Randomize evaluations to improve health care delivery: Administrative data and experimental designs lead the way

Science

Volumn 347, Issue 6223, 2015, Pages 720-722

  Finkelstein, Amy ^a,b   Taubman, Sarah ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH SERVICES; NUMERICAL MODEL; PUBLIC HEALTH;

COST; DEVICE SAFETY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; ECONOMICS; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EMPLOYMENT; EQUIPOISE; FUNDING; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEARNING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MEDICARE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZATION; SHORT SURVEY; SOCIOLOGY; UNITED STATES; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; RANDOM ALLOCATION;

EID: 84923086489     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.aaa2362     Document Type: Short Survey

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