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To the Editor: We investigated whether the findings of Cram et al. (April 7 issue)¹ regarding severity of illness, mortality, and length of stay among Medicare patients undergoing revascularization in specialty hospitals could be generalized to an all-payer population. We used data for January 2002 through September 2004 from Solucient's all-payer Projected Inpatient Database, which contains information on more than 17 million discharges in the United States annually and has been used for the analysis of patients with cardiac disease.² We identified specialty hospitals using the 2003 General Accounting Office definition,³ modified to include only hospitals with a majority of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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