Hospital competition, resource allocation and quality of care

Table 4 Risk adjusted excess mortality – Multivariate Regression Results

	All Cases		AMI		Congestive Heart Failure		Pneumonia		Stroke
	Coefficient	P value	Coefficient	P value	Coefficient	P value	Coefficient	P value	Coefficient	P value
Expenditures per adjusted discharge – 1989 ('000)	-0.47^***	0.000	-2.1^**	0.026	-1.1^***	0.009	-0.43	0.332	-1.4^**	0.026
HHI – 1989	-0.39	0.646	-3.9	0.482	2.6	0.406	-4.5^*	0.077	-4.1	0.304
For Profit	-0.15	0.498	5.4^***	0.006	-0.94	0.274	-0.40	0.653	-1.6	0.152
Public	0.73	0.187	2.2	0.530	-1.9	0.306	-0.36	0.862	8.1	0.174
District	-0.34	0.479	-3.6	0.111	-0.04	0.980	-2.2^*	0.060	-1.0	0.556
Teaching Hospitals	-0.03	0.899	-1.5	0.457	-0.81	0.355	0.51	0.661	-2.5	0.286
N	330		326		329		329		328
F value	4.54^***		2.71^**		2.44^**		1.33		1.57
Adjusted R²	0.05		0.05		0.03		0.01		0.05

^*Significant at the 0.1 level ^**Significant at the 0.05 level ^***Significant at the 0.01 level

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