Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Discipline
-
- Data Science (2)
- Physical Sciences and Mathematics (2)
- Applied Statistics (1)
- Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (1)
- Behavioral Economics (1)
-
- Business (1)
- Business Analytics (1)
- Clinical Trials (1)
- Community Health and Preventive Medicine (1)
- Computer Sciences (1)
- Econometrics (1)
- Economic Policy (1)
- Economics (1)
- Health Economics (1)
- Health Policy (1)
- Health Services Administration (1)
- Insurance (1)
- Longitudinal Data Analysis and Time Series (1)
- Medical Specialties (1)
- Medicine and Health (1)
- Multivariate Analysis (1)
- Oncology (1)
- Palliative Care (1)
- Pharmacoeconomics and Pharmaceutical Economics (1)
- Pharmacy Administration, Policy and Regulation (1)
- Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences (1)
- Policy Design, Analysis, and Evaluation (1)
Articles 1 - 3 of 3
Full-Text Articles in Health Services Research
Association Of Incident Cancer To Low-Value Care And Healthcare Cost Burden Among Elderly Medicare Beneficiaries, Chibuzo Iloabuchi
Association Of Incident Cancer To Low-Value Care And Healthcare Cost Burden Among Elderly Medicare Beneficiaries, Chibuzo Iloabuchi
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports
In the United States (US), 25% of healthcare spending is considered wasteful because it is spent reimbursing low-value care. Low-value care is the utilization of healthcare services, medical tests, and procedures that have unclear or no clinical benefit to patients but still exposes them to risk. World-wide, low-value care imposes a significant economic burden on patients, payers, governments, and society. Cancer care among older adults > 65 years is one of the biggest drivers of healthcare expenditure in the US and accounts for nearly 40% of all spending, and low-value care among cancer patients is prevalent and contributes to the financial …
Economic Burden Of Low-Value Healthcare On Patients With Localized Prostate Cancer: Statistical & Machine Learning Approaches, Ryan Fiano
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports
Adults with incident localized prostate cancer represent a large, medically complex population at risk for low-value care. Evidence-based guidelines recommend conservative management (CM) for localized prostate cancer patients with multimorbidity and limited life expectancy, however, 2 in 3 still choose treatment. This dissertation pursued three Aims to address research gaps related to healthcare practices associated with significant morbidity and economic burden on older men with incident localized prostate cancer: 1) examine the leading predictors of low-value healthcare practice of prostate cancer treatment for low-risk prostate cancer; 2) assess the role of patient‐reported experience with care on high-value prostate cancer management; …
Three Essays On Health Economics And Policy Evaluation, Shishir Shakya
Three Essays On Health Economics And Policy Evaluation, Shishir Shakya
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports
This dissertation consists of three essays on the U.S. Health care policy. Each paragraph below refers to the three abstracts for the three chapters in this dissertation, respectively. I provide quantitative evidence on how much Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMPs) affects the retail opioid prescribing behaviors. Using the American Community Survey (ACS), I retrieve county-level high dimensional panel data set from 2010 to 2017. I employ three separate identification strategies: difference-in-difference, double selection post-LASSO, and spatial difference-in-difference. I compare how the retail opioid prescribing behaviors of counties, that are mandatory for prescribers to check the PDMP before prescribing controlled substances …