--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Health Dialog
Who: Dr. John E. Wennberg, MD, MPH, Director of the Center
for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences at Dartmouth
Medical School, Co-Founder of the Foundation for
Informed Medical Decision-Making (FIMDM) Dr. Albert G.
Mulley, Jr., MD, MPP, Chief of the General Medicine
Division at Massachusetts General Hospital, Co-Founder
of FIMDM What: Dr. Wennberg and Dr. Mulley will be
presenting at the Society of General Internal Medicine
(SGIM) 28th Annual Meeting on the topic:
"Decision-Quality and the Care of the Patient"
The Society of General Internal Medicine represents
general internists, including many primary care
doctors, based at academic medical centers. This
session will focus on the implications of the striking
variations in clinical practices found in different
hospital market areas and the implications for
clinical care, including the challenges faced by
clinicians in bringing together professional knowledge
and patients' core values to improve health-related
decisions.
