Dissertation Title: "Cost-Effectiveness of 64-Slice Computed Tomography in Cardiac Care and An Analysis of the Adoption and Diffusion of a New Technology"
The 64-slice computed tomography (CT), a recent advance in radiological imaging, has the potential...
Dissertation Title： "Delivering the Right Amount of Care - Sometimes More is Less"
New technologies utilized in clinical practice offer improved tools for diagnosing and treating patients. In some cases these improvements cause unintended consequences by...
Dissertation Title："The Value of Targeted Therapies in Lung Cancer"
The goal of this dissertation was to examine the realized value of targeted therapies in routine care and to identify opportunities for improving the return on medical spending for these...
Dissertation Title: "Policy Assessment of Medical Imaging Utilization: Methods and Applications"
We developed and applied decision-analytic methods to two controversial uses of diagnostic imaging technologies: diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease (AD) with...