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A commitment to high-value care education from the internal medicine community.
This article serves as the organizations' formal commitment to providing a foundation of HVC education on which others may build. The 5 key targets for HVC education are experiential learning and curriculum, environment and culture, clinical support, regulatory requirements, and sustainability. The goal is to train future health care professionals for whom HVC is part of normal practice, thus providing patients with improved clinical outcomes at a lower cost. PMID: 25938993 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Annals of Internal Medicine - May 5, 2015 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Smith CD, Levinson WS, Internal Medicine HVC Advisory Board Tags: Ann Intern Med Source Type: research

In HIV, Viral Load Matters and PrEP Is Still Critical In HIV, Viral Load Matters and PrEP Is Still Critical
Some good news for HIV patients with a suppressed viral load.Medscape Internal Medicine
Source: Medscape Internal Medicine Headlines - August 17, 2018 Category: Internal Medicine Tags: Internal Medicine Commentary Source Type: news

Pretest probability assessment combined with point-of-care D-dimer testing allows primary care physicians to rule out pulmonary embolism
Commentary on: Geersing GJ, Erkens PM, Lucassen WA, et al.. Safe exclusion of pulmonary embolism using the Wells rule and qualitative D-dimer testing in primary care: prospective cohort study. BMJ 2012;345:e6564. Context A Bayesian combination of pretest probability assessment and D-dimer testing to rule out pulmonary embolism (PE) has been extensively validated in secondary care settings such as emergency departments. If this approach is shown to be safe in primary care settings, point-of-care D-dimer assays could allow physicians to rule out PE without referring patients to secondary care. Patients who present to primary...
Source: Evidence-Based Medicine - September 19, 2013 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Kabrhel, C. Tags: EBM Diagnosis, Epidemiologic studies, General practice / family medicine, Pain (neurology), Interventional cardiology, Venous thromboembolism, Radiology, Pulmonary embolism, Clinical diagnostic tests, Radiology (diagnostics) Source Type: research

The mortality rate in England between 2007 and 2012 was not associated with the quality of primary care in an established pay for performance programme
This study aimed to examine the relationship between primary care performance of quality indicators included in the QOF and changes in mortality. Methods This was an analysis of a longitudinal data...
Source: Evidence-Based Medicine - July 24, 2015 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Fleetcroft, R. Tags: EBM Quality improvement, Medical management, Clinical trials (epidemiology), Epidemiologic studies, General practice / family medicine, Drugs: cardiovascular system, Stroke, Hypertension, Diet, Ischaemic heart disease, Renal medicine, Guidelines Source Type: research

What Physicians Need to Know Today About End-of-Life Care What Physicians Need to Know Today About End-of-Life Care
End-of-life care has changed considerably since a landmark IOM report 18 years ago. While the field of palliative care is now established, there is still room to improve. Medscape Internal Medicine
Source: Medscape Internal Medicine Headlines - October 22, 2015 Category: Internal Medicine Tags: Internal Medicine Commentary Source Type: news

Simplified sleep restriction impacts objective but not subjective sleep for people with primary insomnia in primary care
Commentary on: Falloon K, Elley CR, Fernando A , et al. Simplified sleep restriction for insomnia in general practice: a randomised controlled trial. Br J Gen Pract 2015;65:e508–15 . Context Insomnia is a significant health concern with annual incidence rates of approximately 36.6% in its acute and 2.8% in its chronic form.1 Importantly, insomnia is a significant risk factor for the development of several physical and psychological illnesses—most notably major depression.2 3 Despite advances in non-pharmacological insomnia treatments, specifically a 6–8-week course of cognitive-behavioural therapy for ins...
Source: Evidence-Based Medicine - November 24, 2015 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Ellis, J. Tags: Clinical trials (epidemiology), General practice / family medicine, Sleep disorders (neurology), Mood disorders (including depression), Sleep disorders, Sleep disorders (respiratory medicine) Therapeutics/Prevention Source Type: research

