… , New York VA patients who obtained private-sector CABG surgeries in high-mortality CABG
centers … , and poorer than those who obtained care in low-mortality CABG centers. These …

… patients, fewer than half of the cardiac surgery centers in … characteristics of patients having
CABG surgery in New York … was the use of CABG surgery among patients in New York and …

… mortality relations for CABG surgery through the use of a population-based clinical data set.
… all 57 150 patients who underwent isolated CABG surgery in New York State between 1997 …

… of CABG surgery, the majority of hospitals did not have a sufficient case volume of surgery to
permit hospitals with twice the average mortality to be identified as low-quality … private sector …

… for patient characteristics using … patient characteristics and hospital-level effects using GEE
with an exchangeable correlation matrix. Differences in the odds of death for black patients …

… NSQIP) benchmarking initiative to the private sector also led to … patients undergoing isolated
coronary artery bypass graft … high mortality rates truly deliver low-quality care or had worse …

… to uncoordinated, fragmented, and low-quality HF care. While the … and Boeing/Lowe’s/Walmart
20 Valve surgery Private sector … , like coronary artery bypass surgery, for short windows of …

… (and not lowquality health care) endangers patients. The tort … think it unlikely that the
private sector will move quickly and … significantly better results for CABG patients than low-volume …

… The methodologic characteristics of the 135 studies we … artery bypass grafting (CABG)
and coronary angioplasty, the … In New York State's 2000 report on cardiac surgery, almost …

… Increasing competition among private sector payers has … predictor, adjusting for hospital
characteristics we posited, a … is, low quality care may lead to lower margins as those patients …