New Issue of Journal of the American Medical Association is Now Available

March 27, 2009

JAMA (Volume 301, Number 12, March 25, 2009) is now available by subscription only.

Articles Include:

• “Measuring Preventable Harm: Helping Science Keep Pace With Policy” by Peter J. Pronovost and Elizabeth Colantuoni, 1273-1275.
• “Health Care Information Technology Vendors’ “Hold Harmless” Clause: Implications for Patients and Clinicians” by Ross Koppel and David Kreda, 1276-1278.
• “Communicating With Seriously Ill Patients: Better Words to Say” by Steven Z. Pantilat, 1279-1281.
• “Ownership of Medical Information” by Mark A. Hall and Kevin A. Schulman, 1282-1284.
• “The Role of Tax Reform in Health Care Reform” by James S. Floyd, Sidney M. Wolfe, and Marcia Angell, 1226.
• “Efforts Aim to Curb Opioid Deaths, Injuries” by Bridget M. Kuehn, 1213-1215.
• “Pain Pill Spending” by  Bridget M. Kuehn, 1217.

Book and Media Reviews Include:

• “Mayo Clinic Internal Medicine Review” by Linda Pinsky, 1288-1289.
• “Ethical Issues in Neurology” by Pat Fosarelli, 1289-1290.
• “Paracelsus: Medicine, Magic and Mission at the End of Time” by Christopher Hamlin, 1293-1294.