PodMed – Week of January 4, 2016

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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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