Pat Roberts
United States Senator from Kansas
Incumbent
Assumed office January 3, 1997 Serving with Jerry Moran
Preceded by	Nancy Kassebaum Baker
Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
In office January 3, 2003 – January 3, 2007
Preceded by	Bob Graham
Succeeded by	Jay Rockefeller
Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Ethics
In office January 20 – June 6, 2001
Preceded by	Harry Reid
Succeeded by	Harry Reid
In office January 3, 1999 – January 3, 2001
Preceded by	Robert C. Smith
Succeeded by	Harry Reid
Chairman of the House Committee on Agriculture
In office January 3, 1995 – January 3, 1997
Preceded by	Kika de la Garza
Succeeded by	Robert F. Smith
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Kansas's 1st district
In office January 3, 1981 – January 3, 1997
Preceded by	Keith Sebelius
Succeeded by	Jerry Moran
Personal details
Born	Charles Patrick Roberts (1936-04-20) April 20, 1936 (age 76) Topeka, Kansas
Political party	Republican
Spouse(s)	Franki Roberts
Children	David Roberts Ashleigh Roberts Anne Wesley Roberts
Residence	Dodge City, Kansas
Alma mater	Kansas State University (B.A.)
Occupation	newspaper publisher
Religion	Methodist
Website	www.roberts.senate.gov
Military service
Service/branch	United States Marine Corps
Years of service	1958–1962
Rank	Captain

Previous official congressional portrait of Pat Roberts

Charles Patrick "Pat" Roberts (born April 20, 1936) is the senior United States Senator from Kansas. A member of the Republican Party, he has served since 1997. He is the ranking member of the United States Senate Committee on Agriculture and previously served as the Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

Born in Topeka, Kansas, Roberts is a graduate of Kansas State University. He served as a captain in the U.S. Marine Corps and worked as a newspaper reporter before entering politics in the late 1960s. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1980 to succeed 1st District Congressman Keith Sebelius, for whom he had worked. He served eight terms in the House, including one as chairman of the House Agriculture Committee.

Roberts was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1996, and is currently serving his third term. He has a conservative voting record. On the Intelligence Committee he was responsible for an investigation into the intelligence failures prior to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. He led the creation of the Pat Roberts Intelligence Scholars Program in 2004.

Early life, education, and early political career[link]

Roberts was born in Topeka, Kansas, the son of Ruth B. (née Patrick) and C. Wesley Roberts.^[1] His father served for four months as Chairman of the Republican National Committee under Dwight D. Eisenhower. Roberts's great-grandfather, J.W. Roberts, was the founder of the Oskaloosa Independent, which claims to be the second-oldest newspaper in Kansas.

Roberts graduated in 1954 from high school in Holton, Kansas. He went on to earn a B.A. in Journalism from Kansas State University in 1958, where he became a member of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity. From 1958 to 1962, he served as a captain in the U.S. Marine Corps. Roberts was a reporter and editor for several Arizona newspapers before joining the staff of Republican Kansas Senator Frank Carlson in 1967. In 1969, he became administrative assistant to Kansas's 1st District Congressman Keith Sebelius.

U.S. House of Representatives (1981–1997)[link]

Elections[link]

After Keith Sebelius announced his retirement, Roberts easily won the Republican primary, which was tantamount to election in the heavily Republican 1st District. He was re-elected seven times without serious difficulty, never receiving less than 60 percent of the vote; in 1988, he ran unopposed.

Committee assignments[link]

Roberts served as the chairman of the House Agriculture Committee from 1995 to 1997.

U.S. Senator (1997–)[link]

Elections[link]

Following the retirement of Senator Nancy Kassebaum, Roberts easily won the Republican primary. In the general election, he defeated Democratic State Treasurer Sally Thompson with 62 percent of the vote, almost certainly helped by the presence of Bob Dole atop the ticket as the Republican presidential candidate. No Democratic candidate opposed Roberts in 2002, allowing him to win re-election to a second term with 82.5% of the vote. Roberts won a third term in 2008, taking 60% of the vote against former Congressman Jim Slattery.

