The second edition of this comparative product will be available in the second quarter of 1997. This edition will contain all of the information available in the first edition, plus new analyses on care at the end of life, read mission rates, AAPCC, managed care, & more. To be published in both text & electronic formats: print volumes of the national Atlas, CD-ROM, & nine regional supplements.

This Atlas builds on the analyses presented in the 2006 edition. As before, the focus is on Medicare beneficiaries who had severe chronic illnesses and were in their last two years of life. This edition both updates the earlier analyses to encompass more recent data (through 2005) and expands the scope to include all sectors of care covered by the Medicare program. This Atlas also proposes new ways of thinking about how to achieve better care coordination and reduce the overuse of acute care hospital services. It offers concrete recommendations on the ways different stakeholders can use the new data - from choosing the right provider to reforming the U.S. health care system.

Prairies and Plains is an analysis of the reference sources--encyclopedias, bibliographies, biographies, almanacs, dictionaries--that readers and researchers will need to prepare class papers, resolve queries, and develop strategies for investigating questions regarding the history and culture of the Prairies and Plains region.

The Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care in Pennsylvania, a part of the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care series of publications, demonstrates again that the way healthcare resources are distributed and used, at the local level, challenges the conventional wisdom that illness determines the use of medical care, and that the supply of medical care arises in response to the demand for it.