Choice of NHS-funded Hospital Services in England*
Choice of NHS-funded Hospital Services in England*
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1468-0297.2012.02496.x
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发表时间：
2012-05-01
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影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
Collyer, Kate
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作者：
Beckert, Walter;Christensen, Mette;Collyer, Kate
本文探讨选择医院择期髋关节置换术的患者在英格兰，使用患者发作水平的数据，从医院Epperiment统计记录。这篇文章主要是方法：我们估计的需求模型，允许观察到的患者特征的异质性，并演示如何使用此模型来模拟医院之间的合并的影响。我们的文章有助于医院选择的实证文献，并提供了一种新的方法来模拟医院之间的兼并与管制价格。重要的是，在一个以质量竞争的行业中，我们的需求模型估计还确定了重要的质量选择维度。
This article examines the choice of hospital for elective hip replacements amongst patients in England, using patient-episode level data from the Hospital Episodes Statistics records. The article is primarily methodological: we estimate a demand model that allows for heterogeneity across observed patient characteristics and demonstrate how to use this model to simulate the effect of mergers between hospitals. Our article contributes to the empirical literature on hospital choice and provides a novel method for simulating mergers between hospitals with regulated prices. Importantly, in an industry that competes on quality, our demand model estimations also identify important quality dimensions of choice.