In the News


Allegheny General Hospital Shared Decision Making Program for Breast Cancer
Featured in Pittsburgh Post Gazette


Medical Guesswork
May 29, 2006 Business Week


Pay Method Said to Sway Drug Choices of Oncologists
March 8, 2006 New York Times

Medicare Will Pay, Patients Say ‘No Thanks’
March 3, 2006 New York Times


For Back Pain Few Easy Answers on Surgery
March 2, 2006 National Public Radio

Articles

Appleby, Julie. Hospitals fight for turf in medical area
USA Today, 2002 February 20.

Breast Reconstruction and Back Pain Videos Earn Awards
Managed Care Business Week, September 4, 2004.

Cooper, Carol Marie. The Take-Charge Patient
Business Week, 2002 August 26.

Felgran, Hilary Macht. Mastectomies, sometimes unneeded, prevail
NY Times, 2001 March 17.

Forrester's Top Ten HealthCare Predictions for 2002
2002 January 4.

Freundenheim, Milt. Study finds inefficiency in health care
NY Times, 2002 June 11.

Gale, Karla. Risk of breast cancer chemoprevention outweighs benefits for most women
Reuters Health, 2002 July 2.

Gawande, Atul. The Bell Curve: What happens when patients find out how good their doctors really are?
The New Yorker, December 5, 2004.

Groopman, Jerome. A Knife in the Back: Is Surgery the Best Approach for Chronic Low Back Pain?
The New Yorker, April 8, 2002.

Kolata, Gina. Dilemma on Prostate Cancer Treatment Splits Experts
NY Times, 2002 September 23.

Kolata, Gina. More may not mean better in health care, studies find
NY Times, 2002 July 21.

McCullough, Marie. In study, prostate surgery better than 'watchful wait'.
Philadelphia Inquirer, 2002 July 12.

Osborne, Helen. In Other Words... Patients Make Difficult Decisions
On Call, 2004 May.

The Ottawa Hospital Foundation and Bell Canada Open the Bell Patient Decision Support Laboratory. Canadians to benefit from unique healthcare project.
Canada NewsWire , February 2, 2004.

Stolberg, Sheryl Gay. The Big Decisions? They're all yours.
NY Times , 2000 June 25.

Vergano, Dan. The operation you get often depends on where you live: medical research questions just how informed patients are about surgeries before going under the knife.
USA Today , 2000 September 19.

Wennberg, John E. When too much care can be bad for your health.
The New Scientist, 2002 August 17.

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