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Entry Date 2023-12-28
Source Meyer GS, Demehin AA, Liu X, Neuhauser D. Two Hundred Years of Hospital Costs and Mortality MGH and Four Eras of Value in Medicine. New England Journal of Medicine. 2012;366(23):2147-2149.
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Source Type Empirical study
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Subdomain1 Patients
Subdomain2 Value based healthcare
Key Points Analysis of a remarkable and probably unique set of records of mortality and costs from the Mass. General Hospital over two centuries. This shows that although there has been steady decline in mortality, costs have recently and disproportionately increased. Of interest to those working to find ways to measure and monitor value as reflected by cost per unit outcome
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