Patient and Physician Behavior
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Measuring Value in Clinical Trials: Patient Preference Doesn’t Equal Average Survival
Though clinical trials most often rely on average survival rates as measures of value, these are not synonymous indicators. New research by the Schaeffer Center finds additional factors may weigh in patient’s treatment choice.Â
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Move Beyond Drugs to Manage Pain
The government should prioritize integrative care to curb reliance on opioids.
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Encouraging Integrative, Non-Opioid Approaches To Pain: A Policy Agenda
Big changes are necessary to overcome our myopic view favoring immediate pain relief over safer approaches that are effective in the long term.
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Hooked in Hospitals: Many Medicare Patients Received First Painkillers There
Understanding the context of opioid providing, provider patterns, and patient behavior is the first step to developing policies that will adequately halt this pressing public health crisis. Two studies co-written by Schaeffer Center researchers analyze this context within the Medicare population.
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Cost Savings Possible from Reducing Use of Low-Value Health Services
Spending on 28 low-value medical services totaled $32.8 million during 2013.
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Hospital Prescribing of Opioids to Medicare Beneficiaries
In one of the first studies to quantify the rate of new opioid prescriptions amid growing national concern about the use of addictive painkillers, this study shows that a large number—nearly 15 percent—of Medicare patients receive their first prescription for opioids within a week of being discharged from the hospital.
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Behavioral Interventions to Reduce Inappropriate Antibiotic Prescribing: A Randomized Pilot Trial
Behavioral interventions that appealed to doctors’ competitive spirits and desire to strengthen their reputations motivated them to significantly reduce unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions.
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New Study Finds Pay Gaps in Physician Income by Race, Gender
White, male physicians had an adjusted median annual income 35 percent higher than black male physicians according to a new study.
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Making Better Antibiotic Prescribing Decisions
More effective solutions to curb antibiotic prescribing should take into account that doctors are human beings and subject to the same biases in decision-making as the rest of us. Jason Doctor discusses a few nudges that work.
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Cognitive Reflection and Antibiotic Prescribing for Acute Respiratory Infections
Researchers found a “sweet-spot” of cognitive reflection for antibiotic prescribing for non-antibiotic-appropriate acute respiratory infections.
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