Department of Economics and Business, Colorado College, 14 E, Cache La Poudre St,, Colorado Springs, CO 80903, USA.
Health Econ Rev. 2013 Nov 12;3(1):25. doi: 10.1186/2191-1991-3-25.
: We examine the impact of Emergency Department (ED) overcrowding on wait times and patient outcomes using a unique cross section of about 32,000 patients for an ED located in the Southwestern United States. We construct a measure of a patient's outcome and estimate the extent to which it is worsened by long waits in the ED. We find that waiting at an ED due to overcrowding tends to generate a negative outcome for all patients. We also find that this negative outcome is larger for those on Medicaid or who have no insurance and smaller for those with private insurance or Medicare.
I12; I13.
我们使用美国西南部一个急诊部约 32000 名患者的独特横截面数据,考察了急诊部(ED)拥堵对等待时间和患者结果的影响。我们构建了一个衡量患者结果的指标,并估计了 ED 长时间等待对其造成的恶化程度。我们发现,由于拥堵而在 ED 等待往往会对所有患者产生负面影响。我们还发现,对于那些参加医疗补助计划或没有保险的人来说,这种负面影响更大,而对于那些有私人保险或医疗保险的人来说,负面影响较小。
JEL 分类代码:I12;I13。