John Wennberg

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John Wennberg is affiliated with the following schools: McGill University, Dartmouth College, Stanford University, University of Manitoba, Johns Hopkins University

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According to Wikipedia, John E. "Jack" Wennberg is the pioneer and leading researcher of unwarranted variation in the healthcare industry. In four decades of work, Wennberg has documented the geographic variation in the healthcare that patients receive in the United States. In 1988, he founded the Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences at Dartmouth Medical School to address that unwarranted variation in healthcare.

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John Wennberg's Published Works

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Small Area Variations in Health Care Delivery (1973) (1813)
Variations in medical care among small areas. (1982) (854)
Small-area variations in the use of common surgical procedures: an international comparison of New England, England, and Norway. (1982) (837)
Dealing with medical practice variations: a proposal for action. (1984) (702)
Unwarranted variations in healthcare delivery: implications for academic medical centres (2002) (697)
Outcomes after displaced fractures of the femoral neck. A meta-analysis of one hundred and six published reports. (2005) (676)
Geography and the debate over Medicare reform. (2002) (648)
Mortality and reoperation after open and transurethral resection of the prostate for benign prostatic hyperplasia. (1989) (618)
Professional uncertainty and the problem of supplier-induced demand. (1982) (584)
Patient-re ported complications and follow-up treatment after radical prostatectomy (1993) (567)
Racial, ethnic, and geographic disparities in rates of knee arthroplasty among Medicare patients. (2003) (490)
A decision analysis of alternative treatment strategies for clinically localized prostate cancer. Prostate Patient Outcomes Research Team. (1993) (478)
An assessment of radical prostatectomy. Time trends, geographic variation, and outcomes. The Prostate Patient Outcomes Research Team. (1993) (446)
Symptom status and quality of life following prostatectomy. (1988) (442)
Toward the 'tipping point': decision aids and informed patient choice. (2007) (439)
Multivariate Prediction of In‐Hospital Mortality Associated With Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery (1992) (437)
Regional variations in diagnostic practices. (2010) (408)
Understanding of regional variation in the use of surgery (2013) (395)
Patient Reactions to a Program Designed to Facilitate Patient Participation in Treatment Decisions for Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (1995) (382)
Choosing the best research design for each question (1997) (360)
Hospital use and mortality among Medicare beneficiaries in Boston and New Haven. (1989) (355)
Use of claims data systems to evaluate health care outcomes. Mortality and reoperation following prostatectomy. (1987) (353)
Effect of radical prostatectomy for prostate cancer on patient quality of life: results from a Medicare survey. (1995) (349)
Geographic variation in the treatment of acute myocardial infarction: the Cooperative Cardiovascular Project. (1999) (347)
Geographic Variation in Expenditures for Physicians' Services in the United States (1993) (329)
Use of hospitals, physician visits, and hospice care during last six months of life among cohorts loyal to highly respected hospitals in the United States (2004) (306)
Developing shared decision-making programs to improve the quality of health care. (1992) (285)
Will payment based on diagnosis-related groups control hospital costs? (1984) (274)
Hospital readmission rates for cohorts of Medicare beneficiaries in Boston and New Haven. (1994) (271)
Time to tackle unwarranted variations in practice (2011) (268)
Who you are and where you live: how race and geography affect the treatment of medicare beneficiaries. (2004) (265)
Variation profiles of common surgical procedures. (1998) (264)
Variations in rates of hospitalization of children in three urban communities. (1989) (259)
Patient-reported complications and follow-up treatment after radical prostatectomy. The National Medicare Experience: 1988-1990 (updated June 1993). (1993) (258)
Tracking the Care of Patients with Severe Chronic Illness: The Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care 2008 (2008) (245)
Associations among hospital capacity, utilization, and mortality of US Medicare beneficiaries, controlling for sociodemographic factors. (2000) (231)
