Inside Dartmouth Medicine

Inside Dartmouth Medicine

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Inside Dartmouth Medicine episodes

  • How did you become the founder of outcomes research?
    A Q&A with Dr. Jack Wennberg about the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care Project
    John Wennberg, M.D., Ph.D., is the founding director of Dartmouth's Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences (CECS) and the Peggy Y. Thomson Professor of the Evaluative Clinical Sciences. CECS was established in 1989 and is the locus for a diverse group of scientists and clinician-scholars who conduct cutting edge research on critical medical and health issues with the goal of measuring, organizing, and improving the health-care system. The Center also publishes The Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care, which demonstrates striking variations in how health care is delivered across the United States. To learn more about Wennberg's and CECS's work read "The state of the nation's health."
    This is a web extra to an article that appeared in the Spring 2007 issue of Dartmouth Medicine Magazine. To read the article, go to:
    http://dartmed.dartmouth.edu/spring07/html/atlas.php
    5 min
  • What is the Dartmouth Atlas project?
    A Q&A with Dr. Jack Wennberg about the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care Project
    John Wennberg, M.D., Ph.D., is the founding director of Dartmouth's Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences (CECS) and the Peggy Y. Thomson Professor of the Evaluative Clinical Sciences. CECS was established in 1989 and is the locus for a diverse group of scientists and clinician-scholars who conduct cutting edge research on critical medical and health issues with the goal of measuring, organizing, and improving the health-care system. The Center also publishes The Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care, which demonstrates striking variations in how health care is delivered across the United States. To learn more about Wennberg's and CECS's work read "The state of the nation's health."
    This is a web extra to an article that appeared in the Spring 2007 issue of Dartmouth Medicine Magazine. To read the article, go to:
    http://dartmed.dartmouth.edu/spring07/html/atlas.php
    4 min
  • What are some major findings of the Dartmouth Atlas?
    A Q&A with Dr. Jack Wennberg about the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care Project
    John Wennberg, M.D., Ph.D., is the founding director of Dartmouth's Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences (CECS) and the Peggy Y. Thomson Professor of the Evaluative Clinical Sciences. CECS was established in 1989 and is the locus for a diverse group of scientists and clinician-scholars who conduct cutting edge research on critical medical and health issues with the goal of measuring, organizing, and improving the health-care system. The Center also publishes The Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care, which demonstrates striking variations in how health care is delivered across the United States. To learn more about Wennberg's and CECS's work read "The state of the nation's health."
    This is a web extra to an article that appeared in the Spring 2007 issue of Dartmouth Medicine Magazine. To read the article, go to:
    http://dartmed.dartmouth.edu/spring07/html/atlas.php
    4 min
  • Why are there geographical variations in surgical procedures?
    A Q&A with Dr. Jack Wennberg about the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care Project
    John Wennberg, M.D., Ph.D., is the founding director of Dartmouth's Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences (CECS) and the Peggy Y. Thomson Professor of the Evaluative Clinical Sciences. CECS was established in 1989 and is the locus for a diverse group of scientists and clinician-scholars who conduct cutting edge research on critical medical and health issues with the goal of measuring, organizing, and improving the health-care system. The Center also publishes The Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care, which demonstrates striking variations in how health care is delivered across the United States. To learn more about Wennberg's and CECS's work read "The state of the nation's health."
    This is a web extra to an article that appeared in the Spring 2007 issue of Dartmouth Medicine Magazine. To read the article, go to:
    http://dartmed.dartmouth.edu/spring07/html/atlas.php
    5 min
  • Why are there geographical variations in chronic illness care?
    A Q&A with Dr. Jack Wennberg about the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care Project
    John Wennberg, M.D., Ph.D., is the founding director of Dartmouth's Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences (CECS) and the Peggy Y. Thomson Professor of the Evaluative Clinical Sciences. CECS was established in 1989 and is the locus for a diverse group of scientists and clinician-scholars who conduct cutting edge research on critical medical and health issues with the goal of measuring, organizing, and improving the health-care system. The Center also publishes The Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care, which demonstrates striking variations in how health care is delivered across the United States. To learn more about Wennberg's and CECS's work read "The state of the nation's health."
