Socioeconomic impact of inaccurate tests

"The results of this analysis suggest that incorrect HER2 test results have far-reaching clinical and economic consequences."

Immunohistochemical expression of HER2 in breast cancer: socioeconomic impact of inaccurate tests
M Vyberg, et al.
BMC Health Services Research, 2015, 15:352

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Understanding the upstream social determinants of health

"This paper describes and categorizes three types of approaches used to examine upstream Social Determinants of Health:

• Social disadvantage
• Life course approaches
• Health equity approaches"

Understanding the upstream social determinants of health
N Bharmal, K Pitkin Derose, M Felician, M Weden
RAND Health
May 2015

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ECHO (European Collaboration for Healthcare Optimization) Atlas

"ECHO performance Atlases report unwarranted differences in health systems performance across ECHO countries. Atlas reports on cardiovascular care, lower value care and potentially avoidable admissions have been yielded. These reports feature international and in-country variations in performance, its evolution over-time, the effect of socioeconomic gradient, and provide some policy messages derived from the results."

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