Ben Pollock, PhD
@Pollock_BD
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Health Services Researcher, Mayo Clinic. Alumnus of University of Akron, Johns Hopkins, Tulane. No endorsements, thoughts=my own.
Joined July 2016
In 100,000 simulations of Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Overall Star Ratings for U.S. hospitals, only 9%, including less than two-thirds of 5-star rated facilities, achieved reliable excellence. https://t.co/X2SB3krCiF
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Hospitals with better pre-pandemic star ratings had better mortality rates for both COVID and non-COVID patients during the early pandemic. We can learn about hospital resiliency by reporting pandemic era outcomes. @CMSGov @BMJ_Open @SeanDowdy1
https://t.co/qGjUA6N0aR
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Objectives In the USA and UK, pandemic-era outcome data have been excluded from hospital rankings and pay-for-performance programmes. We assessed the relationship between US hospitals’ pre-pandemic...
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Numb3rs.
What is the greatest TV show of all time?
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When it comes to healthcare, there is rarely—if ever—a debate about whether a patient wants quality care. In this podcast @DrTimMorg discusses Quality or Counterfeit? The Science of Quality Measurement with @Pollock_BD.
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We are absolutely thrilled and honored to announce that I have received the prestigious Mayo Clinic Diamond Award! 🎉 This lifetime recognition is a testament to the countless hours of hard work and dedication we have put into improving the quality of car… https://t.co/inKuTbxqfF
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For non-COVID patient outcomes such as mortality, evidence-based inclusion of pandemic-era data is methodologically plausible and must be explored rather than exclusion of months or years of relevant patient outcomes data @SeanDowdy1 @USNewsHealth
https://t.co/FuYSvZcZ29
bmjopenquality.bmj.com
Objectives Highly visible hospital quality reporting stakeholders in the USA such as the US News & World Report (USNWR) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) play an important health...
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They always say the groundhog is 40% accurate. But it’s a binary outcome and over 150 yrs of predictions his 95% CI is approx. 32-48% so he technically has 52-68% predictive accuracy not 40%.
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Measuring health care quality becomes even more important during a system-wide crisis. Learn more from @Pollock_BD on an innovative solution using @CMSGov data. https://t.co/4UrZCuchQ6
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Looking forward to this October 18 event and hearing these speakers! @mollyjeffery @SeanMPhelan1 @jridgeway #rochmn Come one, come all!
Please join us for this Kern Center Connects in partnership with Mayo Clinic featuring UMR alumni, Mohamed Addani. Kern Center Connects is a community-based seminar series open to students and the public. https://t.co/vnGrZKMoVo
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Suffering is not a competition. Health services researchers should strive to help everyone and should not invest in non-peer reviewed, one-liner, un-nuanced equivalencies on Twitter. The shame of the 2020s decade will be that science was touted by pre-print and Twitter.
Over 30 people have died from the tragedy of Hurricane Ian. But still ~440 Americans are still dying every day from Covid.
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Looking for something to do in #rochmn tonight? Come hear Dr. Renaldo Blocker and Ajay Jayakumar from @MayoClinic discuss Diversity Science: Exploring Projects, Concepts, and Structure at @UMRochester at 5 p.m. Register at https://t.co/4V4C4StCyL Hope to see you there!
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Earlier your team predicted an above average season. Is this lack of activity within the original model’s uncertainty bounds or did some original assumptions not hold?
This remarkably quiet Atlantic tropical cyclone period is likely to end soon. The National #Hurricane Center is currently monitoring three areas for tropical cyclone formation in next 5 days, with 80%, 70% and 50% chance of formation, respectively.
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Today, we lost a giant. As tall as Bill Russell stood, his legacy rises far higher—both as a player and as a person.
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#MayoClinic has once again been ranked the No. 1 hospital in the nation for the seventh consecutive year by @usnews in its "Best Hospitals" rankings. https://t.co/EsnmBvnv4T
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@Pollock_BD How about death statistics prior to pandemic? We cannot distinguish “die from” from “die with”.
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Most likely due to greater point prevalence of infection. If 10% of the population has an active COVID case instead of 2%, then of course total deaths will be higher, even if case fatality rate is lower. This wave is the most infectious.
@EricTopol How is that possible with everyone there being vaxxed? Virtually everyone
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Frustrated late night parent tweet. The little buttons on onesies are impossible for the average father to snap and unsnap, let alone a tired father in the dark while baby kicks and screams. It’s untenable as a long term clothing solution for babies. Zipper onesies only please.
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Your thoughts on this? For my 2 mo. old, I don’t know about vax at 6 mos. Mom got booster during 2nd trimester, +symptomatic COVID during 3rd trim. & received monoclonal antibodies. He may have some protection & haven’t seen much infant data. depends which variant is prevalent?
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Lifelong Cleveland fan here. For me there is no need to watch Game 5 tonight. I’ve already seen the best Game 5 in Finals history. It was exactly 6 yrs ago today. I guess I could watch highlights of that on YouTube instead. https://t.co/VUj1qdHWN8
@cavs @warriors
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Box score for the Cleveland Cavaliers vs. Golden State Warriors NBA game from June 13, 2016 on ESPN. Includes all points, rebounds and steals stats.
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