How Should Economic Evaluation Be Used to Measure Value and Set Priorities in Health Care?

How should we set priorities?

How Should Health Data Be Used?

Electronic health records, data sharing, big data, data mining, and secondary use are enabling exciting opportunities for improving health and healthcare while also exacerbating privacy concerns. Two court cases about selling prescription data, the Sorrell case in the U.S. and the Source case in the U.K., raise questions of what constitutes "privacy" and "public interest"; they present an oppor...

Health outcomes in economic evaluation: who should value health?

The valuation of health states is an integral part of economic evaluation studies. The source of these valuations (general public vs. patients) is surrounded by controversy. Health state values generated by the general public are often different compared with those of patients. General public values may not account for adaptation of the patients; patients' values potentially incorporate self-in...

How Should Taxes Be Set?

The views expressed herein are those of the author and not necessarily those of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis or the Federal Reserve System.

Chloroquine should be used with care in mental health disorders.

Curren t l i t e ra tu re on the involvement of ch loroquine (CHQ) in caus ing schizophrenia i s l imi ted and most ly points to possible toxic effects following concurrent administration of CHQ with chloropromazine (1) . Open t rea tment wi th hydroxy CHQ results in no improvements in posi t ive and negative symptoms in schizophrenic patients (2). Mania may resu l t in pa t ien t s predisposed...