The Research on Ivermectin and Covid-19
对抗寄生虫药物伊维菌素的兴趣截至最近，由于人们的信念可以帮助预防和/或治疗COVID-19，因此截至近来。在今天的一集中，我们研究了有关伊维菌素作为抗病毒药的功效的最新数据，并讨论了如何获得这种声誉的历史。 @DRTIFF_PHD帖子伊维菌素和Covid-19的研究首次出现在偶然的经济学家中。 一项新的卫生服务研究研究发现，美国卫生保健系统的行政复杂性对获得护理的后果与诸如共付额和免赔额等财务障碍的护理相提并论。美国后的卫生保健费用很大，而不仅仅是货币上首先出现在偶然的经济学家身上。 如果您已经从猫患了弓形虫病，则可能更有可能冒险。那么，为什么不冒险听这个播客呢？ As Halloween
Advantages of passive policies
以下最初出现在Upshot（版权所有2019，《纽约时报》公司）。 It was jointly authored by Austin Frakt (@afrakt) and Gilbert Benavidez (@GBinsolidarity) and also appeared on page 5 of the Sunday Business section of the print edition on January 13, 2019. A $100 billion dollar health care package was proposed by congressional Rep
Projecting the Outcome of the 2016 Elections: TheIncidentalEconomist.com Model
我们在TheIncidentaleconomist.com上每天都在诺贝尔奖获得者Ronald Coase启发下工作，他说：如果您折磨数据足够多，大自然将永远承认。但是，到目前为止，我们还没有利用出色的分析能力来询问有关周二选举结果的数据。作为我的公民职责的一部分，我提供了一个关键的预测[…]预测2016年选举结果的帖子：Theincidentaleconomist.com模型首次出现在附带经济学家。
More evidence that the HPV vaccine works
这些天我的盘子上有太多了。我的意思是要早点去，但是晚比没有好。 “Population-Based Incidence Rates of Cervical Intraepithelial Neoplasia in the Human Papillomavirus Vaccine Era“: Importance: A substantial effect of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines on reducing HPV-related cervical disease is essential before modifying clinical pr
Another step towards marijuana research
I covered the ridiculous barriers to researching marijuana over at Healthcare Triage: But now the feds have taken another step towards making this better: The Obama administration is planning to remove a major roadblock to marijuana research, officials said Wednesday, potentially spurring broad scie
今天的三个快速命中。全部来自JAMA儿科。这是医疗保健分类新闻。 For those of you who want to read more: Long-Acting Reversible Contraception and Condom Use Among Female US High School Students: Implications for Sexually Transmitted Infection Prevention Causes of Child and Youth Homelessness in Developed and Developing Countries:
Why Health Services Research is important, part gazillion
From the CDC**: More than a third of American adults are eligible to take cholesterol-lowering medications under the current guidelines or were already taking them – but nearly half of them are not, according to a report by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention researchers published in the curr
The managed care backlash was very effective
From The Impact of the Political Response to the Managed Care Backlash on Health Care Spending: Evidence from State Regulations of Managed Care, by Maxim Pinkovskiy: My results indicate that because of the political response to the managed care backlash, health care spending in a state with averag
我们不够使用HPV疫苗，我们可能会使用NICUS过多。这是医疗保健分类新闻。 Those of you who want to read more can go here: National, Regional, State, and Selected Local Area Vaccination Coverage Among Adolescents Aged 13–17 Years — United States, 2014 Epidemiologic Trends in Neonatal Intensive Care, […]The post Healthcare Triage News:
More on health care-related financial stress, post-Obamacare
Responding to my post on the financial benefits of health insurance, the Urban Institute’s Genevieve Kenney wrote me: I wanted to point you to more recent data from our Health Reform Monitoring Survey that shows an even steeper drop in the share of adults ages 18-64 with problems paying family medic
Medicaid fees and access to care
A new paper in NEJM by Daniel Polsky and colleagues sheds light on the impact of an increase in Medicaid payment rates to selected providers in 2013 and 2014. The increase of fees, which bumped up Medicaid payments to Medicare levels, was part of the ACA and designed to increase access to primary ca
Healthcare Triage News: Diabetes & Switzerland
糖尿病正在下降？瑞士对单付款人进行投票！ For those of you who came here for references or more information, here you go: Prevalence and Incidence Trends for Diagnosed Diabetes Among Adults Aged 20 to 79 Years, United States, 1980-2012 Switzerland rejects single-payer in landslide, keeps its version of Obamacare @aarone
Too many people are hypocrites about respiratory viruses
I’ve already said my piece about enterovirus D68 in an Healthcare Triage News segment, but since the media can’t seem to stop with the scare tactics, I’m wading back in. This from Time: A rare respiratory illness has afflicted more than 150 people in over a dozen states, with more cases expected to
Why opioid substitution therapy is not just replacing one addiction for another
The following is the text of my email to Peter Friedmann, Brown University Professor of Medicine and Professor of Health Services, Policy & Practice and an expert on substance use and addiction medicine: In response to my NYT piece on treatment for opioid dependence, I received email with a question
In JAMA, Michelle Detry and Roger Lewis explain the “intention-to-treat” (ITT) principle: [I]n a trial in which patients are randomized to receive either treatment A or treatment B, a patient may be randomized to receive treatment A but erroneously receive treatment B, or never receive any treatment
A reader’s response on Census survey changes
Responding to Aaron’s post about changes to the Census’ survey methodology that will make it difficult to measure the impact of the ACA, Genevieve Kenney wrote me to remind us that there are many other good survey sources: I know you are thinking about what might be lost/gained as the CPS [Current P
Impact of the “like it/keep” extension likely small and self-limiting
Senior officials reported that some 1.5 million people might be eligible for the latest administrative tweak to the Affordable Care Act, an extension of the “like it/keep it” fix that would permit individuals to maintain plans that don’t meet new coverage requirements through October 2017. The move
Quote: Proposed changes to the Medicare drug benefit
The three classes of drugs — widely used antidepressants, antipsychotics and drugs that suppress the immune system to prevent the rejection of a transplanted organ — have enjoyed special “protected” status since the launch of the Medicare prescription benefit in 2006. That has meant that the private
