May 22/29, 2018, Vol 319, No. 20, Pages 2057-2146

In This Issue of JAMA

Highlights

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JAMA. 2018;319(20):2057-2059. doi:10.1001/jama.2017.12383

Audio Editors' Summary: PCI in 2018, Colon Cancer Surveillance and Recurrence, LAA Occlusion and Stroke, Vitamin D for Wheezing in Premature Infants, and more

Original Investigation

Effect of Vitamin D Supplementation on Recurrent Wheezing in Black Infants Who Were Born Preterm: The D-Wheeze Randomized Clinical Trial

Anna Maria Hibbs, MD, MSCE; Kristie Ross, MD, MS; Leigh Ann Kerns, MD; et al.

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JAMA. 2018;319(20):2086-2094. doi:10.1001/jama.2018.5729

This randomized clinical trial compares the effects of 2 vitamin D dosing strategies on recurrent wheezing in black infants at 12months of age who were born preterm.

Editorial
Prenatal vs Infant Vitamin D Supplementation and the Risk of Wheezing in Childhood
Frank R. Greer, MD

Effect of More vs Less Frequent Follow-up Testing on Overall and Colorectal Cancer–Specific Mortality in Patients With Stage II or III Colorectal Cancer: The COLOFOL Randomized Clinical Trial

Peer Wille-Jørgensen, DMSc; Ingvar Syk, PhD; Kenneth Smedh, PhD; et al.

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JAMA. 2018;319(20):2095-2103. doi:10.1001/jama.2018.5623

This randomized controlled trial compares the effects of high- vs low-frequency computed tomographic and carcinoembryonic antigen surveillance on 5-year overall mortality and colorectal cancer–specific mortality rates among patients with stage II and II colorectal cancer after curative resection.

Editorial
Best Evidence Supports Annual Surveillance for Resected Colorectal Cancer
Hanna K. Sanoff, MD

Association Between Intensity of Posttreatment Surveillance Testing and Detection of Recurrence in Patients With Colorectal Cancer

Rebecca A. Snyder, MD, MPH; Chung-Yuan Hu, MPH, PhD; Amanda Cuddy, MPH; et al.

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JAMA. 2018;319(20):2104-2115. doi:10.1001/jama.2018.5816

This cohort study uses medical record data to compare disease recurrence among patients with stages I, II, or III colorectal cancer monitored with higher- vs lower-intensity imaging and CEA surveillance testing within 3 years after treatment.

Editorial
Best Evidence Supports Annual Surveillance for Resected Colorectal Cancer
Hanna K. Sanoff, MD
Less Is More in Colorectal Cancer Posttreatment Surveillance
Alessandro Fichera, MD

Association of Surgical Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion With Subsequent Stroke and Mortality Among Patients Undergoing Cardiac Surgery

Xiaoxi Yao, PhD; Bernard J. Gersh, MB, ChB, DPhil, MACC, FRCP; David R. Holmes Jr, MD; et al.

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JAMA. 2018;319(20):2116-2126. doi:10.1001/jama.2018.6024

This cohort study uses administrative data from a large US database to evaluate whether surgical occlusion of the left atrial appendage (LAAO) during CABG or valve surgery is associated with risk of stroke, mortality, and atrial fibrillation.

Research Letter

Sources of Funding for Research in Evidence Reviews That Inform Recommendations of the US Preventive Services Task Force

Jennifer Villani, PhD, MPH; Quyen Ngo-Metzger, MD, MPH; Isaah S. Vincent, PhD; et al.

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JAMA. 2018;319(20):2132-2133. doi:10.1001/jama.2018.5404

This study characterizes the sources of funding for the research included in systematic reviews that form the basis for US Preventive Services Task Force recommendation statements.

Viewpoint

The Neurobiology of Opioid Addiction and the Potential for Prevention Strategies

Gary Peltz, MD, PhD; Thomas C. Südhof, MD

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JAMA. 2018;319(20):2071-2072. doi:10.1001/jama.2018.3394

This Viewpoint uses the observation that ondansetron has been found to reduce symptoms of opioid withdrawal to argue for research and public health programs aimed at preventing rather than just managing opioid addiction.

