ArticleAmerican economic journal. Economic policy2016
Capacity and Utilization in Health Care: The Effect of Empty Beds on Neonatal Intensive Care Admission.
Article in American economic journal. Economic policy, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.
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- Declining birth rates, increasing maternal age and neonatal intensive care unit admissions.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2024Article
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- The association of regional perinatal risk factors and neonatal intensive care capacity for Military Health System-insured newborns.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2023Article
- NICUs in the US: levels of acuity, number of beds, and relationships to population factors.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2023Article
- The impact of performance feedback reports on physician ordering behavior in the use of computed tomography pulmonary angiography (CTPA).Emergency radiology · 2023Article
- Experimental evidence of physician social preferences.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Infections, accidents and nursing overtime in a neonatal intensive care unit.The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care · 2022Article
- Concept review of regionalized systems of acute care: Is regionalization the next frontier in sepsis care?Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open · 2022Article
- Trends in neonatal intensive care unit admissions by race/ethnicity in the United States, 2008-2018.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Does waiting times decrease or increase operational costs in short and long-term? Evidence from Portuguese public hospitals.The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care · 2021Article
- Variation of Daily Care Demand in Swiss General Hospitals: Longitudinal Study on Capacity Utilization, Patient Turnover and Clinical Complexity Levels.Journal of medical Internet research · 2021Article
- Docs with their eyes on the clock? The effect of time pressures on primary care productivity.Journal of health economics · 2021Article
- Predicting NICU admissions in near-term and term infants with low illness acuity.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2021Article
- Investigating the association of health system characteristics and health care utilization: a multilevel model in China's ageing population.Journal of global health · 2020Article
- Association of Unexpected Newborn Deaths With Changes in Obstetric and Neonatal Process of Care.JAMA network open · 2020Article
- Effect of Site-Neutral Payment Policy on Long-Term Acute Care Hospital Use.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2018Observational
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Abstract
Because geographic variation in medical care utilization is jointly determined by both supply and demand, it is difficult to empirically estimate whether capacity itself has a causal impact on utilization in health care. In this paper, I exploit short-term variation in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) capacity that is unlikely to be correlated with unobserved demand determinants. I find that available NICU beds have little to no effect on NICU utilization for the sickest infants, but do increase utilization for those in the range of birth weights where admission decisions are likely to be more discretionary.
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