Our expert answers 3 Questions
What are you thinking about?
Similar patients with the same disease or medical condition often receive vastly different treatment in our current health care system.
Why is this interesting to you?
The challenge today in health services research is figuring out how to use this variation, which is not due to a randomized controlled trial (RCT), and identify natural experiments to determine which treatments are most effective.
What are the practical implications for healthcare?
As an economist, I am excited about the prospect of using modern econometrics to study clinical questions that cannot be addressed with RCTs.