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
From TPHealth: On Monday, Indian officials announced that no polio cases had been reported in the country for a third consecutive year — a major milestone for the country’s efforts to entirely eliminate a disease through mass vaccinations since the eradication of small pox in 1980. The achievement m
How journals are damaging science
Thoughtful and provocative piece over at the Guardian” I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity. But it is disfigured by inappropriate incentives. The prevailing structures of personal reputation and career advancement mean the biggest rewards often foll
Here’s another chart from the JAMA study “The Anatomy of Health Care in the United States“: From it, we can compute average health spending by age, in 2004. I’ve shown that below alongside an estimate of what that spending is today, assuming 2.5% growth per year since 2004, which seems at least roug
Very strange Google search problem: A bleg
我从未见过Google搜索失败了，以至于：考虑此链接中的帖子。在其中找到一些关键词，甚至复制标题。然后访问Google并使用您的关键词或复制标题搜索帖子。将“网站：theincidentaleconomist.com”添加到您的搜索字词中，以指导Google绑扎。 […]非常奇怪的Google搜索问题：偶然的经济学家首次出现了一个BLEG。
I’ve been somewhat amazed at the hypocrisy that politicians can muster when it comes to health care reform. I get explicit about that in my latest piece at the JAMA forum.去看！ @aaronecarrollThe post JAMA Forum: A Tale of 2 Plans first appeared on The Incidental Economist.
是的，是的，TIE的搜索功能在某种程度上有限。但是，您不需要它。这是一个专业提示：访问Google在搜索框中输入以下内容：站点：theincidentaleconomist.com [您的搜索词]享受！这可能看起来像很多打字，但是您只需要一次键入一次即可。当您进入搜索时，Google […]帖子如何搜索领带首先出现在偶然的经济学家上。
Getting the Methods Right — The Foundation of Patient-Centered Outcomes Research, by Sherine E. Gabriel and Sharon-Lise T. Normand (The New England Journal of Medicine) The Supreme Court and the Future of Medicaid, by Timothy Stoltzfus Jost and Sara Rosenbaum (The New England Journal of Medicine) Va
The Evolving Roles of the Medical Journal, by Scott H. Podolsky, Jeremy A. Greene, and David S. Jones (The New England Journal of Medicine) Making the Best of Hospital Pay for Performance, by Andrew Ryan and Jan Blustein (The New England Journal of Medicine) Registered Nurse Labor Supply and the Rec
