Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Michael J. DiStefano, Jenny M. Markell, Caroline C. Doherty, G. Caleb Alexander, Gerard F. Anderson
Summary: This study identifies drug characteristics associated with a higher proportion of promotional spending on direct-to-consumer advertising. The findings reveal that drugs with lower clinical benefit and higher sales tend to allocate a larger portion of their promotional spending towards direct-to-consumer advertising. Further research is needed to understand the implications of these findings.
JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
(2023)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Lloyd S. Davis, Bienvenido Leon, Michael J. Bourk, Lei Zhu, Wiebke Finkler
Summary: A study on climate change videos showed that using infotainment or expository narration had different effects on different audience clusters. For younger participants, infotainment reduced their perception of climate change seriousness, while viewers of English versions showed increased perception of climate change risk with expository narration.
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Jessica A. Hohman, Kathryn A. Martinez, Amit Anand, Mark Rood, Trejeeve Martyn, Susannah Rose, Michael B. Rothberg
Summary: This study analyzed mental health encounters on a DTC telemedicine platform, finding that most visits were for anxiety and depression, with high patient satisfaction. Acceptance of prescriptions and visit timing had significant effects on patient satisfaction, suggesting potential value in DTC telemental health.
JOURNAL OF GENERAL INTERNAL MEDICINE
(2022)
Article
Evolutionary Biology
Peter G. Foster, Dominik Schrempf, Gergely J. Szollosi, Tom A. Williams, Cymon J. Cox, T. Martin Embley
Summary: Long branches and compositional heterogeneity in protein sequences can pose problems in phylogenetic reconstruction. Recoding alignments can help mitigate these issues, but the effectiveness depends on the specific characteristics of the data. Exchangeability-based recoding generally improves accuracy, while Chi-squared-based recoding may decrease accuracy. However, the impact of recoding on accuracy varies when dealing with alignments that exhibit different types of compositional heterogeneity. It is important to exercise caution when interpreting trees generated from recoded amino acid data sets and consider alternative models that directly account for the patterns in the data.
SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Yingjie Yan, Jinsong Wang, Dashuan Tian, Ruiyang Zhang, Lei Song, Zhaolei Li, Shuli Niu
Summary: This study conducted a 7-year manipulation experiment to investigate the impacts of warming and clipping on heterotrophic respiration (Rh) and its contribution to soil respiration (Rs) in an alpine meadow. The results showed that warming decreased the Rh/Rs ratio, mainly due to the increase in autotrophic respiration (Ra), while clipping increased the Rh/Rs ratio, mainly due to the increase in Rh. The study highlights the importance of quantifying the responses of Rh and the Rh/Rs ratio to global changes.
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Cayla M. Pichan, Clare E. Anderson, Lillian C. Min, Mary C. Blazek
Summary: The initiative launched by medical students at the University of Michigan aims to improve access to and comfort with video visits for geriatric patients, resulting in a significant increase in the video visit rate for providers collaborating with the geriatric education program. This initiative successfully fosters stronger connections between geriatric patients and their providers, ultimately contributing to Michigan Medicine's overall proportion of video telehealth visits.
JOURNAL OF TELEMEDICINE AND TELECARE
(2021)
Article
Energy & Fuels
Stephen Hall, Jillian Anable, Jeffrey Hardy, Mark Workman, Christoph Mazur, Yvonne Matthews
Summary: Innovative energy business models attract different customer groups, but may exacerbate socio-economic inequalities. Policies should consider the needs of different consumer groups and prevent further exacerbation of inequalities.
