Evaluating measures of hospital quality: Evidence from ambulance referral patterns

Hospital quality measures are crucial to a key idea behind health care payment reforms: “paying for quality” instead of quantity. Nevertheless, such measures face major criticisms largely over the potential failure of risk adjustment to overcome endogeneity concerns when ranking hospitals. In this p...

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Main Authors: Doyle, J. (Author), Graves, J. (Author), Gruber, J. (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MIT Press Journals 2019
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