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The unintended consequences of bundled paymentsWilliam B Weeks
The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Lebanon, NH 03766, USA
Ann Intern Med 158:62-4. 2013....
Is a management degree worth the investment for physicians? A survey of members of the American College of Physician ExecutivesWilliam B Weeks
Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
J Med Pract Manage 23:232-7. 2008..These findings have implications for early and mid-career physicians and physician recruiters...- Gender differences in anesthesiologists' annual incomesWilliam B Weeks
VA Outcomes Group Research Enhancement Award Program, Veterans Administration Medical Center, White River Junction, Vermont, USA
Anesthesiology 106:806-11. 2007.... - Gender differences in dermatologists' annual incomesWilliam B Weeks
VA Outcomes Group Research Enhancement Award Program REAP, White River Junction, Vermont 05009, USA
Cutis 80:325-32. 2007..Researchers should further explore the relationship between the gender and incomes of physicians to determine what additional factors might cause the differences that we found... 
Reducing avoidable deaths among veterans: directing private-sector surgical care to high-performance hospitalsWilliam B Weeks
Veterans Administration VA Outcomes Group Research Enhancement Award Program, VA Medical Center, White River Junction, VT 05009, USA
Am J Public Health 97:2186-92. 2007..We quantified older (65 years and older) Veterans Health Administration (VHA) patients' use of the private sector to obtain 14 surgical procedures and assessed the potential impact of directing that care to high-performance hospitals...- Characteristics of VA patients who use low-quality private-sector CABG centers in New YorkWilliam B Weeks
VA Medical Center, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH, USA
Med Care Res Rev 64:691-705. 2007..Efforts to direct VA patients' care to high-performance hospitals could improve outcomes and reduce racial and ethnic disparities in care... - Gender differences in the annual income of psychiatristsWilliam B Weeks
Department of Veterans Affairs Outcomes Group Research Enhancement Award Program, Veterans Affairs Medical Center 11Q, White River Junction, VT 05009, USA
Psychiatr Serv 58:515-20. 2007..This study examined whether a gender income gap among psychiatrists persisted in the 1990s... - Gender differences in ophthalmologists' annual incomesWilliam B Weeks
Veterans Affairs Outcomes Group Research Enhancement Award Program, White River Junction, Vermont 05009, USA
Ophthalmology 114:1696-701. 2007..To understand the association between provider gender and ophthalmologists' annual incomes... - Rural-urban disparities in health-related quality of life within disease categories of VeteransWilliam B Weeks
VA Outcomes Group Research Enhancement Award Program, White River Junction, VT, USA
J Rural Health 22:204-11. 2006..Compared to their urban counterparts, rural veterans have been found to have lower health-related quality of life... - Characteristics of rural and urban cadaveric organ transplant donors and recipientsWilliam B Weeks
VA Outcomes Group Research Enhancement Award Program, VA Medical Center, White River Junction, VT 05009, USA
J Rural Health 22:264-8. 2006..Health disparities have been found when comparing rural and urban populations. Purpose: To compare characteristics of rural and urban cadaveric transplant donors and recipients... - The influence of provider sex on neurologists' annual incomesWilliam B Weeks
VA Outcomes Group REAP, United States
Clin Neurol Neurosurg 109:38-44. 2007..We sought to determine the influence of provider sex on neurologists' annual incomes after controlling for work effort, provider characteristics, and practice characteristics... - Race and gender differences in general internists' annual incomesWilliam B Weeks
VA Outcomes Group Research Enhancement Award Program, White River Junction VAMC, White River Junction, VT 05009, USA
J Gen Intern Med 21:1167-71. 2006..Specialty, work effort, and female gender have been shown to be associated with physicians' annual incomes; however, racial differences in physician incomes have not been examined... - Rural-urban differences in primary care physicians' practice patterns, characteristics, and incomesWilliam B Weeks
VA Outcomes Group Research Enhancement Award Program, White River Junction VA Medical Center, White River Junction, VT 05009, USA
J Rural Health 24:161-70. 2008..Low salaries and difficult work conditions are perceived as a major barrier to the recruitment of primary care physicians to rural settings... - Utilization of VA and Medicare services by Medicare-eligible veterans: the impact of additional access points in a rural settingWilliam Brinson Weeks
Veterans Rural Health Initiative, Veterans Health Administration, White River Junction, Vermont, USA
J Healthc Manag 50:95-106; discussion 106-7. 2005..Analyses of the efficiency of adding access points to healthcare systems should be conducted, with particular emphasis on examining the possibilities of encroachment, worsened coordination of care, and potential health services overuse... - Differences in health-related quality of life in rural and urban veteransWilliam B Weeks
