ArticleInternational journal of health care finance and economics2012
Medicare spending, mortality rates, and quality of care.
Article in International journal of health care finance and economics, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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7 citing papers in PubMed.
- The comparative burden of brain and central nervous system cancers from 1990 to 2019 between China and the United States and predicting the future burden.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Regional variation in healthcare spending and mortality among senior high-cost healthcare users in Ontario, Canada: a retrospective matched cohort study.BMC geriatrics · 2018Article
- Treatment Effect Estimation Using Nonlinear Two-Stage Instrumental Variable Estimators: Another Cautionary Note.Health services research · 2016Article
- Higher practice intensity is associated with higher quality of care but more avoidable admissions for medicare beneficiaries.Journal of general internal medicine · 2014Article
- Estimation of standardized hospital costs from Medicare claims that reflect resource requirements for care: impact for cohort studies linked to Medicare claims.Health services research · 2014Article
- Medicare Reimbursement Reform for Provider Visits and Health Outcomes in Patients on Hemodialysis.Forum for health economics & policy · 2014Article
- Spending and mortality in US acute care hospitals.The American journal of managed care · 2013Article
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Abstract
We applied instrumental variable analysis to a sample of 388,690 Medicare beneficiaries predicted to be high-cost cases to estimate the effects of medical care use on the relative odds of death or experiencing an avoidable hospitalization in 2006. Contrary to conclusions from the observational geographic variations literature, the results suggest that greater medical care use is associated with statistically significant and quantitatively meaningful health improvements: a 10% increase in medical care use is associated with a 8.4% decrease in the mortality rate and a 3.8% decrease in the rate of avoidable hospitalizations.
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