Are Primary Care Physicians More Likely to Record Diabetes on Death Certificates?

Are primary care physicians more likely to record diabetes on death certificates?

D iabetes is recorded on the death certificate of decedents with known diabetes only 38–48% of the time (1– 9). Few studies have examined whether recording of diabetes on death certificates is associated with the antemortem relationship between the decedent and the certifying physician. One study of 292 diabetic decedents with histories of ischemic heart disease found that if the certifying phy...

Are generous people more likely to vote?

Policymakers in the Unites States and many other countries encourage charitable giving through various subsidies. In the United States, for instance, charitable contributions can be deducted from taxable income making the price of giving inversely related to the marginal tax rate. However, the net effects of such subsidies can be better understood by exploring the relationship between generosit...

Patients lost to care are more likely to be viremic than patients still in care.

TO THE EDITOR—The study by Aghokeng et al [1] found little difference in crosssectionally ascertained virological failure at 12 and 24 months among patients on first-line antiretroviral therapy (ART) across 7 countries in sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia; however, significant country-level variations were observed, possibly reflecting programmatic weakness and poor adherence. Most ART prog...

Food Taxes: How Likely Are Likely Effects?

Physicians are more likely than non-physicians to use brand-name drugs to treat their chronic conditions.

BACKGROUND Little is known about the treatments physicians choose for themselves compared with how they treat their patients. We determine if physicians prescribe different treatments to patients than to themselves. METHODS Population-based cohort study from 2004 to 2012 examining prescription claims of all Danish primary care physicians (PCP; n=3088) and all other Danish adults (n=2 334 590)...