The U.S. health care system is often inefficient, ineffective, and inequitable. Compared to other high-income countries, the U.S. pays more for health care and has worse outcomes. One potentially ...

Although we support Lisbeth B. Schorr’s call for a variety of evaluation methods to identify promising social programs (“Innovative Reforms Require Innovative Scorekeeping,” Aug. 26, 2009.), we ...

The authors present findings of a randomized evaluation of Medicaid patients at an academic medical center, which found that intensive care management was associated with reduced total medical expense ...

Multicenter International Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer Study of the Consensus Immunoscore for the Prediction of Survival and Response to Chemotherapy in Stage III Colon Cancer During this ...

In the late 19th century, English polymath Sir Francis Galton noted that tall parents often had kids shorter than they were, while short parents often ended up with taller kids. He dubbed this ...

Hospital readmission is a key quality metric, yet post-discharge interventions often yield variable results. In the first large-scale randomized evaluation of causal machine learning in a health ...

Rigorous impact evaluations have become increasingly important to guide the direction and scaling of social impact programs. In 2000, only 39 impact evaluations of work performed in low- and ...

Combinations of immune checkpoint inhibitors (CPI) blocking PD-1 and CTLA-4 or BRAF/MEK inhibitors have both shown significant antitumor efficacy and overall survival (OS) benefit in patients with ...

Digital health has evolved rapidly since the concept was first introduced in 2000 by Seth Frank 1,2. The FDA considers digital health as a broad scope that includes categories such as mobile health, ...