Journal Club I Papers:

[Staiger] Alexander R. Green, Dana R. Carney, Daniel J. Pallin, et al, “Implicit Bias among Physicians and its Prediction of Thrombolysis Decisions for Black and White Patients.” Journal of General Internal Medicine. Volume 22, Number 9 / September, 2007.

[Nyweide] Jha AK, E. John Orav, Zhonghe Li, and Arnold M. Epstein. “The Inverse Relationship Between Mortality Rates And Performance In The Hospital Quality Alliance Measures.” Health Affairs 26(4): 1104-1110.

[Baicker] Becker G, Murphy K, Philipson, K “The value of Life Near its End and Terminal Care.” NBER Working Paper 13333.

[Chandra] Jha AK, Orav EJ, Li Z, and Epstein AM. “Where do elderly blacks receive hospital care? The concentration and quality of hospitals that care for elderly black Americans.” Archives of Internal Medicine. 2007; 167: 1177-1182.

[Skinner] Doyle, Joe, “Returns to Local-Area Health Care Spending: Using Health Shocks to Patients Far From Home” NBER Working Paper, 2007.

Journal Club II Papers:

[Stukel] Grootendorst PV,O’Brien BJ, Anderson GM “On Becoming 65 in Ontario:. Effects of Drug Plan Eligibility on Use of Prescription Medicines.” Med Care. 1997 Apr;35(4):386-98.

[Stukel] McWilliams JM, Meara E, Zaslavsky AM, Ayanian JZ. “Use of Health Services by Previously Uninsured Medicare Beneficiaries.” N Engl J Med. 2007 Jul 12;357(2):143-53.

[Yasaitis] Higashi, Takahiro, Wenger, Neil S., Adams, John L., Fung, Constance, Roland, Martin, McGlynn, Elizabeth A., Reeves, David, Asch, Steven M., Kerr, Eve A., Shekelle, Paul G. “Relationship between Number of Medical Conditions and Quality of Care.” N Engl J Med 2007 356: 2496-2504.

[Barnato] Holloway RG,Quill TE. JAMA “Mortality as a Measure of Quality Implications for Palliative and End-of-Life Care.”  JAMA 298(7) 2007.

[Anthony] Christakis, Nicholas A., Fowler, James H. “The Spread of Obesity in a Large Social Network over 32 Years.” N Engl J Med 2007 357: 370-379.