Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to help authors improve the preparation and quality of their manuscripts and published articles are rapidly increasing in number and sophistication. These include tools to assist with writing, grammar, language, references, statistical analysis, and reporting standards. Editors and publishers also use AI-assisted tools for myriad purposes, including to screen submissions for problems (eg, plagiarism, image manipulation, ethical issues), triage submissions, validate references, edit, and code content for publication in different media and to facilitate postpublication search and discoverability.
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In this narrative medicine essay, an obstetrician finds relief from the frenetic intrusions of text messages, pages, and emails when in the operating room, where all devices are turned off and all her attention is turned on to her patient.
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This Viewpoint summarizes several federal strategies to ensure pregnant persons’ access to abortion services after the recent Supreme Court ruling in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization: expanding access to medication abortion, ensuring provision of emergency abortion services, proposing new conscience protections for clinicians, and protecting reproductive rights at the state level.
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In this Viewpoint, Donald Berwick explores the pursuit of profit in US health care across sectors—such as pharmaceutical companies, insurers, hospitals, and physician practices—and its harms to patients, and then offers potential solutions.
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This study examines the Food and Drug Administration’s accelerated approval pathway and whether preapproval initiation was associated with faster conversion to traditional approval or withdrawal for drugs with nononcology indications.
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This Viewpoint offers 3 insights in response to the AHRQ report on diagnostic errors made in US emergency departments: focus on the delivery systems instead of individuals, establish ways to set definitions and assess error rates, and design safe delivery systems to prevent errors.
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This JAMA Insights Clinical Update reviews the risk factors for and symptoms of lactational mastitis and provides a potential treatment algorithm.
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This prospective study compares the risk of transmission of influenza virus infection among household contacts of patients with influenza during the 2021-2022 influenza season vs before the COVID-19 pandemic influenza seasons in the US.
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Physicians often distinguish between different forms of primary aldosteronism, a common cause of high blood pressure, using adrenal vein sampling, which can be invasive and is not widely available.
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Patients with cancer who received a touch-based relaxation intervention before undergoing a surgical procedure had more favorable scores on measures of anxiety and depression after the operation than those who did not undergo the intervention, according to research published in Cancer. Adding acupuncture to the relaxation intervention during the operation was also linked to reductions in pain among those experiencing severe discomfort.
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