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American Thoracic Society (ATS) @atscommunity.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Today, President Trump ordered the firing of federal employees who are still in their probation period. "The firing of federal employees will have immediate and adverse health consequences for the American public," said ATS President Irina Petrache, MD, ATSF. Read more: shorturl.at/nNegx

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American Thoracic Society | Advocacy

The American Thoracic Society is the world's leading medical society dedicated to accelerating the advancement of global respiratory health through…

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

This thread will be stories of how people hold the line--continue to behave responsibly and ethically.

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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 18/12/2024

*sighs* Percentage change should *always* be expressed on a log scale, because it’s multiplicative. A doubling and a halving should be given equal space. I did a whole thread on this at the time x.com/jburnmurdoch...

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Anica Law @anicalaw.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Migrated my old tweets here. Worked ok I think, except they are dated by the date they arrived here (though an archival date is also included). Twitter polls didn’t make it over, and it’s a little weird to not get the subsequent discussion that occurred with the tweets. H/t @gbosslet.bsky.social

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Rod Rahimi @rodrahimi.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

"joining Bluesky can be a reset — a chance to start over on a platform that isn’t engineered to maximize engagement, that isn’t owned by a capricious billionaire or an amoral advertising conglomerate, and that doesn’t treat its users as lab rats."

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Bluesky Is Turning Into a Strong X Alternative (Gift Article)

Bluesky has a hint of the old Twitter magic, but the feeling of freedom it offers might be even better.

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ATS BSHR Assembly @ats-bshsr.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Hello all! Moving to bluer skies over this way. Excited to continue promoting the great work of ATS Behavioral Science and Health Services Research Assembly. #pccm #healthservices @atscommunity.bsky.social @atscritcare.bsky.social

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Gabriel Bosslet @gbosslet.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

#PCCMSky Update Up to 95 members Repost so those new to this place can populate their following list with good PCCM people Reply if you are not on this list and should be go.bsky.app/88wg6oG

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Jack Iwashyna @iwashyna.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

"Abstract In the first prospective clinical trial of artificial intelligence (AI) assistance in stress echocardiography, there was no difference in diagnostic accuracy between AI assistance and standard-of-care assessment."

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Anica Law @anicalaw.bsky.social · 11/05/2023

1/ I will be at #ATS2023 celebrating all that the strong, vibrant, diverse @atscommunity has to offer. I also want #ATSSafe4All in the future! Join me in committing to safety and equity for all. Show your support: DM or email or find me in DC to get your ribbon!

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Anica Law @anicalaw.bsky.social · 04/10/2022

In patients with #septicshock and #AFib, do you switch from norepinephrine (α+β) to phenylephrine (α only)? - What if pt is in rapid afib? - When was the last time you saw data/guidelines on the use of phenylephrine in any septic shock? 🧵 Our paper:...

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Anica Law @anicalaw.bsky.social · 11/08/2022

Conferences can be invaluable opportunities to share your work, discuss new ideas, connect with inspirational colleagues, and learn from each other. I'm signing because I value the presence and safety of all my peers, mentors, & mentees at...

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Anica Law @anicalaw.bsky.social · 27/05/2022

Out this week in @ATSBlueEditor, our work indicating that critical care for older adults may be trending toward LESS invasive: In the US from 2011-2019, # of older adults receiving >96 hrs of MV ⬇️⬇️ dir.lat/2G7xcT 🧵: #zentensivist...

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Anica Law @anicalaw.bsky.social · 17/05/2022

Team ECHO from @BUMedicine illuminating challenges around studying ARDS practice patterns, adoption/deimplementation. Strong work from Mallory Lesieur @xaudhya_

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Anica Law @anicalaw.bsky.social · 17/05/2022

Proud of @divya_shankar19 for her ATS Abstract award from @ATSCritCare looking at how Covid impacted practice patterns in nonCOVID pts. Come to D104 on Wed to hear more from this rising star! #ATS2022 coauthors @WalkeyAllan @NickABosch

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Anica Law @anicalaw.bsky.social · 17/05/2022

Thank you @emilyvailmd and @lkvandev for your making the ATS CC ECPWG a fantastic, supportive home base for so many early career folk. 👏👏👏@ATSCritCare

