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Addressing the Shortage of Kidneys for Transplantation: Purchase and Allocation Through Chain Auctions
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2011) 36 (4): 717–755.
Published: 01 August 2011
...Lara Rosen; Aidan R. Vining; David L. Weimer Transplantation is generally the treatment of choice for those suffering from kidney failure. Not only does transplantation offer improved quality of life and increased longevity relative to dialysis, it also reduces end-stage renal disease program...
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Regulating and Paying for Hospice and Palliative Care: Reflections on the Medicare Hospice Benefit
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2016) 41 (4): 697–716.
Published: 01 August 2016
... of the health care system. We offer suggestions regarding how hospice could be better integrated into the broader health care delivery system. Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 hospice Medicare National Hospice Study policy analysis quality at the end of life In its origins...
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Editor's Note
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2008) 33 (5): 859–860.
Published: 01 October 2008
...).
To what extent should a society seek to provide equal access to care?
How does one define such access? Does equal access translate inevitably
to equal quality? These questions are critical to discussions of nursing-
home care, dental care, end-of-life care, and pharmaceutical costs. These
questions...
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Can the NICE “End-of-Life Premium” Be Given a Coherent Ethical Justification?
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2013) 38 (6): 1129–1148.
Published: 01 December 2013
..., new drugs for terminal cancer deliver the expectation of a few more months of poor-quality life. Application of the “concentration of benefits” principle might imply that health gains from end-of-life treatments should be weighted more than health gains from low-benefit treatments for mild conditions...
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On Government's Role in the Crossing of Chasms
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2004) 29 (1): 1–10.
Published: 01 February 2004
... to a particular conception of
ethical or high-quality care. As such, he sees them as suppressing legiti-
mate disagreement about the goals of care and thus exacerbating tensions
related to the treatment of individual patients. Although his argument is
cast in terms of decisions involving the end of life...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2013) 38 (6): 1071–1079.
Published: 01 December 2013
... a few months? Is ever-increasing health care spending at the end of life a sensible and humane investment, or is it evidence that medicine has lost its way and is creating an “economic quagmire” (Callahan and Nuland 2011 )? Richard Cookson's article explores NICE's “end-of-life premium” and asserts...
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Disinvestments in Practice: Overcoming Resistance to Change Through a Sociotechnical Approach with Local Stakeholders
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2013) 38 (6): 1149–1171.
Published: 01 December 2013
... of life after one year assuming they had no access to the intervention (the “counterfactual”). For simplicity, we assumed a linear change in quality of life from the beginning to the end of the year. An example of the model to estimate the average, individual health gain from engaging with SEDS...
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Commentary on "When Health Policy Is the Problem"
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2005) 30 (3): 367–374.
Published: 01 June 2005
... Research and Quality (AHRQ). 2004 . Research in Action Syntheses . Rockville, MD:Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. www.ahrq.gov/news/riaix.htm . Bronner, E. 2003 . The Foundation's End-of-Life Programs: Changing the American Way of Death. In To Improve Health and Health Care . Vol. 6...
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Sharing the Burden: Strategies for Public and Private Long-Term Care Insurance
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1995) 20 (3): 811–816.
Published: 01 June 1995
... care is inextricably linked with our
living situation, and the match between care delivery and highly personal
preferences determines the ongoing quality of daily life if we become
disabled. It is a challenge for public programs to respond to individual
consumer preferences, especially...
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Imagining Medicare: Visions of the Future
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2005) 30 (3): 505–520.
Published: 01 June 2005
.... This
is the core of the book and it focuses on issues in health care delivery,
specifi cally managed care, adoption of new technologies, and end-of-life
care. Lawlor’s analysis of these issues is balanced, nuanced, and rigor-
ously researched. Lawlor is also sober about the prospects for Medicare
reform...
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Pragmatic Bioethics
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2005) 30 (3): 520–523.
Published: 01 June 2005
... in health care delivery,
specifi cally managed care, adoption of new technologies, and end-of-life
care. Lawlor’s analysis of these issues is balanced, nuanced, and rigor-
ously researched. Lawlor is also sober about the prospects for Medicare
reform, and in contrast to advocates who all too often...
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Creating Mental Illness
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2005) 30 (3): 523–529.
Published: 01 June 2005
... on
economics and organizational theory), Lawlor turns to three case stud-
ies to demonstrate his contractual approach to Medicare reform. This
is the core of the book and it focuses on issues in health care delivery,
specifi cally managed care, adoption of new technologies, and end-of-life
care. Lawlor’s...
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Managed Care and Monopoly Power
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2005) 30 (3): 530–534.
Published: 01 June 2005
... contractual approach to Medicare reform. This
is the core of the book and it focuses on issues in health care delivery,
specifi cally managed care, adoption of new technologies, and end-of-life
care. Lawlor’s analysis of these issues is balanced, nuanced, and rigor-
ously researched. Lawlor is also...
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Understanding Prices and Quantities in the U.s. Health Care System
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2011) 36 (4): 791–801.
Published: 01 August 2011
... 29 : 2302 – 2309 . Gawande A. 2009 . The Cost Conundrum . New Yorker , June 1 , 1 – 8 . Goodman D. G. Fisher E. S. Chang C.-H. Morden N. E. Jacobson J. E. Murray K. Miesfeldt S. . 2010 . Quality of End-of-Life Cancer Care for Medicare...
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A Farewell to Sol Levine
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1997) 22 (2): 667–669.
Published: 01 April 1997
... the
differential effects of various drugs both in their control of hypertension
and in their relative effects on quality of life. This classic work introduced
quality-of-life measures into clinical medicine, opening an era in clinical
investigation in which quality-of-life issues would be given equal priority...
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Health Care for Older Persons in England and the United States: A Contrast of Systems and Values
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2011) 36 (1): 89–118.
Published: 01 February 2011
... of Health . ———. 2004 . Better Health in Old Age . London : Department of Health . ———. 2008 . End of Life Care Strategy — Promoting High Quality Care for All Adults at the End of Life . London : Department of Health . ———. 2009 . Achieving Age Equality in Health and Social Care: A Report...
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Old and Sick in America: The Journey through the Health Care System
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2019) 44 (4): 707–710.
Published: 01 August 2019
... documented that health services in the United States, representing 17.9% of GDP, are the costliest in the world. Medicare alone accounted for $672 billion (20% of national health expenditures) in 2016, of which a significant percentage financed the treatment of frail older people near the end of life...
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A Window of Opportunity: The Louisiana Birth Outcomes Initiative
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2012) 37 (3): 551–557.
Published: 01 June 2012
... Injuries . Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety 34 : 201 – 205 . Olds D. Eckenrode J. Henderson C. R. Kitzman H. Powers J. Cole R. Sidora K. . 1997 . Long-Term Effects of Home Visitation on Maternal Life Course and Child Abuse and Neglect...
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Psychotherapy and the Dying Patient
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1980) 5 (3): 400–404.
Published: 01 June 1980
... how to die. We can, however, help people
to live out their terminal months or years in such a manner that the quality
of life has meaning and value.
“Acceptance” most assuredly does not mean instructing a patient to lie
down and die quietly as a way of coping with a situation in which there
may...
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Medicare Reimbursement for Hospice Care: Ethical and Policy Implications of Cost-Containment Strategies
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1985) 10 (3): 565–578.
Published: 01 June 1985
... of caring for the mentally ill and the develop-mentally disabled in an institutional setting has breathed new life into proposals to bring these groups out into the community where they can live more independently– and more cheaply. But this overlap of quality and frugality goals is only partial. Although...
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