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Improving quality and diffusing best practices: the case of
Marcela Horvitz-Lennon, M.D., M.P.H.[Assistant Professor of Psychiatry],
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine 201 North Craig St., office 250 Pittsburgh, PA 15213
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The slow diffusion of empirically supported treatments and the rapid diffusion of treatments
lacking empirical support play a significant role in the quality gap in the care of people with
severe mental illnesses. Further, the rapid diffusion of treatments of low cost-effectiveness limits
the system's ability to provide the full gamut of high-value treatments available to treat this
vulnerable population. Using the case of schizophrenia as an illustrative case study, we review the
context in which these paradoxical patterns of diffusion have occurred and propose policy
Understanding and correcting anomalous patterns of diffusion of health care innovations is
key to improving the performance of the US health care system.1,2 Low rates of adoption of
empirically supported treatments –henceforth referred to as evidence-based practices, and
high rates of adoption of non evidence-based practices plague the care of people with mental
illnesses.3 We focus on people with severe and persistent mental illnesses (those with
schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and severe forms of major depression and anxiety disorders)
because of their distinct needs and treatment circumstances in the US. Most people with
severe mental illnesses are cared for in the specialty mental health sector, and their mental
health and general health care is largely financed by public funds.4 In addition, evidence-
based psychosocial practices aimed at facilitating community integration and rehabilitation
are uniquely critical in the treatment of this population because of the significant functional
impairment associated with these illnesses.5
Correspondence to: Marcela Horvitz-Lennon.
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Using the case of schizophrenia as an illustrative case study, we describe paradoxical
patterns of diffusion and review factors likely to be associated with these patterns. Because
current use offers a window into past patterns of diffusion, we assume that diffusion and use
patterns are manifestations of the same underlying phenomenon.6 We conclude with a
discussion of policy strategies aimed at correcting the diffusion paradox and improving care
of this vulnerable population. Our discussion of factors associated with diffusion of
treatments and of policy solutions applies to all people with severe mental illnesses (SMIs).
Although schizophrenia affects only 0.7% of the US population (2 million adults), it
accounts for 5% of all burden of disease in the US and other developed countries as a result
of its early age of onset (third decade or younger), chronic course, significant disability, and
premature mortality.7
The economic burden of schizophrenia is also significant. By 2002, the overall US cost of
the illness was estimated to be $63 billion: $23 for direct health care and $8 billion for non-
health care costs, and $32 billion in indirect costs associated with lost productivity,
premature mortality, and negative effects on family members.8 This represents nearly half
the US cost of diabetes in 2002 in spite of the fact that diabetes is at least six times more
prevalent than schizophrenia.9
Slow Diffusion of Evidence-based Practices
In the last two decades, basic and clinical research programs in schizophrenia have
significantly expanded the therapeutic arsenal and improved patients' odds of leading fuller
lives.10 However, as in other areas of health care, some innovations have diffused very
slowly from experimental to routine care settings.11 The resulting underuse of evidence-
based practices (EBPs) has deprived scores of patients from potentially beneficial
interventions.12 The schizophrenia Patient Outcomes Research Team (PORT) study found
that in the late 1990s, adherence with recommended outpatient practices ranged between
10% and 46% for ten of eleven practices studied.13 Later studies have confirmed these
Supported employment, family psychoeducation, and other evidence-based psychosocial
practices used to treat schizophrenia are more likely to diffuse slowly and to be used less
frequently than pharmacological EBPs.15 Moreover, limited evidence suggests that use of
psychosocial EBPs is diminishing.16 A detailed discussion of underused EBPs is beyond this
paper's scope. However, two EBPs are noteworthy: clozapine because of its unique role in
the treatment of schizophrenia,17 and Supported Employment because of the importance of
employment facilitating the community integration of these individuals.18
Although clozapine is the only drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
for the management of treatment-resistant symptoms and recurrent suicidal behavior,19 its
use rates are far lower than the estimated need.20 Strikingly, its diffusion and use were not
boosted by the FDA approval in December 2002 of a second indication (see Exhibit 1).
