The Latest Research, Commentary, And News From Health Affairs
Wednesday, May 26, 2021
Dear John,
A new research article covers reluctance to seek emergency care for cardiac arrests early in the pandemic, and this month’s Narrative Matters essay discusses how hospice fails patients with slow functional decline.
Emergency Care for Cardiac Arrests
In a new study, released ahead of print today, Christopher Sun and coauthors evaluated emergency medical services (EMS) call data from the Boston area in the first few months of the pandemic to better understand
patients’ reluctance to call EMS for cardiac-related care.
The authors found that there was a substantial decrease in EMS calls and an increase in hospital transportation refusals despite a significant increase in out-of-hospital cardiac arrests.
“Hospice has become care for people dying fast, not for those trying to live well while dying slow,” Harrison writes as she recounts her stepfather’s experience in hospice with a neurodegenerative disease.
On Thursday, June 3, 2021, you are invited to joinHealth Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil when he welcomes Elizabeth “Liz” Fowler, the new deputy administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and director of its Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovations (CMMI), for
an in-depth discussion of the Biden administration’s plans and priorities for CMS and CMMI.
There will be an opportunity for viewers to contribute questions.
Date: Thursday, June 3, 2021 Time: 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. (EDT) Place:Online details will be shared with registrants 24 hours in advance of the event.
Health Affairs is grateful to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and The Commonwealth Fund for their support of the special issue, “The Affordable Care Act Turns 10” (March 2020, Vol. 39, No. 3: 359-544), and this event.
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