Models, strategies, and tools. Theory in implementing evidence-based findings into health care practice.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Access to health care varies according to a person's race and ethnicity. Delaying treatment is one measure of access with important health consequences. OBJECTIVE:Determine whether perceptions of unfair treatment because of race or ethnicity are associated with reported treatment delays, controlling for eco...

journal_title：Journal of general internal medicine

authors： Van Houtven CH,Voils CI,Oddone EZ,Weinfurt KP,Friedman JY,Schulman KA,Bosworth HB

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Assess impact of a computer-based patient support system on quality of life in younger women with breast cancer, with particular emphasis on assisting the underserved. DESIGN:Randomized controlled trial conducted between 1995 and 1998. SETTING:Five sites: two teaching hospitals (Madison, Wis, and Chicago, I...

journal_title：Journal of general internal medicine

authors： Gustafson DH,Hawkins R,Pingree S,McTavish F,Arora NK,Mendenhall J,Cella DF,Serlin RC,Apantaku FM,Stewart J,Salner A

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine how accurately preventive care reported in the medical record reflects actual physician practice or competence. DESIGN:Scoring criteria based on national guidelines were developed for 7 separate items of preventive care. The preventive care provided by randomly selected physicians was measured p...

journal_title：Journal of general internal medicine

authors： Dresselhaus TR,Peabody JW,Lee M,Wang MM,Luck J

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Determine patient and hospital-level variation in proportions of low-severity admissions. DESIGN:Retrospective cohort study. SETTING:Thirty hospitals in a large metropolitan region. PATIENTS:A total of 43,209 consecutive eligible patients discharged in 1991 through 1993 with congestive heart failure (n = 2...

journal_title：Journal of general internal medicine

authors： Rosenthal GE,Harper DL,Shah A,Covinsky KE

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Methods of assessing humanism in internal medicine residents have not been completely designed or evaluated. This study used patient satisfaction as a measure of humanism, and assessed the validity of using faculty physicians to evaluate residents' humanistic behavior. Residents' ability to assess themselves ...

journal_title：Journal of general internal medicine

authors： Klessig J,Robbins AS,Wieland D,Rubenstein L

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite improved knowledge about the benefits and harms of treatments for chronic back pain in the past several decades, there is a large and consequential mismatch between treatments found safe and effective and those routinely covered by health insurance. As a result, care for back pain has, if anything, deteriorate...

journal_title：Journal of general internal medicine

authors： Cherkin DC,Deyo RA,Goldberg H

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:LM Montgomery's The Blue Castle was first published in 1926, yet contains many insights into medical practice that remain relevant today. The protagonist, Valancy, mistakenly receives a terminal diagnosis in a letter from her physician, who has sent her a note intended for another patient. Her interactions with the ph...

journal_title：Journal of general internal medicine

authors： Weaver R

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although criteria are available to guide the selection of general internal medicine (GIM) fellowship programs, the factors actually used in this process are unclear. Using a survey of current GIM fellows, we determined that most received information from their residency advisors, and many viewed them as the most impor...

journal_title：Journal of general internal medicine

authors： Caiola E,Litaker D

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Racial and ethnic minority groups have lower levels of leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) than whites, but it is unclear how much of this is explained by differences in socioeconomic status and health. OBJECTIVE:To examine differences in LTPA, work-related physical activity (WRPA; heavy household chores ...

journal_title：Journal of general internal medicine

authors： He XZ,Baker DW

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sarcoidosis is a multisystem disease of unknown etiology. Renal manifestation is rare and usually caused by hypercalcemia and nephrocalcinosis. Moreover, renal disease can occur as granulomatous interstitial nephritis (GIN), which is a histological diagnosis. We describe a case of sarcoidosis first presenting with mul...

journal_title：Journal of general internal medicine

authors： Mayer C,Müller A,Halbritter J,Wirtz H,Stumvoll M

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:African Americans suffer more than non-Hispanic whites from type 2 diabetes, but diabetes self-management education (DSME) has been less effective at improving glycemic control for African Americans. Our objective was to determine whether a novel, culturally tailored DSME intervention would result in sustain...

