In The Lancet Oncology, Ajay Aggarwal and colleagues¹ apply innovative analytics to study the movement patterns of almost 20 000 patients accessing prostate cancer surgery across the National Health Service (NHS) in England between 2010 and 2014. They find that, in the presence of pressures to centralise surgical services and intense competition, and in the absence of any publicly accessible measure of service quality to allow comparisons, those providers who invest in high tech, in this case robotic, surgery equipment, fare better than those who don't in attracting patients and growing their business.

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竞争对我们的健康（保健）有害吗？我们根本不知道

在《柳叶刀肿瘤》杂志上，Ajay Aggarwal及其同事¹应用创新的分析方法研究了2010年至2014年间英格兰国家卫生局（NHS）进行前列腺癌手术的近2万例患者的运动模式。集中外科手术服务和激烈竞争的压力，以及在缺乏任何可公开获得的服务质量衡量标准以进行比较的情况下，那些投资高科技（在这种情况下为机器人手术设备）的医疗服务提供者的表现要好于那些没有提供医疗服务的医疗服务提供者。吸引患者并发展他们的业务。