. Ramsey
American College of Physicians Ethical Guidance for Electronic Patient-Physician Communication: Aligning Expectations
Wei Wei Lee, Lois Snyder Sulmasy
A Society of General Internal Medicine Position Statement on the Internists’ Role in Social Determinants of Health
Elena Byhoff, Shreya Kangovi, Seth A. Berkowitz, Matthew DeCamp, Elizabeth Dzeng, Mark Earnest, Cristina M. Gonzalez, Sarah Hartigan, Reena Karani, Milad Memari, Brita Roy, Mark D. Schwartz, Anna Volerman, Karen DeSalvo
Trying Times and Trying Out Solutions: Intimate Partner Violence Screening and Support for Women Veterans During COVID-19
Fernanda S. Rossi, Megha Shankar, Kelly Buckholdt, Yuki Bailey, Sonoo Thadaney Israni, Katherine M. Iverson
Harnessing the Power of Hospitalists in Operational Disaster Planning: COVID-19
Kasey Bowden, Ellen L. Burnham, Angela Keniston, Dimitriy Levin, Julia Limes, Jason Persoff, Lindsay Thurman, Marisha Burden
Medical Isolation and Solitary Confinement: Balancing Health and Humanity in US Jails and Prisons During COVID-19
David H. Cloud, Cyrus Ahalt, Dallas Augustine, David Sears, Brie Williams
Ethics and Spheres of Influence in Addressing Social Determinants of Health
Matthew DeCamp, Karen DeSalvo, Elizabeth Dzeng
PPE Supply Chain Needs Data Transparency and Stress Testing
Tinglong Dai, Ge Bai, Gerard F. Anderson
Older Adults with COVID-19 Can Choose Care at Home: Lessons Learned from New York City
Justina L. Groeger, Joanna L. Starrels, Amy R. Ehrlich
Psychological Aspects of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Carlos Blanco, Melanie M. Wall, Mark Olfson
Prioritizing Equity in a Time of Scarcity: The COVID-19 Pandemic
Utibe R. Essien, Nwamaka D. Eneanya, Deidra C. Crews
COVID-19 and Asian American Pacific Islanders
Jiun-Ruey Hu, Margaret Wang, Francis Lu
Releasing Migrants from Detention During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Katherine C. McKenzie, Ranit Mishori
A Case of E-cigarette, or Vaping, Product Use–Associated Lung Injury (EVALI) in a Previously Healthy Patient: Case Report and Literature Review
Emily Smith, Rekha Cherian, Brian McGillen
Overcoming Inertia: an Exercise in Clinical Reasoning
Julia Loewenthal, Houman Javedan, Andrea Wershof Schwartz
Aspirin for Postoperative Venous Thromboembolism Prophylaxis
GuanYang Kang, HuiQing Zhang
Healthcare Experiences of Transgender People of Color
Deborah Santiago Barboza da Silva
Letter to the Editor in Response to: COVID-19: Magnifying the Effect of Health Disparities
Mariela Martinez, Michael Silver, Ariel Schulman
Lessons from Influenza Outbreaks for Potential Impact of COVID-19 Outbreak on Hospitalizations, Ventilator Use, and Mortality Among Homeless Persons in New York State
Atsushi Miyawaki, Kohei Hasegawa, Yusuke Tsugawa
County-Level Association of Social Vulnerability with COVID-19 Cases and Deaths in the USA
Rohan Khazanchi, Evan R. Beiter, Suhas Gondi, Adam L. Beckman, Alyssa Bilinski, Ishani Ganguli
Depression and Anxiety Changes Among Sexual and Gender Minority People Coinciding with Onset of COVID-19 Pandemic
Annesa Flentje, Juno Obedin-Maliver, Micah E. Lubensky, Zubin Dastur, Torsten Neilands, Mitchell R. Lunn
Association Between State-Level Income Inequality and COVID-19 Cases and Mortality in the USA
Carlos Irwin A. Oronce, Christopher A. Scannell, Ichiro Kawachi, Yusuke Tsugawa
State Voting Patterns in the 2016 Presidential Election and Uninsured Rates in Non-elderly Adults
Uriel Kim, Wyatt P. Bensken, Johnie Rose, Siran M. Koroukian
Tracking Mental Health and Symptom Mentions on Twitter During COVID-19
Sharath Chandra Guntuku, Garrick Sherman, Daniel C. Stokes, Anish K. Agarwal, Emily Seltzer, Raina M. Merchant, Lyle H. Ungar
Charlson Comorbidity Index Score and Risk of Severe Outcome and Death in Danish COVID-19 Patients
Daniel Mølager Christensen, Jarl Emanuel Strange, Gunnar Gislason, Christian Torp-Pedersen, Thomas Gerds, Emil Fosbøl, Matthew Phelps
Risk for Severe COVID-19 Illness Among Health Care Workers Who Work Directly with Patients
Diane M. Gibson, Jessica Greene
Hospital Cost Structure and the Implications on Cost Management During COVID-19
Ge Bai, Hossein Zare
Should Asymptomatic and Low-Risk Individuals be Tested for SARS-CoV-2?
Ashwini R. Sehgal
The Landscape of Medical Literature in the Era of COVID-19: Original Research Versus Opinion Pieces
Akram Y. Elgendy, Amr F. Barakat, Joseph Ibrahim, Laith Alkukhun, Mamas A. Mamas, Islam Y. Elgendy
The Invisible Epidemic: Neglected Chronic Disease Management During COVID-19
Adam Wright, Alejandra Salazar, Maria Mirica, Lynn A. Volk, Gordon D. Schiff
Investment Income of US Nonprofit Hospitals in 2017
Ge Bai, Farah Yehia, Wei Chen, Gerard F. Anderson
Initial Experience with a COVID-19 Web-Based Patient Self-assessment Tool
William M. Mehring, Andrew Poksay, Jesse Kriege, Rithvik Prasannappa, Michael D. Wang, Chris Hendel, Michael Hochman
Telemedicine and COVID-19: an Observational Study of Rapid Scale Up in a US Academic Medical System
Carol J. Peden, Sirisha Mohan, Veronica Pagán
Association Between US Administration Endorsement of Hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19 and Outpatient Prescribing
James J. Harrigan, Rebecca A. Hubbard, Sunil Thomas, Ralph J. Riello III, Erin Bange, Mira Mamtani, Ronac Mamtani
Late Diagnosis of COVID-19 in Patients Admitted to the Hospital
Elizabeth R. Pfoh, Essa H. Hariri, Anita D. Misra-Hebert, Abhishek Deshpande, Lara Jehi, Michael B. Rothberg
Capsule Commentary on Finlay et al., Barriers to Medications for Opioid Use Disorder Among Veterans Involved in the Legal System: a Qualitative Study
Benjamin A. Howell