We performed a public reporting data-based intervention using social media and social network marketing campaigns to influence women in Los Angeles to seek public information on maternity care hospital quality. More than four million women give birth in the US every year, and more than three...

We sought to explore US individuals' internet and social media behavior before and after Ms. Angeline Jolie's disclosure of her BRCA status and prophylactic surgery. All US individuals using Google's search engine to search for keywords ‘double mastectomy,' ‘breast cancer,' or ‘BRCA gene'...

Prior studies generally find non-existing or weakly negative (heart failure) associations between risk adjusted readmission and mortality rates at the hospital level. We examined all Hospital Referral Regions (HRR), and found persisting modest positive associations for acute myocardial...