Underuse of clozapine is likely to be related to its potential for serious hematological
adverse effects and mandatory blood tests instituted to monitor hematological indices.21
However, the substantial reduction of the drug's hematological risk as a result of the
monitoring program and higher clozapine use rates observed in countries with similar blood
test requirements as the US suggest that factors unrelated to the drug also contribute to
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Supported Employment is an evidence-based approach to securing and maintaining
competitive employment for people with schizophrenia and other SMIs.23 Most vocational
services offered in routine care are not empirically supported. It is then troubling that rates
of use of any vocational service in this population range between 0−23%, and only 5% of
people were found to receive Supported Employment in one study.24 As with clozapine, its
underuse is likely to be multi-factorial. Marshall and colleagues found that successful
implementation of Supported Employment was associated with leadership, and the
workforce's experience, training, and attitudes regarding the employability of people with
Rapid Diffusion of Non Evidence-based Practices
The rapid diffusion of practices lacking empirical support is a matter of great public health
and policy concern because at worst their potential for harm exceeds their likely benefit and
at best their use represents an inefficient use of resources; as such, their use constitutes
overuse.26 An example of overuse in the care of people with schizophrenia is antipsychotic
polypharmacy, the practice of using two or more antipsychotics simultaneously. Although
this practice lacks empirical support, methodologically diverse US studies have found rates
as high as 50% and its use appears to be on the rise.27 Although its contributing factors are
not well understood, evidence suggests that physicians use antipsychotic polypharmacy in
lieu of clozapine for patients with treatment-resistant symptoms.28
Rapid Diffusion of Treatment Practices of Lower Value
To address rising health care costs, policymakers have focused their attention not only on
diffusion and use of treatments of proven effectiveness but cost-effectiveness as well.29
Peter Orzag, former director of the Congressional Budget Office, endorsed an expanded
definition of overuse which includes situations in "which the added costs of a more
expensive service did not exceed the added benefits it was expected to provide."30 The rapid
diffusion of atypical antipsychotic drugs and rise to standard of care status is an example of
overuse defined in this manner (see Exhibit 2).31 With the exception of clozapine, initial
claims of superior efficacy relative to conventional antipsychotic drugs have not been borne
out.32 Further, branded atypical antipsychotics are far more costly, and based on recent
research, less cost-effective than conventional antipsychotics.33 Although valid concerns
about the methodological quality of the cost-effectiveness data have been raised by Richard
Frank and others, available evidence suggests that the market dominance of non-clozapine
atypical agents fits the expanded definition of overuse given above.34
The National Implementing Evidence-based Practices for Severe Mental Illness Project, an
Initiative to Increase EBP Adoption
The National Implementing Evidence-Based Practices for Severe Mental Illness Project (or
Implementing EBPs Project for short) has sought to promote the implementation of
underused EBPs for schizophrenia and other SMIs.35 Investigators developed
implementation toolkits and piloted the implementation of five psychosocial EBPs in eight
states.36 An indirect measure of the success of the Implementing EBPs Project is evidence
that states have steadily expanded their offering of the psychosocial practices promoted by
this initiative.37
The rate at which treatment innovations spread through the health care system results from
the interplay of several factors. The diffusion literature distinguishes factors related to the
innovation (e.g., effectiveness, safety); patients (e.g., treatment preferences); clinicians
(attitudes and knowledge/competencies); and the system of care.38 System-level factors
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include all aspects of the environment where care occurs (e.g., financial policies,
regulations, structural and cultural characteristics of adopting organizations). In the US, the
system of care for people with schizophrenia and other SMIs is the publicly funded specialty
mental health sector. Public health programs play a crucial role in the financing, and to a
lesser extent, the delivery of health care. Additional public sector dollars fund key social
services for this population. These public programs operate in an environment characterized
by short term constraints and chronic resource limitations, and the delivery system is a
poorly coordinated web of public and private providers with few incentives to plan for the
long term.
