Whenever international comparisons are made on quality metrics, inevitably someone complains that the results are invalid because it’s impossible to standardize quality across different systems.
JAMA is chock full of great papers this week. “Total Expenditures per Patient in Hospital-Owned and Physician-Owned Physician Organizations in California“: Importance Hospitals are rapidly
This analysis suggests a future for ‘‘wellness’’ initiatives: a great deal of negative wellness [basically, underwriting, cost shifting, or back-door risk-rating] in the form of crude insurance
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