New online first articles from JAMA Internal Medicine (2024)

Religious Hospital Monopolies

SamDoernberg,MD; BarakRichman,JD, PhD; LaurenTaylor,PhD, MDiv

JAMA Intern Med. Published online August 26, 2024. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2024.3955

This Viewpoint discusses challenges posed by religious hospital monopolies for patients who do not share the same faith.

Physician Work Environment and Well-Being

Physician EHR Time and Visit Volume Following Adoption of Team-Based Documentation Support

Nate C.Apathy,PhD; A. JayHolmgren,PhD, MHI; Dori A.Cross,PhD

JAMA Intern Med. Published online August 26, 2024. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2024.4123

This national longitudinal cohort study of ambulatory physicians analyzes how electronic health record (EHR) documentation time and visit volume change following the adoption of team-based documentation approaches.

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  Methodological Considerations for Difference-in-Differences

  AlyssaBilinski,PhD, MS, AM; IshaniGanguli,MD, MPH

  JAMA Intern Med

Breast Cancer Screening Using Mammography, Digital Breast Tomosynthesis, and Magnetic Resonance Imaging by Breast Density

Natasha K.Stout,PhD; Diana L.Miglioretti,PhD; Yu-RuSu,PhD; et al.

JAMA Intern Med. Published online August 26, 2024. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2024.4224

This model-based comparative effectiveness analysis examines the long-term benefits and harms of digital breast tomosynthesis and supplemental breast magnetic resonance imaging screening by breast density using data on screening performance from the Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium.

Methodological Considerations for Difference-in-Differences

AlyssaBilinski,PhD, MS, AM; IshaniGanguli,MD, MPH

JAMA Intern Med. Published online August 26, 2024. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2024.4132

Evaluating Supplemental Breast Cancer Screening With Simulation Modeling

Ilana B.Richman,MD, MHS; Tracy A.Battaglia,MD, MPH

JAMA Intern Med. Published online August 26, 2024. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2024.4230

Buprenorphine for Opioid Use Disorder—An Essential Medical Treatment

Melissa B.Weimer,DO, MCR; Kenneth L.Morford,MD

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JAMA Intern Med. Published online August 26, 2024. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2024.3977

This Clinical Insights describes the process for initiating buprenorphine treatment for patients with opioid use disorder.

Making Sense of the Difference-in-Difference Design

CoadyWing,PhD; MalloryDreyer,BBA

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JAMA Intern Med. Published online August 26, 2024. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2024.4135

This Guide to Statistics and Methods describes the difference-in-differences study design.

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  Methodological Considerations for Difference-in-Differences

  AlyssaBilinski,PhD, MS, AM; IshaniGanguli,MD, MPH

  JAMA Intern Med

Postexercise Cardiac Asystole

Yun-TaoZhao,MD, PhD; Xiu-HongWei,MD; LeiWang,MD

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JAMA Intern Med. Published online August 26, 2024. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2024.1769

This case report describes a patient in their 40s with hypertension who exhibited presyncopal symptoms following an exercise test.

Reevaluating Piperacillin-Tazobactam Mortality

Chi-KueiHsu,MD; Chih-ChengLai,MD

JAMA Intern Med. Published online August 26, 2024. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2024.4111

Reevaluating Piperacillin-Tazobactam Mortality

Christopher A.Darlow,MB, BChir, PhD; AlessandroGerada,MD; WilliamHope,BM, BS, PhD

JAMA Intern Med. Published online August 26, 2024. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2024.4114

Reevaluating Piperacillin-Tazobactam Mortality

Chia-TerChao,MD, PhD

JAMA Intern Med. Published online August 26, 2024. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2024.4117

Reevaluating Piperacillin-Tazobactam Mortality—Reply

RishiChanderraj,MD, MSc; Robert P.Dickson,MD; Michael W.Sjoding,MD, MSc

JAMA Intern Med. Published online August 26, 2024. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2024.4120

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JAMA Intern Med. Published online August 26, 2024. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2024.4586

Telehealth Mindfulness-Based Interventions for Chronic Pain: The LAMP Randomized Clinical Trial

Diana J.Burgess,PhD; CollinCalvert,PhD; Emily M.Hagel Campbell,MS; et al.

