Action through collaboration: a conversation with David Brailer. Interview by Robert Cunningham [0.03%]
David Brailer
David Brailer
Progress toward widespread adoption of health information technology (HIT) by providers remains uncertain and fraught with obstacles. But since his appointment as national coordinator for HIT in May 2004, David Brailer has observed a flower...
Max Baucus
Max Baucus
John Wennberg and his colleagues hold up a rear-view mirror on the U.S. health care system, reflecting pervasive inconsistencies and showing that more resources are not necessarily equivalent to better care. The work shows that although man...
Evaluating the efficiency of california providers in caring for patients with chronic illnesses [0.03%]
John E Wennberg,Elliott S Fisher,Laurence Baker et al.
John E Wennberg et al.
In this paper we compare the relative efficiency of health care providers in managing patients with severe chronic illnesses over fixed periods of time. To minimize the contribution of differences in severity of illness to differences in ca...
Barry Straube
Barry Straube
In addition to demonstrating wide variations in costs, resource inputs, and quality in California hospitals, John Wennberg and colleagues demonstrate that higher quality of care might be associated with increased delivery system efficiencie...
Leonard D Schaeffer,Dana E McMurtry
Leonard D Schaeffer
Variations research has broken new ground by moving analysis of Medicare data from the community to the hospital level. The California study of hospitals further illustrates the power of comparing performance to demonstrate the levels of ef...
Variations in California hospital regions: another wake-up call for sleeping policymakers [0.03%]
加利福尼亚州医院地区的变化：对睡眠政策制定者的另一个警钟
Uwe E Reinhardt
Uwe E Reinhardt
The paper by John Wennberg and colleagues poses a renewed challenge to federal and state policymakers to handle the taxpayers' hard-earned money responsibly--a task both have shunned for many decades. With the federal government's deficit g...
Thomas M Priselac
Thomas M Priselac
In this response, I acknowledge the valuable contribution made by John Wennberg and colleagues in describing the variations in use rates. I caution against reaching certain conclusions based on the limitations of the data, and I offer sugge...
Jack Rodgers
Jack Rodgers
U.S. and U.K. health spending [0.03%]
Robert Royce
Robert Royce
Juries versus judges [0.03%]
陪审团与法官
Randolph W Pate
Randolph W Pate