Health Affairs

To celebrate the start of Health Affairs’ 25^th anniversary year, we are offering 2 weeks free access to the 25 most-read papers published in 2006. Overall, Health Affairs’ Web readership jumped to 12 million pageviews in 2006.

The paper on nurse staffing in hospitals by Jack Needleman and colleagues took the top spot for a paper published in 2006 with 37,547 pageviews. Two papers from 2005 earned the “most-read overall” ranking: “Can Electronic Medical Record Systems Transform Health Care?” by Richard Hillestad and colleagues from Health Affairs’ September/October 2005 issue attracted 40,263 pageviews in 2006, and the medical bankruptcy Web Exclusive by David Himmelstein and colleagues from February 2005 continued its high readership, adding 39,262 pageviews in 2006 to its over 70,000 pageviews from 2005, thus surpassing 100,000 readings of the paper.

The complimentary access to the top 25 papers from 2006 runs through January 19, 2007. Health Affairs subscribers have complete access to the full 25-year online archive, including all current content.

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