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Does my high blood pressure improve your survival? Overall and subgroup learning curves in health
Summary Learning curves in health are of interest for a wide range of medical disciplines, healthcare providers, and policy makers. In this paper, we distinguish between three types of learning when identifying overall learning curves: economies of scale, learning from cumulative experience, and human capital depreciation. In addition, we approach the question of how treating more patients with specific characteristics predicts provider performance. To soften collinearity problems, we explore the use of least absolute shrinkage and selection operator regression as a variable selection method and Theil–Goldberger mixed es...
Source: Health Economics - April 27, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Raf Van  Gestel, Tobias Müller, Johan Bosmans Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research

Cost-effectiveness of targeted screening for the identification of patients with atrial fibrillation: Evaluation of a machine learning risk prediction algorithm.
Conclusions: Targeted screening using a ML risk prediction algorithm has the potential to enhance the clinical and cost-effectiveness of AF screening, improving health outcomes through efficient use of limited healthcare resources. PMID: 31855091 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Journal of Medical Economics - December 20, 2019 Category: Health Management Tags: J Med Econ Source Type: research