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Associations Among Hospital Capacity, Utilization, And Mortality Of Us Medicare Beneficiaries, Controlling For Sociodemographic Factors., E. S. Fisher, J. E. Wennberg, T. A. Stukel, J. S. Skinner, S. M. Sharp
Associations Among Hospital Capacity, Utilization, And Mortality Of Us Medicare Beneficiaries, Controlling For Sociodemographic Factors., E. S. Fisher, J. E. Wennberg, T. A. Stukel, J. S. Skinner, S. M. Sharp
Dartmouth Scholarship
To explore whether geographic variations in Medicare hospital utilization rates are due to differences in local hospital capacity, after controlling for socioeconomic status and disease burden, and to determine whether greater hospital capacity is associated with lower Medicare mortality rates.
An International Comparison Of Cancer Survival: Metropolitan Toronto, Ontario, And Honolulu, Hawaii, Kevin M. Gorey
An International Comparison Of Cancer Survival: Metropolitan Toronto, Ontario, And Honolulu, Hawaii, Kevin M. Gorey
Social Work Publications
OBJECTIVES: Comparisons of cancer survival in Canadian and US metropolitan areas have shown consistent Canadian advantages. This study tests a health insurance hypothesis by comparing cancer survival in Toronto, Ontario, and Honolulu, Hawaii.
METHODS: Ontario and Hawaii registries provided a total of 9190 and 2895 cancer cases (breast and prostate, 1986-1990, followed until 1996). Socioeconomic data for each person's residence at the time of diagnosis were taken from population censuses.
RESULTS: Socioeconomic status and cancer survival were directly associated in the US cohort, but not in the Canadian cohort. Compared with similar patients in Honolulu, residents of low-income areas in …