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JHU Congressional Briefing panelists explain how policymakers can improve support and drive progress in research and care
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JHU Congressional Briefing panelists explain how policymakers can improve support and drive progress in research and care
Iwashyna blends acute care expertise with health services research to better understand how an array of factors affect a patient's life course
Exactly what kills a person with COVID-19? How do those deaths differ from the deaths of people whose lungs fail rapidly because of other infections or injuries? And what can hospital teams pressed into service on overtaxed COVID-19 wards do to try to keep patients from dying, despite strained circumstances? All of these questions have sparked discussion - and even conspiracy theories - since the pandemic began. Now, two studies from Michigan Medicine may help answer them. The bottom line: COVID-19 deaths are indeed different from other lung failure deaths. But, the researchers conclude, the ...