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Senior Policy Researcher at RAND. Retweets are not endorsements. Opinions are not RAND's. #Patients deserve #medical care that works.

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How should patient views be captured and incorporated into health technology assessment? Here’s a method that can meaningfully connect #patientexperience to consequential decisions about treatments. #PatientEngagement
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That my marriage is coming up for a vote is appalling. But guarding against a fascist tide makes it necessary.
Strange feeling, to see something as basic and as personal as the durability of your marriage come up for debate on the Senate floor.
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Right now, seniors on Medicare pay as much as $1,000 a month for insulin. Starting January 1, we’re capping that cost at $35 a month per prescription.
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Thomas Concannon retweeted
Anyone who’s impacted by gun violence or any other shocking death is traumatized by that day, by that experience, forever. You have to do deep trauma work to move on from the age that it happened. Work that involves your heart, your body, your small children self.
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Why do researchers and health care practitioners view public stakeholders as consultants and not equal partners? Because co-equal production is not feasible in most lab and clinical settings. Results of a Canadian study in ICUs bit.ly/3X3I3SZ
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Happy to see our recommendations for stakeholder engagement cited in the latest scientific statement by American Heart Assn @American_Heart @CircAHA bit.ly/3E87xpK
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We lost fewer seats in the House of Representatives than any Democratic president’s first midterm election in at least 40 years. And we had the best midterms for Governors since 1986. The American people spoke.
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Thomas Concannon retweeted
Some things are happening on Twitter but this thread is worth reading: COVID taught us that ISOLATING residents in long-term care may limit infection but it spreads despair & accelerates decline. Resident quality of life includes social connection. tinyurl.com/mvatf9bu1/7
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