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decide how aggressively the patient should be treated. Using Florida data on all such patients from 1992-2014, we decompose …. We show that within hospitals and years, patients with more aggressive providers have consistently higher costs and … better outcomes. Since all patients benefit from higher utilization of invasive procedures, targeting procedure use to the …
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Little is known about how the adoption and diffusion of medical innovation is related to and influenced by market characteristics such as competition. The particular complications involved in investigating these relationships in the health care sector may explain the dearth of research. We...
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patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI). We first document that large increases in driving time to closest ED are more … health outcomes among Medicare patients with AMI who lived in 24,567 ZIP codes that experienced no change, an increase of <10 … and treatment, patients with the longest delays experienced a 6.58 (95% CI 2.49, 10.68) and 6.52 (95% CI 1.69, 11 …
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commercially insured heart attack patients. We match survey data on physician preferences, collected by Cutler, Skinner, Stern, and …
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attack is falling. We present preliminary evidence that patients in managed care receive nearly similar treatment for heart … attacks compared to patients with traditional indemnity insurance, but that managed care insurers pay less for the same …
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30-day readmission by 6.5% for patients admitted during a strike, with little change in patient demographics, disease … strikes on patients, and suggests that hospitals functioning during nurses' strikes are doing so at a lower quality of patient …
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We measure whether expert patients - those trained as physicians and nurses - have fewer emergency department visits … and the reasons for these differences. Relative to similar patients physicians and nurses had 19.8% and 5.1% fewer ED … visits, principally due to fewer avoidable visits. The differences in avoidable visits between physicians and other patients …
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The ISCHEMIA Trial randomly assigned patients with ischemic heart disease to an invasive treatment strategy centered on …
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predicts that high-use areas will have higher returns to surgery, better outcomes among patients most appropriate for surgery …, and worse outcomes among patients least appropriate for surgery. We find strong empirical support for these and other …
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. First, we examine whether report cards affect the distribution of patients across hospitals. Second, we determine whether … at hospitals identified as poor performers. Poor performing hospitals lost relatively healthy patients to competing …
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