Greetings all,
I thought that I'd like to direct everyone's attention to an interesting opinion piece about what how healthcare systems can alter their best-practices through statistics-rich evidence-based medicine. The article notes how baseball management has changed its methods through sabermetrics (valuable baseball-y statistics), and how similar successful efforts have been attempted in the health field. If you're a tad skeptical, a nice rebuttal is provided here from one of my favorite health care blogs. At the least it is something for us HPMers to think about before we nod off at the 8 AM biostatistics class.
Enjoy!
Also, a little self-promotion for the site that I'm contributing to about public-private interventions in the developing world. For anyone who is at all interested in learning about new methods of health delivery in the developing world give it a read over. The chief dude behind the site, Dominic Montagu at UCSF, is co-teaching a class next semester on the topic. Check it out at www.ps4h.org.
UPDATE: Apropos of the article above, I forgot to mention that the lead writer is the one and only Billy Beane the A's awesome GM, and the co-writers are John Kerry and Newt Gingrich, so read it.
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