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Total Knee Arthroplasty Volume, Utilization, and Outcomes Among Medicare Beneficiaries, 1991-2010

Interview with Peter Cram, MD, MBA, author of Total Knee Arthroplasty Volume, Utilization, and Outcomes Among Medicare Beneficiaries, 1991-2010




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Association of Public Reporting for Percutaneous Coronary Intervention With Utilization and Outcomes Among Medicare Beneficiaries With Acute Myocardial Infarction

Interview with Karen E. Joynt, MD, MPH, author of Association of Public Reporting for Percutaneous Coronary Intervention With Utilization and Outcomes Among Medicare Beneficiaries With Acute Myocardial Infarction




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Association of Online Patient Access to Clinicians and Medical Records With Use of Clinical Services

Interview with Ted E. Palen, MD, PhD, MSPH, author of Association of Online Patient Access to Clinicians and Medical Records With Use of Clinical Services




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Effect of a Protected Sleep Period on Hours Slept During Extended Overnight In-hospital Duty Hours Among Medical Interns: A Randomized Trial

Interview with Kevin G. Volpp, MD, PhD, author of Effect of a Protected Sleep Period on Hours Slept During Extended Overnight In-hospital Duty Hours Among Medical Interns: A Randomized Trial




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Association Between Medicare Advantage Plan Star Ratings and Enrollment

Interview with William H. Shrank, MD, MSHS, author of Association Between Medicare Advantage Plan Star Ratings and Enrollment




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Change in End-of-Life Care for Medicare Beneficiaries: Site of Death, Place of Care, and Health Care Transitions in 2000, 2005, and 2009

Interview with Joan M. Teno, MD, MS, author of Change in End-of-Life Care for Medicare Beneficiaries: Site of Death, Place of Care, and Health Care Transitions in 2000, 2005, and 2009




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Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass vs Intensive Medical Management for the Control of Type 2 Diabetes, Hypertension, and Hyperlipidemia: The Diabetes Surgery Study Randomized Clinical Trial

Interview with Sayeed Ikramuddin, MD, author of Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass vs Intensive Medical Management for the Control of Type 2 Diabetes, Hypertension, and Hyperlipidemia: The Diabetes Surgery Study Randomized Clinical Trial




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Geographic Variation in Cardiovascular Procedure Use Among Medicare Fee-for-Service vs Medicare Advantage Beneficiaries

Interview with Daniel D. Matlock, MD, MPH, author of Geographic Variation in Cardiovascular Procedure Use Among Medicare Fee-for-Service vs Medicare Advantage Beneficiaries




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World Medical Association's Declaration of Helsinki: Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Human Subjects

Howard Bauchner, MD interviews Ramin W. Parsa-Parsi, MD, MPH and Heikki Pälve, MD, PhD about the World Medical Association's Declaration of Helsinki: Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Human Subjects




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Rates of Medical Errors and Preventable Adverse Events Among Hospitalized Children Following Implementation of a Resident Handoff Bundle

Interview with Amy J. Starmer, MD, MPH, author of Rates of Medical Errors and Preventable Adverse Events Among Hospitalized Children Following Implementation of a Resident Handoff Bundle




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Association Between Participation in a Multipayer Medical Home Intervention and Changes in Quality, Utilization, and Costs of Care

Interview with Mark W. Friedberg, MD, MPP, author of Association Between Participation in a Multipayer Medical Home Intervention and Changes in Quality, Utilization, and Costs of Care




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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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Medical and legalized marijuana in Colorado

Interview with Larry Wolk, MD, MSPH, chief medical officer for the Colorado Department of Public Health, about medical and legalized marijuana in Colorado.




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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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Obstetric Quality Indicators and Morbidity

Interview with Elizabeth A Howell, MD, MPP, author of Durability of Benefits of an Outpatient Antimicrobial Stewardship Intervention After Discontinuation of Audit and Feedback




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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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Medical Liability and Reform

Interview with Michelle M. Mello, JD, PhD, MPhil, author of The Medical Liability Climate and Prospects for Reform




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Outcomes for ACOs vs Traditional Medicare Fee for Service

Interview with Patrick H. Conway, MD, MSc, author of Association of Pioneer Accountable Care Organizations vs Traditional Medicare Fee for Service With Spending, Utilization, and Patient Experience




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ICD Use Among Medicare Patients After Acute MI

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




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Medical Marijuana for Treatment of Chronic Pain and Other Problems

Interview with Kevin P. Hill, MD, MHS, author of Medical Marijuana for Treatment of Chronic Pain and Other Medical and Psychiatric Problems: A Clinical Review, and Deepak Cyril D'Souza, MBBS, MD, author of Medical Marijuana: Is the Cart Before the Horse?




