Severity of Illness and the Duration of Intensive Care

Anand Acharya (), Lynda Khalaf, Marcel Voia, Myra Yazbeck () and David Wensley ()
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Anand Acharya: Carleton University
David Wensley: University of British Columbia

No 2021-003, Working Papers from Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Working Group

Abstract: Severity of illness scores may introduce or perpetuate bias when used to ration or prioritize intensive care. Using an economic framework that accounts for both demand and supply{side pathways, we nd direct physiology to be the relevant driver of intensive care utilization. A deeper implication and key take{away is that (i) including treatments and diagnosis in severity scores provides a channel to perpetuate bias in the triage process and (ii) evidence of this bias is drawn from unobserved patient{level factors working from both demand and supply{side directions.

Keywords: triage; supply-side; intensive care; ICU (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I10 I14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-01
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