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Buzz about "the Dartmouth Research"

"The Dartmouth research" (as it's often referred to) on health-care utilization and delivery is widely cited in Congressional hearing rooms, White House briefings, the nation's newspapers, and health-care blogs. The findings of researchers like Dr. Elliott Fisher, author of an essay on reform titled "Can we get there from here?", are a major factor in the current prospects for health-care reform.

There is more than 30 years of substance behind the buzz. Here are several recent journal articles and white papers on "the Dartmouth research":

"Assigning ambulatory patients and their physicians to hospitals: a method for obtaining population-based provider performance measurements"; by J.P. Bynum, E. Bernal-Delgado, D. Gottlieb, and E. Fisher; Health Services Research; 2007;42:45-62.

"Slowing the growth of health care costs--lessons from regional variation"; E.S. Fisher, J.P. Bynum, and J.S. Skinner; New England Journal of Medicine; 2009;360:849-52.

"Fostering Accountable Health Care: Moving Forward In Medicare"; E.S. Fisher, M.B. McClellan, J. Bertko, et al.; Health Affairs (Millwood) 2009.
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"Building a medical neighborhood for the medical home"; E.S. Fisher; New England Journal of Medicine; 2008;359:1202-5.

"An Agenda for Change--Improving Quality and Curbing Health Care Spending: Opportunities for the Congress and the Obama Administration" (a Dartmouth Atlas white paper); December 2008.

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And here is some recent coverage in high-profile media outlets of the impact "the Dartmouth research" is having on the reform debate:

"Jake Tapper on Health Care Reform"; Good Morning America; May 11, 2009.

"Two Trillion Dollars! Would the health care industry's cost-cutting plan really save that much?" by Christopher Beam and Timothy Noah, Slate, May 11, 2009.

"Money Talks: Can Peter Orszag keep the President's political goals economically viable?"; The New Yorker, May 4, 2009.

"What's in a number? Cost variance figure drives policy and courts controversy: As Congress begins work on national health system reform legislation, the Dartmouth Atlas Project's estimates of unnecessary health spending gain traction"; American Medical News, April 27, 2009.

"Why Doctors Hate Science" by Sharon Begley; Newsweek, February 28, 2009.

"Ideas for Fixing Health Care"; New York Times, February 25, 2009.

"Is Healthcare Armageddon Next?" by Dr. Bernadine Healy; U.S. News & World Report, October 2, 2008.

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In addition, Dartmouth Medicine has covered "the Dartmouth research" and its effects in previous issues. To read more about it, see:

"Clinic gets pay-for-performance bonus from feds" by Katherine Vonderhaar

"Good SPORT: Study offers more evidence" by Jennifer Durgin

"Braveheart" by Maggie Mahar

"Dartmouth-Brookings partnership: A 'do' tank" by Laura Stephenson Carter

"Making Choice an Option" by Maggie Mahar

"Giving spines a SPORTing chance" by Alissa Poh

"Coming to grips with the money-medicine mess" by Jennifer Durgin

"Clinic saves feds $2.8 million and improves care" by Jennifer Durgin

"Testing for CRP may lead to treatment creep" by James DiClerico

"The State of the Nation's Health" by Maggie Mahar

"Back surgery papers show SPORT utility" by Laura Stephenson Carter

"Fisher steps into the pay-for-performance ring" by Jennifer Durgin

"Less is more for the chronically ill" by Laura Stephenson Carter

"A close look at costs in the Golden State" by Laura Stephenson Carter

"Costly care isn't better care" by Jennifer Durgin