from The Health Care Blog at https://bit.ly/3bJCDEm on March 31, 2020 at 10:47PM Practices cannot survive the COVID-19 cash flow crisis By JEFF LIVINGSTON, MD Will doctors be able to keep their practices open during the worst pandemic in our lifetime? Our country needs every available doctor in the country to fight the challenges of […]
from The Incidental Economist at https://bit.ly/2X0eyEP on March 31, 2020 at 09:28PM Tracey A. Wilkinson, MD, MPH and Erika R. Cheng, PhD, MPA are Assistant Professors of Pediatrics at the Indiana University School of Medicine. We are in the midst of a global pandemic. Schools have closed, businesses shuttered, important gatherings cancelled. In order to […]
from The European Journal of Health Economics at https://bit.ly/340dOBa on March 31, 2020 at 09:21PM Abstract Objectives Dossiers submitted for early benefit assessments in Germany also provide information on the precise determination of the target population (patients eligible for a drug). The situation is complex for non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) due to highly specific therapeutic […]
from RAND Research Topic: Health and Health Care at https://bit.ly/2UJQJyk on March 31, 2020 at 08:24PM Study Design A prospective observational study. Objective The aim of this study was to evaluate group-level and individual-level change in health-related quality of life among persons with chronic low back pain or neck pain receiving chiropractic care in the […]
from RAND Research Topic: Health and Health Care at https://bit.ly/33Z3SId on March 31, 2020 at 08:24PM The objective of this qualitative study was to explore the perspectives of school and preparedness officials on the feasibility of implementing a range of social distancing practices to reduce influenza transmission during a pandemic. In the summer of 2017, […]
from RAND Research Topic: Health and Health Care at https://bit.ly/2Uy2BoA on March 31, 2020 at 08:24PM This weekly recap focuses on COVID-19, how the United States is responding to the coronavirus outbreak, the spread of misinformation during this time, and more.
from Quality of Life Research at https://bit.ly/2w1qn2z on March 31, 2020 at 07:24PM Abstract Purpose The quality of life of individuals with chronic musculoskeletal pain partly depends on their capacity to adjust their personal goals. Vignettes have been rarely used to assess this ability. Therefore, this study aimed to test the relationships between vignettes assessing […]
from PSSRU at https://bit.ly/2WZLspg on March 31, 2020 at 07:00PM Dr Shereen Hussein has produced a paper for the International Long-Term Care Policy Network in relation to the effect on the well-being of care workers as a result of the current pandemic. To read the paper click on this link https://ltccovid.org/2020/03/31/report-impact-of-covid19-on-frontline-long-term-care-workers-wellbeing/
from The Health Care Blog at https://bit.ly/2yotFOl on March 31, 2020 at 07:00PM By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH “[Employers’] top priority is getting their employees and their family members the appropriate care, but there are a lot of unknowns about how this is going to impact their actual total cost of care…” As Covid-19 testing […]
from Peter Ubel at https://bit.ly/33XRIPG on March 31, 2020 at 05:53PM US government’s WWII mobilization on penicillin is a road map to fighting the coronavirus On March 14, 1942, an American soldier with bacteria coursing through his bloodstream was treated with penicillin, a new wonder drug that saved his life. That single treatment exhausted half […]
from PharmacoEconomics at https://bit.ly/2R0yOCw on March 31, 2020 at 05:30PM Abstract Introduction Health economics models are typically built in Microsoft Excel® owing to its wide familiarity, accessibility and perceived transparency. However, given the increasingly rapid and analytically complex decision-making needs of both the pharmaceutical industry and the field of health economics and outcomes research (HEOR), […]
from Google Alert at https://bit.ly/2JwJWTq on March 31, 2020 at 03:53PM Grattan Institute health economist Stephen Duckett said he did not see why hospitals should be receiving government support to pay for overheads …
from Google Alert at https://bit.ly/3bQVcGL on March 31, 2020 at 03:53PM … Drug Administration commissioner and Eric Feigl-Ding, an epidemiologist and health economist at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health.
