Interview with Tracy Y. Wang, MD, MHS, MSc, author of Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator Use Among Medicare Patients With Low Ejection Fraction After Acute Myocardial Infarction

Interview with Harlan M. Krumholz, MD, SM, author of Mortality, Hospitalizations, and Expenditures for the Medicare Population Aged 65 Years or Older, 1999-2013

Medicare at 50: Reflections From Former CMS Administrator Donald M. Berwick, MD

Interview with Drew Altman, PhD and William Frist, MD, authors of Medicare and Medicaid at 50 Years: Perspectives of Beneficiaries, Health Care Professionals and Institutions, and Policy Makers

Interview with Adam M. Leventhal, PhD, author of Association of Electronic Cigarette Use With Initiation of Combustible Tobacco Product Smoking in Early Adolescence

Interview with Nancy A. Rigotti, MD, author of e-Cigarette Use and Subsequent Tobacco Use by Adolescents: New Evidence About a Potential Risk of e-Cigarettes

Interview with Alex B. Haynes, MD, MPH, author of Relationship Between Cesarean Delivery Rate and Maternal and Neonatal Mortality

Interview with Justin E. Bekelman, MD, author of Comparison of Site of Death, Health Care Utilization, and Hospital Expenditures for Patients Dying With Cancer in 7 Developed Countries

Interview with Vivian S. Lee, MD, PhD, MBA;, author of Implementation of a Value-Driven Outcomes Program to Identify High Variability in Clinical Costs and Outcomes: Association With Reduced Cost and Improved Quality, and Michael E. Porter, PhD, author of From Volume to Value in Health Care: The Work Begins

Medicare recently developed a star rating system to help consumers determine the quality of care delivered at various hospitals. This rating system was considered controversial by many. In this podcast we discuss the rating system with one of its critics, Karl Y. Bilimoria, MD, MS, and with Kate Goodrich, MD, the Director of the Center for Clinical Standards and Quality at Medicare.

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The New CMS Hospital Quality Star Ratings: The Stars Are Not Aligned

Workplace violence–related injuries occur disproportionately in health care settings. In this podcast, we discuss how individual clinicians should manage violent patients who might attack them. Article discussed in this episode: Ensuring Staff Safety When Treating Potentially Violent Patients

Interview with Dr. Ashish Jha, MD, MPH, about his study using Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) data to compare health care infrastructure, outcomes, and prices in the US and other high-income countries to identify the sources of spending that make US health care so expensive.

Interview with Ezekiel J. Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D., author of Next Phase in Effective Cost Control in Health Care

Interview with Kevin A. Schulman, MD, author of The Implications of “Medicare for All” for US Hospitals

Interview with Anna D. Sinaiko, Ph. D., author of What Is the Value of Market-Wide Health Care Price Transparency?

Interview with S Claiborne Johnston, MD, PhD, author of The Risk and Cost of Limited Clinician and Patient Accountability in Health Care

Interview with William H. Shrank, MD, MSHS, author of Waste in the US Health Care System: Estimated Costs and Potential for Savings

Interview with Pascale Carayon, PhD, author of Improving the System to Support Clinician Well-being and Provide Better Patient Care

Interview with Amol S. Navathe, MD, PhD, author of Addressing Bias in Artificial Intelligence in Health Care

Interview with Victor M. Montori, MD, MSC, author of When Guidelines Recommend Shared Decision-making

Hospitals need ways to make rational, fair decisions about who gets ICU beds and ventilators if COVID-19 patients overwhelm capacity. Douglas B. White, MD, MAS, Director of the Program on Ethics and Decision Making in Critical Illness at the University of Pittsburgh, discusses a framework for those decisions and a guideline he helped develop for allocation of scarce resources in public health emergencies.

Noninvasive ventilation (NIV), working with dying patients’ families, use of experimental therapies, and more. JAMA Associate Editor Derek Angus, MD, MPH, Distinguished Professor and Chair of Critical Care Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh, provides a COVID-19 ICU management update.

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Interview with Jeffrey A. Linder, MD, author of Delayed Antibiotic Prescriptions in Ambulatory Care: Reconsidering a Problematic Practice

The US spends more on health care as a proportion of its GDP than any other nation. Will the COVID-19 pandemic reduce or accelerate that spending? Sherry Glied, PhD, Dean and Professor of Public Service at New York University, explains. Recorded Monday, April 27, 2020.

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The Potential Effects of Coronavirus on National Health Expenditures

Don Berwick, MD, MPP, of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, discusses choices societies and the medical profession can make to improve health care and reduce inequities as we move out of the acute phase of the coronavirus pandemic.

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