We review statistical methods for analysing healthcare resource use and costs, their ability
to address skewness, excess zeros, multimodality and heavy right tails, and their ease for …

Standard inference procedures for regression analysis make assumptions that are rarely
satisfied in practice. Adjustments must be made to insure the validity of statistical inference …

Informal care by adult children is a common form of long-term care for older adults and can
reduce medical expenditures if it substitutes for formal care. We address how informal care …

Background: As far as we know, no previous study has determined the relationship between
volume and outcomes for shoulder arthroplasty. We hypothesized that surgeons and …

This article addresses certain poor practices commonly seen in the applied health
economics literature regarding the use of the Heckit and the two-part model. First, many …

When introduced in 1976, personal computers (PC's) had only several kilobytes of
randomaccess memory (RAM) and no hard disk, processed commands at speeds of less …

We estimate the effect of informal care on Medicare expenditures not only for care provided
by children but also by the source of informal care (sons versus daughters, children versus …

Chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is generally considered an asymptomatic disease.
However, studies have shown that HCV has a substantial negative impact on patients' …

Federal No Child Left Behind'legislation, which enables students of low-performing schools
to exercise public school choice, exemplies a widespread belief that competing for students …

STUDY OBJECTIVE: Lack of inpatient bed availability has been identified as a major
contributor to emergency department (ED) crowding. Our objective is to determine the …