Health systems administrators and clinicians need refined calculations of the attributable
cost of infections due to drug-resistant microorganisms to develop and assess cost-effective …

Measuring the impact of drug resistance is an important step in understanding the scope of
the problem and formulating policies to limit the emergence and spread of resistant …

Our ability to treat common bacterial infections with antibiotics goes back only 65 years.
However, the authors of this report make it clear that sustaining a supply of effective and …

The emergence of multidrug-resistant bacteria is undoubtedly one of the most serious global
health threats. One response to this threat that has been gaining momentum over the past …

This paper provides a retrospective on the 1996 Boskin Commission Report, Toward a More
Accurate Measure of the Cost of Living, and its famous estimate that the CPI in 1995-96 was …

This paper examines the causes and consequences of reductions in cardiovascular disease
mortality, and in particular heart attack mortality, over the past several decades. Analysis of …

IN ALL OF THE INDUSTRIAL COUNTRIES, a high fraction of gross domestic product (GDP),
ranging from approximately 7 percent in the United Kingdom to 14 percent in the United …

Background: We are not aware of any published research that quantifies and compares the
importance of effectiveness and side effects for pharmaceutical sales, and that …

1.1 Background Although one might expect that measuring health care output would entail
in some manner measuring “health,” most prior economic measurement in health care has …

Problems of optimal natural resource extraction that were first addressed by economists in
the contexts of fisheries and forests have reemerged in the context of a newly recognized …