In this month’s Medical Care there’s a great study by Brendan Nyhan and colleagues: Context: Misperceptions are a major problem in debates about health care
That’s what loss of the Google indexing bot can do to your website. We’re back! (I don’t know why the numbers at the top —
From a new paper in the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law (JHPPL) by Sandra Tanenbaum: The finding of variation, unlike much in health policy,
I raised this question earlier this week. Turns out there is at least one study on it. (H/t: Uwe Reinhardt.) @afrakt
In the latest JAMA issue, Brock, et al. report on an evaluation of quality improvement initiatives aimed at transitions of care. You can click through for
The recent JAMA paper by Dharmarajan and colleagues includes an analysis of the distribution of FFS Medicare-reimbursed hospital readmissions by day after index visit discharge. They
Two things I had a hand in are out, and I want you to know about them. First, here’s the latest from CEPAC: Members of
A few years ago, when everyone was panicked about the swine flu, pregnant women appeared to be at significant risk to be seriously ill if
The paper by Bueno, et al. (JAMA, 2010) raises methodological issues worth flagging. Though I don’t have anything novel to say about their results, here’s a plain-word
Ranjana Srivastava, a medical oncologist, writes in NEJM: [I]f the surgeon admitted the patient, surely he can decide what’s best. If necessary, the anesthesiologist can call
I have not had time to read the research papers on readmissions in the latest issue of JAMA. But I have read all the shorter
