… for each patient in the combined deciles as the observed mortality rate of all patients in
the … We required 500 cases in a DRG RRS class rather than the 100 required using APR-DRGs …

… care costs and describe several features of the health care reform … an individual policy in the
private sector and are not eligible for … through your job, or Medicare, or Medicaid, or the VA, …

… undergoing surgery in private sector hospitals in New York. … risk factor for CABG mortality in
the private sector, after … likely to be admitted to low quality nursing homes in markets with just …

… Yet, club goods also share the excludability characteristic of … health care costs in the private
sector and Medicare. There … model for coronary artery bypass surgery between 2006 and …

… 2.45 percent) among CABG surgery patients between the time … are actually bearing for
private-sector patients. In California it … high quality and those offering low quality. Economic theory …

… Expanding the use of information technology could facilitate … patient characteristics and
conditions, not on geographic location. … Innovations in the private sector are also important for …

… working in the public and private sector involved in the public … patients undergoing coronary
artery bypass surgery in New … on quality and perhaps drive out low quality providers. Even in …

… Private-sector money for health care came from Rochester … and none can claim to
display the full range of characteristics … High-quality goods cost more to produce than low-quality …

… on patient safety, to which an extensive chapter in this book is devoted. As public and private
sector … and outcomes in a network of 10 VA medical centers. He has led both the Informatics …

… , while unit costs of coronary bypass vary from being roughly … performance could come at
the cost of low quality services, … capital transfers to the private sector for hospital construction …