News Item
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Jeff Tollefson, Max Kozlov, Amy Maxmen, Alexandra Witze
Summary: The president's plan may face opposition from a divided Congress.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Elizabeth Bowman, David Coghill, Carsten Murawski, Peter Bossaerts
Summary: The efficacy of pharmaceutical cognitive enhancers in everyday complex tasks is uncertain. Research shows that methylphenidate, dextroamphetamine, and modafinil significantly reduce the value attained in complex tasks compared to placebo, even when the chance of finding the optimal solution is not significantly reduced. The effort increases, but productivity decreases significantly. Furthermore, the differences in productivity across participants decrease and even reverse. These findings suggest that smart drugs may increase motivation but hinder the ability to solve complex problems effectively.
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Bill Wang, Ateev Mehrotra, Ari B. Friedman
Summary: Despite reducing lower-acuity emergency department visits, the impact of urgent care centers was found to be small. Each 37 additional urgent care center visits were associated with a reduction of a single lower-acuity ED visit.
Article
Ecology
Laura K. K. Lopez, Michael H. H. Cortez, Turner S. S. DeBlieux, Ilona A. A. Menel, Bruce O'Brien, Carla E. E. Caceres, Spencer R. R. Hall, Meghan A. A. Duffy
Summary: The healthy herds hypothesis suggests that predators can reduce parasite prevalence and increase prey density. However, there is mixed evidence for such predator-driven reductions in prey prevalence, and even less evidence supports increases in prey density during epidemics. In this study, researchers experimentally tested the healthy herds hypothesis using a predator-prey-parasite system and found that predation significantly reduced parasite infection prevalence but also decreased prey density at the highest predation levels. The results highlight the complexity of consumer-resource interactions in predator-prey-parasite dynamics.
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Jasper H. B. de Groot
Summary: This study investigates how ambient scent can impact customers' spending behavior in a sustainable environment. The results show that a fresh linen scent almost doubled consumer spending, compared to a pleasant control odor and an odorless control. The increase in spending was mainly attributed to cognitive priming rather than mood and evaluations of the store, staff, and products.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Mark A. Taylor, Aislinn E. Lewis, Robert A. Swendiman, Stephen J. Fenton, Katie W. Russell
Summary: The study indicates a strong interest in pediatric trauma telemedicine among hospitals in the state. Concerns regarding inadequate volume to support a program and insufficient funding for facilities remain obstacles to development.
JOURNAL OF MEDICAL SYSTEMS
(2021)
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Abir Halder, Vicky (Guizhi) Li, Marilyn Sebastian, Saroja Nazareth, Rhoda Tuma, Wendy Cheng, Adam Doyle
Summary: A novel telehealth-based model of care was implemented in Australian prisons to improve HCV treatment uptake, achieving a high SVR12 rate, but a significant proportion of patients were lost to follow up after release, emphasizing the importance of HCV treatment during incarceration.
INTERNAL MEDICINE JOURNAL
(2021)
Article
Economics
Michael Ciarametaro, Katherine Houghton, David Wamble, Robert Dubois
Summary: The study indicates that budget caps have the potential to create savings but may cause patient harm if not designed properly. Therefore, it is essential to consider variability at the disease level when designing budget caps to balance cost savings and maximize patient health.
Editorial Material
Medicine, General & Internal
Andrew W. Mulcahy, Katie Merrell, Ateev Mehrotra
NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE
(2020)
Article
Pediatrics
Kristin N. Ray, Ateev Mehrotra, Jonathan G. Yabes, Jeremy M. Kahn
ACADEMIC PEDIATRICS
(2020)
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Emma E. Thomas, Helen M. Haydon, Ateev Mehrotra, Liam J. Caffery, Centaine L. Snoswell, Annie Banbury, Anthony C. Smith
Summary: The COVID-19 pandemic has led to significant growth in telehealth services globally, including in Australia. It is crucial to consider the long-term sustainability of telehealth post-pandemic, with a focus on developing a skilled workforce, empowering consumers, reforming funding, improving digital ecosystems, and integrating telehealth into routine care.
