Comparative effectiveness research, technological abandonment, and health care spending

Advances in Health Economics and Health Services Research

Volumn 23, Issue , 2012, Pages 103-121

  Howard, David H ^a   Shen, Yu Chu ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Evidenced based medicine; Medical technology; Physicians practice patterns; Technology diffusion

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EPISIOTOMY; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STABLE ANGINA PECTORIS; VAGINAL DELIVERY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; MALE; MASS COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS RESEARCH; DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION; EPISIOTOMY; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84872111598     PISSN: 07312199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1108/S0731-2199(2012)0000023007     Document Type: Article

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