Pelzman's Picks: Data Manipulation In Healthcare

• "Today, torturing the data to get the desired results is all too common," Tom Emerick writes in The Health Care Blog ~ Torture the Data Until it Confesses
• Labs don't have all the answers, Heidi L. Wald, MD, MSPH, writes in JAMA Internal Medicine ~ Challenging the "Culture of Culturing:" The Case for Less Testing and More Clinical Assessment
• The term "provider" is antiquated and causes some confusion in the modern medical home, Allan H. Goroll, MD, writes in JAMA ~ Eliminating the Term Primary Care "Provider:" Consequences of Language for the Future of Primary Care
• When a middle-aged person dies from colon cancer, it's a good time to get others to go in for their screening, Jane E. Brody writes in The New York Times ~ A Teachable Moment on the Need for Colon Cancer Screening
• It's seriously time to revamp medical education and develop family medicine as a comprehensive specialty, William E. Cayley, Jr., MD, writes in The BMJ blog ~ What's in the future for US family medicine?
• A UnitedHealthcare pilot program is betting $65 million on prevention and well-being program, Phil Galewitz reports for Kaiser Health News ~ UnitedHealth Tries Boutique-Style Health Plan

Fred N. Pelzman, MD, of Weill Cornell Internal Medicine Associates and weekly blogger for MedPage Today, follows what's going on in the world of primary care medicine. Pelzman's Picks is a compilation of links to blogs, articles, tweets, journal studies, opinion pieces, and news briefs related to primary care that caught his eye.

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Pelzman's Picks: Data Manipulation In Healthcare