JAMAPub Date : 2025-01-16DOI: 10.1001/jama.2025.0256
Rachel L. Levine
{"title":"Optimizing the National Response to the Syphilis and Congenital Syphilis Syndemic","authors":"Rachel L. Levine","doi":"10.1001/jama.2025.0256","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2025.0256","url":null,"abstract":"This Viewpoint discusses the rising rates of syphilis cases in the US and how the federal government is leading a coordinated response to address this resurgence involving enhancing testing, treatment, and education.","PeriodicalId":518009,"journal":{"name":"JAMA","volume":"93 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142987966","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JAMAPub Date : 2025-01-16DOI: 10.1001/jama.2025.0197
Elizabeth Fowler, Purva Rawal, Dilipan W. Sundaramoorthy, Michael de La Guardia
{"title":"The CMS Innovation Center’s Role in Addressing Greenhouse Gas Emissions","authors":"Elizabeth Fowler, Purva Rawal, Dilipan W. Sundaramoorthy, Michael de La Guardia","doi":"10.1001/jama.2025.0197","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2025.0197","url":null,"abstract":"This Viewpoint discusses a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation volunteer greenhouse gas emissions reporting and technical assistance program for hospitals and hospital systems.","PeriodicalId":518009,"journal":{"name":"JAMA","volume":"42 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142987965","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JAMAPub Date : 2025-01-13DOI: 10.1001/jama.2024.28537
Nicole Huberfeld, Michael R. Ulrich
{"title":"United States v Skrmetti—Testing the Transition to Politicized Regulation of Medicine","authors":"Nicole Huberfeld, Michael R. Ulrich","doi":"10.1001/jama.2024.28537","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2024.28537","url":null,"abstract":"This Viewpoint discusses Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth and how the US Supreme Court’s decision on the constitutionality of this law could have potential implications for state regulation of medical practice.","PeriodicalId":518009,"journal":{"name":"JAMA","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142967912","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JAMAPub Date : 2025-01-13DOI: 10.1001/jama.2024.28203
Moti Gorin, Jilles Smids, John Lantos
{"title":"Toward Evidence-Based and Ethical Pediatric Gender Medicine","authors":"Moti Gorin, Jilles Smids, John Lantos","doi":"10.1001/jama.2024.28203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2024.28203","url":null,"abstract":"This Viewpoint discusses the need for clinicians to conduct thorough research on the risks and benefits of gender-affirming care so that lawmakers and judges do not make decisions on such care without evidence.","PeriodicalId":518009,"journal":{"name":"JAMA","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142967911","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JAMAPub Date : 2025-01-10DOI: 10.1001/jama.2024.24063
Yulin Hswen, Jennifer Abbasi
{"title":"How AI Could Help Clinicians Identify American Indian Patients at Risk for Suicide","authors":"Yulin Hswen, Jennifer Abbasi","doi":"10.1001/jama.2024.24063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2024.24063","url":null,"abstract":"This Medical News article is an interview with Emily E. Haroz, PhD, an associate professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Center for Indigenous Health, about an observational study that compared suicide risk machine learning models with a non–artificial intelligence screening method in a large group of Indian Health Service patients.","PeriodicalId":518009,"journal":{"name":"JAMA","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142940364","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JAMAPub Date : 2025-01-10DOI: 10.1001/jama.2024.28216
Kate Schweitzer
{"title":"Little-Known Oropouche Virus Is Spreading: What Clinicians Need to Know About the Insect-Borne Illness","authors":"Kate Schweitzer","doi":"10.1001/jama.2024.28216","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2024.28216","url":null,"abstract":"This Medical News article discusses the emerging Oropouche virus, which recently has been associated with deaths and vertical transmission in the Americas.","PeriodicalId":518009,"journal":{"name":"JAMA","volume":"38 2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142940362","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JAMAPub Date : 2025-01-10DOI: 10.1001/jama.2025.0065
Louis D. Saravolatz, Preeti N. Malani
{"title":"What Is Bird Flu?","authors":"Louis D. Saravolatz, Preeti N. Malani","doi":"10.1001/jama.2025.0065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2025.0065","url":null,"abstract":"This JAMA Patient Page explains the origins and transmissibility of bird flu, along with prevention, diagnosis, symptoms, potential complications, and management in humans.","PeriodicalId":518009,"journal":{"name":"JAMA","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142961684","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JAMAPub Date : 2025-01-09DOI: 10.1001/jama.2024.26818
