Journal Club I:

[Chandra] Feachem RGA, Sekhri NK, White KL. “Getting more for their dollar: a comparison of the NHS with California’s Kaiser Permanente” BMJ 2002; 324:135-43.

[Goodney] Tan Hung-Ju, Norton EC, Ye, Z, Hafez K, Gore JL Miller DC,“Long-term Survival Following Partial vs. Radical Nephrectomy Among Older Patients With Early-Stage Kidney Cancer”. JAMA April 2012; 307(15):1629-1635.

[Bubolz] Bubolz, T, Emerson, C, Skinner, J, “State spending on dual eligibles under age 65 shows variations, evidence of cost shifting from Medicaid to Medicare,” Health Affairs, May 2012: 939-47. and

Kronick R and T Gilmer, “Medicare And Medicaid Spending Variations Are Strongly Linked Within Hospital Regions But Not At Overall State Level,” Health Affairs, May 2012, pp: 948-955.

[Morden] “Health Affairs- the Bristol-Myers Squibb volume on the value of MORE” (summary of Philipson, Lakdwalla, Romley)”.

[Sirovich] Schroder FH and others. “Prostate-Cancer Mortality at 11 Years of Follow up. N Engl J Med 2012;366:981-90. and

Miller AB. “New Data on Prostate-Cancer Mortality after PSA Screening.” Editorial N Eng J Med 366;11 March 15, 2012.

Research Reports I:

[Yasatis] “Association between physician supply, local practice norms, and outpatient visit rates”

[Colla] “Savings Associated with Medicare’s Physician Group Practice Demonstration”

[Soneji] “Modeling Area-Level Health Rankings”

Research Reports II:

[Yasaitis] “Developing ZIP code-level measures of diabetes health care quality”

[Baker] “Trends in the size of physician groups in the U.S., and impacts on prices for physician services”

[Fowler, J] “Validity of dissonance as a measure of decision quality”

Research Reports III:

[Morden] “VA vs Medicare Rx: Product Mix in Diabetes”

[Likosky] “In-Hospital and One-Year Cost of Acute Myocardial Infarction Among Medicare Beneficiaries”