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Use of Cardiac Procedures and Outcomes in Elderly Patients with Myocardial Infarction in the United States and Canada by Tu, Jack V, Pashos, Chris L, Naylor, C. David, Chen, Erluo, Normand, Sharon-Lise, Newhouse, Joseph P, McNeil, Barbara J

“…The debate over health care reform in the United States has stimulated interest in comparing medical care in Canada and the United States, two countries with…”
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Relation between Malpractice Claims and Adverse Events Due to Negligence: Results of the Harvard Medical Practice Study III by Localio, A. Russell, Lawthers, Ann G, Brennan, Troyen A, Laird, Nan M, Hebert, Liesi E, Peterson, Lynn M, Newhouse, Joseph P, Weiler, Paul C, Hiatt, Howard H

“…THE frequency of malpractice claims among patients injured by medical negligence has been the subject of much speculation and little empirical investigation…”
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Consumer-Directed Health Plans And The RAND Health Insurance Experiment by Newhouse, Joseph P

“…Today's consumer-directed health plans, with their high deductibles, bear a strong resemblance to the high-deductible plan of the RAND Health Insurance…”
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Frequency and Cost of Chemotherapy-Related Serious Adverse Effects in a Population Sample of Women With Breast Cancer by Hassett, Michael J., O'Malley, A. James, Pakes, Juliana R., Newhouse, Joseph P., Earle, Craig C.

“…Background: The number, nature, and costs of serious adverse effects experienced by younger women receiving chemotherapy for breast cancer outside of clinical…”
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Reimbursing Health Plans and Health Providers: Efficiency in Production Versus Selection by Newhouse, Joseph P.

“…One of the best known tradeoffs in insurance economics is between risk aversion and moral hazard. Greater insurance coverage implies less risk bearing by the…”
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The Geographic Distribution of Physicians Revisited by Rosenthal, Meredith B., Zaslavsky, Alan, Newhouse, Joseph P.

“…Context. While there is debate over whether the U.S. is training too many physicians, many seem to agree that physicians are geographically maldistributed,…”
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Does reimbursement influence chemotherapy treatment for cancer patients? by Jacobson, Mireille, O'Malley, A James, Earle, Craig C, Pakes, Juliana, Gaccione, Peter, Newhouse, Joseph P

“…Before the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act (MMA) of 2003, Medicare reimbursed physicians for chemotherapy drugs at rates that…”
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Econometrics in outcomes research: the use of instrumental variables by Newhouse, J P, McClellan, M

“…We describe an econometric technique, instrumental variables, that can be useful in estimating the effectiveness of clinical treatments in situations when a…”
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Does more intensive treatment of acute myocardial infarction in the elderly reduce mortality? Analysis using instrumental variables by McClellan, Mark, McNeil, Barbara J, Newhouse, Joseph P

“…The effect of more intensive treatments on mortality in elderly patients with acute myocardial infarction was examined. For these patients, the aspects of…”
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Why Is There A Quality Chasm? by Newhouse, Joseph P

“…Medical care seems to obtain less value from the resources it uses than other industries do, a phenomenon not limited to the United States. I explore several…”
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How Much Should Medicare Pay For Drugs? by Newhouse, Joseph P

“…Discussions of the Medicare drug benefit have focused more on what beneficiaries will pay than what pharmaceutical manufacturers will receive. A key choice is…”
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Utilization of Services in Medicare Advantage versus Traditional Medicare since the Passage of the Medicare Modernization Act by Landon, BE, Zaslavsky, AM, Saunders, RC, Pawlson, LG, Newhouse, JP, Ayanian, JZ

“…Enrollment in Medicare Advantage has grown rapidly from 2003 to today. For the years 2003–2009, we compared individual-level Healthcare Effectiveness Data and…”
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The costs of a national health information network by KAUSHAL, Rainu, BLUMENTHAL, David, NEWHOUSE, Joseph P, BATES, David W, POON, Eric G, JHA, Ashish K, FRANZ, Calvin, MIDDLETON, Blackford, GLASER, John, KUPERMAN, Gilad, CHRISTINO, Melissa, FERNANDOPULLE, Rushika

“…The use of information technology may result in a safer and more efficient health care system. However, consensus does not exist about the structure or costs…”
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Medical Care Costs: How Much Welfare Loss? by Newhouse, Joseph P.

“…Hardly a week goes by without a front-page newspaper article on rising health care costs and the uninsured. In this article, I focus mainly on costs, arguing…”
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How Does Managed Care Do It? by Cutler, David M., McClellan, Mark, Newhouse, Joseph P.

“…Integrating the health services and insurance industries, as health maintenance organizations (HMOs) do, could lower expenditure by reducing either the…”
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Accounting For Teaching Hospitals' Higher Costs And What To Do About Them by Newhouse, Joseph P

“…Academic health centers (AHCs) have higher costs per case and also lower margins than either other teaching hospitals or community hospitals. The differences…”
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Are Medical Prices Declining? Evidence from Heart Attack Treatments by Cutler, David M., McClellan, Mark, Newhouse, Joseph P., Remler, Dahlia

“…We address long-standing problems in measuring medical inflation by estimating two types of price indices. The first, a Service Price Index, prices specific…”
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Care-Seeking Behavior in Response to Emergency Department Copayments by Reed, Mary, Fung, Vicki, Brand, Richard, Fireman, Bruce, Newhouse, Joseph P., Selby, Joseph V., Hsu, John

“…Background: Patients are increasingly paying for more of their medical care through cost-sharing, yet little is known about how patients change the ways that…”
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Incidence of Adverse Events and Negligence in Hospitalized Patients: Results of the Harvard Medical Practice Study I by Brennan, Troyen A, Leape, Lucian L, Laird, Nan M, Hebert, Liesi, Localio, A. Russell, Lawthers, Ann G, Newhouse, Joseph P, Weiler, Paul C, Hiatt, Howard H

“…OVER the past decade there has been a steady increase in the number of malpractice claims brought against health care providers 1 , 2 and in the monetary…”
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The Nature of Adverse Events in Hospitalized Patients: Results of the Harvard Medical Practice Study II by Leape, Lucian L, Brennan, Troyen A, Laird, Nan, Lawthers, Ann G, Localio, A. Russell, Barnes, Benjamin A, Hebert, Liesi, Newhouse, Joseph P, Weiler, Paul C, Hiatt, Howard

“…IN recent years, concern about the increasing cost of malpractice-insurance premiums has led to numerous tort reforms. At the same time, and largely…”
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