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This Week in JAMA

A Piece of My Mind

Original Contributions

  • Effects of Care Coordination on Hospitalization, Quality of Care, and Health Care Expenditures Among Medicare Beneficiaries: 15 Randomized Trials

    • Deborah Peikes,
    • Arnold Chen,
    • Jennifer Schore,
    • Randall Brown
    JAMA. 2009;301(6):603-618.doi:10.1001/jama.2009.126

  • Targeted Muscle Reinnervation for Real-time Myoelectric Control of Multifunction Artificial Arms

    • Todd A. Kuiken,
    • Guanglin Li,
    • Blair A. Lock,
    • Robert D. Lipschutz,
    • Laura A. Miller,
    • Kathy A. Stubblefield,
    • Kevin B. Englehart
    JAMA. 2009;301(6):619-628.doi:10.1001/jama.2009.116

  • Effect of Food Additives on Hyperphosphatemia Among Patients With End-stage Renal Disease: A Randomized Controlled Trial

    • Catherine Sullivan,
    • Srilekha S. Sayre,
    • Janeen B. Leon,
    • Rhoderick Machekano,
    • Thomas E. Love,
    • David Porter,
    • Marquisha Marbury,
    • Ashwini R. Sehgal
    JAMA. 2009;301(6):629-635.doi:10.1001/jama.2009.96

Review

  • Maternal Overweight and Obesity and the Risk of Congenital Anomalies: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

    • Katherine J. Stothard,
    • Peter W. G. Tennant,
    • Ruth Bell,
    • Judith Rankin
    JAMA. 2009;301(6):636-650.doi:10.1001/jama.2009.113

Perspectives on Care at the Close of Life

  • Referring a Patient and Family to High-Quality Palliative Care at the Close of Life: “We Met a New Personality . . . With This Level of Compassion and Empathy”

    • Joan M. Teno,
    • Stephen R. Connor
    JAMA. 2009;301(6):651-659.doi:10.1001/jama.2009.109

From the Archives Journals

  • 200 Years After Darwin

    • Roger N. Rosenberg,
    • Olaf Stüve,
    • Todd Eagar
    JAMA. 2009;301(6):660-662.doi:10.1001/jama.2009.80

Commentaries

  • The Voyage Continues: Darwin and Medicine at 200 Years

    • James P. Evans
    JAMA. 2009;301(6):663-665.doi:10.1001/jama.2009.102

  • Science, Politics, and Values: The Politicization of Professional Practice Guidelines

    • John D. Kraemer,
    • Lawrence O. Gostin
    JAMA. 2009;301(6):665-667.doi:10.1001/jama.301.6.665

Editorials

  • The Elusive Quest for Quality and Cost Savings in the Medicare Program

    • John Z. Ayanian
    JAMA. 2009;301(6):668-670.doi:10.1001/jama.2009.91

  • Taking Control of Prosthetic Arms

    • Gerald E. Loeb
    JAMA. 2009;301(6):670-671.doi:10.1001/jama.2009.112

The Cover

  • Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas—Debate at Charleston, Illinois, September 18, 1858

    • Thomas B. Cole
    JAMA. 2009;301(6):578.doi:10.1001/jama.2009.58

Poetry and Medicine

Medical News & Perspectives

  • Scientists Seek to Sniff Out Diseases: Electronic “Noses” May Someday Be Diagnostic Tools

    • M. J. Friedrich
    JAMA. 2009;301(6):585-586.doi:10.1001/jama.2009.90

  • Joint Commission Offers Warnings, Advice on Adopting New Health Care IT Systems

    • Mike Mitka
    JAMA. 2009;301(6):587-589.doi:10.1001/jama.2009.37

  • Poor Infection Control Fuels Hepatitis in Nonhospital Health Care Facilities

    • Bridget M. Kuehn
    JAMA. 2009;301(6):589.doi:10.1001/jama.2009.89

Capitol Health Call

From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

  • Self-Reported Prediabetes and Risk-Reduction Activities—United States, 2006

    JAMA. 2009;301(6):591-593.doi:10.1001/jama.301.6.591

  • Smoking-Attributable Mortality, Years of Potential Life Lost, and Productivity Losses—United States, 2000-2004