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Anica Law @anicalaw.bsky.social · 15/05/2022

Proud of @xaudhya_ , MS2 at @BUMedicine, for making his ATS debut, presenting changes in #pronepositioning availability at hospitals across MA before and after the pandemic. He nailed it! Coauthors @NickABosch @WalkeyAllan #ATS2022

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Anica Law @anicalaw.bsky.social · 13/03/2022

Oh, were you doing claims-based research and needed a validated way to adjust for severity of acute illness in your ICU patients? We gotchu: www.atsjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1513… Teammates: @NickABosch @WalkeyAllan

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Anica Law @anicalaw.bsky.social · 19/11/2021

Soundtrack of the day: the cassette tapes, circa 1997, that I found in my parents' basement (with a working boom box!!) with summer camp songs - Istanbul, Blister in the Sun, American Pie, Stairway to Heaven... #IYKYK

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Anica Law @anicalaw.bsky.social · 04/10/2021

So proud of @NavinKumarMD for winning the Bernard Lown Award for Excellence in teaching at @harvardmed - so well deserved!

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Anica Law @anicalaw.bsky.social · 16/08/2021

When you counsel ICU patients (>65yo)/their proxies before receiving a tracheostomy (‘trach’) and a gastrostomy (‘PEG’), what do you estimate to be the cohort’s 90-day mortality (day 0 = hospital admission)?

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Anica Law @anicalaw.bsky.social · 12/07/2021

How come we are this far into the pandemic and it still takes 24-48 hrs for an outpatient #covid test to turnaround?? [2kids + 1 parent]x 2 days of missed work/school waiting for 1 covid test = so much unnecessary lost productivity

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Anica Law @anicalaw.bsky.social · 26/04/2021

Why does liquid amoxicillin still taste so gross in 2021

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Anica Law @anicalaw.bsky.social · 11/02/2021

Health services researchers: #Medicare Carrier File is so $$$$. How much does the Carrier File REALLY add that isn't in the Outpatient File? Can I get away without it?? #HSR @ATS_BSHSR @joefigs2 @ml_barnett @resdac_cmsdata @rkwadhera @rwyeh @kejoynt

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Anica Law @anicalaw.bsky.social · 05/11/2020

Honored to write some thoughts with @vitaincerta on interesting work on patients' own perspective on health after sepsis, on a nationwide scale (tl;dr: the eye of the beholder is subjective/adaptive, but it matters just as much as objective...

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Anica Law @anicalaw.bsky.social · 13/07/2020

Some food for thought, by Mike Klompas and Chanu Rhee: Airborne Transmission of SARS-CoV-2—Theoretical Considerations and Available Evidence ja.ma/3fsr3iT. Interesting points made:

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Airborne Transmission of SARS-CoV-2—Theoretical Considera...

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Anica Law @anicalaw.bsky.social · 25/06/2020

#Medtwitter – can we eradicate this myth together, once and for all? If you hear someone say, “if you can speak, you can breathe,” correct them. This is false, and has been used to perpetrate/excuse too many criminal deaths. #blm Today in @annalsofIM: 1/ bit.ly/3hWFPjP

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Anica Law @anicalaw.bsky.social · 22/05/2020

Getting back into the SAS programming seat is... not just like riding a bike.

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Anica Law @anicalaw.bsky.social · 06/05/2020

Here at @BIDMChealth we were thrilled to have booked a spot on @iwashyna's national (international?) tour, "Dirty Dozen of Common Errors on Discharging MV Patients." I always learn key pearls every time I hear from him! Book your tour date now!

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Anica Law @anicalaw.bsky.social · 23/04/2020

.@BIDMChealth leading the pack in #COVID19 enrollment in @covid19registry! Proud of our hardworking team including @somnathbose07, Valerie Banner-Goodspeed, Elias Baedorf-Kassis, and an army of incredibly dedicated research assistants from @BIDMCAnesthesia

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Anica Law @anicalaw.bsky.social · 14/04/2020

Hi #medtwitter. @zahirkanjee and I were tasked with putting together some rough guidelines at @BIDMChealth to guide care of #COVID19 patients graduating from #criticalcare to wards. What would you want to see in such a document?

