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CREATED:20180103T170340
SUMMARY:Joseph Doyle - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt; f
 ont-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Measuring Physician Quality: Evidence 
 from Physician Availability</span></strong></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.0
 001pt;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-
 serif';">Abstract:</span></strong></p><p style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-rig
 ht: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-s
 ize: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Measuring physician qualit
 y is fundamental to understanding healthcare productivity, yet attempts to 
 estimate the types of physicians that improve survival can be confounded du
 e to patient sorting. This paper aims to overcome this endogeneity problem 
 by exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in the mix of physicians availa
 ble to treat the patient on the particular date of an inpatient admission. 
 One innovation is the use of 100% Medicare claims data to characterize the 
 mix of physicians available including specialty training, medical school qu
 ality rankings, patient volume, sex, and years of experience. When heart fa
 ilure patients enter the hospital when more cardiologists are available, pa
 tients receive more intensive treatments and are more likely to survive at 
 one year. The results speak to the debate over the value of treatment inten
 sity and specialists in particular.</span></p>
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