In these times of heated rhetoric about what various health care reforms can and cannot accomplish, both hopeful and doomsday stories…
Much of the risk adjustment literature has focused on how persons should be classified and given weights. It has given less attention to…
Risk-adjustment algorithms typically incorporate demographic and clinical variables to equalize compensation to insurers for enrollees who…
Increasing quality transparency is widely regarded as a strong mechanism for improving the alignment between patient choices and provider…
Differences in patient characteristics across trials may bias efficacy estimates from indirect treatment comparisons. To address this issue…
Public Health Preparedness: Case Studies in Policy and Management provides detailed accounts of a range of public health emergencies.…
Child stunting in India exceeds that in poorer regions like sub-Saharan Africa. Data on over 168,000 children show that, relative to Africa…
Organ-transplanted patients typically receive high amounts of immunosuppressive drugs (e.g., tacrolimus) as a mechanism to reduce their…
Telemedical Physician Triage (TPT) is an example of a Hierarchical Knowledge-Based Service System (HKBSS), in which a second level of…
Measuring consumer responsiveness to medical care prices is a central issue in health economics and a key ingredient in the optimal design…