- ►annals.org [PDF] ES Fisher, DE Wennberg, TA Stukel, DJ … - Annals of Internal Medicine, 2003 - Am Coll Physicians Patients: Patients hospitalized between 1993 and 1995 for hip fracture (n 614
503), colorectal cancer (n 195 429), or acute myocardial infarction (n 159 393)
and a representative sample (n 18 190) drawn from the Medicare Current ... Cited by 404 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 26 versions
- ►annals.org [PDF] ES Fisher, DE Wennberg, TA Stukel, DJ … - Annals of Internal Medicine, 2003 - Am Coll Physicians The Implications of Regional Variations in Medicare Spending. Part 1: ... The
Content, Quality, and Accessibility of Care ... Elliott S. Fisher, MD, MPH;
David E. Wennberg, MD, MPH; Thére`se A. Stukel, PhD; Daniel J. Gottlieb, ... Cited by 497 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 33 versions
K Baicker, A Chandra - HEALTH AFFAIRS-MILLWOOD VA THEN BETHESDA …, 2004 - healthaff.highwire.org ABSTRACT: The quality of care received by Medicare beneficiaries varies across
areas. We find that states with higher Medicare spending have lower-quality
care. This negative rela- tionship may be driven by the use of intensive, ... Cited by 195 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 52 versions
JE Wennberg, ES Fisher, JS Skinner - HEALTH AFFAIRS-MILLWOOD VA THEN BETHESDA …, 2002 - healthaff.highwire.org ABSTRACT: Medicare spending varies more than twofold among regions, and the
variations persist even after differences in health are corrected for. Higher
levels of Medicare spending are due largely to increased use of “supply- ... Cited by 237 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 22 versions
ES Fisher, HG Welch - Jama, 1999 - Am Med Assoc The United States has experienced dramatic growth in both the technical
capabilities and share of resources devoted to medical care. While the benefits
of more medical care are widely recognized, the possibility that harm may ... Cited by 163 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
[CITATION] Associations between intensity of treatment and mortality in cohorts of Medicare …
BE Sirovich, DJ Gottlieb, HG Welch, ES Fisher - Annals of internal medicine, 2006 - Am Coll Physicians Background: Research has documented dramatic differences in health care
utilization and spending across US regions with similar levels of patient
illness. Although patient outcomes and quality of care have been found to ... Cited by 46 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 5 versions
- ►jhu.edu [PDF] ES Fisher, JE Wennberg - Perspectives in biology and medicine, 2003 - muse.jhu.edu THE UNITED STATES SPENDS MORE per capita on health care services than any other
country, yet there are mounting concerns about the uneven and unpredictable
quality of care provided at even the "best" American institutions. In 1998, ... Cited by 41 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 7 versions
- ►highwire.org DM Cutler, M McClellan - Health Affairs, 2001 - healthaff.highwire.org Medical technology is valuable if the benefits of medical advances exceed the
costs. We analyze technological change in five conditions to determine if this
is so. In four of the conditions—heart attacks, low-birthweight infants, ... Cited by 370 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 18 versions
- ►nih.gov [PDF] ES Fisher, JE Wennberg, TA Stukel, JS … - Health Services Research, 2000 - pubmedcentral.nih.gov Objective. To explore whether geographic variationsin Medicare hospital
utilization rates are due to differences in local hospital capacity, after
controlling for socioeco- nomic status and disease burden, and to determine ... Cited by 101 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
