December 5, 2017
Benjamin Goldacre discusses publication bias in medical studies on the AllTrials site. In testimony to Parliament, transparency stressed.
November 15, 2017
The Cost Of Assuming Your Doctor Knows Best “The National Academy of Medicine (formerly the Institute of Medicine), came out with a report on diagnostic error in 2015 identifying diagnostic error as the most harmful and most expensive of medical errors. It is estimated that between 40,000 to 80,000 deaths occur in the U.S. from diagnostic error […]
October 10, 2017
A new patient advocacy idea that could actually WORK. The American Patient Defense Union
October 9, 2017
A peer reviewed survey of nurses rating hospital quality of care around the world. BMJ: Patient Safety, Satisfaction and Quality of Care
October 3, 2017
Companion to our weekly Senses blogs. Losing Sense of Smell Precursor to Dementia?
August 29, 2017
Catheter Ablation for Heart Arrythmia
August 24, 2017
The widespread use of electronic health records, administrative claims, and social media and the ubiquity of smart devices have created “big data” that heretofore have not been widely utilized. There is substantial enthusiasm for the use of real-world data sources to generate so-called real-world evidence (RWE), but confusion remains about what RWE means. What is […]
August 17, 2017
Few Outcome Measures Meet Criteria for Assessing Accuracy and Validity, According to Two Joint Commission Executives I blog about deaths from negligence and medical error being under reported. I also blog about Joint Commission procedures and the secrecy of peer review proceedings. Maybe the authorities are beginning to come around to my way of thinking.
The Cost of Care
Dartmouth study on reigning in healthcare costs This chart on the left (in the article linked above) was originally created by the Kaiser Foundation and is now outdated (as shown in the chart on the right) – largely because the cost of drugs, medical devices and hospitalizations has skyrocketed. As a percentage, the amount we spend on primary […]
Mortality
In one-quarter of the country, girls born today may live shorter lives than their mothers, and the country as a whole is falling behind other industrialized nations in the march toward longer life, according to a study just released by the Institute for Health Metrics. Life expectancy by county in the U.S. varies as much as […]