Rotterdam Area, Netherlands Netherlands
MD PhD | Doctor | Epidemiologist | Economist
Medical / Health Care / Pharmaceuticals
I hope my work helps improving quality of cardiac care while at the same time reducing costs.
My field of interest is well represented by my PhD Thesis "Costs, Quality and Value in Cardiovascular Interventions"
Please feel free to download a copy: http://repub.eur.nl/pub/77549/
The unsustainable trend of increasing health care costs threatens the financial stability of
governments and necessitates difficult resource allocation decisions by policy-makers and
physicians.
To inform medical decision-making and health care policy, clinical outcomes, quality of life and
cost data need to be evaluated together. The main drivers of rising healthcare costs are the aging population and costly n...