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<div class="csl-entry">Ghislandi, S., Renner, A.-T., Benedetta, S., & Varghese, N. (2023, June 17). <i>Hospital closures and patient outcomes: Evidence from AMI emergency admissions in Italy</i> [Conference Presentation]. 36th Annual Conference of the European Society for Population Economics (ESPE) 2023, Belgrad, Serbia.</div>
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dc.identifier.uri
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12708/192581
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dc.description.abstract
Budget cuts following the 2008 financial crisis in Europe often targeted the hospital sector. This paper investigates i) the causal health impacts of reduced hospital supply, and ii) possible mechanisms to explain these. Using a staggered difference-in-differences framework, we study the effects of hospital closures on outcomes of all heart attack patients admitted to an Italian hospital between 2008 and 2015. Results show that closures increased in-hospital mortality by 10% and length-of-stay by 0.3 days, but had no impact on readmissions. We explore potential mechanisms using different estimation approaches, and show that increased travel time following closures explains most of the mortality effect.
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en
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dc.subject
hospital closures
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dc.subject
heart attack
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dc.subject
mortality
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dc.subject
patient outcomes
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dc.subject
travel time
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dc.title
Hospital closures and patient outcomes: Evidence from AMI emergency admissions in Italy
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dc.type
Presentation
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dc.type
Vortrag
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dc.contributor.affiliation
Bocconi University, Italy
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dc.contributor.affiliation
Bocconi University, Italy
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dc.contributor.affiliation
Bocconi University, Italy
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dc.type.category
Conference Presentation
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tuw.researchTopic.id
X1
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tuw.researchTopic.name
Beyond TUW-research foci
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tuw.researchTopic.value
100
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tuw.publication.orgunit
E280-03 - Forschungsbereich Finanzwissenschaft und Infrastrukturpolitik
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tuw.event.name
36th Annual Conference of the European Society for Population Economics (ESPE) 2023