Day: January 3, 2013

Shared decision making can help

Austin Frakt January 3, 2013

As a follow-up to my previous post, a way to help patients make more efficient decisions about their care comes under the rubric of shared

It’s the intensity, stupid

Austin Frakt January 3, 2013

Of course it’s many things. Among them, Victor Fuchs highlights the difference in intensity of medical care between the U.S. and other OECD countries. The OECD

Chart of the day: Crime and lead

Austin Frakt January 3, 2013

Via Kevin Drum: Kevin’s longer piece on the crime-lead connection appears in Mother Jones (ungated and I haven’t read it yet). Coincidentally, Harold Pollack recently

Why evidence-informed policy is hard

Austin Frakt January 3, 2013

I’m pleased to write that an ungated PDF of “‘Developing Good Taste in Evidence’: Facilitators of and Hindrances to Evidence-Informed Health Policymaking in State Government,”

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Day: January 3, 2013

Shared decision making can help

It’s the intensity, stupid

Chart of the day: Crime and lead

Why evidence-informed policy is hard

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Day: January 3, 2013

Shared decision making can help

It’s the intensity, stupid

Chart of the day: Crime and lead

Why evidence-informed policy is hard

The Incidental Economist

Editors In Chief

Managing Editor

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