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Do waiting times reduce hospital costs?

机译:轮候时间可以减少住院费用吗?

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Using a sample of 137 hospitals over the period 1998-2002 in the English National Health Service, we estimate the elasticity of hospital costs with respect to waiting times. Our cross-sectional and panel-data results suggest that at the sample mean (103 days), waiting times have no significant effect on hospitals' costs or, at most, a positive one. If significant, the elasticity of cost with respect to waiting time from our cross-sectional estimates is in the range 0.4-1. The elasticity is still positive but lower in our fixed-effects specifications (0.2-0.4). In all specifications, the effect of waiting time on cost is non-linear, suggesting a U-shaped relationship between hospital costs and waiting times. However, the level of waiting time which minimises total costs is always below ten days.
机译:我们使用英国国家卫生局1998年至2002年间137家医院的样本,我们估计了医院费用相对于等待时间的弹性。我们的横断面和面板数据结果表明,在样本平均值(103天)下,等待时间对医院的费用没有明显影响,或者最多没有正面影响。如果显着,根据我们的横截面估计,成本相对于等待时间的弹性在0.4-1范围内。弹性仍然是正的,但在我们的固定效果指标中较低(0.2-0.4)。在所有规范中,等待时间对费用的影响都是非线性的,这表明医院费用与等待时间之间呈U型关系。但是,使总成本最小化的等待时间始终低于10天。

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    《Journal of health economics》 |2009年第4期|771-780|共10页
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    Department of Economics and Related Studies, and Centre for Health Economics, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, UK C.E.P.R., 90-98 Coswell Street, London EC1V7DB, UK;

    Department of Health Systems Financing, World Health Organization, Avenue Appia, 20. Geneva 1211, Switzerland;

    Centre for Health Economics, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, UK;

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    waiting times; costs; hospitals;

    机译:等待时间;费用;医院;

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