Journal of General Internal Medicine Issues 25 Research Articles in September 2018 Edition

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, Sept. 12 -- The Journal of General Internal Medicine, a journal from the Society of General Internal Medicine that says it focuses on improved patient care, education in primary care, general internal medicine and hospital medicine, published 25 research articles on the following topics in its September 2018 edition:

Concise Research Reports

* Association of Food Insufficiency with Patient Activation Among Women Veterans Using Veterans Administration Healthcare: a Cross-Sectional Analysis

* Chronic Multisymptom Illness Among Iraq/Afghanistan-Deployed US Veterans and Their Healthcare Utilization Within the Veterans Health Administration

* Impact of Drug Overdose Deaths on Solid Organ Transplantation in the United States

* Form and Content of Cannabis Products in the United States

* Effects of Race Are Rarely Included in Clinical Prediction Models for Cardiovascular Disease

* Review of clinical trial settings of drugs commonly used in primary care and approved between 2005 and 2012

* Association Between a Measure of Community Economic Distress and Medicare Patients' Health Care Utilization, Quality, Outcomes, and Costs

* Hidden Agenda Among Individuals Visiting a Family Physician in Turkey for Routine Health Visits: a Cross-sectional Study

* Media Content Analysis of Marijuana's Health Effects in News Coverage

* Differences in Primary Care Appointment Availability and Wait Times by Neighborhood Characteristics: a Mystery Shopper Study

* Health Insurance Coverage and Access to Care for Community Health Center Patients: Evidence Following the Affordable Care Act

Original Research

* Diagnostic Discordance, Health Information Exchange, and Inter-Hospital Transfer Outcomes: a Population Study

* Which Complex Patients Should Be Referred for Intensive Care Management? A Mixed-Methods Analysis

* Incidence of Acute Cardiovascular Event After Acute Exacerbation of COPD

* Comparative Effectiveness of Usual Care With or Without Chiropractic Care in Patients with Recurrent Musculoskeletal Back and Neck Pain

* Patient-Family Agenda Setting for Primary Care Patients with Cognitive Impairment: the SAME Page Trial

* Coaching by Telephone Intervention on Engaging Patients to Address Modifiable Cardiovascular Risk Factors: a Randomized Controlled Trial

* Third Year of Survey Data Shows Continuing Benefits of Medicaid Expansions for Low-Income Childless Adults in the U.S.

* Implementation of the Chronic Care Model to Reduce Disparities in Hypertension Control: Benefits Take Time

* Variability in spousal perceptions of caregiving and its relationship to older caregiver health outcomes

* Potentially Inappropriate Opioid Prescribing, Overdose, and Mortality in Massachusetts, 2011-2015

* Acute Kidney Injury Due to Diarrheal Illness Requiring Hospitalization: Data from the National Inpatient Sample

* Impact of Care Specialty on Survival-Adjusted Medical Costs of COPD Patients After a Hospitalization: a longitudinal analysis

* Partners and Alerts in Medication Adherence: A Randomized Clinical Trial

* Barriers to Healthcare Access and Long-Term Survival After an Acute Coronary Syndrome

The September 2018 edition of the Journal of General Internal Medicine can be viewed at https://link.springer.com/journal/11606/33/9/page/1. The journal is published by Springer International Publishing.