Top posts of 2016

By | December 21, 2018

The year 2016 was a big one for The Medical Care Blog: in February, we moved from our old publisher-hosted location and launched this new domain and design. We’ve published 61 posts here since then – a little more than one a week. We’ve added many new contributors and broadened our audience. Thank you for reading!

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Here are our top ten most-read posts of 2016:

  1. How Primary Care Might Fare Under The Plans of the Two Leading Republican Presidential Contenders by | March 16, 2016
  2. The Health Plans of the Democratic Presidential Candidates and How They May Affect Primary Care by | March 28, 2016
  3. Empowering hospice consumers to make informed choices: the role of publicly reported quality information by Emily Haines, Franziska Rokoske, and Jennifer Lyden | April 14, 2016
  4. Economic Burden of the Opioid Epidemic by | September 29, 2016
  5. Quality Measurement in Home Care: Avoiding Unintended Effects by Elizabeth BradleyNan Tracy Zheng, Emily Cherlin, and Rosemary Hurzeler | July 21, 2016
  6. Should Women Rush to Get IUDs Post-Election? They Should’ve Been Rushing all Along! by  and Catherine Lindsey Satterwhite | December 8, 2016
  7. How do Medical Errors Affect Healthcare Professionals? by | August 15, 2016
  8. All Falls Are Not Equal by | June 9, 2016
  9. Freezing or boiling? Measuring workplace climate in primary care by | October 4, 2016
  10. Gap in Payment for Medicare Cost Sharing Limits Access to Care for the Poor by Nan Tracy Zheng and Susan Haber | August 29, 2016

Look for more posts in our special series on the childhood roots of health inequities in the new year. We’re also working on posts about transgender health, hip fractures, hospice quality, and hospital readmissions in January, so stay tuned!

Wishing you all a productive and happy 2017.