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Managed care and measuring medical outcomes: did the rise of HMOs contribute to the fall in the autopsy rate?DAVID E HARRINGTON
Department of Economics, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH 43022, USA
Soc Sci Med 70:191-8. 2010..Our results imply that these reforms may inadvertently reduce the incentive to monitor medical outcomes using techniques such as autopsies, which is often called the "gold standard" in measuring medical outcomes...
