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Assistant Professor of Medicine at USC, Nephrology; Schaeffer Center Clinical Fellow; Health Policy Nerd
Jun 11, 2020 19 tweets 6 min read
1/ Super excited about our research on Medicare coverage delays among the uninsured and their effect on long-term PD use!

Published in the current issue of @MedicalCareLWW with @gchertow, Jay Bhattacharya, and Darius Lakdawalla. @SchaefferCenter
journals.lww.com/lww-medicalcar… 2/ We used a regression discontinuity design (a #causalinference method in observational studies to reduce selection bias) to identify the effect of this esoteric, but important, @CMSGov coverage policy
Mar 29, 2020 17 tweets 3 min read
1/ Did y'all know you use a conventional HD machine to jerry-rig a CRRT machine? I don't usually do Tweetorials on clinical stuff, but saw some chatter on potential CRRT shortages #COVID19
2/ Recall that there are two types of clearance: diffusion (when solutes randomly pass through the membrane) and convection (when hydrostatic pressure forces solutes across the membrane). nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…