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Journal of General Internal Medicine

Issue 7/2020

Content (65 Articles)

Breast Cancer Original Research

Dense Breast Notification Laws, Education, and Women’s Awareness and Knowledge of Breast Density: a Nationally Representative Survey

Kelly A. Kyanko, Jessica Hoag, Susan H. Busch, Jenerius A. Aminawung, Xiao Xu, Ilana B. Richman, Cary P. Gross

Care Original Research

Advance Care Planning Prior to Death in Older Adults with Hip Fracture

Anna Kata, Irena Cenzer, Rebecca L. Sudore, Kenneth E. Covinsky, Victoria L. Tang

Suicide Original Research: Qualitative Research

The Importance of “Being There”: a Qualitative Study of What Veterans with Depression Want in Social Support

Alan R. Teo, Heather E. Marsh, Sarah S. Ono, Christina Nicolaidis, Somnath Saha, Steven K. Dobscha

Original Research

Responsibilities, Strategies, and Practice Factors in Clinical Cost Conversations: a US Physician Survey

Rahma Warsame, Lindsay Riordan, Sarah Jenkins, Kandace Lackore, Joel Pacyna, Ryan Antiel, Timothy Beebe, Mark Liebow, Bjorg Thorsteinsdottir, Michael Grover, Matthew Wynia, Susan Dorr Goold, Matthew DeCamp, Marion Danis, Jon Tilburt

Insomnia Original Research

Medical Reasons for Marijuana Use, Forms of Use, and Patient Perception of Physician Attitudes Among the US Population

Patrick M. Azcarate, Alysandra J. Zhang, Salomeh Keyhani, Stacey Steigerwald, Julie H. Ishida, Beth E. Cohen

Care Original Research

Spatial Influences on Team Awareness and Communication in Two Outpatient Clinics: a Multiple Methods Study

Lisa Lim, Matthew Moore, Jennifer R. DuBose, Bushra Obeidat, Robert Stroebel, Craig M. Zimring

Care Original Research

Association of Provider Performance with Changes in Insurance Networks

Katherine Piwnica-Worms, Jacob Wallace, Anthony Lollo, Chima D. Ndumele

Care Original Research

Instability in End-of-Life Care Preference Among Heart Failure Patients: Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial in Singapore

Chetna Malhotra, Meibo Hu, Rahul Malhotra, David Sim, Fazlur Rehman Jaufeerally, Filipinas G. Bundoc, Eric A. Finkelstein

Original Research

What Are They Worth? Six 30-Day Readmission Risk Scores for Medical Inpatients Externally Validated in a Swiss Cohort

Tristan Struja, Ciril Baechli, Daniel Koch, Sebastian Haubitz, Andreas Eckart, Alexander Kutz, Martha Kaeslin, Beat Mueller, Philipp Schuetz

Obesity Original Research

Excess Weight Gain After Cure of Hepatitis C Infection with Direct-Acting Antivirals

Albert Do, Denise A. Esserman, Supriya Krishnan, Joseph K. Lim, Tamar H. Taddei, Ronald G. Hauser III, Janet P. Tate, Vincent Lo Re III, Amy C. Justice

Care Original Research

Randomized Trial of Reverse Colocated Integrated Care on Persons with Severe, Persistent Mental Illness in Southern Texas

Karen Sautter Errichetti, Amy Flynn, Erika Gaitan, M. Marlen Ramirez, Maia Baker, Ziming Xuan

Suicide Original Research

Longitudinal Associations Between Healthcare Resources, Policy, and Firearm-Related Suicide and Homicide from 2012 to 2016

Kristen R. Choi, Altaf Saadi, Sae Takada, Molly C. Easterlin, Liza S. Buchbinder, David C. Johnson, Frederick J. Zimmerman

Suicide Original Research

Tailored Activation of Middle-Aged Men to Promote Discussion of Recent Active Suicide Thoughts: a Randomized Controlled Trial

Anthony Jerant, Paul Duberstein, Richard L. Kravitz, Deborah M. Stone, Camille Cipri, Peter Franks

Care Original Research

Association Between Difficulty with VA Patient-Centered Medical Home Model Components and Provider Emotional Exhaustion and Intent to Remain in Practice

