Petter Lundborg
Professor
Estimating returns to hospital volume : Evidence from advanced cancer surgery
Författare
Summary, in English
High-volume hospitals typically perform better than low-volume hospitals. In this paper, we study whether such patterns reflect a causal effect of case volume on patient outcomes. To this end, we exploit closures and openings of entire cancer clinics in Swedish hospitals which provides sharp and arguably exogenous variation in case volumes. Using detailed register data on more than 100,000 treatment episodes of advanced cancer surgery, our results suggest substantial positive effects of operation volume on survival. Complementary analyses point to learning-by-doing as an important explanation.
Avdelning/ar
- Nationalekonomiska institutionen
Publiceringsår
2019
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
81-99
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Journal of Health Economics
Volym
63
Länkar
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Elsevier
Ämne
- Health Care Service and Management, Health Policy and Services and Health Economy
Nyckelord
- Cancer surgery
- Causal effect
- Hospital case volume
- Learning-by-doing
- Survival
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 0167-6296