What is it about?
This short article presented the reasoning why the ubiquitous immune modifying herpes virus, cytomegalovirus (CMV), could be the unrecognized agent behind rising health care costs.
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Why is it important?
While rising health care costs are multi-factorial there is a common set of conditions which shows unexplained step-like increases every time costs rapidly escalate.
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Since publishing this short piece the evidence for a new type of infectious outbreak and the likely involvement of CMV has steadily mounted. In the UK the Department is literally bending over backwards to deny that anything unusual is happening but chooses to blame the NHS. See full series of papers at http://www.hcaf.biz/2010/Publications_Full.pdf
Dr Rodney P Jones
Healthcare Analysis & Forecasting
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This page is a summary of: CMV and health care costs, British Journal of Healthcare Management, April 2011, Mark Allen Group,
DOI: 10.12968/bjhc.2011.17.4.168.
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