The healthcare imperative: lowering costs and improving outcomes: workshop series summary

LA Olsen, RS Saunders, PL Yong - 2011 - books.google.com
The United States has the highest per capita spending on health care of any industrialized
nation but continually lags behind other nations in health care outcomes including life …

The economic burden of inappropriate drug prescribing, lack of adherence and compliance, adverse drug events in older people: a systematic review

C Chiatti, S Bustacchini, G Furneri, L Mantovani… - Drug safety, 2012 - Springer
Adverse drug events (ADEs) are an increasingly relevant issue for healthcare systems as
they are associated with poorer health outcomes and avoidable misuse of resources. The …

It's still the prices, stupid: why the US spends so much on health care, and a tribute to Uwe Reinhardt

GF Anderson, P Hussey, V Petrosyan - Health Affairs, 2019 - healthaffairs.org
A 2003 article titled “It's the Prices, Stupid,” and coauthored by the three of us and the
recently deceased Uwe Reinhardt found that the sizable differences in health spending …

Health care spending and quality in year 1 of the alternative quality contract

Z Song, DG Safran, BE Landon, Y He… - … England Journal of …, 2011 - Mass Medical Soc
Background In 2009, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts (BCBS) implemented a
global payment system called the Alternative Quality Contract (AQC). Provider groups in the …

Health care spending growth

ME Chernew, JP Newhouse - Handbook of health economics, 2011 - Elsevier
This chapter provides a conceptual and empirical examination of health care spending
growth (as opposed to the level of health care spending). Given that an equilibrium …

Do physicians possess market power?

A Dunn, AH Shapiro - The Journal of Law and Economics, 2014 - journals.uchicago.edu
We study the degree to which greater physician concentration leads to higher service prices
charged by physicians in the commercially insured medical care market. Using a database …

[图书][B] Pay for performance in health care: Methods and approaches

J Cromwell, MG Trisolini, GC Pope, JB Mitchell… - 2011 - books.google.com
This book provides a balanced assessment of pay for performance (P4P), addressing both
its promise and its shortcomings. P4P programs have become widespread in health care in …

The impact of the macroeconomy on health insurance coverage: Evidence from the great recession

J Cawley, AS Moriya, K Simon - Health economics, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
This paper investigates the impact of the macroeconomy on the health insurance coverage
of Americans using panel data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation for …

The economic pressures for biosimilar drug use in cancer medicine

P Cornes - Targeted oncology, 2012 - Springer
The main rationale for using biosimilar drugs is for cost saving. The market development for
biosimilar drugs will therefore depend on the degree to which cost saving measures are …

Contrasting continuous quality improvement, Six Sigma, and lean management for enhanced outcomes in US hospitals

CR Gowen III, KL McFadden, S Settaluri - American Journal of …, 2012 - emerald.com
Purpose–Rapidly rising healthcare costs, partially due to preventable medical errors, have
led hospitals to redouble their process improvement (PI) efforts. The purpose of this paper is …