JOURNAL OF TELEMEDICINE AND TELECARE
(2022)
Letter
Medicine, General & Internal
Sadiq Y. Patel, Ateev Mehrotra, Haiden A. Huskamp, Lori Uscher-Pines, Ishani Ganguli, Michael L. Barnett
Summary: This cohort study investigates the trends of telemedicine and in-person outpatient visits in 2020 among a national sample of 16.7 million individuals with commercial or Medicare Advantage insurance.
JAMA INTERNAL MEDICINE
(2021)
Letter
Medicine, General & Internal
J. Michael McWilliams, Ateev Mehrotra, Ali Russo
Summary: This cohort study investigates the impact of increasing COVID-19 cases on early spending changes and how policies to limit transmission affect healthcare spending as the pandemic progresses.
JAMA INTERNAL MEDICINE
(2021)
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Sunita M. Desai, Sonali Shambhu, Ateev Mehrotra
Summary: Insurers and policy makers have created health care price transparency websites to reduce spending but have faced low use. An advertising campaign in New Hampshire led to a significant increase in website visits, but did not result in more consumers choosing lower-cost providers. The limited success of price transparency tools in reducing health care spending may be due to structural factors limiting consumers' ability to use price information.
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Sadiq Y. Patel, Ateev Mehrotra, Haiden A. Huskamp, Lori Uscher-Pines, Ishani Ganguli, Michael Lawrence Barnett
Summary: During the pandemic, there was a significant increase in the use of telemedicine, but there were notable variations in usage across different populations and specialties. Telemedicine use was lower in communities with higher poverty rates and some medical specialties. Telemedicine was more commonly used for certain common conditions, and its usage for these conditions was associated with smaller decreases in total weekly visits during the pandemic.
Editorial Material
Medicine, General & Internal
Ateev Mehrotra, R. Sacha Bhatia, Centaine L. Snoswell
JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
(2021)
Editorial Material
Medicine, General & Internal
Ateev Mehrotra, Alok Nimgaonkar, Barak Richman
NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE
(2021)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Andrew D. Wilcock, Lee H. Schwamm, Jose R. Zubizarreta, Kori S. Zachrison, Lori Uscher-Pines, Jessica V. Richard, Ateev Mehrotra
Summary: This study found that patients with acute ischemic stroke treated at hospitals with telestroke capacity were more likely to receive reperfusion treatment and had lower 30-day mortality. There were no differences in days spent living in the community following discharge or in spending.
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Bill Wang, Ateev Mehrotra, Ari B. Friedman
Summary: Despite reducing lower-acuity emergency department visits, the impact of urgent care centers was found to be small. Each 37 additional urgent care center visits were associated with a reduction of a single lower-acuity ED visit.
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Annie Banbury, Anthony C. Smith, Ateev Mehrotra, Matthew Page, Liam J. Caffery
Summary: This study explores the factors contributing to the variation in telehealth adoption in Queensland, Australia. It found that metropolitan areas with more telehealth use had greater investment, higher population referral areas, well-developed communication strategies, and better understanding of the value proposition of telehealth. In rural areas, telehealth activity was influenced by onboarding processes, clinician willingness, strategic challenges, and primary care activity.
JOURNAL OF TELEMEDICINE AND TELECARE
(2023)
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
David M. Levine, Ateev Mehrotra
Summary: This study revealed that searching for health information on the internet was associated with slight increases in diagnostic accuracy but not with triage accuracy. Older adults, women, individuals with poorer health status, and those with more than two chronic diseases showed better performance in correct diagnosis.
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
David M. Levine, Pragya Kakani, Ateev Mehrotra
Summary: The study found that tailored text messages were not effective in helping new Medicaid beneficiaries visit primary care within 120 days, but there was a slight increase in emergency department use within 1 year.
NPJ DIGITAL MEDICINE
(2021)
Meeting Abstract
Clinical Neurology
Kori S. Zachrison, Andrew D. Wilcock, Lee H. Schwamm, Lori Uscher-Pines, Jose R. Zubizarreta, Ateev Mehrotra