Eric A. Apaydin, Danielle Rose, Lisa S. Meredith, Michael McClean, Timothy Dresselhaus, Susan Stockdale

Mammography Original Research

Scripts and Strategies for Discussing Stopping Cancer Screening with Adults > 75 Years: a Qualitative Study

Mara A. Schonberg, Alicia R. Jacobson, Maria Karamourtopoulos, Gianna M. Aliberti, Adlin Pinheiro, Alexander K. Smith, Linnaea C. Schuttner, Elyse R. Park, Mary Beth Hamel

Oxybutynin Original Research

Risk of Mortality Associated with Non-selective Antimuscarinic medications in Older Adults with Dementia: a Retrospective Study

Nandita Kachru, Holly M. Holmes, Michael L. Johnson, Hua Chen, Rajender R. Aparasu

Opioids Original Research

Does Provider Gender Affect the Quality of Primary Care?

Jeffrey L. Jackson, Amy Farkas, Cecilia Scholcoff

Review

Rate of Preventable Mortality in Hospitalized Patients: a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Benjamin A. Rodwin, Victor P. Bilan, Naseema B. Merchant, Catherine G. Steffens, Alyssa A. Grimshaw, Lori A. Bastian, Craig G. Gunderson

Review

Can Patient–Provider Interpersonal Interventions Achieve the Quadruple Aim of Healthcare? A Systematic Review

Marie C. Haverfield, Aaron Tierney, Rachel Schwartz, Michelle B. Bass, Cati Brown-Johnson, Dani L. Zionts, Nadia Safaeinili, Meredith Fischer, Jonathan G. Shaw, Sonoo Thadaney, Gabriella Piccininni, Karl A. Lorenz, Steven M. Asch, Abraham Verghese, Donna M. Zulman

Care Review

Interventions to Prevent or Delay Long-Term Nursing Home Placement for Adults with Impairments—a Systematic Review of Reviews

Wei Duan-Porter, Kristen Ullman, Christina Rosebush, Lauren McKenzie, Kristine E. Ensrud, Edward Ratner, Nancy Greer, Tetyana Shippee, Joseph E. Gaugler, Timothy J. Wilt

Pneumonia Review Paper

EVALI and the Pulmonary Toxicity of Electronic Cigarettes: A Review

Lydia Winnicka, Mangalore Amith Shenoy

Triage Review

Effectiveness of Acute Care Remote Triage Systems: a Systematic Review

Joel C. Boggan, John Paul Shoup, John D. Whited, Elizabeth Van Voorhees, Adelaide M. Gordon, Sharron Rushton, Allison A. Lewinski, Amir A. Tabriz, Soheir Adam, Jessica Fulton, Andrzej S. Kosinski, Megan G. Van Noord, John W. Williams Jr, Karen M. Goldstein, Jennifer M. Gierisch

Research and Reporting Methods

Including Non-inferiority Trials in Contemporary Meta-analyses of Chronic Medical Conditions: a Meta-epidemiological Study

Zhen Wang, Tarek Nayfeh, Nigar Sofiyeva, Oscar J. Ponte, Rami Rajjoub, Konstantinos Malandris, Mohamed Seisa, Haitao Chu, Mohammad Hassan Murad

Air Pollutants Research and Reporting Methods

Reporting of Clinical Practice Guidelines: Practical Testing of AGREE and RIGHT Checklists

Ružica Tokalić, Marin Viđak, Ivan Buljan, Ana Marušić

Watching for Disease: the Changing Paradigm of Disease Screening in the Age of Consumer Health Devices

Anubodh S. Varshney, Christopher Madias, Rahul Kakkar, David T. Martin

Medical Education Podcasts: Where We Are and Questions Unanswered

Justin Berk, Shreya P. Trivedi, Matthew Watto, Paul Williams, Robert Centor

Perspective

Preprints: a Timely Counterbalance for Big Data–Driven Research

Amol A. Verma, Allan S. Detsky

Viewpoint

Campaign Finance Reform as a Health Issue in the USA

Aditya K. Khetan, Richard Josephson

Living Will Viewpoint

When Advance Directives Collide

Jordan Potter, Susannah W. Lee

Telemedicine Viewpoint

Hey Doctor! Did You Wash Your Smartphone?

