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CMS NOMINEE BERWICK'S WRITINGS IN HEALTH AFFAIRS

Health Affairs is making available articles, interviews, and letters written by or about Donald M. Berwick, President Obama's nominee to be the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). In addition to these free-access articles, Health Affairs has also featured Berwick in several posts on Health Affairs Blog. These resources include:

Donald M. Berwick, What "Patient-Centered" Should Mean: Confessions of an Extremist
Health Affairs, July/August 2009; 28(4) w555--65
http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/full/28/4/w555

Donald M. Berwick, Thomas W. Nolan, and John Whittington, The Triple Aim: Care, Health, and Cost
Health Affairs, May/June 2008; 27(3): 759--69
http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/full/27/3/759

Donald M. Berwick and Madge Kaplan, "What's the Ethics of That?" A Conversation with Thomas O. Pyle
Health Affairs, January/February 2008; 27(1): 143--50
http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/full/27/1/143

Donald M. Berwick, Nancy-Ann DeParle, David M. Eddy, Paul M. Ellwood, Alain C. Enthoven, George C. Halvorson, Kenneth W. Kizer, Elizabeth A. McGlynn, Uwe E. Reinhardt, Robert D. Reischauer, William L. Roper, John W. Rowe, Leonard D. Schaeffer, John E. Wennberg, and Gail R. Wilensky, Paying For Performance: Medicare Should Lead
Health Affairs, November/December 2003; 22(6): 8--10
http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/full/22/6/8

Sheila Leatherman, Donald Berwick, Debra Iles, Lawrence S. Lewin, Frank Davidoff, Thomas Nolan, and Maureen Bisognano, The Business Case for Quality: Case Studies and an Analysis
Health Affairs, March/April 2003; 22(2): 17--30
http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/full/22/2/17

Rae M. Lamb, David M. Studdert, Richard M.J. Bohmer, Donald M. Berwick, and Troyen A. Brennan, Hospital Disclosure Practices: Results of a National Survey
Health Affairs, March/April 2003; 22(2): 73--83
http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/full/22/2/73

Donald M. Berwick, Quality Chasm Factors
Health Affairs, September/October 2002; 21(5): 301--2
http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/full/21/5/301-a

Donald M. Berwick, A User's Manual for the IOM's "Quality Chasm" Report
Health Affairs, May/June 2002; 21(3): 80--90
http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/abstract/21/3/80

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