Raina M. Merchant, MD, MSHP; David A. Asch, MD, MBA
JAMA. 2018;320(23):2415-2416. doi:10.1001/jama.2018.18416
This Viewpoint discusses the spread of scientific misinformation through social media, and countermeasures scientists and institutions can use to monitor and respond to it.
Wen-Ying Sylvia Chou, PhD, MPH; April Oh, PhD; William M. P. Klein, PhD
JAMA. 2018;320(23):2417-2418. doi:10.1001/jama.2018.16865
This Viewpoint discusses strategies for debunking health misinformation on social media and ideas for ways to spread accurate health information.
Dhruv Khullar, MD, MPP; Daniel Wolfson, MPP; Lawrence P. Casalino, MD, PhD
JAMA. 2018;320(23):2419-2420. doi:10.1001/jama.2018.17719
This Viewpoint calls out the limited evidence supporting current pay-for-improvement incentives in the US, and argues that performance improvement programs that emphasize nonfinancial rewards, resources for quality improvement, and team-based recognition would be more consistent with physician motivation and professionalism and would be worth evaluating as a means to reduce health care costs and waste and improve quality.
Christopher J. D. Wallis, MD, PhD; Allan S. Detsky, MD, PhD; Eddy Fan, MD, PhD
JAMA. 2018;320(23):2421-2422. doi:10.1001/jama.2018.16329
This Viewpoint highlights logistical and methodological challenges complicating the use of randomized clinical trials (RCTs) to evaluate medical procedures and proposes standards of evidence for adopting new procedures in the absence of RCT data, including use of observational surveillance data to confirm the procedures鈥 effectiveness in real-world settings.