DOI: 10.1111/eci.12414
LETTER TO THE EDITOR Modern health care as a game theory problem: reply Benjamin Djulbegovic*, Iztok Hozo† and John Ioannidis‡ *
Moffitt Cancer Center & Tampa General Hospital, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA, †Indiana University, Gary, IN, USA, ‡Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA Eur J Clin Invest 2015; 45 (4): 443
We thank Prof Sturmberg for his interest in our paper. We also could not agree more that (re)building trust is a key to improvement of today’s unsatisfactory status of healthcare systems across the globe. Without trust, interactions between patients and physicians – complete strangers who often face circumstances where life-, death-, and health-related decisions have to be made – the status of the quality of care will continue to deteriorate. We agree with Prof Sturmberg about the importance of the role of uncertainty in medical encounters. We also find very interesting that a power-law distribution may describe many health-related phenomena, and by implication the trust status! It would be fascinating to get more empirical data about distribution of trust in health care (e.g. is 80% of doctors trusted by their 20% patients only?).
University, Gary, IN 46408, USA (I. Hozo); Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA 94305, USA (J. Ioannidis). Correspondence to: Dr Benjamin Djulbegovic, Comparative Effectiveness Research Program, Division of Evidence-based Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of South Florida & H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, 3515 East Fletcher Avenue, MDC 27, Tampa, FL 33612, USA. Tel.: 813 396 2349; fax: 813 905 8909; e-mail: [email protected] Received 25 January 2015; accepted 25 January 2015
Address Moffitt Cancer Center & Tampa General Hospital, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33612, USA (B. Djulbegovic); Indiana
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR Modern health care as a game theory problem: reply Benjamin Djulbegovic*, Iztok Hozo† and John Ioannidis‡ *
Moffitt Cancer Center & Tampa General Hospital, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA, †Indiana University, Gary, IN, USA, ‡Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA Eur J Clin Invest 2015; 45 (4): 443
We thank Prof Sturmberg for his interest in our paper. We also could not agree more that (re)building trust is a key to improvement of today’s unsatisfactory status of healthcare systems across the globe. Without trust, interactions between patients and physicians – complete strangers who often face circumstances where life-, death-, and health-related decisions have to be made – the status of the quality of care will continue to deteriorate. We agree with Prof Sturmberg about the importance of the role of uncertainty in medical encounters. We also find very interesting that a power-law distribution may describe many health-related phenomena, and by implication the trust status! It would be fascinating to get more empirical data about distribution of trust in health care (e.g. is 80% of doctors trusted by their 20% patients only?).
University, Gary, IN 46408, USA (I. Hozo); Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA 94305, USA (J. Ioannidis). Correspondence to: Dr Benjamin Djulbegovic, Comparative Effectiveness Research Program, Division of Evidence-based Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of South Florida & H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, 3515 East Fletcher Avenue, MDC 27, Tampa, FL 33612, USA. Tel.: 813 396 2349; fax: 813 905 8909; e-mail: [email protected] Received 25 January 2015; accepted 25 January 2015
Address Moffitt Cancer Center & Tampa General Hospital, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33612, USA (B. Djulbegovic); Indiana
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