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Health data
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Wash. health data now includes infection rates
Washington state has solidified its position as a leader in health data transparency with the publication this year of hospital…
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Initiatives not improving patient safety; poor implementation to blame
A large-scale study that followed mistakes in health care delivery at 10 North Carolina hospitals from 2002 to 2007 found…
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New EHR error-reporting system to keep data confidential
EHRevent.org, a service that will allow health workers to report and track errors associated with electronic health records, has launched…
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Where you are determines your end-of-life care
As you’ve likely noticed, the Dartmouth Atlas team has now focused its lens on end-of-life care and found, not surprisingly,…
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Four states refuse to name hyper-prescribing docs
As part of his war against overprescription and fraud, Sen. Charles Grassley asked states to share data on doctors who …
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State-by-state data, the plug-n-play version
We write about state-by-state federal health statistics a lot here, but acknowledge that they can sometimes require basic spreadsheet and…
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Dialysis program: Experiment in socialized medicine comes with high costs, risks
ProPublica’s Robin Fields has put together an artful examination of the nation’s Medicare-funded dialysis system. Part history and part investigation,…
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Understanding risk, and why 83% is really 10.5%
Physician and blogger Alex Lickerman used a discussion he had regarding hormone replacement therapy and breast cancer as an opportunity…
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Video, presentations from comparative effectiveness conference available online
Earlier this month, ECRI’s 17th annual conference tackled the thorniest detail of comparative effectiveness research, namely that it’s rarely a…
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13 years of warnings, FDA inaction behind seizure
U.S. marshals seized a number of drug products from a small New Jersey pharmaceutical manufacturer called Tri-Med laboratories earlier this…