Sections

• Dartmouth Medical School
• Front Matter
• The Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences
• Maps
• Figures
• Tables
• Chapter One. Overview and Introduction
• Chapter Two. Variations in Hospital Resources, Medicare Spending and the Physician Workforce
• Chapter Three. Variation, Practice Style and Hospital Capacity
• Chapter Four. The American Experience of Death
• Chapter Five. The Surgical Treatment of Common Diseases
• Chapter Six. Illness, Resources and Utilization
• Chapter Seven. Which Rate is Right? How Much is Enough? and What is Fair?
• Appendix on Methods
• Appendix on the Geography of Health Care in the United States
• Appendix on the Physician Workforce in the United States
• Endnote