Factors Associated With Job Satisfaction in Medical Oncology Practices: Results From a Multisite Survey.

Objective: The aim of this study was to examine the factors influencing job satisfaction of nurses, physicians, and advanced practice providers in ambulatory oncology settings.

Background: Job satisfaction is essential to clinician well-being and quality of care.

Methods: In 2017, clinicians from 29 ambulatory medical oncology practices completed anonymous paper questionnaires that examined job satisfaction, clinician-to-clinician communication, and perceptions of patient safety.

Food Insecurity Among Veterans: Resources to Screen and Intervene.

A screener was created in the VA electronic health record clinical reminder system to facilitate an interdisciplinary approach to identifying and addressing food insecurity.

Out-Of-Network Primary Care Is Associated With Higher Per Beneficiary Spending In Medicare ACOs.

Despite expectations that Medicare accountable care organizations (ACOs) would curb health care spending, their effect has been modest. One possible explanation is that ACOs' inability to prohibit out-of-network care limits their control over spending. To examine this possibility, we examined the association between out-of-network care and per beneficiary spending using national Medicare data for 2012-15.

Performance in the Medicare Shared Savings Program After Accounting for Nonrandom Exit: An Instrumental Variable Analysis.

Background: Accountable care organizations (ACOs) in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) are associated with modest savings. However, prior research may overstate this effect if high-cost clinicians exit ACOs.

Objective: To evaluate the effect of the MSSP on spending and quality while accounting for clinicians' nonrandom exit.

Setting priorities for stroke care and research.

Recent publications describing the sobering global increase in stroke mortality and global life years lost due to stroke despite improvements in developed countries have drawn focus on the severe impact of stroke in the developing world. At the same time, three recent interventional trials that failed to demonstrate an important role for catheter-based therapies in acute stroke have called into question this expensive use of technology. Coupling all of this new data leads to the natural conclusion that a focus on stroke prevention for the developing world, and for the poor in developed countries, should be where we set our priorities for the foreseeable future.

Transcriptome profiling identifies HMGA2 as a biomarker of melanoma progression and prognosis.

The genetic alterations contributing to melanoma pathogenesis are incompletely defined, and few independent prognostic features have been identified beyond the clinicopathological characteristics of the primary tumor. We used transcriptome profiling of 46 primary melanomas, 12 melanoma metastases, and 16 normal skin (N) samples to find genes associated with melanoma development and progression. Results were confirmed using immunohistochemistry and real-time PCR and replicated in an independent set of 330 melanomas using AQUA analysis of tissue microarray (TMA).

FGFR2 is a breast cancer susceptibility gene in Jewish and Arab Israeli populations.

Genetic variation in FGFR2 is a newly described risk factor for breast cancer. We estimated the relative risk and contribution of FGFR2 polymorphisms to breast cancer risk in diverse ethnic groups within Jewish and other Middle Eastern populations. We genotyped four FGFR2 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) and tested for association of these SNPs and haplotypes with breast cancer risk in a population-based case-control study of 1,529 women with breast cancer and 1,528 controls.

The physician as a locus of authority, responsibility, and operational control of medical systems.

Physicians are commonly being excluded from meaningful participation in the planning, implementation, and operation of automated medical systems in hospitals. The authors advocate a rapid shift toward greater physician involvement in such systems, arguing that such a shift is desirable, feasible, and also inevitable. After reviewing the organization of information systems in hospitals, the authors describe the manner in which physician control of medical systems adds to the worth of such systems by enhancing the quality and efficiency of health care delivery.