High-risk patients with heart failure and cardiac arrest hospitalized in teaching hospitals had lower 30-day mortality when admitted during dates of national cardiology meetings.
A rare case of meetings proving beneficial? But why?
A rare case of meetings proving beneficial? But why?
I'm always struck by how young the attendees are. They look like kids. It may be that meetings are more of an attraction for people trying to build their careers, make connections, and have a free vacation, whereas the senior doctors are happy to stay at home and man the fort, plus they have the usual obligations of older workers, such as families.
This is also the case at my techie day job: Most of the interest in attending meetings is among the junior engineers.
To even suggest a causal link we would need soooo much data that nobody has right now