What did they find?
This scale was used to assess patient severity
What is the APR-DRG scale?
Which of the following is not a factor that constrains physicians’ abilities to induce demand:
a) professionalism b) the limit of their time c) malpractice liability d) patient waiting time
What is patient waiting time?
From 1990 to 2003, the number of specialty hospitals (increased/decreased).
increased
This has a statistically different demand in heart-hospital markets compared to non-heart hospital markets. Which one?
general heart surgery rates
decline in bypass surgeries rates
rates of angioplasty
ICD implantation rates
What is decline in bypass surgeries rates?
T or F: Cardiac surgeons are more willing to operate on healthier patients because they cost less and are thus more profitable.
What is true?
Physician induced demand is a result of _____ information.
What is asymetrical information?
True or false: Physician-owned heart hospitals displayed significantly higher growth rates in low-severity heart patients from hospitals not owned by physicians.
What is false?
The type of surgery did this article focus on?
What is cardiac surgery?
This author wrote the article "Do Physician-Owned Cardiac Hospitals Increase Utilization?"
Who is Jeffrey Stensland OR Ariel Winter?