Updated Variable-Radius Measures of Hospital Competition

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by Carole Roan Gresenz, Jeannette Rogowski, Jose J. Escarce

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The report presents an alphabetical list of variables and attributes to help calculate variable-radius measures of hospital market size and create measures of competition for hospitals' markets.

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