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Policy Response to Pandemic Influenza : The Value of Collective Action

Bobashev, Georgiy V. - 2011

This paper examines positive externalities and complementarities in the use of antiviral pharmaceuticals to mitigate …

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Health Care Adherence and Personalized Medicine

Egan, Mark - 2014

Non-adherence in health care results when a patient does not initiate or continue care that a provider has recommended. Previous research identifies non-adherence as a major source of waste in US health care, totaling approximately 2.3% of GDP, and have proposed a plethora of interventions to...

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Generic Utilization Rates, Real Pharmaceutical Prices, and Research and Development Expenditures

Cook, Joseph P. - 2013

Generic utilization rates have risen substantially since the enactment of The Drug Price Competition and Patent Term Restoration Act (Hatch-Waxman) in 1984. In the year Hatch-Waxman was enacted, generic utilization rates were 19 percent; in contrast, today, the generic utilization rate is...

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Uncovering Waste in U.S. Healthcare

Doyle, Joseph J. - 2015

There is widespread agreement that the US healthcare system wastes as much as 5% of GDP, yet little consensus on what care is actually unproductive. This partly arises because of the endogeneity of patient choice of treatment location. This paper uses the effective random assignment of patients...

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Cost of Service Regulation in U.S. Health Care : Minimum Medical Loss Ratios

Cicala, Steve - 2017

A health insurer's Medical Loss Ratio (MLR) is the share of premiums spent on medical claims. The Affordable Care Act introduced minimum MLR provisions for all health insurance sold in fully-insured commercial markets, thereby capping insurer profit margins, but not levels. While intended to...

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Does Mass Deworming Affect Child Nutrition? Meta-Analysis, Cost-Effectiveness, and Statistical Power

Croke, Kevin - 2016

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Patient Knowledge and Antibiotic Abuse : Evidence from an Audit Study in China

Currie, Janet M. - 2010

We ask how patient knowledge of appropriate antibiotic usage affects both physicians prescribing behavior and the … knowledge also increases physicians' information provision about possible side effects, but has a negative impact on the quality …

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When Does Improving Health Raise GDP?

Ashraf, Quamrul H. - 2012

We assess quantitatively the effect of exogenous health improvements on output per capita. Our simulation model allows for a direct effect of health on worker productivity, as well as indirect effects that run through schooling, the size and age-structure of the population, capital accumulation,...

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Returns to Physician Human Capital : Analyzing Patients Randomized to Physician Teams

Doyle, Joseph J. - 2010

. Those treated by physicians from the higher-ranked institution have 10-25% shorter and less expensive stays than patients … are precise. Procedure differences across the teams are consistent with the ability of physicians in the lower …-ranked institution to substitute time and diagnostic tests for the faster judgments of physicians from the top-ranked institution …

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Does Medical Malpractice Law Improve Health Care Quality?

Frakes, Michael - 2014

nature of the present system of liability rules, which largely hold physicians to standards determined according to industry … alteration of this system altogether--i.e., upon a change in the clinical standards to which physicians are held in the first …

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