Informed Decision Making for Anticoagulation Therapy for Atrial Fibrillation.

Background: Patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) must decide between warfarin and direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs), a decision involving important tradeoffs. Our objective was to understand whether physicians engage patients in informed decision making for anticoagulants.

Design: We performed an analysis of recorded conversations between physicians and anticoagulation-naïve patients in the Verilogue Point-of-Practice database.

Estimating the costs of physician turnover in hospital medicine.

Background And Objective: Costs of physician turnover are lacking for specialties organized around a site of care. We sought to estimate the cost of physician turnover in adult hospital medicine (HM).

Design, Setting, Participants: A retrospective cohort study within a large integrated health system between July 2017 and June 2020.

Change in Physician Burnout between 2013 and 2020 in a Major Health System.

Objective: Assessing changes in physician burnout over time can offer insight into the causes of burnout. Existing studies are limited by using different samples of physicians at each time point. Our objective was to assess changes in burnout between 2013-2014 and 2019-2020 overall and within a cohort of physicians who took the survey twice.

Adherence to the American Diabetes Association's Glycemic Goals in the Treatment of Diabetes Among Older Americans, 2001-2018.

Objective: To assess trends in HbA1c and appropriateness of diabetes medication use by patient health status.

Research Design And Methods: We conducted cross-sectional analysis of 2001-2018 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). We included older adults age ≥65 years who had ever been told they had diabetes, had HbA1c >6.

Social Behaviors Associated With a Positive COVID-19 Test Result.

Objective To compare the social behaviors of individuals who were tested positive for COVID-19 relative to non-infected individuals.   Methods We sent COVID positive cases and age/gender-matched controls a survey regarding their social behaviors via MyChart (online patient portal). We called cases if they did not complete the electronic survey within two days.

Treatment and Outcomes of Inpatient Hypertension Among Adults With Noncardiac Admissions.

Importance: Despite high prevalence of elevated blood pressure (BP) among medical inpatients, BP management guidelines are lacking for this population. The outcomes associated with intensifying BP treatment in the hospital are poorly studied.

Objectives: To characterize clinician response to BP in the hospital and at discharge and to compare short- and long-term outcomes associated with antihypertensive treatment intensification.