Understanding geographic variations in health care delivery. (1999) (227)
A structured literature review of treatment for localized prostate cancer. Prostate Disease Patient Outcome Research Team. (1993) (225)
Geographic variation in expenditures for physicians' services in the United States. (1993) (222)
Outcomes research, cost containment, and the fear of health care rationing. (1990) (210)
Design of the Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial (SPORT) (2002) (210)
Trends and geographic variations in major surgery for degenerative diseases of the hip, knee, and spine. (2004) (208)
An assessment of prostatectomy for benign urinary tract obstruction. Geographic variations and the evaluation of medical care outcomes. (1988) (197)
Which rate is right? (1986) (183)
The marketplace in health care reform. The demographic limitations of managed competition. (1993) (175)
Using administrative data to describe casemix: a comparison with the medical record. (1994) (174)
Changes in tonsillectomy rates associated with feedback and review. (1977) (171)
Follow-up prostate cancer treatments after radical prostatectomy: a population-based study. (1996) (169)
Practice variations and health care reform: connecting the dots. (2004) (161)
The paradox of appropriate care. (1987) (155)
Dealing with geographic variations in the use of hospitals. The experience of the Maine Medical Assessment Foundation Orthopaedic Study Group. (1990) (145)
Geographic variation in diagnosis frequency and risk of death among Medicare beneficiaries. (2011) (145)
On patient need, equity, supplier-induced demand, and the need to assess the outcome of common medical practices. (1985) (138)
Benchmarking the US physician workforce. An alternative to needs-based or demand-based planning. (1996) (130)
Health care delivery in Maine I: patterns of use of common surgical procedures. (1975) (129)
Population illness rates do not explain population hospitalization rates. A comment on Mark Blumberg's thesis that morbidity adjusters are needed to interpret small area variations. (1987) (121)
The importance of patient preference in the decision to screen for prostate cancer (1996) (121)
The Efficiency of Medicare (2001) (121)
Risk of carotid endarterectomy in the elderly. (1989) (114)
Transurethral resection of the prostateamong medicare beneficiaries in the United States: time trends and outcomes (1994) (110)
The need for assessing the outcome of common medical practices. (1980) (110)
Further study of the increased mortality following transurethral prostatectomy: a chart-based analysis. (1990) (107)
Extending the P4P agenda, part 1: how Medicare can improve patient decision making and reduce unnecessary care. (2007) (104)
Using diagnosis-related groups for studying variations in hospital admissions (1988) (99)
Are Randomized Controlled Trials Controlled? Patient Preferences and Unblind Trials (1997) (98)
Finding equilibrium in U.S. physician supply. (1993) (93)
Paying for performance: Medicare should lead. (2003) (92)
Inpatient care intensity and patients' ratings of their hospital experiences. (2009) (90)
Evaluating the efficiency of california providers in caring for patients with chronic illnesses. (2005) (80)
Use of Medicare claims data to monitor provider-specific performance among patients with severe chronic illness. (2004) (80)
Practice variation: implications for our health care system. (2004) (77)
Outcomes Research, PORTs, and Health Care Reform (1993) (77)
Forty years of unwarranted variation--and still counting. (2014) (71)
The influence of diagnostic radiography on the incidence of breast cancer and leukemia. (1986) (68)
Observational intensity bias associated with illness adjustment: cross sectional analysis of insurance claims (2013) (64)
Improving the Medical Decisionmaking Process (1988) (61)
Variations in hospital resource use for Medicare and privately insured populations in California. (2008) (58)
Acute septic arthritis complicating chronic rheumatoid arthritis. (1966) (58)
Addressing variations: is there hope for the future? (2003) (58)
Future directions for small area variations. (1993) (57)
Extending the P4P agenda, part 2: how Medicare can reduce waste and improve the care of the chronically ill. (2007) (56)
Standardized rates of recurrent outcomes. (1994) (53)
Standard consultations are not enough to ensure decision quality regarding preference-sensitive options. (2003) (52)
How Much is Enough? Efficiency and Medicare Spending in the Last Six Months of Life (1998) (49)
Operation Rates, Mortality Statistics and the Quality of Life (1973) (49)
Prioritizing Oregon's hospital resources. An example based on variations in discretionary medical utilization. (1992) (49)
