A new study in The BMJ reveals that nurse practitioners and physician assistants now handle 25% of Medicare visits. The way those visits are billed makes it hard to know how that shift away from doctors is impacting care.
Research Studies
Posted inHealth Technology
How a Cancer-Screening Blood Test Could Backfire
A new JAMA Internal Medicine article reviews the evidence for a widely hyped cancer-screening blood test — and finds it lacking.
Posted inPublic Health
When Research and the Realities of Practicing Medicine Collide
Tradeoffs research reporter Soleil Shah shares what he’s learning as a new medical resident about the value and limitations of health policy research.
Posted inCost of Care
Experts Share Four Key Studies you Might have Missed this Summer
Experts from the Tradeoffs Advisory Board share some of their favorite new health policy studies.
Posted inHealth Equity
Putting a Price Tag on Patients’ Social Needs
A study in JAMA Internal Medicine calculates the cost of fully meeting the social needs of primary care patients – and finds the current system falls short.
Posted inPublic Health
Nursing Home Visits, Abortion and Intimate Partner Violence: More from ASHEcon
Soleil recaps two more fascinating studies from the 2023 ASHEcon conference.
Posted inPublic Health
The Return of Our Research Newsletter
Meet the man behind our revamped research newsletter.
Posted inHealth Equity
How Doctors Really Feel About Patients with Disabilities
Bianca Frogner shares new research that surveys physicians attitudes and actions towards patients with disabilities.
Posted inCost of Care
Lessons from a Trauma Center Boom in Texas
Sayeh Nikpay shares new research that examines the impact of a trauma center boom in Texas.
Posted inMental Health
Presenting The Nocturnists: Hello Shame
The first episode of a new series from The Nocturnists podcast about shame in medicine.