Health Care Episodes: Definition, Measurement and Use

*Senior Investigator, Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research, Portland, Ore.; Associate Professor, Department of Community Health Care Systems, School of Nursing, The Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland. †Internist, Northwest Permanente, P.C., Physicians and Surgeons, Portland, Ore.; Adjunct Senior Investigator, Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research, Portland; Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, School of Medicine, The Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland. ‡Senior Investigator, Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research, Portland, Ore. Health care differs from other commodities because it is

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