To round out a week of “most-read” lists (top 10 Health Affairs Blog posts of 2007 and of January-February 2008), we are pleased to announce the most-read Health Affairs journal articles published in 2007. All articles below are free access for 2 weeks—through March 20, 2008.

1. “Health Spending Projections Through 2016: Modest Changes Obscure Part D’s Impact”
   by John Poisal and colleagues (47,312 pageviews)
2. “National Health Spending In 2005: The Slowdown Continues”
   by Aaron Catlin and colleagues
3. “Toward Higher-Performance Health Systems: Adults’ Health Care Experiences in Seven Countries, 2007”
   by Cathy Schoen and colleagues
4. “Better Late Than Never: Workforce Supply Implications of Later Entry Into Nursing”
   by David Auerbach and colleagues
5. “Disruptive Innovation: Can Health Care Learn From Other Industries? A Conversation with Clayton M. Christensen”
   by Mark Smith
6. “Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Progress Report: Findings from A 2006 National Survey Of Seniors”
   by Patricia Neuman and colleagues
7. “What’s More Dangerous, Your Aspirin Or Your Car? Thinking Rationally About Drug Risks (And Benefits)”
   by Joshua T. Cohen and Peter J. Neumann
8. “Health Spending By State of Residence, 1991-2004”
   by Anne B. Martin and colleagues
9. “What Should A Country Spend On Health Care?”
   by William D. Savedoff
10. “Redesigning Care Delivery In Response To A High-Performance Network: The Virginia Mason Medical Center”
    by Hoangmai H. Pham and colleagues

Journal articles from earlier years that continued to attract strong readership in 2007:

1. “U.S. Health Care Spending In An International Context,”
   by Uwe E. Reinhardt, Peter S. Hussey, and Gerard F. Anderson (43,311 pageviews in 2007; 159,708 total pageviews)
2. “Illness And Injury As Contributors To Bankruptcy,”
   by David U. Himmelstein, Elizabeth Warren, Deborah Thorne, and Steffie Woolhandler (37,449 pageviews in 2007; 145,680 total pageviews)
3. “Can Electronic Medical Record Systems Transform Health Care?”
   by Richard Hillestad and colleagues (36,853 pageviews in 2007; 112,511 total pageviews)
4. “The Working Hours Of Hospital Staff Nurses And Patient Safety,”
   by Ann E. Rogers and colleagues (26,042 pageviews in 2007; 97,578 total pageviews)

Rankings are based on 2007 Health Affairs Web traffic from January 1, 2007 to December 31, 2007 and do not take into account print readership or online readership from article aggregators, such as Lexis-Nexis. Health Affairs subscribers have complete access to the online journal content, plus online research tools. All readers have free access to all Health Affairs Blog content; selected journal articles at time of posting (Web Exclusives for 2 weeks); and all journal articles three years old or older. The full 26-year article archive is online. New content alerts are available for both journal articles (email; RSS feed) and blog (email; RSS feed).

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