For this exercise, you are asked to review a CBA paper, in the form of a referee report.

Pretend the paper has been submitted to your desk and you must decide on it's value.

Need a referee report summarizing the contribution of the paper, its key weak-

nesses and strengths (and how these problems might be addressed), portions of the paper

that might be shortened or need more detailed explanations and anything else you nd

relevant. Be sure to be precise and accurate in your assessment, and make clear the exact

revisions required.

Paper: Samuel J. Wang, Blackford Middleton, Lisa A. Prosser, Christiana G. Bardon,

Cynthia D. Spurr, Patricia J. Carchidi, Anne F. Kittler, Robert C. Goldszer, David G.

Fairchild, Andrew J. Sussman, Gilad J. Kuperman, David W. Bates, \A cost-benet anal-

ysis of electronic medical records in primary care", The American Journal of Medicine,

Volume 114, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 397-403.

Link: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0002934303000573

File: Through the link or uploaded to Canvas

Note: The following checklist recommendation might be useful (but not mandatory),

the report can be divided into three parts:

1. Importance of the idea.

i. Brief paragraph summarizing paper which should be clear for a nonspecialist

to understand.

ii. Discussion of importance of the idea.

iii. Mention of strong points in the paper. I.e. it's strengths.

2. Problems with the paper.

Clear, scientic explanation of why the problem is important.

Justication provided. (Not: \I just don't believe the result." \This is inconsis-

tent with so-and-so's belief, so it must be wrong.")

Suggested changes.

3. Suggestions (small problems with the paper or ways to improve it's already strong

points).