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List of works by Vivian Ho

A Nationwide Assessment of the Association of Smoking Bans and Cigarette Taxes With Hospitalizations for Acute Myocardial Infarction, Heart Failure, and Pneumonia.

scientific article published on 12 September 2016

Adherence to treatment guidelines and survival for older patients with stage II or III colon cancer in Texas from 2001 through 2011.

scientific article published on 15 November 2017

Algorithm for analysis of administrative pediatric cancer hospitalization data according to indication for admission

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Annual Spending per Patient and Quality in Hospital-Owned Versus Physician-Owned Organizations: an Observational Study

scientific article published on 03 September 2019

Association of Hospitalization and Mortality Among Patients Initiating Dialysis With Hemodialysis Facility Ownership and Acquisitions

scientific article published on 03 May 2019

Association of Statewide Certificate of Need Regulations With Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Appropriateness and Outcomes

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Can Centralization of Cancer Surgery Improve Social Welfare?

scientific article published on 16 October 2012

Can postoperative process of care utilization or complication rates explain the volume-cost relationship for cancer surgery?

scientific article published on 21 April 2017

Certificate of Need (CON) for cardiac care: controversy over the contributions of CON

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Comparing Utilization and Costs of Care in Freestanding Emergency Departments, Hospital Emergency Departments, and Urgent Care Centers

scientific article published on 15 February 2017

Comparing the validity of different measures of illness severity: a hospital-level analysis for acute myocardial infarction

scientific article published on 01 August 2012

Consolidation in the Dialysis Industry, Patient Choice, and Local Market Competition

scientific article published on 9 November 2016

Cost-effectiveness analysis of cholecystectomy during Roux-en-Y gastric bypass for morbid obesity.

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Did Medicaid Expansion Reduce Mortality Among Patients Initiating Dialysis for Irreversible Kidney Failure?

scientific article published on 01 December 2018

Employment among Patients Starting Dialysis in the United States

scientific article published on 18 January 2018

Freestanding Emergency Department Entry and Market-level Spending on Emergency Care

scientific article published on 22 October 2019

Freestanding Emergency Departments Preferentially Locate In Areas With Higher Household Income.

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Freestanding emergency departments in Texas do not alleviate congestion in hospital-based emergency departments

scientific article published on 08 May 2019

Gain in Insurance Coverage and Residual Uninsurance Under the Affordable Care Act: Texas, 2013-2016

scientific article published on 17 November 2016

Hospital volume, surgeon volume, and patient costs for cancer surgery.

scientific article published in July 2008

How Well Do All Patient Refined-Diagnosis-Related Groups Explain Costs of Pediatric Cancer Chemotherapy Admissions in the United States?

scientific article published on 26 April 2016

How much of US health care spending provides direct care or benefit to patients?

scientific article published on 29 January 2019

Impact of processes of care aimed at complication reduction on the cost of complex cancer surgery

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Market Competition and Health Outcomes in Hemodialysis

scientific article published on 22 February 2018

Market Consolidation and Mortality in Patients Initiating Hemodialysis

scientific article published on 27 July 2018

Measuring the Volume-Outcome Relation for Complex Hospital Surgery.

scientific article published on 15 April 2016

Medicare eligibility and physician utilization among adults with coronary heart disease and stroke.

scientific article published in June 2012

Physical and mental health status of Hurricane Katrina evacuees in Houston in 2005 and 2006.

scientific article published on May 2009

Predictors of Delay in Starting Radiation Treatment for Patients with Early Stage Breast Cancer

scientific article published on 01 April 1998

Refinement of the Affordable Care Act

scientific article published on 25 August 2017

Regional differences in recommended cancer treatment for the elderly.

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Standards for Measures Used for Public Reporting of Efficiency in Health Care

scientific article published on 01 October 2008

State deregulation and Medicare costs for acute cardiac care.

scientific article published on 2 October 2012

The "American (cancer) patients first" plan to reduce drug prices-A critical assessment

scientific article published on 09 October 2018

The Aging of Biomedical Research in the United States

scientific article published on December 28, 2011

The affordable care act-a new way forward.

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The grand impact of the Gates Foundation. Sixty billion dollars and one famous person can affect the spending and research focus of public agencies

scientific article published on May 2008

The influence of complications on the costs of complex cancer surgery

scientific article published on 30 December 2013

Using Medicare data to measure vertical integration of hospitals and physicians

scientific article published on 04 February 2020

Weighing the Effects of Vertical Integration Versus Market Concentration on Hospital Quality

scientific article published on 09 February 2019