Contents

• What This Report Is and How It Can Be Used
• The Importance of Choice in Health Care
• Variation in Preference-Sensitive Care
  • Early-Stage Breast Cancer
  • Stable Angina
  • Low Back Pain
  • Osteoarthritis of the Knee and Hip Joints
  • Carotid Artery Disease
  • Gallstones
  • Enlarged Prostate (Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia)
  • Early-Stage Prostate Cancer: Screening and Treatment
• Ensuring Patients Get the Care They Need and Want
• Appendix on Methods
• References

Authors

Shannon Brownlee, MS

John E. Wennberg, MD, MPH

Michael J. Barry, MD

Elliott S. Fisher, MD, MPH

Julie P.W. Bynum, MD, MPH

David C. Goodman, MD, MS

Editor

Kristen K. Bronner, MA

The Dartmouth Atlas Working Group

Leadership

Elliott S. Fisher, MD, MPH

David C. Goodman, MD, MS

Jonathan S. Skinner, PhD

John E. Wennberg, MD, MPH

Kristen K. Bronner, MA

Senior Authors and Faculty

John Erik-Bell, MD

Shannon Brownlee, MS

Julie P.W. Bynum, MD, MPH

Chiang-Hua Chang, PhD

Scott Chasan-Taber, PhD

Philip P. Goodney, MD, MS

Nancy E. Morden, MD, MPH

Thérèse A. Stukel, PhD

James N. Weinstein, DO, MS

Analytic and Administrative Staff

Elisabeth L. Bryan, BS

Thomas A. Bubolz, PhD

Donald Carmichael, MDiv

Julie Doherty, BA

Jennifer Dong, MS

Daniel J. Gottlieb, MS

Jia Lan, MS

Martha K. Lane, MA

Stephanie R. Raymond, BA

Sandra M. Sharp, SM

Jeremy Smith, MPH

Yunjie Song, PhD

Dean T. Stanley, RHCE

Andrew W.J. Toler, MS

Stephanie Tomlin, MPA

Abigail Underhill ,AS

Rebecca Zaha, MPH

Weiping Zhou, MS

Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making Clinical Evidence Team

Julie M. Beauregard, MLIS

Mary McNaughton-Collins, MD, MPH

Ruth D. Lipman, PhD

Colin Nelson

Chad Parmet

Diana L. Stilwell, MPH