Negative Side of Supply-Side Economics
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Three poignant cases where over-supply (of docs) leads to over-testing or over-treating
cost-effectiveness
Comparative-Effectiveness Research (CER)
This article is posted in:Increasingly, the cost of care is unnecessarily dear, rising exponentially while the return on investment is falling precipitously. What can be done about improving the value of health care?
Cost-effectiveness of Total Knee Arthroplasty in the US
This article is posted in:The number of U.S. total knee arthroplasty (TKA) procedures, an effective, established operation, is huge and it is more cost-effective to do TKA in patients with end-stage osteoarthritis than to treat the patient medically, regardless of the hospital TKA volume. Nevertheless, the larger volume hospitals enjoy the better C:E in part because they have lower cost ratios. There were approximately 500,000 TKAs in 2006 For which the direct medical costs were $11 billion
Practices Must Change for Cost Effectiveness Research to Work
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