Van Gestel, Raf; Broekman, Niels; Müller, Tobias (2023). Surgeon supply and healthcare quality: Are revision rates for hip and knee replacements lower in hospitals that employ more surgeons? Health economics, 32(10), pp. 2298-2321. Wiley 10.1002/hec.4727
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We study the link between department-wide surgeon supply and quality of care for two major elective medical procedures. Several countries have adopted policies to concentrate medical procedures in high-volume hospitals. While higher patient volumes might translate to higher quality, we provide evidence for a positive relationship between surgeon supply and hospital revision rates for hip and knee replacement surgery. Hence, hospital performance decreases with higher surgeon supply, and this finding holds conditional on patient volumes.
Item Type: |
Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
03 Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences > Department of Economics |
UniBE Contributor: |
Müller, Tobias Benjamin |
Subjects: |
300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 330 Economics |
ISSN: |
1099-1050 |
Publisher: |
Wiley |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Pubmed Import |
Date Deposited: |
06 Jul 2023 15:57 |
Last Modified: |
02 Sep 2023 00:16 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1002/hec.4727 |
PubMed ID: |
37408140 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: |
healthcare quality surgeon supply volume-outcome relationship |
BORIS DOI: |
10.48350/184551 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/184551 |
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