WA hospital patients by almost 3 months between 2000 and 2007, controlling for the patient's age, sex, Diagnosis Related … private insurance), postcode (over 400 postcodes), year of hospital admission, and number of procedures performed.. Estimates … hospital patients, but the implied increase may be smaller--about 2 months. In either case, therapeutic procedure innovation in …

inpatient hospital care, and concluded that “there is no evidence that services provided at home replace hospital services … as a substitute for inpatient hospital care. My analysis is based on longitudinal (panel) data — observations on states … that states that had higher home health care employment growth during the period 1998-2008 tended to have lower hospital …

We investigate the effect of therapeutic procedure innovation in general on the longevity of all hospital patients, i … patient-level data indicate that therapeutic procedure innovation increased the life expectancy of WA hospital patients by … (over 400 postcodes), year of hospital admission, and number of procedures performed.. Estimates based on longitudinal DRG …