Scott Lee, MD, PhD, MPA, MPhil, assistant professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
Newswise Scott Lee, MD, PhD, MPA, MPhil, assistant professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, has received the Kenneth J. Arrow Award for health economics research given by the International Health Economics Association.
American Economic Review that covered a lengthy study about the recruitment of health practitioners in Zambia and its relationship to significant improvement in measured health outcomes.
The award is the highest given annually for health economics research, and “needless to say, I’m hugely honored,” Lee said.
According to Lee, this is the first study to test the impact of incentives on who enters the health workforce, and how this effect on recruitment influences performance.
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Convalescent Plasma Therapy In Blood Cancer Patients With COVID-19 by Pooja Shete on February 15, 2021 at 12:37 PM
A new data showed that treatment with convalescent plasma improved the survival rate of patients hospitalized for COVID-19 who also had hematologic malignances that compromise the immune system.
Patients who received convalescent plasma from donors who had recovered from COVID-19 had a death rate of 13.3 percent when compared to 24.8 percent in patients who did not receive it.
The data is released by the COVID-19 and Cancer Consortium (CCC19).
The difference was more pronounced in patients admitted to intensive care units where patients treated with convalescent plasma had a death rate of 15.8 percent as compared to 46.9 percent for those who weren t.