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COST: Long Term Care and the Revolving Door
So just how fast does that revolving door spin? The Kaiser Family Foundation this week released several reports on Medicare spending for people in nursing homes or other long-term care facilities. Of...
View ArticleDoctor Prepared for the Worst at Marathon
November 8, 2010Sheri FinkNovember 8, 2010On Sunday morning at 7:30, Dr. Stuart Weiss, the medical director of the New York City Marathon, was holding a coffee with one hand, gesturing with the other,...
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ER Overcrowding - The Waits That Matter
Overcrowding in emergency rooms and departments costs lives. A 2009 Government Accountability Office report found that “emergent” ER patients – those who need treatment in 1-14 minutes – faced an...
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Magic bullets, no more
The 1940 biopic Dr. Ehrlich’s Magic Bullet made famous both the physician who found a treatment for syphilis and the idea there was a single cure for every disease. Most of the old infectious killers...
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Health Wonk Review: Muppets Edition!
Health Wonk Review, Muppet Edition!Hello all, and welcome to another exciting episode of Health Wonk Review! (Regular readers will note that yes, I used line last time. I have half a mind to make...
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"After Hospitalization," Lousy Follow-Up.
The Dartmouth Atlas has long made a mission of pointing out the variation in medical practice across the US, and in the process, the Atlas has gained a reputation for innovative, incisive research....
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Leading Health Indicators: Indicative of What, Exactly?
Editor’s Note: This is part of a series of posts contributed by Andrew Wickerham, who attended the 139th Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association this week in Washington, DC.Think back...
View ArticleThe Sidebar: Millenium Development and the Challenges of Wartime Aid Efforts
Rosa Brooks and Charles Kenny discuss the challenges facing the US military in Afghanistan after reports of Korans being burned, the role of humanitarian aid in conflict zones, and the status of the...
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Avoidable Care Conference: the schedule is live!
We've been pretty quiet here at New Health Dialogue recently, but rest assured that our blogging will resume apace in the next couple of months. We've been busy working on a few projects, and I want to...
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The Number of the Day and ER alternatives
The number of the day is 222—the international dialing code for Mauritania. More interestingly, 222 is the number of nationwide ER visits per minute in 2011, according to the 2007 Emergency Department...
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Drug Regulation, Symbolic Votes, and Hospital Safety
Here's our wrap-up of last week's articles by our own Shannnon Brownlee and Joe Colucci:Letting Big Pharma Review Its Own Drugs — What Could Go Wrong? (The Atlantic Health Channel):Earlier this month...
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NEJM Headed in the Right Direction on Overuse
The New England Journal of Medicine just published a great article about physician stewardship as it relates to medical spending. The piece, called "Cents and Sensitivity—Teaching Physicians to Think...
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