Well done, Dr. Williams! The March 1st issue of Annals of Internal Medicine includes an editorial by John W. Williams Jr., MD, MHSc, a Duke GIM clinician-researcher and educator, together with Gary Maslow, MD, MPH, also a Duke faculty member (Pediatrics and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences). The commentary is titled “Seize the Day to Implement Depression Guidelines.” Full citation: …
Category: Publications
Jeffrey Clough, MD – lead author in Journal of American Heart Association
Congratulations, Dr. Clough! Jeffrey Clough, MD, Duke GIM researcher and member of the Duke Clinical Research Institute, continues to write about quality and patient outcomes. Last August we cited his JAMA Viewpoint article, an overview of CMS’s efforts to transition fee-for-service Medicare into an alternative payment system that rewards high quality and efficient use of resources. This time …
SGIM Forum – Hemming Writes About Male Physicians Working Part-Time
The February 2016 issue of the SGIM Forum presents Patrick Hemming’s commentary titled “Part-time Academic Male Physicians: A Call for Role Models.” Dr. Hemming is working part-time within Duke GIM. It was just a year ago he completed a fellowship at Johns Hopkins University yet already he senses his career experience is unique amongst his …
Washington and Boulware’s JAMA Viewpoint
The topic of population health improvement is trending in our literature. Appearing this past week as a JAMA Viewpoint is a statement co-authored by the Chief of Duke General Internal Medicine, Dr. Ebony Boulware, along with Duke’s Chancellor, Dr. Eugene Washington, and Dr. Molly Coye, a social entrepreneur in residence at NEHI, the Network for Excellence …
GIM Authors of 12 Publications This Week!
This past week the query of our recent journal publications surfaced with 12 papers by members of Duke General Internal Medicine. Notably, one by Boggan et al about decision support for ordering an echocardiogram appeared in BMJ Quality & Safety and another by Datta et al about cost analysis of teledermatology was published in JAMA Dermatology. And, drum roll, Hat Tip …
Curlin’s JAMA Viewpoint on “Why Physicians Should Oppose Assisted Suicide”
Last week’s issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) has it’s theme as death, dying and the end of life. Of the eight Viewpoint articles in this issue, one contribution comes from Duke GIM, Dr. Farr Curlin, along with Y Tony Yang, ScD, LLM, MPH, at George Mason University. Their commentary expresses the position that physicians should …
Ubel Again Nudges Payment Reform
New, in Annals of Internal Medicine: Emanuel EJ, Ubel PA, Kessler JB, Meyer G, Muller RW, Navathe AS, et al. Using Behavioral Economics to Design Physician Incentives That Deliver High-Value Care. Ann Intern Med. 2016;164:114-119. doi:10.7326/M15-1330 [Full Text] In case you missed it, this paper first appeared online November 24, 2015. It’s in print now, in the current …
New Interprofessional Curriculum and Insights by GIM Author, Patrick Hemming
Increasingly evidence shows that interprofessional learning improves care. This blog post by Patrick Hemming, MD, informs us about his paper published recently in the Journal of Religion and Health. This journal article reports on qualitative findings from a novel inter-professional curriculum that began as a pilot project at Johns Hopkins Bayview in 2011. Prior to coming to Duke in …
Dr. Simel Co-Authors 2 JAMA Rational Clinical Exams
David Simel, MD, Chief of Medicine in the Durham VA, not only edits the Rational Clinical Examination Series in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), he sometimes authors a topic as he did in the recent issues of November and December 2015. Kudos to Dr. Simel for this ongoing contribution to the practice of evidenced based medicine. Fanaroff, AC, …
Several DGIM Authors in Current Issue of NCMJ
The current issue of the North Carolina Medical Journal (NCMJ) just arrived! This release is about “Caring for Heroes.” Many of the articles are written by our professional colleagues who care for military veterans. We are proud to say that four were submitted by members of Duke General Internal Medicine. In the Policy Forum, the Issue Brief authors are John …
