Back pain, private equity and IVF clinics, EKGs and liver disease, and lay health workers

This week's topics include managing back pain, private equity and IVF clinics, EKGs and chronic liver disease, and lay health workers and older adults with cancer.

Program notes:

0:40 IVF clinics and private equity

1:40 Provide over 54% of all IVF cycles in U.S.

2:41 Perhaps a more positive result

3:30 EKGs and liver cirrhosis

4:30 New diagnosis of advanced liver disease

5:30 Most physicians didn't follow up

6:18 Management of acute back pain

7:18 Did it improve pain or disability?

8:18 Four- to eight-hour-long sessions to teach

8:46 Lay health worker led intervention for older adults with cancer

9:46 Reviewed with advanced practice practitioners

10:46 Huge benefit from modest intervention

11:46 Pick up the phone and ask

12:20 Modest outlay

13:09 End