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From the Editor

Crossing Boundaries In Search Of Greater Understanding John K. Iglehart [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Trends

PROLOGUE: Trends In The Burden, Treatment, And Prevention Of Cardiovascular Disease [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Reducing The Growing Burden Of Cardiovascular Disease In The Developing World Thomas A. Gaziano [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Advances In The Prevention And Treatment Of Cardiovascular Disease Myron L. Weisfeldt and Susan J. Zieman [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

An Overview Of Cardiovascular Disease Burden In The United States George A. Mensah and David W. Brown [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The Prevention Of Cardiovascular Disease: Have We Really Made Progress? Thomas A. Pearson [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Quality

PROLOGUE: Improving The Quality Of Cardiovascular Disease Care [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Curbing The Cardiovascular Disease Epidemic: Aligning Industry, Government, Payers, And Academics Robert M. Califf, Robert A. Harrington, Leanne K. Madre, Eric D. Peterson, Deborah Roth, and Kevin A. Schulman [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Measuring Performance For Treating Heart Attacks And Heart Failure: The Case For Outcomes Measurement Harlan M. Krumholz, Sharon-Lise T. Normand, John A. Spertus, David M. Shahian, and Elizabeth H. Bradley [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Evidence, Appropriateness, And Technology Assessment In Cardiology: A Case Study Of Computed Tomography Rita F. Redberg [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Value & Price

PROLOGUE: Value And Price In Cardiovascular Disease Care [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The Value Of Antihypertensive Drugs: A Perspective On Medical Innovation David M. Cutler, Genia Long, Ernst R. Berndt, Jimmy Royer, Andrée-Anne Fournier, Alicia Sasser, and Pierre Cremieux [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Technical Appendix] [Reprints & Permissions]

The Value Of Coronary Heart Disease Care For The Elderly: 1987–2002 Allison B. Rosen, David M. Cutler, Douglas M. Norton, Hsou Mei Hu, and Sandeep Vijan [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Appendix] [Reprints & Permissions]

Getting The Price Right: Medicare Payment Rates For Cardiovascular Services Kevin J. Hayes, Julian Pettengill, and Jeffrey Stensland [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Commentary

Will The Surgical World Become Flat? Arnold Milstein and Mark Smith [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Appendix] [Reprints & Permissions]

Health Tracking

TRENDS: National Health Spending In 2005: The Slowdown Continues Aaron Catlin, Cathy Cowan, Stephen Heffler, Benjamin Washington the National Health Expenditure Accounts Team [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Erratum] [Reprints & Permissions]

TRENDS: Health Care Spending Growth: How Different Is The United States From The Rest Of The OECD? Chapin White [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

TRENDS: U.S. Trends In CABG Hospital Volume: The Effect Of Adding Cardiac Surgery Programs Chad T. Wilson, Elliott S. Fisher, H. Gilbert Welch, Andrea E. Siewers, and F. Lee Lucas [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

TRENDS: Use And In-Hospital Mortality Associated With Two Cardiac Procedures, By Sex And Age: National Trends, 1990–2004 Julia S. Holmes, Lola Jean Kozak, and Maria F. Owings [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

TRENDS: Better Late Than Never: Workforce Supply Implications Of Later Entry Into Nursing David I. Auerbach, Peter I. Buerhaus, and Douglas O. Staiger [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

MARKETWATCH: Should Patients Receive Secondary Prevention Medications For Free After A Myocardial Infarction? An Economic Analysis Niteesh K. Choudhry, Jerry Avorn, Elliott M. Antman, Sebastian Schneeweiss, and William H. Shrank [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supplemental Exhibit] [Reprints & Permissions]

MARKETWATCH: Physician Practice Size And Variations In Treatments And Outcomes: Evidence From Medicare Patients With AMI Jonathan D. Ketcham, Laurence C. Baker, and Donna MacIsaac [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Appendix] [Reprints & Permissions]

MARKETWATCH: The Value Of Electronic Health Records In Community Health Centers: Policy Implications Robert H. Miller and Christopher E. West [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