MBA, White River Junction, VT 05009, USA
Am J Public Health 94:1762-7. 2004..We sought to determine whether disparities in health-related quality of life exist between veterans who live in rural settings and their suburban or urban counterparts... - Differences in the annual incomes of emergency physicians related to genderWilliam B Weeks
Veterans Administration Outcomes Group Research Enhancement Award Program, White River Junction, VT, USA
Acad Emerg Med 14:434-40. 2007..To examine the association between physician gender and income for emergency physicians (EPs) after correcting for factors likely to influence income... - Race and gender differences in pediatricians' annual incomesWilliam B Weeks
VA Outcomes Group REAP, White River Junction, VT 05009, USA
Ambul Pediatr 7:196-200. 2007..To determine the association between race, gender, and pediatricians' annual incomes after controlling for work effort, provider characteristics, and practice characteristics... - Do older rural and urban veterans experience different rates of unplanned readmission to VA and non-VA hospitals?William B Weeks
Field Office, VA National Center for Patient Safety, White River Junction, VT 05009, USA
J Rural Health 25:62-9. 2009..Unplanned readmission within 30 days of discharge is an indicator of hospital quality... - The influence of race and gender on family physicians' annual incomesWilliam B Weeks
Veterans Affairs Outcomes Group Research Enhancement Awards Program REAP, Dartmouth Medical School, White River Junction, VT 05009, USA
J Am Board Fam Med 19:548-56. 2006..Therefore, we conducted a study that used survey data to explore the relationship between provider gender and race and family physicians' annual incomes... - Absence of race- or gender-specific income disparities among full-time white and Asian general internists working for the Veterans AdministrationWilliam B Weeks
VA Outcomes Group REAP, White River Junction VAMC, White River Junction, Vermont 05009, USA
Gend Med 7:64-70. 2010..Gender-based, but not race-based, income disparities exist among general internists who practice medicine in the private sector... - Comparing the characteristics, utilization, efficiency, and outcomes of VA and non-VA inpatient care provided to VA enrollees: a case study in New YorkWilliam B Weeks
VA Outcomes Group Research Enhancement Award Program, White River Junction VA Medical Center, White River Junction, Vermont 05009, USA
Med Care 46:863-71. 2008..To compare the characteristics, utilization, and outcomes of Veterans Health Administration (VA) and non-VA inpatient care provided to VA enrollees in New York... - Medical school type and physician incomeWilliam B Weeks
White River Junction VA Medical Center, White River Junction, VT, USA
J Health Care Finance 34:34-44. 2008..Because of their lower tuition expenses, international and public US medical school graduates may experience higher returns on educational investment than their counterparts who graduated from private US medical schools... - Comparing measures of patient safety for inpatient care provided to veterans within and outside the VA system in New YorkW B Weeks
National Center for Patient Safety 11Q, VA Medical Center, White River Junction, VT 05009, USA
Qual Saf Health Care 17:58-64. 2008..We explored another method of providing consumer information by comparing the experiences of VA enrolled patients who received care in the VA to those who received care outside the VA system... - Health care expenditures for urban and rural veterans in Veterans Health Administration careAlan N West
Veterans Rural Health Resource Center Eastern Region, White River Junction, VT, USA
Health Serv Res 44:1718-34. 2009..To compare Veterans Health Administration (VA) patients, non-VA-using veterans, and nonveterans, separated by urban/rural residence and age group, on their use of major categories of medical care and payment sources... - Differences in income between male and female primary care physiciansAmy E Wallace
Department of Psychiatry, Dartmouth Medical School, USA
J Am Med Womens Assoc 57:180-4. 2002.... - Association of race and gender with general surgeons' annual incomesWilliam B Weeks
VA Outcomes Group Research Enhancement Award Program, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH, USA
J Am Coll Surg 203:558-67. 2006..These findings warrant additional exploration to ensure that income differences among physicians are not unjustly determined by race or gender... - Physical and mental health and access to care among nonmetropolitan Veterans Health Administration patients younger than 65 yearsAlan West
Veterans Rural Health Initiative, VA Medical Center, White River Junction, VT 05009, USA
J Rural Health 22:9-16. 2006.... - Utilization and expenditures on chiropractic care in the United States from 1997 to 2006Matthew A Davis
Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Lebanon, NH, USA
Health Serv Res 45:748-61. 2010..To investigate national utilization and expenditures on chiropractic care between 1997 and 2006... - Veterans' care preference for coronary artery bypass grafting in a rural settingWilliam B Weeks
