Can Ranking hospitals on the basis of patients' travel distances improve quality of care Daniel P. Kessler

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: Washington, DC Federal Trade Commission, Bureau of Economics. 2004Description: 30 p. 27 cmSubject(s): LOC classification:
  • HD 2775 WP667
Summary: Using data on elderly Medicare beneficiaries with heart attack & stroke from 1994-99, this paper shows that a distance report card would be both valid- ie, correlated with true quality- & able to distinguish confidently among hospital- ie, able to reject at conventional significance levels the hypothesis that the true quality of a low-ranked hospital was thesame as the quality of the average hospi
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Using data on elderly Medicare beneficiaries with heart attack & stroke from 1994-99, this paper shows that a distance report card would be both valid- ie, correlated with true quality- & able to distinguish confidently among hospital- ie, able to reject at conventional significance levels the hypothesis that the true quality of a low-ranked hospital was thesame as the quality of the average hospi

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