Random Acts of Medicine: The Hidden Forces That Sway Doctors, Impact Patients, and Shape Our Health
What happens to you in hospital depends partly on the day you arrive, and the data proves it.
Anupam B. Jena and Christopher Worsham use natural experiments in medicine to show how much of a patient’s outcome turns on circumstance: which doctor is on shift, whether a cardiology conference is running, what day of the week it is. Freakonomics applied to health care, by physicians who also do the research.
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Anupam B. Jena and Christopher Worsham, Random Acts of Medicine: The Hidden Forces that Sway Doctors, Impact Patients, and Shape Our Health, is a Freakonomics-style look at what we can learn from controlled and also natural experiments in medicine.
Source · July 2023
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