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To the Editor: In their article (March 4 issue), Welch et al. analyze geographic variations in expenditures for physicians' services in the United States¹. They cite a positive correlation between age-adjusted mortality among Medicare patients and the rate of hospital admissions. This finding is not consistent with the results of other studies.

An analysis of 1990 data collected by the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) on standardized mortality 30 days after admission and on population-adjusted admissions rates shows that the relative likelihood of admission for any cause, according to state, was negatively correlated with standardized rates of mortality from . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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