Arbeitspapier
Hospital Closures and Short-Run Change in Ambulance Call Times
We measure one aspect of how access to emergency care through ambulance services changes for patients when a hospital closes. We empirically estimate the time needed to transport a patient to an emergency department in an ambulance in the period immediately after the hospital closes. We find urban patients in zip codes where a hospital closes have a small change in transportation time, where rural patients average an estimated 15.7 additional minutes – a 46% increase compared to the year before the closure. This increase is primarily the result of an almost 100 percent increase in the time it takes to transport a patient from the location of the incident to the hospital. The impact on rural Medicare-eligible patients is even larger. We find no change in the time it takes ambulances to arrive at an incident and only a small change in the time spent at the scene.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 12797
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Analysis of Health Care Markets
Health and Inequality
Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
General Regional Economics (includes Regional Data)
- Thema
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ambulance
hospital closure
access to care
rural vs urban
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Chaudhary, Sookti
Davis, Alison
Troske, Kenneth
Troske, SuZanne
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
- (wo)
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Bonn
- (wann)
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2019
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Chaudhary, Sookti
- Davis, Alison
- Troske, Kenneth
- Troske, SuZanne
- Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Entstanden
- 2019
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