Financing U.S. Graduate Medical Education: A Policy Position Paper of the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine and the American College of Physicians.
an College of Physicians Abstract In this position paper, the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine and the American College of Physicians examine the state of graduate medical education (GME) financing in the United States and recent proposals to reform GME funding. They make a series of recommendations to reform the current funding system to better align GME with the needs of the nation's health care workforce. These recommendations include using Medicare GME funds to meet policy goals and to ensure an adequate supply of physicians, a proper specialty mix, and appropriate training sites; spreading the costs of...
Source: Annals of Internal Medicine - May 2, 2016 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Butkus R, Lane S, Steinmann AF, Caverzagie KJ, Tape TG, Hingle ST, Moyer DV, and the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine and American College of Physicians Graduate Medical Education Task Forces, for the Health and Public Policy Committee of the Ameri Tags: Ann Intern Med Source Type: research

Current evidence does not support the widespread use of collaborative care for PTSD, but it is limited by not evaluating context
This study seeks to examine the effectiveness of CC for PTSD in Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs). Methods This study is a randomised, controlled, clinical trial comparing minimally enhanced usual care (MEU) with PTSD care...
Source: Evidence-Based Medicine - September 22, 2016 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Watts, B. V. Tags: Medical management, Patients, Clinical trials (epidemiology), General practice / family medicine, Anxiety disorders (including OCD and PTSD) Therapeutics/Prevention Source Type: research

Stress ulcer prophylaxis in critical care: a 2016 perspective Dr. Waleed Alhazzani in an interview with Dr. Roman Jaeschke: part 2.
Authors: Alhazzani W, Jaeschke R PMID: 27872456 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Polskie Archiwum Medycyny Wewnetrznej - November 23, 2016 Category: Internal Medicine Tags: Pol Arch Med Wewn Source Type: research

IU critical care
Source: Notes from Dr. RW - June 8, 2018 Category: Internal Medicine Tags: critical care medical education Source Type: blogs

Evan J. Lipson, MD - Urgent Care of Patients Receiving Cancer Immunotherapy: Recognition and Management of Immune-Mediated Adverse Reactions in the ED
Go online to PeerView.com/CBT860 to view the entire program with slides. In this activity, experts in oncology and emergency medicine discuss principles of using immunotherapy to treat cancer, focusing specifically on the development of and recommendations for identifying, grading, and managing IMARs. Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to: Describe the basic principles of harnessing the human immune system in the treatment of cancer, including the mechanistic aspects of immune checkpoint inhibition and development of immune-mediated adverse reactions (IMARs), Characterize the spectrum of IMARs: org...
Source: Peerview CME/CE Video Podcast - Internal Medicine International - March 11, 2019 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: PVI, PeerView Institute for Medical Education Tags: Science, Medicine Source Type: video

Stressed volume in critical care
Source: Notes from Dr. RW - March 20, 2019 Category: Internal Medicine Tags: cardiovascular critical care Source Type: blogs

Factors Associated with a Career in Primary Care Medicine: Continuity Clinic Experience Matters
ConclusionsStrong interpersonal relationships with patients and clinic mentors were associated with a PC career. These factors may compensate for the reported frustrations of clinic. Enhancing patient and mentor relationships may increase the retention of PC residents in ambulatory careers and may help address the current and projected shortage of primary care physicians.
Source: Journal of General Internal Medicine - February 23, 2021 Category: Internal Medicine Source Type: research

Putting SPRINT in Focus for Primary CarePutting SPRINT in Focus for Primary Care
Should primary care providers be changing the way they manage patients with hypertension, given the release of results from the much heralded SPRINT trial? Medscape Family Medicine
Source: Medscape Internal Medicine Headlines - November 16, 2015 Category: Internal Medicine Tags: Family Medicine/Primary Care Commentary Source Type: news

Management of patients with type 2 diabetes and multiple chronic conditions: A Delphi consensus of the Spanish Society of Internal Medicine.
CONCLUSION: The assessment and recommendations provided herein represent our best professional judgment based on current data and clinical experience. PMID: 26586286 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: European Journal of Internal Medicine - November 13, 2015 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Ena J, Gómez-Huelgas R, Sánchez-Fuentes D, Camafort-Babkowsk M, Formiga F, Michán-Doña A, Casariego E, Working Group of Diabetes and Obesity of Spanish Society of Internal Medicine Tags: Eur J Intern Med Source Type: research