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Research from University of California in the area of life sciences published
Published in Surgery Litigation and Law Weekly, May 30th, 2008
Investigators publish new data in the report 'Incorporating health care quality into health antitrust law.' According to recent research published in the journal BMC Health Services Research, "Antitrust authorities treat price as a proxy for hospital quality since health care quality is difficult to observe. As the ability to measure quality improved, more research became necessary to investigate the relationship between hospital market power and patient outcomes."
"This paper examines the impact of hospital competition on the quality of care as measured by the risk-adjusted mortality rates with the hospital as the unit of analysis. The study separately examines...
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