Tenure[link]

Roberts became Kansas's senior senator in the 112th Congress, as Brownback is retired from the Senate to run for Governor. Roberts was a senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, chairing the Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities. This subcommittee oversaw the military's work in the area of homeland security and the efforts to prevent proliferation of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons.

Roberts's voting record is conservative. Among other issues, he is pro-life, opposes same-sex marriage and supports the Patriot Act, and loosening restrictions on NSA wiretapping.^[2]

Roberts opposed President Barack Obama's health reform legislation; he voted against the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in December 2009,^[3] and he voted against the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010.^[4]

Investigation into pre-war intelligence on Iraq

As chairman of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Roberts was responsible for the committee's investigation into the intelligence failures prior to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The first half of the Senate Report of Pre-war Intelligence on Iraq was released on July 9, 2004. The second half, according to language voted on by the full Committee, consists of five parts including: whether public statements and reports and testimony regarding Iraq by U.S. Government officials made between the Gulf War period and the commencement of Operation Iraqi Freedom were substantiated by intelligence information; the postwar findings about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and weapons programs and links to terrorism and how they compare with prewar assessments; prewar intelligence assessments about postwar Iraq; any intelligence activities relating to Iraq conducted by the Policy Counterterrorism Evaluation Group (PCTEG) and the Office of Special Plans within the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy; and the use by the Intelligence Community of information provided by the Iraqi National Congress (INC).

On November 1, 2005, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid called the Senate into a rare closed session. The move was "an attempt to get around the perceived stalling by Senate Intelligence Committee chairman Pat Roberts (R-KS). Roberts had promised in July 2004 to investigate the Bush administration's misuse of intelligence before the Iraq War, but to date has not released any findings of such an investigation."^{[citation needed]}

Almost two years after finishing of Phase I investigation, Roberts released the Committee's schedule for completion of Phase II on March 14, 2006,^[5] saying, “Today members of the Committee were provided three draft reports of the Phase II inquiry including: postwar findings about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction programs and links to terrorism and how they compare with prewar assessments, the use by the Intelligence Community of information provided by the Iraqi National Congress (INC), and prewar intelligence assessments about postwar Iraq.

“The Committee’s efforts on Phase II must be completed in a timely manner,” Roberts said. “I intend to complete this inquiry within the agreed upon Phase II parameters and turn the Committee’s attention to other pressing national security matters.

“Two of the drafts given to members today are complete or close to completion. The third is still being revised. Members were briefed by Committee staff, in detail, about each draft. Staff continues to work on a draft of the fourth report on public statements. The Committee will receive this draft when it is ready.

“It is my intention to complete work on the drafts presented to members today following the Easter recess. During the recess, staff will receive and incorporate member input where appropriate in order to complete the three drafts. They will begin drafting conclusions for member consideration.

“In order to expedite the declassification process so that the American people can review the information, the drafts of the factual findings of the report will be sent to the Intelligence Community for fact checking and declassification with the understanding that they are not final until approved by the Committee.

“Following the recess, the Committee will engage in a series of closed business meetings to move forward on Phase II which will include Committee approval of factual findings and conclusions.”^{[citation needed]}

On August 3, 2006, Chairman Roberts publicly released the findings of fact and conclusions of the first two of the Phase II reports.

On February 16, 2006, the Committee voted to create a seven member subcommittee to conduct enhanced oversight of the National Security Agency's Terrorist Surveillance Program, instead of a vote called by committee Democrats to investigate the misconduct by administration^{[citation needed]} because the program is claimed by many scholars as breaking the 1978 law of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. A New York Times editorial accused Roberts of "trying to give legal cover to the president's trampling on the law and the Constitution."^[6]

Torture

Roberts was one of nine Senators to vote against the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005 on October 5, 2005.

On September 28, 2006, Roberts voted with a largely Republican majority to suspend habeas corpus provisions for anyone deemed by the Executive Branch an "unlawful combatant," barring them from challenging their detentions in court. Roberts's vote gave a retroactive, nine-year immunity to U.S. officials who authorized, ordered, or committed acts of torture and abuse, permitting the use of statements obtained through torture to be used in military tribunals so long as the abuse took place by December 30, 2005.^[7] Roberts's vote authorized the President to establish permissible interrogation techniques and to "interpret the meaning and application" of international Geneva Convention standards, so long as the coercion fell short of "serious" bodily or psychological injury.^[8][9] The bill became law on October 17, 2006.

