May 20 & 21, 2013, Waterville Valley Resort, Waterville, NH

Journal Articles:

Stukel: Sutton M, Nikolova S, Boaden R, Lester H, McDonald R, Roland M. “Reduced Mortality with Hospital Pay for Performance in England”.NEJM367;19 November 8, 2012.

Fowler: Fowler FJ, et al., “How Patient Centered Are Medical Decisions?” JAMA Internal Med (in press)

Barnato: Newhouse JP, Garber AM. “Geographic Variation in Medicare Services”. N Engl J Med 2013; 368:1465-1468.

Bynum: Hurd MD, Martorell P, Delavande A, Mullen KJ, and Langa KM. “Monetary Costs of Dementia in the United States”. N Engl J Med 2013;368:1326-34.DOI: 10.1056/NEJMsa1204629.

Kale MS, Bishop TF, Federman AD, Keyhani S. “Trends in the Overuse of Ambulatory Health Care Services in the United States” JAMA Intern Med. 2013;173(2):142-148.

Birkmeyer: Dimick JB, Nicholas LH, Ryan AM, Thumma JR, Birkmeyer JD.  “Bariatric Surgery Complications Before vs After Implementation of a National Policy Restricting Coverage to Centers of Excellence”. JAMA. 2013;309(8):792-799. doi:10.1001/jama.2013.755.

Goodney: Eappen S, Lane BH, Rosenberg B, Lipsitz SA, Sadoff D, Matteson D, Berry WR, Lester M, Gawande AA. “Relationship Between Occurrence of Surgical Complications and Hospital Finances”. JAMA. 2013;309(15):1599-1606.

Skinner: Zhang Y, Baik SH, Fendrick M, Baicker K. “Comparing Local and Regional Variation in Health Care Spending”. N Engl J Med 2012;367:1724-31.

Keirns: Coulehan J, “Shingles Does It,” Health Affairs, 28, no.5 (2009):1509-1514.