Do Report Cards Influence Hospital Choice? The Case of Kidney Transplantation

The national program to report hospital-level outcomes for transplantation has been in place since 1991, yet it has not been addressed in the existing literature on hospital report cards. We study the impact of reported outcomes on demand at kidney transplant centers. Using a negative binomial regre...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: David H. Howard, Bruce Kaplan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2006-05-01
Series:Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.5034/inquiryjrnl_43.2.150