Rosenberger, Kristine J Xing, Aiwen Murad, Mohammad Hassan Chu, Haitao Lin, Lifeng
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Journal of general internal medicine
Network meta-analysis (NMA) is a popular tool to compare multiple treatments in medical research. It is frequently implemented via Bayesian methods. The prior choice of between-study heterogeneity is critical in Bayesian NMAs. This study evaluates the impact of different priors for heterogeneity on NMA results. We identified all NMAs with binary ou...
Baccolini, V Rosso, A Di Paolo, C Isonne, C Salerno, C Migliara, G Prencipe, G P Massimi, A Marzuillo, C De Vito, C
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Journal of general internal medicine
Many studies have shown that low health literacy (HL) is associated with several adverse outcomes. In this study, we systematically reviewed the prevalence of low HL in Europe. PubMed, Embase, and Scopus were searched. Cross-sectional studies conducted in the European Union (EU), published from 2000, investigating the prevalence of low HL in adults...
Thomas, John M Cooney, Leo M Jr Fried, Terri R
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Journal of general internal medicine
Demir, Koray K Simard, Camille Lipes, Jed Yang, Stephen Su
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Journal of general internal medicine
Veazie, Stephanie Mackey, Katherine Peterson, Kim Bourne, Donald
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Journal of general internal medicine
Managing acute pain in patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) on medication (methadone, buprenorphine, or naltrexone) can be complicated by patients' higher baseline pain sensitivity and need for higher opioid doses to achieve pain relief. This review aims to evaluate the benefits and harms of acute pain management strategies for patients taking O...
Mackey, Katherine Anderson, Johanna Bourne, Donald Chen, Emilie Peterson, Kim
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Journal of general internal medicine
Many clinicians are reevaluating the use of long-term opioid therapy (LTOT) for chronic pain in response to the opioid crisis and calls from organizations including the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention to limit prescribing of high-dose opioids. However, this practice change is occurring largely in the absence of data regarding patient outco...
Essien, Utibe R Tipirneni, Renuka Leung, Lucinda B Sterling, Madeline R
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Journal of general internal medicine
General internal medicine (GIM) fellowships play an important role in the development of physician scientists and clinical educators, as well as leaders in academic medicine. Nevertheless, the challenges of developing another novel aspect to one's career, along with balancing coursework, research productivity, clinical duties, and personal life dur...
Compton, Wilson M Wiley, Tisha Blanco, Carlos
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Journal of general internal medicine
Interventions and research to address the US opioid crisis have, for the most part, targeted opioid use, misuse, and addiction specifically. While such a focus can lead to useful innovations in the care of opioid use disorder, the fact that many persons with opioid use disorder use multiple substances (both over their life course and simultaneously...
Jih, Jane Nguyen, Tung T Jin, Chengshi Seligman, Hilary Boscardin, W John Ritchie, Christine S
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Journal of general internal medicine
Jackson, Jeffrey L Bates, Carol K Asch, Steven M
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Journal of general internal medicine