The impact of office-based care on hospitalizations for ambulatory care sensitive conditions

Leonie Sundmacher () and Thomas Kopetsch

The European Journal of Health Economics, 2015, vol. 16, issue 4, 365-375

Abstract: Our models suggest that additional medical services reduce the rate of hospitalizations for ACSCs but that this correlation depends on the absolute level of office-based services in a county, all covariates being held equal. Ceteris paribus counties with a very high volume of services exhibit ‘flat-of-the-curve medicine’, while counties with a very low current level of specific medical services benefit most from an increase in those specific services. Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015

Keywords: Ambulatory care sensitive indications (ACSC); Avoidable hospitalizations; Outcomes; Germany; I120; I18; C490 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/s10198-014-0578-4

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