Increasing Naloxone Awareness and Use: The Role of Health Care Practitioners

Jerome M. Adams, MD, MPH, VADM

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JAMA. 2018;319(20):2073-2074. doi:10.1001/jama.2018.4867

In this Viewpoint, US Surgeon General Jerome Adams summarizes his office’s 2018 Advisory on Naloxone and Opioid Overdose, which provides guidance on the use of naloxone to curb the number of opioid overdose deaths across the country.

Behavioral Phenotyping in Health Promotion: Embracing or Avoiding Failure

Shreya Kangovi, MD, MS; David A. Asch, MD, MBA

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JAMA. 2018;319(20):2075-2076. doi:10.1001/jama.2018.2921

This Viewpoint discusses how workplace lifestyle and health monitoring interventions can discourage and disengage employees when health measures fail to show positive change, and proposes that organizations develop coaching and psychological strategies to motivate employees who grow discouraged from an absence of clear change through their sense of failure.

Risk Adjustment for Quality Measures Is Neither Binary nor Mandatory

R. Scott Braithwaite, MD, MS

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JAMA. 2018;319(20):2077-2078. doi:10.1001/jama.2018.3368

This Viewpoint proposes a system for ranking the quality of risk adjustment methods as a way to more accurately account for health care quality and more transparently link payment incentives to performance and patient outcomes.

A Piece of My Mind

Filling in the Gaps

Marc B. Garnick, MD

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JAMA. 2018;319(20):2079-2080. doi:10.1001/jama.2018.5837

In this narrative medicine essay, a medical oncologist shares how little he understood of his patients’ pain and challenges while undergoing cancer treatment until his own diagnosis, which inspired working with administrators to help patients navigate the institutional labyrinth and provide transportation to and from treatment.

Editorial

Prenatal vs Infant Vitamin D Supplementation and the Risk of Wheezing in Childhood

Frank R. Greer, MD

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JAMA. 2018;319(20):2081-2082. doi:10.1001/jama.2018.5726

Best Evidence Supports Annual Surveillance for Resected Colorectal Cancer

Hanna K. Sanoff, MD

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JAMA. 2018;319(20):2083-2085. doi:10.1001/jama.2018.5817

JAMA Insights

Clinical Update

Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in 2018

Deepak L. Bhatt, MD, MPH

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JAMA. 2018;319(20):2127-2128. doi:10.1001/jama.2018.5281

This JAMA Clinical Update reviews the evolution of procedures for treating coronary artery stenosis since 1977 and the role of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in the management of acute coronary syndromes (NSTEMI and STEMI), stable and unstable angina, and stable multivessel disease.

JAMA Clinical Challenge

A Young Woman With Cough and Lithoptysis

Andres de Lima, MD; Marianne Barry, MD; Adnan Majid, MD

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JAMA. 2018;319(20):2129-2130. doi:10.1001/jama.2018.5101

A 28-year-old healthy woman had a 2-week history of dyspnea, cough, wheezing, and lithoptysis. She had a borderline elevated Histoplasma antigen level, and a chest computed tomography scan revealed a calcified subcarinal mass compromising the left main-stem bronchus lumen. What would you do next?

Medical News & Perspectives

Is Direct Primary Care a Game Changer?

Rita Rubin, MA

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JAMA. 2018;319(20):2064-2066. doi:10.1001/jama.2018.3173

This Medical News story discusses the pros and cons of direct primary care, whose practitioners don’t accept insurance and instead charge a membership fee to cover services.

Taking a Closer Look at the Biomarker Test for Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

Rebecca Voelker, MSJ

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JAMA. 2018;319(20):2066-2067. doi:10.1001/jama.2018.4644

In this Medical News article, experts discuss the benefits and limitations of a blood test recently approved to evaluate patients with mild traumatic brain injury.

