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Controlling health care costs by controlling technology : a private contractual approach
Kalb, Paul E. - In: The Yale law journal 99 (1990) 5, pp. 1109-1126
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Technology and health expenditures : a demand approach applied to a process innovation
Doessel, Darrel P. - In: Applied economics 22 (1990) 10, pp. 1277-1289
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The Technology of Birth : Is it Worth it?
Cutler, David M. - 1999
We evaluate the costs and benefits of increased medical spending for low birth weight infants. Lifetime spending on low birth weight babies increased by roughly $40,000 per birth between 1950 and 1990. The health improvements resulting from this have been substantial. Infant mortality rates fell...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471395
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Intensive Medical Care and Cardiovascular Disease Disability Reductions
Cutler, David M.; Landrum, Mary Beth; Stewart, Kate - 2021
There is little empirical evidence to explain why disability declined among the elderly over the past 20 years. In this paper, we explore the role of improved medical care for cardiovascular disease on health status improvements over time. We show that the incidence of cardiovascular disease...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013232937
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Managed Care and the Growth of Medical Expenditures
Cutler, David M.; Sheiner, Louise - 2021
on physicians, we generally find a significant reduction in total spending as well. In analyzing the sources of hospital … with high managed care enrollment were technology leaders in the early 1980s; by the early 1990s those states were only …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013233736
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The Technology of Birth : Is it Worth it?
Cutler, David M.; Meara, Ellen - 2021
We evaluate the costs and benefits of increased medical spending for low birth weight infants. Lifetime spending on low birth weight babies increased by roughly $40,000 per birth between 1950 and 1990. The health improvements resulting from this have been substantial. Infant mortality rates fell...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013240621
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Exploring the technology-healthcare expenditure nexus : a panel error correction approach
Rodriguez Llorian, Elisabet; Mann, Janelle - In: Empirical economics : a quarterly journal of the … 62 (2022) 6, pp. 3061-3086
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Information Technology and Medical Missteps : Evidence from a Randomized Trial
Javitt, Jonathan - 2012
We analyze the effect of a decision support tool designed to help physicians detect and correct medical quot …;misstepsquot;. The data comes from a randomized trial of the technology on a population of commercial HMO patients. The key findings are … that the new information technology lowers average charges by 6% relative to the control group. This reduction in resource …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012755310
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Information Technology and Medical Missteps : Evidence from a Randomized Trial
Javitt, Jonathan C. - 2007
We analyze the effect of a decision support tool designed to help physicians detect and correct medical "missteps". The … data comes from a randomized trial of the technology on a population of commercial HMO patients. The key findings are that … the new information technology lowers average charges by 6% relative to the control group. This reduction in resource …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465153
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Intensive Medical Care and Cardiovascular Disease Disability Reductions
Cutler, David M. - 2006
There is little empirical evidence to explain why disability declined among the elderly over the past 20 years. In this paper, we explore the role of improved medical care for cardiovascular disease on health status improvements over time. We show that the incidence of cardiovascular disease...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466484