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Published in final edited form as: Reg Sci Urban Econ. 2014 Feb 22;49:217–231. doi: 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2014.02.003

Table 5.

Estimated ICC at the hospital and ward levels.

Wards	2008		2009		2010		2011
	Health outcomes		Health outcomes		Health outcomes		Health outcomes
	MR	RA	MR	RA	MR	RA	MR	RA
Cardiology	0.088^***	0.022^***	0.083^***	0.024^***	0.118^***	0.022^***	0.116^***	0.024^***
General medicine	0.056^***	0.020^***	0.043^***	0.022^***	0.051^***	0.019^***	0.053^***	0.021^***
Hearth surgery	0.065^**	0.005^*	0.091^**	0.012^**	0.084^**	0.011^**	0.119^**	0.007^**
Neurology	0.091^***	0.014^***	0.075^***	0.015^***	0.075^***	0.019^***	0.080^***	0.013^***
Neurosurgery	0.113^***	0.049^**	0.119^**	0.045^***	0.110^***	0.034^***	0.076^**	0.023^***
Oncology	0.147^***	0.149^***	0.171^***	0.131^***	0.130^***	0.139^***	0.105^***	0.090^***
Orthopedics	0.215^***	0.029^***	0.242^***	0.031^***	0.190^***	0.025^***	0.190^***	0.033^***
Surgery	0.138^***	0.031^***	0.162^***	0.027^***	0.128^***	0.033^***	0.140^***	0.033^***

Legend: M = Mortality; RA = Readmissions.

^***

1% significance.

^**

5% significance.

^*

10% significance.