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September 17, 2012 | Feature/Topic
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Investigator Advances "Desktop" Theory of Medicine
March 10, 2011 | Story
Computers, biomarkers, risk assessments and other new tools are redefining how we measure disease and the ways medical professionals diagnose and treat patients.
The Association of Health Insurance and Disease Impairment with Reported Asthma Prevalence in U.S. Children
February 1, 2012 | Journal Article
While children with persistent asthma symptoms are treated similarly regardless of insurance status, insured children with intermittent symptoms are more likely than uninsured children to be diagnosed and receive treatment, suggesting insuring more asthmatic children is unlikely to result in treatment cost savings.
Regional Variations in Diagnostic Practices
May 12, 2010 | Journal Article
This article examines geographic variation in diagnostic practices by studying Medicare recipients who move to regions with higher or lower diagnostic intensity than the original region.
What We Talk About When We Talk About Alzheimer's Disease
March 12, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
A fundamental task of medicine is stratifying people into clinically meaningful categories. The term “stratifying” describes how physicians divide the sick from the well and then divide the sick into different stages of disease. In other words, the ...
Underdiagnosis of Pediatric Obesity During Outpatient Preventive Care Visits
November 1, 2005 | Journal Article
Diagnosis—the first step in improving care for obese pediatric patients—needs to be stepped up.