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SUBMITTER: Chandra A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7755154 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chandra Amitabh A Staiger Douglas O DO
The quarterly journal of economics 20200107 2
In medicine, the reasons for variation in treatment rates across hospitals serving similar patients are not well understood. Some interpret this variation as unwarranted, and push standardization of care as a way of reducing allocative inefficiency. An alternative interpretation is that hospitals with greater expertise in a treatment use it more because of their comparative advantage, suggesting that standardization is misguided. A simple economic model provides an empirical framework to separat ...[more]