Ben Pollock, PhD

Health Services Researcher, Mayo Clinic. Alumnus of University of Akron, Johns Hopkins, Tulane. No endorsements, thoughts=my own.

[Always the Jake @JacobsFieldRBW]

Quite honestly, this organization 100% deserves this for putting Stuart Fairchild in the lineup.

[JAMA Network Open @JAMANetworkOpen]

In 100,000 simulations of Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Overall Star Ratings for U.S. hospitals, only 9%, including less than two-thirds of 5-star rated facilities, achieved reliable excellence. https://t.co/X2SB3krCiF @Pollock_BD

[Ben Pollock, PhD @Pollock_BD]

@NateSilver538 How would the life expectancy curves look if adjusted for Gini coefficient? I suspect there is massive amount of confounding here although it doesn’t detract from the general point.

[Ben Pollock, PhD @Pollock_BD]

Hospitals with better pre-pandemic star ratings had better mortality rates for both COVID and non-COVID patients during the early pandemic. We can learn about hospital resiliency by reporting pandemic era outcomes. @CMSGov @BMJ_Open @SeanDowdy1

https://t.co/qGjUA6N0aR

[Ben Pollock, PhD @Pollock_BD]

Numb3rs.

[Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 @AndrewYang]

What is the greatest TV show of all time?

[Mayo Clinic @MayoClinic]

When it comes to healthcare, there is rarely—if ever—a debate about whether a patient wants quality care. In this podcast @DrTimMorg discusses Quality or Counterfeit? The Science of Quality Measurement with @Pollock_BD. https://t.co/Zl7x4HttP4

[Pablo Moreno Franco @pmorenofranco]

We are absolutely thrilled and honored to announce that I have received the prestigious Mayo Clinic Diamond Award! 🎉 This lifetime recognition is a testament to the countless hours of hard work and dedication we have put into improving the quality of car…https://t.co/inKuTbxqfF

[Ben Pollock, PhD @Pollock_BD]

For non-COVID patient outcomes such as mortality, evidence-based inclusion of pandemic-era data is methodologically plausible and must be explored rather than exclusion of months or years of relevant patient outcomes data

@SeanDowdy1 @USNewsHealth

https://t.co/FuYSvZcZ29

[Ben Pollock, PhD @Pollock_BD]

@jbcowartmd Looks good send some my way

[Ben Pollock, PhD @Pollock_BD]

They always say the groundhog is 40% accurate. But it’s a binary outcome and over 150 yrs of predictions his 95% CI is approx. 32-48% so he technically has 52-68% predictive accuracy not 40%.

[Ben Pollock, PhD @Pollock_BD]

@baileymeyers Egregious

[Mayo Clinic @MayoClinic]

Measuring health care quality becomes even more important during a system-wide crisis. Learn more from @Pollock_BD on an innovative solution using @CMSGov data.
https://t.co/4UrZCuchQ6

[Ben Pollock, PhD @Pollock_BD]

@medrxivpreprint has a disclaimer that articles are pre-print not peer-reviewed. Scientists should make the same disclaimer when tweeting pre-prints. We need guidelines to responsibly promote science on Twitter. Or maybe @elonmusk can add a yellow exclamation to pre-print tweets.

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

As of 10 November 2022, it is estimated that 94% of Americans have had Covid at least once, much of those infections in the past year. Ranking of states w/ most vulnerability d/t lack of vaccines/ boosters https://t.co/W5zzyrD0vN @HarvardChanSPH

[Ben Pollock, PhD @Pollock_BD]

@hongfangliu True! I won’t fault anyone with good intentions. I hope AI can detect good intention and lead to peer-review clicks versus one liner clicks.

[Ben Pollock, PhD @Pollock_BD]

Suffering is not a competition. Health services researchers should strive to help everyone and should not invest in non-peer reviewed, one-liner, un-nuanced equivalencies on Twitter. The shame of the 2020s decade will be that science was touted by pre-print and Twitter.

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

Over 30 people have died from the tragedy of Hurricane Ian.
But still ~440 Americans are still dying every day from Covid.

[Ben Pollock, PhD @Pollock_BD]

Earlier your team predicted an above average season. Is this lack of activity within the original model’s uncertainty bounds or did some original assumptions not hold?

[Philip Klotzbach @philklotzbach]

This remarkably quiet Atlantic tropical cyclone period is likely to end soon. The National #Hurricane Center is currently monitoring three areas for tropical cyclone formation in next 5 days, with 80%, 70% and 50% chance of formation, respectively.

[Ben Pollock, PhD @Pollock_BD]

@weatherchannel is it going to rain in ST AUGUSTINE FL?

[Ben Pollock, PhD @Pollock_BD]

@Huggies Baby’s first words

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Today, we lost a giant.

As tall as Bill Russell stood, his legacy rises far higher—both as a player and as a person.