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Hospital mergers and acquisitions: does market consolidation harm patients?

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V Ho… - Journal of Health Economics, 2000 - Elsevier
Debate continues on whether consolidation in health care markets enhances efficiency or
instead facilitates market power, possibly damaging quality. We compare the quality of
hospital care before and after mergers and acquisitions in California between 1992 and ...
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Learning and the evolution of medical technologies: The diffusion of coronary angioplasty

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V Ho - Journal of Health Economics, 2002 - Elsevier
This study uses longitudinal data on patients receiving percutaneous transluminal coronary
angioplasty (PTCA) to examine changes in outcomes and costs. All hospitals achieved
substantial reductions in inpatient mortality and emergency bypass surgery over time, ...
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[PDF] Income inequality and health status in the United States: evidence from the current population survey

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BE Ellen, R Fleck, V Ho, C Jencks, P Klenow… - 1999 - Citeseer
Abstract: Several recent studies have identified an association between income inequality
and aggregate health outcomes; this has been taken to be evidence that inequality is
detrimental to individual health. We use data from the 1995-1997 March Current ...
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[BOOK] Women's pay in Australia, Great Britain, and the United States: The role of laws, regulations, and human capital

RG Gregory, R Anstie, A Daly… - 1989 - books.google.com
The 1970s were a remarkable time for women. Labor force participation rates increased
markedly throughout the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
(OECD)(Mincer, 1985), and in most OECD countries the pay of women relative to that of ...
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[CITATION] Equal pay and comparable worth: what can the US learn from the Australian experience?

RG Gregory… - 1985 - Australian National University, …
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Standards for Measures Used for Public Reporting of Efficiency in Health Care: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association Interdisciplinary Council …

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HM Krumholz, PS Keenan… - Journal of the …, 2008 - Am Coll Cardio Found
Abstract: The assessment of medical practice is evolving rapidly in the United States. An
initial focus on structure and process performance measures assessing the quality of
medical care is now being supplemented with efficiency measures to quantify the" value" ...
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[CITATION] A tale of two countries: Equal pay for women in Australia and Britain

RG Gregory, A Daly, V Ho… - 1986 - Australian National University, …
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Queuing for surgery: Is the US or Canada worse off?

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BH Hamilton, V Ho… - Review of Economics and Statistics, 2000 - MIT Press
Restricted government spending along with universal health insurance has led to longer
queues for surgical procedures in Canada versus the United States. Yet it is unclear whether
these treatment delays affect health outcomes. This paper tests this hypothesis by ...
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Does certificate of need affect cardiac outcomes and costs?

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V Ho - International Journal of Health Care Finance and …, 2006 - Springer
Abstract Several US states enforce Certificate of Need (CON) regulations, which limit the
number of hospitals performing open heart surgery or coronary angioplasty. CON
regulations were intended to restrain cost growth and improve quality of care. This study ...
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[PDF] Causality, learning and forgetting in surgery

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G Gowrisankaran, V Ho… - Federal Trade Commission, draft, 2006 - ftc.gov
Abstract In this paper we distinguish between two causal explanations for the volume-
outcome relationship, learning-by-doing and selective referral. We use data on three
surgical procedures for which a volume-outcome relationship has been documented, the ...
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Land value capture mechanisms in Hong Kong and Singapore: A comparative analysis

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ECM Hui, VSM Ho… - Journal of Property Investment …, 2004 - emeraldinsight.com
Hong Kong and Singapore are characterized by rapid economic development and a high
population density of 6250 and 6055 per km2 land respectively. Land revenue is their major
source of income to finance their public infrastructure and social services. Their design and ...
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[PDF] Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation

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V Ho… - Cost Effectiveness and Resource …, 2007 - biomedcentral.com
Abstract Background: We examined whether higher procedure volumes for coronary artery
bypass graft (CABG) surgery or percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI) were associated
with lower costs per patient, and if so, estimated the financial savings from regionalizing ...
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Certificate of need (CON) for cardiac care: Controversy over the contributions of CON

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V Ho, MH Ku‐Goto… - Health services research, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Study Design. We used differences-in-differences regression analysis to compare states that
dropped CON during the sample period with states that kept the regulations. We examined procedural
mortality, the number of hospitals in the state performing CABG or PCI, mean hospital ...
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[CITATION] Town. 2006.“Causality, Learning and Forgetting in Surgery.”

G Gowrisankaran, V Ho… - Working paper, University of …
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[PDF] Physical and mental health status of Hurricane Katrina evacuees in Houston in 2005 and 2006

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K Mortensen, RK Wilson… - Journal of Health Care for the Poor …, 2010 - rkw.rice.edu
Abstract: Objectives. Hurricane Katrina necessitated the evacuation of over 200,000
individuals into Houston. Tis study compared characteristics of three samples of evacuees
with those of the US population and examined how evacuees' experiences have changed ...
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[CITATION] The distribution of outpatient services in Canada and the US: An empirical model of physician visits

BH Hamilton, V Ho… - Olin School of Business, St. Louis, MO, 1997
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[PDF] Tracking variations in cocaine deaths across US cities

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RT Boylan… - Addiction Research and Theory, 2004 - hawaii.edu
Both the Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) data and the National Center for Health
Statistics (NCHS) vital statistics datasets have been criticized for inaccurate recording of
cocaine deaths. This study compares the number of cocaine deaths per capita reported in ...
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[PDF] Relationship between the land-use planning system, land supply and housing prices in Hong Kong

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ECM Hui… - International Journal of Strategic Property …, 2003 - prres.net
Page 1. 1 RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE LAND-USE PLANNING SYSTEM, LAND
SUPPLY AND HOUSING PRICES IN HONG KONG Eddie CM Hui1 and Vivian
SMHo2 Abstract Hong Kong has been faced with property market ...
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[CITATION] H., 2000.“Hospital Mergers and Acquisitions: Does Market Consolidation Harm Patients?”

