Corrigendum to "Characterizing primary care patient referrals and attendance patterns for virtual lifestyle medicine shared medical appointments" [Prev. Med. Rep. 53 (2025) 103059].

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1016/j.pmedr.

Characterizing primary care patient referrals and attendance patterns for virtual lifestyle medicine shared medical appointments.

Objective: To better understand patient engagement in a Lifestyle Medicine Shared Medical Appointment.(LMSMA) program with Health and Wellness Coaching (HWC).

Methods: From July 2022 to June 2023, adult patients were referred to the Massachusetts General Hospital Healthy Lifestyle Program by primary care providers or self-referred in LMSMAs and HWC, both virtual programs supporting lifestyle behavior change.

Hypertension Control and Medication Titration Associated With Lifestyle Medicine Virtual Group Visits and Home Blood Pressure Monitoring.

Less than a quarter of the 116 million adults with hypertension in the United States have blood pressure (BP) lower than the guideline-recommended goal of 130/80 mmHg. There is a critical need for novel interventions that integrate evidence-based recommendations-such as lifestyle medicine and home BP monitoring (HBPM)-into clinical care. In this study, we tested the hypothesis that a four-part, primary care physician-led Virtual Group Visit (VGV) series combining lifestyle medicine, Health and Wellness Coaching (HWC), and HBPM could lead to a reduction in BP and antihypertensive medications.

Massachusetts General Hospital Revere Food Pantry: Addressing hunger and health at an academic medical center community clinic.

Food insecurity is defined by limited access to adequate food. As a result, it is associated with chronic disease for millions of Americans. Healthcare systems take responsibility for improving patient health and thus are well positioned to create food security interventions that improve health.

Virtual Group Visits: Hope for Improving Chronic Disease Management in Primary Care During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic.

As health care systems respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, new virtual care approaches are emerging for health promotion and chronic disease management. Virtual group visits (VGVs) supporting a healthy lifestyle, adapted from the well-established shared medical appointment (SMA) model, hold promise as a primary care delivery tool for preventing and managing chronic disease. In order to establish VGVs as standard of care, evidence for clinical effectiveness, financial sustainability, and access for vulnerable populations is needed.

Chronic disease management in the COVID-19 era.

In the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) era, clinical registries and innovative virtual care delivery tools should be leveraged to engage populations in effective chronic disease management.

A Mixed-Methods Study of Patient-Provider E-Mail Content in a Safety-Net Setting.

To explore the content of patient-provider e-mails in a safety-net primary care clinic, we conducted a content analysis using inductive and deductive coding of e-mail exchanges (n = 31) collected from January through November 2013. Participants were English-speaking adult patients with a chronic condition (or their caregivers) cared for at a single publicly funded general internal medicine clinic and their primary care providers (attending general internist physicians, clinical fellows, internal medicine residents, and nurse practitioners). All e-mails were nonurgent.

Readability assessment of patient-provider electronic messages in a primary care setting.

Background: The high prevalence of limited health literacy among patients threatens the success of secure electronic messaging between patients from diverse populations and their providers.

Objective: The purpose of this study is to generate hypotheses about the readability of patient and provider electronic messages.

Methods: We collected 31 patient-provider e-mail exchanges (n = 119 total messages) from a safety-net primary care clinic.

The functional oculomotor network and saccadic cognitive control in healthy elders.

Decline in executive function is the most common age-associated cognitive deficit and may be a risk factor for neurodegenerative disease. The antisaccade (AS) task involves inhibition of a prepotent visuomotor response and is a well-validated executive function test in aging and neurodegeneration. We investigated the functional connectivity of the cortical oculomotor network during successful AS performance in healthy elders.

Antisaccade task reflects cortical involvement in mild cognitive impairment.

Objective: The aims of this study were to examine executive dysfunction using an antisaccade (AS) task in normal elderly (NE) and patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer disease (AD) as well as to evaluate the relationship between AS performance and cortical thinning within AD-associated regions.

Methods: We recorded eye movements in 182 subjects (NE: 118; MCI: 36; AD: 28) during an AS task. We also performed neuropsychological measures of executive function for comparison.

Intrinsic connectivity network disruption in progressive supranuclear palsy.

Objective: Progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) has been conceptualized as a large-scale network disruption, but the specific network targeted has not been fully characterized. We sought to delineate the affected network in patients with clinical PSP.

Methods: Using task-free functional magnetic resonance imaging, we mapped intrinsic connectivity to the dorsal midbrain tegmentum (dMT), a region that shows focal atrophy in PSP.

Anti-saccade performance predicts executive function and brain structure in normal elders.

Objective: To assess the neuropsychological and anatomical correlates of anti-saccade (AS) task performance in normal elders.

Background: The AS task correlates with neuropsychological measures of executive function and frontal lobe volume in neurological diseases, but has not been studied in a well-characterized normal elderly population. Because executive dysfunction can indicate an increased risk for cognitive decline in cognitively normal elders, we hypothesized that AS performance might be a sensitive test of age-related processes that impair cognition.