LAURA H. CYPHERS

This Arts and Medicine essay reviews the work of visual artist Paula Siniatkina, who has used her experience as a patient previously quarantined and treated for tuberculosis to create art intended to represent and destigmatize the disease.
Source: JAMA Online First

This article summarizes a guideline on the prevention and treatment of mild to moderate asthma, produced by the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA).
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Clinicians face an array of legal uncertainties surrounding abortion care since the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade in June.
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This Viewpoint summarizes data on the increasing disparities in US drug overdose deaths by race and ethnicity and calls for a multisectoral response that includes structural and policy changes and approaches that focus on racial and ethnic disparities and long-standing inequities that contribute to increased risk for overdose.
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This Viewpoint discusses the need to expand early cancer detection to include both screening and symptom detection to achieve the goal of diagnostic excellence for cancer.
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This Viewpoint discusses how the coronavirus pandemic has highlighted the burnout felt by the entire health care workforce, including nursing assistants, transport personnel, and clerical staff, and how this can be addressed through a blended approach that improves workforce well-being, the health care system, and patients’ health.
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This Guide to Statistics and Methods provides an overview of patient-reported outcome measures for clinical research, emphasizes several important considerations when using them, and points out their limitations.
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Viewpoint describes the limitations of patient privacy under HIPPA regarding abortion services and miscarriages and discusses important considerations for patients, clinicians, and health care centers.
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This Viewpoint discusses shortcomings of current electronic health record (EHR) implementation, summarizes how the CMS SAFER Guides can in part address these shortcomings by lessening cognitive load of EHR tasks, and proposes a 7-dimension SMARTER Guide to further lessen cognitive load, increase cognitive support, and advance measurement and improvement of EHR technology.
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This Viewpoint discusses investments that can be made in the health care sector in committing to equitable, patient-centered climate action to jointly ensure care access as well as contribute to decarbonization.
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