Abstract
The expansive scope of general internal medicine makes it difficult to identify practice-changing
medical literature. Clinical updates can be facilitated by synthesizing relevant articles
and implications for practice. Six internal medicine physicians reviewed the titles
and abstracts in the 7 general internal medicine clinical outpatient journals with
the highest impact factor and relevance to the internal medicine outpatient physician:
New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), Lancet, Annals of Internal Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), JAMA-Internal Medicine, British Medical Journal (BMJ), and Public Library of Science (PLoS) Medicine. The following collections of article synopses and databases were also reviewed:
American College of Physicians Journal Club, NEJM Journal Watch, BMJ Evidence-Based
medicine, McMaster/DynaMed Evidence Alerts, and Cochrane Reviews. A modified Delphi
method was used to gain consensus on articles based on clinical relevance to outpatient
Internal Medicine, potential impact on practice, and strength of evidence. Article
qualities and importance were debated until consensus was reached. Clusters of articles
pertinent to the same topic were considered together. In total, 7 practice-changing
articles were included.
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Published online: March 08, 2019
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Funding: None.
Conflict of Interest: None.
Authorship: All authors had access to the articles reviewed, participated in the review process/article selection, had a role in writing the manuscript, and gave approval of the final manuscript.
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