N-gated Hacker NewsSep 25
🎉 Breaking news: hospital ERs are officially the new corporate playground! 🎢 Who knew that when private equity firms add "efficiency," mortality rates would join the fun too? 🙄💀
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/death-rates-rose-hospital-ers-private-equity-firms-took-study-finds-rcna233211 #BreakingNews #CorporatePlayground #PrivateEquity #HealthcareEfficiency #MortalityRates #HackerNews #ngated
Death rates rose in hospital ERs after private equity firms took over, study finds

After hospitals were acquired by private equity firms, patient death rates in the emergency departments rose by 13% compared to similar hospitals, a study says.

NBC News
Andrew ShieldsJul 2
Medicaid and mortality rates. #111Words #Medicaid #MortalityRates #DonaldTrump #UnitedStatesSenate #RepublicanParty https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2025/07/medicaid-and-mortality-rates.html
Medicaid and mortality rates

In a study on Medicaid and mortality rates, Angela Wyse of Dartmouth and Bruce D. Meyer of the University of Chicago conclude that their "f...

Steve Dustcircle 🌹Nov 26, 2024

#Incarceration Should Not be a #DeathSentence for Individuals Who Use #Opioids

New litigation centered on increasing access to #substanceusedisorder treatment in #jails and #prisons is helping to reduce #mortalityrates among #incarcerated individuals.

https://www.aclu.org/news/criminal-law-reform/incarceration-should-not-be-a-death-sentence-for-individuals-who-use-opioids

Incarceration Should Not be a Death Sentence for Individuals Who Use Opioids | ACLU

New litigation centered on increasing access to substance-use disorder treatment in jails and prisons is helping to reduce mortality rates among incarcerated individuals.

American Civil Liberties Union
OUR COMMON GROUNDSep 4, 2024

America is trying to fix its maternal mortality crisis with federal, state and local programs
The federal Healthy Start program funds more than 100 local projects that coordinate care for pregnant women.

https://apnews.com/video/oklahoma-tulsa-prenatal-care-pregnancy-and-childbirth-premature-births-a3270c8224b542b3a4a257c0fe55247e
#mortalityRates #PregnancyCare
#medicalaccess #reproductivehealth #BlackWomeninthePrism

America is trying to fix its maternal mortality crisis with federal, state and local programs

The federal Healthy Start program funds more than 100 local projects that coordinate care for pregnant women. (AP Video: Mary Conlon)

AP News
The-14Jul 7, 2024
How AI Can Help Reduce Mortality Rates
#AI #Health #Tech #Business #Doctors #ICU #HealthTech #CriticalCare #CloudPhysician #Healthcare #MortalityRates #MedicalInnovation #GlobalHealth #India
https://the-14.com/how-ai-can-help-reduce-mortality-rates/
Show threadbs2Mar 18, 2024

> With the installation of 181 public mother wait homes where rural women spend the last two weeks of their pregnancies, maternal mortality has dropped by 67.7% and child mortality by 58.6% in 17 years.

#ChildMortality #MaternalMortality reminded me of #Semmelweis and got me guessing that #PovertyReduction deserves as much attention as Science, Scientific breaktrhoughs, or The Progress of Science, for lowering #MortalityRates ...

teledyn 𓂀Dec 25, 2023

A natural experiment using 60 years of #DoctorWho episodes (the TARDIS study)

#BMJ #mortalityrates

https://www.bmj.com/content/383/bmj-2023-077143

>A new Doctor Who episode shown every festive period, especially on Christmas Day, was associated with reduced mortality rates in England, Wales, and the UK... This finding reinforces why healthcare provision should not be taken for granted and may prompt the BBC and Disney+ to televise new episodes of Doctor Who every festive period, ideally on Christmas Day.

Effect of a doctor working during the festive period on population health: natural experiment using 60 years of Doctor Who episodes (the TARDIS study)

Objective To examine the effect of a (fictional) doctor working during the festive period on population health. Design Natural experiment. Setting England, Wales, and the UK. Main outcome measures Age standardised annual mortality rates in England, Wales, and the UK from 1963, when the BBC first broadcast Doctor Who , a fictional programme with a character called the Doctor who fights villains and intervenes to save others while travelling through space and time. Mortality rates were modelled in a time series analysis accounting for non-linear trends over time, and associations were estimated in relation to a new Doctor Who episode broadcast during the previous festive period, 24 December to 1 January. An interrupted time series analysis modelled the shift in mortality rates from 2005, when festive episodes of Doctor Who could be classed as a yearly Christmas intervention. Results 31 festive periods from 1963 have featured a new Doctor Who episode, including 14 broadcast on Christmas Day. In time series analyses, an association was found between broadcasts during the festive period and subsequent lower annual mortality rates. In particular, episodes shown on Christmas Day were associated with 0.60 fewer deaths per 1000 person years (95% confidence interval 0.21 to 0.99; P=0.003) in England and Wales and 0.40 fewer deaths per 1000 person years (0.08 to 0.73; P=0.02) in the UK. The interrupted time series analysis showed a strong shift (reduction) in mortality rates from 2005 onwards in association with the Doctor Who Christmas intervention, with a mean 0.73 fewer deaths per 1000 person years (0.21 to 1.26; P=0.01) in England and Wales and a mean 0.62 fewer deaths per 1000 person years (0.16 to 1.09; P=0.01) in the UK. Conclusions A new Doctor Who episode shown every festive period, especially on Christmas Day, was associated with reduced mortality rates in England, Wales, and the UK, suggesting that a doctor working over the festive period could lower mortality rates. This finding reinforces why healthcare provision should not be taken for granted and may prompt the BBC and Disney+ to televise new episodes of Doctor Who every festive period, ideally on Christmas Day. UK death rates are available from <https://www.ons.gov.uk/> and broadcast dates for Doctor Who are available from <https://guide.doctorwhonews.net/>.

The BMJ
JohnOct 6, 2023

https://labornotes.org/2023/10/new-jersey-nurses-two-months-strike-safe-staffing

#NewJersey #nurses call for #SafeStaffing similar to #California's, which led to less #burnout and lower #MortalityRates - "Our system treats nurses more as a #cost center than a #ValueCreator"

#MortalityRate #ValueCreation #CreationOfValue #RWJUH #NewBrunswick #Rutgers #retaliation #UnionBusting #HealthInsurance #TravelingNurses #scabs #StrikeBreakers #injunctions #A4536

New Jersey Nurses Two Months into Strike for Safe Staffing

There ought to be nine nurses on the day shift at 9 Tower, a trauma surgery unit inside the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Instead, some days there are just three. “Sometimes I’d look at a patient’s face and know that I won’t be able to maybe help feed them when they need to be fed,” said nurse Sophia Moccio, “or clean them when they need to be cleaned. It is distressing, and depressing for us.” Staffing levels this bad are a major reason why she and 1,700 of her co-workers at RWJUH have been on strike since August 4.

Labor Notes