Journal of General Internal Medicine

Health informatics

The 'Hispanic paradox': Does a decades-old finding still hold up?

Many Hispanic people in the United States face socioeconomic disadvantages and lower access to affordable health care. Despite these and other challenges to their health, they generally tend to live longer than other racial ...

Medical economics

Researchers use AI to improve access to clinics for minorities

Using artificial intelligence (AI) to predict the probability of missed appointments in a busy clinic—followed up with personal outreach to at-risk patients—improved "show rates" for patients, especially those who were ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

Study finds high rates of burnout across health care professions

Burnout is associated with adverse outcomes including medical errors and lower quality of care. While many studies have focused on physician or nurse burnout, the COVID-19 pandemic increased stress across the health care ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Research identifies potential long COVID racial disparities

Black and Hispanic Americans appear to experience more symptoms and health problems related to long COVID, a lay term that captures an array of symptoms and health problems, than white people, but are not as likely to be ...

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