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Elliott S. Fisher

Elliott S. Fisher

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Medicine

D-Index
98
Citations
34653
World Ranking
8931
National Ranking
4595

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2006 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)

Overview

Elliott S. Fisher is affiliated with Dartmouth College in the United States and has a primary research focus spanning several fields and subfields within health and medicine. Their work primarily falls under Medicine, Health Professions, and Economics, Econometrics and Finance. The subfields of their research include General Health Professions, Economics and Econometrics, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Genetics, and Hematology.

Their research encompasses a diverse range of main topics, notably Healthcare Policy and Management, Healthcare cost, quality, practices, Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life, Primary Care and Health Outcomes, Hemoglobinopathies and Related Disorders, Iron Metabolism and Disorders, and Prenatal Screening and Diagnostics.

Fisher's recent publications demonstrate a focus on healthcare systems, policy, and outcomes. Notable papers include:

  • Financial Integration's Impact On Care Delivery And Payment Reforms: A Survey Of Hospitals And Physician Practices (2020, Health Affairs)
  • Organizational integration, practice capabilities, and outcomes in clinically complex medicare beneficiaries (2020, Health Services Research)
  • Birth Prevalence of Sickle Cell Disease and County-Level Social Vulnerability - Sickle Cell Data Collection Program, 11 States, 2016-2020 (2024, MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report)
  • Racial differences in low value care among older adult Medicare patients in US health systems: retrospective cohort study (2023, BMJ)
  • Who's Accountable? Low-Value Care Received By Medicare Beneficiaries Outside Of Their Attributed Health Systems (2023, Health Affairs)

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Matthew Mackwood
  • Stephen M. Shortell
  • A. James O'Malley
  • Hector P. Rodríguez
  • Karen E. Schifferdecker

Fisher contributes regularly to several publication venues, especially:

  • Health Affairs
  • JAMA Health Forum
  • JAMA Network Open
  • Blood
  • Forefront Group

Their career includes recognition as a Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) since 2006.

Best Publications

  • The Implications of Regional Variations in Medicare Spending. Part 1: The Content, Quality, and Accessibility of Care

    Elliott S. Fisher;David E. Wennberg;Thérèse A. Stukel;Daniel J. Gottlieb

  • The Implications of Regional Variations in Medicare Spending. Part 2: Health Outcomes and Satisfaction with Care

    Elliott S Fisher;David E Wennberg;Thérèse A Stukel;Daniel J Gottlieb

  • Analysis of observational studies in the presence of treatment selection bias: effects of invasive cardiac management on AMI survival using propensity score and instrumental variable methods.

    Thérèse A. Stukel;Elliott S. Fisher;David E. Wennberg;David A. Alter

  • United States Trends and Regional Variations in Lumbar Spine Surgery: 1992–2003

    James Neil Weinstein;Jon D. Lurie;Patrick R. Olson;Kristen K. Bronner

  • The accuracy of Medicare's hospital claims data: progress has been made, but problems remain.

    E S Fisher;F S Whaley;W M Krushat;D J Malenka

  • Mortality and Reoperation after Open and Transurethral Resection of the Prostate for Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia

    Noralou P. Roos;John E. Wennberg;David J. Malenka;Elliott S. Fisher

  • Variation in Carotid Endarterectomy Mortality in the Medicare Population: Trial Hospitals, Volume, and Patient Characteristics

    David E. Wennberg;F. L. Lucas;John D. Birkmeyer;Carl E. Bredenberg

  • Geography And The Debate Over Medicare Reform

    John E Wennberg;Elliott S Fisher;Jonathan S Skinner

  • Comorbidities, complications, and coding bias. Does the number of diagnosis codes matter in predicting in-hospital mortality?

    L I Iezzoni;S M Foley;J Daley;J Hughes

  • Effect of hospital volume on in-hospital mortality with pancreaticoduodenectomy ☆ ☆☆ ★

    John D. Birkmeyer;Samuel R.G. Finlayson;Anna N.A. Tosteson;Sandra M. Sharp

  • Slowing the Growth of Health Care Costs — Lessons from Regional Variation

    Elliott S. Fisher;Julie P. Bynum;Jonathan S. Skinner

  • Geographic Variation in Expenditures for Physicians' Services in the United States

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  • A National Strategy To Put Accountable Care Into Practice

    Mark McClellan;Aaron N. McKethan;Julie L. Lewis;Joachim Roski

  • Regional Variations in Diagnostic Practices

    Yunjie Song;Jonathan Skinner;Julie Bynum;Jason Sutherland

  • Primary Care and Accountable Care — Two Essential Elements of Delivery-System Reform

    Diane R Rittenhouse;Stephen M Shortell;Elliott S Fisher

  • Identifying complications of care using administrative data.

    Lisa I. Iezzoni;Jennifer Daley;Timothy Heeren;Susan M. Foley

  • Influence of Patient Preferences and Local Health System Characteristics on the Place of Death

    Robert S. Pritchard;Elliott S. Fisher;Elliott S. Fisher;Joan M. Teno;Sandra M. Sharp

  • Are Regional Variations in End-of-Life Care Intensity Explained by Patient Preferences?: A Study of the US Medicare Population

    Amber E. Barnato;M. Brooke Herndon;Denise L. Anthony;Patricia M. Gallagher

  • Creating Accountable Care Organizations: The Extended Hospital Medical Staff

    Elliott S. Fisher;Douglas O. Staiger;Julie P.W. Bynum;Daniel J. Gottlieb

  • Avoiding the Unintended Consequences of Growth in Medical Care: How Might More Be Worse?

    E S Fisher;H G Welch

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan S. Skinner
Jonathan S. Skinner Dartmouth College
John E. Wennberg
John E. Wennberg Dartmouth College
David J. Malenka
David J. Malenka Dartmouth–Hitchcock Medical Center
H. Gilbert Welch
H. Gilbert Welch Brigham and Women's Hospital
Daniel J. Gottlieb
Daniel J. Gottlieb Brigham and Women's Hospital
Stephen M. Shortell
Stephen M. Shortell University of California, Berkeley
Therese A. Stukel
Therese A. Stukel University of Toronto
William B. Weeks
William B. Weeks Microsoft (United States)
James Neil Weinstein
James Neil Weinstein Microsoft (United States)
John D. Birkmeyer
John D. Birkmeyer University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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