How Iceland Got Teens to Say No to Drugs: Curfews, sports, and understanding kids’ brain chemistry have all helped dramatically curb substance abuse in the country.
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What is a Pseudo R-squared? « Healthcare Economist
Source: healthcare-economist.com
Can we accurately classify physicians as high vs. low quality? "Medicare aims to tie 90% of reimbursement to quality measures. The potential for quality-linked reimbursement to incentivized improved quality of care, however, depends critically on whether physician quality can be measured reliably."
Source: healthcare-economist.com
Urine test for fatigue could help prevent accidents: Doctors, pilots, air traffic controllers and bus drivers have at least one thing in common -- if they're exhausted at work, they could be putting lives at risk. But the development of a new urine test, reported in the ACS journal Analytical Chemistry,...
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The problem with p-values « Healthcare Economist
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Will payers pay for new healthcare technologies « Healthcare Economist
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Great list of mental models from DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg via the Healthcare Economist. Includes Hanlon's razor, Pareto efficiency, survivorship bias, and the Pygmalion effect.
Source: healthcare-economist.com
Trends in Life Expectancy among Older Americans, by Race « Healthcare Economist
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No they don't use pencils in space. Chemistry World explores the humble pencil.
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Failed coup leads to crackdown on academics | Chemistry World
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Nitrogen fertiliser can minimise biofuel benefits | Chemistry World
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How does market structure affect technology adoption? « Healthcare Economist
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Improving DCE Response Rates « Healthcare Economist
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Plastic problems | Chemistry World
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Birds’ eye views | Chemistry World
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Is P4P doomed to fail? Asks the Health Economist. Well only if you assume healthcare is a simple process not a multifactorial complex one.
Source: healthcare-economist.com
The Intuition behind Bayes Theorem « Healthcare Economist
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Chemistry department to reopen at Swansea University | Chemistry World
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Is evidence-based policymaking in crisis? « Healthcare Economist
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Good read. Obliquity by John Kay on behavioural economics. "The world is complex, imperfectly known, and our knowledge of it is incomplete, and these things will remain true however much we learn and however much we analyse it." That is why we need to be 'oblique' or muddle through rather than be direct...
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