Journal Club I:

[Staiger] Hugosson J, et al., “Mortality Results from the Göteborg Randomized Population Based Prostate-Cancer Screening Trial.” Lancet (published online July 1, 2010).

[Meara] McWilliams JM, Meara E, et al., “Medicare Spending for Previously Uninsured Adults,” Annals of Internal Medicine, December 1, 2009.

Journal Club II:

[Skinner] Thabut G., et al., “Survival Differences Following Lung Transplantation Amoung US Transplant Centers,” JAMA, July 7, 2010; 304 (1): 53-60.

[Skinner] Adams, JL, et al., “Physician Cost Profiling-Reliability and Risk of Misclassification” NEJM March 18, 2010.

[Staiger] Propper, C. and J.V. Reenan, “Can Pay Regulation Kill? Panel Data Evidence on the Effect of Labor Markets on Hospital Performance,” J Political Economy 118(2), April 2010.

[Chandra] Blustein J, et al. (2010) Hospital Performance, the Local Economy, and the Local Workforce: Findings from a US National Longitudinal Study. PLoS Med7(6): e1000297.doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1000297.

[Chandra] Mello, M.M., et al., National Costs of the Medical Liability System, Health Affairs, 2010.

[Barnato] “Disability among Elderly Survivors of Mechanical Ventilation”.

Research:

[Barnato] “Physician Decision-Making for ICU Admissions in a Simulation Model: UCLA v. UCSF Physicians, and African-American v. White Patients”.

[Gibbons] “Informal Agreements and Persistent Performance Differences among Seemingly Similar Organizations”

[Hollenbeck] Hollingsworth JM, et al., “Physician-Ownership of Ambulatory Surgery Centers Linked to Higher Volume of Surgeries,” Health Affairs 2010:683-689 and Hollingsworth JM, et al., “Opening of Ambulatory Surgery Centers and Procedure Use in the Elderly”.