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Our conversation is with Dr. Patricia Dykes of Boston’s Partners HealthCare. She’s first author on a paper published in JAMA earlier this week. In her study of fall prevention in hospitals, she and her team randomized eight medical units in four Boston-area hospitals either to their usual standards of fall prevention or to use of the “fall-prevention toolkit” — an intervention customized for each patient. The results are encouraging. Interview-related links: First Watch coverage (free) The study abstract in JAMA (free) Dr. Dykes’ email address News-related links: Radiology article on CT screening for lung cancer (free) National Cancer Institute’s news release on the CT study Duloxetine approved for chronic musculoskeletal pain BMJ article on vitamin E’s stroke hazards (free) (advertisement) QuantiaMD & Journal Watch National Case Challenge – $2500 Grand Prize Entering is easy and takes about 15 minutes – simply provide basic information about your case using our one-page entry form.   Submissions