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[CITATION] Town, and Martin J. Heslin. 2007.“Regionalization versus Competition in Complex Cancer Surgery.”

V Ho… - Health Economics, Policy, and Law
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[CITATION] Relationship Between Land Use Planning, Land Supply and Housing Prices in Hong Kong

ECM Hui, VSM Ho… - 2002 - … of Building and Real Estate, The …
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Market disequilibrium and urban land shortages: Analysis of policy and patterns in Hong Kong

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ECM Hui, MCM Lam… - Journal of urban planning and …, 2006 - link.aip.org
Market Disequilibrium and Urban Land Shortages: Analysis of Policy and Patterns
in Hong Kong. [Journal of Urban Planning and Development 132, 80 (2006)]. Eddie
CM Hui, Manfred CM Lam, Vivian SM Ho. Abstract. Government ...
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[CITATION] No Let Down in Global Pirate Attacks by Pirates

V Ho - Kyodo News Service, 2003
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[CITATION] Agreement Reached in Payment for Safety Upkeep of Malacca Strait

V Ho - Kyodo News, 2008
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[CITATION] Analysis of Land Use Policy and Patterns: The Case of Hong Kong

ECM Hui, VSM Ho… - 2002 - … of Building and Real Estate, The …
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[HTML] The grand impact of the Gates Foundation. Sixty billion dollars and one famous person can affect the spending and research focus of public agencies

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KRW Matthews… - EMBO reports, 2008 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
In an ideal world, scientific research would be free from constraints; the professional
interests of the scientific community and individual scientists would determine research
topics and directions, and funding would be limitless. In the real world, however, factors ...
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Estimating cost savings from regionalizing cardiac procedures using hospital discharge data

H Vivian… - Cost Effectiveness and Resource …, 2007 - en.scientificcommons.org
Abstract Background We examined whether higher procedure volumes for coronary artery
bypass graft (CABG) surgery or percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI) were associated
with lower costs per patient, and if so, estimated the financial savings from regionalizing ...
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Estimating Surgical Volume–Outcome Relationships Applying Survival Models: Accounting for Frailty and Hospital Fixed Effects

BH Hamilton… - Econometric analysis of health data, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
Page 1. 9 Estimating Surgical Volume – Outcome Relationships Applying Survival Models:
Accounting for Frailty and Hospital Fixed Effects BARTON H. HAMILTON1 AND VIVIAN
H. HO1,2 John M. Olin School of Business, Washington ...
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[CITATION] John Cage Trial for Abuse of Grand Pianos

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THROWING MORE DOLLARS AT A BROKEN HEALTH CARE SYSTEM

V HO - 2009 - bakerinstitute.netfu.rice.edu
However, policymakers are fixated on an effort to expand health insurance coverage and
are doing nothing to contain rapidly rising health care costs or reduce wasteful spending on
ineffective treatments. As a result, any effort to implement universal health care will ...
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[PDF] THE US HEALTH COST CRISIS: RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE NEXT ADMINISTRATION

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V HO - 2008 - bakerinstitute.org
Background Since 1970, the annual growth rate of US national health expenditures has
exceeded the growth of the nation's economy in almost every year. National health
expenditures surpassed $2 trillion in 2006 and are projected to exceed $4 trillion in 2016. ...
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[CITATION] Male-female Wage Differentials: What Can the US Learn from the Australian Experience?

V Ho - 1984 - Harvard University
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[PDF] Revenue swings and the provision of health, welfare, education, and government services

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RT Boylan… - 2012 - chess.uchicago.edu
The current recession has led to state revenue shortfalls. Articles in the press have
expressed concern regarding the harmful implications for Medicaid and education of the
spending cuts used to address state deficits [Landsberg, 2009, Lewin, 2009, Sack, 2010, ...
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[HTML] The Affordable Care Act—A New Way Forward

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V Ho - Virtual Mentor, 2011 - Am Med Assoc
On March 23, 2010, President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
(ACA). The law is a step in the right direction, doing exactly what its name states: making
health care more affordable for all Americans. Health care expenditures in the United ...
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[PDF] THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN LAW SCHOOL

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V Ho - law.umich.edu
Objectives. To test whether state Certificate of Need (CON) regulations influence procedural
mortality or the provision of coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) and percutaneous
coronary interventions (PCI). Data Sources. Medicare inpatient claims obtained for 1989– ...
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[CITATION] How Should Restorative Justice be Applied to the Hong Kong Criminal Justice System?

VWW Ho - 2006 - City University of Hong Kong
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[PDF] APPOINTMENTS: University

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V HO - American Economic Review, 1995 - 128.42.204.130
University 2009- Professor, Department of Economics, Rice University 2004- James A. Baker
III Institute Chair in Health Economics, Rice University 2010- Professor, Department of
Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine 2004-2010 Associate Professor, Department of ...
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[CITATION] Richard T. Boylan Washington University, Olin School of Business St. Louis, MO 63130 (314) 935-6368 BOYLAN@ SIMON. WUSTL. EDU

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