Environmental record

Roberts worked to secure $15 million for research on carbon sequestration.^[10]

The nonpartisan League of Conservation Voters has given Roberts a score of zero on environmental issues for 2006.^[11] In that year, the senator voted to increase offshore oil drilling,^[12] to include provisions for drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in the House Budget Amendment,^[13] to deny funding for low-income energy assistance^[14] and for environmental stewardship,^[15] and effectively to exempt Army Corps of Engineers project analyses from independent review.^[16][17] Roberts voted to confirm Gale Norton as Secretary of the Interior, to exclude oil and gas smokestacks from mercury regulations, and to reclassify the United States Environmental Protection Agency‎ (EPA) as a Cabinet department — moves widely seen as pro-business and anti-environment.^[18]

Intelligence program

The 2004 Intelligence Authorization Act saw the creation of the Pat Roberts Intelligence Scholars Program. The program links undergraduate and graduate students with US security and intelligence agencies" by providing funding to selected US students entering university, in return for a commitment to join the agency for at least 18 months on graduation.^[19] PRISP is a decentralized program which funds students through various intelligence agencies.^[20]

Committee assignments[link]

• Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
  • Subcommittee on Energy, Science and Technology
  • Subcommittee on Domestic and Foreign Marketing, Inspection, and Plant and Animal Health
  • Subcommittee on Production, Income Protection and Price Support (Ranking Member)
• Committee on Finance
  • Subcommittee on Taxation, IRS Oversight, and Long-term Growth
  • Subcommittee on Social Security, Pensions, and Family Policy (Ranking Member)
  • Subcommittee on International Trade, Customs, and Global Competitiveness
• Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
  • Subcommittee on Children and Families
• Select Committee on Ethics

Personal life[link]

Roberts married Franki Fann in 1969. The couple has three adult children: David, Ashleigh, and Anne-Wesley.^[21]

Electoral history[link]

United States Senate election in Kansas, 2008

United States Senate election in Kansas, 2002

United States Senate election in Kansas, 1996

1994 Kansas 1st District United States Congressional Election

1986 Kansas 1st District United States Congressional Election

1980 Kansas 1st District United States Congressional Election

Notes[link]

External links[link]

Biography portal

• United States Senator Pat Roberts, U.S. Senate site
• Pat Roberts for US Senate, Campaign site
• Biography at WhoRunsGov.com at The Washington Post
• Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• Voting record maintained by The Washington Post
• Biography, voting record, and interest group ratings at Project Vote Smart
• Congressional profile at GovTrack
• Issue positions and quotes at On the Issues
• Financial information at OpenSecrets.org
• Staff salaries, trips and personal finance at LegiStorm.com
• Campaign finance reports and data at the Federal Election Commission
• Appearances on C-SPAN programs
• Collected news and commentary at The New York Times
• Profile at SourceWatch
• Senator Pat Roberts Receives Eisenhower Leadership Award

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Donald Berwick
Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
In office July 7, 2010 – December 2, 2011
President	Barack Obama
Preceded by	Marilyn Tavenner (Acting)
Succeeded by	Marilyn Tavenner (Designate)
Personal details
Born	Sept. 9, 1946 New York City, New York, U.S.
Alma mater	Harvard University

Donald M. Berwick (born 1946) is the outgoing Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Prior to his work in the administration, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement^[1] a not-for-profit organization helping to lead the improvement of health care throughout the world. On July 7, 2010, Barack Obama appointed Berwick to serve as the Administrator of CMS through a recess appointment. On December 2, 2011, he left the position because it was clear that Republicans in the Congress would not allow a vote to confirm him.

