Unbiased Analysis of Today's Healthcare Issues
Does getting richer improve your health? The answer is not as much for African-Americans and Hispanics as for Whites, in large part due to discrimination. From Colen et al. (2018): Racial disparities in health tend to be more pronounced at the upper ends of the socioeconomic (SES) spectrum. Despite having access to above average social…
Pharmacists are typically paid for dispensing drugs. They receive a fee to cover the price for acquiring a given drug and a dispensing fee. In general, however, pharmacists are not paid based on patient outcomes. Will that change? Troy Trygstad (2020) argues that value-based reimbursement for pharmacists through accountable pharmacy organizations (APOs) may be the…
A moving BBC video on how doctors deal with death and how this has changed due to COVID-19.
If you are doing a cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) that relies on clinical trial data, what should you do if there is missing data in the trial? A paper by Faria et al. (2014) helps to provide the answer. The first question is, how are the data missing. There are a few options for defining this…