Day: September 9, 2013

Three quarters of deaths from heart disease and stroke aren’t preventable

Aaron Carroll September 9, 2013

Austin sent me a news story, “One in four deaths from heart disease and stroke in the US is preventable“: More than 200 000 of the

Community health workers and hospital readmissions

Austin Frakt September 9, 2013

Regular readers will recall my many posts on the lack of sensitivity of Medicare’s hospital readmissions measures to socioeconomic status. See, for example, this or

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Day: September 9, 2013

Three quarters of deaths from heart disease and stroke aren’t preventable

Community health workers and hospital readmissions

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