Merrill Goozner Is Unhappy with Abelson and Harris of the New York Times

Goozner:

Dartmouth Analysis Again in the Cross-Hairs: Reed Abelson and Gardiner Harris in the New York Times are questioning some of the key assumptions behind the Dartmouth Atlas of Health... they write:

For all anyone knows, patients could be dying in far greater numbers in hospitals in the beige regions than hospitals in the brown ones, and Dartmouth's maps would not pick up that difference. As any shopper knows, cheaper does not always mean better....

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