Publications

Department of Medicine faculty members published more than 3,600 peer-reviewed articles in 2024.

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International quarterly of community health education

Built Environment and HIV Linkage to Care in Rural South Africa.

2021

Authors: Shangase N, Pence B, Lippman SA, Dufour MK, Kabudula CW, Gómez-Olivé FX, Kahn K, Pettifor A

Gender differences in experience and reporting of acute symptoms among cleaning staff.

2021

Authors: Lee SJ, Kyung M, Leung C, Hong O

Annals of surgical oncology

Evaluation of Minimal Important Difference and Responder Definition in the EORTC QLQ-PAN26 Module for Assessing Health-Related Quality of Life in Patients with Surgically Resected Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma.

2021

Authors: Reni M, Braverman J, Hendifar A, Li CP, Macarulla T, Oh DY, Riess H, Tempero M, Lu B, Marcus J, Joshi N, Botteman M, Dueck AC

Kidney Function Following Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation: An Observational Cohort Study.

2021

Authors: Wettersten N, Estrella M, Brambatti M, Horiuchi Y, Adler E, Pretorius V, Murray PT, Shlipak M, Ix JH

PloS one

Progress toward closing gaps in the hepatitis C virus cascade of care for people who inject drugs in San Francisco.

2021

Authors: Mirzazadeh A, Chen YH, Lin J, Burk K, Wilson EC, Miller D, Veloso D, McFarland W, Morris MD

ACR Open Rheumatology

Giant Cell Arteritis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Test Accuracy and Benefits and Harms of Common Treatments.

2021

Authors: Dua AB, Husainat NM, Kalot MA, Byram K, Springer JM, James KE, Chang Lin Y, Turgunbaev M, Villa-Forte A, Abril A, Langford C, Maz M, Chung SA, Mustafa RA

Cancer medicine

Phase 1b study of galunisertib and ramucirumab in patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma.

2021

Authors: Harding JJ, Do RK, Yaqubie A, Cleverly A, Zhao Y, Gueorguieva I, Lahn M, Benhadji KA, Kelley RK, Abou-Alfa GK

Open forum infectious diseases

Assessing Testing Strategies and Duration of Quarantine in Contact Tracing for SARS-CoV-2: A Retrospective Study of San Francisco's COVID-19 Contact Tracing Program, June-August 2020.

2021

Authors: Reid MJA, Prado P, Brosnan H, Ernst A, Spindler H, Celentano J, Wall-Shui M, Sachdev D

Substance abuse

Stimulant use for self-management of pain among safety-net patients with chronic non-cancer pain.

2021

Authors: Beliveau CM, McMahan VM, Arenander J, Angst MS, Kushel M, Torres A, Santos GM, Coffin PO

Volume 61 of Issue 1 | American journal of preventive medicine

Preventive Care Delivery After the Veterans Choice Program.

2021

Authors: Tummalapalli SL, Vittinghoff E, Hoggatt KJ, Keyhani S

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INTRODUCTION

The Veterans Choice Program expanded Veteran access to community care. The Veterans Choice Program may negatively impact the receipt of preventive care services owing to care fragmentation. This study assesses 10 measures of preventive care in Veterans with the Department of Veterans Affairs coverage before and after the Veterans Choice Program.

METHODS

The study population included Veterans who responded to the National Health Interview Survey during the 2 time periods before and after Veterans Choice Program implementation: January 2011-October 2014 and November 2015-December 2018. Outcomes were preventive care services categorized as cardiovascular risk reduction (cholesterol monitoring, blood pressure monitoring, aspirin use), infectious disease prevention (influenza vaccination and HIV testing), and diabetes care (fasting blood glucose monitoring, podiatry visits, ophthalmology visits, influenza vaccination, and pneumonia vaccination). Two different analyses were conducted: (1) unadjusted and multivariable-adjusted pre-post analysis and (2) difference-in-differences analyses. Analyses were conducted in 2019.

RESULTS

Measures of cardiovascular risk reduction and influenza vaccination were not statistically different before and after Veterans Choice Program implementation using the 2 different analytic approaches. In unadjusted pre-post analysis, after Veterans Choice Program implementation, Veterans with Veterans Affairs coverage had increased HIV testing (66.1%‒75.4%, p=0.008), podiatry visits (22.4%‒38.3%, p=0.01), and ophthalmology visits (62.2%‒77.2%, p=0.02). Using multivariable adjustment for participant sociodemographic factors, Veterans Choice Program implementation was associated with higher odds of podiatry visits (AOR=2.28, 95% CI=1.24, 4.20, p=0.009) and ophthalmology visits (AOR=2.11, 95% CI=1.13, 3.94, p=0.02) among Veterans with diabetes. In difference-in-differences analyses, Veterans Choice Program implementation was associated with increased podiatry visits (AOR=2.95, 95% CI=1.49, 5.83, p=0.002) among Veterans with diabetes and Veterans Affairs coverage compared with that among those with other coverage types, but no statistically significant effect was observed for ophthalmology visits.

CONCLUSIONS

Veterans with Veterans Affairs coverage and diabetes had an increase in podiatry visits after Veterans Choice Program implementation. There was no evidence that Veterans Choice Program implementation had a negative impact on the receipt of preventive care services among Veterans with Veterans Affairs coverage.

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