British Columbia ’s Safer Opioid Supply Policy and Opioid Outcomes
This cohort study examines the whether there were changes in opioid prescribing and opioid-related health outcomes after implementation of British Columbia ’s Safer Opioid Supply policy. (Source: JAMA Internal Medicine)
Source: JAMA Internal Medicine - January 16, 2024 Category: Internal Medicine Source Type: research
Errors in Abstract, Results, and Tables
This article has been corrected online. (Source: JAMA Internal Medicine)
Source: JAMA Internal Medicine - January 16, 2024 Category: Internal Medicine Source Type: research
COVID-19 and Patient Safety
This Viewpoint examines the similarities between medical errors and COVID-19 and discusses lessons applicable to ongoing and emerging health challenges. (Source: JAMA Internal Medicine)
Source: JAMA Internal Medicine - January 8, 2024 Category: Internal Medicine Source Type: research
Primary Care Screening for Firearms
This qualitative study explored urban primary care patient perspectives about the appropriateness and acceptability of health care screening for firearms. (Source: JAMA Internal Medicine)
Source: JAMA Internal Medicine - January 8, 2024 Category: Internal Medicine Source Type: research
Population-Based Trends in Complexity of Hospital Inpatients
This cohort study assesses whether there has been an increase in measures of hospital inpatient complexity in British Columbia, Canada, over a 15-year period. (Source: JAMA Internal Medicine)
Source: JAMA Internal Medicine - January 8, 2024 Category: Internal Medicine Source Type: research
Evaluation of a Best-Practice Advisory for Primary Aldosteronism Screening
This quality improvement study examines an electronic health record best practice advisory that assists with primary aldosteronism screening. (Source: JAMA Internal Medicine)
Source: JAMA Internal Medicine - January 8, 2024 Category: Internal Medicine Source Type: research
Diagnostic Errors in Hospitalized Adults Who Died or Were Transferred to Intensive Care
This cohort study assesses the prevalence, underlying causes, and harms of diagnostic errors among hospitalized adults who died or were transferred to intensive care. (Source: JAMA Internal Medicine)
Source: JAMA Internal Medicine - January 8, 2024 Category: Internal Medicine Source Type: research
Omitting the Fifth Largest Subspecialty from a Medical Residents Survey? —Reply
In Reply We thank Shalev et al for their thoughtful response to our Research Letter that described the dramatic decrease in residents selecting general internal medicine as a career choice per data from the American College of Physicians (ACP) Internal Medicine in-Training Examination (IM-ITE) survey. This decline potentially signals a worsening shortage in primary care physicians that may negatively affect patients as well as practitioners who are currently working in the overburdened system. (Source: JAMA Internal Medicine)
Source: JAMA Internal Medicine - January 8, 2024 Category: Internal Medicine Source Type: research
Diminishing Mortality Benefit of Cancer Screening with Improvements in Treatment
Less is More (Source: JAMA Internal Medicine)
Source: JAMA Internal Medicine - January 8, 2024 Category: Internal Medicine Source Type: research
Omitting the Fifth Largest Subspecialty From the Medical Residents Survey?
To the Editor We commend Paralkar et al for their study using data from the American College of Physicians (ACP) Internal Medicine in-Training Examination (IM-ITE) resident survey to demonstrate the declining interest of medical residents in the field of general internal medicine. The IM-ITE resident survey is an important source of data for internal medicine workforce trends. As such, we were surprised and disappointed at the omission of hospice and palliative medicine (HPM) as a subspecialty choice in the survey by the ACP. (Source: JAMA Internal Medicine)
Source: JAMA Internal Medicine - January 8, 2024 Category: Internal Medicine Source Type: research
Increasing Clinical Complexity
In JAMA Internal Medicine, Naik et al present the results of a population-based serial, cross-sectional evaluation of trends in the complexity of hospitalized inpatients in British Columbia, Canada, between 2002 and 2017. The question that the authors pose —how has the complexity of hospitalized inpatients changed over time—is an important one and has implications for how we design, deliver, and pay for care as well as how we train and support our increasingly strained health care workforce. (Source: JAMA Internal Medicine)
Source: JAMA Internal Medicine - January 8, 2024 Category: Internal Medicine Source Type: research
Protecting Patients by Reducing Diagnostic Error
Almost a decade after the release of “Improving Diagnosis in Health Care,” the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report that highlighted the imperative to improve the diagnostic process in health care, diagnostic errors continue to be a cause of patient harm and death. (Source: JAMA Internal Medicine)
Source: JAMA Internal Medicine - January 8, 2024 Category: Internal Medicine Source Type: research
Errors in Figure 2
This article w as corrected online. (Source: JAMA Internal Medicine)
Source: JAMA Internal Medicine - January 8, 2024 Category: Internal Medicine Source Type: research
Unraveling Wavy ST Segments —An Unusual Case of Syncope
This case report describes a patient in their 60s with gastroesophageal reflex disease who presented to the emergency department after loss of consciousness during dinner and daily intermittent chest discomfort. (Source: JAMA Internal Medicine)
Source: JAMA Internal Medicine - January 8, 2024 Category: Internal Medicine Source Type: research
Early Tecovirimat Treatment for Mpox Disease Among People With HIV
This cohort study examines whether staring tecovirimat within 7 days of mpox symptom onset is associated with a lower rate of mpox disease progression among people with HIV. (Source: JAMA Internal Medicine)
Source: JAMA Internal Medicine - January 8, 2024 Category: Internal Medicine Source Type: research
