Sentences with phrase «general internal medicine»

«For most patients with diabetes and a BMI (body mass index) greater than 35, bariatric surgery increases life expectancy,» says Daniel Schauer, MD, assistant professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine at UC.

However, our results showed that hospital - acquired anemia was associated with worse clinical outcomes after leaving the hospital so it needs to be taken more seriously,» said senior author Dr. Ethan Halm, Director of UT Southwestern's Center for Patient - Centered Outcomes Research and Chief of the William T. and Gay F. Solomon Division of General Internal Medicine at UT Southwestern.

«Given the risks involved with alcohol use, strengthening effective alcohol policies could help prevent homicides,» said Timothy Naimi, MD, the study's lead author who is a physician in general internal medicine at BMC and researcher at BMC's Grayken Center for Addiction Medicine.

The three - year residency program includes general internal medicine specialty training in physiology, infectious disease, pharmacology, and pathology along with species - specific training for diagnosis and care of dogs and cats.

Short - tracking in a field like internal medicine (historically the most popular choice for future physician - scientists) means trading off a year of general internal medicine training for more time as a subspecialty fellow.

Spoke to general internal medicine department and to MD - MPH students at University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

The residency program includes general internal medicine specialty training in physiology, infectious disease, pharmacology, and pathology, along with species - specific training for diagnosis and care of dogs and cats.

Many physician assistants work in primary care specialties, such as general internal medicine, pediatrics, and family medicine.

In a report published online in the Journal of General Internal Medicine on Feb. 21, 2014, the experts say studies have long shown that fragmented care, incomplete information «handoffs» and poor planning among community - based and home caregivers jeopardize health and safety.

When Spreng read a Journal of General Internal Medicine study on elder abuse in New York that found more than half of financial exploitation is carried out by a person the victim knew, he wondered: Just how well are older adults navigating the complexities of their social environment?

Gerrity, who served as co-editor of the Journal of General Internal Medicine from 2004 to 2009, was sorting through manuscripts when that herb - warfarin review was submitted.

Physicians in the Section of General Internal Medicine specialize in primary care for adults, and in the care of patients with acute and chronic multi-system conditions.

A study published April 12 in the Journal of General Internal Medicine found that screening patients for diabetes based on only age and weight could be missing more than half of high - risk patients.

A large analysis of research published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine reported that a vegan diet was likely to result in weight loss even greater than a vegetarian diet.

According to Marc LaRochelle, MD, MPH, a physician in general internal medicine at BMC who led the research team, this study is the first to examine treatment patterns and risk of repeated overdose following a nonfatal opioid overdose.

«The high degree of involvement in the lives of an opioid user among attendees is consistent with reported motivations to have a kit in the house for a greater sense of security and improved confidence to handle an overdose,» explained lead author Sarah Bagley, MD, from the Clinical Addiction Research and Education (CARE) Unit at BUSM and BMC and a physician in General Internal Medicine at BMC.

Dr. Meyer's clinical expertise includes general internal medicine and large - animal acupuncture with special interests in equine cardiology, neonatal emergency and critical care, and complementary medicine modalities, including acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine.

One study found that patients were five times as likely to have an «adverse event» — any injury caused by medical care — when covered by a doctor who didn't know them, which happens when a shift changes, explains David Bates, MD, chief of the division of general internal medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.

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O'Connor has written extensively on alcoholism and opioid addiction and is the chief of general internal medicine at the Primary Care Center, Yale - New Haven Hospital.

The study, published online in the peer - reviewed Journal of General Internal Medicine, also found no difference in completion of the form by race or ethnicity, suggesting wide acceptance of these orders among California's highly diverse population.

«Women have been telling doctors that their migraine headaches worsen around menopause and now we have proof they were right,» says Vincent Martin, MD, professor of internal medicine in UC's Division of General Internal Medicine and co-director of the Headache and Facial Pain Program at the UC Neuroscience Institute.

In an effort to find out, Stephen P. Juraschek, M.D., Ph.D., research and clinical fellow in general internal medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and his colleagues used data from the DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) clinical trial, a widely popular and often - cited study whose results were first published in 1997.

In a report published June 28 in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, the research team describes how these interventions reduced overuse of troponin and other biomarker testing without compromising patient care.