JAMA Intern Med. Published online August 19, 2024. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2024.3940

This randomized clinical trial examines the effectiveness of group and self-paced scalable, telehealth mindfulness-based interventions for veterans with chronic pain compared to usual care.

Clinician Specialty and HIV PrEP Prescription Reversals and Abandonments

ShivaniBakre,MHS; Hsien-YenChang,PhD; Jalpa A.Doshi,PhD; et al.

JAMA Intern Med. Published online August 19, 2024. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2024.3998

This cross-sectional study examines the association between prescribing clinician specialty and patients not picking up their initial PrEP prescription.

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  Picking Up PrEP—Role of Clinician Specialty

  MeredithGreene,MD; LonaMody,MD, MSc

  JAMA Intern Med

Picking Up PrEP—Role of Clinician Specialty

MeredithGreene,MD; LonaMody,MD, MSc

JAMA Intern Med. Published online August 19, 2024. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2024.4004

Overcoming Challenges to Implementing Mindfulness-Based Pain Interventions

DanCherkin,PhD

JAMA Intern Med. Published online August 19, 2024. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2024.3952

Health and the 2024 US Election

Expanded Child Tax Credit and Food Insecurity

Seth A.Berkowitz,MD, MPH; DeepakPalakshappa,MD, MSHP

JAMA Intern Med. Published online August 19, 2024. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2024.3972

This cohort study examines changes in food security associated with the 2021 Expanded Child Tax Credit enactment and expiration in 2 individual-level, longitudinal, nationally representative cohorts.

Further Study Needed on Antihypertensive Medications and Fracture Risks

Chee H.Liew,MB BCh, BAO, MSc

JAMA Intern Med. Published online August 19, 2024. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2024.3925

Further Study Needed on Antihypertensive Medications and Fracture Risks

JunxianGu,MD; YangQiao,MD; ZiningLuo,MD

JAMA Intern Med. Published online August 19, 2024. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2024.3928

Further Study Needed on Antihypertensive Medications and Fracture Risks

Chia-TerChao,MD, PhD

JAMA Intern Med. Published online August 19, 2024. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2024.3931

Further Study Needed on Antihypertensive Medications and Fracture Risks

TakeshiFujieda,MD

JAMA Intern Med. Published online August 19, 2024. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2024.3934

Further Study Needed on Antihypertensive Medications and Fracture Risks—In Reply

Chintan V.Dave,PharmD, PhD; Michelle C.Odden,PhD

JAMA Intern Med. Published online August 19, 2024. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2024.3937

Health Care Policy and Law

At-Home Testing for Survivors of Sexual Assault—Empowerment or Exploitation?

Kushal T.Kadakia,MSc; Joseph S.Ross,MD, MHS; ReshmaRamachandran,MD, MPP, MHS

JAMA Intern Med. Published online August 12, 2024. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2024.2883

In this Viewpoint, the accuracy, usefulness, and marketing of at-home rape kits is explored.

Plant and Animal Fat Intake and Overall and Cardiovascular Disease Mortality

BinZhao,PhD; LuGan,MSc; Barry I.Graubard,PhD; et al.

JAMA Intern Med. Published online August 12, 2024. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2024.3799

This cohort study evaluated the associations of plant and animal fat intake with cardiovascular disease and overall mortality outcomes.

GLP-1RA vs DPP-4i Use and Rates of Hyperkalemia and RAS Blockade Discontinuation in Type 2 Diabetes

TaoHuang,MSc; AlessandroBosi,MSc; Anne-LaureFaucon,MD, PhD; et al.

JAMA Intern Med. Published online August 12, 2024. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2024.3806

This cohort study of patients with type 2 diabetes compares the rates of hyperkalemia and renin-angiotensin system (RAS) inhibitor persistence in those who used glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RAs) or dipeptidyl peptidase 4 inhibitors (DPP-4is).

Aging and Health

Deprescribing Equity—A Research Framework for Older Adults

Utibe R.Essien,MD, MPH; Michelle S.Keller,PhD, MPH

JAMA Intern Med. Published online August 12, 2024. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2024.3824

Aging and Health

Antiplatelet and Anticoagulant Use in Nursing Home Residents With Atrial Fibrillation

DaraeKo,MD, MSc; YoojinLee,MPH; Dae HyunKim,MD, ScD; et al.

