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Articles by Tamar Oostrom
Funding of Clinical Trials and Reported Drug Efficacy
I. Introduction In many markets, consumers and policymakers have incomplete information on product effectiveness and quality. Consequently, firms often finance research on their own products. For example, automakers run fuel-economy tests for new vehicles, sunscreen manufacturers pay laboratories to test their products, and drug manufacturers often conduct clinical trials.
Opiates of the Masses? Deaths of Despair and the Decline of American Religion
Skip to main content We thank audiences at the ASREC Conference, BFI Health Economics Initiative Annual Conference, BFI Women in Empirical Microeconomics Conference, Colgate University, Florida State University, Harvard University, Indiana University, IU East, SEA Conference, Stanford University, and the University of Michigan.
Screening and Selection: The Case of Mammograms
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The Surprising Effect of Mammogram Recommendations
What are the costs and benefits of mammograms? How do you weigh, for example, the potential savings and healthcare cost against the potential lives saved, against the increase in psychic costs -- these are all very, very difficult issues. My collaborators and I have recently been looking into the highly controversial area of recommendations for whether and when to screen for breast cancer using mammograms. There's concerns that not enough women are getting screened for mammograms.
Outpatient Office Wait Times And Quality Of Care For Medicaid Patients
The time patients spend in a doctor’s waiting room prior to a scheduled appointment is an important component of the quality of the overall health care experience. We analyzed data on twenty-one million outpatient visits obtained from electronic health record systems, which allowed us to measure time spent in the waiting room beyond the scheduled appointment time. Median wait time was a little more than four minutes.
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