The Effects of Regionalization on Cost and Outcome for One General High-Risk Surgical Procedure

The effects of regionalization of tertiary care were studied by analyzing cost and outcome for pancreaticoduodenectomies in a state in which the majority of these high-risk procedures were performed in one hospital.Using Maryland inpatient discharge data via a retrospective study, the authors compared cost and outcome data for a hospital with more than one half of the cases in the state to all other hospital providers as a group and with smaller...