In what follows we discuss factors amenable to public policies that are likely to have an
important role in the diffusion paradox in the care of people with schizophrenia.39
Financing of Care
We focus on Medicaid and Medicare although note that the Veterans Health Administration
and state and local governments also play a role financing the care of this population,
particularly veterans and uninsured people.40
Medicaid—Medicaid is the single largest payer for people with SMIs including those with
schizophrenia. An important trend in Medicaid has been the expansion of managed care
programs. For a large proportion of people with SMIs enrolled in these programs, non-
pharmacy benefits for mental health and substance abuse care (together known as behavioral
health care) are managed by Managed Behavioral Health Care Organizations in carve-out
The net effects of managed care on the diffusion process are poorly understood. Managed
care is associated with greater use of ambulatory services, which in turn is associated with
greater use of medications to treat mental illnesses (henceforth referred to as psychotropic
drugs).42 However, managed care is also associated with greater use of management tools
aimed at curbing the use of expensive drugs.43 Further, the separation of behavioral health
and general health/pharmacy benefits that characterizes carve-out arrangements creates
incentives for a psychotropic drug-based approach to treatment and a reduction in the use of
psychosocial interventions.44 Overall, the evidence is mixed on the effects of Medicaid
managed care on quality of care for people with schizophrenia.45 The only published study
that has investigated the diffusion effects of carve-out arrangements found that they are
associated with an increase in the use of newer antidepressants but not of atypical
Medicare—Many Medicare-covered disabled individuals, including people with
schizophrenia, are dually eligible for Medicaid coverage.47 With the implementation of the
Medicare Modernization Act (MMA) in 2006, pharmacy benefits of dually covered
individuals were transferred to Medicare, significantly expanding Medicare's role among
people with schizophrenia and other SMIs. Although little is known about the effects of
MMA on quality of care for this population, preliminary evidence suggests that access to
psychotropic drugs may be problematic.48
Regulatory Framework
Federal and state administrative practices—These practices aim to ensure the
quality of providers –through their accreditation, and of clinicians –through their licensing
and credentialing. Because accreditation allows payers to penalize providers that fail to meet
contractual performance standards, it could play a role in correcting the diffusion paradox in
the care of people with schizophrenia. Although performance measures of relevance to this
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population are available, the most widely used quality-monitoring tool (the Healthcare
Effectiveness Data and Information Set, HEDIS) does not contain any schizophrenia
measures.49 Similarly, oversight of quality of the mental health workforce by federal and
state agencies remains an underused regulatory tool.
Payer and health plan utilization management strategies—Although physician
profiling and other utilization management strategies could be used to promote high-quality
care, they have been primarily used to contain costs.50 Further, these strategies have been
exclusively used to modify psychotropic drug prescribing practices.51
Private Sector Initiatives
Private sector initiatives can influence the diffusion process. For example, advocacy by
patients and families accelerated the adoption of Assertive Community Treatment, and
advocates' positive reviews of atypical antipsychotics may have contributed to the early
surge in their use.52 Sponsorship of academic activities and other pharmaceutical marketing
strategies increases demand for antidepressant and other prescription drugs.53 We are not
aware of similar empirical research for antipsychotic agents, but it is likely that aggressive
marketing of drugs still enjoying patent protection played a major role in the rapid diffusion
of non-clozapine atypical agents.54
Other Factors—The heterogeneous workforce involved in the care of people with
schizophrenia is generally lacking in the skills and competencies required to adopt EBPs and
deliver high-quality care to this population.55 Further, the challenging implementation and
uncertain sustainability of EBPs of higher complexity contribute to their underuse, and
despite the valuable implementation tools and evidence generated by the Implementing
EBPs Project, more research on the transport of EBPs to the real world is needed.56 In
addition, the variable quality and conflicting nature of available evidence on the
effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of treatments complicate decisions on which treatments
to fund and implement.57 Lastly, the insufficient computerization of the specialty mental
health sector may also contribute to the diffusion paradox because health information
technology can be used to monitor processes of care and promote evidence-based and high-
value care.58
Although the overriding objective of the strategies suggested below is to increase the use of
EBPs in the care of people with schizophrenia and other SMIs, some of them aim to
decrease the use of non evidence-based practices or increase the value (cost-effectiveness)
of care for this population.
Federal, state, and local governments are uniquely positioned to shape the financing and
organization as well as the content and quality of health and social services available to
people with schizophrenia. Exercising their leadership, these public entities could implement
a quality improvement agenda that among other things includes policies to influence
diffusion of treatments. High-level leadership will be crucial to advancing this agenda
because powerful institutions need to be mobilized, resources need to be reallocated, and
public-private partnerships need to be forged.59 Main targets for this high-level effort
include financial incentives, regulatory tools, quality of the workforce, and quality of the
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December 16, 2013 - 12:00am
Let's face it. Modern art deserves its bad rap. It can be scary and intimidating—the paintings of distorted figures, violent brush strokes of garish colors, and canvases that seem to possess a secret meaning only tweedy academic types with Ph.Ds can understand or the super-rich collectors with money to burn on leisure care about.