Veterans Rural Health Initiative, VA Medical Center, White River Junction, VT 05009, USA
Mil Med 167:556-9. 2002..As the VA begins to understand veterans' use of multiple systems of care, it will be important to understand what influences veterans' choice of VA or private sector care... - Awareness and use of a cognitive aid for anesthesiologyJulia Neily
Field Office of the Veterans Health Administration, National Center for Patient Safety, White River Junction, Vermont, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 33:502-11. 2007..The Veterans Health Administration's (VHA's) National Center for Patient Safety developed a cognitive aid to help anesthesiologists manage rare, high-mortality adverse events... - When VA patients have non-VA hospitalizations, who pays for what services, and what are the research implications? A New York case studyAlan N West
VA Outcomes Group Research Enhancement Award Program, White River Junction VA Medical Center, White River Junction, Vermont 05009, USA
Med Care 46:872-7. 2008.... - Research on rural veterans: an analysis of the literatureWilliam B Weeks
Veterans Rural Health Initiative, White River Junction VA Medical Center, White River Junction, VT, USA
J Rural Health 24:337-44. 2008..The Veterans Health Administration (VA) provides comprehensive health care services to veterans across the United States. Recently, the VA established an Office of Rural Health to address the health care needs of rural veterans... - Where do women veterans get their inpatient care?Susan E Mooney
VA Quality Scholars Fellowship Program, White River Junction, Vermont, USA
Womens Health Issues 17:367-73. 2007..In this study we explore women veterans' use of Veterans Administration (VA) and private sector inpatient services... - The influence of physician race and gender on obstetrician-gynecologists' annual incomesWilliam B Weeks
VA Outcomes Group REAP, VA National Quality Scholars Fellowship Program, Department of Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Dartmouth, VT, USA
Obstet Gynecol 108:603-11. 2006..These findings warrant further exploration to ensure that income differences among physicians are not unjustly driven by race or gender... - Listserv use enhances quality and safety in multisite quality improvement effortsJulia Neily
Field Office of VA s National Center for Patient Safety, White River Junction, VT, USA
Biomed Instrum Technol 38:316-21. 2004..Team listserv contribution was not associated with team success in multisite quality improvement efforts. Successful teams may be accessing information on the listserv but not sending a message to indicate use... - Gender differences in diagnostic radiologists' annual incomesWilliam B Weeks
VA Outcomes Group REAP, Dartmouth Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences, VAMC (11Q, White River Junction, Vermont 05009, USA
Acad Radiol 13:1266-73. 2006..Researchers should further explore the relationship between physician gender and incomes to determine what factors might cause the differences that we found... - Improving efficiency and access to mental health care: combining integrated care and advanced accessAndrew Pomerantz
Mental Health and Behavioral Science Service, White River Junction VA Medical Center, White River Junction, VT 05009, USA
Gen Hosp Psychiatry 30:546-51. 2008..To provide an example of implementation of a new program that enhances access to mental health care in primary care... - A multihospital safety improvement effort and the dissemination of new knowledgePeter D Mills
Veterans Affairs National Center for Patient Safety, White River Junction, Vermont, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Saf 29:124-33. 2003..The diffusion of medical innovations beyond the participating teams was studied during a 2000-2001 national collaborative safety improvement effort... - Health care for patients with serious mental illness: family medicine's roleNancy E Morden
Department of Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Lebanon, NH, USA
J Am Board Fam Med 22:187-95. 2009..We review health outcomes of the seriously mentally ill and models designed to improve these outcomes. We propose specific strategies for Family Medicine clinicians and researchers to address this problem... - How do race and sex affect the earnings of primary care physicians?William B Weeks
Veterans Affairs VA Outcomes Group Research Enhancement Awards Program REAP in White River Junction, Vermont, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 28:557-66. 2009..Our findings suggest that addressing the underlying causes of sex-based income differences should be a priority for health professional organizations, particularly as more women enter the physician workforce... - Baldrige-based quality awards: Veterans Health Administration's 3-year experienceAllan Shirks
Departments of Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
Qual Manag Health Care 10:47-54. 2002..Although some VISNs increased their scores over time, there was not measurable, systemwide improvement. Three years may be too short a time to significantly affect Baldrige scores in an organization as large as VHA... - Practical and policy implications of using different rural-urban classification systems: a case study of inpatient service utilization among Veterans Administration usersEthan M Berke