    This is a web extra to an article that appeared in the Spring 2007 issue of Dartmouth Medicine Magazine. To read the article, go to:
    http://dartmed.dartmouth.edu/spring07/html/atlas.php
    3 min
  • Have the Dartmouth Atlas findings been controversial?
    A Q&A with Dr. Jack Wennberg about the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care Project
    John Wennberg, M.D., Ph.D., is the founding director of Dartmouth's Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences (CECS) and the Peggy Y. Thomson Professor of the Evaluative Clinical Sciences. CECS was established in 1989 and is the locus for a diverse group of scientists and clinician-scholars who conduct cutting edge research on critical medical and health issues with the goal of measuring, organizing, and improving the health-care system. The Center also publishes The Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care, which demonstrates striking variations in how health care is delivered across the United States. To learn more about Wennberg's and CECS's work read "The state of the nation's health."
    This is a web extra to an article that appeared in the Spring 2007 issue of Dartmouth Medicine Magazine. To read the article, go to:
    http://dartmed.dartmouth.edu/spring07/html/atlas.php
    2 min
  • How can more care result in poorer outcomes?
    A Q&A with Dr. Jack Wennberg about the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care Project
    John Wennberg, M.D., Ph.D., is the founding director of Dartmouth's Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences (CECS) and the Peggy Y. Thomson Professor of the Evaluative Clinical Sciences. CECS was established in 1989 and is the locus for a diverse group of scientists and clinician-scholars who conduct cutting edge research on critical medical and health issues with the goal of measuring, organizing, and improving the health-care system. The Center also publishes The Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care, which demonstrates striking variations in how health care is delivered across the United States. To learn more about Wennberg's and CECS's work read "The state of the nation's health."
    This is a web extra to an article that appeared in the Spring 2007 issue of Dartmouth Medicine Magazine. To read the article, go to:
    http://dartmed.dartmouth.edu/spring07/html/atlas.php
    3 min
  • What is DHMC doing to address practice variations?
    A Q&A with Dr. Jack Wennberg about the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care Project
    John Wennberg, M.D., Ph.D., is the founding director of Dartmouth's Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences (CECS) and the Peggy Y. Thomson Professor of the Evaluative Clinical Sciences. CECS was established in 1989 and is the locus for a diverse group of scientists and clinician-scholars who conduct cutting edge research on critical medical and health issues with the goal of measuring, organizing, and improving the health-care system. The Center also publishes The Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care, which demonstrates striking variations in how health care is delivered across the United States. To learn more about Wennberg's and CECS's work read "The state of the nation's health."
    This is a web extra to an article that appeared in the Spring 2007 issue of Dartmouth Medicine Magazine. To read the article, go to:
    http://dartmed.dartmouth.edu/spring07/html/atlas.php
    4 min
  • Can you describe your work treating polytrauma?
    A Q&A with Dr. Joseph Rosen about Polytrauma
    Dr. Rosen is a plastic surgeon at DHMC who treats patients around the world including soldiers injured in Iraq. His specialties include nerve repair and human-machine interfaces, microsurgery and transplantation of limbs, and telemedicine and informatics. He was an organizer of the 2006 Polytrauma Conference at Dartmouth College, is a professor of plastic and reconstructive surgery at DMS, and is a consultant to the military.
    This is a web extra to an article that appeared in the Spring 2007 issue of Dartmouth Medicine Magazine. To read the article, go to:
    http://dartmed.dartmouth.edu/spring07/html/faculty_focus.php
    2 min
  • Can you explain what catastrophic polytrauma is?
    A Q&A with Dr. Joseph Rosen about Polytrauma
    Dr. Rosen is a plastic surgeon at DHMC who treats patients around the world including soldiers injured in Iraq. His specialties include nerve repair and human-machine interfaces, microsurgery and transplantation of limbs, and telemedicine and informatics. He was an organizer of the 2006 Polytrauma Conference at Dartmouth College, is a professor of plastic and reconstructive surgery at DMS, and is a consultant to the military.
    This is a web extra to an article that appeared in the Spring 2007 issue of Dartmouth Medicine Magazine. To read the article, go to:
    http://dartmed.dartmouth.edu/spring07/html/faculty_focus.php
    2 min

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"Inside Dartmouth Medicine" is a series of web-extra interviews produced by Dartmouth Medicine magazine, exploring the art and science of medicine at Dartmouth Medical School and Dartmouth-Hitchcock…