Overuse of medical services is an increasingly recognized driver of poor‐quality care and
high cost. A practical framework is needed to guide clinical decisions and facilitate concrete …

What happens when patients suddenly stop their medications? We study the health
consequences of drug interruptions caused by large, abrupt, and arbitrary changes in price …

We use insurance claims data covering 28% of individuals with employer-sponsored health
insurance in the United States to study the variation in health spending on the privately …

Importance Observational studies demonstrate links between patient-centered
communication, quality of life (QOL), and aggressive treatments in advanced cancer, yet few …

We study the drivers of geographic variation in US health care utilization, using an empirical
strategy that exploits migration of Medicare patients to separate the role of demand and …

Importance Patients with advanced-stage cancer are receiving increasingly aggressive
medical care near death, despite growing concerns that this reflects poor-quality care …

We estimate the effect of current location on elderly mortality by analyzing outcomes of
movers in the Medicare population. We control for movers' origin locations as well as a rich …

There is ample evidence that many clinical decisions made by physicians are inconsistent
with current and generally accepted evidence. This leads to the underuse of some …

Objective To compare evaluations of depressive episodes and suggested treatment
protocols generated by Chat Generative Pretrained Transformer (ChatGPT)-3 and ChatGPT …

Human beings are primates, and primates are political animals. Our brains, therefore, are
designed not just to hunt and gather, but also to help us get ahead socially, often via …