Training labor and treatment behavior: Evidence from physician residency programs

IF 2 3区医学 Q2 ECONOMICS

Health economics Pub Date : 2024-06-02 DOI:10.1002/hec.4841

Brendan Rabideau, Michael R. Richards, Christopher M. Whaley

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Abstract

Public and private investments in physician human capital support a healthcare workforce to provide future medical services nationwide. Yet, little is known about how introducing training labor influences hospitals' provision of care. We leverage all-payer data and emergency medicine (EM) and obstetrics (OBGYN) residency program debuts to estimate local access and treatment intensity effects. We find that the introduction of EM programs coincides with less treatment intensity and suggestive increases in throughput. OBGYN programs adopt the pre-existing surgical tendencies of the hospital but may also relax some capacity constraints—allowing the marginal mother to avoid a riskier nearby hospital.

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培训劳动与治疗行为：来自住院医师培训项目的证据。

公共和私人机构对医生人力资本的投资，为未来全国范围内提供医疗服务的医疗队伍提供了支持。然而，人们对引进培训劳动力如何影响医院提供医疗服务却知之甚少。我们利用所有支付方数据以及首次推出的急诊医学（EM）和产科（OBGYN）住院医师培训项目来估算当地的就诊率和治疗强度效应。我们发现，在引入急诊医学项目的同时，治疗强度也有所降低，而吞吐量则有明显增加。妇产科项目采用了医院原有的手术倾向，但也可能放宽了一些能力限制--使边缘化的产妇能够避免到附近风险较高的医院就诊。

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Health economics 医学-卫生保健

CiteScore

3.60

自引率

4.80%

发文量

177

审稿时长

4-8 weeks

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