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NEW YORK -- October 3, 2013 -- Dr. Daniel A. Siedell, art historian and author of God in the Gallery: A Christian Embrace of Modern Art will bring his extensive experience to The King's College in New York City as Presidential Scholar and Art Historian in Residence.
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The Board of Trustees of The King's College is pleased to announce the appointment of Paul Glader as Visiting Professor of Journalism and Composition.Mr. Glader received his M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University in 2008, with an emphasis on economics and business reporting.From 2001 to 2011, Mr. Glader was a staff writer for the Wall Street Journal, where he wrote hundreds of news, feature, and in-depth articles about topics related to finance, health care, energy, and foreign business and management issues. Mr.
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After two years without a school-wide Fall Retreat, students rallied together in 2013 at a Fall Retreat weekend that revitalized the college community. During the weekend of September 7 and 8, over 400 students, professors, and staff members piled onto busses and drove from New York City to beautiful Iroquois Springs in Upstate New York.
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As a freshman in college, Gregory Thornbury's faith was shaken by historical critical approaches to the Bible that describe its formation in purely human terms. Dr. Thornbury found that neither his high school mentors nor the books they recommended could answer his doubts. Then, he remembered his father's esteem for Carl Henry. Dr. Thornbury went to the college library and began reading Carl Henry's six-volume magnum opus God, Revelation, and Authority. It was a turning point for Dr. Thornbury.
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Included in this year's elite class of freshmen at The King's College are two national debate champions, Michael Sheetz and Jonah Ortiz.
Both students participated in the STOA National Invitational Tournament of Champions for the homeschool speech and debate league last May. At the tournament, Michael and his partner won the championship in Team Policy Debate. Jonah won an individual Apologetics speech event.
King's Junior Writes Religious Freedom Report During Israeli Internship
September 6, 2013 - 12:00am
King's Junior Jordan Caruso '15 landed two important internships this summer. The first was for Beth Gaines of California's 6th Assembly District and the second was for the Jerusalem Institute of Justice.Caruso's internship for Assemblywoman Gaines included communication coordination for every bill being processed for 2013 and 2014. When a constituent mailed in his opinion, Jordan would put his or her name on a support list for a particular bill.
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This fall marks a fresh start for the Spiritual Life program at The King's College. The revamp is being spearheaded by Vice President for Student Development Eric Bennett and Professor Dru Johnson. The new schedule "outlines the rhythms that we celebrate with the Church-at-large: selected Scripture readings, Sabbath habits, and celebration of Holy Days and historical events," Bennett said.These activities will be referred to as The King's Liturgy.


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Sachin was at his majestic best in 1998, scoring a whopping 1431 runs at an average of 84, which included the famous 'Desert Storm' knock against Australia in Sharjah. Fifteens years later, when Sachin has put his feet up, Kohli is doing something similar for Team India.
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Here's a look at some of the records Kohli has set in 2013, making it a watershed year in the career of India's most promising batsman since the exit of 'Fab Four'.
1. His 99 against West Indies in Vizag came in a losing cause, but it took him to top of the list of ODI run-getters in 2013 with 1218 runs in 30 matches at an average of 58, including four centuries and seven half-centuries.
2. The 86 runs he scored in the first ODI against West Indies in Kochi helped him equal West Indies legend Vivian Richards's record of quickest to 5000 ODI runs. Both have done it in 114 innings.
3. Kohli is the only player in the history of ODIs to score five or more consecutive 50-plus scores on two occasions. The first time he did it was last year, and this year his bat has continued to hammer oppositions into submission.
4. After his whirlwind century against Australia in Nagpur last month, Kohli is now only behind Sachin Tendulkar in number of hundreds scored in successful run-chases. While Sachin has done it on 14 occasions, Kohli has achieved the feat 11 times.
