Designing economic evaluations to facilitate optimal decisions: the need to avoid bias

Designing economic evaluations to facilitate optimal decisions: the need to avoid bias.

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The Need for Balanced Health Policies to Avoid Path Dependent Medicine

Analyzing the Costs of Collective Actions for Political, Administrative, and Economic Agents to Facilitate Investment

The processes of collective action of individuals within the government organization and the formation and modification of these processes in the private sector have fundamental differences with collective action. A collective action, either in the form of an activity or in the form of a reform of an entity, both has transaction costs for agents within the process. So, a collective action withi...

Decommissioning care: The need for rigorous multifaceted evaluations of decisions to withdraw health services

In this Perspective on the two clinical trials of Terry Haines and colleagues that incrementally removed and reinstated allied healthcare services, Aziz Sheikh discusses the evidence base for the routine provision of such services.

Designing computer networks to avoid partitioning

It is shown that a network can be constructed on a given set of host computers such that the possibility of a network partition resulting from network node and link failure can be ruled out with an arbitrarily high degree of conndence. More precisely, a class of networks is exhibited on any given number of host nodes so that the probability of a network partition decreases exponentially with on...