from Terry Flynn PhD at http://bit.ly/1bjBFyy on April 30, 2015 at 10:01PM Am in Gran Canaria til 11th May. Today I educated a couple of guys about the Frenchman with the phone up his bottom, the guy who died whilst on the job with a rent boy and the guy who got a priapism after […]
from The Health Care Blog at http://bit.ly/1EwczHe on April 30, 2015 at 08:45PM By Robert Wachter, MD Today THCB is delighted to feature an excerpt from Robert Wachter’s much-talked about new book “The Digital Doctor.” (McGraw Hill, 2015) . If you enjoy this piece, be sure have a look at the director’s cut interviews Wachter […]
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from AcademyHealth Blog at http://bit.ly/1KxzLHk on April 30, 2015 at 05:00PM For decades, many in the United States have been uninsured. For decades, many socioeconomically disadvantaged and racial and ethnic minorities have suffered worse health outcomes because of disparities in US health care. Often, these two groups have significant overlap. It’s been thought, therefore, that […]
from The Incidental Economist at http://bit.ly/1GzhCF5 on April 30, 2015 at 05:08PM My latest at the AcademyHealth blog: For decades, many in the United States have been uninsured. For decades, many socioeconomically disadvantaged and racial and ethnic minorities have suffered worse health outcomes because of disparities in US health care. Often, these two groups have […]
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from The Health Care Blog at http://bit.ly/1DYP6ex on April 30, 2015 at 03:49PM By FRED TROTTER Recently, I have had some interesting conversations with doctors and medical students of Naturopathic Medicine. I am slowly getting involved in editing Wikipedia medicine articles, and I was approached by several proponents of Naturopathic Medicine, who were upset about […]
from News at http://bit.ly/1OIc0Sw on April 30, 2015 at 09:00AM Optimization Modeling to Maximize Population Access to Comprehensive Stroke Centers Michael T. Mullen, Charles C. Branas, Scott E. Kasner, Catherine Wolff, Justin C. Williams, Karen C. Albright and Brendan G. Carr In Neurology, Michael Mullen, Charles Branas, Brendan Carr and colleagues share results of a […]
from The Incidental Economist at http://bit.ly/1HU3SJg on April 30, 2015 at 01:05PM I’d be lying if I said parts of this didn’t resonate with me. This week’s A Piece of My Mind in JAMA, by Scott Berman, “Gripers and Whiners“: Now what I hear over and over is a plaintive whine: “The insurance company won’t … […]
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from Health Economics at http://bit.ly/1ETJ59E on April 30, 2015 at 08:18AM Understanding the data generating process behind healthcare costs remains a key empirical issue. Although much research to date has focused on the prediction of the conditional mean cost, this can potentially miss important features of the full distribution such as tail probabilities. We conduct […]
from Market Design at http://bit.ly/1GHKNIu on April 30, 2015 at 08:01AM
from Healthcare Economist at http://bit.ly/1GHKM7p on April 30, 2015 at 07:34AM Austin Frakt summarizes some recent research presented at AcademyHealth. There are three principle MA plan types: HMOs, PPOs, and private fee for service (PFFS) plans. It’s HMOs that are lowest in cost, because they tend to offer the most restrictive networks. As Biles et […]
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from NIHR Journals Library – Last Published at http://bit.ly/1zeMVaE on April 30, 2015 at 01:01AM Authors: Bhui K, Aslam R, Palinski A, McCabe R, Johnson M, Weich S, Singh S, Knapp M, Ardino V, Szczepura A.
from CCHE General Updates Archive Feed at http://bit.ly/1GIUlWy on April 29, 2015 at 10:07PM Canadian Centre for Health Economics View this email in your browser (http://bit.ly/1GIUlWA%5D) 14th Annual Canadian Health Economists’ Study Group Conference (CHESG) The Faculty Club, University of Toronto Toronto, ON May 27-28, 2015 The deadline for registration is May 12th. Please visit […]
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from The Incidental Economist at http://bit.ly/1Ja2K2R on April 29, 2015 at 11:08PM I’ve seen editorial malpractice before. I keep a file of personal experiences, just to remind myself that the process isn’t totally clean, and that we must always be on alert to make sure peer-review is the best it can be. But every once […]
from CEA Registry Team at http://bit.ly/1ESfGMS on April 29, 2015 at 09:53PM By James Chambers, Ph.D. Clinical researchers and health care decision makers are increasingly using network meta-analysis to synthesize comparative effectiveness evidence of competing treatments that have not been studied in head-to-head clinical trials. In a new paper published in PLOS ONE, my colleagues […]
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from AcademyHealth Blog at http://bit.ly/1dtaH9u on April 29, 2015 at 05:27PM Yesterday, AcademyHealth, Research!America, the American Heart Association, and WomenHeart: The National Coalition for Women with Heart Disease joined forces to co-host the congressional briefing “From Discovery to Delivery: Research at Work Against Heart Disease.” The event was standing room only, with approximately 80 attendees, […]
from CHW Events at http://bit.ly/1DKsUWd on April 29, 2015 at 01:00AM Open to students, faculty, fellows and staff.
from PeterUbel.com at http://bit.ly/1bTM1X6 on April 29, 2015 at 02:25PM Here is a quick review from the Commonwealth Fund showing what happened to jobs in the United States since 2000. A dramatic growth in healthcare jobs, and almost no growth in the rest of the economy: Something to keep in … Continue reading → The […]
from JHE at http://bit.ly/1J8nAj3 on April 29, 2015 at 01:52PM Publication date: Source:Journal of Health Economics, Volume 41
from The Incidental Economist at http://bit.ly/1JSncoQ on April 29, 2015 at 01:30PM I’m getting a lot of interesting responses to this week’s Healthcare Triage on menu labeling. The vast majority of them are in the vein of “calorie counting works for me, so menu labeling is awesome”. I have no problem with people being able […]
from JHE at http://bit.ly/1GHfh08 on April 29, 2015 at 01:52PM Publication date: Source:Journal of Health Economics Author(s): Jeffrey E. Harris , Ana Inés Balsa , Patricia Triunfo
from The Incidental Economist at http://bit.ly/1JAo2d7 on April 29, 2015 at 12:30PM I’m getting a lot of weirdly gloating emails this week telling me that my past writings on fluoridation are now proven wrong, because the government had “confirmed” it’s harmful. Um… no: The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services today released the final Public […]
from JHE at http://bit.ly/1GHff8p on April 29, 2015 at 01:52PM Publication date: Source:Journal of Health Economics Author(s): Günther Fink , Felix Masiye
from The Incidental Economist at http://bit.ly/1JSncoP on April 29, 2015 at 12:00PM The following originally appeared on The Upshot (copyright 2015, The New York Times Company). Researchers who want to study Medicare or Medicaid patients with substance-use disorders — and illnesses disproportionately affecting them like H.I.V. and hepatitis C — are, at best, working with biased data. […]
from Brookings Topics – Health at http://brook.gs/1FxqtLq on April 29, 2015 at 01:00PM Editor’s note: this post originally appeared in JAMA Forum on April 28, 2015. To view the original post, click here. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) continues on its painful journey. Major technical problems remain in the statute, such as the “family glitch,” in which […]
from Brookings Topics – Health at http://brook.gs/1FxqtLq on April 29, 2015 at 01:00PM Editor’s note: this post originally appeared in JAMA Forum on April 28, 2015. To view the original post, click here. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) continues on its painful journey. Major technical problems remain in the statute, such as the “family glitch,” in which […]
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