5. The Delhi batsman is the quickest man to reach 17 ODI tons, doing it in 112 innings.
6. Kohli has completed a hat-trick off 1000 ODI runs in a calendar year. That makes him just the fourth batsman in ODI history to do so. Interestingly, all four are Indians: Sourav Ganguly (1997-2000), Sachin Tendulkar (1996-98), MS Dhoni (2007-09) and Virat Kohli (2011-13).
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Grades: 9-12
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John H. Francis Polytechnic High School serves 2,971 students in grades 9-12.
The student:teacher ratio of 27:1 is higher than the CA average of 22:1.
Minority enrollment is 98% of the student body (majority Hispanic), which is more than the state average of 74%.
The student population of 2971 students has declined by 29% over five years.
The teacher population of 110 teachers has declined by 37% over five years.
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The student:teacher ratio of 27:1 has decreased from 27:1 over five years.
The school's diversity score of 0.17 is less than the state average of 0.42. The school's diversity has stayed relatively flat over five years.
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The district's student population of 666,233 students has stayed relatively flat over five years.
The district revenue/student of $14,103 is higher than the state average of $11,099. The district revenue/student has grown by 37% over four years.
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Comic Book: The Kang War
The Kang War, otherwise known by it's actual title of 'The Kang Dynasty', is a storyline of The Avengers, by Kurt Busiek and Alan Davis.After defeating Immortus during the Destiny War, the Conqueror from the Future Kang thought it was the moment to finally conquer the 20th century planet Earth once and for all. Along with his son and heir Marcus, he appeared in the 20th Century with the "Damocles" base, a giant space station with the shape of a sword. To display their power, a death ray from the sky obliterated the United Nations, but also generated forcefields that saved everybody who was inside. Then, he declared his intentions: Earth was filled of many potential bad futures, and he intended to conquer it to prevent them. With his 30th century technology, he may crush all resistance in a few weeks; and even allowed himself the luxury of announcing the place and date of his first strike. He promised as well that, in the meantime, anyone who conquers some land in his name would be favored in his future regime... and several fifth-columnists (Attuma, the Deviants, mutinied military forces) began to attack.Despite all the military preparations, the invasion of Europe proceed without problems for Kang. There was a little hope spot for North America: the Master of the World, a villain who controlled alien fortifications that protected the cities and may counter Kang's technology. But the Avengers did not want a civil war between villains, so they sent two teams: one to defeat the master and capture his base, and another to attack the Damocles base itself. Warbird killed the Master of the World, but the controls of his base were too alien and difficult to understand. Kang destroyed the Avenger's ship in the space, and attacked Washington DC in retaliation. He destroyed the city with a futuristic weapon (more or less like an atomic bomb that only kills people, but without radiation and without destroying buildings). Earth surrendered.In the meantime, the Trine Understanding (a religious group that had a pair of conflicts with the Avengers) launched a ship to attack the Triple Evil, a threat that would attack Earth someday, and rescued the Avengers floating in space. This Triple Evil was a giant pyramid, that they managed to seize and control. The Avengers at the base of the Master of World finally understood how to operate it, and began to attack the Damocles base once more. Kang announced that, in retaliation for this attack, he would destroy Denver and Atlanta... and then, the pyramid appeared, and joined the fight. All the Avengers in the space, the pyramid and a russian villain fired their many powers to the shield, and the attack of Tremont finally broke it. Warbird destroyed the core, and the base began to fall to the planet. Kang sent his son bak to the XXX century, and accepted his own fate.With his base destroyed and his armour broken, it all came down to a hand-to-hand combat between Kang and Captain America. Kang was defeated and jailed... and rescued by his son Marcus. Still, Kang was very dissapointed of him: for robbing him a glorious death, for using time-travel to undo an honourable victory of their enemies, for helping Warbird and not confessing it, etc. But before killing him, a reveal to make him suffer: Actually, he was just one of several clones of the original Marcus, and he will share the fate all the previous Marcus clones that disappointed him.
The Kang War contains examples of:
- Animated Adaptation: The storyline was adapted in the episodes "Come the Conqueror" and "The Kang Dinasty" of The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes
- Badass Grandpa: Tremont made the attack that finally broke the shields of the Damocles base.