«He was extremely bright,» recalls Satish Dhalla, director of general internal medicine at Downtown Hospital and a professor at New York University School of Medicine renowned for his seminars preparing residents to ace their medical board exams.

«We know that people lose weight and then gain it back,» said study author Nia S. Mitchell, M.D., MPH, a researcher with the Division of General Internal Medicine at the Anschutz Health and Wellness Center at CU Anschutz.

The findings of the study were published online by the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

Instead of the ghostwritten article, Fugh - Berman published a different article, «The Corporate Coauthor,» which appeared in the same journal — the Journal of General Internal Medicine (JGIM)-- in June 2005, alongside comments from the journal's co-editors and a statement from the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME).

And top - tier medical journals, such as The Journal of the American Medical Association, PLoS Medicine, the British Medical Journal, and the Journal of General Internal Medicine, have developed stringent authorship guidelines to ascertain the contributions of each author and obtain full disclosure of authors» funding sources and financial ties.

The study, published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, analyzed biannual responses from 13,897 participants in the University of Michigan's Health and Retirement Study who were 54 or older and had at least one of the following chronic conditions: hypertension, diabetes, cancer, lung disease, heart disease or stroke.

«Our findings may tempt some to call for a rollback of Massachusetts or even national health reform,» said Nancy Kressin, PhD, head of the Health / care Disparities Research Program in the Department of Medicine at the Boston University School of Medicine, member of the section of General Internal Medicine at Boston Medical Center, and senior author of the study.

«Our results emphasize that wrist fractures do identify a group of women at particular risk for future fracture,» said Dr. Carolyn Crandall, the study's lead author and a professor of medicine in the division of general internal medicine and health services research at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

«This continuing gap is disappointing because improving racial and ethnic disparities in access was a key objective of the reform,» said Amresh Hanchate, PhD, of the section of General Internal Medicine at Boston Medical Center, an assistant professor at the Boston University School of Medicine, and a study co-author.

He received his A.B. and M.D. degrees from Cornell University and completed his residency, chief residency, and post-doctoral fellowship in General Internal Medicine at the Johns Hopkins Hospital.

The researchers relied on a large Virginia claims database because it is one of the few datasets that reflect payments from nearly all types of sources, said lead author Dr. John Mafi, assistant professor of medicine in the division of general internal medicine and health services research at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

In a study that appears in the May issue of the Journal of General Internal Medicine, researchers at Boston University School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center have found that the majority of patients misusing drugs and alcohol have chronic pain and many are using these substances to «self - medicate» their pain.

Despite the wide availability of effective treatments for depression and a growing effort nationwide to detect and begin treating depression during primary care visits, only about one - third of individuals newly diagnosed with depression start treatment, according to a Kaiser Permanente study published today in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

They may be exposed to less negative peer pressure, and the school environment may promote the resilience that steers them away from these risky behaviors,» said Wong, who is a professor of medicine in the division of general internal medicine and health services research.

«Prior research at Yale has demonstrated that buprenorphine treatment is highly effective in primary care, and this study was designed in part to expand the reach of this treatment to this critical ED patient population,» said Dr. Patrick O'Connor, professor of medicine and chief of general internal medicine at Yale School of Medicine.

These findings from the National Institutes of Health - funded Reduce Limitations from Anxiety (RELAX) trial were published in the March issue of the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

In the national survey, 1,768 physicians in general internal medicine or family medicine reported seeing an average of 81 patients per week, and ordering diagnostic laboratory tests for almost a third of those patients (31 percent).

The findings, by Fenway Health's Jennifer Potter, MD, and colleagues at Fenway, Harvard Medical School and the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, appear in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, published by Springer.

«Taken all together, this is a very compelling message,» said Dio Kavalieratos, Ph.D., assistant professor of medicine in the Section of Palliative Care and Medical Ethics in Pitt's Division of General Internal Medicine and lead author of the study.

«We know that this patient population often seeks care in emergency rooms where they see physicians who may not know their medical history,» said Alexander Walley, MD, attending physician in general internal medicine at BMC and the study's lead author.

Allan is the lead author of a review published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine that examines the evidence for 10 common beliefs about vitamin D.