We are proud to announce that Children's Hospital Colorado has been ranked No.1 in the nation by U.S. News & World Report for #Gastroenterology & GI Surgery for the 2nd year in a row! ✨ health.usnews.com/best-hospitals… #BestHospitals #Pediatrics #PedsGI

Important work from my friend and fellow IBD fellow Ruben Colman, MD, PhD describing the relationship between antibodies to infliximab and dose intensification! Congrats!

Per Frank I Scott, MD MSCE, #PriorAuthorizations lead to delays in starting disease modifying therapies --> which adversely impact patient outcomes in #IBD. Wow... Walid Gellad may have something to say about this - suspect not isolated to #IBD...

Thank you @aap_pediatrics for these thoughtful pieces demonstrating how #PriorAuthorizations impact patients across all of #Pediatrics! Lewis First publications.aap.org/journal-blogs/… Cara Coleman bit.ly/3LXd6KG

Happy Doctor’s Day!

When the figure is so good you don’t even need to read the paper (but still read it).

Step therapy policies limit medication access, contribute to patient harm, and are converse to medical evidence. At this point, the only reason not to eliminate step therapy is that its awfulness is the only thing left uniting Democrats and Republicans.

New patient education project: Blast this on repeat from the top of your hospital, in every patient room, outside of every pharmacy, and put the link in every AVS. PBMs controlling medical care to siphon funds from patients to insurance/pharmacy execs doesn’t have to be the way

NEW PAPER I was challenged by Chris Morley, PhD to write a 1000-word paper about a tweet. It was fun to do, and hopefully useful to some of you Open acces 👉 journals.stfm.org/primer/2022/va…

In this retrospective review, Brad D Constant MD et al studied the use of tofacitinib as salvage therapy in children with steroid and biologic-refractory #ulcerativecolitis with >50% remaining colectomy-free after 90 days. bit.ly/3VPi4NX bit.ly/3VPi4NX

Great preliminary work by Brad D Constant MD and colleagues, who are collaborating to better understand the safety and efficacy of antiTNFs in internally penetrating pediatric Crohn’s disease #CCCongress23

cnn.com/2023/03/10/hea… Great article by Lauren Sausser showing all the ways prior authorizations take medical decision making out of doctors’ and patients’ hands, disrupt care, and lead to real patient harm. This system need to change.