03133cam a22004577a 4500 13839778 20250606213856.9 cr ||||||||||| 050112s2004 mau sb 000 0 eng 13839778 7 cbc orignew 4 ncip 20 y-gencompf undetermined NBER se39 2005-01-12 webcat se39 2005-01-12 se39 2005-01-12 LCAP batch update 2025-06-01-04:00: LCAPM-989 2005615550 DLC DLC DLC n-us-ny HB1 Cutler, David M. The role of information in medical markets [electronic resource] : an analysis of publicly reported outcomes in cardiac surgery / David M. Cutler, Robert S. Huckman, Mary Beth Landrum. Cambridge, MA : National Bureau of Economic Research, c2004. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia computer disc cd rdacarrier NBER working paper series ; working paper 10489 Title from PDF file as viewed on 1/12/2005. Includes bibliographical references. Unrestricted online access "During the past two decades, several public and private organizations have initiated programs to report publicly on the quality of medical care provided by specific hospitals and physicians. These programs have sparked broad debate among economists and policy makers concerning whether, and to what extent, they have improved or harmed medical productivity. We take advantage of a cross-sectional time series of different hospitals to address two fundamental questions about quality reporting. First, we examine whether report cards affect the distribution of patients across hospitals. Second, we determine whether report cards lead to improved medical quality among hospitals identified as particularly bad or good performers. Our data are from the longest-standing effort to measure and report health care quality the Cardiac Surgery Reporting System (CSRS) in New York State. Using data for 1991 through 1999, we find that CSRS affected both the volume of cases and future quality at hospitals identified as poor performers. Poor performing hospitals lost relatively healthy patients to competing facilities and experienced subsequent improvements in their performance as measured by risk-adjusted mortality"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site. Also available in print. Mode of access: World Wide Web. System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Heart Surgery New York (State) Hospitals Ratings and rankings New York (State) Huckman, Robert S. Landrum, Mary Beth. National Bureau of Economic Research. Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) ; working paper no. 10489. gdcebookspublic 2005615550 https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcebookspublic.2005615550 http://papers.nber.org/papers/W10489 gdc/scd