Transurethral resection of the prostate among Medicare beneficiaries in the United States: time trends and outcomes. Prostate Patient Outcomes Research Team (PORT). (1994) (48)
End-of-life care at academic medical centers: implications for future workforce requirements. (2006) (45)
Unwanted variations in the rules of practice. (1991) (45)
Medical practice variation: public reporting a first necessary step to spark change (2018) (41)
Improving Quality and Curbing Health Care Spending: Opportunities for the Congress and the Obama Administration (2008) (40)
Factors governing utilization of hospital services. (1979) (39)
Fewer hospitalizations result when primary care is highly integrated into a continuing care retirement community. (2011) (39)
Health care delivery in Maine, III: evaluating the level of hospital performance. (1975) (31)
Regional Organization for Outcomes Research (1993) (31)
RENAL TOXICITY OF ORAL CHOLECYSTOGRAPHIC MEDIA. BUNAMIODYL SODIUM AND IOPANOIC ACID. (1963) (31)
Should the cost of insurance reflect the cost of use in local hospital markets? (1982) (30)
A population health approach to reducing observational intensity bias in health risk adjustment: cross sectional analysis of insurance claims (2014) (29)
Variation in Use of Medicare Services Among Regions and Selected Academic Medical Centers (2005) (29)
Improving the medical decision-making process. (1988) (28)
A test of consumer contribution to small area variations in health care delivery. (1977) (27)
Regional Inequality in Medicare Spending: The Key to Medicare Reform? (2000) (27)
Unwarranted variations in the quality of health care: can the law help medicine provide a remedy/remedies? (2004) (26)
Technology Assessment Using Insurance Claims: Example of Prostatectomy (1990) (25)
Practice variations and the challenge to leadership. (1996) (22)
Maps and health: the challenges of interpretation. (1999) (22)
On the appropriateness of small-area analysis for cost containment. (2017) (22)
The orthopaedic workforce: which rate is right? (1998) (22)
Health care delivery in Maine II: conditions explaining hospital admission. (1975) (22)
On the status of the Prostate Disease Assessment Team. (1990) (22)
Commentary - The Orthopaedic Workforce: Which Rate is Right?* (1998) (20)
Postmarketing surveillance of medical devices using Medicare claims. (2005) (19)
Variations in medical practice and hospital costs. (1985) (19)
Benchmarking the future generalist workforce. (2002) (18)
Presidential Guest Speaker: Practice Variations and the Challenge to Leadership (1996) (18)
A JAMA theme issue on quality of care. A new proposal and a call to action. (1997) (18)
Better policy to promote the evaluative clinical sciences. (1990) (18)
Small Area Analysis and the Challenge of Practice Variation (2015) (17)
Commentary: A debt of gratitude to J. Alison Glover. (2008) (16)
Reducing Unwarranted Variation in Clinical Practice by Supporting Clinicians and Patients in Decision Making (2011) (15)
Health care reform and professionalism. (1994) (13)
Outcomes Research, Patient Preference, And The Primary Care Physician (1991) (13)
Comprar Tracking Medicine | John E. Wennberg | 9780199731787 | Oxford University Press (2010) (12)
A Multipurpose Interactive Videodisc with Ethical, Legal, Medical, Educational and Research Implications: The Informed Patient Decision-Making Procedure (1989) (12)
The treatment of localized prostate cancer: what are we doing, what do we know, and what should we be doing? The Prostate Patient Outcome Research Team. (1993) (12)
On the risk of organ loss. (1976) (12)
Exceptionalism or extravagance? What's different about health care in South Florida. (2003) (11)
On the Need for Outcomes Research and the Prospects for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences (1990) (10)
Wrestling with variation: an interview with Jack Wennberg [interviewed by Fitzhugh Mullan]. (2004) (10)
Finding high quality, efficient providers for value purchasing: cohort methods better than methods based on events. (2002) (10)
Physician uncertainty, specialty ideology, and a second opinion prior to tonsillectomy. (1977) (9)
Commentary: Using claims to measure health status (1987) (9)
Trends Trends And Geographic Variations In Major Surgery For Degenerative Diseases Of The Hip , Knee , And Spine Is there a roadmap for change ? (2004) (9)
Use of medical radiographs: extent of variation and associated active bone marrow doses. (1985) (8)
Symptom Status and Quality of Life Following Prostatectomy (1989) (7)
Regional professional foundations. (1994) (7)
Quality of Care: A Call for Papers for the Annual Coordinated Theme Issues of the AMA Journals (1996) (7)