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Mortality, Hospitalizations, and Expenditures for the Medicare Population

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




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Donald M. Berwick Reflects on Medicare at 50

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




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Medicare and Medicaid at 50 Years

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




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Sex Differences in Academic Rank in US Medical Schools

Interview with Anupam Jena, MD, PhD, author of Sex Differences in Academic Rank in US Medical Schools in 2014





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JAMA Professionalism: Best Practice--Disclosure of Medical Error

Introducing a new series of JAMA articles on professionalism, discussed from the perspective of how clinicians should address challenging clinical situations and adverse events in their medical practice. In the first episode of the accompanying podcast, JAMA Professionalism: Best Practice, we interview Wendy Levinson, MD, and Jensen Yeung, MD, authors of Disclosure of Medical Error, which appeared in the August 16, 2016 issue of JAMA, as well as Thomas H. Gallagher, MD.




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Professional Boundaries: What to Do When Clinicians Ask Other Clinicians to Prescribe Medications for Them

In this episode of JAMA Professionalism: Best Practice, Edward H. Livingston, MD looks at the case of a physician requesting prescription medication from a colleague to examine professional boundaries between physicians and options for managing those boundaries. Shiphra Ginsburg, MD and Wendy Levinson, MD, authors of the related article, join Dr Livingston to discuss the best options for handling this challenging situation. Arthur S. Hengerer, MD, chair of the Federation of State Medical Boards discusses the legal and licensure ramifications of physicians prescribing for other clinicians and Kate E. Engelhardt, MD, and D. Brock Hewitt, MD, MPH, practicing physicians, relate their experience with other clinicians asking them to prescribe medications.




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Using Medicare Star Ratings to Select Hospitals

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.

Article discussed in this episode:

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




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JAMA Medical News: The Nature of Lung Microbiome Research

This podcast discusses the latest research into the workings of the lung microbiome and how it will affect future diagnosis and treatment of respiratory diseases. Related article: The Lung Microbiome: Key to Respiratory Ills?















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The Egyptians: a radical story / Jack Shenker

Rotch Library - DT107.88.S44 2016




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Medical imperialism in French North Africa: regenerating the Jewish community of colonial Tunis / Richard C. Parks

Rotch Library - DS135.T72 T867 2017




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The Islamic and crown law within the Aragonese legal space in the fourteenth century: juridical lacunas and social dialogue / Irina Shilova-Varyash ; with a foreword by Rustam Shukurov

Rotch Library - KKT5341.A197 V37 2016




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A fragile inheritance: radical stakes in contemporary Indian art / Saloni Mathur

Rotch Library - N7304.M384 2019




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Indicator of a curse / Lesley A. Meldrum

Meldrum, Lesley A., author




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Domino lignin depolymerization and reconnection to complex molecules mediated by boryl radicals

Catal. Sci. Technol., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0CY00558D, Paper
Longcheng Hong, Astrid Spielmeyer, Janin Pfeiffer, Hermann A. Wegner
Lignin has been demonstrated as a source of complex molecules via a boryl-mediated domino degradation/reconnection process.
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Stability of the ketyl radical as a descriptor in the electrochemical coupling of benzaldehyde

Catal. Sci. Technol., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0CY00282H, Paper
Jacob Anibal, Arnav Malkani, Bingjun Xu
Electroreductive coupling is an emerging pathway for the renewable upgrading of biomass derived oxygenates. This work investigates electrochemical benzaldehyde reduction on Au, Cu, Pt and Pd using reactivity testing and in situ spectroscopy.
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In situ preparation of gold–polyester nanoparticles for biomedical imaging

Biomater. Sci., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0BM00175A, Paper
Mohamed F. Attia, Meenakshi Ranasinghe, Roman Akasov, Jeffrey N. Anker, Daniel C. Whitehead, Frank Alexis
Hybrid gold-polyester nanoparticles were synthesized by UV irradiation of a gold salt and photoinitiator encapsulated in a polyester nanoparticle. The resulting materials exhibit excellent cellular imaging and surface plasmon resonance properties.
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A medical adhesive used in a wet environment by blending tannic acid and silk fibroin

Biomater. Sci., 2020, 8,2694-2701
DOI: 10.1039/D0BM00322K, Paper
Xijie Gao, Qiyuan Dai, Longtao Yao, Hua Dong, Qingtao Li, Xiaodong Cao
A medical adhesive called TASK based on polyphenol-gel systems was developed and showed wet-adhesive, stretchable, self-healing and restorable properties.
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Interfacing human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived neurons with designed nanowire arrays as a future platform for medical applications

Biomater. Sci., 2020, 8,2434-2446
DOI: 10.1039/D0BM00182A, Paper
Jann Harberts, Undine Haferkamp, Stefanie Haugg, Cornelius Fendler, Dennis Lam, Robert Zierold, Ole Pless, Robert H. Blick
Nanostructured substrates such as nanowire arrays form a powerful tool for building next-generation medical devices.
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