August 28, 2018
The Marik sepsis bundle – a case study in critical care decision making
Robin Blythe discusses hospital decision-makers and clinical ambiguity related to his recent research published on…
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October 2, 2015
Behavioural economics on the ward: how economics can help us think about health decisions
Making health decisions is not always easy. A patient learning that she has a throat…
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September 7, 2015
Further research called for around environmental cleaning and HAIs
A new report by the US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) calls for…
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July 27, 2015
When economists meet librarians
AusHSI regularly delivers short courses on cost-effectiveness analysis but recently we had a special group…
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June 29, 2015
A magic wand of inefficiency
In 2012 an important study was published in The Lancet by a team led by nursing…
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May 15, 2015
Servicing the health machine – Response to the Health Budget 2015
Think of the health care system as a really complicated machine, belching smoke, leaking oil…
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March 24, 2015
Market failure and information problems in healthcare
Politicians love to talk about improving the efficiency of health services, but they almost never…
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March 20, 2015
What do most Americans think of cost-effectiveness research in health care?
My impression is that explicit data on the cost-effectiveness of different health care services are not valued…
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February 3, 2015
Rationing health care services: not if but how
From hospital buildings to the doctors and nurses who work in them, to the equipment…
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