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Curbside consultations should...

  • be encouraged, but under some new groundrules (68%)
  • be encouraged or allowed, as they are today (14%)
  • not be allowed (9%)
  • be discouraged but permitted (9%)

Start Date: April 29, 2013 @ 6:11 am
End Date: No Expiry

Who will win in the NCAA Final Four this year?

  • Michigan (leveraging the out-of-state tuition I pay)? (67%)
  • Louisville? (33%)
  • Syracuse? (0%)
  • Wichita State? (0%)

Start Date: April 5, 2013 @ 3:55 am
End Date: No Expiry

How much misclassification risk (calling a doc or a hospital a "B" when he's/it's really an "A") should be tolerated in public reporting schemes?

  • I wouldn't want to see measures unless they were wrong less than 5% of the time (55%)
  • I'd tolerate misclassification 6-19% of the time and still want to see measures (39%)
  • I'd tolerate misclassification 20-50% of the time and still want to see measures (3%)
  • I'd still want to see measures, even if they might be wrong >50% of the time (3%)

Start Date: April 1, 2013 @ 4:26 am
End Date: No Expiry

Has HITECH, the federal incentive system for healthcare IT, been...

  • a mixed bag (56%)
  • a success (25%)
  • a failure (19%)

Start Date: February 26, 2013 @ 8:21 am
End Date: No Expiry

Today, the greatest threat to the patient safety movement is

  • The failure of many of our interventions to deliver proven benefits (35%)
  • Something else (31%)
  • Clinician burnout (19%)
  • Boards and CEOs consumed by the ACA (12%)
  • IT-related errors (3%)

Start Date: February 18, 2013 @ 8:25 am
End Date: No Expiry

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