I’ve been developing a habit of comparing health statistics I hear in the media with the results in GBD Compare. It is nice when they agree, such as in a recent ScienceMag focus on chronic kidney disease, corroborated here: http://ihmeuw.org/1v7i . It would be even better if the cause was known, and the burden could be removed.
Monthly Archives: April 2014
Fact checking with GBD Compare
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IHME Seminar: Overdiagnosed
I have fallen way behind in noting the IHME weekly seminars, but I was just thinking of this wonderful one from last semester, and I couldn’t wait any longer to link to it: Overdiagnosed: Making people sick in the pursuit of health by H. Gilbert Welch.
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Healthy Algorithms 