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Hospitalizations and Mortality Associated With Norovirus Outbreaks in Nursing Homes, 2009-2010

Interview with Tarak K. Trivedi, BS, author of Hospitalizations and Mortality Associated With Norovirus Outbreaks in Nursing Homes, 2009-2010




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Prevalence of Nonrefractive Visual Impairment in US Adults and Associated Risk Factors, 1999-2002 and 2005-2008

Interview with David S. Friedman, MD, MPH, PhD, author of Prevalence of Nonrefractive Visual Impairment in US Adults and Associated Risk Factors, 1999-2002 and 2005-2008




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Diagnoses and Timing of 30-Day Readmissions After Hospitalization for Heart Failure, Acute Myocardial Infarction, or Pneumonia

Interview with Harlan M. Krumholz, MD, SM, author of Diagnoses and Timing of 30-Day Readmissions After Hospitalization for Heart Failure, Acute Myocardial Infarction, or Pneumonia




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Comparison of Presenting Complaint vs Discharge Diagnosis for Identifying "Nonemergency" Emergency Department Visits

Interview with Maria C. Raven, MD, MPH, MSc, author of Comparison of Presenting Complaint vs Discharge Diagnosis for Identifying "Nonemergency" Emergency Department Visits




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Immunogenicity of 2 Doses of Human Papillomavirus Vaccine in Younger Adolescents Versus 3 Doses in Young Women: A Randomized Clinical Trial

Interview with Simon R. M. Dobson, MD, author of Immunogenicity of 2 Doses of Human Papillomavirus Vaccine in Younger Adolescents Versus 3 Doses in Young Women: A Randomized Clinical Trial




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Time to Treatment With Intravenous Tissue Plasminogen Activator and Outcome From Acute Ischemic Stroke

Interview with Jeffrey L. Saver, MD, author of Time to Treatment With Intravenous Tissue Plasminogen Activator and Outcome From Acute Ischemic Stroke




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Use of Advanced Treatment Technologies Among Men at Low Risk of Dying From Prostate Cancer

Interview with Brent K. Hollenbeck, MD, MS, author of Use of Advanced Treatment Technologies Among Men at Low Risk of Dying From Prostate Cancer




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Sofosbuvir and Ribavirin for Hepatitis C Genotype 1 in Patients With Unfavorable Treatment Characteristics: A Randomized Clinical Trial

Interview with Anthony S. Fauci, MD, author of Sofosbuvir and Ribavirin for Hepatitis C Genotype 1 in Patients With Unfavorable Treatment Characteristics: A Randomized Clinical Trial




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Menopausal Hormone Therapy and Health Outcomes During the Intervention and Extended Poststopping Phases of the Women's Health Initiative Randomized Trials

Interview with JoAnn E. Manson, MD, author of Menopausal Hormone Therapy and Health Outcomes During the Intervention and Extended Poststopping Phases of the Women's Health Initiative Randomized Trials




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Evaluation of Surveillance Bias and the Validity of the Venous Thromboembolism Quality Measure

Interview with Karl Y. Bilimoria, MD, author of Evaluation of Surveillance Bias and the Validity of the Venous Thromboembolism Quality Measure




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Clinical Trial Evidence Supporting FDA Approval of Novel Therapeutic Agents, 2005-2012

Interview with Joseph S. Ross, MD, MHS, author of Clinical Trial Evidence Supporting FDA Approval of Novel Therapeutic Agents, 2005-2012




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Psychiatric Diagnoses and Psychoactive Medication Use Among Nonsurgical Critically Ill Patients Receiving Mechanical Ventilation

Interview with Derek C. Angus, MD, MPH, author of Psychiatric Diagnoses and Psychoactive Medication Use Among Nonsurgical Critically Ill Patients Receiving Mechanical Ventilation




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Door-to-Needle Times for Tissue Plasminogen Activator Administration and Clinical Outcomes in Acute Ischemic Stroke Before and After a Quality Improvement Initiative

Interview with Gregg C. Fonarow, MD, author of Door-to-Needle Times for Tissue Plasminogen Activator Administration and Clinical Outcomes in Acute Ischemic Stroke Before and After a Quality Improvement Initiative




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Nonmyeloablative HLA-Matched Sibling Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation for Severe Sickle Cell Phenotype

Interview with John F. Tisdale, MD, author of Nonmyeloablative HLA-Matched Sibling Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation for Severe Sickle Cell Phenotype




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Time Elapsed After Ischemic Stroke and Risk of Adverse Cardiovascular Events and Mortality Following Elective Noncardiac Surgery

Interview with Mads E. Jørgensen, MB, author of Time Elapsed After Ischemic Stroke and Risk of Adverse Cardiovascular Events and Mortality Following Elective Noncardiac Surgery




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Effect of Providing Conditional Economic Compensation on Uptake of Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision in Kenya: A Randomized Clinical Trial

Interview with Harsha Thirumurthy, PhD, author of Effect of Providing Conditional Economic Compensation on Uptake of Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision in Kenya: A Randomized Clinical Trial




