Index, which prices specific treatments provided, and a Cost of Living Index, which prices the health outcomes of patients …

patients with predictably high risk go untested, then experience frequent adverse cardiac events including death in the next 30 … days. At standard clinical thresholds, these event rates suggest that testing these patients would indeed have been highly … cut testing across the board, for low-risk (reducing over-use) and high-risk patients (exaggerating under-use). Finally …

-metal stents, BMS), but requires patients to pay the incremental cost of more expensive treatments (drug-eluting stents, DES … hospitals do not raise the DES prices from patients, but increase BMS usage per admission by 18%, recouping up to 30% of the …

in adverse patient outcomes or changes in the patient health profile for patients suffering from acute myocardial … PTCA on the day of admission. We find a small increase in 30-day to 1-year mortality rates among patients in communities … that experience <10-minute increase in driving time. Among patients in communities with >30-minute increases in driving …

.8 million heart attack patients during 1986-2004. We find that the speed of diffusion for highly efficient and often low …