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The economics of medical procedure innovation
Journal of Health Economics, 2021This paper explores the economic incentives for medical procedure innovation. Using a proprietary dataset on billing code applications for emerging medical procedures, we highlight two mechanisms that could hinder innovation. First, the administrative hurdle of securing permanent, reimbursable billing codes substantially delays innovation diffusion. We
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Topics in Medical Economics: Medical Malpractice
The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery-American Volume, 2008Our system of addressing medical malpractice is broken. We can say that the system is broken not so much because insurance premiums are high or because physicians are demoralized—though these features certainly are not assets either—but because the system fails to accomplish the very things for which it was built: to deter errors before they occur and ...
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The Economics of Instant Medical News
New England Journal of Medicine, 1974Abstract A western rancher, suffering from malignant melanoma, declined surgical therapy and treated himself with "chaparral tea" brewed from the root of the desert creosote bush. The clinical cure that followed was reported in newspapers throughout the world.
K, Reemtsma, J V, Maloney
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Economics of Medical Education
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1979To the Editor.— Despite his earnestly presented COMMENTARY (240:831, 1978), Dr Alexis' concern about minority enrollment in medical schools is more likely to be frustrated by the rising cost of medical education than by direct effects of the Bakke decision.
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The Medical Economics of Stroke
Drugs, 1997The economic consequences of the approximately 500,000 strokes that occur each year in the US are staggering. The direct cost of providing care for stroke victims in 1993 has been estimated to be $US17 billion, with an additional $US13 billion in indirect costs attributable to lost earnings due to stroke-related mortality and morbidity.
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Medical education and economics†
Medical Education, 1989Summary. The time available to medical students for learning is scarce in relation to the knowledge they are asked to absorb. New material should not therefore be added to medical curricula without careful consideration of the benefits of the extra knowledge compared to the costs of obtaining this knowledge.
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