United States Health Care Reform: Progress to Date and Next Steps
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United States Health Care Reform: Progress to Date and Next Steps
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#2Pretty funny to see his author byline and affiliation
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#3This is awesome. I love the listing under Author Affiliations: "1-President of the United States, Washington, DC "
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#4Sorry if OT but ... Anyone get a snicker out of putting JD by his name?
"Barack Obama ... don't know the cat. Oh, he has a law degree? Hm, okay, I guess his opinion might matter then."
It would be like seeing "Guido van Rossum, Dropbox Employee".
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#5Wonder what Obama's Erdos number is now.
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#6Figure 6. Medicare 30-Day, All-Condition Hospital Readmission Rate, is plotted with Y-Axis not starting from zero, which makes it look like there was a dramatic decrease.
Having studied readmission rates, I was amazed, only to be disappointed as I looked at the Y-axis.
Re: United States Health Care Reform: Progress to Date and Next Steps
#7Sorry if OT but ... Anyone get a snicker out of putting JD by his name? "Barack Obama ... don't know the cat. Oh, he has a law degree? Hm, okay, I guess his opinion might matter then." It would be like seeing "Guido van Rossum, Dropbox Employee".
This appears to be JAMA's in-house style.
See http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2533068, http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2533066, etc.
Re: United States Health Care Reform: Progress to Date and Next Steps
#8Wonder what Obama's Erdos number is now.
Would help to have a co-author, no?
Re: United States Health Care Reform: Progress to Date and Next Steps
#9Figure 6. Medicare 30-Day, All-Condition Hospital Readmission Rate, is plotted with Y-Axis not starting from zero, which makes it look like there was a dramatic decrease. Having studied readmission rates, I was amazed, only to be disappointed as I looked at the Y-axis.
Gonna show this to my stats students and see if they can identify why it is misleading.
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#10This is awesome. I love the listing under Author Affiliations: "1-President of the United States, Washington, DC "
Unbelievable that they publish a non-Doctor with so many potential conflicts of interest that he has to turn in a separate PDF http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2533698#A...