The effect of funding policy on day of week admissions and discharges in hospitals: The cases of Austria and Canada

Health Policy

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 239-257

  Leonard, Kevin J ^a   Rauner, Marion S ^b   Schaffhauser Linzatti, Michaela Maria ^b   Yap, Richard ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c SCORE Statistical Consulting   (Canada)

Author keywords

Funding policies for inpatients; Health services; Hospitals; Length of stay; Strategic statistical analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; BUDGET; CANADA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL FINANCE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AUSTRIA; BUDGETS; CANADA; ECONOMICS, HOSPITAL; FINANCING, GOVERNMENT; HEALTH POLICY; LENGTH OF STAY; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY; PATIENT ADMISSION; PATIENT DISCHARGE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0037366325     PISSN: 01688510     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-8510(02)00082-9     Document Type: Article

References (67)

1. Anderson G.F., Poullier J.P. Health spending, access, and outcomes: trends in industrialized countries. Health Affairs. 18:(3):1999;178-192.
2. Frank R.G., Lave J.R. A comparison of hospital responses to reimbursement policies for Medicaid psychiatric patients. The Rand Journal of Economics. 20:(4):1989;588-600.
3. Buhaug H. Length of stay in general hospitals. In: Mikitis E, editor. Information, Management and Planning of Health Services, Proceedings of the 25th Meeting of the European Working Group on Operational Research Applied to Health Services. Valmiera (Latvia), July 18-23, 1999: Riga, Latvia: Health Statistics and Medical Technology Agency; 2000. p. 153-160.
4. Thomas J.W., Guire K.E., Horvat G.G. Is patient length of stay related to quality of care? Hospital and Health Services Administration. 42:(4):1997;489-507.
5. Lagoe R.J., Aspling D.L. Enlisting physician support for practice guidelines in hospitals. Health Care Management Review. 21:(4):1996;61-67.
6. Campbell S. If the gut works, use it; the appropriate provision of medical foods can save a bundle. Health Care Strategic Management. 14:(8):1996;14-15.
7. Williams M. Cooperative care, a concept coming of age? Health Management Technology. 16:(5):1995;10-11.
8. Melberg S.E. Effects of changing skill mix. Nursing Management. 28:(11):1997;47-48.
9. Wilkinson R. New technology that will change key services. Hospitals. 62:(10):1988;56-61.
10. Anonymous. Physician access to electronic patient record cuts costs and hospital LOS. Health Care Strategic Management 1998;16(3):9.
11. Anonymous. Adverse drug events in the hospital increase stay, costs, death risks. Employee Benefit Plan Review 1997;51(10):28-29.
12. Murray C.J., Frenk J. A framework for assessing the performance of health systems. Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 78:(6):2000;717-731.
13. Lave J.R., Frank R.G. Effect of the structure of hospital payment on length of stay. Health Services Research. 25:(2):1990;327-347.
14. Becker E.R., Sloan F.A. Utilization of hospital services: the roles of teaching, case mix, and reimbursement. Inquiry. 20:(3):1983;248-257.
15. Hofmarcher MM, Riedel M. Ressourcenverbrauch in der EU: 3:1 fuer den Krankenhaussektor. Vienna, Austria: Institute for Advanced Studies; 2000.
16. Feldstein P. Health care economics. Albany, New York: Delmar Publishers; 1993.
17. Zakoworotny C. Strategies to optimize DRG reimbursement. Topics in Health Care Financing. 20:(1):1993;53-60.
18. Muller A. Medicare prospective payment reforms and hospital utilization, temporary or lasting effects? Medical Care. 31:(4):1993;296-308.
19. Scheffler R.M., Clement D.G., Sullivan S.D., Hu T.W., Sung H.Y. The hospital response to Medicare's Prospective Payment System: an econometric model of Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans. Medical Care. 32:(5):1994;471-485.
20. Smith D.B., Pickard R. Evaluation of the impact of Medicare and Medicaid prospective payment on utilization of Philadelphia area hospitals. Health Services Research. 21:(4):1986;529-546.
