and forecast differences in patient outcomes across hospitals remarkably well - far better than existing methods. Our … differences across hospitals in short-term mortality rates following a heart attack, adjusted for patient demographics, are … excellent indicators of quality of care: They vary dramatically across hospitals, are persistent over time, are highly …

the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and in private hospitals financed by Medicare. Utilizing the ambulance design … relative to private hospitals. We find suggestive evidence of complementarities between continuity of care, health IT, and …