Amol and Fahad want you to understand the following:
1. There are dramatic hospital-level variations in the care of extremely pre-term infants.
2. A randomized trial showed that an electronic alert to identify hospital patients with acute kidney injury was not effective in improving patient outcomes.
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The papers
MA Rysavy et al. Between-hospital variation in treatment and outcomes in extremely preterm infants. N Engl J Med. 2015 May 7;372(19):1801-11. (PubMed).
FP Wilson et al. Automated, electronic alerts for acute kidney injury: a single-blind, parallel-group, randomised controlled trial. Lancet. 2015 Feb 25. pii: S0140-6736(15)60266-5. (PubMed).
Good Stuff
David Sackett: The father of evidence-based medicine. Andre Picard. The Globe and Mail. 2015 May 25.
David L. Sackett: Interview in 2014 and 2015.