MARKETWATCH: Disclosure Of Medical Injury To Patients: An Improbable Risk Management Strategy David M. Studdert, Michelle M. Mello, Atul A. Gawande, Troyen A. Brennan, and Y. Claire Wang [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Technical Appendix] [Reprints & Permissions]

Narrative Matters

Heart Of The Uninsured Arthur Garson, Jr. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Good For Harvest, Bad For Planting Vanessa Grubbs [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

DataWatch

Quality Of Care For Acute Myocardial Infarction At Urban Safety-Net Hospitals Joseph S. Ross, Stephen S. Cha, Andrew J. Epstein, Yongfei Wang, Elizabeth H. Bradley, Jeph Herrin, Judith H. Lichtman, Sharon-Lise T. Normand, Frederick A. Masoudi, and Harlan M. Krumholz [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Appendix] [Reprints & Permissions]

Prescription Drugs And The Changing Concentration Of Health Care Expenditures Samuel H. Zuvekas and Joel W. Cohen [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Coping With SCHIP Enrollment Caps: Lessons From Seven States’ Experiences Ian Hill, Brigette Courtot, and Jennifer Sullivan [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Estimates Of Health Insurance Coverage: Comparing State Surveys With The Current Population Survey Kathleen Thiede Call, Michael Davern, and Lynn A. Blewett [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental Exhibit 1][Updated Erratum] [Reprints & Permissions]

GrantWatch

GRANTWATCH: REPORT: RAND/Hartford Initiative To Build Interdisciplinary Geriatric Health Care Research Centers Harold Alan Pincus, Donna J. Keyser, and Dana J. Schultz [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

GrantWatch: Outcomes [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [GrantWatch Online 1st February][GrantWatch Online 20 February][GrantWatch Online 28th February] [Reprints & Permissions]

Book Reviews

BOOK REVIEWS: The Corporate Factor In Medicine Paul B. Ginsburg [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Improving The Evidence/Advocacy Ratio In Medical Malpractice Reform David A. Hyman [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Health Care And Philosophy: Adding Justice To The Debate Rick Mathis [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Letters

Methodology On Adverse Events Harold D. Miller [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Adverse Events: The Authors Respond Chunliu Zhan [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Feds Need To Create Standards And Databases Bruce A. Boissonnault [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Pre-Deadline Data Reporting By Some Hospitals Charles N. Kahn, III [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Errata

Errata [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Web Exclusives

Status Report On Medicare Part D Enrollment In 2006: Analysis Of Plan-Specific Market Share And Coverage Juliette Cubanski and Patricia Neuman (published online 21 November 2006) [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

INTERVIEW: Improving Tomorrow’s Health Care With Today’s Tools: A Conversation With Larry C. Glasscock John K. Iglehart (published online 28 November 2006) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

MARKETWATCH: The Uninsured And The Affordability Of Health Insurance Coverage Lisa Dubay, John Holahan, and Allison Cook (published online 30 November 2006) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Hospital-Physicians Relations: Cooperation, Competition, Or Separation? Robert A. Berenson, Paul B. Ginsburg, and Jessica H. May (published online 5 December 2006) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Table of Contents] [Reprints & Permissions]

Creating Accountable Care Organizations: The Extended Hospital Medical Staff Elliott S. Fisher, Douglas O. Staiger, Julie P.W. Bynum, and Daniel J. Gottlieb (published online 5 December 2006) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Gain Sharing: A Good Concept Getting A Bad Name? Gail R. Wilensky, Nicholas Wolter, and Michelle M. Fischer (published online 5 December 2006) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: Taking Steps Toward Integration Denis Cortese and Robert Smoldt (published online 5 December 2006) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: Hospitals And Physicians: Not A Pretty Picture Jeff Goldsmith (published online 5 December 2006) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: Medical Staff Organizations: A Persistent Anomaly Ken Smithson and Stuart Baker (published online 5 December 2006) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

A Proposal To Cover The Uninsured In California George C. Halvorson, Francis J. Crosson, and Steve Zatkin (published online 12 December 2006) [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Appendices] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: Insuring Californians: A Proposal That Matters Rick Curtis and Ed Neuschler (published online 12 December 2006) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Health Reform Interrupted: The Unraveling Of The Oregon Health Plan Jonathan Oberlander (published online 19 December 2006) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

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