Mitchell H. Katz

1 month ago | nydailynews.com | Eric Adams |Bill de Blasio |Mitchell H. Katz

On this day, exactly five years ago, we lost the first New Yorker to COVID-19. In the days and weeks that followed, the city went into lockdown, as schools and all non-essential businesses closed for what we thought — at the time — would be a few days, possibly a few weeks. We recall the eerily silent streets, sirens wailing in the night, Zoom classrooms, and our health care heroes working tirelessly.

Jun 24, 2024 | jamanetwork.com | Ishani Ganguli |Mitchell H. Katz

Administrative Harms—Common and Sometimes Preventable Identifying and Measuring Administrative Harms Marisha Burden, MD, MBA; Gopi Astik, MD, MS; Andrew Auerbach, MD; Greg Bowling, MD; Kirsten N. Kangelaris, MD; Angela Keniston, PhD, MSPH; Aveena Kochar, MD; Luci K. Leykum, MD, MBA, MSc; Anne S.

Jan 24, 2024 | jamanetwork.com | Deborah Grady |Sharon K. Inouye |Mitchell H. Katz

Access to Safe Abortion for Survivors of Rape The US Supreme Court’s decision in the Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization case allows individual states to determine access to abortion. Since the decision, 14 states have prohibited abortion at any gestational age. Restricting abortion access to survivors of rape can have particularly devastating consequences.

Jul 17, 2023 | jamanetwork.com | Mitchell H. Katz |Deborah Grady

Opioid Dosing by Primary Care Professionals—A Call for Humility The 2016 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidance for prescribing opioids for chronic pain recommended that clinicians should avoid increasing dosages to more than 90 morphine milligram equivalents per day because higher doses are associated with increased harms.1 The updated 2022 CDC guidelines do not recommend specific quantity thresholds but instead recommend shared decision-making.2 In their Viewpoint in this...

Jul 10, 2023 | jamanetwork.com | Tracy Y. Wang |Tyrone Johnson |Mitchell H. Katz

Intensive Care Unit Transfer Decisions—Science or Art? Temporal Clustering of Critical Illness Events on Medical Wards Samik Doshi, MD, MSc; Saeha Shin, MPH; Lauren Lapointe-Shaw, MD, PhD; Robert A. Fowler, MDCM, MSc; Michael Fralick, MD, PhD; Janice L. Kwan, MD, MPH; Kaveh G. Shojania, MD; Terence Tang, MD, MSc; Fahad Razak, MD, MSc; Amol A.