18 de març 2018

Practice makes perfect (2)

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The Volume–Outcome Relationship Revisited: Practice Indeed Makes Perfect Why is it so difficult to accept it? There is wide "evidence...
16 de març 2018

The smart money in tech would not have made this mistake

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It's about Theranos . You may find my previous posts in this link . Now SEC has confirmed that was a "massive fraud". That'...
15 de març 2018

The miracle of bread and fish

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According to the Gospels, a large crowd had gathered and was following Jesus. Jesus called his disciples to him and said: "I have com...
13 de març 2018

Allocating expenditures to diseases

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Guidelines for Measuring Disease Episodes: An Analysis of the Effects on the Components of Expenditure Growth One of the most interesting ...
11 de març 2018

The rethorical work of modern medicine

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Bodies in Flux; Scientific Methods for Negotiating Medical Uncertainty Evidence and persuasion play a crucial role in everyday task of any...
09 de març 2018

Medicine trends

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The future of medicine A new supplement in Nature explains the main trends in Medicine. It is really helpful to have a quick look focused ...
02 de març 2018

Setting priorities explicitly (or not)

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PRIORITISING HEALTH SERVICES OR MUDDLING THROUGH A chapter of this book explains who does what in prioritisation (resource allocation and...
01 de març 2018

In vitro, veritas

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El Diagnóstico In Vitro Hoy. Un cambio de paradigma en la calidad de vida y en el proceso de atención a los pacientes A new report highli...
23 de febrer 2018

Resource allocation principles and process

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Public Preferences About Fairness and the Ethics of Allocating Scarce Medical Interventions Fair allocation of health care resources is a ...
21 de febrer 2018

Pharma R&D failure and success

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Clinical Development Success Rates 2006-2015 In the russian rulette as a lethal game of chance you may have 1/6 chance of being shot. If ...
19 de febrer 2018

Public funding of succesful Pharma R&D

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Contribution of NIH funding to new drug approvals 2010–2016 If we consider the 210 new molecular entities (NMEs) approved by the Food and ...
18 de febrer 2018

Digital medicine, or just medicine

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Digital medicine, on its way to being just plain medicine You may remember at the begining of this century. Everybody was talking about e-...
16 de febrer 2018

Spending a lot for many years: understanding persistence

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Long-Term Health Spending Persistence among the Privately Insured in the US If you don't want to read this article , check this presen...
13 de febrer 2018

How morbidity explains health expenditures in ageing

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Ageing and healthcare expenditures: Exploring the role of individual health status Everybody admits that ageing increases health expenditu...