journal_title：Journal of general internal medicine

authors： Lynch EB,Mack L,Avery E,Wang Y,Dawar R,Richardson D,Keim K,Ventrelle J,Appelhans BM,Tahsin B,Fogelfeld L

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess, from the patient's perspective, selected aspects of the quality of inpatient hospital care in the United States. DESIGN:A cross-sectional survey, using telephone interviews of patients discharged from the medical services of a probability sample of 62 public and private, nonprofit, nonfederal acut...

journal_title：Journal of general internal medicine

authors： Delbanco TL,Stokes DM,Cleary PD,Edgman-Levitan S,Walker JD,Gerteis M,Daley J

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We designed a questionnaire survey to study internal medicine residents' plans to use a chaperone during the pelvic, breast, rectal, and testicular examinations. We found chaperone use by male and female residents differed markedly, and neither group planned to use chaperones universally. When examining female patient...

journal_title：Journal of general internal medicine

authors： Ehrenthal DB,Farber NJ,Collier VU,Aboff BM

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hospitalists are well poised to serve in key leadership roles and in frontline care in particular when facing a pandemic such as the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) infection. Much of the disaster planning in hospitals around the country addresses overcrowded emergency departments and decompressing these locations; however, in ...

journal_title：Journal of general internal medicine

authors： Bowden K,Burnham EL,Keniston A,Levin D,Limes J,Persoff J,Thurman L,Burden M

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Workforce projections indicate a potential shortage of up to 31,000 adult primary care providers by the year 2025. Approximately 80 % of internal medicine residents and nearly two-thirds of primary care internal medicine residents do not plan to have a career in primary care or general internal medicine. OB...

journal_title：Journal of general internal medicine

authors： Long T,Chaiyachati K,Bosu O,Sircar S,Richards B,Garg M,McGarry K,Solomon S,Berman R,Curry L,Moriarty J,Huot S

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Numerous interventions are available to boost medication adherence, but the targeting of these interventions often relies on crude measures of poor adherence. Group-based trajectory models identify individuals with similar longitudinal prescription filling patterns. Identifying distinct adherence trajectorie...

journal_title：Journal of general internal medicine

authors： Lo-Ciganic WH,Donohue JM,Jones BL,Perera S,Thorpe JM,Thorpe CT,Marcum ZA,Gellad WF

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Residency programs involve trainees in quality improvement (QI) projects to evaluate competency in systems-based practice and practice-based learning and improvement. Valid approaches to assess QI proposals are lacking. OBJECTIVE:We developed an instrument for assessing resident QI proposals--the Quality Im...

journal_title：Journal of general internal medicine

authors： Leenstra JL,Beckman TJ,Reed DA,Mundell WC,Thomas KG,Krajicek BJ,Cha SS,Kolars JC,McDonald FS

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Academic departments of family medicine and divisions of general internal medicine and general pediatrics exist in the majority of medical schools in the United States and have important roles in generalist medical education. The major organizational issues facing these units concern institutional influence, faculty d...

journal_title：Journal of general internal medicine

authors： Friedman RH,Alpert JJ,Green LA

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:Patient safety indicators (PSIs) are screening tools that use administrative data to identify potential complications of care and are being increasingly used as measures of hospital safety. It is unknown whether PSIs are related to standard quality metrics. OBJECTIVE:To examine the relationship between select ...

journal_title：Journal of general internal medicine

authors： Isaac T,Jha AK

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This editorial, "Internal Medicine Point of Care Ultrasound: Indicators It's Here to Stay" (DOI: 10.1007/s11606-019-05268-0), was intended to accompany "Education Indicators for Internal Medicine Point-of-Care Ultrasound: a Consensus Report from the Canadian Internal Medicine Ultrasound (CIMUS) Group". ...

