Perspective: Making sense of medical technology

Health Affairs

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Cutler, David M ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; NOTE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; REIMBURSEMENT; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; REGIONAL HEALTH PLANNING; REIMBURSEMENT, INCENTIVE; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT, BIOMEDICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33645693727     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: 02782715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.25.w48     Document Type: Review

References (10)

1. Regarding the first argument, see D.M. Cutler and M. McClellan, "Is Technological Change in Medicine Worth It?" Health Affairs 20, no. 5 (2001): 11-29;
2. M.E. Chernew, R.A. Hirth, and D.M. Cutler, "Increased Spending on Health Care: How Much Can the United States Afford?" Health Affairs 22, no. 4 (2003): 15-25;
3. and S. Glied and S.E. Little, "The Uninsured and the Benefits of Medical Progress," Health Affairs 22, no. 4 (2003): 210-219.
4. Regarding the second, see K. Baicker and A. Chandra, "Medicare Spending, the Physician Workforce, and Beneficiaries' Quality of Care," Health Affairs 23 (2004): w184-w197 (published online 7 April 2004; 10.1377/hlthaff.w4.184).
5. J.S. Skinner, D.O. Staiger, and E.S. Fisher, "Is Technological Change in Medicine Always Worth It? The Case of Acute Myocardial Infarction," Health Affairs 25 (2006): w34-w47 (published online 7 February 2006; 10.1377/hlthaff.25.w34).
6. A. Chandra and D. Staiger, "Testing a Roy Model with Spillovers: Treatment of Heart Attacks," NBER Working Paper no. 10811 (Cambridge, Mass.: National Bureau of Economic Research, October 2004).
7. D.M. Cutler, Your Money or Your Life Strong Medicine for America's Health Care System (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004).
8. National Committee for Quality Assurance, The State of Managed Care Quality (Washington: NCQA, 2005).
9. Regarding the Medicare, increase, see S.F. Jencks, E.D. Huff, and T. Cuerdon, "Change in the Quality of Care Delivered to Medicare Beneficiaries, 1998-1999 to 2000-2001," Journal of the American Medical Association 289, no. 3 (2003): 305-312.
10. A.S. Ash et al., "Using Claims Data to Examine Mortality Trends following Hospitalization for Heart Attack in Medicare," Health Services Research 38, no. 5 (2003): 1253-1262.