2007
“America's Best Hospitals” in the Treatment of Acute Myocardial Infarction
Wang OJ, Wang Y, Lichtman JH, Bradley EH, Normand SL, Krumholz HM. “America's Best Hospitals” in the Treatment of Acute Myocardial Infarction. JAMA Internal Medicine 2007, 167: 1345-1351. PMID: 17620526, DOI: 10.1001/archinte.167.13.1345.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAcute myocardial infarctionStandardized mortality ratioBest HospitalsMyocardial infarctionAmerica's Best HospitalsTreatment of AMIMedicare administrative dataHeart surgeryMortality ratioLower riskMortality rateHospitalQuartile distributionPatientsRSMRInfarctionAdministrative dataOne-thirdHierarchical regression modelsRSMRsRegression modelsTreatmentSurgeryAdmissionQuartile
2002
The Effect of Managed Care Penetration on the Treatment of AMI in the Fee-For-Service Medicare Population
Bradford WD, Krumholz HM. The Effect of Managed Care Penetration on the Treatment of AMI in the Fee-For-Service Medicare Population. International Journal Of Health Economics And Management 2002, 2: 265-283. PMID: 14625994, DOI: 10.1023/a:1022304101108.Peer-Reviewed Original Research