21. Gay E.G., Kronenfeld J.J. Regulation, retrenchment - the DRG experience: problems from changing reimbursement practice. Social Science and Medicine. 31:(10):1990;1103-1118.
22. Ellis R.P., McGuire T.G. Hospital response to prospective payment: moral hazard, selection, and practice - style effects. Journal of Health Economics. 15:(3):1996;257-277.
23. Munoz E., Angus G., Calabro S., Mulloy K., Wise L. DRGs, costs, and outcome for plastic surgical patients. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. 82:(1):1988;116-124.
24. Stromberg L., Ohlen G., Svensson O. Prospective payment systems and hip fracture treatment costs. Acta Orthopaedica Scandinavica. 68:(1):1997;6-12.
25. Louis D., Yuen E., Braga M., Ciccetti A., Rabinowitz C., Laine C., Gonnella J. Impact of a DRG-based hospital financing system on quality of care and outcomes in Italy. Health Services Research. 34:(1):1999;405-415.
26. Sommersguter-Reichmann M., Stepan A. Evaluating the new activity-based hospital financing system in Austria. Dockner E., Hartl R., Luptacik M., Sorger G. Optimization, dynamics, and economic analysis. 2000;49-63 Physika-Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany.
27. Rauner M.S., Schaffhauser-Linzatti M.M. Impact of the new Austrian inpatient payment strategy on hospital behavior: a system-dynamics model. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences. 36:2002;161-182.
28. Rauner MS, Schaffhauser-Linzatti MM. Evaluation of the new Austrian inpatient reimbursement system. In: De Angelis V, Ricciardi N, Storchi G, editors. Monitoring, Evaluating, Planning Health Services, 24th Meeting of the European Working Group on Operational Research Applied to Health Services, Rome, (Italy), July 19-24, 1998. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing; 1999. p. 221-233.
29. Sommersguter-Reichmann M. The impact of the Austrian hospital financing reform on hospital productivity: empirical evidence on efficiency and technology changes using a non-parametric input-based Malmquist approach. Health Care Management Science. 3:(4):2000;309-321.
30. Sommersguter-Reichmann M., Stepan A. Ein hierarchisches Informationssystem zur Analyse von Anreizwirkungen in Spitälern. Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft. 70:(4):2000;47-64.
31. Rauner MS, Zeileis A, Schaffhauser-Linzatti MM, Hornik K. Modelling the effects of the Austrian inpatient reimbursement system on length-of-stay distributions. Vienna, Austria; 2001.
32. Ho V., Hamilton B.H., Roos L.L. Multiple approaches to assessing the effects of delays for hip fracture patients in the United States and Canada. Health Services Research. 34:(7):2000;1499-1518.
33. McClellan M., Kessler D. A global analysis of technological change in health care: the case of heart attacks. The TECH Investigators. Health Affairs. 18:(3):1999;250-255.
34. McClellan M., Kessler D. A global analysis of technological change in health care: the case of heart attacks. The TECH Investigators. Health Affairs. 18:(3):2000;250-255.
35. Delesie L. Bridging the gap between clinicians and health managers. European Journal of Operational Research. 105:(2):1998;248-256.
36. Lagergren M. What is the role and contribution of model to management and research in health services? A view from Europe. European Journal of Operational Research. 105:(2):1998;257-266.
37. Neubauer G., Demmler G. Bausteine eines rationalen Krankenverguetungssystems. Neubauer G., Sieben G. Alternative Entgeltverfahren in der Krankenhausversorgung. 1991;13-42 Bleicher, Gerlingen, Germany.
38. Neubauer G., Zelle B. Elemente eines rationalen Krankenhausverguetungssystems. Oesterreichische Krankenhauszeitung. 36:(6):1995;33-36.
39. Fetter R. Diagnosis related groups: understanding hospital performance. Interfaces. 21:(1):1991;6-26.
40. Jonas S. An introduction to the U.S. health care system. 1998;Springer Publishing Company, New York, New York.
41. Federal Ministry of Labour, Health, Social Affairs. Leistungsorientierte Krankenhausfinanzierung LKF 2000. Vienna: Federal Ministry of Labour, Health, and Social Affairs; 1999.
42. Mills A., Bennett S., Siriwanarangsun P., Tangcharoensathien V. The response of providers to capitation payment: a case-study from Thailand. Health Policy. 51:(3):2000;163-180.
