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Journal of General Internal Medicine

Issue 11/2015

Content (38 Articles)

Editorial

Leading the Way in Health Disparities Research

Mitchell D. Feldman

Editorial

Statins and Diabetes: The Plot Thickens

Giacomo Gastaldi, Jacques Philippe

Editorial

Jump Forward to Get Back to Basics

Eric B. Bass

Editorial

Varying Charges and Questionable Costs

Ari B. Hoffman, Andrew B. Bindman

Editorial

The End of the 15–20 Minute Primary Care Visit

Mark Linzer, Asaf Bitton, Shin-Ping Tu, Margaret Plews-Ogan, Karen R. Horowitz, Mark D. Schwartz

Letter to the Editor

CMS Reimbursement Reform

Stephanie Parks Taylor, David J Ecker, Brice Taylor

Letter to the Editor

CMS Reimbursement Reform

Risha Gidwani, Jay Bhattacharya

Letter to the Editor

Use of Interpreters by Physicians

Elizabeth A. Jacobs, Valerie G. Press, Monica B. Vela

Letter to the Editor

Use of Interpreters by Physicians

Lenny López

Original Research

Does Type 2 Diabetes Genetic Testing and Counseling Reduce Modifiable Risk Factors? A Randomized Controlled Trial of Veterans

Corrine I. Voils, Cynthia J. Coffman, Janet M. Grubber, David Edelman, Azita Sadeghpour, Matthew L. Maciejewski, Jamiyla Bolton, Alex Cho, Geoffrey S. Ginsburg, William S. Yancy Jr.

Original Research

Statins and New-Onset Diabetes Mellitus and Diabetic Complications: A Retrospective Cohort Study of US Healthy Adults

Ishak Mansi, Christopher R. Frei, Chen-Pin Wang, Eric M. Mortensen

Original Research

Acute Care Utilization by Patients After Graduation of Their Resident Primary Care Physicians

Sonja R. Solomon, Holly C. Gooding, Harry Reyes Nieva, Jeffrey A. Linder

Original Research

Adult Patients’ Perspectives on the Benefits and Harms of Overused Screening Tests: a Qualitative Study

Anne Sutkowi-Hemstreet, Maihan Vu, Russell Harris, Noel T. Brewer, Rowena J. Dolor, Stacey L. Sheridan

Original Research

Inpatient Hospital Charge Variability of U.S. Hospitals

James D. Park, Edward Kim, Rachel M. Werner

Original Research

Reductions in Use of Colchicine after FDA Enforcement of Market Exclusivity in a Commercially Insured Population

Aaron S. Kesselheim, Jessica M. Franklin, Seoyoung C. Kim, John D. Seeger, Daniel H. Solomon

Original Research

Adherence to Metformin, Statins, and ACE/ARBs Within the Diabetes Health Plan (DHP)

O. Kenrik Duru, Norman Turk, Susan L. Ettner, Romain Neugebauer, Tannaz Moin, Jinnan Li, Lindsay Kimbro, Charles Chan, Robert H. Luchs, Abigail M. Keckhafer, Anya Kirvan, Sam Ho, Carol M. Mangione

Original Research

Patient Preferences for Test Result Notification

Samuel K. Shultz, Robert Wu, John J. Matelski, Xin Lu, Peter Cram

Original Research

Impact of an Intervention to Improve Weekend Hospital Care at an Academic Medical Center: An Observational Study

Saul Blecker, Keith Goldfeld, Hannah Park, Martha J. Radford, Sarah Munson, Fritz Francois, Jonathan S. Austrian, R. Scott Braithwaite, Katherine Hochman, Richard Donoghue, Bernard A. Birnbaum, Marc N. Gourevitch

Original Research

A Successful Multifaceted Trial to Improve Hypertension Control in Primary Care: Why Did it Work?

Karen L. Margolis, Stephen E. Asche, Anna R. Bergdall, Steven P. Dehmer, Michael V. Maciosek, Rachel A. Nyboer, Patrick J. O’Connor, Pamala A. Pawloski, JoAnn M. Sperl-Hillen, Nicole K. Trower, Ann D. Tucker, Beverly B. Green

Original Research

A Digital Ethnography of Medical Students who Use Twitter for Professional Development

Katherine C. Chretien, Matthew G. Tuck, Michael Simon, Lisa O. Singh, Terry Kind

Assessing the Quality of Osteoporosis Care in Practice

Weifeng Weng, Brian J. Hess, Lorna A. Lynn, Rebecca S. Lipner

Original Research

Functional Status Outperforms Comorbidities in Predicting Acute Care Readmissions in Medically Complex Patients

Shirley L. Shih, Paul Gerrard, Richard Goldstein, Jacqueline Mix, Colleen M. Ryan, Paulette Niewczyk, Lewis Kazis, Jaye Hefner, D. Clay Ackerly, Ross Zafonte, Jeffrey C. Schneider

Perspective

The ACA’s 65th Birthday Challenge: Moving from Medicaid to Medicare

Chima D. Ndumele, Benjamin D. Sommers, Amal N. Trivedi

Perspective

The Value of Narrative Medical Writing in Internal Medicine Residency

Joshua M. Liao, Brian J. Secemsky

Clinical Practice: Exercises in Clinical Reasoning

Sutton’s Law: Keep Going Where The Money Is

Satoshi Watanuki, Hitoshi Honda, Nobuyoshi Minemura, Reza Sedighi Manesh, Didier Raoult, Yasuharu Tokuda

Healing Arts

Small Talk

Ronald H. Lands

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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.