Berwick has studied the management of health care systems, with emphasis on using scientific methods and evidence-based medicine and comparative effectiveness research to improve the tradeoff among quality, safety and costs.^[2][3][4] Among IHI's projects are online courses for health care professionals for reducing Clostridium difficile infections, lowering the number of heart failure readmissions or managing advanced disease and palliative care.^[5]

Berwick said that 20-30% of health spending is "waste" with no benefit to patients, because of overtreatment, failure to coordinate care, administrative complexity and fraud, and that part of this problem was because of CMS regulations.^[6]

Berwick's critics have cited his statements about the need for health care to redistribute resources from the rich to the poor and his favorable statements about the British health service. They quote Berwick as saying, "The decision is not whether or not we will ration care - the decision is whether we will ration with our eyes open."^{[7] [8]}

Berwick said that Republicans had "distorted" his meaning: "My point is that someone, like your health insurance company, is going to limit what you can get. That's the way it's set up. The government, unlike many private health insurance plans, is working in the daylight. That's a strength."^[6]

For political reasons, the Obama administration made Berwick stay evasive and avoid defending his past statements on the British health service, spending caps and high-technogy care.^[6]

Critics point to statements such as this: "Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must, must redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent health care is by definition redistributional."^[9][10]

In March Berwick announced he would join the Center for American Progress as a Senior Fellow. ^[11]

Biography[link]

Berwick graduated from Nathan Hale-Ray High School in Moodus, Connecticut. Berwick graduated with a B.A. from Harvard College, and received an M.P.P. from John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and an M.D. from Harvard Medical School. He completed his medical residency in pediatrics at Children's Hospital Boston.

Berwick began his career as a pediatrician at Harvard Community Health Plan; in 1983 he became the plan's first Vice President of Quality-of-Care Measurement.^[12] In that position, Berwick investigated quality control measures in other industries such as aeronautics and manufacturing and considered their application in health care settings.^{[citation needed]} From 1987-1991, Berwick was co-founder and Co-Principal Investigator for the National Demonstration Project on Quality Improvement in Health Care, designed to explore opportunities for quality improvement in health care. Based on this work, Berwick left Harvard Community Health Plan in 1989 and co-founded the IHI (Institute for Healthcare Improvement).

Berwick is Clinical Professor of Pediatrics and Health Care Policy in the Department of Pediatrics at the Harvard Medical School and Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health.^[13] He is also a pediatrician, Adjunct Staff in the Department of Medicine at Children's Hospital Boston, and a Consultant in Pediatrics at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the IHI works to accelerate improvement by building the will for change, cultivating promising concepts for improving patient care, and helping health care systems put those ideas into action. Employing a staff of approximately 100 people and maintaining partnerships with hundreds of faculty members, IHI offers programs that aim to improve the lives of patients, the health of communities, and the satisfaction of the health care workforce. The IHI's work is funded primarily through fee-based programs and services, and also through the support of foundations, companies, and individuals. IHI provides program scholarships, research and development, professional education, and initiatives in developing countries.

IHI's vision for health care is an adaptation from the Institute of Medicine's six improvement aims for the health care system: care that is safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable:^[14]

• No Needless Deaths
• No Needless Pain or Suffering
• No Helplessness in Those Served or Serving
• No Unwanted Waiting
• No Waste
• No One Left Out

Berwick has published over 129 articles in professional journals on health care policy, decision analysis, technology assessment, and health care quality management. He is the co-author of several books, including Cholesterol, Children, and Heart Disease: an Analysis of Alternatives (1980), Curing Health Care (1990), and New Rules: Regulation, Markets and the Quality of American Health Care (1996).

Nomination and controversy[link]

On April 19, 2010, Dr. Berwick was nominated to be Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, which oversees the two federal programs.^[15]

An editorial wrote that his policy ideas could cut health care costs.^[16] Conservatives^{[not in citation given]} criticized Berwick, based on comments he made about health care being, by definition, redistribution of wealth, rationing care with "our eyes open" and complete lives system.^[17]

Berwick advocates cutting health costs by adopting some of the approaches of Great Britain's National Health Services (NHS) and its National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE). NICE evaluates the costs and effectiveness of medical therapy that is covered by the NHS as guidance for local authorities to decide what to cover. Mark McClellan, who served in the Bush administration, also advocated adopting some of NICE's methods.^[18]

Conservative critics claim that "NICE decides which healthcare people will get and which they won't."^[19] Philip Klein in The American Spectator dubbed him "Obama’s Rationing Man."^[20] The chairman of NICE called these statements "outrageous lies."^[21]

