This Viewpoint calls out the contribution of growth in health care workforce to higher health care costs, and emphasizes the need to find efficiencies in the current national workforce and resist addi
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) introduced reforms to mitigate adverse selection into and within the individual insurance market.
Emergency physicians differ in many ways with respect to practice. One area in which interphysician practice differences are not well characterized is emergency department (ED) length of stay (LOS).
The Commission on Investing in Health (CIH), an international group of 25 economists and global health experts, published its Global Health 2035 report in The Lancet in December 2013.
Telemedical physician triage (TPT) is an example of a hierarchical knowledge-based service system (HKBSS) in which a second level of decision agent (telemedical physician) renders a decision on cases
Multi-class queueing systems widely used in operations research and management typically experience ambiguity in real world settings in the form of unknown parameters.
Recent medical literature suggests that vitamin D supplementation protects against acute respiratory tract infection. Humans exposed to sunlight produce vitamin D directly.
There is an unmet need for greater investment in preparedness against major epidemics and pandemics.
Excess prices for drugs in the U.S. is a persistently vexing policy problem.
Behavioural economic research has established that defaults, one form of nudge, powerfully influence choices. In most policy contexts, all individuals receive the same nudge.
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