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Dranove D, Kessler D, McClellan M & Satterthwaite M, (2003)
‘Is more information better? The effects of report cards on health
care providers’
Journal of Political Economy 111(3): 555-588
- Examines the impact of a patient information reform (producing ‘report
cards’ on hospital’s Coronary Artery Bypass Graft [CABG] surgery
statistics) on patient outcomes and hospital behaviour in New York and
Pennsylvania.
- Uses panel data from Medicare to assess how CABG report cards
affected the selection of patients receiving CABG surgery, and their
subsequent health outcomes.
Key results: The New York & Pennsylvania CABG report cards appear to have led to –
- Hospitals offering fewer CABG procedures to severely ill patients,
instead using less effective therapies not included on ‘report
cards’. This led to higher rates of mortality and recurrent
heart attacks among severely ill patients.
- Significant declines in
other intensive cardiac procedures for relatively sick AMI patients.
- A decline in the illness severity of patients receiving CABG in New
York & Pennsylvania relative to patients in states without
report cards.
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