• Healthc Financ Manage · Jul 2013

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    Marginal complications and healthcare costs.

    • William B Weeks.
    • The Geisel School of Medicine, Hanover, NH, USA. wbw@dartmouth.edu
    • Healthc Financ Manage. 2013 Jul 1;67(7):92-4.

    AbstractIn a recent study published in JAMA, the authors concluded that hospitals might have financial disincentives for reducing surgical complications. The study confirms some well-known healthcare financial management realities: Some procedures are more profitable than others, and sometimes complications generate positive returns for hospitals. But the study was flawed.

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