Days away from government approval for a COVID vaccine, a panel of national vaccine experts convened in our latest virtual seminar to discuss the logistics and ethics involved in a national immunization campaign.
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As the U.S. Supreme Court debates the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), a recent study by Lena Winestone, Jeffrey Silber, and colleagues finds that young adults with cancer benefited from the ACA’s under-26 dependent coverage provision.
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Supported by an LDI COVID-19 Rapid Response Grant, Nadim Mahmud and Marina Serper find that telemedicine visits for patients with cirrhosis have tripled in the Veterans Health Administration during the pandemic.
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In a study of nearly 500 hospitals, Rebecca R. S. Clark and Eileen Lake show wide variation in average rates of spontaneous vaginal births, even among women at low risk for C-sections.
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Wednesday, December 9, 2020 | 9:00–11:00 a.m. ET
Virtual Symposium: Vaccine Allocation and Social Justice
Co-presented by Penn LDI, Penn Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Ariadne Labs, Boston College, Harvard Chan School of Public Health, International Society for Priorities in Health, MIT, and O’Neil Institute/Georgetown
Wednesday, December 9, 2020 | 12:00–1:00 p.m. ET
Emerging Scholars Exchange Program: Workshop with Krista Harrison, PhD
"Improving Systems of Care for Older Adults with Dementia and Their Caregivers"
In partnership with University of Michigan Institute of Healthcare Policy & Innovation and University of California, San Francisco Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies
Friday, December 11, 2020 | 9:00 a.m.–12:45 p.m. ET.
Fifth Annual Population Health Science Research Workshop
"Health Equity in the Age of COVID-19"
Co-sponsored by Penn LDI and Boston University School of Public Health
Missed one of our virtual seminars? Recordings are available on our website.
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Better Nurse Staffing Is Associated With Survival for Black Patients and Diminishes Racial Disparities in Survival After In-Hospital Cardiac Arrests, Medical Care, November 2020, Margo Brooks Carthon, Heather Brom, Matthew McHugh, Douglas M. Sloane, Robert Berg, Raina Merchant, Saket Girotra, Linda H. Aiken
An Increase in Multi-Site Practices: The Shifting Paradigm for Gynecologic Cancer Care Delivery, Gynecologic Oncology, November 2020, Katherine Hicks-Courant, Genevieve P. Kanter, Robert L. Giuntoli II, Marilyn M. Schapira, Justin E. Bekelman, Nawar A. Latif, Ashley F. Haggerty, Mark A. Morgan, Robert Burger, Emily M. Ko
Assessment of Perceptions of Professionalism Among Faculty, Trainees, Staff, and Students in a Large University-Based Health System, JAMA Network Open, November 2020, Dominique A. Alexis, Matthew D. Kearney, J. Corey Williams, Chang Xu, Eve J. Higginbotham, Jaya Aysola
Surviving COVID-19 After Hospital Discharge: Symptom, Functional, and Adverse Outcomes of Home Health Recipients, Annals of Internal Medicine, November 2020, Kathryn H. Bowles, Margaret McDonald, Yolanda Barrón, Erin Kennedy, Melissa O'Connor, Mark Mikkelsen
Assessment of 135 794 Pediatric Patients Tested for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Across the United States, JAMA Pediatrics, November 2020, L. Charles Bailey, Hanieh Razzaghi, Evanette K. Burrows, H. Timothy Bunnell, Peter E. F. Camacho, Dimitri A. Christakis, Daniel Eckrich, Melody Kitzmiller, Simon M. Lin, Brianna C. Magnusen, Jason Newland, Nathan M. Pajor, Daksha Ranade, Suchitra Rao, Olamiji Sofela, Janet Zahner, Cortney Bruno, Christopher B. Forrest
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