全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): Effects of Expanding Health Screening on Treatment - What Should We Expect? What Can We Learn?

G2TT

来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w24347
来源ID	Working Paper 24347
	Effects of Expanding Health Screening on Treatment - What Should We Expect? What Can We Learn?
	Rebecca Mary Myerson; Darius Lakdawalla; Lisandro D. Colantonio; Monika Safford; David Meltzer
发表日期	2018-02-26
出版年	2018
语种	英语
摘要	Screening interventions can produce very different treatment outcomes, depending on the reasons why patients had been unscreened in the first place. Economists have paid scant attention to these complexities and their implications for evaluating screening programs. In this paper, we propose a simple economic framework to guide policy-makers and analysts in designing and evaluating the impact of screening on treatment uptake. We apply these insights to several salient empirical examples that illustrate the different kinds of effects screening programs might produce. Our empirical examples focus on contexts relevant to the top cause of death in the United States, heart disease. We find that currently undiagnosed patients differ from currently diagnosed patients in important ways, leading to lower predicted uptake of recommended treatment if these patients were diagnosed. Additionally, changes in the composition of diagnosed patients can produce misleading conclusions during policy analysis, such as spurious reductions in measured health system performance as screening expands.
主题	Microeconomics ; Economics of Information ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w24347
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/582020
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Rebecca Mary Myerson,Darius Lakdawalla,Lisandro D. Colantonio,et al. Effects of Expanding Health Screening on Treatment - What Should We Expect? What Can We Learn?. 2018.

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