The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice

The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice (TDI) is an organization within Dartmouth College "dedicated to improving health care through education, research, policy reform, leadership improvement, and communication with patients and the public."^[1] It was founded in 1988 by John Wennberg as the Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences (CECS); a reorganization in 2007 led to TDI's current structure.^[2] Dr. James Weinstein, DO, MS, suceeded Dr Jack Wennberg in 2007 as director of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice.^[3] He is also co-president of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock health system and leader, with Dartmouth College President Jim Yong Kim, of the recently established Dartmouth Center for Health Care Delivery Science.

The institute provides a graduate-level education program involving elements of both Dartmouth's Graduate Arts and Sciences Programs and the Dartmouth Medical School. It grants Masters in Public Health degrees as well as Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy in Health Policy and Clinical Science degrees. The institute is located on Centerra Parkway in Lebanon, New Hampshire, across from the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. The institute's largest policy product is the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care,^[4] which documents unwarranted variation in the American health care system.^{[5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]}

References

1. ^ The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. Official Web site. Accessed 2009 Jul 29.
2. ^ The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. History of The Dartmouth Institute. Accessed 2009 Jul 29.
3. ^ The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. [1] Accessed 2011 October 11.
4. ^ The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. The Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care. Accessed 2009 Jul 29.
5. ^ Fisher, E.S. et al., Variations in the Longitudinal Efficiency of AcademicMedical Centers, Health Affairs, 7 October 2004
6. ^ Modifying Unwarranted Variations In Health Care: Shared Decision Making Using Patient Decision Aids: A review of the evidence base for shared decision making, O’Connor, AM et al., Health Affairs, 7 October 2004
7. ^ Wennberg, JE et al., Use Of Medicare Claims Data To Monitor Provider-Specific Performance Among Patients With Severe Chronic Illness: Analyses of seventy-seven of America’s “best hospitals” document extensive variation in the amount of care provided to patients with three common chronic conditions, Health Affairs, Oct. 7, 2004.
8. ^ Fisher, ES et al., The Implications of Regional Variations in Medicare Spending. Part 1: The Content, Quality, and Accessibility of Care, The Annals of Internal Medicine, 2003; 138: 273-287.
9. ^ Fisher, ES et al., The Implications of Regional Variations in Medicare Spending. Part 2: Health Outcomes and Satisfaction with Care, The Annals of Internal Medicine, 2003; 138: 288-298.
10. ^ Wennberg, JE et al., Unwarranted variations in healthcare delivery: implications for academic medical centres, BMJ. 2002 October 26; 325(7370): 961–964.
11. ^ Wennberg, JE, Geography and the Debate over Medicare Reform, J.E.Wennberg, E.S. Fisher, and J.S. Skinner, HealthAffairs, 13 February 2002.
12. ^ Wennberg, JE et al., Hospital use and mortality among Medicare beneficiaries in Boston and New Haven. N Engl J Med 1989;321:116873.
13. ^ Wennberg, JE at al., Are hospital services rationed in New Haven or overutilized in Boston?, Lancet 1987;i:11858.
14. ^ "The Dartmouth Team Responds (Again)" J.S. Skinner. June 2010.