Day: November 14, 2014

Healthcare Triage News: Sugar Tax and Canadian Travel Ban

Aaron Carroll November 14, 2014

Berkeley passes a tax on sugary drinks, and Canada passes a ban on Ebola travel. Neither will work. This is Healthcare Triage News. For those

AcademyHealth: Do NNTs work?

Austin Frakt November 14, 2014

Some say that the NNT or number needed to treat, a metric of therapeutic benefit, is harder for patients to understand than other metrics. The

Digital marketing to physicians is amazing. And concerning.

Aaron Carroll November 14, 2014

I’ve written about physicians’ financial conflicts of interest at The Upshot. I’ve made a Healthcare Triage episode, too, if you prefer that medium. As this

Day: November 14, 2014

Healthcare Triage News: Sugar Tax and Canadian Travel Ban

AcademyHealth: Do NNTs work?

Digital marketing to physicians is amazing. And concerning.

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