His heartJournal of General Internal Medicine - - 1997
Sharon Malcolm
Providing High-Quality Care for Limited English Proficient Patients: The Importance of Language Concordance and Interpreter UseJournal of General Internal Medicine - Tập 22 - Trang 324-330 - 2007
Quyen Ngo-Metzger, Dara H. Sorkin, Russell S. Phillips, Sheldon Greenfield, Michael P. Massagli, Brian Clarridge, Sherrie H. Kaplan
Provider–patient language discordance is related to worse quality care for limited English proficient (LEP) patients who speak Spanish. However, little is known about language barriers among LEP Asian-American patients. We examined the effects of language discordance on the degree of health education and the quality of interpersonal care that patients received, and examined its effect on patient s...... hiện toàn bộ
Desiderata or Dogma: What the Evidence Reveals About Physician AttireJournal of General Internal Medicine - Tập 23 - Trang 641-643 - 2008
Matt T. Bianchi
Physician–patient interactions are complex and depend on multiple factors including common cultural definitions and evolving social norms. The once purely philosophical debate over what constitutes appropriate physician attire can benefit from a growing evidence base in the literature. Although this literature is commonly regarded as supporting traditional attire, the data actually represent a mor...... hiện toàn bộ
Short-Term VA Health Care Expenditures Following a Health Risk Assessment and Coaching TrialJournal of General Internal Medicine - Tập 35 - Trang 1452-1457 - 2020
Caroline Sloan, Karen M. Stechuchak, Maren K. Olsen, Eugene Z. Oddone, Laura J. Damschroder, Matthew L. Maciejewski
Short-term health care costs following completion of health risk assessments and coaching programs in the VA have not been assessed. To compare VA health care expenditures among veterans who participated in a behavioral intervention trial that randomized patients to complete a HRA followed by health coaching (HRA + coaching) or to complete the HRA without coaching (HRA-alone). Four-hundred sevente...... hiện toàn bộ
Benzodiazepine Prescribing from VA and Medicare to Dually Enrolled Older Veterans: A Retrospective Cohort StudyJournal of General Internal Medicine - Tập 36 - Trang 3689-3696 - 2021
Lianlian Lei, Julie Strominger, Ilse R. Wiechers, H. Myra Kim, Frederic C. Blow, Amy S. B. Bohnert, Lillian Min, Sarah L. Krein, Donovan T. Maust
There has been a reduction in BZD prescribing in the Veterans Affairs (VA) health care system since 2013. It is unknown whether the decline in VA-dispensed BZDs has been offset by Medicare Part D prescriptions. To examine (1) whether, accounting for Part D, declines in BZD prescribing to older Veterans remain; (2) patient characteristics associated with obtaining BZDs outside VA and facility varia...... hiện toàn bộ
Screening and intervention for alcohol problemsJournal of General Internal Medicine - Tập 15 - Trang 84-91 - 2014
Peter D. Friedmann, Deirdre McCullough, Marshall H. Chin, Richard Saitz
OBJECTIVE: To describe adult primary care physicians’ and psychiatrists’ approach to alcohol screening and treatment, and to identify correlates of more optimal practices.
DESIGN: Cross-sectional mailed survey.
PARTICIPANTS: A national systematic sample of 2,000 physicians practicing general internal medicine, family medicine, obstetrics-gynecolog...... hiện toàn bộ
Pharmacotherapy for Weight Management in the VHAJournal of General Internal Medicine - Tập 32 Số S1 - Trang 70-73 - 2017
Todd P. Semla, Chris Ruser, Chester B. Good, Susan Z. Yanovski, Donna Ames, Laurel A. Copeland, Charles J. Billington, U. Inge Ferguson, Louis J. Aronne, Thomas A. Wadden, W. Timothy Garvey, Caroline M. Apovian, David C. Atkins