Journal of General Internal Medicine

From the Editors’ Desk: The Science and Politics of Screening

Richard L. Kravitz, Mitchell D. Feldman

Improving the Performance of Performance Measurement

LeChauncy D. Woodard, Laura A. Petersen

Effects of the Wars on Smoking Among Veterans

Lori A. Bastian, Scott E. Sherman

Can Choice of the Sample Population Affect Perceived Performance: Implications for Performance Assessment

Bruce E. Landon, A. James O’Malley, Thomas Keegan

Does Price Transparency Legislation Allow the Uninsured to Shop for Care?

Kate Stockwell Farrell, Leonard J. Finocchio, Amal N. Trivedi, Ateev Mehrotra

Erectile Dysfunction Drug Receipt, Risky Sexual Behavior and Sexually Transmitted Diseases in HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected Men

Robert L. Cook, Kathleen A. McGinnis, Jeffrey H. Samet, David A. Fiellin, Maria C. Rodriquez-Barradas, Kevin L. Kraemer, Cynthia L. Gibert, R. Scott Braithwaite, Joseph L. Goulet, Kristin Mattocks, Stephen Crystal, Adam J. Gordon, Krisann K. Oursler, Amy C. Justice

Unintended Pregnancy Influences Racial Disparity in Tubal Sterilization Rates

Sonya Borrero, Charity G. Moore, Li Qin, Eleanor B. Schwarz, Aletha Akers, Mitchell D. Creinin, Said A. Ibrahim

Hand-off Education and Evaluation: Piloting the Observed Simulated Hand-off Experience (OSHE)

Jeanne M. Farnan, J. A. M. Paro, R. M. Rodriguez, S. T. Reddy, L. I. Horwitz, J. K. Johnson, V. M. Arora

The Dietary Quality of Persons with Heart Failure in NHANES 1999–2006

Stephenie C. Lemon, Barbara Olendzki, Robert Magner, Wenjun Li, Annie L. Culver, Ira Ockene, Robert J. Goldberg

The Association Between the Number of Prescription Medications and Incident Falls in a Multi-ethnic Population of Adult Type-2 Diabetes Patients: The Diabetes and Aging Study

Elbert S. Huang, Andrew J. Karter, Kirstie K. Danielson, E. Margaret Warton, Ameena T. Ahmed

Smoking Prevalence among US Veterans

David W. Brown

Code Status Documentation in the Outpatient Electronic Medical Records of Patients with Metastatic Cancer

Jennifer S. Temel, Joseph A. Greer, Sonal Admane, Jessica Solis, Barbara J. Cashavelly, Stephen Doherty, Rebecca Heist, William F. Pirl

Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes: Risk Status, Clinic, and Community

K. M. Venkat Narayan, David F. Williamson

Examining Patient Conceptions: A Case of Metastatic Breast Cancer in an African American Male to Female Transgender Patient

Amar Dhand, Gurpreet Dhaliwal

Bat-Associated Leptospirosis

Neelam A. Vashi, Pavani Reddy, Diane B. Wayne, Bradley Sabin

The Abdominal Smile Sign

Michele B. Baron, Lee A. Jennings

Sutures

Idris Anderson

Crushed Dreams

Incident at a Chinese Restaurant

Jack Coulehan

Erratum To: Open Access Implementation and Diabetes Outcomes

David G. Bundy, Greg Randolph

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