Uninformed Patients Tend To Have More Invasive Surgeries | STLToday.com
December 12, 2012Shannon Brownlee, the study's lead author and an instructor at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice, attributes the differences to physicians who impose...
View ArticleDebate Over The Benefits Of Routine Mammograms | The Diane Rehm Show
December 12, 2012It’s been generally accepted that early breast cancer detection and treatment can improve a patient's prognosis. For decades women have been advised to get an annual mammogram starting...
View ArticleReport Says Surgery Choice Often Depends On Geography, Including In Sd |...
December 13, 2012Shannon Brownlee, a senior author of the report, said treatment options, including the need for surgery, are too often dependent “not on how sick (patients) are, not on who they are,...
View ArticleMedicare Patients' Elective Surgeries Linked To Where They Live | The Republic
December 13, 2012"Many patients aren't even aware that the choice about elective surgery is theirs to make," said lead author Shannon Brownlee. "The result is that patients don't really get the...
View ArticleStudy Reveals Disparity In Surgery Rates | Iowa City Press Citizen
December 14, 2012“It often is the physician's preference that wins the day,” said Shannon Brownlee, a Dartmouth instructor who led the national study. The researchers compared how often Medicare...
View ArticleStudy Reveals Disparity In Surgery Rates | Des Moines Register
December 14, 2012“It often is the physician's preference that wins the day,” said Shannon Brownlee, a Dartmouth instructor who led the national study. The researchers compared how often Medicare...
View ArticleDecisions About Surgery Often Hinge On Where You Live | The Seattle Times
December 14, 2012Shannon Brownlee, a co-author of the study, said the prevalence of specialized facilities, such as heart-catheterization labs, also appears to push up rates. "Fact is, if you have a...
View ArticleDartmouth Research Suggests Location Determines Who Is Cut When | Tyler...
December 16, 2012Shannon Brownlee, lead author and instructor at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, said when a treatment is elective, or what they call preference...
View ArticleMedicare Patients' Elective Surgeries Linked To Where They Live |...
December 18, 2012"Many patients aren't even aware that the choice about elective surgery is theirs to make," said lead author Shannon Brownlee. "The result is that patients don't really get the...
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Meningitis deaths could have been avoided
This op-ed is co-authored by Jeff Borkan, Chair of the Department of Family Medicine at Brown University School of Medicine.The media attention and Congressional investigation into the tragic epidemic...
View ArticleNew Study Finds Geographical Variations In Surgeries | STLToday.com
December 12, 2012Shannon Brownlee, the study's lead author and an instructor at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice, attributes the differences to physicians who impose...
View ArticleSurgery For That? Depends Where You Live | Minneapolis Star Tribune
December 12, 2012The differences in treatment, said Shannon Brownlee, one of the authors, depend "not on how sick they are, not on who they are, but on where they live." The report "really reveals some...
View ArticleUninformed Patients Tend To Have More Invasive Surgeries | STLToday.com
December 12, 2012Shannon Brownlee, the study's lead author and an instructor at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice, attributes the differences to physicians who impose...
View ArticleDebate Over The Benefits Of Routine Mammograms | The Diane Rehm Show
December 12, 2012It’s been generally accepted that early breast cancer detection and treatment can improve a patient's prognosis. For decades women have been advised to get an annual mammogram starting...
View ArticleWhat 'Health Care Costs' Really Means
December 22, 2012 Framing our problem in terms of "costs" is a misrepresentation of the real challenge -- how to slow the increase in spending. Shannon BrownleeJoe ColucciDecember 22, 2012No fiscal...
View ArticleRising Health Costs Threaten Our Future | The Tennessean
December 30, 2012At the current pace of growth, according to the New America Foundation, our health insurance premiums in Tennessee will rise to more than $16,000 in 2016. We cannot sustain this type...
View ArticleBreast Cancer: What We Learned In 2012 | WBUR
January 1, 2013Health writer Shannon Brownlee of the New America Foundation says the issue is a prime example of what she calls American medicine's tendency to overdiagnose and overtreat disease. She's...
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Please, stop talking about "health care costs."
"Health care costs" are a constant companion of budget wonks, showing up in every discussion of long-term fiscal policy and discussions of healthcare reform going back decades. But in an Atlantic...
View ArticleBreast Cancer: What We Learned in 2012 | WEKU
January 2, 2013Health writer Shannon Brownlee of the New America Foundation says the issue is a prime example of what she calls American medicine's tendency to overdiagnose and overtreat disease. She's...
View ArticleShould Jerry Brown Just Ignore His Cancer?
January 2, 2013 Governor’s choice of radiation therapy could cause more harm than doing nothing at all. Shannon BrownleeJanuary 2, 2013As California’s oldest governor, Jerry Brown has gone out of his...
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