Lisa Suter: Medicine, Measurement, and Equity

Howie and Harlan are joined by Lisa Suter, a rheumatologist and the senior director of the Quality Measurement Program at Yale’s Center for Outcomes Research & Evaluation. Harlan reflects on the meaning of Juneteenth and reports on a Yale-led report card on health equity; Howie comments on Surgeon General Vivek Murthy’s call for warning labels on social media. 

Links:

Juneteenth

National Museum of African American History & Culture: Juneteenth

Harlan Krumholz: “Excess Cardiovascular Mortality Among Black Americans 2000-2022: A JACC Report Card”

“JACC Report Card Highlights Inequities in CV Care, Death Rates”

Harlan Krumholz: “Excess Mortality and Years of Potential Life Lost Among the Black Population in the US, 1999-2020”

Lisa Suter

Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation

National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Disease: Arthritis

Lisa Suter: “Medical Decision Making in Patients With Knee Pain, Meniscal Tear, and Osteoarthritis”

Lisa Suter: “Projecting Lifetime Risk of Symptomatic Knee Osteoarthritis and Total Knee Replacement in Individuals Sustaining a Complete Anterior Cruciate Ligament Tear in Early Adulthood”

“Voices of DEI: Lisa Suter, MD”

Harlan Krumholz: “Association of door-to-balloon time and mortality in patients admitted to hospital with ST elevation myocardial infarction: national cohort study”

Harlan Krumholz: “Association of Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities With Outcomes Among Patients Hospitalized With Acute Myocardial Infarction, Heart Failure, and Pneumonia

An Analysis of Within- and Between-Hospital Variation”

The Surgeon General on Social Media 

“Surgeon General: Why I’m Calling for a Warning Label on Social Media Platforms”

“Social Media and Youth Mental Health: The U.S Surgeon General’s Advisory”

Kids Online Safety Act: Senator Richard Blumenthal

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