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INFECTIOUS ECONOMICS | by Blythe Adamson
April 15, 2019April 15, 2019

How to replicate visualization of trajectory towards UNAIDS 90-90-90 goals

In this tutorial, you’ll gain access to the R code, dataset, and motivation to replicate data visualizations in my latest paper and apply the concepts to your next one. I sat on an airplane last year, flipping through The Economist, when I froze at the sight of a tiny chart littered with a mess of…

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April 6, 2019June 27, 2019

I submitted to a “look-alike” journal on purpose. This is why.

The following emails are real correspondence between myself and an Associate Editor at a prestigious scientific journal, which I have called “Journal X” here. It began after I published an article in a journal with a very similar title, a “look-alike” which I am calling “Journal Y”. Names are removed for privacy. Surprise email from…

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April 5, 2019April 5, 2019

Immunotherapy increasing at end of life

Our new study on the rise of immunotherapy drugs at the end of life with bladder cancer learned from real-world patients by using @flatironhealth curated EHR data.   We hypothesized that advanced urothelial cancer patients would increasingly receive checkpoint inhibitors near the end of life, as they tend to have more favorable side effect profiles…

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March 10, 2019March 10, 2019

Incentivizing health-promoting behaviors

A new comprehensive landscape analysis of Medicaid health behavior incentive programs gathers together many challenges and potential solutions in the latest issue of Health Affairs. In 2017-2018 the team interviewed 80 key-informant stakeholders and searched the literature. The most common incentive type offered by programs was gift cards or vouchers, including cash, Visa gift cards, specific venue…

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February 1, 2019April 6, 2019

Should we pay some people to take their HIV drugs?

There is little prior evidence of effective interventions to improve viral suppression, despite this being a critical step in the HIV care continuum as described in the National HIV/AIDS Strategy for the United States.

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November 1, 2018June 19, 2019

Tools for Reproducible Real-World Data Analysis

The need to use more reproducible tools in health economics and outcomes research is growing rapidly as analyses of real-world data become more frequent, involve larger datasets and employ more complex computations.

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October 25, 2018January 31, 2019

data|evidence|policy|practice

The Irish Department of Health (DoH) is in the process of developing a national biosimilar medicines policy which aims to increase biosimilar use by creating a robust framework where biologicals and biosimilars can be used safely, cost-effectively, and confidently in the health service. In this example from an Irish teaching hospital, the introduction of the biosimilar first to new patients, along with a switching study executed in parallel, helped to raise prescriber confidence.

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July 24, 2018November 4, 2018

Mentoring Scientists

LifeSci NYC held an inspiring STEM Career Panel at the new Flatiron Health office in SoHo. The LifeSci grad student interns shared how some felt inner conflict between the opportunity to launch straight into an exciting tech career vs. slowing down for grad school.

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June 24, 2018November 1, 2018

Economic Impact of Comparative-Effectiveness Studies

@AcademyHealth #ARM2018 attendees: join me on Monday at 3:15 pm in room 605-606, where Anirban Basu will present our work in collaboration with the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to quantify the potential economic impact of the findings from comparative-effectiveness research studies. Goal Our goal was to understand the potential benefits of implementing comparative-effectiveness…

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May 29, 2018May 5, 2019

How I try to keep up with the literature

Resource Roundup: my tips and tricks to efficiently stay informed and learn more about the evolving field of health economics Teaching with the University of Washington’s online certificate program in Health Economics and Outcomes Research (HEOR), students often ask us how to keep up with the constantly changing field after the course series ends. Here is…

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