Issue Summary July 15, 2014




Annals of Internal Medicine Podcast show

Summary: Summary of the July 15, 2014 issue, including articles on social isolation and suicide, burden of changes in pill appearance, personalizing cancer screening, nurse-management protocols for of outpatients with chronic conditions, the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute's process for engaging diverse stakeholders in research proposal review, and the potential bias of instrumental variable analyses for observational comparative effectiveness research, as well as an update in hospital medicine and commentaries on measles, viral hepatitis, and low-value care.