Commentology: Times reporter to respond

New York Times health policy reporter Gardiner of Harris responded on THCB founder and editor Matthew holt's comments on the recent series of reports, which he business writer Reed Abelson questioning the science behind the Dartmouth Atlas has written.  Gardiner had this to say in defense of his newspaper's investigation:

The main point of reeds and my pieces on the Dartmouth work is that the data is simply not good enough to cause output decisions in Government 484 million dollar Medicare programme.If this point had confirmed the Dartmouth researchers, our history would be less interesting gewesen.Aber you can not even bring and in fact have repeatedly exaggerated and mischaracterized propose your own work in public settings it may be prescriptive.

An additional point was on Capitol Hill, which tend to warn administration and journalists to these popular cards from the Atlas. You have scoffed that it is a small thing, that the Dartmouth researchers do not fit your online data for price and disease. But misconceptions about these are widespread.The landmark piece of Dr. Gawande cited used who Atlas's unadjusted Daten.Dutzende stories in newspapers and magazines across the country uses the unadjusted data, criticize the health institutions. Even David Cutler, among the top health economists of the country was not aware that the Atlas offered largely unadjusted data.

Accuracy may seem a small point. It is to us.

Our Friday piece also pointed out that Dr. Elliott Fisher and Mr Jon Skinner claimed that your 2003 a negative correlation between expenditure and results found Annals pieces.In fact, the pieces found no correlation between expenditure and results.This is a negative correlation no small Unterschied.Wenn, will actually improve health cuts in spending.If no match is found, then cuts to far harder and may be more painful.We can not go to believe the work easily enormous impact on Capitol Hill had his wird.Aber Dartmouth researchers have proposed, which has this siren song reform our health care system.

In aside, when was the last time researchers saw you so deeply mischaracterize your own work? how it is possible that you claim your Annals pieces something could be if you do not? I can't remember ever happen to see.

-Gardiner of Harris

June 22, 2010

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