News From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Evolution of “Nightmare Bacteria”

Bridget Kuehn, MSJ

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JAMA. 2018;319(20):2070. doi:10.1001/jama.2018.5474

Postdisaster Pharmacy Needs

Bridget Kuehn, MSJ

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JAMA. 2018;319(20):2070. doi:10.1001/jama.2018.6144

Clinical Trials Update

Hypertension Management in Barbershops

Anita Slomski, MA

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JAMA. 2018;319(20):2069. doi:10.1001/jama.2018.5866

Tai Chi for Fibromyalgia

Anita Slomski, MA

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JAMA. 2018;319(20):2069. doi:10.1001/jama.2018.6255

Drug Slows Disability Progression in Multiple Sclerosis

Anita Slomski, MA

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JAMA. 2018;319(20):2069. doi:10.1001/jama.2018.6256

Peer Counselors for Formerly Incarcerated People With HIV

Anita Slomski, MA

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JAMA. 2018;319(20):2069. doi:10.1001/jama.2018.6257

Carvedilol During Chemotherapy

Anita Slomski, MA

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JAMA. 2018;319(20):2069. doi:10.1001/jama.2018.6258

Health Agencies Update

GAO Calls for Coordinated Efforts to Detect Arsenic in Rice

Rita Rubin, MA

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JAMA. 2018;319(20):2068. doi:10.1001/jama.2018.6020

Factors Linked to Depression in Sexual Minority Youth

Rita Rubin, MA

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JAMA. 2018;319(20):2068. doi:10.1001/jama.2018.6253

Surgeon General Urges Expanded Availability of Naloxone

Rita Rubin, MA

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JAMA. 2018;319(20):2068. doi:10.1001/jama.2018.6254

Poetry and Medicine

Unmantling

Carol Snyder Halberstadt

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JAMA. 2018;319(20):2139. doi:10.1001/jama.2018.0097

JAMA Revisited

The Pomelo, or Grapefruit

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JAMA. 2018;319(20):2140. doi:10.1001/jama.2017.12391

JAMA Patient Page

Small Bowel Obstruction

Ioana Baiu, MD, MPH; Mary T. Hawn, MD, MPH

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JAMA. 2018;319(20):2146. doi:10.1001/jama.2018.5834

This JAMA Patient Page describes small bowel obstruction and its symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment.

Comment & Response

Air Pollution and Mortality in the Medicare Population

Frederick W. Lipfert, PhD

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JAMA. 2018;319(20):2133-2134. doi:10.1001/jama.2018.3939

Air Pollution and Mortality in the Medicare Population

Louis Anthony Cox Jr, PhD

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JAMA. 2018;319(20):2134-2135. doi:10.1001/jama.2018.3923

Air Pollution and Mortality in the Medicare Population

S. Stanley Young, PhD

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JAMA. 2018;319(20):2135. doi:10.1001/jama.2018.3927

Air Pollution and Mortality in the Medicare Population—Reply

Joel D. Schwartz, PhD

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JAMA. 2018;319(20):2135-2136. doi:10.1001/jama.2018.3943

Surgical Procedures for Patients With Severe Obesity

Tyler Cohn, MD; Aurora Pryor, MD; Konstantinos Spaniolas, MD

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JAMA. 2018;319(20):2136-2137. doi:10.1001/jama.2018.4112

Editorial
Comparing the Outcomes of Sleeve Gastrectomy and Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass for Severe Obesity
David Arterburn, MD, MPH; Anirban Gupta, MD
- Audio: Gastric Sleeve Resection for Obesity: How good Is It?

Surgical Procedures for Patients With Severe Obesity—Reply

David Arterburn, MD, MPH; Anirban Gupta, MD

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JAMA. 2018;319(20):2137. doi:10.1001/jama.2018.4116

Editorial
Comparing the Outcomes of Sleeve Gastrectomy and Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass for Severe Obesity
David Arterburn, MD, MPH; Anirban Gupta, MD
- Audio: Gastric Sleeve Resection for Obesity: How good Is It?

Bundled Payments Initiative Participation and Retention

Daver Kahvecioglu, PhD; Christine Ogbue, DrPH, MPH; Rushi K. Talati, MD

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JAMA. 2018;319(20):2137-2138. doi:10.1001/jama.2018.4454

Bundled Payments Initiative Participation and Retention—Reply

Karen E. Joynt Maddox, MD, MPH; Arnold M. Epstein, MD, MA

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JAMA. 2018;319(20):2138. doi:10.1001/jama.2018.4466

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