Issue 10/2019
Content (68 Articles)
Internal Medicine Point of Care Ultrasound: Indicators It’s Here to Stay
Mike Wagner, Keith R. Barron, Renee Dversdal
Tracking Progress in Improving Diagnosis: a Framework for Defining Undesirable Diagnostic Events
Fergus Hamilton
Letter to the Editor
Andrew P. J. Olson, Mark L. Graber, Hardeep Singh
Physicians Interrupting Patients
Kari A. Phillips, Naykky Singh Ospina, Victor M. Montori
Physician Empathy and Diabetes Outcomes
Mohammadreza Hojat, Vittorio Maio, Fred W. Markham, Daniel Z. Louis, Joseph S. Gonnella
Physician Empathy and Diabetes Outcomes
Alexander Chaitoff, Michael B. Rothberg, Kathryn A. Martinez
A Retrospective Cohort Study of the Effect of Hospitalist-Directed Transfers on Patient Flow
Yihan Chen, Inderpreet Saini, Shivani K. Patel, Holly Wilhalme, William D. Miller, Roswell Quinn
Patient Engagement, Access to Care, and Perceptions of Competing Priorities in the VA Primary Care Setting
Richard SoRelle, Judy A. Shea, Becky Shasha, Shimrit Keddem, Judith A. Long, Rachel M. Werner
Change in Faculty Perceptions of Burnout and Work Life in an Academic General Medicine Clinic: a Pre-Post Study
Jonathan S. Lee, Leah S. Karliner, Katherine A. Julian, Mark Linzer, Mitchell D. Feldman
Lack of Association Between Meteorological Factors and Internal Medicine Admissions in New Orleans: Residents Perceptions Differ
Neal Dixit, Kristen Whalen, Chayan Chakraborti
The Cardiovascular Health Burdens of Solitary Confinement
Brie A. Williams, Amanda Li, Cyrus Ahalt, Pamela Coxson, James G. Kahn, Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo
Differences by Race, Religiosity, and Mental Health in Preferences for Life-Prolonging Treatment Among Medicare Beneficiaries
Justin J. Sanders, Anna I. Berrier, Léonce Nshuti, James A. Tulsky, Charlotta Lindvall
Dementia and Firearms: an Exploratory Survey of Caregiver Needs
Marian E. Betz, Megan L. Ranney, Christopher E. Knoepke, Rachel L. Johnson, Rocco Pallin, Matthew Miller, Garen J. Wintemute
Rising Prevalence of Comorbid Alcohol and Opioid Use Disorders in Adolescents and Young Adults in the United States
Elissa R. Weitzman, Mei-Sing Ong
Communicating a Prognosis: a Randomized Trial of Survival Rate Language
Eric P. Silver, Stephen B. Broomell, Alexander L. Davis, Douglas B. White, Tamar Krishnamurti
Prevalence of Medical Comorbidities in Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Natascia Brondino, Laura Fusar-Poli, Emanuela Miceli, Michele Di Stefano, Stefano Damiani, Matteo Rocchetti, Pierluigi Politi
E-cigarette Use Is Associated with Non-prescribed Medication Use in Adults: Results from the PATH Survey
Kathryn Bentivegna, Nkiruka C. Atuegwu, Cheryl Oncken, Erin L. Mead, Mario F. Perez, Eric M. Mortensen
Graduating Students’ Evaluations of Their Training and Clinical Performance in Areas of Women’s Health in a Chinese Medical School
Margaret Z. Wang, Jingyi Fan, Ivy Jiang, Renslow Sherer
Multidisciplinary Team Meetings—a Venue to Improve Team Engagement and Quality in Resident Continuity Clinic
Amalia Lyons, Rebekah J. Walker, Heather L. Prigmore, Marty Muntz
The Yield of Birth Cohort Screening for Hepatitis C in Community Health Centers
Sarah E. Rowan, Larissa Muething, Kirsten Spielmann, Joshua Blum, Yingbo Lou, Shawni Vaughn, William J. Burman
Race and Hepatitis C Care Continuum in an Underserved Birth Cohort
Nicole J. Kim, Cameron J. Locke, Helen Park, Catherine Magee, Peter Bacchetti, Mandana Khalili
Comparing Shared Patient Networks Across Payers
Justin G. Trogdon, W. H. Weir, S. Shai, P. J. Mucha, T. M. Kuo, A. M. Meyer, K. B. Stitzenberg
The Impact of State Firearm Laws on Homicide and Suicide Deaths in the USA, 1991–2016: a Panel Study
Michael Siegel, Molly Pahn, Ziming Xuan, Eric Fleegler, David Hemenway
