Higher cost, but poorer outcomes: the US health disadvantage and implications for pediatrics.
AcademyHealth, Washington, District of Columbia; Department of Pediatrics, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico; Department of Health Policy, George Washington University, Washington, District of Columbia; gerry.fairbrother@academyhealth.org.
Gerry
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Fairbrother
Division of Pediatric Medicine, Hospital for Sick Children, Ontario, Canada; Department of Health Systems, Policy, and Evaluation, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Ontario, Canada; Department of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada;
Astrid
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Guttmann
American Academy of Pediatrics, Elk Grove Village, Illinois;
Jonathan D
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Klein
AcademyHealth, Washington, District of Columbia;
Lisa A
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Simpson
Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey; Department of Quantitative Methods, Rutgers School of Public Health, Newark, New Jersey;
Pauline
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Thomas
Child and Adult Center for Outcomes Research and Delivery Science (Accords) University of Colorado, Denver; and Children's Hospital Colorado and Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado.
Allison
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Kempe
D002648:Child; D002662:Child Health Services / Q000191:economics*; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000191:economics*; D017048:Health Care Costs; D006801:Humans; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D014481:United States