19 de juliol 2017

In search of the balance between government and market

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THE LIMITS OF THE MARKET: The Pendulum between Government and Market Thirty years ago I bought a book that was a key reference MARKETS OR ...
10 de juliol 2017

Transforming the practice of care in the most inefficient and wasteful health system

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The Smart-Medicine Solution to the Health-Care Crisis Eric Topol provides clear insights for a wide range of life sciences issues, and so...
27 de juny 2017

Critical thinking in medicine

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Testing Treatments Els Tractaments, a prova If you are interested in critical thinking about treatment claims, then now it is the time to...
25 de juny 2017

Health as the capacity for action

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The Patient as Agent of Health and Health Care. Autonomy in Patient-Centered Care for Chronic Conditions Currently the concept of health...
16 de juny 2017

The value of lab testing in precision medicine

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The Value of Diagnostic Testing in Personalized Medicine Before Jevons , economists were unable to think on marginal terms. If price sho...
15 de juny 2017

Is there any justification for interventions that aren't cost-effective?

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Ethics, priorities and cancer This is one of the most challenging questions nowadays. Anthony Culyer sheds light n this difficult issue in...
09 de juny 2017

The farce of confidential drug prices (2)

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Payers’ experiences with confidential pharmaceutical price discounts: A survey of public and statutory health systems inNorth America, Europ...
08 de juny 2017

Genome editing: understanding CRISPR-CAS9

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Excellent speech by Salvador Macip at Grifols Foundation conference on CRISPR (in catalan):
02 de juny 2017

Compensating behaviour after nudging

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Nudges that fail Cass Sunstein shows in his las published article that nudging may fail, and explains the reasons and what to do. Great, I...
31 de maig 2017

Controversies on QALYs

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The Limitations of QALY: A Literature Review After 50 years, valuing health using QALYs is still a daunting task. Basically the debate ove...
26 de maig 2017

Are You What You Eat?

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Are You What You Eat? Healthy Behaviour and Risk Preferences I am not strictly a fan of economic experiments. They are useful, but usually...
23 de maig 2017

Taxing unhealthy foods

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The effect of prices on nutrition: Comparing the impact of product-and nutrient-specific taxes Nowadays, many people is asking about evide...
18 de maig 2017

The challenges of medical practice variations

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Medical Practice Variations The title of this post is not original, it is really from a book published in 1990 , 27 years ago! And Wennber...
03 de maig 2017

The tough figures of worldwide health spending

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Evolution and patterns of global health financing 1995–2014: development assistance for health, and government, prepaid private, and out-of-...