Geographic Variation in Diagnosis Frequency and Risk of Death Among Medicare Beneficiaries
Open Access
- 16 March 2011
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA
- Vol. 305 (11) , 1113-1118
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2011.307
Abstract
Disease diagnoses are considered a fundamental input for adjusting health outcomes as well as expenditures to credit systems that care for patients who are sicker than average. Ideally, a diagnosis would be solely an attribute of the patient, unaffected by the process of observation.Keywords
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