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http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/23736| Title: | The association between hospital cooperation and the quality of healthcare |
| Authors: | Berta, P Vinciotti, V Moscone, F |
| Keywords: | hospital cooperation;patient flows;social relation model;healthcare quality |
| Issue Date: | 7-Jan-2022 |
| Publisher: | Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group) |
| Citation: | Berta, P., Vinciotti, V. and Moscone, F. (2022) 'The association between hospital cooperation and the quality of healthcare', Regional Studies, 56 (11), pp. 1858 - 1873 (16). doi: 10.1080/00343404.2021.2009792. |
| Abstract: | Copyright © 2022 The Author(s). Motivated by reasons such as patients’ needs, lack of resources, technologies or skills, and quality, hospital managers may engage in cooperative behaviours. We study the determinants of patients’ transfers, a specific form of cooperation, and quantify its association with the quality delivered by the origin and destination hos- pital. Using Italian administrative data, we handle the network structure embedded in the data by adopting an over-dispersed Poisson mixed model. Our results show a positive relationship between hospital cooperation and quality. The introduction of transferal protocols that exploit information on hospital quality may further im- prove the overall quality of the healthcare sector. |
| Description: | The earlier version of this paper appeared as a working paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.04168. All the authors contributed equally to this work. |
| URI: | https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/23736 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2021.2009792 |
| ISSN: | 0034-3404 |
| Appears in Collections: | Brunel Business School Research Papers |
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