Do dementia villages actually work? We just don’t know
Kristina Smith October 24, 2023
Dementia villages are on the rise, but there’s not a lot we know about them.
Dementia villages are on the rise, but there’s not a lot we know about them.
For years, public health and medical professions have been worried about the impacts of long emergency department (ED) wait times. Emergency departments are routinely crowded,
The following originally appeared on The Upshot (copyright 2018, The New York Times Company). Research for this piece was supported by the Laura and John Arnold Foundation. Why
The following originally appeared on The Upshot (copyright 2018, The New York Times Company). Research for this piece was supported by the Laura and John Arnold Foundation. The United
I’m very proud of my Upshot post today, which explores a US health care mystery: our levels of spending and outcomes were among those of
In Medical Care, Yu-Chu Shen and Vivian Wu have published a nice study of the effect on patient outcomes of Medicare hospital payment reductions. They
This paper by John Birkmeyer and colleagues in NEJM has received a lot of praise by physicians I follow on Twitter. METHODS: We conducted a study
Since the May 2nd publication of the NEJM paper on the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment (OHIE), there has been an uptick in commentary about the effects of
Levy and Meltzer’s update of their 2004 book chapter on the effect of health insurance on health is not new. It was published in 2008,
The Conference Board of Canada has recently updated its Health Outcomes by Country report cards using the latest data from the OECD. They score themselves
This post has been cited in the 17 March 2011 edition of Health Wonk Review. Yesterday Scott Gottlieb published a WSJ piece titled, “Medicaid Is
In a typically short post (which is good; you can read it quickly and should) Tyler Cowen reminds us that diminishing marginal returns apply to