News and Press Releases
Here you can find appearances of the Center for Outcomes Research (COR) in the news sharing new discoveries and achievements:
- Reuters interviews Dr. Scott Lorch on Death Rates Among Poor Kids Admitted to Neonatal Units
December 20, 2012: Dr. Scott Lorch comments on a study performed by the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine that found socioeconomic disparity in pediatric hospital death rates. - Dr. Scott Lorch's Research on the Closing of Maternity Units Featured in the Philadelphia Business Journal
November 16, 2012: The article discusses the felt impacts of a higher volume of deliveries in the handful of units that remained open among pregnant women as well as the hospitals themselves. - Dr. Scott Lorch's Research on the Closing of Maternity Units Featured in the Philadelphia Inquirer
October 5, 2012: For the period between 1995 and 2005 the data showed a spike in infant mortality after the first few units closed, but the rebound to the pre-closure infant mortality rate was fast. - COR Research on High-Level Neonatal Intensive Care Units and Outcomes Among Premature Infants Featured in NewsMedical.Net
July 16, 2012: Dr. Scott Lorch comments on a study that found differential mortality and complication rates in low versus high-technology, high-volume NICUs. - Correcting Dartmouth, Consumer Reports, and Atul Gawande: AcademyHealth Honors Research Papers Contradicting 'Aggressive' Hospital Outcome Assumptions
June 16, 2011: The Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics explores the policy implications of the COR's award-winning findings on aggressive treatment. - Center for Outcomes Research wins Article of the Year at AcademyHealth's 2011 Annual Research Meetinge
June 13, 2011: CHOP congratulates COR on its award for a recent study that challenged popular beliefs about the usefulness of aggressive treatment on elderly patients.
Dr. Silber with award - Dr. Jeffrey Silber Discusses Aggressive Treatment With the New York Times
February 3, 2011: In this article, Dr. Silber explains failure-to-rescue and discusses his findings on aggressive treatment and outcomes, as well as their implications to proposed cuts in Medicare spending.
- The Incidental Economist Asks "What is 'Waste' in Health Care?"
January 12, 2011: The article uses the paper by Dr. Jeffrey Silber and Colleague "Evidence on the Efficacy of Inpatient Spending on Medicare Patients," published in Milbank Quarterly, as a jumping board to question the theory that additional spending does not produce more value in health care. - Market Forces May Eventually Change the Mission of Children's Hospitals, Says Dr. Jeffrey Silber in thePittsburgh Business Times
March 8, 1999: A COR study is cited that found that children’s hospitals are at a financial disadvantage relative to non-pediatric-focused hospitals because they treat a higher proportion of children with chronic illness, and services for chronic illness are reimbursed less than services for acute illness. - Science Daily Cites COR Study Regarding Racial Disparities in Surgical Outcomes
February 16, 2009: Looking at Medicare data between 2000-2005, Dr. Jeffrey Silber and colleagues found evidence for a survival advantage among white patients who underwent surgery at teaching hospitals, but no advantage among black surgical patients.