ArticleHealth services research1995
Excess acute care bed capacity and its causes: the experience of New York State.
Article in Health services research, 1995. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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- Do more hospital beds lead to higher hospitalization rates? a spatial examination of Roemer's Law.PloS one · 2013Article
- Variation in hospital length of stay: do physicians adapt their length of stay decisions to what is usual in the hospital where they work?Health services research · 2006Article
- Strategies for cutting hospital beds: the impact on patient service.Health services research · 2001Article
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Abstract
objectiveThe study was developed to identify numbers of excess hospital medical-surgical and pediatric bed capacity and the variables that produce them in the counties of New York State. DATA SOURCES/STUDY
settingData were collected from New York's Statewide Planning and Research Cooperative System (SPARCS) for 1991. This system includes data for all hospital discharges in New York State by county. The counties of New York State include a full range of urban, suburban, and rural settings. STUDY
designA methodology was developed for projecting excess numbers of acute medical-surgical and pediatric beds. The impact of utilization variables (such as hospital discharge rates and lengths of stay) on bed levels were analyzed, as well as the effects of demographic, social, and health care resource availability. DATA COLLECTION/EXTRACTION
methodsData were collected through discharge abstracts provided by hospitals in New York State. PRINCIPAL
findingsThe data demonstrated that hospital discharges and lengths of stay contributed to excess utilization at different levels in New York State counties. The data also identified relationships between lower incomes and educational levels, as well as larger supplies of physicians and high-variation discharges, and excess beds.
conclusionsThe causes of excess hospital beds varied considerably among communities in New York State; each community must develop its own approach to this problem.
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