Determining whether a patient is feeling better: pitfalls from the science of human perception.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite the availability and demonstrated effectiveness of office-based buprenorphine maintenance treatment (BMT), the systematic examination of physicians' attitudes towards this new medical practice has been largely neglected. OBJECTIVE:To identify facilitators and barriers to the potential or actual impl...

journal_title：Journal of general internal medicine

authors： Barry DT,Irwin KS,Jones ES,Becker WC,Tetrault JM,Sullivan LE,Hansen H,O'Connor PG,Schottenfeld RS,Fiellin DA

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the effectiveness and costs of alternative management strategies for patients infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) who present with pulmonary symptoms. DESIGN:Decision analysis comparing initial testing (arterial blood gas analysis, induced sputum analysis, or bronchoscopy with b...

journal_title：Journal of general internal medicine

authors： Freedberg KA,Tosteson AN,Cotton DJ,Goldman L

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Race differences in the receipt of invasive cardiac procedures are well-documented but the etiology remains poorly understood. OBJECTIVE:We examined how social contextual variables were related to race differences in the likelihood of receiving cardiac catheterization in a sample of veterans who were recomm...

journal_title：Journal of general internal medicine

authors： Ayotte BJ,Kressin NR

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Continuity clinics are a critical component of outpatient internal medicine training. Little is known about the population of patients cared for by residents and how these physicians perform. OBJECTIVES:To compare resident and faculty performance on standard population health measures. To identify potential...

journal_title：Journal of general internal medicine

authors： Amat M,Glassman R,Basu N,Doolin J,Flier L,Gonzalez MR,Gosselin J,Knapp S,Yun P,Graham KL

更新日期：2021-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Enhancing the cultural competency of students is emerging as a key issue in medical education; however, students may perceive that they are more able to function within cross-cultural situations than their teachers, reducing the effectiveness of cultural competency educational efforts. OBJECTIVE:The purpose...

journal_title：Journal of general internal medicine

authors： Thompson BM,Haidet P,Casanova R,Vivo RP,Gomez AG,Brown AF,Richter RA,Crandall SJ

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The American Board of Internal Medicine suggests use of a standard form to rate residents on nine dimensions (such as clinical judgment and overall clinical competence) on a scale of 1 to 9. The authors examined the psychometric evidence for reliability and validity of 1,039 ratings of 85 residents by 135 attendings i...

journal_title：Journal of general internal medicine

authors： Thompson WG,Lipkin M Jr,Gilbert DA,Guzzo RA,Roberson L

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The 2016 presidential election and the controversial policy agenda of its victor have raised concerns about how the election may have impacted mental health. OBJECTIVE:Assess how mental health changed from before to after the November 2016 election and how trends differed in states that voted for Donald Tru...

journal_title：Journal of general internal medicine

authors： Yan BW,Hsia RY,Yeung V,Sloan FA

更新日期：2020-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the association between chronic illness with complexity (CIC) and optimal glycemic control. PARTICIPANTS:Cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses of Diabetes Epidemiologic Cohort database of Veterans Health Administration (VHA) users with diabetes, less than 75 years old, with HbA1c tests in fis...

journal_title：Journal of general internal medicine

authors： Meduru P,Helmer D,Rajan M,Tseng CL,Pogach L,Sambamoorthi U

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Emergency readmissions among patients discharged from the medical service of an acute-care teaching hospital were analyzed. Using the multivariate technique of recursive partitioning, the authors developed and validated a model to predict readmission based on diagnoses and other clinical factors. Of the 4,769 patients...

journal_title：Journal of general internal medicine

authors： Phillips RS,Safran C,Cleary PD,Delbanco TL

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess the prevalence and persistence of depression in patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and the relationship between assessment modality and prevalence. DATA SOURCES:MEDLINE, Cochrane, CINAHL, PsycINFO, and EMBASE. REVIEW METHODS:A comprehensive search was conducted in March 2004 to ident...

