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Modern Management Practices and Hospital Admissions.
- Source :
- Health Economics; Apr2016, Vol. 25 Issue 4, p470-485, 16p
- Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- We investigate whether the modern management practices and publicly reported performance measures are associated with choice of hospital for patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI). We define and measure management practices at approximately half of US cardiac care units using a novel survey approach. A patient's choice of a hospital is modeled as a function of the hospital's performance on publicly reported quality measures and the quality of its management. The estimates, based on a grouped conditional logit specification, reveal that higher management scores and better performance on publicly reported quality measures are positively associated with hospital choice. Management practices appear to have a direct correlation with admissions for AMI--potentially through reputational effects--and indirect association, through better performance on publicly reported measures. Overall, a one standard deviation change in management practice scores is associated with an 8% increase in AMI admissions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- MYOCARDIAL infarction treatment
CLINICAL medicine
COMPARATIVE studies
CORONARY care units
DECISION making
HEALTH facility administration
HOSPITAL admission & discharge
RESEARCH methodology
MEDICAL cooperation
PATIENTS
PUBLIC health laws
RESEARCH
RESEARCH funding
SURVEYS
EVALUATION research
KEY performance indicators (Management)
MEDICAL offices
OFFICE management
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10579230
- Volume :
- 25
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Health Economics
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 113445321
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.3171