PodMed – Week of January 4, 2016

This week’s topics include low value screening tests, planned at home births, brain death, and opioid prescription after overdose.

Program notes:

0:38 Brain death nationally

1:40 Every hospital that would declare brain death

2:39 Family advocates

3:01 Women who deliver at home

4:01 Comparison difficult in past

5:01 Rate higher outside hospital

6:07 Opioid prescription after overdose

7:04 91% still got them

8:04 People may be under prescribed

8:15 Low value screening

9:15 Inform with various types of information

10:50 End

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