Evaluating the effect of ownership status on hospital quality: The key role of innovative procedures

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Mortality differences between university, non-teaching public and for-profit hospitals are investigated using a French exhaustive administrative dataset on patients admitted for heart attack. Our results show that innovative procedures play a key role in explaining the effect of ownership status on hospital quality. When age, sex, diagnoses and co-morbidities are held constant, the mortality rates in for-profit and university hospitals are similar, but they are lower than in public non-teaching hospitals. When additionally controlling for innovative procedures, the mortality rate is higher in for-profit hospitals than in the two groups of public hospitals. This suggests that the quality of care in for-profit hospitals relies on innovative procedures and that, after controlling for case-mix and innovative treatments, there is a better quality of care in public hospitals.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 7082

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Health Behavior ; Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
• Thema: hospital performance ; innovative procedures ; stratified duration model ; hospital quality ; Krankenhaus ; Unternehmenserfolg ; Eigentümerstruktur ; Innovation ; Dienstleistungsqualität ; Öffentliches Unternehmen ; Frankreich

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Gobillon, Laurent ; Milcent, Carine
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (wo): Bonn
• (wann): 2012

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/69446
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