SMJ : October 2018 Issue
The Southern Medical Journal is the official, peer-reviewed journal of the Southern Medical Association. It has a multidisciplinary and inter-professional focus that covers a broad range of topics relevant to physicians and other healthcare specialists, including medicine; surgery; women’s and children’s health; mental health; emergency and disaster medicine; public health and environmental medicine; bioethics and medical education; and quality health care, patient safety, and best practices.
Southern Medical Journal • Vol. 111 • No. 10 • October 2018
Women's & Children's Health
Provision of Buprenorphine to Pregnant Women by For-Profit Clinics in an Appalachian City
Jessica J. Walker, MD, and Martin E. Olsen, MD
Birth Weight and Risk of Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in Arizona, Illinois, and Kentucky
Frank D. Groves, MD, Brittany T. Watkins, PhD, Daniel J. Roberts, MD, Thomas C. Tucker, PhD, Tiefu Shen, MD, and Timothy J. Flood, PhD
Contemporary Geographic Variation and Sociodemographic Correlates of Hysterectomy Rates Among Reproductive-Age Women
Danielle R. Gartner, MS, Kemi M. Doll, MD, MSCR, Robert A. Hummer, PhD, MS, and Whitney R. Robinson, PhD, MSPH
Effects of Maternal Carbohydrate and Fat Intake on Fetal Telomere Length
Hamisu M. Salihu, MD, PhD, Korede K. Adegoke, PhD, MPH, MBBS, Lindsey M. King, MPH, CHES, CCRP, CTTS, Rana Daas, BS, Arnut Paothong, PhD, Anupam Pradhan, PhD, Muktar H. Aliyu, MD, DrPH, and Valerie E. Whiteman, MD+
Quality Care & Patient Safety
OPEN ACCESS: Expenditures and Quality: Hospital- and Health System–Affiliated Versus Independent Physicians in Virginia
Louis F. Rossiter, PhD
Surgery and Surgical Specialties
Protocol to Improve Genotyping of Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer Diagnosed Using EBUS-TBNA
Christina R. Bellinger, MD, Deepankar Sharma, MD, Travis Dotson, MD, Jimmy Ruiz, MD, Graham Parks, MD, and Edward F. Haponik, MD
Public Health & Environmental Medicine
Homicide in the South: Higher Rates Among Whites and Fewer Racial Disparities
Berna Buyukozturk, BS, Joanna Drowos, DO, MPH, Charles H. Hennekens, MD, DrPH, Maria C. Mejia de Grubb, MD, MPH, Jason L. Salemi, PhD, MPH, and Robert S. Levine, MD
Effects of Religious Involvement on HIV Management Outcomes Among HIV-Positive Adults in Central North Carolina
Appathurai Balamurugan, MD, DrPH, Martha Phillips, PhD, MPH, James P. Selig, PhD, Holly Thomas Yates, MD, Samuel Yates, BS, Julia Rushing, MStat, and Katherine R. Schafer, MD
Medicine & Medical Specialties
Group Battlefield Acupuncture in Primary Care for Veterans with Pain
Daniel G. Federman, MD Krishnan Radhakrishnan, MD, PhD Lysette Gabriel, Lorie M. Poulin, RN, and Jeffrey D. Kravetz, MD
Mobile Health (mHealth) Use or Non-Use by Residents of West Virginia
Peter Giacobbi, Jr, PhD, Patrick Cushing, MS, Alexis Popa, BS, Treah Haggerty, MD, Adam Hansell, BA, and Cara Sedney, MD
Risk, Outcomes, and Predictors of Clostridium difficile Infection in Lymphoma: A Nationwide Study
Sanjay Bhandari, MD, Ramesh Kumar Pandey, MD, Sumit Dahal, MD, Muhammad Shahreyar, MD, Binod Dhakal, MD, Pinky Jha, MD, Thangam Venkatesan, MD, and Kia Saeian, MD, MS
Mental Health
A Professional Well-Being Continuum: Broadening the Burnout Conversation
Lauren Penwell-Waines, PhD, Mark Greenawald, MD, and David Musick, PhD
Commentary on “A Professional Well-Being Continuum: Broadening the Burnout Conversation”
Robert Zylstra, EdD, LCSW
Bioethics & Medical Education
Do Teaching-Focused Medical Schools Perpetuate the Thinking That Black Faculty Should Not Be Researchers?
Cassandra Acheampong, PhD, Kendall M. Campbell, MD, and José E. Rodríguez, MD