Editorial governance for JAMA (1999) (6)
Setting outcome-based standards for carotid endarterectomy. (1986) (6)
An analysis of the patency of vascular access grafts for hemodialysis using the Medicare Part B claims database. (1996) (5)
Practice variations and the challenge to leadership. (1996) (5)
Extending the Pay-for-Performance Agenda : Part One How Medicare Can Improve the Quality of Patient Decision Making and Reduce Unnecessary Care A Synopsis (2007) (5)
Therapies for benign prostatic hyperplasia. (1992) (5)
Geography And The Debate Over Medicare (2002) (4)
Non-experimental methods in the assessment of efficacy. (1988) (4)
OUTCOMES RESEARCH AND COST CONTAINMENT. AUTHOR'S REPLY (1991) (4)
The more things change...: the federal government's role in the evaluative sciences. (2003) (4)
The road to guidelines. (1991) (3)
Priorities in Oregon-Reply (1992) (3)
What is needed for better health care: Better systems, better patients or both? (2011) (3)
Non-expepimental Methods in the Assessment of Ettieaey (1988) (3)
A challenge to HMOs. (1992) (3)
Giving patients a bigger say in choosing treatment. Interview by Berkeley Rice. (1993) (3)
Medical practice: why does it vary so much?. Interview by Emily Friedman. (1985) (3)
Granular cell myoblastoma of the hands (1980) (2)
Variations Among Regions and Hospitals in Managing Chronic Illness: How Much Care Is Enough? Seventeenth Annual Herbert Lourie Memorial Lecture on Health Policy (2006) (2)
Unreliability of physician "report cards" to assess cost and quality of care. (2000) (2)
OUTCOMES RESEARCH (2007) (1)
An apple a day? (1994) (1)
RENAL TOXICITY OF ORAL CHOLECYSTOGRAPHIC MEDIA. BUMAMIODYL SODIUM AND IOPANOIC ACID. (1963) (1)
Medical Necessity and the Debate over [Expletive Deleted] Care. (1997) (1)
THERAPIES FOR BENIGN PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA. AUTHOR'S REPLY (1992) (0)
Analysis For Cost Containment Perspective : On The Appropriateness Of Small-Area (2001) (0)
John Wennberg: Tenacious, optimistic, sceptical (2014) (0)
The Use of Claims Data to Evaluate Health Care-Reply (1987) (0)
GEOGRAPHIC VARIATION IN RATES OF TOTAL HIP ARTHROPLASTY PERFORMED BY ARTHROPLASTY SURGEONS IN THE UNITED STATES (2018) (0)
Benchmarking the Physician Workforce-Reply (1997) (0)
Perspectiv e The More Things Change…: The Federal Government's Role In The Evaluative Sciences NIH and academic medicine can join in partnership to build the evaluative sciences and stabilize the mission of academic medicine. (2003) (0)
PRIORITIES IN OREGON. AUTHORS' REPLY (1992) (0)
Some considerations in outcomes research. (1995) (0)
End-Of-Life Care At Academic Medical Centers: Implications For Future Workforce (2006) (0)
Preparing Patient Histories and Unit Records from Linked Medicare Data (1989) (0)
[Cytostatic drug combinations in the treatment of metastatic cancer of the breast]. (1975) (0)
Health Affairs proposal for action Dealing with medical practice variations : a (2002) (0)
More Doctors Does Not Equal Better Outcomes (2008) (0)
Isothermal oxidation behaviour of HVAF-sprayed Ni-based coatings (2016) (0)
Risk adjustment: crucial to reform. (1994) (0)
Extending The P 4 P Agenda , Part 1 : How Medicare Can Improve Patient Decision Making And Reduce Unnecessary Care : An agenda for Medicare to help drive improvements through pay-for-performance and shared decision making (2008) (0)
Watchful Waiting vs. Immediate Transurethral Prostatectomy for Symptomatic Prostatism (1988) (0)
Medical Work-force Policy: The Authors Respond (1993) (0)
When too much care can be bad for your health (2002) (0)
Geographic Variation in Diagnosis Frequency andRiskofDeathAmongMedicareBeneficiaries (2011) (0)
Longitudinal assessment of functional connectivity impairment in rat brains (2019) (0)
Geographic variation in treatment of acute myocardial infarction: results from the HCFA Cooperative Cardiovascular Project (1998) (0)
Making low-cost patterns of medical care the norm...dialogue based on testimony before the Senate Subcommittee on Labor, Health/Human Services, and Education. (1985) (0)
Hospital, patient input key to quality reforms. Interview by Mary T. Koska. (1989) (0)
Preadmission Certification and Elective Surgery: August 1975 no. 2 (1975) (0)
Is Less Better? Greater Efficiency With Fewer Resources Expended (2007) (0)
Outcomes Research (2015) (0)
Health policy researcher John E. Wennberg. Interview by Kevin Lumsdon. (1993) (0)
A data-based strategy for containing health care costs. (1985) (0)
Rethinking medical decision making. Interview by Mark Hagland. (1999) (0)

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