The Relationship of Hospital Quality and Cost per Case in Hawaii

• Main Authors: Jack Ashby (Author), Deborah Taira Juarez (Author), John Berthiaume (Author), Paul Sibley (Author), Richard S. Chung (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: SAGE Publishing, 2012-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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One of the leading questions of our time is whether high-quality care leads to lower health care costs. Using data from Hawaii hospitals, this paper addresses the relationship of overall cost per case to a composite measure of the quality of inpatient care and a 30-day readmission rate. We found tha...