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Is American health care uniquely inefficient?
(American Economic Association, 2008)
The U.S. health system has been described as the most competitive, heterogeneous, inefficient, fragmented, and advanced system of care in the world. In this paper, we consider two questions: First, is the U.S. healthcare ...
Unsupervised method for extracting machine understandable medical knowledge from a large free text collection
(2009)
Definitions of medical concepts (e.g diseases, drugs) are essential background knowledge for researchers, clinicians and health care consumers. However, the rapid growth of biomedical research requires that such knowledge ...
The cost-effectiveness of therapy with teriparatide and alendronate in women with severe osteoporosis
(American Medical Association, 2006)
Background Teriparatide is a promising new agent for the treatment of osteoporosis.
Methods The objective of this study was to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of teriparatide-based strategies compared with alendronate ...
The U.S. physician workforce: serious questions raised, answers needed
(American College of Physicians, 2004)
Using cost-effectiveness analysis to target cholesterol reduction
(American College of Physicians, 2000)
An uncertain future for cardiovascular drug development?
(Massachusetts Medical Society, 2009)
Does comparative-effectiveness research threaten personalized medicine?
(Massachusetts Medical Society, 2009)
The confirmatory trial in comparative-effectiveness research
(Massachusetts Medical Society, 2009)
Evidence-based coverage policy
(Project HOPE, 2001)
Many health plans apply evidence-based approaches to coverage decisions. The foundation of such approaches is the systematic review of information about the effectiveness of medical interventions. This paper discusses the ...
Cost-effectiveness of automated external defibrillators on airlines
(American Medical Association, 2001)
Context: Installation of automated external defibrillators (AEDs) on passenger aircraft has been shown to improve survival of cardiac arrest in that setting, but the cost-effectiveness of such measures has not been ...