from Google Alert at https://bit.ly/340TGir on March 31, 2020 at 03:53PM RIJO JOHN, health economist and senior fellow of Kochibased think tank Centre for Public Policy Research, said: “When Covid-19 cases go up and …
from The Health Care Blog at https://bit.ly/3dBZMdo on March 31, 2020 at 03:06PM By KIM BELLARD If, as they say, necessity is the mother of invention, then you’d have to say that the COVID-19 pandemic is proving to be the mother of invention and innovation. And, like Isaac Hayes sang about Shaft, it is a […]
from Value in Health at https://bit.ly/3dSJNrI on March 31, 2020 at 03:03PM Publication date: Available online 31 March 2020 Source: Value in Health Author(s): Ben van Hout, Brendan Mulhern, Yan Feng, Koonal Shah, Nancy Devlin
from The Incidental Economist at https://bit.ly/2QWzmtm on March 31, 2020 at 01:50PM Ciaran S. Phibbs, PhD is Associate Director of the Health Economics Resource Center at the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Stanford University School of Medicine. The just passed CARES Act includes $100 billion to […]
from Market Design at https://bit.ly/2xCjjdn on March 31, 2020 at 01:23PM A timely article points out that many of us are more likely to underestimate dangers (like corona virus) than overestimate them. Complacency, Not Panic, Is the Real DangerOnly a small minority of people panic under threat, research shows. Far more don’t take the threat […]
from Google Alert at https://bit.ly/2WWMUbP on March 31, 2020 at 12:50PM Value in Health, the official journal of ISPOR- the professional society for health economics and outcomes research, announced today the publication …
from Google Alert at https://bit.ly/2JsI9Ps on March 31, 2020 at 12:50PM News Release: A free webinar on the ISPOR 2020 Top 10 HEOR Trends will be held on Thursday, March 26, 2020 at 11:00AM EDT and is available …
from Google Alert at https://bit.ly/3dFBrmZ on March 31, 2020 at 12:50PM Newswise — Lawrenceville, NJ, USA—March 31, 2020—Value in Health, the official journal of ISPOR—the professional society for health economics …
from Google Alert at https://bit.ly/3bC6nmn on March 31, 2020 at 12:50PM Lead researcher and head of QIMR Berghofer’s Health Economics Research Group, Associate Professor Louisa Gordon, said the results were …
from Econsalut at https://bit.ly/2xyRT86 on March 31, 2020 at 12:15PM Current situation on test results Daily report 30/3/2020 Available models Latest data Covid-19 Incidence: 212 per 100.000 inhabitants Spreading rate: 0,6 This is good news! … [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
from The European Journal of Health Economics at https://bit.ly/3dFTb1C on March 31, 2020 at 10:15AM Abstract Tax pass-through rates to prices measure how much prices increase when taxes are increased by one unit, which will in turn determine the effectiveness of taxation policies in reducing substance use. Using longitudinal data of alcohol prices and excise […]
from Health Economics and Decision Science Blog @ ScHARR at https://bit.ly/3bAZKkc on March 31, 2020 at 08:00AM With most UK universities moving their teaching online during the coronavirus outbreak, HEDS has a wealth of expertise as an experienced provider of online courses, making the transition for our face-to-face courses relatively straightforward. Since 2011, HEDS has […]
from The Academic Health Economists’ Blo… at https://bit.ly/3dK1fyj on March 31, 2020 at 07:06AM I don’t do back of the envelope calculations, largely because the harm of a bad estimate can be worse than the harm of no estimate. A rough guess will be biased in ways we cannot possibly predict. This is acutely true […]
from Healthcare Economist at https://bit.ly/2WXDHjt on March 31, 2020 at 05:15AM I have written about the 340b program a number of times on this blog in the past (e.g., “The 340B Program: An Overview“, “340B Facts and Figures“). A new commentary by Thomas and Schulman (2020) in Health Services Research provides some additional information. For […]
from Journal of Comparative Effectiveness Research at https://bit.ly/39vPqbQ on March 31, 2020 at 04:36AM Journal of Comparative Effectiveness Research, Ahead of Print.
