Veterans Affairs Hospital Productivity Change and the Policy Implications: A Research Note

IF 1.2 3区社会学 Q3 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Armed Forces & Society Pub Date : 2022-06-06 DOI:10.1177/0095327X221094647

D. Oh, A. Han, Keon-Hyung Lee

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Abstract

As a reaction to the Veterans Affairs (VA) hospital scandal in 2014, the Veterans Choice Act of 2014 was enacted to enhance veterans’ access to health care. This study evaluated the productivity change of a panel of 102 VA hospitals from 2011 through 2019 to examine how the Act influenced the overall VA hospital productivity. The results revealed that the overall productivity of VA hospitals declined over the period and VA hospitals were not operating at an optimal scale to produce maximum outputs due to a decrease in the number of veteran patients after the Act was implemented. In addition, the technical change value less than 1 implies that VA hospitals produced fewer outputs with the given input resources over the period due to lagged adoption of innovative health care technology.

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退伍军人事务医院生产力变化及其政策影响:一份研究报告

作为对2014年退伍军人事务部(VA)医院丑闻的回应，2014年颁布了《退伍军人选择法》，以加强退伍军人获得医疗保健的机会。本研究评估了2011年至2019年102家VA医院的生产力变化，以研究该法案如何影响VA医院的整体生产力。结果显示，在此期间，退伍军人医院的整体生产力下降，由于该法案实施后退伍军人病人数量减少，退伍军人医院没有以最佳规模运营以产生最大产出。此外，技术变革值小于1表明，由于创新医疗保健技术的采用滞后，在给定的投入资源下，VA医院在此期间产生的产出较少。

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3.00

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28.60%

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期刊介绍： Armed Forces & Society: an interdisciplinary journal publishing articles on military institutions, civil-military relations, arms control and peacemaking, and conflict management. The journal is international in scope with a focus on historical, comparative, and interdisciplinary discourse. The editors and contributors include political scientists, sociologists, historians, psychologists, scholars, and economists, as well as specialists in military organization and strategy, arms control, and peacekeeping.