Reminder, if you’re going to @ashecon.bsky.social 2026, come to our Wednesday session of creative uses of recession discontinuity with some of the best in the business, including @aschwartz.bsky.social, @vinisingh.bsky.social, @dzeltzer.bsky.social, and @mlbarnett.bsky.social!
Another clinically-oriented research letter from one of my grants, published in JGIM. In it, we find that low usage of diabetes preventive therapies (meds and weight management programs) among Vets with evidence of prediabetes. And 1/4 of our cohort develop diabetes! 1/2
Another striking study: RCT showing that a subsidy for produce did not improve outcomes such as HbA1c or ED visits (or BP or BMI). There may be other benefits, but if trying to improve these outcomes, providing such a subsidy isn't where you want to put your money in.
An important paper showing that, for Veterans visiting an ED with a mental health condition, having delayed follow up causes decreased engagement with mental health care and increases mortality.
Dan Ly
Anticipated FOMO: Evidence from choosing among concurrent sessions during @ashecon.bsky.social 2026
The small diffs by race and ethnicity are swamped by the overall low rates of use of these therapies and high rates of diabetes development. Thank you to VA HSR and @nihcm.bsky.social for funding this work! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
If you're buying plane tickets to ASHEcon '26, make sure you stay for our session (last of the conference) of 3 RDs studying heuristics, stigma, & guidelines. With @aschwartz.bsky.social, @vinisingh.bsky.social, @dzeltzer.bsky.social, and @mlbarnett.bsky.social! ashecon.confex.com/ashecon/2026...
Dan Ly
New diff-in-diff paper in @jamainternalmed.com. We document some unintended consequences of a hypertension control quality metric and financial incentive -- one that's widely used in US healthcare. In the overall population with hypertension there were almost no impacts, but..
Excited for our #ASHEcon panel TUESDAY 10:15am on natural experiments in acute care. Papers on decisionmaking in surgeon-anesthesiologist dyads, emergency attending peer dyads, and clustering of patient acuities. ashecon.confex.com/ashecon/2026...