Rebecca Burch
{"title":"Chronic Migraine in Adults","authors":"Rebecca Burch","doi":"10.1001/jama.2024.26818","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2024.26818","url":null,"abstract":"This JAMA Insights explores the prevalence of episodic and chronic migraine in adults and acute and preventive treatments for migraine, such as novel calcitonin gene-related peptide receptor antagonists.","PeriodicalId":518009,"journal":{"name":"JAMA","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142939948","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JAMAPub Date : 2025-01-09DOI: 10.1001/jama.2024.23450
Anjali Bhatla, Victoria L. Bartlett, Michael Liu, ZhaoNian Zheng, Rishi K. Wadhera
{"title":"Changes in Patient Care Experience After Private Equity Acquisition of US Hospitals","authors":"Anjali Bhatla, Victoria L. Bartlett, Michael Liu, ZhaoNian Zheng, Rishi K. Wadhera","doi":"10.1001/jama.2024.23450","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2024.23450","url":null,"abstract":"ImportancePrivate equity acquisitions of health care facilities have rapidly increased over the past decade. However, little is known about the effects of private equity acquisitions of US hospitals on patient care experience.ObjectiveTo evaluate whether the acquisition of hospitals by private equity firms was associated with changes in measures of patient-reported experience compared with matched control hospitals from 2008 through 2019.Design, Settings, and ParticipantsThis cohort study identified 73 US hospitals newly acquired by private equity firms and 293 matched control (nonacquired) US hospitals from 2008 through 2019. An event study, difference-in-differences design was used to evaluate changes in patient experiences measures from 3 years before to 3 years after private equity acquisition.Main Outcomes and MeasuresThe primary outcomes were 2 global measures of patient-reported care experience from the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey, which included patients’ overall hospital rating and willingness to recommend the hospital. Secondary outcomes included the 7 other HCAHPS measures encompassing clinical process, communication, and environmental measures.ResultsThere were 73 private equity–acquired hospitals and 293 matched control hospitals. The percentage of patients rating hospitals as a 9 or 10, on a scale of 0 to 10, decreased at private equity–acquired hospitals (65.0% before acquisition and 65.2% after acquisition) when compared with control hospitals (66.2% to 69.2%) during the postacquisition period relative to the preacquisition period with a difference-in-differences estimate of −2.4 percentage points (95% CI, −3.9 to −0.9). In addition, the percentage of patients who would definitely recommend the hospital also decreased at private equity–acquired hospitals (66.9% before acquisition and 65.5% after acquisition) compared with control hospitals (68.2% to 69.3%) with a difference-in-difference estimate of −2.1 percentage points (95% CI, −3.6 to −0.7). For both of these global measures of patient experience, the difference between private equity–acquired and control hospitals increased over time and was largest in year 3 after acquisition (−5.2 percentage points [95% CI, −8.8 to −1.5] and −4.4 percentage points [95% CI, −8.0 to −0.70] for each measure, respectively). For secondary measures of patient care experience, there was a decrease in patient-reported responsiveness of hospital staff at private equity–acquired hospitals compared with control hospitals (−1.3 percentage points [95% CI, −2.4 to −0.2]), but no differential change across other measures of clinical process, communication, and environment.Conclusions and RelevancePatient care experience worsened after private equity acquisition of hospitals. These findings raise concern about the implications of private equity acquisitions on patient care experience at US hospitals.","PeriodicalId":518009,"journal":{"name":"JAMA","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142939950","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JAMAPub Date : 2025-01-09DOI: 10.1001/jama.2024.26725
Jeannina A. Smith
{"title":"Invisible Me","authors":"Jeannina A. Smith","doi":"10.1001/jama.2024.26725","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2024.26725","url":null,"abstract":"In this narrative medicine essay, an infectious diseases physician who is immunocompromised laments the disdain she felt while continuing to wear a mask after vaccinations allowed most people to shed them.","PeriodicalId":518009,"journal":{"name":"JAMA","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142939949","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}