journal_title：Journal of general internal medicine

authors： Thombs BD,Bass EB,Ford DE,Stewart KJ,Tsilidis KK,Patel U,Fauerbach JA,Bush DE,Ziegelstein RC

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hypertensive urgencies and emergencies are common clinical occurrences in hypertensive patients. Treatment practices vary considerably to because of the lack of evidence supporting the use of one therapeutic agent over another. This paper was designed to review the evidence for various pharmacotherapeutic re...

journal_title：Journal of general internal medicine

authors： Cherney D,Straus S

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent studies that compared patient spending in hospital-owned physician practices versus physician-owned groups did not compare quality of care. Past studies had incomplete measures of physician-hospital integration, or lacked patient-level data. OBJECTIVE:To measure the association between physician-hosp...

journal_title：Journal of general internal medicine

authors： Ho V,Metcalfe L,Vu L,Short M,Morrow R

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) emerged in December 2019 and posed numerous challenges to China's health system. Almost 4 million primary care practitioners (PCPs) participated in controlling the outbreak. However, PCPs' barriers to and experience of the epidemic control remain unknown and are essent...

journal_title：Journal of general internal medicine

authors： Xu Z,Ye Y,Wang Y,Qian Y,Pan J,Lu Y,Fang L

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Population-based strategies can expand the reach of tobacco cessation treatment beyond clinical encounters. OBJECTIVE:To determine the effect of two population-based tobacco cessation strategies, compared with usual care, on providing tobacco treatment outside of clinical encounters. DESIGN:3-arm pragmatic...

journal_title：Journal of general internal medicine

authors： Kalkhoran S,Inman EM,Kelley JHK,Ashburner JM,Rigotti NA

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Depression is common among older patients yet is often inadequately treated. Patient beliefs about antidepressants are known to affect treatment initiation and adherence, but are often not expressed in clinical settings. OBJECTIVE:To explore attitudes toward antidepressants in a sample of depressed, communi...

journal_title：Journal of general internal medicine

authors： Givens JL,Datto CJ,Ruckdeschel K,Knott K,Zubritsky C,Oslin DW,Nyshadham S,Vanguri P,Barg FK

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare the use of medications in African-American and Caucasian elderly Medicare patients hospitalized with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in Alabama. DESIGN:Retrospective medical record review. SETTING:All acute care hospitals in Alabama. PATIENTS:All Medicare patients with a principal discharge di...

journal_title：Journal of general internal medicine

authors： Allison JJ,Kiefe CI,Centor RM,Box JB,Farmer RM

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Studies show that measures of physician and medical students' empathy decline with clinical training. Presently, there are limited data relating self-reported measures to observed behavior. This study explores a self-reported measure and observed empathy in medical students. METHOD:Students in the Class of 200...

journal_title：Journal of general internal medicine

authors： Chen DC,Pahilan ME,Orlander JD

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several policymakers have suggested that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has fueled the opioid epidemic by subsidizing opioid pain medications. These claims have supported numerous efforts to repeal the ACA. OBJECTIVE:To determine the effect of the ACA's young adult dependent coverage insurance expansion on e...

journal_title：Journal of general internal medicine

authors： Coupet E Jr,Werner RM,Polsky D,Karp D,Delgado MK

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Maintenance of certification examination performance is associated with quality of care. We aimed to examine relationships between electronic medical knowledge resource use, practice characteristics and examination scores among physicians recertifying in internal medicine. METHODS:We conducted a cross-secti...

journal_title：Journal of general internal medicine

authors： Reed DA,West CP,Holmboe ES,Halvorsen AJ,Lipner RS,Jacobs C,McDonald FS

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Standardized means to identify patients likely to benefit from language assistance are needed. OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the accuracy of the U.S. Census English proficiency question (Census-LEP) in predicting patients' ability to communicate effectively in English. DESIGN:We investigated the sensitivity and sp...

journal_title：Journal of general internal medicine

authors： Karliner LS,Napoles-Springer AM,Schillinger D,Bibbins-Domingo K,Pérez-Stable EJ

