Avoiding cognitive biases when practicing Infectious Diseases

Enjoyed this article from CID...

https://webvpn.mcgill.ca/http/cid.oxfordjournals.org/content/57/4/573.full

Diabetes decision aid for patients and physicians

http://diabetesdecisionaid.mayoclinic.org/index.php/site/index

A framework for approaching overuse in medicine

archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1691771

Hitting health care quality targets...

This article suggests that sometimes it is the road taken that matters... and that in seeking to paint the portrait of high healthcare quality, we are more discriminatory then just paint-by-numbers.

www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1301805

Prognosis in Advanced Dementia - JAMA 2013

http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1713577

What is the survival of patients with advanced dementia who are hospitalized for infectious complications?  Repeated visits are associated with median survivals around 3 months.