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Clinical and Safety Outcomes Associated With Treatment of Acute Venous Thromboembolism: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Interview with Marc Carrier, MD, MSc, author of Clinical and Safety Outcomes Associated With Treatment of Acute Venous Thromboembolism: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis




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For-Profit Status and Clinical and Economic Outcomes

Interview with Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH, author of Association Between Hospital Conversions to For-Profit Status and Clinical and Economic Outcomes




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Nonobstructive Coronary Artery Disease and MI

Interview with Thomas M. Maddox, MD, MSc, author of Nonobstructive Coronary Artery Disease and Risk of Myocardial Infarction




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Medicare Hospice Benefit and Poor-Prognosis Cancer

Interview with Ziad Obermeyer, MD, MPhil, author of Association Between the Medicare Hospice Benefit and Health Care Utilization and Costs for Patients With Poor-Prognosis Cancer




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Breast Cancer Stage at Diagnosis and Survival

Interview with Steven A. Narod, MD, FRCPC, author of Differences in Breast Cancer Stage at Diagnosis and Cancer-Specific Survival by Race and Ethnicity in the United States




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Natural History of Benign Thyroid Nodules

Interview with Sebastiano Filetti, MD, author of The Natural History of Benign Thyroid Nodules




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Diagnostic Concordance in Interpreting Breast Biopsies

Interview with Joann G. Elmore, MD, MPH, author of Diagnostic Concordance Among Pathologists Interpreting Breast Biopsy Specimens




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Nontoxigenic Clostridium difficile for Prevention of Recurrent Infection

Interview with Dale N. Gerding, MD, author of Administration of Spores of Nontoxigenic Clostridium difficile Strain M3 for Prevention of Recurrent C difficile Infection: A Randomized Clinical Trial




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Maternal Malignancy and Noninvasive Prenatal Testing

Interview with Diana W. Bianchi, MD, author of Noninvasive Prenatal Testing and Incidental Detection of Occult Maternal Malignancies





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DNR Status and Neurological Prognosis After In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

Interview with Timothy Fendler, MD, MS, author of Alignment of Do-Not-Resuscitate Status With Patients’ Likelihood of Favorable Neurological Survival After In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest





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Advances in Diagnosis and Treatment of Constipation

Constipation is one of the most frequent problems clinicians are asked to deal with. Despite how common it is, constipation is frequently not treated adequately. In this podcast, Arnold Wald, MD, explains a stepwise approach to the management of constipation ranging from very simple measures to the most novel and complicated new medical therapies.




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Interview with Robert O. Bonow, MD, MS

Robert O. Bonow, MD, the editor-in-chief of JAMA Cardiology, the JAMA Network’s newest addition, discusses his editorial vision for the journal, as well as his insights on advances in the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease.  




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Diagnosing Infectious Mononucleosis

Mononucleosis is a common disease of young adults manifested by lethargy, fever, pharyngitis, lymphadenopathy and splenomegaly. In this podcast, we review the clinical features of the disease and how good each of them is at establishing a diagnosis of mononucleosis. We also review how Epstein Barr virus was discovered as the cause of mononucleosis and talk to Mark H. Ebell, MD, MS, author of Does This Patient Have Infectious Mononucleosis? The Rational Clinical Examination Systematic Review.

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JAMA Performance Improvement: Do No Harm — Performing the Wrong Procedure

What to do when the wrong procedure is performed? In this first installment of JAMA Performance Improvement: Do No Harm we explore the options for dealing with this very difficult problem with Tami Minnier, RN, MSN, Paul Phrampus, MD, Linda Waddell, RN, MSN, and David Baker, MD, MPH, FACP. Air traffic audio courtesy of LiveATC.net, used with permission.

 




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Pioneering Geneticist Explains Ambitious Plan to “Write” the Human Genome

This Medical News podcast discusses the Human Genome Project-write with Harvard geneticist, George Church, PhD.




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Genomics and Precision Health

Whole-genome sequencing is now easily done for very little cost. It is not known how to interpret the results of this testing. Healthy individuals should not have this performed. If someone has a reason to suspect a particular disease with a known genetic association, then whole-genome or targeted sequencing is reasonable to pursue.














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The 2019 Novel Coronavirus Outbreak – Update From NIAID’s Anthony Fauci, MD

In February 2020 the nature of the 2019-nCoV outbreak is still slowly coming into focus but it appears to be acting more like bad pandemic influenza (efficient spread, overall lower mortality) than like SARS (less efficient spread, overall higher mortality). Anthony Fauci, MD, of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) discusses the latest developments with JAMA Editor in Chief Howard Bauchner.

Coronavirus Resource Center





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Coronavirus Q&A: Former Utah Governor and HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt

US states are taking the lead in managing the COVID-19 pandemic. What can state governors expect from the federal government and from the US Department of Health and Human Services? Governor Mike Leavitt from Leavitt Partners joins JAMA Editor Howard Bauchner, MD, in this live Q&A. Recorded April 8, 2020.