“Behind a cancer-treatment firm’s rosy survival claims”

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 2013-06-19

Summary:

Brett Keller points to a recent news article by Sharon Begley and Robin Respaut: A lot of doctors, hospitals and other healthcare providers in the United States decline to treat people who can’t pay, or have inadequate insurance, among other reasons. What sets CTCA [Cancer Treatment Centers of America] apart is that rejecting certain patients [...]

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Link:

http://andrewgelman.com/2013/06/19/behind-a-cancer-treatment-firms-rosy-survival-claims/

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Tags:

public health

Authors:

Andrew

Date tagged:

06/19/2013, 14:00

Date published:

06/19/2013, 09:55