Dartmouth researchers have demonstrated that there is tremendous geographic variation in the efficiency of health care delivery systems,…
Pharmaceutical expenditures have grown rapidly in recent decades, and now total nearly 10% of health care costs. Generic drug utilization…
The article reviews the book
"Medical Research for Hire: The Political Economy of Pharmaceutical
Clinical Trials," by Jill A. Fisher.
Propensity score matching estimators (Rosenbaum and Rubin, 1983) are widely used in evaluation research to estimate average treatment…
Book abstract: Pharmaceutical policies are interlinked globally and at the same time deeply rooted in local culture. Prescribing Cultures…
This study assesses the factors influencing the movement of people across health plans. We distinguish three types of cost-related…
Background: It is not known what effect the increased use of prescription drugs by enrollees in Medicare Part D has had on spending for…
High deductible—based health insurance plans require consumers to pay
for care until reaching the deductible amount. However, information…
Numerous studies in the United States have examined the association between quality and spending at the regional level. In this paper we…
This study assesses the factors influencing the movement of people across health plans. We distinguish three types of cost-related…