Read article – An opinion piece by Alison Volpe Holmes, associate professor of pediatrics and of the Dartmouth Institute, in which she discusses the innovative way she and her colleagues are treating opioid-exposed newborns. “We will not end the opioid epidemic with just prevention and treatment programs. We will only break the bondage of opioids with unconditional love, and with community. The best place to begin is with the innocent, with the littlest victims of the epidemic,” says Holmes. (Holmes is participating in this year’s Dartmouth Public Voices project.)

Read article – Quotes Joshua Kim, director of digital learning initiatives at the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning (DCAL), in an article about how more employers ease relocation for female managers by offering to help in husbands’ search for work. Joshua Kim faced the difficult decision of quitting a job he loved in 2006 so that his wife Julie Kim, assistant professor of pediatrics, could take a job at the Geisel School of Medicine. “That kind of patience for a career move is a challenge,” says Joshua. “As a trailing husband, you have to be more creative and inventive.”

Read article – Quotes H. Gilbert Welch, professor of medicine and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, about how overdiagnosis isn’t something that doctors or researchers usually directly observe. “The occasional exception is when we do nothing for a diagnosed cancer and the patient goes on to die of something else,” says Welch.

Read article – Continued coverage of comments by Amber Barnato, the Susan J. and Richard M. Levy Distinguished Professor in Health Care Delivery, professor of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, and professor of medicine, in an article that examines how many elderly patients undergo an operation in the year before they die, even though the evidence shows that many are more likely to be harmed than to benefit from it.

Read article – The Washington Post via Kaiser Health News | 2/28/18
Cites comments by Amber Barnato, the Susan J. and Richard M. Levy Distinguished Professor in Health Care Delivery, professor of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, and professor of medicine, in an article that examines how many elderly patients undergo an operation in the year before they die, even though the evidence shows that many are more likely to be harmed than to benefit from it. (Picked up by NPR and NHPR.)

Read article – Cites data compiled by researchers at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, which found that less than 11 percent of Medicare beneficiaries took advantage of the free annual “wellness” visit benefit in 2012.

Read article – Quotes Elliott Fisher, director of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, who recently participated in a panel discussion at the Healthcare Costs Innovation Summit in Washington, D.C., that addressed value-based payment models. “I think we are missing the whole emphasis on cost,” said Fisher. “We need to have much better information using patient-reported outcome measures about how patients are before they get surgery.”

Read article – Quotes Timothy Fisher, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology, in an article about a new study that found that states that give midwives a greater role in patient care achieve better results on key measures of maternal and neonatal health.

Read article – An article about the Mt. Ascutney Hospital and Health Center’s recent annual meeting mentions that the keynote speaker was George T. Blike, professor of anesthesiology and community and family medicine at the Geisel School of Medicine and of The Dartmouth Institute. Blike spoke on the topics of quality of care and patient safety.