Physician

Internal Medicine

Doctor David E. Wennberg, MD practices Internal Medicine. David Wennberg is a published doctor as well. He has 74 publications published. The latest was: Physician partnering in Maine: an update from the Maine Medical Assessment Foundation.

Publications

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• Patient-physician shared decision making.
• New Cardiac Surgery Programs Established From 1993 To 2004 Led To Little Increased Access, Substantial Duplication Of Services.
• Commentary on the American Heart Association's Pharmaceutical Roundtable-Spina Outcomes Center Papers.
• Regional variations in palliative care: do cardiologists follow guidelines?
• A randomized trial of a telephone care-management strategy.
• Variation in cardiologists' propensity to test and treat: is it associated with regional variation in utilization?
• Characteristics of new cardiac surgery programs in the United States: mitigating the learning curve.
• Discretionary decision making by primary care physicians and the cost of U.S. Health care.
• Differences in cardiac stress testing by sex and race among Medicare beneficiaries.
• Using observational data to estimate treatment effects.
• Analysis of observational studies in the presence of treatment selection bias: effects of invasive cardiac management on AMI survival using propensity score and instru...
• Temporal trends in the utilization of diagnostic testing and treatments for cardiovascular disease in the United States, 1993-2001.
• The relation between patients' outcomes and the volume of cardioverter-defibrillator implantation procedures performed by physicians treating Medicare beneficiaries.
• Hospital-level racial disparities in acute myocardial infarction treatment and outcomes.
• Long-term outcomes of regional variations in intensity of invasive vs medical management of Medicare Patients with acute myocardial infarction.
• Injuries among older Americans with and without Medicare.
• Epidemiology and short-term outcomes of injured medicare patients.
• Outcomes of percutaneous coronary interventions performed at centers without and with onsite coronary artery bypass graft surgery.
• Variations in the longitudinal efficiency of academic medical centers.
• Surgeon volume and operative mortality in the United States.
• Do hospitals with low mortality rates in coronary artery bypass also perform well in valve replacement?
• Addressing variations: is there hope for the future?
• Trends in the diabetes quality improvement project measures in Maine from 1994 to 1999.
• The implications of regional variations in Medicare spending. Part 1: the content, quality, and accessibility of care.
• The implications of regional variations in Medicare spending. Part 2: health outcomes and satisfaction with care.
• Adjusting surgical mortality rates for patient comorbidities: more harm than good?
• Will volume-based referral strategies reduce costs or just save lives?
• Is surgery getting safer? National trends in operative mortality.
• Hospital volume and surgical mortality in the United States.
• A population health approach to reducing observational intensity bias in health risk adjustment: cross sectional analysis of insurance claims.
• Survival of patients with diabetes and multivessel coronary artery disease after surgical or percutaneous coronary revascularization: results of a large regional prosp...
• Physician partnering in Maine: an update from the Maine Medical Assessment Foundation.
• Differences in outcomes between women and men associated with percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty. A regional prospective study of 13,061 procedures. Northe...
• Results of directional coronary atherectomy in Northern New England. Northern New England Cardiovascular Disease Study Group.
• Cause of in-hospital death in 12,232 consecutive patients undergoing percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty. The Northern New England Cardiovascular Disease St...
• The relationship between the supply of cardiac catheterization laboratories, cardiologists and the use of invasive cardiac procedures in northern New England.
• Improving self-care for heart failure for seniors: the impact of video and written education and decision AIDS.
• Pay for performance through the lens of medical professionalism.
• Use of medical insurance claims data for occupational health research.
• Case finding for patients at risk of readmission to hospital: development of algorithm to identify high risk patients.
• Building partnerships: addressing overuse, underuse and misuse of care.
• Principles for assessing disease management outcomes.
• Estimating the return on investment in disease management programs using a pre-post analysis.
• A regional intervention to improve the hospital mortality associated with coronary artery bypass graft surgery. The Northern New England Cardiovascular Disease Study G...
• Cardiologists performing peripheral angioplasties: impact on utilization.
• Diagnostic-therapeutic cascade revisited: coronary angiography, coronary artery bypass graft surgery, and percutaneous coronary intervention in the modern era.
• Changing physician behavior: the Maine Medical Assessment Foundation.
• Do physicians do what they say? The inclination to test and its association with coronary angiography rates.
• Changing physician behavior in ordering digoxin assays.
• The use of Medicare home health care services.
• The association between local diagnostic testing intensity and invasive cardiac procedures.
• Partnering with physicians to achieve quality improvement.
• Carotid endarterectomy after NASCET and ACAS: a statewide study. North American Symptomatic Carotid Endarterectomy Trial. Asymptomatic Carotid Artery Stenosis Study.
• The use and cost of medical resources: what will we pay for neurologic health?
• Variation in the delivery of health care: the stakes are high.
• Variation in carotid endarterectomy mortality in the Medicare population: trial hospitals, volume, and patient characteristics.
• Operator volume and outcomes in 12,998 percutaneous coronary interventions. Northern New England Cardiovascular Disease Study Group.
• Utilization patterns of cord blood gas analysis.
• Antibiotic optimization. An evaluation of patient safety and economic outcomes.
• Relation between operator and hospital volume and outcomes following percutaneous coronary interventions in the era of the coronary stent.
• Safety and efficacy of percutaneous coronary interventions performed immediately after diagnostic catheterization in northern new england and comparison with similar p...
• Potential benefits of regionalizing major surgery in Medicare patients.
• Variation in the use of laparoscopic cholecystectomy for elderly patients with acute cholecystitis.
• The relationship between operator volume and outcomes after percutaneous coronary interventions in high volume hospitals in 1994-1996: the northern New England experie...
• Variation in the use of echocardiography.
• Screening mammography rates by specialty of the usual care physician.
• Multivariate prediction of in-hospital mortality after percutaneous coronary interventions in 1994-1996. Northern New England Cardiovascular Disease Study Group.
• Changing outcomes in percutaneous coronary interventions: a study of 34,752 procedures in northern New England, 1990 to 1997. Northern New England Cardiovascular Disea...
• Primary cesarean section rates in uninsured, Medicaid and insured populations of predominantly rural northern New England.
• Pounds of prevention for ounces of cure: surgery as a preventive strategy.
• Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty in the elderly: epidemiology, clinical risk factors, and in-hospital outcomes. The Northern New England Cardiovascular D...
• Gender-related changes in the practice and outcomes of percutaneous coronary interventions in Northern New England from 1994 to 1999.
• Predicting vascular complications in percutaneous coronary interventions.

Doctors Specialties

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• Internal Medicine

Accepted Insurances

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Education

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• Massachusetts General Hospital
• Maine Medical Center
• McGill University Faculty of Medicine

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