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Before Prescribing Opioids, Draft a Deprescribing Plan
To get past the allure of continued and often troublesome opioid use patterns, patients and doctors need a plan in hand before the first opioid is ever used.
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Stabilizing Health Care’s Share of the GDP
Since 1960, health care’s share of the GDP has risen by an average of 2.2 percentage points per decade, as compared with an average increase of 1.1 percentage points per decade in 15 other high-income countries since the early 1970s.
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Injuries Due to Medical Error are Common. They Could Be Prevented by Reducing Complexity
Research shows that medical error is the third leading cause of death worldwide.
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Knowledge Translation and the Opioid Crisis
Rapid solutions to the opioid crisis remain elusive. Prescriptions for opioids have decreased. Yet, supply limits have not reduced fatalities. Demand-side interventions have not fared any better.
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The High Cost of ‘Free’ Covid Testing
Insurance companies will inevitably pass the costs of free tests on through higher premiums or reduced benefits.
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Vaccines Help Reduce COVID-19 Related Anxiety and Depression
COVID-19 vaccines may offer individuals more than protection from serious illness caused by the virus— they may also reduce COVID-related anxiety and depression.
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The Burden of 1 Million Excess Deaths: 13.5 Million Years of Life Lost During the COVID Pandemic
Analysis of excess deaths two years into the pandemic finds adults younger than 65 years old made up 56% of life years lost.
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Aduhelm Decision Shows Medicare is Making a Mistake in the Fight Against Alzheimer’s
The medical need is too great that the FDA should not limit targeted therapies and diagnostics.
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Improving Care of People With Serious Medical Illness—An Economic Research Agenda for Palliative Care
More people are living with serious illness as the population ages, and patients with socioeconomic disadvantages bear the greatest burdens of poor care.
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Improving Care of People with Serious Medical Illness: An Economic Research Agenda for Palliative Care
In 2020, Schaeffer Center established an Advisory Panel on Palliative Care. In this post, the panel outlines next steps to increase the quality of care of frail people with multiple chronic conditions.
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