David Meltzer

Prevalence of antimicrobial-resistant bacteria isolated from older versus younger hospitalized adults: results of a two-centre study (2009)

Weber, Stephen G., Miller, Ram R., Perencevich, Eli N., Tolentino, Jocelyn, Meltzer, David, Pitrak, David, ...

Objectives To compare the proportion of antimicrobial-resistant strains among bacterial isolates from younger and older hospital patients and to quantify changes in the proportion of...

Published in 2000 IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems (SiPS) TRENDS IN COMPILABLE DSP ARCHITECTURE (2008)

John Glossner, Jaime Moreno, Mayan Moudgill, Jeff Derby, Erdem Hokenek, David Meltzer, ...

Abstract- We review the evolution of DSP architectures and compiler technology, and describe how compiler techniques are being used to optimize emerging DSP architectures. Such new architectures are...

Coordinating care across diseases, settings, and clinicians: a key role for the generalist in practice (2005)

Stille, Christopher J., Jerant, Anthony, Bell, Douglas, Meltzer, David, Elmore, Joann G.

Coordinated care is a defining principle of primary care, but it is becoming increasingly difficult to provide as the health care delivery system in the United States becomes more complex. To guide...

The Convergence between For-Profit and Nonprofit Hospitals in the United States (2005)

Guy David, Anup Malani, David Meltzer, Mark Pauly, Tomas Philipson, Chad Syverson, ...

This paper provides evidence of growing similarity in capacity of for-profit and nonprofit hospitals. In 1960, U.S. nonprofit hospitals maintained on average more than three times as many beds per...

Waiting for organ transplantation: results of an analysis by an Institute of Medicine Committee (2003)

Gibbons, Robert D., Duan, Naihua, Meltzer, David, Pope, Andrew, Penhoet, Edward D., Dubler, Nancy N., ...

One of the most visible and contentious issues regarding the fairness of the original system of organ procurement and allocation is the argument that it resulted in great disparities in the total...

Untitled (2002)

Meltzer, David.

Callaloo - Volume 25, Number 1, Winter 2002

Untitled (2002)

Meltzer, David.

Callaloo - Volume 25, Number 1, Winter 2002

Effects of Competition Under Prospective Payment on Hospital Costs Among High- and Low-Cost Admissions: Evidence from California, 1983 and 1993 (2002)

Meltzer, David, Chung, Jeanette

Competition and prospective payment systems have been widely used to attempt to control health care costs. Although much of the increase in medical costs over the past half-century has been...

Effects of Competition Under Prospective Payment on Hospital Costs Among High- and Low-Cost Admissions: Evidence from California, 1983 and 1993 (2002)

Meltzer, David, Chung, Jeanette

Competition and prospective payment systems have been widely used to attempt to control health care costs. Although much of the increase in medical costs over the past half-century has been...

Effects of Competition Under Prospective Payment on Hospital Costs Among High- and Low-Cost Admissions: Evidence from California, 1983 and 1993 (2002)

Meltzer, David, Chung, Jeanette

Competition and prospective payment systems have been widely used to attempt to control health care costs. Although much of the increase in medical costs over the past half-century has been...

Effects of Competition Under Prospective Payment on Hospital Costs Among High- and Low-Cost Admissions: Evidence from California, 1983 and 1993 (2002)

Meltzer, David, Chung, Jeanette

Competition and prospective payment systems have been widely used to attempt to control health care costs. Although much of the increase in medical costs over the past half-century has been...

Life Expectancy, Educational Attainment, and Fertility Choice ∗ (2001)

Rodrigo Reis Soares, David Meltzer

This paper explores the role of mortality as a determinant of educational attainment and fertility, both during the demographic transition and after its completion. Two main points distinguish our...

Life Expectancy, Educational Attainment, and Fertility Choice ∗ (2001)

Rodrigo Reis Soares, David Meltzer

This paper explores the role of life expectancy as a determinant of educational attainment and fertility, both during the demographic transition and after its completion. Two main points distinguish...

Trends In Compilable Dsp Architecture (2000)

John Glossner Jaime, Jaime Moreno, Mayan Moudgill, Jeff Derby, Erdem Hokenek, David Meltzer, ...

We review the evolution of DSP architectures and compiler technology, and describe how compiler techniques are being used to optimize emerging DSP architectures. Such new architectures are...

Illustrating the impact of including future costs in economic evaluations: an application to end-stage renal disease care

Braden Manns, David Meltzer, Ken Taub, Cam Donaldson

There are strong theoretical arguments for including future costs for related and unrelated medical care and non-medical expenditures within economic evaluations. Nevertheless, there is limited data...

Does Competition under Medicare Prospective Payment Selectively Reduce Expenditures on High-Cost Patients?

David Meltzer, Jeanette Chung, Anirban Basu

Competition and prospective payment have been widely used to control health care costs but may together provide incentives to selectively reduce expenditures on high-cost relative to low-cost users....

Do Important Drugs Reach the Market Sooner?

David Dranove, David Meltzer

Since the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Amendments of 1962, the average time from a drug's first worldwide patent application to its approval by the FDA has risen from 3.5 to 13.5 years. FDA...

Effects of Competition Under Prospective Payment on Hospital Costs Among High- and Low-Cost Admissions: Evidence from California, 1983 and 1993

David Meltzer, Jeanette Chung

Competition and prospective payment systems have been widely used to attempt to control health care costs. Although much of the increase in medical costs over the past half-century has been...

Accounting for Future Costs in Medical Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

David Meltzer

Most medical cost-effectiveness analyses include future costs only for related illnesses but this approach is controversial. This paper demonstrates that cost-effectiveness analysis is consistent...

Effects of Competition under Prospective Payment on Hospital Costs among High and Low Cost Admissions: Evidence from California, 1983 - 1993

David Meltzer, Jeanette Chung

Competition and prospective payment systems have been widely used to attempt to control health care costs. Though much of the increase in medical costs over the past half-century has been...

Hospitalists and the Doctor-Patient Relationship.

Meltzer, David

Hospitalists--physicians whose practice focuses on the care of hospitalized general medicine patients--are increasingly common in the United States, often displacing primary care physicians from this...

A linear index for predicting joint health-states utilities from single health-states utilities

Anirban Basu, William Dale, Arthur Elstein, David Meltzer

Direct elicitation of utilities for joint health (JS) states may pose substantial interview burden, while traditional models to predict these utilities from utilities of component single states (SS)...