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Uterus at a price: Disability insurance and hysterectomy Fan E. (et al) Journal of Health Economics 66 (2019) 1-17

This week’s blog is brought to you by: Professor Sir Muir Gray

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Intensive Glucose Control in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes — 15-Year Follow-up

Reaven P.D. et al (2019) N Engl J Med 2019;380:2215-24.

This week’s blog is brought to you by Dr Tim Wilson

Health Care Spending, Utilization, and Quality 8 Years into Global Payment

Song, Z., Ji, Y., Safran, D. G., & Chernew, M. E. (2019). Health Care Spending, Utilization, and Quality 8 Years into Global Payment. New England Journal of Medicine, 381(3), 252–263.

Expert Panel on effective ways of investing in Health (EXPH), Defining value in “value-based healthcare”

Physician Beliefs and Patient Preferences: A New Look at Regional Variation in Health Care Spending

Cutler, David, Jonathan S. Skinner, Ariel Dora Stern, and David Wennberg. 2019. "Physician Beliefs and Patient Preferences: A New Look at Regional Variation in Health Care Spending." American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 11 (1): 192-221.

Why productivity isn't enough

Atella, V., Belotti, F., Bojke, C., Castelli, A., Grašič, K., Kopinska, J., … Street, A. (2019). How health policy shapes healthcare sector productivity? Evidence from Italy and UK. Health Policy, 123(1), 27–36. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.HEALTHPOL.2018.10.016

What is fair in healthcare

Chamberlain, C., Owen-Smith, A., MacKichan, F., Donovan, J. L., & Hollingworth, W. (2019). “What’s fair to an individual is not always fair to a population”: a qualitative study of patients and their health professionals using the Cancer Drugs Fund. Health Policy, 123(8), 706–712.

Paper of the Week: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Cost-of-Care Conversations

https://annals.org/aim/fullarticle/2732826/7-habits-highly-effective-cost-care-conversations

Why are we wasting precious resources to deliver low value at the end of life?”

Warraich, H. J., & Meier, D. E. (2019). Serious-Illness Care 2.0 — Meeting the Needs of Patients with Heart Failure. New England Journal of Medicine, 380(26), 2492–2494. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMp1900584

The inverse care law continues to thrive in the NHS for vascular surgery (and probably more)

Giuseppe Moscelli, Luigi Siciliani, NilsGutacker, Richard Cookson Socioeconomic inequality of access to healthcare: Does choice explain the gradient? Journal of Health Economics, 57, 290–314.