Senator John F. Kerry defended Berwick against "phony assertions" and accused Republicans of trying "to crank up the attack machine and make his nomination a distorted referendum on reform."^[22] Former Speaker Newt Gingrich has historically been a Republican supporter of Berwick, however, writing an op-ed in the Washington Post in August 2000 praising Berwick's work.^[23]

Berwick was installed by recess appointment on July 7, 2010 before confirmation hearings were scheduled by the Democratic-controlled Senate committee.^[24] Dr. Berwick could thus serve until the summer of 2011 without a Senate approval. The White House had talked up the possibility of a re-nomination through the fall of 2010; on January 26, 2011, the President re-nominated Dr. Berwick. On March 4, 2011, 42 US Senators wrote the White House and asked for the nomination to be withdrawn. The signers of the letter broke along partisan lines as all were Republicans.

Berwick resigned his position at CMS on December 2, 2011. ^[25] In a speech on Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011 in Orlando, Florida, at a meeting of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement , an organization he once led, the long-time patient-safety advocate gave a stirring account of his time in government service and the where he believes the future of healthcare is going. ^[26]

Awards and honors[link]

• Ernest A. Codman Award, 1999
• Alfred I. DuPont Award for excellence in children’s healthcare, 2001
• American Hospital Association, "Award of Honor", 2002
• Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in London, 2004
• Honorary Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, 2005
• Purpose Prize for "enlisting wide-scale cooperation and scientifically-proven protocols to help hospitals improve care and save more than 100,000 lives," 2007^[27]
• The 13th Annual Heinz Award for Public Policy, 2007^[28]

Quotations[link]

• "Some is not a number. Soon is not a time." (slogan for IHI's completed 100K Lives Campaign, now slogan for IHI's 5 Million Lives Campaign in progress)^[29][30]
• "We are guests in our patients' lives; and we are their hosts when they come to us. Why should they, or we, expect anything less than the graciousness expected by guests and from hosts at their very best. Service is quality."^[31]
• "We are not hosts in our organizations so much as we are guests in our patients’ lives."^[32]
• "Some say that doctors and patients should now be partners in care. Not so, I think. In my view, we doctors are not our patients' partners; we are guests in our patients' lives. We are not hosts. We are not priests in a cathedral of technology."^[33][34]
• "You could have protected the wealthy and the well, instead of recognizing that sick people tend to be poorer and that poor people tend to be sicker and that any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must, MUST redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent health care is, by definition, redistributional."^[35]

The quote "What can you do by next Tuesday?" is frequently credited to Berwick but seems to have been coined by the authors of Improving Care for the End of Life: A Sourcebook for Health Care Managers and Clinicians, which they wrote under the IHI aegis.^[36]

Selected publications[link]

