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Swamped : emergency department crowding and patient mortality

Woodworth, Lindsey - In: Journal of health economics 70 (2020), pp. 1-17

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Effects of emergency department length of stay on inpatient utilization and mortality

Ma, Kai-Jie; Hsu, Yi-Chen; Pan, Wei-Wen; Chou, Ming-Hsien; … - 2025

from 42,139 patients at a central Taiwan medical center, using generalized estimating equations (GEE) to evaluate hospital … longer ED stays led to increased hospital stays: patients with 24-48 h in the ED had an additional 2.27 days (P < 0.001), and ….225 (P < 0.001). Conclusion Prolonged ED stays are associated with longer hospital stays, higher mortality risks, and lower …

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The Mortality Effects of Healthcare Consolidation : Evidence from Emergency Department Closures

Chatterji, Pinka; Ho, Chun-Yu; Wu, Xue - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We examine whether loss of emergency department services is associated with county-level mortality rates in rural areas over the period 2005-2018. We use a propensity-weighted difference-in-difference approach, comparing counties that lost emergency department services to counties that retained...

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The role of hospital networks in individual mortality

Buitrago, Giancarlo; Rodriguez-Lesmes, Paul; Serna, Natalia - 2024

Narrow hospital networks have proliferated in health systems with managed care. We investigate the causal effect of …-network insurers reduce mortality because they steer patients to higher-quality providers and reduce hospital congestion. Results imply …

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Heterogenous impacts of climate change on morbidity

Hajdu, Tamás - 2025

This paper examines the effect of temperature on emergency department (ED) visits using administrative data covering 50% of the Hungarian population and 3.52 million ED visits from 2009 to 2017. The results show that ED visit rates increase when average temperatures exceed 10°C, primarily...

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Deaths in England and Wales are falling – Does the Austerity Theory Still Apply?

Jones, Rodney - 2019

An alarming rise in deaths since early 2012 has led to a deterioration of life expectancy in the UK and elsewhere in the world. In the UK several studies sought to implicate austerity as the cause of the increased deaths. However, these studies did not cite other studies which document behaviour...

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Does Medicaid Save Lives?

Chen, Jiajia - 2019

In this article, I estimate the effect of the Medicaid expansions that occurred under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) on mortality. The ACA enabled states to expand Medicaid eligibility to all low-income, non-elderly adults. As a result, a significant proportion of...

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Did the ACA Medicaid Expansion save lives?

Borgschulte, Mark; Vogler, Jacob - 2019

We estimate the effect of the Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansion on county-level mortality in the first four years following expansion. We find a reduction in all-cause mortality in ages 20 to 64 equaling 11.36 deaths per 100,000 individuals, a 3.6 percent decrease. This estimate is largely...

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Revisiting the connection between state Medicaid expansions and adult mortality

Courtemanche, Charles; Jones, Jordan; Koumpias, Antonios M. - 2022

This paper examines the impact of Medicaid expansions to parents and childless adults on adult mortality. Specifically, we evaluate the long-run effects of eight state Medicaid expansions from 1994 through 2005 on all-cause, healthcare-amenable, non-healthcareamenable, and HIV-related mortality...

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Does the Quality of Hospital Treatment Vary by Days of the Week?

Schwierz, Christoph; Augurzky, Boris; Wasem, Jürgen - 2009

variation in mortality rates between weekend and weekday admissions. Patients admitted during the weekend exhibit higher in-hospital …

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