{"id":1960,"date":"2017-04-04T22:10:24","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T22:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ctcps.org\/blog\/?p=1960"},"modified":"2017-04-04T22:10:24","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T22:10:24","slug":"the-puzzling-popularity-of-back-surgery-in-certain-regions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=1960","title":{"rendered":"The Puzzling Popularity of Back Surgery in Certain Regions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>the New York Times\u00a0 | <a class=\"byline-column-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/column\/the-new-health-care\">The New Health Care<\/a>\u00a0 |\u00a0 By <span class=\"byline-author byline-multiple-authors\" data-byline-name=\"Austin Frakt\">AUSTIN FRAKT and<\/span> <span class=\"byline-author \" data-byline-name=\"Jonathan Skinner\">JONATHAN SKINNER<\/span>\u00a0 |\u00a0 <time class=\"dateline\" datetime=\"2017-02-16T18:15:27-05:00\">FEB. 13, 2017<\/time><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: 'Georgia',serif;\">You might think that once drugs, devices and medical procedures are shown to be effective, they quickly become available. You might also think that those shown not to work as well as alternatives are immediately discarded.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-para-count=\"50\" data-total-count=\"272\"><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: 'Georgia',serif;\">Reasonable assumptions both, but you\u2019d be wrong.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-para-count=\"237\" data-total-count=\"509\"><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: 'Georgia',serif;\">Instead, innovations in health care diffuse unevenly across geographic regions \u2014 not unlike the spread of a contagious disease. And even when studies show a new technology is overused, retrenchment is very slow and seemingly haphazard.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/02\/13\/upshot\/medical-mystery-why-is-back-surgery-so-popular-in-casper-wyo.html?rref=collection%2Fspotlightcollection%2Fhealthcare-decoded&amp;action=click&amp;contentCollection=upshot&amp;region=rank&amp;module=package&amp;version=highlights&amp;contentPlacement=4&amp;pgtype=collection&amp;_r=0\">Read more<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"222\" data-total-count=\"222\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the New York Times\u00a0 | The New Health Care\u00a0 |\u00a0 By AUSTIN FRAKT and JONATHAN SKINNER\u00a0 |\u00a0 FEB. 13, 2017 You might think that once drugs, devices and medical procedures <\/p>\n<p class=\"readMore\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=1960\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[743,744],"class_list":["post-1960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-showcase","category-newsroom","tag-back-surgery","tag-rates-of-medical-procedures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1961,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960\/revisions\/1961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}