JAMA Author Interviews
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Interviews with leading researchers and thinkers in health care about practice-changing research, innovations, and the most pressing issues facing medicine and health care today from JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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Nov 8, 2015 • 7min
Effect of Financial Incentives on Lipid Levels
Interview with David A. Asch, MD and Kevin G. Volpp, MD, PhD, authors of Effect of Financial Incentives to Physicians, Patients, or Both on Lipid Levels: A Randomized Clinical Trial

Nov 3, 2015 • 3min
Prescription Drug Use in US Adults 1999-2012
Interview with Elizabeth D. Kantor, PhD, MPH, author of Trends in Prescription Drug Use Among Adults in the United States From 1999-2012

Oct 27, 2015 • 19min
Explaining the Improved Health of the US: Mortality Trends 1969-2013
Interview with Ahmedin Jemal, DVM, PhD, author of Temporal Trends in Mortality in the United States, 1969-2013, and J. Michael McGinnis, MD, MPP, author of Mortality Trends and Signs of Health Progress. Also in this episode is a conversation with Christopher J.L. Murray, MD, DPhil, a Professor of Global Health at the University of Washington and Institute Director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.

Oct 27, 2015 • 4min
Trends in US Mortality, 1969-2013
Interview with Ahmedin Jemal, DVM, PhD, author of Temporal Trends in Mortality in the United States, 1969-2013
Oct 20, 2015 • 23min
Breast Cancer Screening Guidelines
Interview with Elizabeth T. H. Fontham, MPH, DrPH, author of Breast Cancer Screening for Women at Average Risk: 2015 Guideline Update From the American Cancer Society, Nancy L. Keating, MD, MPH, author of New Guidelines for Breast Cancer Screening in US Women, and Evan R. Myers, MD, MPH, author of Benefits and Harms of Breast Cancer Screening: A Systematic Review

Oct 20, 2015 • 5min
2015 Breast Cancer Screening Recommendations for Women at Average Risk
Interview with Kevin C. Oeffinger, MD, author of Breast Cancer Screening for Women at Average Risk: 2015 Guideline Update From the American Cancer Society

Oct 6, 2015 • 5min
Laparoscopic vs Open Resection for Rectal Cancer
Interview with James Fleshman, MD, author of Effect of Laparoscopic-Assisted Resection vs Open Resection of Stage II or III Rectal Cancer on Pathologic Outcomes: The ACOSOG Z6051 Randomized Clinical Trial

Oct 5, 2015 • 3min
Influenza Pneumonia Hospitalization and Prior Influenza Vaccination
Interview with Carlos G. Grijalva, MD, MPH, author of Association Between Hospitalization With Community-Acquired Laboratory-Confirmed Influenza Pneumonia and Prior Receipt of Influenza Vaccination

Sep 22, 2015 • 17min
DNR Status and Neurological Prognosis After In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest
Interview with Timothy Fendler, MD, MS, author of Alignment of Do-Not-Resuscitate Status With Patients' Likelihood of Favorable Neurological Survival After In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

Sep 22, 2015 • 4min
Dextromethorphan-Quinidine for Agitation in Patients With Alzheimer Disease
Interview with Jeffrey L. Cummings, MD, ScD, author of Effect of Dextromethorphan-Quinidine on Agitation in Patients With Alzheimer Disease Dementia: A Randomized Clinical Trial


