New Yale_CRRIT paper in JAMA:

Most surrogate markers used to support FDA approval of drugs treating nononcologic chronic diseases lack high-strength evidence of associations w/ clinical outcomes from published meta-analyses. 1/13

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A thread about Medicare Advantage, its tendency to deny claims for post-acute care and rehabilitation for older Americans, and our new @JAGS paper.

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📰🚨Congrats to our friend and colleague, Dr. Manisha Jhamb, who published her primary outcomes 'Electronic Health Record Population Health Management for Chronic Kidney Disease Care' . JAMA Internal Medicine

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Really great piece from Tim Anderson in JAMA Health Forum 👇🏼

Assessed over 79 million (!!) hospital discharges and found >60% of patients do not receive follow-up within 14 days.

Complements our recent work in JAGS assessing post-ED follow-up
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38308394/

Implementation of Transitional Care Management payments by Medicare was associated with an increase in the rate of timely primary care follow up after discharge. However, the majority of beneficiaries do not receive timely follow-up care.

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🚨The financial sector is increasingly involved in US healthcare. Physicians, patients, and the public deserve to know about the corporate tactics used for profits. In NEJM, Zirui Song HMS HCP and I describe one tactic – SPACs

nej.md/3VUyTKu

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🚨 New JGIM Journal of General Internal Medicine manuscript from our team🚨

Led by BIDMC CV Fellowship Nick Spetko we examined management of 💊interactions for patients treated with #paxlovid

- 30% of pts faced drug-drug interactions
- 28% of management was guideline discordant

link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Our Editorial Fellowship is designed to help anyone interested in Academic Internal Medicine; anyone who has to write paper! We are hoping to make it a life-changing experience. Applications due April 15!

The deadline for our travel award application has passed - thank you to everyone who applied! We have a tough decision ahead of us!

In the meantime, there is still time to register (FREE!) for the conference, either in person or via zoom!
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