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May 16, 2023 • 17min

Global Trends in Heart Failure Etiology, Management, and Outcomes

Most epidemiological studies of heart failure have been conducted in high-income countries. JAMA Senior Editor Kristin L. Walter, MD, MS, interviews Philip George Joseph, MD, from the Population Health Research Institute, Ontario, Canada, about a study of more than 23 000 patients with heart failure in 40 countries. Related Content: Global Variations in Heart Failure Etiology, Management, and Outcomes
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May 5, 2023 • 14min

USPSTF Recommendation: Screening for Latent Tuberculosis Infection in Adults

Interview with Gbenga Ogedegbe, MD, MPH, USPSTF member and coauthor of Screening for Latent Tuberculosis Infection in Adults: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement. Hosted by JAMA Editor in Chief Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS. Related Content: Screening for Latent Tuberculosis Infection in Adults Screening for Latent Tuberculosis Infection Among Non–US-Born Adults in the US Screening for Latent Tuberculosis Infection in Adults Screening for Latent Tuberculosis
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May 2, 2023 • 13min

Trends in Mental Health–Related Emergency Department Visits Among Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults in the US, 2011-2020

The mental health of young people in the US has been an issue of increased concern in recent years. In this podcast, author Tanner Bommersbach, MD, MPH, assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Psychology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and Greg Rhee, PhD, a health services researcher and pharmacoepidemiologist at the University of Connecticut, join JAMA Senior Editor Kristin Walter, MD, MS, in a discussion about mental health-related emergency department visits in the US among children, adolescents, and young adults from 2011-2020. Related Content: National Trends in Mental Health–Related Emergency Department Visits Among Youth, 2011-2020
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May 2, 2023 • 29min

The Covenant of Water – Reflections on Fiction, the Humanities, and Medicine

The Covenant of Water, Stanford University professor Dr Abraham Verghese’s long-awaited follow-up to his 2009 novel Cutting for Stone, traces the lives of a family in southern India negotiating forces of history, fate, and a genetic condition that takes the life of a member in each generation by drowning. JAMA Arts and Medicine Section Editor Michael Berkwits, MD, MSCE, talks with Dr Verghese about the novel’s clinical insights, the craft of writing fiction, the role of the humanities in medicine, of artificial intelligence in literature, and more. Related Content: “The Art of the Craft,” From The Covenant of Water Physician as Writer: Abraham Verghese Reflects on the Art of the Craft of Writing Fiction (Part 2 of this interview)  
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Apr 25, 2023 • 15min

Medical Education: Is Medical School Ranking the Best Assessment of Quality?

Major medical schools are no longer contributing data to the US News & World Report (USNWR) including more than half the schools that are currently ranked in the top 10 medical schools by the survey. In this podcast, JAMA Editor in Chief Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS, speaks with author Holly J. Humphrey, MD, from the Josiah Macy Jr Foundation in New York, about the recently published Viewpoint "Medical School Rankings—Bad for the Health of the Profession and the Public." Related Content: Medical School Rankings—Bad for the Health of the Profession and the Public
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Apr 4, 2023 • 23min

Income-Based Disparities for Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction Across 6 Countries

Differences among countries in how health care is organized could have implications for health equity. JAMA Associate Editor Karen Joynt Maddox, MD, MPH, and Bruce E. Landon, MD, MBA, MSc, professor of health care policy, Harvard Medical School, discuss whether treatment patterns and outcomes for patients presenting with acute myocardial infarction differ for patients with higher vs lower incomes across 6 countries. Related Content: Differences in Treatment Patterns and Outcomes of Acute Myocardial Infarction for Low- and High-Income Patients in 6 Countries
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Mar 29, 2023 • 23min

The Uncertain Future of the Determination of Brain Death

JAMA Executive Editor Greg Curfman, MD, speaks with Robert D. Truog, MD, MA, director of the Harvard Center for Bioethics, who describes the 2 approaches to the determination of death (cardiovascular death and brain death) and discusses the possibility that the determination of brain death may soon undergo substantial change, with important implications for organ transplantation. Related Content: The Uncertain Future of the Determination of Brain Death
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Mar 28, 2023 • 17min

Trends in Pediatric Mental Health Hospitalizations

Mary Arakelyan, MPH, and JoAnna Leyenaar, MD, PhD, MPH, vice chair of Research in Pediatrics at Dartmouth, discuss increases in pediatric mental health hospitalizations and suicide-related diagnoses over the past decade. Hosted by JAMA Associate Editor Tracy Lieu, MD, MPH. Related Content: Pediatric Mental Health Hospitalizations at Acute Care Hospitals in the US, 2009-2019. Related Content: Pediatric Mental Health Hospitalizations at Acute Care Hospitals in the US, 2009-2019
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Mar 7, 2023 • 18min

Limiting Acetaminophen in Prescription Combination Opioid Products

In 2011, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a mandate to limit acetaminophen (paracetamol) to 325 mg/tablet in combination acetaminophen and opioid medications, with manufacturer compliance required by early 2014. In this podcast, JAMA Deputy Editor Mary M. McDermott, MD, interviews Jayme E. Locke, MD, MPH, and Babak J. Orandi, MD, PhD, about their JAMA study describing results of the FDA announcement on subsequent rates of hospitalizations for acute liver failure due to toxicity from acetaminophen-containing opioid drugs. Related Content: Association of FDA Mandate Limiting Acetaminophen (Paracetamol) in Prescription Combination Opioid Products and Subsequent Hospitalizations and Acute Liver Failure Moving the Needle to Reduce Acetaminophen (Paracetamol) Hepatotoxicity Acetaminophen (Paracetamol) and Acute Liver Failure
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Feb 28, 2023 • 21min

Diagnostic Errors in the Emergency Department: A System Solution Is Needed

In this JAMA author interview, Peter J. Pronovost, MD, PhD, Chief Quality & Clinical Transformation Officer, University Hospitals, Cleveland, and an internationally recognized expert in patient safety, discusses his recent article in JAMA on “Misdiagnosis in the Emergency Department.” A new report from AHRQ underscores the seriousness of this problem. Related Content: Misdiagnosis in the Emergency Department

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