ABSTRACT Despite the goal of comparative effectiveness research (CER) to inform patient‐centered care, most studies fail to account for the patient‐centeredness of care that already exist in practice, which we denote as passive personalization (PP). Because CER studies describe the average...

This paper studies the relationship between medical compliance and health outcomes - hospitalization and mortality rates - using a large panel of patients residing in a local health authority in Italy. These data allow us to follow individual patients through all their accesses to public health...

We examine access to general practitioners and specialists who work in the public and private sectors in Italy using a seemingly unrelated system of probits. We use a latent class formulation that provides a rich and flexible functional form and can accommodate non-normality of response...

Background: IQWiG commissioned an international panel of experts to develop methods for the assessment of the relation of benefits to costs in the German statutory health-care system. <P>Proposed methods: The panel recommended that IQWiG inform German decision makers of the net costs and value of...</p>