Effects of participation in the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program and Prednisone in Community Acquired Pneumonia

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The papers

DA Etzioni et al. Association of Hospital Participation in a Surgical Outcomes Monitoring Program With Inpatient Complications and Mortality. JAMA. 2015 Feb 3;313(5):505-11. (PubMed).

CA Blum et al. Adjunct prednisone therapy for patients with community-acquired pneumonia: a multicentre, double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled trial. Lancet. 2015 Jan 16. pii: S0140-6736(14)62447-8. (PubMed).

Good stuff

BR Roman. On Marginal Health Care — Probability Inflation and the Tragedy of the Commons. N Engl J Med. 2015 Feb 5;372(6):572-5.

A Edwards. Opinion: How do we delivery on the promise of personalized medicine? HealthyDebate. 2015 Feb 9.