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The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice (TDI) is a dynamic force within Dartmouth College, dedicated to improving health care through education, research, policy reform, leadership improvement, and communication with patients and the public.
Essays and Editorials
The Medicalization of Life: H. Gilbert Welch; The Los Angeles Times, March 15, 2010

Overstating the Evidence for Lung Cancer Screening
; H. Gilbert Welch, Steven Woloshin, Lisa Schwartz, et al; Archives of Internal Medicine; November 26, 2007

How Two Studies on Cancer Screening Led to Two Results; H. Gilbert Welch, Steven Woloshin and Lisa M. Schwartz; The New York Times; March 13, 2007

What’s Making Us Sick Is an Epidemic of Diagnoses; H. Gilbert Welch, Steven Woloshin and Lisa M. Schwartz; The New York Times; January 2, 2007

Warned But Worse Off; Steven Woloshin, Lisa M. Schwartz and H. Gilbert Welch; The New York Times; August 22, 2005

Dangers in Early Detection; H. Gilbert Welch; The Washington Post; July 1, 2004

 
Publications/Presentations
View recent publications and presentations of works by TDI Researchers and Faculty
Centers of Excellence
Graduate Programs
**Coming in 2011**
Master of Health Care Delivery Science -- Offered through TDI and the Tuck School of Business:

An 18-month hybrid residential/distance learning program for health care managers, administrators, and providers with high potential to become change agents. Learn more.


In the News

"Health care target: Affordability"
Ed Sealover
Denver Business Journal
August 06, 2010

"End of Life Care"
Jeff Levin-Scherz
Managing Healthcare Costs
August 01, 2010

"The Cost of Dying"
60 Minutes
August 01, 2010

"The Hospital, Your Care Coordinator"
Catherine Arnst
USNews & World Report
July 26, 2010

"Some see medicalization as problem in health-care costs"
Jeremy Cox
The Florida Times-Union
July 07, 2010

"Ostrow: RMPBS thinks big with 'Small Town'"
Joanne Ostrow
The Denver Post
July 06, 2010

"How to Read the Dartmouth Atlas"
e21 - Economic Policies for the 21st Century
July 02, 2010

"Are the Dartmouth data wrong?"
H. Gilbert Welch
The Huffington Post
June 16, 2010

"More health care isn’t always better care "
Globe Editorial
The Globe and Mail
June 14, 2010

"The Dartmouth Research on Health Care Spending"
Elliott S. Fisher, Jonathan Skinner and Atul Gawande
The New York Times
June 10, 2010

"NY Times Article Shows Inaccuracies, Misrepresents Dartmouth Atlas"
Jon Skinner and Elliott Fisher
The Dartmouth Institute
June 03, 2010

"Obama-Endorsed Dartmouth Health Study Leads to Center"
Pat Wechsler
Bloomberg
May 17, 2010

"Health reform's next test"
Jim Yong Kim and James N. Weinstein
The Washington Post
May 17, 2010

"The Medicalization of Life"
H. Gilbert Welch
The L.A. Times
March 15, 2010

"The Battle Over Rewarding Efficient Providers"
John Wennberg and Shannon Brownlee
Health Affairs Blog
November 17, 2009

"Atul Gawande: The Cost Conundrum Redux"
Atul Gawande
The New Yorker
June 23, 2009

"The Cost Conundrum: What a Texas town can teach us about health care"
Atul Gawande
The New Yorker
June 01, 2009