… patient, provider, practice, and programmatic characteristics … Minority-serving hospitals
demonstrated higher CABG … compared between VA hospital-based outpatient clinics that …

… volume standards for coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery, … We examined hospital
use using the 1994–1999 national … of patients moved to high-volume centers. Thus, a regional …

… arteries (coronary artery bypass graft surgery, CABG) but at a … for schools, the private
sector would have devoted more … the reverse-the policy focus is on "low" quality of education, …

… in a farm area; and receive low-quality care, usually because of … State found that rates
for angioplasty and CABG among … in a study in the free-care VA system55 or in the equal-access …

… This data file included physician characteristics such as VA … for VA physicians only in the
first analysis; thereafter, we use … at a distance from VA care) 12 while reducing VA patients’ …

… are high quality and which are low quality. As a result, most … States received either coronary
bypass surgery or balloon … Between 1995 and 1999, the VA handled 24% more patients …

… There were not just skewed regulatory and private-sector … Excellent firms prosper while firms
with low quality, poor service… While health care indeed has many of these characteristics, so …

… a menu of fundamental design features. Developed country … medical record data on coronary
bypass procedures) to STS's … , health plans and other private-sector purchasers, provider …

… low-quality as to be dangerous to patients' health. Congress nonetheless incorporated into
the new program features … Clinic visits per patient-year increased from a median of 4.3 to 9.8.…

… of disease conditions and often outperforms the private sector. … either exceptionally high or
low quality, through chance alone. … 14 (see The Quality of VA Inpatient Ischemic Stroke Care, …