• Berwick DM, Cretin S, Keeler EB. Cholesterol, children, and heart disease: an analysis of alternatives. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980. ISBN 0-19-502669-1.
• Read JL, Quinn RJ, Berwick DM, Fineberg HV, Weinstein MC (1984). "Preferences for health outcomes. Comparison of assessment methods". Med Decis Making 4 (3): 315–29. DOI:10.1177/0272989X8400400307. PMID 6335216. .
• Berwick DM, Weinstein MC (July 1985). "What do patients value? Willingness to pay for ultrasound in normal pregnancy". Med Care 23 (7): 881–93. PMID 3925259. .
• Murphy JM, Berwick DM, Weinstein MC, Borus JF, Budman SH, Klerman GL (June 1987). "Performance of screening and diagnostic tests. Application of receiver operating characteristic analysis". Arch. Gen. Psychiatry 44 (6): 550–5. DOI:10.1001/archpsyc.1987.01800180068011. PMID 3579501. .
• Berwick, Donald M. (January 1989). "Continuous improvement as an ideal in health care". N. Engl. J. Med. 320 (1): 53–6. DOI:10.1056/NEJM198901053200110. PMID 2909878. .
• Perrin, James M.; Homer, Charles J.; Berwick, Donald M.; Woolf, Alan D.; Freeman, Jean L.; Wennberg, John E. (May 1989). "Variations in rates of hospitalization of children in three urban communities". N. Engl. J. Med. 320 (18): 1183–7. DOI:10.1056/NEJM198905043201805. PMID 2710191. .
• Berwick DM, Godfrey AB, Roessner J. Curing health care: new strategies for quality improvement. A report on the National Demonstration Project on Quality Improvement in Health Care. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1990. ISBN 1-55542-294-2.
• Ayanian JZ, Berwick DM (1991). "Do physicians have a bias toward action? A classic study revisited". Med Decis Making 11 (3): 154–8. DOI:10.1177/0272989X9101100302. PMID 1881269. .
• Berwick DM (March 1996). "A primer on leading the improvement of systems". BMJ 312 (7031): 619–22. DOI:10.1136/bmj.312.7031.619. PMC 2350403. PMID 8595340. //www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=2350403. .
• Berwick, Donald M. (October 1996). "Quality of health care. Part 5: Payment by capitation and the quality of care". N. Engl. J. Med. 335 (16): 1227–31. DOI:10.1056/NEJM199610173351611. PMID 8815948. .
• Brennan TA, Berwick DM. New rules: regulation, markets, and the quality of American health care. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1996. ISBN 0-7879-0149-0.
• Berwick DM (April 1998). "Developing and testing changes in delivery of care". Ann. Intern. Med. 128 (8): 651–6. PMID 9537939. .
• Leape LL, Berwick DM (March 2000). "Safe health care: are we up to it?". BMJ 320 (7237): 725–6. DOI:10.1136/bmj.320.7237.725. PMC 1117747. PMID 10720335. //www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=1117747. .
• Berwick DM (2002). "A user's manual for the IOM's 'Quality Chasm' report". Health Aff (Millwood) 21 (3): 80–90. DOI:10.1377/hlthaff.21.3.80. PMID 12026006. .
• Leape LL, Berwick DM, Bates DW (2002). "What practices will most improve safety? Evidence-based medicine meets patient safety". JAMA 288 (4): 501–7. DOI:10.1001/jama.288.4.501. PMID 12132984. .
• Berwick, D. M. (April 2003). "Disseminating innovations in health care". JAMA 289 (15): 1969–75. DOI:10.1001/jama.289.15.1969. PMID 12697800. .
• Berwick DM, Jain SH. "The Basis for Quality Care in Prepaid Group Practice," in Toward a 21st Century Health System: The Contributions and Promise of Prepaid Group Practice. Alain C. Enthoven & Laura A. Tollen eds. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2004.
• Berwick DM. Escape fire. Designs for the future of health care. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2004. ISBN 978-0-7879-7217-2.
• Leape, L. L.; Berwick, DM (May 2005). "Five years after To Err Is Human: what have we learned?". JAMA 293 (19): 2384–90. DOI:10.1001/jama.293.19.2384. PMID 15900009. .
• Berwick, D. M.; Calkins, DR; McCannon, CJ; Hackbarth, AD (January 2006). "The 100,000 lives campaign: setting a goal and a deadline for improving health care quality". JAMA 295 (3): 324–7. DOI:10.1001/jama.295.3.324. PMID 16418469. .
• Berwick, D. M. (March 2008). "The science of improvement". JAMA 299 (10): 1182–4. DOI:10.1001/jama.299.10.1182. PMID 18334694. .
• Berwick, DM, Jain SH, and Porter ME. "Clinical Registries: The Opportunity For The Nation." Health Affairs Blogs, May 2011.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Institute for Health Care Improvement
• Dr. Berwick at Harvard Medical School
• Donald Berwick at the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies
• Donald Berwick at WhoRunsGov at The Washington Post
• Appearances on C-SPAN
• Works by or about Donald Berwick in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
• Money-Driven Medicine a documentary featuring Dr. Donald Berwick based on the book by Maggie Mahar

Blog posts

• Who Is Don Berwick and What Will He Mean for Reform?, Maggie Mahar, TheHealthCareBlog, March 30, 2010. Blog post citing WP:RS sources favorable to Berwick
• Obama Nominee Donald Berwick’s Radical Agenda, Ben Domenech, RedState.com, May 12, 2010. Blog post citing WP:RS sources unfavorable to Berwick
• In a Surprise Move, Administration Appoints Berwick to Head CMS By Maggie Mahar, TheHealthCareBlog, July 2010. Analysis of White House decision to appoint Berwick to top job in CMS, favorable to Berwick.