    JAMA. 2009;301(6):593-594.doi:10.1001/jama.301.6.593

Letters

  • Cultural Competence and Student Body Composition Among US Medical Students

    • Lawrence Noble,
    • Anita Noble,
    • Ivan L. Hand
    JAMA. 2009;301(6):596.doi:10.1001/jama.2009.76

  • Cultural Competence and Student Body Composition Among US Medical Students—Reply

    • Somnath Saha,
    • LuAnn Wilkerson
    JAMA. 2009;301(6):596-597.doi:10.1001/jama.2009.77

  • Career Intentions of MD/PhD Program Graduates

    • Jason Miller
    JAMA. 2009;301(6):597.doi:10.1001/jama.2009.73

  • Career Intentions of MD/PhD Program Graduates—Reply

    • Dorothy A. Andriole,
    • Alison J. Whelan,
    • Donna B. Jeffe
    JAMA. 2009;301(6):597-598.doi:10.1001/jama.2009.74

  • Career Intentions of MD/PhD Program Graduates—Reply

    • Leon E. Rosenberg
    JAMA. 2009;301(6):598.doi:10.1001/jama.2009.75

  • Internet-Based Education for Health Professionals

    • Geoff Wong
    JAMA. 2009;301(6):598-599.doi:10.1001/jama.2009.69

  • Internet-Based Education for Health Professionals

    • Rita Banzi,
    • Ivan Moschetti,
    • Lorenzo Moja
    JAMA. 2009;301(6):599.doi:10.1001/jama.2009.70

  • Internet-Based Education for Health Professionals—Reply

    • David A. Cook,
    • Victor M. Montori,
    • Anthony J. Levinson
    JAMA. 2009;301(6):599-600.doi:10.1001/jama.2009.71

  • Emotional Intelligence Training and Evaluation in Physicians

    • Francesco Pagnini,
    • Gian Mauro Manzoni,
    • Gianluca Castelnuovo
    JAMA. 2009;301(6):600.doi:10.1001/jama.2009.81

  • Emotional Intelligence Training and Evaluation in Physicians

    • Anita R. Webb
    JAMA. 2009;301(6):601.doi:10.1001/jama.2009.82

  • Emotional Intelligence Training and Evaluation in Physicians—Reply

    • Daisy Grewal,
    • Heather A. Davidson
    JAMA. 2009;301(6):601.doi:10.1001/jama.2009.83

  • Incomplete Financial Disclosure in a Commentary on Testing for Fragile X Gene Mutations Throughout the Life Span

    • Paul J. Hagerman
    JAMA. 2009;301(6):601-602.doi:10.1001/jama.2009.79

Corrections

  • Omitted Financial Disclosure in: Testing for Fragile X Gene Mutations Throughout the Life Span

    JAMA. 2009;301(6):602.doi:10.1001/jama.2009.78

  • Errors in Text in: Medical Acceptance of Quality Assurance in Health Care: The French Experience

    JAMA. 2009;301(6):602.doi:10.1001/jama.301.6.602

Book and Media Reviews

  • Danforths’s Obstetrics and Gynecology

    • Ronald T. Burkman
    JAMA. 2009;301(6):672.doi:10.1001/jama.2009.97

  • The 5-Minute Pediatric Consult

    • Lynn C. Smitherman
    JAMA. 2009;301(6):673.doi:10.1001/jama.2009.98

  • Pneumococcal Vaccines: The Impact of Conjugate Vaccine

    • Richard A. Stein,
    • Claudia Cosmineanu
    JAMA. 2009;301(6):673-674.doi:10.1001/jama.2009.62

  • Food Allergy: Adverse Reactions to Foods and Food Additives

    • Katherine Gundling
    JAMA. 2009;301(6):675.doi:10.1001/jama.2009.63

  • Orthopedic Pathology

    • Hue H. Luu
    JAMA. 2009;301(6):675-676.doi:10.1001/jama.2009.65

  • The Voice: A Memoir

    • Tony Miksanek
    JAMA. 2009;301(6):677.doi:10.1001/jama.2009.67

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February 11, 2009, Vol 301, No. 6, pp 573-686
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