Showing posts with label hospitals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hospitals. Show all posts
Thursday, April 24, 2025

Hospice care and its limitations

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 I've recently posted about Medical Aid in Dying (MAID), which is quite controversial.  An alternative model of end of life care is a ho...
Wednesday, December 18, 2024

New rules for evaluating transplant centers

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 Historically, transplant centers ('hospitals') have been primarily evaluated on the one year graft survival on the transplants that...
Wednesday, October 2, 2024

Regulation of Organ Transplantation and Procurement (Chan and Roth in the JPE)

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  Here's a new paper (in final form, online ahead of print) on how organ transplants are regulated.  The paper uses an experiment to mak...
Tuesday, April 7, 2020

Allocating and reallocating scarce medical supplies

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An op-ed in USA today points out that shortages of critical hospital supplies are occurring and will continue to occur at different times i...
Wednesday, October 3, 2018

Matching patients to health care in China

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When I travel in China, one topic that often comes up is that there should be a better way of matching patients to doctors in Chinese hospi...
Thursday, October 14, 2010

Regulation of the hours that medical residents can work

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The Chronicle of Higher Education reports Accreditor Tightens Limits on Medical Residents' 80-Hour Workweeks "Doctors in training...
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Sunday, April 4, 2010

Work hours of surgical residents

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The culture is changing to comply with the law, but it's hard. For doctors, a matter of time: MGH residents cut back to 80-hour weeks, b...
Friday, July 10, 2009

Market for doctors: work rules for surgical residents

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Surgical residents are young doctors in training, and there is an ongoing conflict playing out between perceptions of their training needs a...
Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Market for nurses: residencies?

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Despite the medical-training ethos of "see one, do one, teach one," newly graduated MD's aren't considered to be independe...
Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Market for health care: no law of one price

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The Boston Globe ran a story about healthcare costs at different Boston area hospitals, in which fees are negotiated between insurers and in...
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Sunday, November 16, 2008

Market for health care: adding choice in Britain

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Choice is having an effect on Britain's National Health Service, the Telegraph reports: NHS hospital units shunned by patients face clos...
Saturday, November 1, 2008

Labor Market Intermediation

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David Autor has an essay on The Economics of Labour Market Intermediation" "One might have speculated that in an era of rapid inf...
Friday, October 24, 2008

Britain's National Health Service and private medicine

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Up until now, Britain's NHS has insisted that patients either accept the NHS's formulary which does not cover some expensive drugs, ...
Saturday, September 13, 2008

Market for nurses

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The Washington Post runs a story whose sub-headline is Recruitment Plans Focus On Working Conditions Over Financial Rewards . Apparently sa...
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