Steering patients to safer hospitals? The effect of a tiered hospital network on hospital admissions.

Dennis Scanlon; Richard Lindrooth; Jon B. Christianson

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Steering patients to safer hospitals? The effect of a tiered hospital network on hospital admissions.

March 4, 2011

Scanlon D, Lindrooth R, Christianson JB. Health Serv Res. 2008;43(5 Pt 2):1849-68.

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This study discovered that providing unionized employees with a financial incentive to choose safer hospitals (defined by Leapfrog criteria) influenced decision-making compared to their nonunionized counterparts without such incentives.

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