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Update - December 1993, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics
Update - December 1993, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics
Update
In this issue:
-- Wages Through the Ages: The Ethics of Physician Income
-- Frontiers in Medicine and Morality - Probed at Second Annual Contributors Convocation
Could Distance Be A Proxy For Severity-Of-Illness? A Comparison Of Hospital Costs In Distant And Local Patients., H G. Welch, E B. Larson, W P. Welch
Could Distance Be A Proxy For Severity-Of-Illness? A Comparison Of Hospital Costs In Distant And Local Patients., H G. Welch, E B. Larson, W P. Welch
Dartmouth Scholarship
We test the hypothesis that hospital costs, after adjusting for DRG mix, are higher in distant patients than in local patients. Data were obtained from the Washington State Commission Hospital Abstract Reporting System (CHARS) and included all patients discharged from 15 metropolitan hospitals in the state of Washington during fiscal year 1987 (N = 181,072).