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Maryland's Primary Care Program: incremental progress or breakthrough?

The Health Policy Exchange

Since their continuity clinic continues to be located in Maryland, we decided that a great topic to revive this series of seminars was the Maryland Primary Care Program (MDPCP), which was recently featured in a Milbank Memorial Fund Issue Brief.

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OptiSleep Appliance.A 'How To'

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The sense and nonsense of CT screening for lung cancer

The Health Policy Exchange

Also, since the USPSTF is permitted to consider only clinical effectiveness, not cost effectiveness, it could potentially put taxpayers on the hook for cost-prohibitive screenings. They downplayed the potential harms of false positive screens (which affected 1 in 4 participants in the NLST), overdiagnosis, and radiation-induced cancers.

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Politics and practice guidelines: a volatile mix

The Health Policy Exchange

In this month's Georgetown University Health Policy seminar, we discussed the financial and political challenges that AHRQ and its predecessor, the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR) have faced while trying to improve outcomes and effectiveness of medical care since the latter's founding during the first Bush Administration.