In this conversation, Mitch Belkin, MD ’22, and Daniel Belkin, MD, interview infectious diseases physician and epidemiologist Daniel Morgan, MD, MS, about infection prevention, diagnostic stewardship, diagnostic reasoning, and medical overuse. They discuss regional differences in medical use and delve into a cluster-randomized controlled trial of contact precautions in ICU patients to evaluate whether this prevents C. Diff, MRSA, and VRE. They also touch on AI’s potential role in clinical decision support, and the question of how to improve clinician statistical reasoning.
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Daniel Morgan, MD, MS, is a physician and epidemiologist at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He directs the Center for Innovation in Diagnosis and is chief of epidemiology at the Veterans Affairs Maryland Health Care System. His research interests include probability in medicine, medical overuse, diagnostic stewardship, and infection prevention.