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| Tekijä: | Balakrishnan, R. Soderstrom, N. S. |
| Otsikko: | The Cost of System Congestion: Evidence from the Healthcare Sector |
| Lehti: | Journal of Management Accounting Research
2000 : VOL. 12, p. 97-114 |
| Asiasana: | COSTS HEALTH REGRESSION ANALYSIS |
| Kieli: | eng |
| Tiivistelmä: | The authors investigate the cost of system congestion using data from 225,473 maternity admissions at 30 hospitals in the state of Washington. The authors identify congested days using the distribution of patient admissions of each hospital-year combination and use the rate of Caesarian sections (C-sections) as the proxy for the cost of congestion. The authors use two separate logistic regressions to investigate the relation between congestion and the decision to operate. The nature of authors findings also suggests that the cost of congestion manifests itself in subtle ways, underscoring the importance of understanding the specifics of the process when we examine issues such as the cost of congestion. |
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