Soeren Mattke
Director, Center for Improving Chronic Illness Care, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Center for Economic and Social ResearchResearch Professor of Economics, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Recent Work
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Expanding the Use of Brief Cognitive Assessments to Detect Suspected Early-Stage Cognitive Impairment in Primary Care
Providing primary care clinicians with suitable assessment tools, integrating brief cognitive assessments into routine workflows, and crafting payment policies to encourage adoption of assessments would all help improve detection.
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The Social Value of Disseminating Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement
Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) has facilitated treatment of aortic stenosis in patients otherwise ineligible for corrective surgery or who are reluctant to undergo open-heart surgery. Schaeffer Center experts estimate the social value of past and future TAVR procedures.
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Blood‐Based Biomarkers for Alzheimer’s Pathology and the Diagnostic Process for a Disease‐Modifying Treatment: Projecting the Impact on the Cost and Wait Times
Blood‐based biomarker tests are a promising tool to improve triaging Alzheimer’s disease at the primary care level.
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Knowledge of COVID-19 Symptoms May Not Be Sufficient to Change Behavior
People with respiratory symptoms are well aware of key symptoms of the COVID-19, but might not apply the knowledge to their own symptoms and sufficiently adjust their behaviors to prevent the spread.
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Temporal Trends in in Mortality after Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: A Systematic Review and Meta-Regression Analysis
Near-term survival after transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) has improved substantially within the short period after the procedure was introduced.
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