Browsing: Health Policy Journal Club

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Health Policy Journal Club , Health Policy , Advocacy , COVID-19

Health Policy Journal Club: The Ethics of Allocation

7/7/2020 Logan Ramsey, MD
In the midst of a global pandemic, with worsening COVID-19 case numbers in the United States, the fair and equitable allocation of limited health care resources poses a challenge. How can clinicians p
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Health Policy Journal Club: Putting Out Fires

6/6/2020 Aaron R. Kuzel, DO, MBA
What makes out of hospital cardiac arrest more survivable? New evidence shows it's the dual dispatch of EMS and Fire teams.
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Health Policy Journal Club: Socially Constructed Criticisms

5/6/2020 Jasmeen Kaur
One more reason to pay attention to health policy: Your race or ethnic background may play a role in analyzing whether you receive pain treatment when seeking emergency medical services.
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Health Policy Journal Club: Until Medicaid Arrived, Nowhere Else to Turn

4/6/2020 Nardos Makonnen, MD
Why do patients seek emergency care? That key question can help frame the conversation about Medicaid expansion and ED volume.
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Health Policy Journal Club: We Need Some Bullet Control

3/12/2020 Mitchell Peterson, MD
Death toll 62% higher when LCMs used -- high fatality mass shootings at a higher rate in non-ban states whether or not an LCM is used. Just some of the stark statistics in this report that bring this
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Health Policy Journal Club: The Best Medicine Isn't Medicine At All

2/6/2020 Kenneth Kim
It is clear from this study that frequent ED users are a population with many interdisciplinary needs, and integrated data systems can help identify needs that might be otherwise obscured when focusin
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Health Policy Journal Club: Surprise, Surprise

1/6/2020 Chloé Woodington, MD
A look at California's efforts to take on the "Oh no!" of OON (out-of-network) provider bills who delivered care at an INN (in-network) facility. The solution changed negotiations between docs and ins
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Health Policy Journal Club: Emergency Docs, Advocate for Medicaid!

12/6/2019 Nishad A. Rahman, MD
The encouraging findings from this study? Medicaid expansion was successful in that repeat users shifted their ED use toward higher acuity conditions – that is, conditions for which EDs were designed.
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Health Policy Journal Club: Is There Systemic Racism in EMS?

11/6/2019 Joshua Ellis, MD
Segregation in America was abolished on paper decades ago. But does it exist in practice?
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Health Policy Journal Club: ACA Expanded Coverage for Emergencies

10/6/2019 Gregory Jasani, MD
The ACA accomplished a goal of fewer uninsured patients and less of a need for inpatient care, but the emergency room kept as busy as ever.