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Pulm/crit care MD and health services researcher @BUMedicine @The_BMC @BUPulmonary @SmithBIDMC, formerly @harvardpulm @brighammedres
Aug 16, 2021 17 tweets 7 min read
When you counsel ICU patients (>65yo)/their proxies before receiving a tracheostomy (‘trach’) and a gastrostomy (‘PEG’), what do you estimate to be the cohort’s 90-day mortality (day 0 = hospital admission)? When you counsel ICU patients (>65yo)/their proxies before proxies before receiving a tracheostomy (‘trach’) and a gastrostomy (‘PEG’), what do you estimate to be the median number of hospital free days out of 90days in this cohort?
Jul 2, 2021 12 tweets 4 min read
I want to share some of our work, hot off the press @JAMAcurrent: Lottery-Based Incentive in Ohio and COVID-19 Vaccination Rates ja.ma/2SO8Iac A couple weeks after Ohio launched their lottery for vaccinated Ohioans, many news outlets noted a spike in Ohio vaccination rates and declared the lottery a success: npr.org/2021/05/30/100… @andy_chow