JAMA Intern Med. Published online August 12, 2024. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2024.3819

This cross-sectional study evaluates the use of oral anticoagulants and antiplatelets, including aspirin, among nursing home residents with atrial fibrillation.

Aging and Health

Why Do We (and Still Do!) Need the National Institute on Aging—50 Years of Innovation

Kenneth E.Covinsky,MD, MPH; LonaMody,MD; Sharon K.Inouye,MD, MPH

JAMA Intern Med. Published online August 5, 2024. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2024.1326

This Viewpoint discusses the role and benefits of the National Institute on Aging.

Aging and Health

Clinical and Behavioral Research at the National Institute on Aging—50 Years of Innovation

Andrew B.Cohen,MD, DPhil; KalishaBonds Johnson,PhD, RN, PMHNP-BC; Mary E.Tinetti,MD

JAMA Intern Med. Published online August 5, 2024. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2024.2264

This Viewpoint discusses multicomplexity and dementia, 2 areas of clinical and behavioral research where the National Institute on Aging has made integral and distinctive contributions.

Aging and Health

Role of the National Institute on Aging in Transforming Aging Research Through Geroscience and Gerotherapeutics—50 Years of Innovation

John C.Newman,MD, PhD; Iman M.Al-Naggar,PhD; George A.Kuchel,MD

JAMA Intern Med. Published online August 5, 2024. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2024.2534

This Viewpoint discusses the role of the National Institute on Aging (NIA) in the fields of geroscience and gerotherapeutics.

Physician Work Environment and Well-Being

Awakening Change—Embracing Disability in Medical Training

Kelsey D.Biddle,BA

JAMA Intern Med. Published online August 5, 2024. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2024.3187

This essay describes the author’s experience as a medical trainee with narcolepsy with cataplexy, highlighting the toll of self-sacrifice and the need for a cultural shift in medicine to better support trainees with disabilities.

Health, Access to Care, and Financial Barriers to Care Among People Incarcerated in US Prisons

Emily LuptonLupez,MD, MPH; SteffieWoolhandler,MD, MPH; David U.Himmelstein,MD; et al.

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JAMA Intern Med. Published online August 5, 2024. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2024.3567

This cross-sectional study examines the proportion of people who are incarcerated in the US with health problems or pregnancy who used health services, changes in the prevalence of those conditions since 2004, and the association between their state’s standard prison co-payment and care receipt in 2016.

• Audio: Health, Access to Care, and Financial Barriers to Care Among People Incarcerated in US Prisons

Heightened Vigilance Needed When Patients Are Prescribed GLP-1 and GIP Agonists

Tyrone A.Johnson,MD; Michael A.Incze,MD, MSEd; William K.Silverstein,MD, MSc

JAMA Intern Med. Published online August 5, 2024. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2024.3732

Harming Health by Imposing In-Prison Co-Payments

Benjamin A.Howell,MD; JudithResnik,JD; Emily A.Wang,MD

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JAMA Intern Med. Published online August 5, 2024. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2024.3572

• Audio: Health, Access to Care, and Financial Barriers to Care Among People Incarcerated in US Prisons

Tirzepatide-Induced Rapid Weight Loss–Related Thyrotoxicosis

Kagan E.Karakus,MD; Viral N.Shah,MD; Halis K.Akturk,MD

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JAMA Intern Med. Published online August 5, 2024. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2024.2919

This Teachable Moment describes a 62-year-old man with thyrotoxicosis due to excess levothyroxine exposure during tirzepatide treatment that induced rapid weight loss.

• Editorial

  Heightened Vigilance Needed When Patients Are Prescribed GLP-1 and GIP Agonists

  Tyrone A.Johnson,MD; Michael A.Incze,MD, MSEd; William K.Silverstein,MD, MSc

  JAMA Intern Med

The Role of Social Workers in Hypertension Care for Black Adults

ShijieGuo,LLM; ZihanCai,MSc

JAMA Intern Med. Published online August 5, 2024. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2024.3224

Health Care Reform

The Role of Social Workers in Hypertension Care for Black Adults—Reply

Monika M.Safford,MD; Andrea L.Cherrington,MD, MPH

JAMA Intern Med. Published online August 5, 2024. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2024.3227

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JAMA Intern Med. Published online August 5, 2024. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2024.4098