Health Care Reform
Melissa D. Aldridge, PhD; Mark Schlesinger, PhD; Colleen L. Barry, PhD; et al.
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JAMA Intern Med. 2014;174(4):500-506. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2014.3
Aldridge et al examined the association between hospice ownership and (1) the provision of community benefits, (2) the setting and timing of the hospice population served, and (3) community outreach, using data from the National Hospice Survey, which is a survey of a random sample of hospices across the country.
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Invited Commentary
The Changing Face of the Hospice Industry: What Really Matters?
Kimberly S. Johnson, MD, MHS
JAMA Intern Med
Less Is More
Jeremiah D. Schuur, MD, MHS; Dylan P. Carney, MS; Everett T. Lyn, MD; et al.
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JAMA Intern Med. 2014;174(4):509-515. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2013.12688
Schuur et al create a top-five list of tests, treatments, and disposition decisions that are of little value, are amenable to standardization, and are actionable by emergency medicine clinicians.
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Editorial
How Should Top-Five Lists Be Developed?What Is the Next Step?
Deborah Grady, MD, MPH; Rita F. Redberg, MD, MSc; William K. Mallon, MD, DTMH
JAMA Intern Med
Quanhe Yang, PhD; Zefeng Zhang, MD, PhD; Edward W. Gregg, PhD; et al.
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JAMA Intern Med. 2014;174(4):516-524. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2013.13563
Yang et al examine time trends of added sugar consumption as percentage of daily calories in the United States and investigate the association of this consumption with cardiovascular disease mortality. See the Invited Commentary by [IIC130095].
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Invited Commentary
New Unsweetened Truths About Sugar
Laura A. Schmidt, PhD, MSW, MPH
JAMA Intern Med
Colin P. West, MD, PhD; Liselotte N. Dyrbye, MD, MHPE; Jeff T. Rabatin, MD, MSc; et al.
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JAMA Intern Med. 2014;174(4):527-533. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2013.14387
West et al test the hypothesis that an intervention involving a facilitated physician small-group curriculum would result in improvement in well-being. See also the invited commentary by Goitein.
Shreya Kangovi, MD, MS; Nandita Mitra, PhD; David Grande, MD, MPA; et al.
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JAMA Intern Med. 2014;174(4):535-543. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2013.14327
Kangovi et al evaluate whether a trained community health worker intervention would improve posthospital outcomes among patients of low socioeconomic status. See the Invited Commentary by Alter.
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Invited Commentary
Social Determinants of Health: From Bench to Bedside
Harrison J. Alter, MD, MS
JAMA Intern Med
Kyan C. Safavi, BS; Shu-Xia Li, PhD; Kumar Dharmarajan, MD, MBA; et al.
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JAMA Intern Med. 2014;174(4):546-553. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2013.14407
Safavi et al characterize hospital variation in use of noninvasive cardiac imaging and the association of imaging use with downstream testing, interventions, and outcomes. Amsterdam and Aman provide an Invited Commentary, and Redberg provides an Editor’s Note.
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Invited Commentary
The Patient With Chest Pain: Low Risk, High Stakes
Ezra A. Amsterdam, MD; Edris Aman, MD
JAMA Intern Med
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Editor's Note
Priorities in the Evaluation of Patients With Chest Pain
Rita F. Redberg, MD, MSc
JAMA Intern Med
Marleen E. Hendriks, MD; Ferdinand W. N. M. Wit, MD, PhD; Tanimola M. Akande, MD; et al.
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JAMA Intern Med. 2014;174(4):555-563. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2013.14458
Hendriks et al report the effect of a community-based health insurance program on blood pressure in adults with hypertension in rural Nigeria.
Robert MacLaren, PharmD, MPH; Paul M. Reynolds, PharmD; Richard R. Allen, PhD
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JAMA Intern Med. 2014;174(4):564-574. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2013.14673
MacLaren et al evaluate the occurrence and risk factors for gastrointestinal hemorrhage, pneumonia, and CDI in critically ill patients. Gross provides an Invited Commentary.
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Invited Commentary
Unintended Consequences of Therapy in the Intensive Care Unit
Richard Kim, MD; Christopher H. Goss, MD, MS
JAMA Intern Med
Yoko Yokoyama, PhD, MPH; Kunihiro Nishimura, MD, PhD, MPH; Neal D. Barnard, MD; et al.
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JAMA Intern Med. 2014;174(4):577-587. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2013.14547
Yokoyama et al conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis of controlled clinical trials and observational studies that have examined the association between vegetarian diets and blood pressure.
Mary E. Tinetti, MD; Ling Han, MD, PhD; David S. H. Lee, PharmD, PhD; et al.
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JAMA Intern Med. 2014;174(4):588-595. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2013.14764
Tinetti et al determine whether antihypertensive medication use was associated with experiencing a serious fall injury in a nationally representative sample of older adults. See also the invited commentary by Berry and Kiel.
Iain M. Carey, MSc, PhD; Sunil M. Shah, MBBS, MSc, FFPH; Stephen DeWilde, MBBS, MD, FRCGP; et al.
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JAMA Intern Med. 2014;174(4):598-605. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2013.14558
Carey et al compare the rate of cardiovascular events between older individuals whose partner dies with those of a matched control group of individuals whose partner was still alive on the same day.
Rebekah W. Moehring, MD, MPH; Sarah S. Lewis, MD; Pamela J. Isaacs, BSN, MHA; et al.
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JAMA Intern Med. 2014;174(4):606-612. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2013.13768
Moehring and authors investigate an outbreak related to contamination of compounded sterile preparations and determine processes to prevent future outbreaks.
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Invited Commentary
Risks of Compounded Drugs
Allan Coukell, BScPharm
JAMA Intern Med