Health care in the United States and other nations is on a collision course with patient needs and economic reality. For more than a decade, leading thinkers including Michael Porter and Clayton Christensen have argued passionately for value-based health care reform: replacing delivery based on...

HIV continues to cause the largest number of disability-adjusted life years of any disease in HIV hyperendemic countries (i.e., countries with an adult HIV prevalence 15%). We compare the benefits and costs of two proven biological interventions to reduce the health losses due to the HIV...

Background: To analyze the cost-effective ratio of total knee arthroplasty (TKA) in the osteoarthritis (OA) treatment of at a regional medical center in China. Methods: One hundred thirty-nine patients with osteoarthritis who underwent TKA at the Department of Osteoarthritis in Luhe hospital...

Versorgungsforschung, gesundheitsökonomische Evaluationen, GKV-Routinedaten, Versorgungsprozesse, Sekundärdaten. - Health services research, health economic evaluations, claims data, secondary data, health care process