- Cavalry Betrayal: The government sent an army of Sentinels against the Damocles base. Kang simply used his futuristic technology to hack the sentinels, and turn them into his own army.
- Colony Drop: The fall of the Damocles base.
- Conqueror from the Future: It was about time that Kang finally showed those 20th century neanthertals how did he earn the title of Conqueror. Not as One-Man Army, not diverting his attention with romantic relations with Ravonna or the Celestial Madonna, not with mind-manipulation tricks, but with the old fashioned type of conquest: leading legions and legions of armies, to crush the defenses of the weaker armies.
- Continuity Nod: Kang uses the floating chair he had used in Avengers 8, his first issue by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby
- Crazy-Prepared: Before launching his invasion, Kang had made up his military strategy, that involved all possible factors: national armies, superheroes, hidden races, alien technologies, possible "cavalries", everything. But his masterplan failed because there was a single power he forgot to consider: The Power of Love.
- Defiant to the End: Kang does not cheat: he may use time travel to escape, reestablish his forces and return at the same moment in time, but he refuses that path. If, despite his superior forces, the Avengers managed to destroy his base, he'll go down with it.
- Dying Moment of Awesome: Stolen. When he realized that he was defeated, he accepted going down with the orbital base that was falling to Earth, and did not attempt to escape from it. But he survived. Then, the next option: he's held prisoner, he will surely be sentenced to death, and he will die with his warrior honour intact... and Marcus stole that glory from him, by rescuing him.
- Eye Take: When Warbird killed the Master of the World. Even his beasts were included in the scene.
- Grand Finale: To Kurt Busiek's Avengers's run.
- Identical Stranger: Marcus, the son of Kang, who falled in love with Warbird, and Marcus, the son of Immortus, who abducted, drugged and raped her a long time ago. They are not the same Marcus, but have the same face, the same voice, the same manners... Justified (a bit), after all Kang and Immortus are actually the same time-traveling man at different points of maturity. Or, said more simple, both Marcus are brothers (but don't ever tell him that).
- Internal Homage: The scene of Warbird stepping to the Avengers martial court (for killing the Master of the World) is similar to the previous martial court she had at the begining of Kurt Busiek's run in the title.
- Legacy Character: Marcus as the Scarlet Centurion: that's a former identity his father briefly had.
- Meaningful Name: The Damocles base, a space station shaped as a sword, floating undetected over earth... the futuristic Sword of Damocles.
- No Dialogue Episode: Avengers #49, when Kang finally conquers Earth.
- President Target: Thor had to interrupt the fight to save George Bush, teleporting him with the deviants (a race of monsters that had recently swore loyalty to Warbird... long story). Go with the friendly monsters, or stay in WWIII being fought right outside the White House? Friendly monsters!
- Sadistic Choice: Kangs knows fully well that, when jailing superheroes, any prison will be a Cardboard Prison, no matter how futuristic. So, any time someone someone is trying to escape, he s given an option: surrender and be executed, or escape and two other unrelated prisoners will be executed. Of course, if they manage to escape at all: if they are killed during the escape, the two others must be executed anyway. Only a very selfish man (and certainly not a Knight in Shining Armor hero) would try to escape under those conditions.
- Wham Episode: Issue 49; Kang wins and conquers the world. This is the first time in all of Marvel history that mainstream, present-day Earth was conquered, not by mind control, but sheer military strategy.
- What Measure Is a Non-Human?: During the fight, Captain America had a dilemma. The aliens souls trapped in the pyramid were meant to fight against the Triple Evil, not against Kang, and were crying to be liberated now that the Triple Evil had been defeated. By using them this way, the Avengers were enslaving those souls. A dilemma for Captain America... but not for Tremont. "Earth is at stake, you can't have mercy! They are aliens, who cares about their souls!?"
- Who Wants to Live Forever?: Thor had a brief crisis over this issue, realizing that he has very strong ties with people who will die some day. Firebird made him realize that, if the time he will share with specific mortals is limited, that's a reason to treasure every second of it while it lasts. Wich is much longer than she suspects, anyway.
- Year Outside, Hour Inside: The brief moments the Avengers were placed into artificial fantasies inside the pyramid, were not so brief as they seemed: they were weeks in them, and in that time Kang had already conquered Earth.