van den Heuvel, Jaap MD, MBA; Bogers, Ad J. J. C.; Does, Ronald J. M. M.; van Dijk, Sandra L.; Berg, Marc
Canisius Wilhelmina Hospital, Nijmegen (Dr van den Heuvel); the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam (Dr Bogers); the Institute for Business and Industrial Statistics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam (Dr Does); the Red Cross Hospital, Beverwijk (Ms van Dijk); and the Institute of Health Policy and Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam (Dr Berg), The Netherlands.
Corresponding author: Jaap van den Heuvel, MD, MBA, Canisius Wilhelmina Hospital, Postbus 9015, 6500 GS Nijmegen, The Netherlands (e-mail: [email protected]).
The authors thank Marco Jonker (Red Cross Hospital) and Ivo Cerfontaine (Canisius-Wilhelmina Hospital) for collecting and processing the data. The authors also thank Prismant, Utrecht, the Netherlands, for providing referential data.