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- Title
Analysis of hospital length of stay and discharge destination using hazard functions with unmeasured heterogeneity.
- Authors
Gabriel Picone; R. Mark Wilson; Shin-Yi Chou
- Abstract
The hospital length-of-stay and the discharge destination of a Medicare patient are the outcomes of one decision process involving the interests of the patient, the hospital, and the firms offering covered post-hospital care. We use a competing risk hazard estimation procedure and adjust for unobserved heterogeneity with a non-parametric technique to identify significant factors in the decision process. A patient's health and socio-economic characteristics, the availability of informal care, local market area conditions, and Medicare policies influence length-of-stay and discharge destination. The substitution we find between hospital and post-hospital care and among post-hospital care alternatives has policy implications for Medicare. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
- Subjects
LENGTH of stay in hospitals; MEDICARE; HOSPITAL care; HOSPITAL admission &; discharge; HOSPITAL administration; HEALTH services administration
- Publication
Health Economics, 2003, Vol 12, Issue 12, p1021
- ISSN
1057-9230
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/hec.800