Direct to consumer advertising (DTCA) for robotic CABC (r-CABG)
Robots in your chest, repairing your heart vessels.This study (Robert Poston is the corresponding author) finds that DTCA of r-CABG is effective in bringing patients to the hospital: Between July 2008 and July 2009, a total of 103 potential patients, or their representatives, contacted our office as
On The Record (with daily recap)
RWJF /Urban Institute: Eliminating the Individual Mandate: Effects on Premiums, Coverage & Uncompensated Care Today in TIE: Austin leads with declining cardiovascular mortality, follows up with Matt Yglesias’ post on the topic and wants full RSS feeds from all, Aaron notes that homicide is far too c
On The Record (with daily recap)
Urban: addressing long term care without CLASS (video) Today in TIE: Reflex, Austin reviews private plans in Medicare, Don on the long strange trip toward consensus on premium support (maybe), the difference between cost effective and cost saving and texting patients orders is a no-no, while Kevin c
On The Record (with daily recap)
GAO: Food Safety: FDA Needs to Reassess Its Approach to Reducing an Illness Caused by Eating Raw Oysters NIH: Success rate for grants hit all time low during FY 2011 FDA: Timeline of the Tobacco Control Act of 2009 Today in TIE: Reflex, Austin on cost savings v. cost effectiveness, Don on community
The IOM confirms that vaccines are safe
The IOM has released a report entitled, Adverse Effects of Vaccines: Evidence and Causality: The committee finds that evidence convincingly supports a causal relationship between some vaccines and some adverse events—such as MMR, varicella zoster, influenza, hepatitis B, meningococcal, and tetanus-c
The effect of hospital market concentration on hospital prices [FAQ]
这是一个常见问题解答。请参阅其他其他人的常见问题解答索引。 Historical FTC and DOJ concern over hospital mergers Two posts cite literature that shows hospital concentration increases prices [1, 2] The effect of hospital mergers on prices Evidence from Oregon Evidence from California Evidence from Massachusetts A qualitative view
CBO on effect of defunding ACA implementation
CBO has sent a letter to Rep. Waxman addressing his question about …budgetary effects of legislation that would permanently prevent the use of appropriated funds to implement the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (PPACA) and provisions related to health care in the Health Care and E
