country). Using data collected from 130 Victorian hospitals on 19,000 patients admitted to a hospital with their first AMI … hospital types in the outcomes observed for patients presenting with their first AMI - private hospitals persistently … include multiple-hospital patients …

prescribed drugs, laboratory tests, outpatient visits and hospitalizations of more than 2 millions patients, managed by 900 GPs …

Most physicians today treat a variety of patients within their practices and operate in markets where a variety of … share rises, the differences between the treatment of non-HMO and HMO patients are attenuated. These results provide strong …

, which are increasingly capable of attracting more patients, and the group of the weakest regions, with growing patient …