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Understanding the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare workers (HCW) is crucial. OBJECTIVE:Utilizing a health system COVID-19 research registry, we assessed HCW risk for COVID-19 infection, hospitalization, and intensive care unit (ICU) admission. DESIGN:Retrospective cohort study with overlap pro...

journal_title：Journal of general internal medicine

authors： Misra-Hebert AD,Jehi L,Ji X,Nowacki AS,Gordon S,Terpeluk P,Chung MK,Mehra R,Dell KM,Pennell N,Hamilton A,Milinovich A,Kattan MW,Young JB

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The growing number of primary care physicians (PCPs) reducing their clinical work hours has raised concerns about meeting the future demand for services and fulfilling the continuity and access mandates for patient-centered care. However, the patient's experience of care with part-time physicians is relative...

journal_title：Journal of general internal medicine

authors： Panattoni L,Stone A,Chung S,Tai-Seale M

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many employers offer worksite wellness programs, including financial incentives to achieve goals. Evidence supporting such programs is sparse. OBJECTIVE:To assess whether diabetes and cardiovascular risk factor control in employees improved with financial incentives for participation in disease management a...

journal_title：Journal of general internal medicine

authors： Misra-Hebert AD,Hu B,Taksler G,Zimmerman R,Rothberg MB

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many Americans lack health insurance. Despite good evidence that lack of insurance compromises access to care, few prospective studies examine its relationship to health outcomes. OBJECTIVE:To determine the relationship between insurance and cardiovascular outcomes and the relationship between insurance and...

journal_title：Journal of general internal medicine

authors： Fowler-Brown A,Corbie-Smith G,Garrett J,Lurie N

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lack of regular physical activity is highly prevalent in U.S. adults and significantly increases mortality risk. OBJECTIVE:To examine the clinical impact of a newly implemented program ("Exercise as a Vital Sign" [EVS]) designed to systematically ascertain patient-reported exercise levels at the beginning o...

journal_title：Journal of general internal medicine

authors： Grant RW,Schmittdiel JA,Neugebauer RS,Uratsu CS,Sternfeld B

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hyperglycemia is common among diabetic inpatients, and has been linked to adverse outcomes. However, antihyperglycemic treatment is seldom intensified in noncritical care patients, and the relationship between intensification frequency and glucose control is poorly understood. We evaluated the relationship b...

journal_title：Journal of general internal medicine

authors： Matheny ME,Shubina M,Kimmel ZM,Pendergrass ML,Turchin A

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Shared medical appointments (SMAs) are an increasingly used system-redesign strategy for improving access to and quality of chronic illness care. We conducted a systematic review of the existing literature on SMA interventions for patients with diabetes in order to understand their impact on outcomes. DATA ...

journal_title：Journal of general internal medicine

authors： Edelman D,Gierisch JM,McDuffie JR,Oddone E,Williams JW Jr

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Among patients unlikely to attend a scheduled colonoscopy, we examined the impact of peer coach versus educational brochure support and compared these with concurrent patients who did not receive support. METHODS:From health system data, we identified 275 consecutive patients aged >50 who kept <75% of visit...

journal_title：Journal of general internal medicine

authors： Turner BJ,Weiner M,Berry SD,Lillie K,Fosnocht K,Hollenbeak CS

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS), commonly referred to as "e-cigs," were first introduced in the United States in 2007. Since then, their use has grown substantially, with the largest market among adolescents and young adults. ENDS are often perceived by the public as safe alternatives to traditional cigare...

journal_title：Journal of general internal medicine

authors： Macedonia TV,Krefft SD,Rose CS

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Palliative care interventions in the ED capture high-risk patients at a time of crisis and can dramatically improve patient-centered outcomes. OBJECTIVE:To understand the facilitators that contributed to the success of the Primary Palliative Care for Emergency Medicine (PRIM-ER) quality improvement pilot in...

journal_title：Journal of general internal medicine

authors： Chung FR,Turecamo S,Cuthel AM,Grudzen CR,PRIM-ER Investigators.

更新日期：2020-10-27 00:00:00