The US health care system is in crisis. At stake are the quality of care for millions of
Americans and the financial well-being of individuals and employers squeezed by …

" OBJECTIVES: This report presents national estimates of surgical and nonsurgical
procedures performed on an ambulatory basis in hospitals and freestanding ambulatory …

Specialty hospitals, particularly those specializing in surgery and owned by physicians, have
generated a relatively high degree of policy attention over the past several years. The main …

Beyond the discovery in the mid-19th century that ether and nitrous oxide could be used to
render patients unconscious during surgical procedures, subsequent developments in our …

During the past thirty years outpatient surgery has become an increasingly important part of
medical care in the United States. The number of outpatient procedures has risen …

We use hospital-level discharge data from cardiac patients in California to estimate the
effects of focus on operational performance. We examine focus at three distinct levels of the …

Hospital ownership of physician practices has grown across the US, and these strategic
decisions seem to drive higher prices and spending. Using detailed physician ownership …

INTRODUCTION: The provisions of the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act increased
the likelihood of more widespread health information exchange (HIE), the electronic transfer …

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Serious GI adverse events in the outpatient setting were
examined by polypectomy technique, endoscopist volume, and facility type (ambulatory …

The recent rise of specialty hospitals–typically for-profit firms that are at least partially owned
by physicians–has led to substantial debate about their effects on the cost and quality of …