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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.
Centers of Excellence
Essays and Editorials
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

 
Graduate Programs
Spotlight

Prescription Drugs Harms and Benefits:
What the Labels Don’t Tell You


Lebanon, NH -- Drug labels - the main way that the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) communicates the prescribing information physicians need - frequently don’t include basic information required to fully understand the harms and benefits of these products, according to a commentary in the New England Journal of Medicine. Read more.
In the News

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

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

"The Trouble with
Mammograms
"
Christie Aschwanden
LA Times
August 17, 2009

"10 Steps to Better Health Care"
Atul Gawande, Donald Berwick, Elliott Fisher and Mark McClellan
The New York Times
August 12, 2009

"The Case for Killing Granny"
Evan Thomas
Newsweek
September 12, 2009

"Medicare bills high at Los Angeles hospitals"
Lisa Girion
The Los Angeles Times
September 20, 2009

"A Healthier Way to Pay Doctors"
Jeffrey Kluger
Time
October 26, 2009

"Hospitals Cite Worry on Fees in Health Bill"
Anemona Hartocollis
The New York Times
November 02, 2009

"Special Report: Are doctors what ails U.S. healthcare?"
Chris Baltimore
Reuters
November 06, 2009

Publications/Presentations
View recent publications and presentations of works by TDI Researchers and Faculty