TY - JOUR
T1 - Do report cards influence hospital choice? The case of kidney transplantation
AU - Howard, David H.
AU - Kaplan, Bruce
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - The national program to report hospital-level outcomes for transplantation has been in place since 1991, yet it has not been addressed in the existing literature on hospital report cards. We study the impact of reported outcomes on demand at kidney transplant centers. Using a negative binomial regression with hospital fixed effects, we estimate the number of patients choosing each center as a function of reported outcomes. Parameters are identified by the within-hospital variation in outcomes over five successive report cards. We find some evidence that report cards influence younger and college-educated patients, but, overall, report cards do not affect demand.
AB - The national program to report hospital-level outcomes for transplantation has been in place since 1991, yet it has not been addressed in the existing literature on hospital report cards. We study the impact of reported outcomes on demand at kidney transplant centers. Using a negative binomial regression with hospital fixed effects, we estimate the number of patients choosing each center as a function of reported outcomes. Parameters are identified by the within-hospital variation in outcomes over five successive report cards. We find some evidence that report cards influence younger and college-educated patients, but, overall, report cards do not affect demand.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=33748951532&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=33748951532&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.5034/inquiryjrnl_43.2.150
DO - 10.5034/inquiryjrnl_43.2.150
M3 - Article
C2 - 17004644
AN - SCOPUS:33748951532
VL - 43
SP - 150
EP - 159
JO - Inquiry (United States)
JF - Inquiry (United States)
SN - 0046-9580
IS - 2
ER -