Objective: The purpose is to assess whether the joint evaluation of costs and quality affects the ranking of hospital departments relative to performance based on cost performance alone.<p> Methods: Using patient level data, in which 3,754 patients across six vascular departments are pooled we...</p>

Objective: The purpose is to explore whether better structure and process management provide better outcome quality for the individual patient and among hospital departments. <p>Methods: Using patient level data in which 4,202 patients across seven vascular departments are pooled we estimate fixed...</p>