Ep. 8 The dangerous business of public reporting
We discuss the background policies the effects of public reporting of outcomes on the behavior of physicians and the reactions to a paper that was just published on this topic. Anish shares a real life experience of a patient of his who was a tragic victim of these misguided healthcare policies. LINKS: Blumenthal et al. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/article-abstract/2680626 (A Survey of Interventional Cardiologists’ Attitudes and Beliefs About Public Reporting of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention) (JAMA Cardiology) Anish Koka. http://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2017/09/18/the-cost-of-public-reporting/ (The High Cost of Public Reporting) (published in “The HealthCare Blog”) WATCH ON YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/glNGrCUMPdw (Watch the episode) on our YouTube channel Support this podcast
