Re:Teeth Whitening and the Hygiene Hypothesis
by sokoloff on Sunday August 02, 2015 @03:13PM
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Whatever you call it, the value that patient N derives from cost C needs to be compared to the value that patient N+1 would derive from that same cost C.
When the NIH (or equivalent) turn that into a C/expected number of years, they're doing a scarce resource allocation problem. Unless you have infinite resources to give every patient every available treatment, you have to do allocation somehow.
Giving a 10-year old a treatment that you'd deny a 90-year old seems perfectly sane and rational to me.
I can't tell if you're agreeing with the concept and just disagreeing with the terminology, or if you believe there's a fundamentally better way?
When the NIH (or equivalent) turn that into a C/expected number of years, they're doing a scarce resource allocation problem. Unless you have infinite resources to give every patient every available treatment, you have to do allocation somehow.
Giving a 10-year old a treatment that you'd deny a 90-year old seems perfectly sane and rational to me.
I can't tell if you're agreeing with the concept and just disagreeing with the terminology, or if you believe there's a fundamentally better way?