from Google Alert at https://bit.ly/2Jt7Pva on March 31, 2020 at 03:40AM … Australian community can’t collectively work to flatten the curve, said Professor Stephen Duckett, the Grattan Institute’s head of health economics.
from Health Economics at https://bit.ly/3ayNq3K on March 31, 2020 at 02:30AM Boards hire and fire CEOs based on imperfect information. Using comprehensive data on 28 cohorts in Sweden, we analyze the role of a potentially important unobserved attribute—CEO health—in corporate governance. We find CEOs are significantly healthier than the population and other highskill professionals, in […]
from Health Economics at https://bit.ly/39u73bW on March 31, 2020 at 02:30AM Neonatal deaths (i.e., those occurring within 28 days of birth) account for close to half of all deaths among children under age 5 worldwide. In most low and middle-income countries, data on neonatal deaths come primarily from household surveys. We conducted a validation study […]
from Health Economics at https://bit.ly/2URWbzz on March 31, 2020 at 02:30AM This note is intended to introduce economists to a simple SIR model of the progression of COVID-19 in the United States over the next 12-18 months. An SIR model is a Markov model of the spread of an epidemic in a population in which […]
from Health Economics at https://bit.ly/3dDeocJ on March 31, 2020 at 02:30AM With the geographic proximity and high volume of trade with China, Vietnam was expected to have a high risk of the new Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. However, to date [mid-March 2020], in comparison to attempts to containing the disease around the world, responses from Vietnam […]
from Health Economics at https://bit.ly/2wQ12ZN on March 31, 2020 at 02:30AM Has coronavirus disrupted the disruptor? We argue that this is indeed the case, and that this disruption will affect the growth of Airbnb on the long term. The first premise of our prediction is that coronavirus is representative of any kind of major shock […]
from Health Economics at https://bit.ly/2xx5gFY on March 31, 2020 at 02:30AM Air pollution from vehicular traffic is a major source of health damage in urban areas. The problems of urban traffic and pollution are essentially geographic, because their incidence and impacts depend on the spatial distribution of economic activities, households, and transport links. This paper […]
from Health Economics at https://bit.ly/2JrhzGq on March 31, 2020 at 02:30AM To insure policyholders against contemporaneous health expenditure shocks and future reclassi-fication risk, long-term health insurance constitutes an alternative to community-rated short-term contracts with an individual mandate. Relying on unique claims panel data from a large private insurer in Germany, we study a real-world long-term […]
from Health Economics at https://bit.ly/33Z9VMI on March 31, 2020 at 02:30AM Usually common cold is not a danger, but a new strain of coronavirus is killing man species. Why? This virus could have not emerged spontaneously by natural mutations and wild strains recombinations, it is a genetic chimaera with artificial insertions modified genes, an engineered […]
from Health Economics at https://bit.ly/2UsPWTK on March 31, 2020 at 02:30AM Medicine has always been a data science. Collecting and interpreting data is a key component of every interaction between physicians and patients. Data can be anything from blood pressure measurements at a yearly exam to complex radiology images interpreted by experts or algorithms. Interpreting […]
from Health Economics at https://bit.ly/2UsFcon on March 31, 2020 at 02:30AM We provide the first analysis on how fear of the novel coronavirus affects current economic sentiment. First, we collect a global dataset on internet searches indicative of economic anxieties, which serve as a leading indicator of subsequent aggregate demand contractions. We find that the […]
from Health Economics at https://bit.ly/2WXxPXA on March 31, 2020 at 02:30AM As the coronavirus (COVID-19) spreads across the United States, it has become clear that, in addition to the public health response (which has been far less than adequate), an economic response is needed. Yeva Nersisyan and Senior Scholar L. Randall Wray identify four steps […]
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