Setting a research agenda for medical overuse

DJ Morgan, S Brownlee, AL Leppin, N Kressin… - Bmj, 2015 - bmj.com
Setting a research agenda for medical overuse Page 1 Setting a research agenda for
medical overuse Although overuse in medicine is gaining increased attention, many …

Disinvestment and value-based purchasing strategies for pharmaceuticals: an international review

B Parkinson, C Sermet, F Clement, S Crausaz… - …, 2015 - Springer
Pharmaceutical expenditure has increased rapidly across many Organisation for Economic
Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries over the past three decades. This growth …

Choosing wisely: prevalence and correlates of low-value health care services in the United States

CH Colla, NE Morden, TD Sequist, WL Schpero… - Journal of general …, 2015 - Springer
Background Specialty societies in the United States identified low-value tests and
procedures that contribute to waste and poor health care quality via implementation of the …

The myth regarding the high cost of end-of-life care

MD Aldridge, AS Kelley - American journal of public …, 2015 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Health care reform debate in the United States is largely focused on the highly concentrated
health care costs among a small proportion of the population and policy proposals to identify …

Technology diffusion and productivity growth in health care

J Skinner, D Staiger - Review of Economics and Statistics, 2015 - direct.mit.edu
We draw on macroeconomic models of diffusion and productivity to explain empirical
patterns of survival gains in heart attacks. Using Medicare data for 2.8 million patients from …

Regional variation in the incidence and outcomes of in-hospital cardiac arrest in the United States

D Kolte, S Khera, WS Aronow, C Palaniswamy… - Circulation, 2015 - Am Heart Assoc
Background—Regional variation in the incidence and outcomes of in-hospital cardiac arrest
(IHCA) is not well studied and may have important health and policy implications. Methods …

Association of intensive care unit admission with mortality among older patients with pneumonia

TS Valley, MW Sjoding, AM Ryan, TJ Iwashyna… - Jama, 2015 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Among patients whose need for intensive care is uncertain, the relationship of
intensive care unit (ICU) admission with mortality and costs is unknown. Objective To …

Revisit rates and associated costs after an emergency department encounter: a multistate analysis

R Duseja, NS Bardach, GA Lin, J Yazdany… - Annals of internal …, 2015 - acpjournals.org
Background: Return visits to the emergency department (ED) or hospital after an index ED
visit strain the health system, but information about rates and determinants of revisits is …

Risk adjusting survival outcomes in hospitals that treat patients with cancer without information on cancer stage

DG Pfister, DM Rubin, EB Elkin, US Neill, E Duck… - JAMA …, 2015 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Instituting widespread measurement of outcomes for cancer hospitals using
administrative data is difficult owing to lack of cancer-specific information such as disease …

[HTML][HTML] Development of a standardized set of patient-centered outcomes for advanced prostate cancer: an international effort for a unified approach

AK Morgans, ACM Van Bommel, C Stowell, JL Abrahm… - European urology, 2015 - Elsevier
Background There are no universally monitored outcomes relevant to men with advanced
prostate cancer, making it challenging to compare health outcomes between populations …