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| Douglas O StaigerSummaryAffiliation: Dartmouth Medical School Country: USA Publications
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Comparison of physician workforce estimates and supply projectionsDouglas O Staiger
Department of Economics, 301 Rockefeller Hall, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755, USA
JAMA 302:1674-80. 2009..Estimates of physician supply in the United States have been based on data that may overestimate the number of older physicians in the workforce...
Trends in the work hours of physicians in the United StatesDouglas O Staiger
Department of Economics, Dartmouth College, Rockefeller Hall, Hanover, NH 03755, USA
JAMA 303:747-53. 2010..Recent trends in hours worked by physicians may affect workforce needs but have not been thoroughly analyzed...
Are mortality rates for different operations related?: implications for measuring the quality of noncardiac surgeryJustin B Dimick
Michigan Surgical Collaborative for Outcomes Research and Evaluation M SCORE, Department of Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Med Care 44:774-8. 2006..Statistical power can be improved by combining mortality data from multiple operations. We sought to determine whether this approach would still be useful in understanding performance with individual procedures...
Creating accountable care organizations: the extended hospital medical staffElliott S Fisher
Dartmouth Medical School and the Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 26:w44-57. 2007..Efforts to create accountable care organizations at this level--the extended hospital medical staff--deserve consideration as a potential means of improving the quality and lowering the cost of care...
Health care reform and the health care workforce--the Massachusetts experienceDouglas O Staiger
Department of Economics, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA
N Engl J Med 365:e24. 2011..Data on employment in the health care industry were examined to determine the impact of the Massachusetts reform on the state's health care workforce...
Observational intensity bias associated with illness adjustment: cross sectional analysis of insurance claimsJohn E Wennberg
The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, The Audrey and Theodor Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH 03755, USA
BMJ 346:f549. 2013..To determine the bias associated with frequency of visits by physicians in adjusting for illness, using diagnoses recorded in administrative databases...
Empirically derived composite measures of surgical performanceDouglas O Staiger
Department of Economics and the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
Med Care 47:226-33. 2009..Despite growing interest in composite measures, empirically-based methods for combining multiple domains of surgical quality are not well established...
