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Contents
- Tracking the Care of Patients with Severe Chronic Illness: The Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care 2008
- The Dartmouth Atlas Project
- Introduction
- Chapter One. Chronic Illness and the Problem of Supply-Sensitive Care
- Chapter Two. Variation Among States and Regions in Medicare Spending for Severe Chronic Illness
- Chapter Three. How America’s Best Hospitals Manage Chronic Illness
- Variation among America’s best hospitals
- Volume or price: Which matters most?
- How are resources used?
- How intensely are patients treated?
- Evaluating the relative efficiency of academic medical centers
- Benchmarking excess spending due to overuse of hospitals and physician visits
- Evaluating performance
- Assumptions and facts concerning coordination between sectors of care
- Assumptions and facts concerning “systemness”
- Care intensity and patient choice
- Conclusions
- Endnotes
- Chapter Four. Evaluating the Management of Chronic Illness in Los Angeles
- Chapter Five. Dealing with Unwarranted Variation
- A strategy for improving the scientific basis of clinical care
- A strategy for promoting the growth of organized care and reducing overuse
- How hospitals might respond
- How Catholic Healthcare West might respond
- Hospital Corporation of America in Florida
- How physicians might respond
- Concerning feasibility
- Endnotes
- Afterword
- Appendix on Methods
- Appendix Tables
Authors
John E. Wennberg, MD, MPH
Elliott S. Fisher, MD, MPH
David C. Goodman, MD, MS
Jonathan S. Skinner, PhD
Editor
Kristen K. Bronner, MA
Lead Analyst
Sandra M. Sharp, SM
The Dartmouth Atlas Working Group
Thomas A. Bubolz, PhD
Chiang-Hua Chang, MS
Vincent J. Fusca III, MMS
Daniel J. Gottlieb, MS
Jia Lan, MS
Zhao Peng, MS
Stephanie R. Raymond, BA
Dean T. Stanley
Jason Sutherland, PhD
Dongmei Wang, MS
Phyllis Wright-Slaughter, MHA
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice
Tracking the Care of Patients with Severe Chronic Illness/The Dartmouth
Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice
ISBN 978-0-9815862-0-5
Medical care – United States – Marketing – Maps. 2. Health facilities – United
States – Statistics. I. Title.
Copyright 2008 The Trustees of Dartmouth College
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