Shaikh, Azeem M.; Vytlacil, Edward; Bhattacharya, Jay - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
We reanalyze data from the observational study by Connors et al. (1996) on the impact of Swan-Ganz catheterization on mortality outcomes. The Connors et al. (1996) study assumes that there are no unobserved differences between patients who are catheterized and patients who are not catheterized...