Health Alert: Your Survival Odds May Increase When Surgeons Take a Break!
Marginal Revolution,
Another bit from my review in the WSJ of Random Acts of Medicine by Jena and Worsham: The authors do not always endear…
Another bit from my review in the WSJ of Random Acts of Medicine by Jena and Worsham: The authors do not always endear…
Once upon a time, Bapu Jena was a graduate student at the University of Chicago. His most interesting teacher? The economist…
Ideas are currency. This couldn’t be more true in academia, where it’s the job of researchers to think of questions and…
This week, Bapu Jena presents some hot-off-the-presses research exploring the relationship between how many patients a doctor…
Bapu Jena was already a double threat: a doctor who’s also an economist. Now he’s a podcast host too. In this sneak preview of…
(photo: Rohin Francis) Season 5, Episode…
Gur Huberman points to this op-ed entitled “Are Good Doctors Bad for Your Health?” and writes: Can’t the NYT provide a link or…
(photo: Rohin Francis) Season 5, Episode…
Surprisingly, high-risk patients with heart failure and cardiac arrest admitted to US teaching hospitals during dates of…
(Photo: official U.S. Navy page) Our latest Freakonomics Radio episode is called “How Many Doctors Does It Take to Start a…
Each month my inner nerd comes out, and I bore my group with an e-mail containing the most interesting EM papers I have read in…
In der Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung wurde am Montag ein hochinteressantes (und brisantes) Thema aufgegriffen: Wenn Ärzte (im…
Supongamos que un paciente es ingresado en un hospital con un problema cardiaco grave: infarto, paro cardiaco o algo peor.
By Jovan Begovic…
Welcome to the 66th edition of Research and Reviews in the Fastlane. R
This week’s Healthcare Triage News is likely to upset some docs. Get your popcorn ready! For those of you who want references…
On December 22, 2014, JAMA Internal Medicine published…
Hard at work at the Annual Meeting of Cardiologists. Some mornings I suspect that someone has been tampering with my coffee.
A primary rule of medicine is to first do no harm. But research at Harvard shows that your doctor may be unintentionally…
This week's topics include metformin in patients with type 2 diabetes and kidney disease, mortality and treatment patterns…
A study published last month in JAMA Internal Medicine found that high-risk Medicare patients with heart failure or cardiac…
JAMA 24-31 December 2014 Vol…
By SAURABH JHA, MD It might have been the best of times. It could have been the worst of times. But 2014 turned out to be the…
According to a paper by Jena et al. (2014), the answer is no. The paper examines 30-day mortality rates for Medicare patients…
If you have a heart attack, heart failure or cardiac arrest while your cardiologist is out of town at a major industry…
"Don't get sick on a weekend." That advice is also part of a title of a research paper that evaluates the fates of patients who…
This paper is going to really piss some people off. “Mortality and Treatment Patterns Among Patients Hospitalized With Acute…
Top News Healthcare workforce services vendor AMN Healthcare acquires Avantas, saying its clients need…
Is Your Heart Doctor In? If Not, You Might Not Be Any Worse…
Researchers find that high-risk heart patients in teaching hospitals fared better when their cardiologists were away at…