Healthcare Triage: Cost Effectiveness in Medicine is not a Dirty Word

Last week, we discussed how to measure the utility value of different health states. These can be used as a proxy for quality in measuring how effective therapies are. How? That’s the topic of this week’s Healthcare Triage.

For those of you who want to read more, this was adapted from a piece I wrote for the Upshot in the NYT. Links are there if you want to read more.

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Aaron Carroll

Aaron E. Carroll, MD, MS is co-Editor-in-Chief of The Incidental Economist and tweets at @aaronecarroll. He is the Chief Health Officer at Indiana University. He is also a Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics and Associate Dean for Research Mentoring at the Indiana University School of Medicine. In addition to contributing regularly to The New York Times and the Atlantic, he is the author of four books, most recently The Bad Food Bible.

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