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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Sep 27.
Published in final edited form as: JAMA Oncol. 2015 Dec;1(9):1303–1310. doi: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2015.3151

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Risk of death each year (bars) and over time (curve) under the care of different categories of hospitals that treat patients with cancer after Medicare risk adjustment.* Note y-axes are scaled to improve visibility. (PPS = prospective payment system exempt; NCI = hospitals designated by the National Cancer Institute that are not PPS; AMC = Academic hospitals that are not PPS or NCI; Comm = other types of hospitals, *Adjusted for age, sex, median income in the ZIP code of residence and for comorbidity using the 3M CRG software as explained in Methods.)