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Risk Factors for Severe Opioid-Related Adverse Events in a National Cohort of Medical Hospitalizations.

Published in Journal of general internal medicine

Opioids are a leading cause of adverse drug events in the hospital. Guidelines recommend that physicians assess the risks of opioids and discuss them with patients when considering opioid use. There are no studies examining patient- and prescribing-related risk factors for opioid-related adverse drug events (ORADEs) in hospitalized medical patients...

Dissatisfaction with Medical and Surgical Residency Training Is Consistently Higher for Women than for Men.

Published in Journal of general internal medicine

Vitamin K Antagonist Use and Fracture.

Published in Journal of general internal medicine

The Role of Screening in Depression Diagnosis and Treatment in a Representative Sample of US Primary Care Visits.

Published in Journal of general internal medicine

Primary care providers encounter a large proportion of the population with depression. Yet, many primary care patients with depression remain undiagnosed and untreated. This study aims to examine depression screening patterns and the role of screening in depression diagnosis and treatment in the outpatient primary care setting. This is a cross-sect...

Capsule Commentary on Liu et al., Trends in Self-reported Prediabetes and Metformin Use in the United States: NHANES 200...

Published in Journal of general internal medicine

Low-Value Care and Clinician Engagement in a Large Medicare Shared Savings Program ACO: a Survey of Frontline Clinicians...

Published in Journal of general internal medicine

Although the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) created new incentives for organizations to improve healthcare value, Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) have achieved only modest reductions in the use of low-value care. To assess ACO engagement of clinicians and whether engagement was associated with clinicians' reported difficulty implement...

The Impact of Age on the Likely Impact of Coronary Calcium Testing in the 2018 Cholesterol Guidelines.

Published in Journal of general internal medicine

Syphilis as Athlete's Foot: "The Great Imitator" Strikes Again.

Published in Journal of general internal medicine

Provider-Patient Discussions About Smoking and the Impact of Lung Cancer Screening Guidelines: NHIS 2011-2015.

Published in Journal of general internal medicine

Clinical practice guidelines for treating tobacco use and lung cancer screening guidelines recommend smoking cessation counseling to current smokers by health care professionals. Our objective was to determine the contemporary patterns of current smokers' discussions about smoking with their health care professionals in the USA. We conducted an obs...

Opioid Taper Is Associated with Subsequent Termination of Care: a Retrospective Cohort Study.

Published in Journal of general internal medicine

Opioid tapering is increasingly utilized by providers to decrease risks of chronic opioid therapy, but it is unknown whether tapering is associated with termination of care. To determine whether patients taking chronic opioid therapy who experienced opioid tapers were at greater risk of subsequently terminating their care compared with those who we...