Advocates for Evidence-Based Health Policy Speakers
Does Defensive Medicine Exist?
Despite the common thought that most physicians perform defensive medicine on a regular basis, the evidence bearing this out has been inconsistent at best. Ninety-three percent of physicians report practicing defensive medicine; that is, performing tests or therapies that provide Continue Reading …
A New View on Tobacco Taxation
Economic viewpoints on tobacco taxation typically seek to correct for the externailities imposed upon citizens by tobacco smokers. This new analysis seeks to account for these externalities, plus those incurred by family members of smokers, and assumes that smokers do Continue Reading …
A Randomized Trial of P4P
Pay-for-performance incentive programs are commonplace now among many health care payers. A new study out of California reports on the effect of the frequency of bonus payments on clinician quality improvement. initiatives rest on the premise that quality in Continue Reading …
Reflections from Haiti: Chaos to Camaraderie
Doctor Stanley Frencher recounts recent experiences of working in a field hospital in the earthquake-ravaged nation of Haiti. But in the end, he ponders is the health care system of Haiti all that different from his home of inner-city Detroit?
Embracing the Electronic Era
Medicine lags behind many other industries in the transition to the electronic era. While high-tech advances like CAT scans and MRI machines take advantage of computerization, many physicians still rely on paper and pen to document patient conditions and treatment Continue Reading …