The Volume-Outcome Relationship Revisited: Practice Indeed Makes Perfect.
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SUBMITTER: Hentschker C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5785314 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb
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The Volume-Outcome Relationship Revisited: Practice Indeed Makes Perfect.
Hentschker Corinna C Mennicken Roman R
Health services research 20170904 1
<h4>Objective</h4>To examine the causal effect of a hospital's experience with treating hip fractures (volume) on patient treatment outcomes.<h4>Data sources</h4>We use a full sample of administrative data from German hospitals for 2007. The data provide detailed information on patients and hospitals. We also reference the hospitals' addresses and the zip codes of patients' place of residence.<h4>Study design</h4>We apply an instrumental variable approach to address endogeneity concerns due to r ...[more]
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