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We analyze mortality and follow-up costs of heart attack patients using administrative data from Austria from 2002 … effect on 3-year mortality is -9.5 percentage points. A separation of the sample into subgroups shows the strongest effects … in relative terms for patients below the age of 65. We do not find significant effects on longterm inpatient costs and …
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We analyze mortality and follow-up costs of heart attack patients using administrative data from Austria from 2002 … effect on 3-year mortality is -9.5 percentage points. A separation of the sample into subgroups shows the strongest effects … in relative terms for patients below the age of 65. We do not find significant effects on longterm inpatient costs and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011310801
We analyze mortality and follow-up costs of heart attack patients using administrative data from Austria from 2002 … effect on 3-year mortality is -9.5 percentage points. A separation of the sample into subgroups shows the strongest effects … in relative terms for patients below the age of 65. We do not find significant effects on long-term inpatient costs and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011382725
We analyze mortality and follow-up costs of heart attack patients using administrative data from Austria from 2002 … effect on 3-year mortality is -9.5 percentage points. A separation of the sample into subgroups shows the strongest effects … in relative terms for patients below the age of 65. We do not find significant effects on longterm inpatient costs and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012316321
receiving only conservative treatment. We relate mortality reduction to the additional costs for this treatment and conclude …Medical technological progress has been shown to be the main driver of health care costs. A key policy question is … whether new treatment options are worth the additional costs. In this paper we assess the causal effect of percutaneous …
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This paper examines the causal effect of the experience of a hospital with treating hip fractures (volume) on treatment outcome for patients. A full sample of administrative data from Germany for the year 2007 is used. We apply an instrumental variable approach to eliminate endogeneity concerns...
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treatment. We relate mortality reduction to the additional costs for this treatment and conclude that PTCA treatment is cost …Medical technological progress has been shown to be the main driver of health care costs. A key policy question is … whether new treatment options are worth the additional costs. In this analysis we assess the causal effect of percutaneous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012294266
We investigate the impact of obstetrician supervision, as opposed to midwife supervision, on the short-term health of low-risk newborns. We exploit a unique policy rule in the Netherlands that creates a large discontinuity in the probability of a low-risk birth being attended by an obstetrician...
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We investigate the impact of early-life medical interventions on low-risk newborn health. A policy rule in The Netherlands creates large discontinuities in medical treatments at gestational week 37. Using a regression discontinuity design, we find no health benefits from additional treatments...
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geographic inequality in mortality for midlife Americans increased by about 70 percent from 1992 to 2016. This was not simply … the largest health gains during the last several decades. Nor was higher dispersion in mortality caused entirely by the …, state-level mortality has become increasingly correlated with state-level income; in 1992 income explained only 3 percent of …
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