Journal Club Papers I:

[Skinner] Martin S, Rice N, Smith PC. “Does health care spending improve health outcomes? Evidence from English programme budgeting data.”Journal of Health Economics 2008;27(4):826-842.

[Bynum] Hozo I, Djulbegovic B. “When Is Diagnostic Testing Inappropriate or Irrational? Acceptable Regret Approach.”Med Decis Making, 2008;28:540-553.

[Chandra] Govind C Persad  “Evaluating The Principles For Allocating Scarce.”Medical Intervention.

[Stukel] Jeremy A. Rassen “Instrumental Variable Analysis for Estimation of Treatment Effects With Dichotomous Outcomes.”Am J Epidemiol 2009;169:273–284./blockquote>

M. Alan Brookhart, PhD, “Evaluating the Validity of an Instrumental Variable Study of Neuroleptics Can Between-Physician Differences in Prescribing Patterns Be Used to Estimate Treatment Effects?”Medical Care, Volume 45, Number 10 Suppl 2, October 2007.

 [Skinner] Jerome Groopman and Pamela Hartzband “Why Quality Care is Dangerous The growing number of rigid protocols meant to guide doctors have perverse consequences.”WSJ opinion, April 8, 2009.

Journal Club Papers II:

 [Barry] Michael J. Barry, “Screening for Prostate Cancer — The Controversy That Refuses to Die.”N Engl J Med, 360;13March 26, 2009.

Gerald L Andriole, “Mortality Results from a Randomized Prostate-Cancer Screening Trial.”N Engl J Med, 2009;360:1310-9.

Fritz H. Schroder, “Screening and Prostate-Cancer Mortality in a Randomized European Study”N Engl J Med, 2009;360:1320-8.

 [Barnato] Baohui Zhang  “Health Care Costs in the Last Week of Life Associations With End-of-Life Conversations.”Arch Intern Med, 2009;169(5):480-488.

Wright Alexi A, “Associations Between End-of-Life Discussions, Patient Mental Health, Medical Care Near Death, and Caregiver Bereavement Adjustment.”JAMA, 2008;300(14):1665-1673.

Andrea C. Phelps, “Religious Coping and Use of Intensive Life-Prolonging Care Near Death in Patients With Advanced Cancer.”JAMA, 2009;301(11):1140-1147.

[Anthony] Hoangmai H. Pham, “Primary Care Physicians’ Links to Other Physicians Through Medicare Patients: The Scope of Care Coordination.”Ann Intern Med, 2009;150:236-242.

 [Nyweide] Kaplan SH, Griffith JL, Price LL, Pawlson LG, Greenfield S.  “Improving the Reliability of Physician Performance Assessment: Identifying the “Physician Effect” on Quality and Creating Composite Measures.” Medical Care, 47(4):378-387, April 2009.

 Completed Papers & Research I:

[Gottlieb] Brian Aros MD, MS, Anna N. A. Tosteson ScD, Daniel J. Gottlieb MS, Kenneth J. Koval MD “Is a Sliding Hip Screw or IM Nail the Preferred Implant for Intertrochanteric Fracture Fixation?”Clin Orthop Relat Res, (2008) 466:2827–2832.

[Skinner] Fisher, E.S., J.P. Bynum, and J. Skinner, “Slowing the Growth of Health Care Costs – Lessons from Regional Variation,”New England Journal of Medicine, 2009;360(9):849-852.

Completed Papers & Research Reports:

[Skinner] “Is American Health Care Uniquely Inefficient?” (with A. Garber), Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 2008 22(4): 27-50.