Craig S. Brown, Ben E. Biesterveld, Seth A. Waits

Clostridium Clinical Image

Infectious Pneumorachis Due to Clostridium septicum

Janewit Wongboonsin, Alisa Duran, James R. Johnson

Healing Arts

Becoming Trauma Informed

Jeffrey H. Millstein

Letter to the Editor

Immigration System and Foreign Medical Graduates

Hemant Goyal, Rupak Desai, David Parish

Circumcision Letter to the Editor

The Fragility Index in HIV/AIDS Trials

Robert S. Van Howe

A Case Series of Recurrent Viral RNA Positivity in Recovered COVID-19 Chinese Patients

Kenneth I. Zheng, Xiao-Bo Wang, Xiang-Hong Jin, Wen-Yue Liu, Feng Gao, Yong-Ping Chen, Ming-Hua Zheng

Breast Cancer Concise Research Report

Women’s Reports of Dense Breast Notification Following Mammography: Findings from the 2015 National Health Interview Survey

Thomas B. Richards, Sabitha Dasari, Susan A. Sabatino, Jin Qin, Jacqueline W. Miller, Mary C. White

Opioids Concise Research Report

Occupational Patterns of Opioid-Related Overdose Deaths Among Arizona Medicaid Enrollees, 2008–2017

Rohan Chalasani, Wei-Hsuan Lo-Ciganic, James L. Huang, Jingchuan Guo, Jeremy C. Weiss, Courtney C. Kuza, Walid F. Gellad

Concise Research Report

Understanding High-Utilizing Patients Based on Social Risk Profiles: a Latent Class Analysis Within an Integrated Health System

Artair Rogers, Yi R. Hu, Adam Schickedanz, Laura Gottlieb, Adam Sharp

Open Access Concise Research Report

Income Disparities and Nonresponse Bias in Surveys of Patient Experience

Brian W. Roberts, Jady Yao, Christian J. Trzeciak, Louis S. Bezich, Anthony Mazzarelli, Stephen Trzeciak

Active Ingredients Concise Research Report

Novelty of Active Ingredients in High-Cost Brand-Name Drugs

Emily H. Jung, Ameet Sarpatwari, Aaron S. Kesselheim

Care Concise Research Report

Coverage, Affordability, and Care for Low-Income People with Diabetes: 4 Years after the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid Expansions

Dahai Yue, Yuhui Zhu, Petra W. Rasmussen, James Godwin, Ninez A. Ponce

Open Access Hypercholesterolemia Concise Research Report

Recognition and Treatment of Homozygous Familial Hypercholesterolemia by Primary Care Physicians: a Survey from the National Lipid Association

Linda Hemphill, Anne Goldberg, Kees Hovingh, Jerome Cohen, Dean G. Karalis

Addiction Concise Research Report

Increased Awareness Needed for Inpatient Substance Use Disorder Treatment in Drug Use–Associated Infective Endocarditis

Alexandra E. Mihm, Mary C. Cash, Sarah A. Nisly, Kyle A. Davis

Aortic Valve Replacement Concise Research Report

Chronic Conditions in Advanced Cardiac Disease: A Cluster Analysis of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR)-Treated Patients

Benjamin S. Wessler, Benjamin C. Koethe, Paul K. J. Han, Andrew R. Weintraub, James E. Udelson, Cynthia M. Boyd, David M. Kent

Concise Research Report

A Novel Resident and Medical Student Curriculum in Refugee Health

Susan Levine, Mohaned Serdah

Care Innovations in Clinical Practice

PPE Portraits—a Way to Humanize Personal Protective Equipment

Cati Brown-Johnson, Stacie Vilendrer, Mary Beth Heffernan, Shira Winter, Thanh Khong, Jennifer Reidy, Steven M. Asch

Coronavirus Concise Research Report

Public Priorities and Concerns Regarding COVID-19 in an Online Discussion Forum: Longitudinal Topic Modeling

Daniel C. Stokes, Anietie Andy, Sharath Chandra Guntuku, Lyle H. Ungar, Raina M. Merchant

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.

Developed by: Springer Medicine

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 discuss last year's major advances in heart failure and cardiomyopathies.