43. Federal Ministry of Labour, Health, Social Affairs. Leistungsorientierte Krankenhausfinanzierung LKF 1998. Vienna: Federal Ministry of Labour, Health, and Social Affairs; 1997.
44. Anderson G.M., Newhouse J.P., Roos L.L. Hospital care for elderly patients with diseases of the circulatory system, A comparison of hospital use in the United States and Canada. New England Journal of Medicine. 321:(21):1989;1443-1448.
45. Andersen RM, Rice TH, Kominsiki GF, editors. Changing the U.S. health care system. San Francisco, California: Jossey-Bass; 1996.
46. Sultz HA, Young KM. Health care USA, Understanding its organization and delivery. Gaithersburg, Maryland: Aspen Publishers; 1999.
47. Lamers L.M. Risk-adjusted capitation payments: developing a diagnostic cost groups classification for the Dutch situation. Health Policy. 45:(1):1998;15-32.
48. Arnold M, Litsch M, Schellschmidt H, editors. Krankenhausreport 2000, Schwerpunkt: Verguetungsreform mit DRGs. Stuttgart, Germany: Schaffauer; 2001.
49. Lungen M., Lauterbach K.W. Nutzung von Diagnosis-Related Groups (DRG) im internationalen Vergleich. Chirurg. 71:(10):2000;1288-1295.
50. Son A.H. Modernisation of the system of traditional Korean medicine (1876-1990). Health Policy. 44:(3):1998;261-281.
51. Kristiansen I.S., Pedersen K.M. Health care systems in the Nordic countries - more similarities than differences? Tidsskrift For Den Norske Laegeforening. 120:(17):2000;2023-2029.
52. King D., Maynard A. Public opinion and rationing in the United Kingdom. Health Policy. 50:(1-2):1999;39-53.
53. West P.A. Market - what market? A review of Health Authority purchasing in the NHS internal market. Health Policy. 44:(2):1998;167-183.
54. Ferguson B., Smith P.C. Großbritannien. Stepan A. Finanzierungssysteme im Gesundheitswesen, Ein internationaler Vergleich. 1997;89-110 MANZ, Vienna, Austria.
55. Crichton A., Hsu D. Canada's health care system: its funding and organization. 1990;Canadian Hospital Association Press, Ottawa, Ontario.
56. Stepan A., Sommersguter-Reichmann M. Priority setting in Austria. Health Policy. 50:(1-2):1999;91-104.
57. Hofmarcher MM, Riedel M. Gesundheitsausgaben in der EU: Ohne Privat kein Staat, Schwerpunktthema. Das österreichische Krankenanstaltenwesen - eines oder neun Systeme?, Health System Watch, 1/Frühjahr. Vienna, Austria: Institute for Advanced Studies; 2001.
58. Pfeiffer K.P. The possible effects of a new hospital financing system in Austria. Schwartz W., Glennester H., Saltman R. Fixing health budgets: experience from Europe and North America. 1996;203-212 Wiley, Chichester, Great Britain.
59. Young D.S., Sachais B.S., Jefferies L.C. The costs of disease. Clinical Chemistry. 46:(7):2000;955-966.
60. Ashby J., Guterman S., Greene T. An analysis of hospital productivity and product change. Health Affairs. 19:(5):2000;197-205.
61. Gilman B.H. Hospital response to DRG refinements: the impact of multiple reimbursement incentives on inpatient length of stay. Health Economics. 9:(4):2000;277-294.
62. Horn S.D., Bulkley G., Sharkey P.D., Chambers A.F., Horn R.A., Schramm C.J. Interhospital differences in severity of illness, Problems for prospective payment based on diagnosis-related groups (DRGs). New England Journal of Medicine. 313:(1):1985;20-24.
63. Rupp A., Steinwachs D.M., Salkever D.S. Hospital payment effects on acute inpatient care for mental disorders. Archives of General Psychiatry. 42:(6):1985;552-555.
64. Leibson C.L., Naessens J.M., Campion M.E., Krishan I., Ballard D.J. Trends in elderly hospitalization and readmission rates for a geographically defined population: pre- and post-prospective payment. Journal of the American Geriatric Society. 39:(9):1991;895-904.
65. Bernard A.M., Hayward R.A., Anderson J.E., Rosevear J.S., McMahon L.F. Jr. The integrated inpatient management model, Lessons for managed care. Medical Care. 33:(7):1995;663-675.
66. Menke T.J., Ashton C.M., Petersen N.J., Wolinsky F.D. Impact of an all-inclusive diagnosis-related group payment system on inpatient utilization. Medical Care. 36:(8):1998;1126-1137.
67. Leidl R, editor. Health care and its financing in the single European market. Amsterdam: IOS Press; 1998.