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Costs of polish county hospitals-A behavioral panel function
- Source :
- PLoS ONE, Vol 17, Iss 1, p e0262646 (2022), PLoS ONE
- Publication Year :
- 2022
- Publisher :
- Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2022.
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Abstract
- In the paper the costs of Polish county hospitals in 2015–2018 are studied using behavioral cost function. The set of variables combines hospitals’ characteristics which may determine their level of costs, such as the form of ownership, bed turnover rate, number of patient-days and share of beds in emergency department with environment characteristics which may influence both outsourcing costs and patients’ health. In 2017 the system of basic hospital service provision (hospital network) was introduced in Poland. Dummy variables included in the model represent the category of hospital in the system. The results show that the costs may be described using fixed effect panel model. Positive impact of percentage of emergency department patients transferred to other departments and of wages is found. Higher ratio of residents and interns to doctors is found to decrease costs. Dummy variable for the period after the introduction of hospital network assumed a negative sign with costs, but the parameter remained insignificant.
- Subjects :
- Employment
Hospitals, County
Critical Care and Emergency Medicine
Patients
Economics
Health Care Providers
Cost-Benefit Analysis
Science
Social Sciences
Nurses
Population Metrics
Physicians
Outpatients
Medicine and Health Sciences
Salaries
Humans
Medical Personnel
Hospital Costs
health care economics and organizations
Population Density
Health Services Needs and Demand
Multidisciplinary
Population Biology
Salaries and Fringe Benefits
Ownership
Biology and Life Sciences
Hospitals
humanities
Health Care
Professions
Health Care Facilities
Labor Economics
People and Places
Medicine
Population Groupings
Poland
Emergency Service, Hospital
Research Article
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 19326203
- Volume :
- 17
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- PLoS ONE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....c13db7e071699205ac289c9bb7f91ec7