Robot-Assisted Surgery For Kidney Cancer Increased Access To A Procedure That Can Reduce Mortality And Renal Failure
Surgeons increasingly use robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery for a variety of medical conditions.
Research
Coming of AIDS
Addressing the Challenge of Gray-Zone Medicine
Is a given health care intervention effective or not? Is it appropriate in a given clinical context or not? Should it be covered by health insurance or not?
Outcomes After Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Treated by Basic vs Advanced Life Support
IMPORTANCE: Most out-of-hospital cardiac arrests receiving emergency medical services in the United States are treated by ambulance service providers trained in advanced life support (ALS), but suppor
Research and Development Costs and Productivity in Biopharmaceuticals
Racial and Ethnic Disparities among Enrollees in Medicare Advantage Plans
Differences in the control of blood pressure, cholesterol, and glucose among the various racial and ethnic groups of Medicare enrollees may contribute to persistent disparities in health outcomes.
Introduction
Moral hazard--the tendency to change behavior when the cost of that behavior will be borne by others--is a particularly tricky question when considering health care. Kenneth J.
Health Insurance and the American Public Sector Labor Market
Most active state and local government employees are covered by health plans, and these plans extend into retirement as well.1 The generosity of these plans help governments recruit and retain quality
It’s Easier to Measure the Cost of Health Care than Its Value
How can there be no licensed treatment or vaccine for Ebola, a disease with a very high death rate that has caused a global public health emergency? The answer is painful but clear: The profit pote
Readmission Penalties and Health Insurance Expansions: A Dispatch from Massachusetts
Payers are penalizing hospitals for high readmission rates.
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