@janprobst
Jan Probst ~ 40 years health services research, mostly into rural issues Guardian of Sam the rural health advoCATe. Bibliography: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/1HMPkKfOyD5kE/bibliography/public/
It was a group of FIRST-YEAR UW med students (Particularly now-Dr. Naomi Nkinsi) who initiated the cascade of events that culminated in these outcomes. What a privilege to have been one of their instructors, earlier in the same year. An immense injustice, overturned.
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Excited that this paper is out!
We applied co-location multivariate local join statistics & Generalized Additive Models to assess the joint vulnerabilities to dimensions of environmental injustice at the nexus of income, race, and disability across the U.S. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
NRHA is now accepting presentation proposals for our Rural Health Clinic and Critical Access Hospital Conferences Sept. 15-18 in Kansas City, Mo. Act soon to share your expertise at our fastest-growing events in NRHA’s hometown: www.ruralhealth.us/events/rhc-a... #ruralhealth
Largest systematic review of LLMs in clinical medicine
4,609 peer-reviewed clinical LLM studies were counted in 2022 - 2025, ~3/day
Only 1,048 used real patient data, 19 were RCTs
Most addressed simulated scenarios (1,857) or exam-style tasks (1,704)
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Btw the data from the paper is available here: dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo…
The paper is open access online.
Thanks to all my coauthors for their contributions! @julianajaramilloe.bsky.social @gregorigv.bsky.social @evanrobertsnz.bsky.social @kris-inwood.bsky.social
Time at Home matters.
In our study in @sccmjournals.bsky.social, we examined the association between in-hospital rehab & Days Alive & At Home among #olderadults
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Extra proud of @yalemed.bsky.social resident Stephanie Kim who led this work during her pregnancy
Health plan disenrollment following MOUD initiation "was associated with a 51% and 56% increase in the hazards of all-cause mortality and overdose mortality"
Relevant finding as states work to operationalize Medicaid work requirement exemptions for enrollees with substance use disorder.
Vintage black-and-white photo of a woman, wearing a coat with a raised collar.
10 March 1924 | A German Jewish woman, Stefania Anschel, was born in Berlin.
She arrived at #Auschwitz on 4 February 1943 in a transport of 952 Jews deported from Berlin. She did not survive.
A new Medicare "Advantage"drawback, shared by Sam the rural health advoCATe: rural residents are more likely to be forced out of a plan when it exits their area. Less choice for rural residents, but maybe better for underpaid rural facilities.
#PowerOfRuralCats
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Here’s last night’s story about USAID, why the Trump Administration has gutted it, who is being impacted, and how many nice things John can say about George W. Bush. It’s more than zero! By a very narrow margin, it is more than zero. youtu.be/tU8S13xYJNM
Learning through change, shared by Sam the rural health advoCATe. Some care > no care.
#PowerOfRuralCats
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But they keep calling The Lancet a U.S. journal. Am I missing something?
Sam the rural health advoCATe is soooo tired of policies purportedly supporting rural that ignore rural reality. "RHTP...funding per resident was negatively associated with rural mortality" ... i.e., states with the least need get the most money.
#PowerOfRuralCats
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Here, too, as of yesterday.
Job Opening: Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Medicine & Medical Humanities to begin 7/1/2026. For more info & to apply: hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/2026/03/06/j... Deadline to apply is April 5th.
JAMA Health Forum: Research Letter on 'Racial Disparities in Food Insecurity for High- and Low-Income Households' by Cordelia Kwon, Yifan Liu, Deidra C. Crews, et al. Published March 6, 2026.
This study of nearly 1 million US households from 2000 to 2023 found racial disparities in #FoodInsecurity among both higher- and low-income groups, highlighting the continued role of structural racism and the value of federal nutrition programs.
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“There’s been a fundamental destruction.”
Scientists are leaving the National Institutes of Health in droves under President Donald Trump.
@rachanadpradhan.bsky.social & @k-hought.bsky.social report on what's left behind ⤵️
PhD opening @UniOslo: Join a dynamic team exploring men's health & family dynamics in the ERC HOMME project! 3-4 yrs, interdisciplinary (psych, soc, econ, health), Norwegian register data + cohorts. Salary ~NOK 551k-615k. Deadline 31 March 2026.
Apply: www.finn.no/job/ad/45388...
Everybody’s got their reasons for despising Markwayne Mullin and mine is him screaming at the dignified and brilliant former CDC Director Susan Monarez at a hearing.
He lied about a nonexistent recording and tried to bully her into submission.
She was a locus of zen. He lost his damned mind.
Our new paper was just published in @atsblueeditor.bsky.social
Authored by the Lung Health Policy Tracking Group — a panel of lung specialists & public health experts — our paper explores impacts of Trump policies on Lung Health in 10 domains.
Open access link to "online first" version:
Sam the rural health advoCATe remembers what a wonderful lady Rosemary was. Let’s find some champions to continue her legacy!
#PowerOfRuralCats
A thoughtful discussion shared by Sam the rural health advoCATe, who notes that rural residents are often underrepresented in online panels. He likes the recommendation that findings from non-probability online surveys not be published.
#PowerOfRuralCats
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Grimly shared by Sam the rural health advoCATe, who is tired of endless policy implementations that fail to assess rural impacts.
#PowerOfRuralCats
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Happening tomorrow, 11AM EST or 8AM Pacific!
Twitter mentions Friday 6 February: 17,947 posts Bluesky, same timeframe: 24,512 posts
Since we have 2 months of 2026 data now, we can see if the trend we saw last year holds up: does research from the current year get shared more on Bluesky or X-Twitter?
As you can see here, we still see days regularly where Bluesky's volume of research sharing is markedly higher than Twitter.
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Heads up -- the NHATS webinar was moved one week. See below:
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Today in HA Forefront: we argue that Trump admin efforts to cancel vaccine-related research grants aren't just unlawful -- they're a major threat to public health.
@mccuskey.bsky.social @thcallaghan.bsky.social @michaelrulrich.bsky.social & Nicole Huberfeld
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Map showing Washington Heights and East Harlem with highlighted areas: Washington Heights BID and 125th Street BID in red, 5-min walking buffer in orange, and 10-min walking buffer in blue, with OnPoint Washington Heights and OnPoint East Harlem.
Opening of overdose prevention centers in New York City was not associated with significant changes in neighborhood foot traffic or consumer spending, suggesting no observed economic harms near these #HarmReduction sites.
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A graph displays the 'Share of NHs with QSWs' against 'Beds, total No.' from 2017 to 2021. The share generally increases with the number of beds. The 2019 share shows a higher rate for most bed totals.
In US nursing homes, employment of qualified social workers was associated with reduced restraint use, especially in facilities with higher #Dementia prevalence.
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