Author Affiliations: Department of Medicine, Emory School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia (Dr Goyal) ([email protected]); and St Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute, Kansas City, Missouri (Drs Spertus and Kosiborod). Conflict of Interest Disclosures: The authors have completed and submitted the ICMJE Form for Disclosure of Potential Conflicts of Interest. Dr Spertus reported receiving grants...

This paper studies two disclosure regimes when a firm with superior private information must rely on a strategic certifier to disclose credibly its prospects. In the ex ante (ex post) disclosure regime, the firm must decide on whether to hire the certifier before (after) observing the certifier's noisy assessment. Endogenously determined certification fees can actually cause the disclosure prob...

The formation of coronary collateral vessels constitutes a compensatory adaptation of the heart to ischemia. This vascular response increases blood supply to the myocardium reducing the area of hypoxic damage and, ultimately, infarct size. The recruitment of collateral vessels within the coronary circulation is favored by multiple episodes of ischemia, which provide the stimuli necessary for th...

Americans are living longer, and many are managing at least one chronic illness. Having people with whom to disclose health information is a salient component of managing a chronic health condition, such as heart disease. The purpose of this study is to explore differences in elderly patients' health disclosures by target (i.e. disclosing to a partner vs. another person). Elderly patients (>age...

The ”Efficient Market Hypothesis” (EMH) states that market outperformance is impossible through expert selection because each stock price efficiently incorporates and reflects all relevant evaluative information. We study the validity of EMH by analyzing the latent information of financial disclosures year over year. Specifically, we explore the concept of ”Lazy Prices”, the idea that changes i...

Author Richard Wurtman, MD Cecil H Green Distinguished Professor Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences Massachusetts Institute of Technology Disclosures: Consultant/Advisory Boards: Danone Medical Foods (Alzheimer's disease); Centre Int'l Research Servier (pain, personalized medicine). Patent Holder: Back Bay Scientific (medical uses of nutrients (inventor, patents held by MIT)). Section E...

Information posted in medical websites may contain incomplete or inaccurate information and untested opinions. This study examines the quality of medical information posted by selected research hospitals that provide health-related products and services. Specifically, this study uses seven primary features and nine secondary factors to assess the websites of the top fifty research hospitals in ...

Addressing gaps in the research, the current study assesses the impact of a community-based child sexual abuse prevention program on known survivor knowledge/skills, disclosures, and subjective experience. Methodologically, novel measures of program fidelity and implementation cost are applied. A pre- posttest wait-list control design was utilized with intervention (n = 10) and comparison group...