ReviewJournal of the Royal Society of Medicine2010
Two countries divided by a common language: health systems in the UK and USA.
Review in Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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9 citing papers in PubMed.
- Patient-Centered Summarization Framework for AI Clinical Summarization: Mixed Methods Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Article
- Financial strain and sleep problems in the United Kingdom: longitudinal patterns by race-ethnicity.International journal for equity in health · 2026Article
- CYP2C19 point-of-care testing: where are we now and where should we go?The pharmacogenomics journal · 2025Review
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- A novel approach to quantifying individual's biological aging using Korea's national health screening program toward precision public health.GeroScience · 2024Article
- How US newspapers view the UK's NHS: a study in international lesson-drawing.Social theory & health : STH · 2022Article
- Exercise program design considerations for head and neck cancer survivors.European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery · 2018Article
- Cancer survival differences between South Asians and non-South Asians of England in 1986-2004, accounting for age at diagnosis and deprivation.British journal of cancer · 2015Article
- Characterization of heart failure patients with preserved ejection fraction: a comparison between ADHERE-US registry and ADHERE-International registry.European journal of heart failure · 2011Article
Corrections and comments
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4 authors.
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Abstract
Despite the historic significance of the healthcare reform bill that was passed into law by President Obama in March 2010, the debate still rages. The UK National Health Service (NHS) has featured prominently in the current American debate on healthcare reform, with critics calling attention to its perceived shortcomings. Some of these, such as the existence of 'death panels', can easily be dismissed, but others, such as the cancer survival deficit, cannot. This paper reviews the evidence on outcomes from cancer and other chronic non-communicable diseases, the two leading causes of death in both countries. The headline figures showing better cancer survival in the USA are exaggerated by methodological issues, but a gap remains, due in large part to better outcomes among older people. Outcomes among younger people with chronic disease are, however, much worse in the USA. Paradoxically, given the nature of the debate in the USA so far, those parts of the US health system that get the best results, such as the Veterans' Administration, or the elderly on Medicare, are those that most closely resemble the British NHS - but which are funded somewhat more generously.
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