Unbiased Analysis of Today's Healthcare Issues
How does patient quality of life impact caregiving burden? Often this is determined using caregiver surveys. However, a paper by Jiao et al. (2025) aims to use a data based approach to help estimate caregiver burden. They The authors use data from the 2010-2018 Health and Retirement Survey (HRS). HRS data was selected because there…
The CMS Chronic Condition Data Warehouse (CCW) provides researchers with Medicare and Medicaid beneficiary, claims, and assessment data linked by beneficiary across the continuum of care. The files also use ICD-9 codes and other information to identify the chronic condition each beneficiary has. The question is, how well does the CCW identify these chronic conditions?…
Cost effectiveness and quality analysis of the treatment of cancer has long been a goal of health services researchers. In particular, researchers aim to determine whether various treatments provide cost-effective methods to improve longevity and quality. Physicians, however, use different treatments depending on the patient’s cancer stage. Although most cost-effectiveness researchers want to take into…