What is it about?
The trends in deaths are important to both the life insurance, pension and health care industries. International deaths are showing evidence for on/off switching which is a new mechanism not previously characterized. But what is causing the on/off switching and why are the implications not being widely discussed? Deaths are related to health care demand via the nearness to death effect in which half of a person's lifetime inpatient occurs in the last year of life demand
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Why is it important?
End-of-life related costs and demand clearly depend on the trends in deaths
Perspectives
While these trends are directly relevant to UK HNS costs it would seem that policy makers are avoiding a discussion of these findings because they cut across policy and implementation. However, what if it transpired that these trends were the actual cause of the unexplained cost pressures?
Dr Rodney P Jones
Healthcare Analysis & Forecasting
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This page is a summary of: A need for transparency and evidence-based discussion, Journal of Paramedic Practice, May 2019, Mark Allen Group,
DOI: 10.12968/jpar.2019.11.5.219.
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