High-Priced Drugs in Medicare Part D: Diagnosis and Potential Prescription
Drug pricing in the U.S. is a persistently vexing policy problem.
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Evidence-Based Health Policy
In these times of heated rhetoric about what various health care reforms can and cannot accomplish, both hopeful and doomsday stories abound.
Risk Adjustment with an Outside Option
Much of the risk adjustment literature has focused on how persons should be classified and given weights. It has given less attention to the amount of funds in the risk adjustment pool.
Socioeconomic Background and Commercial Health Plan Spending
Risk-adjustment algorithms typically incorporate demographic and clinical variables to equalize compensation to insurers for enrollees who vary in expected cost, but including information about enroll
Can Public Reporting Cure Healthcare? The Role of Quality Transparency in Improving Patient-Provider Alignment
Increasing quality transparency is widely regarded as a strong mechanism for improving the alignment between patient choices and provider capabilities, and thus, is widely pursued by policymakers as a
Evaluating Matching-Adjusted Indirect Comparisons in Practice: A Case Study of Patients with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
Differences in patient characteristics across trials may bias efficacy estimates from indirect treatment comparisons.
Public Health Preparedness: Case Studies in Policy and Management
Public Health Preparedness: Case Studies in Policy and Management provides detailed accounts of a range of public health emergencies.
Why Are Indian Children so Short? The Role of Birth Order and Son Preference
Child stunting in India exceeds that in poorer regions like sub-Saharan Africa.
Data-Driven Management of Post-Transplant Medications: An APOMDP Approach
Organ-transplanted patients typically receive high amounts of immunosuppressive drugs (e.g., tacrolimus) as a mechanism to reduce their risk of organ rejection.
Workload Management in Telemedical Physician Triage and Other Knowledge-Based Service Systems
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
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