Population illness rates do not explain population hospitalization rates. A comment on Mark Blumberg's thesis that morbidity adjusters are needed to interpret small area variations.

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• Publication year

  1987

• Venue

  Medical Care

• Publication date

  1987-04-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1097/00005650-198704000-00008PMID 3695651
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