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    abstract:Policymakers and others concerned about public health often speak of the need to achieve health equity. Yet the term can mean different things to different people. For government, other organizations, and communities, lack of shared understanding can be a serious obstacle to effective action. This lack of understanding makes it difficult to agree on concrete goals and criteria for…

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    Dale Needham, FCPA, MD, PhD, Director of the Outcomes After Critical Illness and Surgery (OACIS) Group at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, received an R24 grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI). This R24 project, entitled “Improving Long-Term Outcomes Research for Acute Respiratory Failure” is aimed at creating resources for researchers conducting long-term…

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    Many patients receiving chemotherapy for incurable cancers may not understand that chemotherapy is unlikely to be curative, which could compromise their ability to make informed treatment decisions that are consonant with their preferences. Physicians may be able to improve patients’ understanding, …

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    Post ICU Clinic Collaborative Membership: Goals of this collaborative will be to: 1. Improve patient outcomes after ICU discharge 2. Address post intensive care syndrome (PICS) using a multidisciplinary team 3. Decrease readmission rates and morbidities 4. Improve the quality of life for patients after critical illness Data will be collected from each site via monthly progress reports. Data…

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    A former Rookie contributor and creator of the popular blog Effing Dykes investigates the disappearance of America’s lesbian bars by visiting the l…

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    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Charles Goodhart, for whom the adage is named, delivering a speech in 2012Goodhart’s law is an adage often stated as, “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure”.[1] It is named after British economist Charles Goodhart, who is credited with expressing the core idea of the adage in a 1975 article on monetary policy in the United…

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