journal_title：Journal of general internal medicine

authors： Ambasta A,Balan M,Mayette M,Goffi A,Mulvagh S,Buchanan B,Montague S,Ruzycki S,Ma IWY,Canadian Internal Medicine Ultrasound (CIMUS) Group.,Ambasta A,Balan M,Blouw M,Buchanan B,Card SE,Chan B,Desy J,Demchuk G,Gebhardt C

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Moral distress is the experience of cognitive-emotional dissonance that arises when one feels compelled to act contrary to one's moral requirements. Moral distress is common, but under-recognized in medical education and training, and this relative inattention may undermine educators' efforts to promote empathy, ethic...

journal_title：Journal of general internal medicine

authors： Berger JT

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because of the financial incentives of prepaid care, the quality of care for Medicare enrollees in Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs) is a concern. Therefore, the care in 150 newly diagnosed cases of colorectal cancer in eight HMOs was compared with that in 180 similar fee-for-service (FFS) cases. As part of the ...

journal_title：Journal of general internal medicine

authors： Retchin SM,Brown B

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the performance of serum iron studies as a diagnostic test for iron-deficiency anemia in a county hospital, the authors identified retrospectively all general medicine patients who had had bone-marrow aspirates for the work-up of non-macrocytic anemias from 1978 through 1983. Re-reading a sample of aspirat...

journal_title：Journal of general internal medicine

authors： Psaty BM,Tierney WM,Martin DK,McDonald CJ

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Process measures of healthcare quality are usually formulated as the number of patients who receive evidence-based treatment (numerator) divided by the number of patients in the target population (denominator). When the systems being evaluated can influence which patients are included in the denominator, it ...

journal_title：Journal of general internal medicine

authors： Harris AH,Chen C,Rubinsky AD,Hoggatt KJ,Neuman M,Vanneman ME

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Language barriers present a substantial communication challenge in the hospital setting. OBJECTIVE:To describe how clinicians with various levels of Spanish language proficiency work with interpreters or their own Spanish skills in common clinical scenarios. DESIGN & PARTICIPANTS:Survey of physicians and n...

journal_title：Journal of general internal medicine

authors： Diamond LC,Tuot DS,Karliner LS

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hospitalists provide a significant amount of direct clinical care in both academic and community hospitals. Peer feedback is a potentially underutilized and low resource method for improving clinical performance, which lends itself well to the frequent patient care handoffs that occur in the practice of hospital medic...

journal_title：Journal of general internal medicine

authors： Rosenthal MA,Sharpe BA,Haber LA

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Marijuana is currently legal for recreational use in 10 states and Washington DC while a total of 34 states have implemented varying degrees of medical marijuana. The commercialization of marijuana has been accompanied by a proliferation of false claims regarding the therapeutic potential of marijuana, which...

journal_title：Journal of general internal medicine

authors： Ishida JH,Zhang AJ,Steigerwald S,Cohen BE,Vali M,Keyhani S

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether echocardiography affects the decisions to use beta blockers or to recommend bacterial endocarditis prophylaxis in patients suspected of having mitral valve prolapse (MVP). DESIGN:Retrospective review of echocardiograms and clinical records. SETTING:Military tertiary care hospital. PATI...

journal_title：Journal of general internal medicine

authors： Olive KE,Grassman ED

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evaluations of intensive care have largely focused on survival, cost, or functional status; however, these may not be the only outcomes of interest to patients, families, and health care providers. Quality of life is an important consideration in evaluating intensive care because it influences decisions about the use ...

journal_title：Journal of general internal medicine

authors： Patrick DL,Danis M,Southerland LI,Hong G

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To review systematically the evidence about what factors influence the decision to choose or not choose a career in academic medicine. DESIGN:A systematic review of relevant literature from 1990 to May 2005. DATA SOURCES:Searches of The Cochrane Library, Medline (using Ovid and PubMed) from 1990 to May 200...

journal_title：Journal of general internal medicine

authors： Straus SE,Straus C,Tzanetos K,International Campaign to Revitalise Academic Medicine.

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00