Older Medicare Beneficiaries Frequently Continue Medications with Limited Benefit Following Hospice Admission
Patrick M. Zueger, Holly M. Holmes, Gregory S. Calip, Dima M. Qato, A. Simon Pickard, Todd A. Lee
Aspirin Compared with Anticoagulation to Prevent Venous Thromboembolism After Knee or Hip Arthroplasty: a Large Retrospective Cohort Study
Christine Baumgartner, Judith Maselli, Andrew D. Auerbach, Margaret C. Fang
Provider Experiences with a Payer-Based PCMH Program
Gilbert Gimm, Debora G. Goldberg, Nouran Ghanem, Sahar Haghighat, Jay Want, Dan Hough, Len M. Nichols
Interventions to Reduce Unhealthy Alcohol Use among Primary Care Patients with HIV: the Health and Motivation Randomized Clinical Trial
Derek D. Satre, Amy S. Leibowitz, Wendy Leyden, Sheryl L. Catz, C. Bradley Hare, Hannah Jang, Jennifer O. Lam, Kendall J. Bryant, Constance M. Weisner, Stacy A. Sterling, Michael Horberg, Paul Volberding, Michael J. Silverberg
Hospitalist-Operated Compression Ultrasonography: a Point-of-Care Ultrasound Study (HOCUS-POCUS)
Ernest A. Fischer, Benjamin Kinnear, Dana Sall, Matthew Kelleher, Otto Sanchez, Benji Mathews, Daniel Schnobrich, Andrew P. J. Olson
Healthcare Experiences of Transgender People of Color
Susanna D. Howard, Kevin L. Lee, Aviva G. Nathan, Hannah C. Wenger, Marshall H. Chin, Scott C. Cook
If You Listen, I Will Talk: the Experience of Being Asked About Suicidality During Routine Primary Care
Julie E. Richards, Sarah D. Hohl, Ursula Whiteside, Evette J. Ludman, David C. Grossman, Greg E. Simon, Susan M. Shortreed, Amy K. Lee, Rebecca Parrish, Mary Shea, Ryan M. Caldeiro, Robert B. Penfold, Emily C. Williams
What Care Models Have Generalists Implemented to Address Transition from Pediatric to Adult Care?: a Qualitative Study
Laura C. Hart, Mary S. Mouw, Randall Teal, Daniel E. Jonas
Understanding Long-Term Cancer Survivors’ Preferences for Ongoing Medical Care
Tenbroeck G. Smith, Sara Strollo, Xin Hu, Craig C. Earle, Corinne R. Leach, Larissa Nekhlyudov
Patterns of Breast Imaging Use Among Women with a Personal History of Breast Cancer
Louise M. Henderson, Laura Ichikawa, Diana S. M. Buist, Janie M. Lee, Mary Bush, Dianne Johnson, Tracy Onega, Larissa Nekhlyudov, Karla Kerlikowske, Diana L. Miglioretti, Brian L. Sprague, Karen J. Wernli
Unearthing Faculty and Trainee Perspectives of Feedback in Internal Medicine: the Oral Case Presentation as a Model
James Rassos, Lindsay J. Melvin, Daniel Panisko, Kulamakan Kulasegaram, Ayelet Kuper
Family Caregiver Skills Training to Improve Experiences of Care: a Randomized Clinical Trial
Courtney Harold Van Houtven, Valerie A. Smith, Jennifer H. Lindquist, Jennifer G. Chapman, Cristina Hendrix, Susan Nicole Hastings, Eugene Z. Oddone, Heather A. King, Megan Shepherd-Banigan, Morris Weinberger
Education Indicators for Internal Medicine Point-of-Care Ultrasound: a Consensus Report from the Canadian Internal Medicine Ultrasound (CIMUS) Group
Anshula Ambasta, Marko Balan, Michael Mayette, Alberto Goffi, Sharon Mulvagh, Brian Buchanan, Steven Montague, Shannon Ruzycki, Irene W. Y. Ma, Anshula Ambasta, Marko Balan, Marcus Blouw, Brian Buchanan, Sharon E. Card, Barry Chan, Janeve Desy, Gabriel Demchuk, Colin R. Gebhardt, Alberto Goffi, Samantha Halman, Brendan Kerr, Irene W. Y. Ma, Leslie Martin, Michael Mayette, Steven J. Montague, Sharon Mulvagh, Jennifer Ringrose, Shannon Ruzycki, Jeffrey P. Schaefer, Jeffrey Yu
Integrating a Medical Home in an Outpatient Dialysis Setting: Effects on Health-Related Quality of Life
Denise M. Hynes, Michael Fischer, Marian Fitzgibbon, Anna C. Porter, Michael Berbaum, Linda Schiffer, Ifeanyi B. Chukwudozie, Hai Nguyen, Jose Arruda
Experiences with the Veterans’ Choice Program
