The Annals with a study suggesting that critical care patients who received intensivist treatment actually had a higher mortality rate.
A false positive study, or something intensivists should worry about?
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Uuuugh, maybe intensivists are called in, handed, or inherit the sicker patients. Very hard to tease that out retrospectively.
I bet a study would show that people who have seen any doctor over the past year have a higher death rate than those who haven’t. Should doctors worry?
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