Department of Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, HB 7251, 35 Centerra Parkway, Room 206, Lebanon, NH 03766, USA
J Rural Health 25:259-66. 2009..Several classification systems exist for defining rural areas, which may lead to different interpretations of rural health services data... - Long-term financial implications of specialty training for physiciansWilliam B Weeks
Department of Psychiatry, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
Am J Med 113:393-9. 2002..Given the recent changes in physician reimbursement and managed care penetration, we examined the financial returns that might be anticipated when considering different medical careers... - Reduction in patient enrollment in the Veterans Health Administration after media coverage of adverse medical eventsWilliam B Weeks
Veterans Administration National Quality Scholars Fellowship Program, Veterans Health Administration VHA, National Center for Patient Safety NCPS, White River Junction, Vermont, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Saf 29:652-8. 2003..A retrospective cohort design was used to determine whether media coverage of adverse events that occurred in Veterans Health Administration (VHA) hospitals was associated with subsequent veteran disenrollment... - Higher health care quality and bigger savings found at large multispecialty medical groupsWilliam B Weeks
Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Lebanon, NH, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 29:991-7. 2010..In most markets, and after adjustment for patient factors, group physicians affiliated with the council provided higher-quality care at a 3.6 percent lower annual cost ($272 per patient)... - A cross-sectional, multi-year examination of rural and urban Veterans Administration users: 2002-2006Amy E Wallace
VAMC Office of Rural Health, Veterans Rural Health Resource Center Eastern Region, 215 N Main Street, White River Junction, VT 05009, USA
Mil Med 175:252-8. 2010..Anticipating and meeting the needs of rural VA users will require accurate identification of those who lack access to services and therefore defining "rural" appropriately... - A longitudinal analysis of rural and urban veterans' health-related quality of lifeAmy E Wallace
Veterans Administration Medical Center, White River Junction, Vermont 05009, USA
J Rural Health 26:156-63. 2010..Cross-sectional studies have identified rural-urban disparities in veterans' health-related quality-of-life (HRQOL) scores... - The impact of the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel Enhancement Act of 2004 on VA physicians' salaries and retentionWilliam B Weeks
White River Junction VA Medical Center, White River Junction, VT, USA
J Health Care Finance 35:13-23. 2009.... - The cost of pursuing a medical career in the military: a tale of five specialtiesWilliam A Cronin
Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
Acad Med 85:1316-20. 2010..The physician payment system is a focus of potential reform in the United States. The authors explored the effects of the military's method of physician payment on physicians' returns on educational investment for several specialties... - The presence of ethics programs in critical access hospitalsWilliam A Nelson
Community and Family Medicine and The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Dartmouth Medical School, 46 Centerra Parkway, Lebanon, Hanover, NH 03755, USA
HEC Forum 22:267-74. 2010..A virtual ethics committee network may be the most efficient and effective way of providing rural hospitals access to a knowledgeable ethics committee or consultant... - Veterans' system-of-care preferences for percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty in a rural settingWilliam B Weeks
Department of Psychiatry, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
J Rural Health 19:105-8. 2003..In the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), regionalization of high-technology health care services may influence veterans who live far from referral centers to obtain care locally, through the private sector... - Does reducing length of stay make a business case?William B Weeks
VA Outcomes Group REAP, Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 34:627-8. 2008..The business case for improving quality and safety of health care, the authors contend, critically depends on savings in fixed rather than variable costs... - Rural and urban disparities in health-related quality of life among veterans with psychiatric disordersAmy E Wallace
Department of Psychiatry, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, White River Junction, Vermont 05009, USA amy e wal
Psychiatr Serv 57:851-6. 2006..The authors studied whether rural and urban disparities in health-related quality of life, demonstrated previously among veterans, persist among veterans with common psychiatric disorders... - Veterans Health Administration patients' use of the private sector for coronary revascularization in New York: opportunities to improve outcomes by directing care to high-performance hospitalsWilliam B Weeks