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Anica Law @anicalaw.bsky.social · 02/12/2019

Bookmark this for those days you're looking for the antidote informationisbeautiful.net/beautifu…

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Anica Law @anicalaw.bsky.social · 13/08/2019

If early sepsis deaths are related to sepsis + late sepsis deaths related to premorbid illness (cf. Daviaud, @iwashyna): do we see the effects of sepsis initiatives in ⬇️early (48hr) septic shock deaths? In @critcaremed with @WalkeyAllan @jenintheicu: bit.ly/2MWvUgS 1/

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Anica Law @anicalaw.bsky.social · 04/06/2019

At @EdwardTufte's “Presenting Data and Information” Course. Just going to live tweet some points from his presentation/books that I took away: 1/

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Anica Law @anicalaw.bsky.social · 23/05/2019

“You know what this is? Checkpoint inhibitor colitis!” @NavinKumarMD #MedEd for toddlers #DDW2019

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Anica Law @anicalaw.bsky.social · 21/05/2019

@ColinRCooke pinchhitting, presenting @ajadmon’s cool work showing an ecological association between higher prim care and lower rates of resp failure

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Anica Law @anicalaw.bsky.social · 21/05/2019

Today @annalsATS bit.ly/2WihFIq we build off yesterday’s publication bit.ly/2WWdpLU (below) and show that despite lack of guidelines, there’s little between-hospital variation in PEG rates. Session C24 @ 9:15 to hear more @walkeyallan @jenintheicu #ATS2019

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Anica Law @anicalaw.bsky.social · 20/05/2019

Out today @annalsATS: our work on trends in PEG use in critically ill pts, 1994-2014. bit.ly/2WWdpLU. #of PEGs placed in ICU pts >doubled; ICU pts are now the #1 utilizer of PEG tubes. Come to session B105 at 2:15 to hear more! @walkeyallan @jenintheicu #ATS2019

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Anica Law @anicalaw.bsky.social · 20/03/2019

Scientists against statistical significance: "We should never conclude there is ‘no difference’...just because a P value is larger than a threshold such as 0.05." go.nature.com/2HGllfm

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Scientists rise up against statistical significance

Valentin Amrhein, Sander Greenland, Blake McShane and mor...

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Anica Law @anicalaw.bsky.social · 14/03/2019

Mac users: typing alt+p gives you π! You're welcome.

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Anica Law @anicalaw.bsky.social · 13/03/2019

@walkeyallan and I wrote a letter. Our point: Jubran et al report that 53.7% of 315 LTAC patients were disconnected from the ventilator. Go to reference 4 to find the whole cohort diagram - these 315 pts were previously selected from 2267 pts for an RCT. bit.ly/2TzVQU5

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Anica Law @anicalaw.bsky.social · 13/02/2019

Mike Klompas makes a thoughtful argument here: put the brakes on giving empiric abx to patients who may (but also may not) have sepsis if they don't also have shock (as it is less clear that rapid abx use matters as much for those without septic shock)...

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Anica Law @anicalaw.bsky.social · 04/02/2019

Say you're an early career researcher and you've spent the last couple years learning to program in SAS; courses are taught in SAS and your mentor programs in SAS. When/why should you consider learning R and/or switching exclusively to R? @ajadmon @ADAlthousePhD #epitwitter

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Anica Law @anicalaw.bsky.social · 29/01/2019

If decision aids intended to provide relevant information and set realistic expectations actually WORSEN the decision-maker/clinician concordance, what hope do we have? Where do we go from here? @christopherecox 's fascinating (but depressing?) work: bit.ly/2GaqbRu

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Anica Law @anicalaw.bsky.social · 18/12/2018

Are you a physician A, B, or C? We discuss thought-provoking findings by @tsvalley et al (ICU admission rates vary in part because physicians don't agree on who benefits from ICU care, link in next...

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Anica Law @anicalaw.bsky.social · 10/12/2018

"Why don’t we hold policies that affect the care of innumerable patients to the same evidence-based standards as medications, to ensure before widespread rollout that they are effective and do not cause harm?" Excellent points by...

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