Risk of cardiovascular outcomes in patients with type 2 diabetes after addition of SGLT2 inhibitors versus sulfonylureas to baseline GLP-1RA therapy

CV Dave, SC Kim, AB Goldfine, RJ Glynn, A Tong… - Circulation, 2021 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: Several glucagon-like peptide receptor agonists (GLP-1RA) and sodium-
glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT2i) have demonstrated cardiovascular benefit in …

Development and application of a machine learning approach to assess short-term mortality risk among patients with cancer starting chemotherapy

AA Elfiky, MJ Pany, RB Parikh… - JAMA network open, 2018 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Patients with cancer who die soon after starting chemotherapy incur costs of
treatment without the benefits. Accurately predicting mortality risk before administering …

Predictive modeling of US health care spending in late life

L Einav, A Finkelstein, S Mullainathan, Z Obermeyer - Science, 2018 - science.org
That one-quarter of Medicare spending in the United States occurs in the last year of life is
commonly interpreted as waste. But this interpretation presumes knowledge of who will die …

Perioperative gabapentin use and in-hospital adverse clinical events among older adults after major surgery

CM Park, SK Inouye, ER Marcantonio… - JAMA Internal …, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Gabapentin has been increasingly used as part of a multimodal analgesia
regimen to reduce opioid use in perioperative pain management. However, the safety of …

Nonrandomized real‐world evidence to support regulatory decision making: process for a randomized trial replication project

JM Franklin, A Pawar, D Martin… - Clinical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Recent legislation mandates that the US Food and Drug Administration issue guidance
regarding when real‐world evidence (RWE) could be used to support regulatory decision …

Diagnosing physician error: A machine learning approach to low-value health care

S Mullainathan, Z Obermeyer - The Quarterly Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We use machine learning as a tool to study decision making, focusing specifically on how
physicians diagnose heart attack. An algorithmic model of a patient's probability of heart …

Association between receipt of a medically tailored meal program and health care use

SA Berkowitz, J Terranova, L Randall… - JAMA internal …, 2019 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Whether interventions to improve food access can reduce health care use is
unknown. Objective To determine whether participation in a medically tailored meal …

Assessment of cardiovascular risk in older patients with gout initiating febuxostat versus allopurinol: population-based cohort study

MA Zhang, DH Solomon, RJ Desai, EH Kang, J Liu… - Circulation, 2018 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: Hyperuricemia and gout are associated with an increased risk of
cardiovascular disease. Xanthine oxidase inhibitors, allopurinol and febuxostat, are the …

Sleep, suicide behaviors, and the protective role of sleep medicine

TM Bishop, PG Walsh, L Ashrafioun, JE Lavigne… - Sleep Medicine, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Objective/Background Sleep disturbance is associated with suicidal thoughts and
behaviors. The relationship of specific sleep disorders to suicide attempts is less well …

Comparative effectiveness of vancomycin and metronidazole for the prevention of recurrence and death in patients with Clostridium difficile infection

VW Stevens, RE Nelson… - JAMA internal …, 2017 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Metronidazole hydrochloride has historically been considered first-line therapy
for patients with mild to moderateClostridium difficileinfection (CDI) but is inferior to …