The relationship between managed care insurance and use of lower-mortality hospitals for CABG surgery.
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- 19 April 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA
- Vol. 283 (15) , 1976-1982
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.283.15.1976
Abstract
Explicit information about the quality of coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery has been available for nearly a decade in New York State; however, the extent to which managed care insurance plans direct enrollees to the lowest-mortality CABG surgery hospitals remains unknown.Keywords
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