The twenty-first century has been a period of rising inequality in both income and health. In
this paper, we find that geographic inequality in mortality for midlife Americans increased by …

Background Survival represents the single most important indicator of successful HIV
treatment. Routine monitoring fails to capture most deaths. As a result, both regional …

Importance Patients who have a fragility fracture are at high risk for subsequent fractures.
Prescription drugs represent 1 factor that could be modified to reduce the risk of subsequent …

Objectives To evaluate frequency of use of two anti‐dementia drug classes approved for
treatment of symptoms, whether populations most likely to benefit are treated, and correlates …

Theoretical models of competition with fixed prices suggest that hospitals should compete by
increasing quality of care for diseases with the greatest profitability and demand elasticity …

Abstract In 1996, the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care pioneered the dissemination of policy-
relevant population-based measurement and analysis that revealed both weaknesses and …

Individuals with disabilities and seniors often lack the freedom to choose with whom they live
and where they reside. Service options may involve moving consumers to large nursing …

Do information differences across US physicians contribute to treatment disparities? This
paper uses a unique new dataset to evaluate how changes in physician access to a …

There are widespread differences in total factor productivity across producers in the US and
around the world. To help explain these variations, we devise a general test for …

Importance Many prescription drugs increase fracture risk, which raises concern for patients
receiving 2 or more such drugs concurrently. Logic suggests that risk will increase with each …