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Planned Home Birth - Marty Makary’s Blind Spot

Sensible Medicine

A 2014 follow-up study by de Jonge analyzed 743,070 low-risk planned home and hospital births and found no significant difference in perinatal or neonatal mortality. births in 2022, the highest since records began in 1990. A notable example was a paper by Pang et al.

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Health Care Planning for 2022 – Start with a Pandemic, Then Pivot to Health and Happiness

Health Populi

By casting my eyeballs in different directions across the health/care ecosystem, I came up with the following data-driven plotline for your 2022 strategic and scenario planning toolkit… The pandemic persists. Mortality will be up in the U.S. As we all enter 2022, we can all use a dose of joy and self-compassion.

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Universal Depression Screening Leads to Unnecessary Harm

Sensible Medicine

In October 2022 , the USPSTF recommended childhood anxiety screening starting at eight years old. The USPSTF claims "screening interventions" decrease the prevalence of depression at six-month follow-up by an odds ratio of 0.60. But in the real world, not everyone who screens positive for depression ends up in therapy.

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STRONG HF – A Positive Trial that Does Not Help Clinical Medicine

Sensible Medicine

Actual cardiologists performed these visits, which included up-titration of meds, but, also, as Adam correctly notes, patients had MD-level assessments. It was presented at the 2022 AHA meeting to great celebration. Most experts held this trial up as a win for aggressive up-titration of medicines. Here were the results.

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Post #2 Back-to-Sleep Series

Sensible Medicine

For example, Bergman reports a 2002 study in which ventilated premature babies were placed to sleep on either their tummies or backs, and the following states were measured: quiet sleep, active sleep (which is less restorative than quiet sleep), crying time, number of stress responses (startle, tremor, and twitch), and oxygen saturation.

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Consumers Rank Healthcare Experiences in the Bottom-Third of All Industries – the ACSI 2021-2022 Index

Health Populi

While consumers’ satisfaction with inpatient care experiences improved a few points over the past year, health insurance and hospitals still fall in the bottom-third of all industries with which people interact, according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) Insurance and Health Care Study 2021-2022.

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Nurses Mourn the End of California’s Mask Mandate in Hospital Settings

Scrubs

“It just doesn’t follow the science. ” Now that the state mask mandate is null and void, it’s up to each facility to implement its own mask requirements. Department of Health and Human Services, daily reported COVID-19 cases are down 92% since January 2022. It doesn’t make sense.

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