VA Outcomes Group, Veterans Health Administration, White River Junction, Vermont 05009, USA
Med Care 44:519-26. 2006..We sought to quantify Veterans Health Administration (VA) patients' utilization of coronary revascularization in the private sector and to assess the potential impact of directing this care to high-performance hospitals... - Outcomes of a quality improvement project integrating mental health into primary careBradley V Watts
Outcomes REAP, White River Junction VAMC, White River Junction, Vermont 05009, USA
Qual Saf Health Care 16:378-81. 2007..This study examined the effectiveness of a quality improvement project improving access to mental healthcare in a large primary care clinic... - A cumulative meta-analysis of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors in pediatric depression: did unpublished studies influence the efficacy/safety debate?Amy E Wallace
Veterans Health Administration, White River Junction, Vermont 05009, USA
J Child Adolesc Psychopharmacol 16:37-58. 2006.... - Women's primary care providers and breast cancer screening: who's following the guidelines?Amy E Wallace
VA Outcomes Group REAP, VA Medical Center, White River Junction, VT 05009 0001, USA
Am J Obstet Gynecol 194:744-8. 2006..However, the providers who are responsible for women's preventive health care differ in breast cancer screening guideline adherence. We compared screening practices across provider specialty and training degree types... - The more things change: revisiting a comparison of educational costs and incomes of physicians and other professionalsWilliam B Weeks
Department of Psychiatry, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
Acad Med 77:312-9. 2002.... - Rare adverse medical events in VA inpatient care: reliability limits to using patient safety indicators as performance measuresAlan N West
VA Outcomes Group REAP, VA Medical Center, White River Junction, VT 05009, USA
Health Serv Res 43:249-66. 2008..DATA SOURCES STUDY SETTING: Nine years (1997-2005) of all Veterans Health Administration (VA) administrative hospital discharge data... - Tobacco cessation counseling across the agesAmy E Wallace
Outcomes Group REAP, White River Junction, Vermont, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 54:1425-8. 2006..To examine recent rates of tobacco cessation counseling and whether patient age or sex was associated with providers' adherence to tobacco cessation guidelines... - The organizational costs of ethical conflictsWilliam A Nelson
Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
J Healthc Manag 53:41-52; discussion 52-3. 2008..Such an effort has the potential to enhance the organization's overall culture and ultimately lead to organizational success... - What do we know about financial returns on investments in patient safety? A literature reviewJared M Schmidek
Veterans Health Administration s National Center for Patient Safety, White River Junction, Vermont, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 31:690-9. 2005..A framework was proposed for making a business case for patient safety interventions and to evaluate whether and how thoroughly financial aspects of investments and returns have been reported... - New York's statistical model accurately predicts mortality risk for veterans who obtain private sector CABGWilliam B Weeks
Veterans' Rural Health Initiative, VA Medical Center, White River Junction, VT, USA
Health Serv Res 40:1186-96. 2005..The New York Department of Health risk adjustment model adequately applies to veterans who obtain CABG in the private sector in New York... - Collaboration of ethics and patient safety programs: opportunities to promote quality careWilliam A Nelson
Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH, USA
HEC Forum 20:15-27. 2008 - Changes in authorship patterns in prestigious US medical journalsWilliam B Weeks
Department of Psychiatry, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH, USA
Soc Sci Med 59:1949-54. 2004..The growth in the number of authors on bylines and the proportion of group-authored manuscripts is likely to reflect the increasing complexity of medical research... - Substance abuse intensive outpatient treatment: does program graduation matter?Amy E Wallace
Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
J Subst Abuse Treat 27:27-30. 2004..Further research is needed to discern optimal treatment length-that which maximizes both length of stay and completion rates, while optimizing use of limited treatment resources... - Ethical issues arising from variation in health services utilization at the end of lifeWilliam Brinson Weeks
Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, USA
Front Health Serv Manage 27:17-26. 2011.... - A model for improving the quality and timeliness of compensation and pension examinations in VA facilitiesWilliam Brinson Weeks
Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
J Healthc Manag 48:252-61; discussion 262. 2003..Visible, ongoing support by leadership and alignment of project objectives with strategic goals are associated with improved project outcomes...