Should Clinical Competence be Tested Regularly?

Antibiotic combinations: should they be tested?

When antibiotic combinations are used to provide a broader spectrum of antimicrobial activity or in an attempt to prevent the emergence of resistant organisms, it is rarely necessary or practical to perform tests of drug interactions in vitro. In vitro testing of combinations may be useful when combinations are used in an attempt to attain synergistic interactions. In some cases, screening meth...

Should Old-Age Benefits Be Earnings-Tested?

Should Old-Age Benefits Be Earnings-Tested? We study the welfare effects of earnings testing flat-rate old-age benefits in a quantitative overlapping generations model with idiosyncratic labor income risk. In our model economy, even a moderate earnings testing reduces individuals’ expected lifetime utility, whenever other taxes are taken into account. Moreover, it also lowers the realized lifet...

Should Clinical Services Provided by Pharmacists be Compensated?

Should Clinical Services Provided by Pharmacists be Compensated?

Should medical school applicants be tested for emotional intelligence?

Each year medical school admissions officers try to identify the best, brightest and most suitable candidates from among the 37,000 who are competing for approximately 17,000 available slots. In so doing, these officers and their designees must determine whether applicants fit not only with the missions and priorities of their respective programs and institutions but also with the values and go...