2009

Jonathan Skinner and Doug Staiger “Technology Diffusion and Productivity Growth in Health Care” NBER Working Paper No. 14865.

Nyweide DJ, Weeks WB, Gottlieb, DJ, Casalino LP, Fisher ES, “Relationship of Primary Care Physicians’ Patient Caseload With Measurement of Quality and Cost Performatnce”, JAMA, 2009, 302(22)2444-3450.

taiger DO, Auerbach DI, “Comparison of Physician Workforce Estimates and Supply Projections”, JAMA, 2009, 302(15).

Sutherland JM, Fisher ES, Skinner JS, “Getting Past Denial-the High Cost of Health Care in the United States”, NEJM Sept 9, 2009.

Baicker K, Chandra A. Newhouse JP, “A Trillion-Dollar Georgraph Lesson”Health Affairs Sept/Oct 2009;28(5) 1448-1451.

Chernew ME, Sabik, L, Chandra A, Newhouse JP, “Would Having More Primary Care Doctors Cut Health Spending Growth?”Health Affairs, Sept/Oct 2009; 28(5):1322-1335.

Barnato, A.E., D.L. Anthony, J. Skinner, P.M. Gallagher, and E.S. Fisher, “Racial and Ethnic Differences in Preferences for End-of-Life Treatment,”Journal of General Internal Medicine 2009; 24(6):695-701.

Yasaitis L, Fisher ES, Skinner JS and Chandra A. “Hospital Quality And Intensity of Spending: Is There An Assoication? Hospitals’ performance on quality of care is not assoicated with the intensity of their spending.Health Affairs 28, no 4 (2009): W566-W572 (published online 21 May 2009; 10.1377/hlthaff.28.4.w566).

Teno JM,  Mitchell SL, Skinner J, Kuo S,  Fisher ES,  Intrator O, Rhodes R,  Mor V. “Churning: The Association between Health Care Transitions and Feeding Tube Insertion for Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Cognitive Impairment,” Journal of Palliative Medicine, 12(4), 2009: 359-62.