New federal guidelines for physician-pharmaceutical industry relations: the politics of policy formation [0.03%]
医师与医药行业关系的新联邦指导方针：政策形成的政治学
Susan Chimonas,David J Rothman
Susan Chimonas
In October 2002 the federal government issued a draft "Compliance Program Guidance for Pharmaceutical Manufacturers." The draft Guidance questioned the legality of many arrangements heretofore left to the discretion of physicians and drug c...
Deborah A Cohen,Shin-Yi Wu,Thomas A Farley
Deborah A Cohen
Relative to the magnitude of the epidemic, government funds available for HIV prevention are scarce. To optimize use of funds, we applied a mathematical model of the cost of HIV prevention interventions using national data on HIV risk-group...
Health spending in the United States and the rest of the industrialized world [0.03%]
美国与工业化国家的卫生总支出比较研究
Gerard F Anderson,Peter S Hussey,Bianca K Frogner et al.
Gerard F Anderson et al.
U.S. citizens spent $5,267 per capita for health care in 2002--53 percent more than any other country. Two possible reasons for the differential are supply constraints that create waiting lists in other countries and the level of malpractic...
Comparative Study
Health affairs (Project Hope). 2005 Jul-Aug;24(4):903-14. DOI:10.1377/hlthaff.24.4.903 2005
David J Dausey,Nicole Lurie,Alexis Diamond
David J Dausey
We evaluated the ability of local public health agencies (LPHAs) to meet a preparedness standard set by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): to receive and respond to urgent case reports of communicable diseases twenty...
Steven D Pizer,Roger Feldman,Austin B Frakt
Steven D Pizer
The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act (MMA) of 2003 creates several new types of private insurance plans in Medicare. The most familiar of these is the preferred provider organization (PPO). Uneven application o...
Three years of state fiscal struggles: how did Medicaid and SCHIP fare? [0.03%]
三年来各州财政的困境：医疗补助计划和儿童健康保险计划的情况如何？
Teresa A Coughlin,Stephen Zuckerman
Teresa A Coughlin
During 2003-05, states faced some of the largest budget shortfalls since World War II. With a focus on Medicaid and SCHIP, we examine budget decisions in eight states during this period. Increasing Medicaid enrollment because of the economi...
When the price isn't right: how inadvertent payment incentives drive medical care [0.03%]
当价格不合适时：无意的支付激励如何推动医疗服务
Paul B Ginsburg,Joy M Grossman
Paul B Ginsburg
Unintended overpayment of some services, in combination with other market factors, is driving increased use of expensive care, which in turn could be an important driver of health care cost trends. Reimbursement systems are highly dependent...
Monopoly is not the answer [0.03%]
垄断并不是解决办法
Clark C Havighurst
Clark C Havighurst
Certificate-of-need (CON) regulation was originally intended to correct market failures that no longer afflict health care markets. It is ironic that Sujit Choudhry and colleagues now invoke it to deal with situations where, in their view, ...
Sujit Choudhry,Niteesh K Choudhry,Troyen A Brennan
Sujit Choudhry
U.S. health care has long featured a struggle between regulation and markets as vehicles of reform, and the community hospital is at the center of this struggle. The key to its financial viability is cross-subsidization, whereby revenues fr...
The complex world of military medicine: a conversation with William Winkenwerder. Interview by Robert Galvin [0.03%]
错综复杂的军事医学世界——罗伯特·加尔文对威廉·温肯韦德的访谈
William Winkenwerder
William Winkenwerder
Starting as assistant secretary of defense for health affairs just ten days after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, William Winkenwerder has probably the most complex and challenging leadership role in health care. In this interview he talks abou...