Importance The US Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) is a major Medicare
value-based payment program aimed at improving quality and reducing costs. Little is known …

The rapid growth in the number of patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
threatened to overwhelm hospital and intensive care unit capacity. 1 The pandemic also raises …

Importance The proportion of women at the rank of full professor in US medical schools has
not increased since 1980 and remains below that of men. Whether differences in age, …

The post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC) refers to a broad spectrum of
symptoms and signs that are persistent, exacerbated or newly incident in the period after acute …

Smoking substantially increases a patient’s risk of surgical complications. Despite this,
almost half of all surgeons do not routinely counsel their patients to stop smoking before an …

Income influences health and longevity through various clinical, behavioral, social, and
environmental mechanisms. Isolating the unique contribution of income to health can be …

Recent years have seen a surge of interest in machine learning and artificial intelligence
techniques in health care. 1 Deep learning2 represents the latest iteration in a progression of …

Diagnostic errors are thought to be a substantial source of avoidable illness and death in the
United States. Although diagnosis has always been central to the practice of medicine and …

The article argues that increasing direct medical education (DME) does little to offset cost of
training physicians as residents pay full cost of their training and DME program only transfers …

Importance Few studies have analyzed contemporary data on outcomes at US teaching
hospitals vs nonteaching hospitals. Objective To examine risk-adjusted outcomes for patients …