Kevin T. Stroupe, Rachael Martinez, Timothy P. Hogan, Elisa J. Gordon, Beverly Gonzalez, Ibuola Kale, Chad Osteen, Elizabeth Tarlov, Frances M. Weaver, Denise M. Hynes, Bridget M. Smith
Early Health System Experiences with Collaborative Care (CoCM) Billing Codes: a Qualitative Study of Leadership and Support Staff
Andrew D. Carlo, Andrea Corage Baden, Rachelle L. McCarty, Anna D. H. Ratzliff
Menopausal Symptoms and Higher Risk Opioid Prescribing in a National Sample of Women Veterans with Chronic Pain
Carolyn J. Gibson, Yongmei Li, Alison J. Huang, Tessa Rife, Karen H. Seal
Survey of Adult Influenza Vaccination Practices and Perspectives Among US Primary Care Providers (2016–2017 Influenza Season)
Jessica R. Cataldi, Sean T. O’Leary, Megan C. Lindley, Laura P. Hurley, Mandy A. Allison, Michaela Brtnikova, Brenda L. Beaty, Lori A. Crane, Allison Kempe
Teach-Back Experience and Hospitalization Risk Among Patients with Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions: a Matched Cohort Study
Young-Rock Hong, Michelle Cardel, Ryan Suk, Ivana A. Vaughn, Ashish A. Deshmukh, Carla L. Fisher, Gregory Pavela, Kalyani Sonawane
Capsule Commentary on Zueger et al., Older Medicare Beneficiaries Frequently Continue Medications with Limited Benefit Following Hospice Admission
Allison Taylor, Elliot Yu
Capsule Commentary on Gimm et al., Provider Experiences with a Payer-Based PCMH Program
C. Scott Smith
Understanding the Mentoring Environment Through Thematic Analysis of the Learning Environment in Medical Education: a Systematic Review
Jia Min Hee, Hong Wei Yap, Zheng Xuan Ong, Simone Qian Min Quek, Ying Pin Toh, Stephen Mason, Lalit Kumar Radha Krishna
The Impact of Changes in Medicaid Provider Fees on Provider Participation and Enrollees’ Care: a Systematic Literature Review
Loren Saulsberry, Veri Seo, Vicki Fung
Effect of Electronic Prescribing Strategies on Medication Error and Harm in Hospital: a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Nadia Roumeliotis, Jonathan Sniderman, Thomasin Adams-Webber, Newton Addo, Vijay Anand, Paula Rochon, Anna Taddio, Christopher Parshuram
Frailty, Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators, and Mortality: a Systematic Review
Michael Y. Chen, Ariela R. Orkaby, Michael A. Rosenberg, Jane A. Driver
Comparative Effectiveness of Combining MTX with Biologic Drug Therapy Versus Either MTX or Biologics Alone for Early Rheumatoid Arthritis in Adults: a Systematic Review and Network Meta-analysis
Katrina E. Donahue, Elizabeth R. Schulman, Gerald Gartlehner, Beth L. Jonas, Emmanuel Coker-Schwimmer, Sheila V. Patel, Rachel Palmieri Weber, Carla M. Bann, Meera Viswanathan
Renal Replacement Therapy for Undocumented Immigrants: Current Models with Medical, Financial, and Physician Perspectives—a Narrative Review
Nathan T. Douthit, Christopher Old
Continuity in Undergraduate Medical Education: Mission Not Accomplished
Daniel B. Evans, Bruce L. Henschen, Ann N. Poncelet, LuAnn Wilkerson, Barbara Ogur
Evidence and Implications Behind a National Decline in Primary Care Visits
Ishani Ganguli, Thomas H. Lee, Ateev Mehrotra
Community Health Centers: a Key Partner to Achieve Medicaid Expansion
Richard Rieselbach, Ted Epperly, Eleanor McConnell, Jay Noren, Greg Nycz, Peter Shin
Primary Care Physicians in the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS): a Qualitative Investigation of Participants’ Experiences, Self-Reported Practice Changes, and Suggestions for Program Administrators
Carl T. Berdahl, Molly C. Easterlin, Gery Ryan, Jack Needleman, Teryl K. Nuckols
Off Trail, On Track: an Exercise in Clinical Reasoning
Kreshnik Zejnullahu, Lekshmi Santhosh, Michelle Mourad, Denise M. Connor
Ocular Tuberculosis
Julian A. Marin-Acevedo, Razvan M. Chirila, Jennifer B. Cowart
Skin Bends: a Cutaneous Manifestation of Decompression Sickness
Ronald S. Strauss