Title:Regionalized Care on Inter-hospital Transfer of Heart Attack Patients
(Empirical and data analytics)
SUSAN FENG LU
Krannert School of ManagementPurdue University
Time：2018年11月14日 16：00-18:00
Room：將軍路校區(qū)經(jīng)管院702室
We empirically investigate the pattern of where heart attack patients are transferred between hospitals. Using 2011 Florida State Emergency Department and Inpatient Databases, we demonstrate the relative importance of three key factors in determining transfer destinations: hospital relationship, distance, and quality. Our conditional logit analysis shows that the relationship of being affiliated with the same multihospital system plays a dominant role in the choice of transfer destinations, compared to distance and quality. This result is robust to three alternative specifications of choice sets using distance ranking, radius circles, and Hospital Referral Regions. When using 30-day readmission rate to evaluate the health outcome of transferred patients, we find that relationship-based transfers are associated with a much higher readmission rate than distance-based and quality-based transfers. We also find that nonprofit hospitals are more likely to conduct quality-based transfers than their for-profit counterparts. Our study calls for a reevaluation of current practice in interhospital transfer of heart attack patients—a change of protocol for selecting transfer destinations may significantly decrease hospital readmission rates.
SUSAN FENG LU 教授簡(jiǎn)介
SUSAN FENG LU 教授于北京大學(xué)獲得經(jīng)濟(jì)與國(guó)際關(guān)系學(xué)士學(xué)位，及經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)碩士學(xué)位，于美國(guó)西北大學(xué)獲得管理經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)與戰(zhàn)略(Managerial Economics and Strategy, MEDS)博士學(xué)位?，F(xiàn)任普渡大學(xué)克蘭納特管理學(xué)院管理學(xué)助理/終身副教授，博士生導(dǎo)師。主要研究方向有：醫(yī)療管理與分析：?jiǎn)T工管理，質(zhì)量管理，機(jī)器學(xué)習(xí)、非盈利組織管理、創(chuàng)新：技術(shù)更新，科學(xué)生產(chǎn)等等。她在學(xué)習(xí)及工作期間在頂級(jí)國(guó)際刊物及學(xué)術(shù)會(huì)刊上發(fā)表數(shù)十篇論文，部分論文刊登于Science, Review of Economics and Statistics, Management Science, Nature Scientific Reports, Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, World Development, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Health Economics, American Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, American Economic Review及American Journal of Medicine等刊物。
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