Seminar: Does long-term care provision reduce hospital bed-blocking?
Evidence from a policy reform in Portugal
The Centre for Health Economics at Monash Business School invites you to the research webinar 'Does long-term care provision reduce hospital bed-blocking? Evidence from a policy reform in Portugal', presented by Ana Moura from Tilburg University.
Hospital bed-blocking occurs when a patient is clinically fit to be discharged but requires some form of support outside the hospital, which is not readily available. The patient remains in the hospital until a safe discharge is possible, resulting in longer lengths of stay. I study whether long-term care (LTC) provision reduces hospital bed-blocking. Using individual data on emergency inpatient admissions at Portuguese hospitals during 2000-2015, I implemented a triple-differences design. This design exploits variation in the entry timing of LTC providers across regions originating from the staggered introduction of the public LTC Network. It also exploits variation in lengths of stay between regular patients and socially vulnerable patients, who lack appropriate support in the community. I find that the entry of home-care teams in a region reduces the length of stay of socially vulnerable patients by 4 days, without affecting the treatment they receive while at the hospital. Reductions in length of stay upon the entry of nursing homes occur only for patients with high care needs. The beds freed up by bed-blockers are used to admit additional elective patients.
Speaker
Ana Moura is a PhD candidate in Economics at Tilburg University (The Netherlands), in the 2020/21 job market. Her research interests include health economics and applied microeconomics, with an emphasis on the effects of regulation and public policies on the healthcare system. Prior to joining Tilburg University, Ana worked as an economist at the Portuguese Statistics Bureau. Ana holds an MRes from Tilburg University as well as BSc and MSc degrees in Economics from Nova School of Business and Economics.
CHE seminar series
At the Centre for Health Economics, we are working on running as many of our seminars as possible online while COVID-19 remains an obstacle to getting together. As we will be working with experts and colleagues in other parts of the world there will be some movement in the times and days that seminars run to take into account different time zones and availabilities. If you would like to be on our seminar email list, please be directly in contact by email to shannon.stanwell@monash.edu.
Hope to see you there!
Event Details
- Date:
- 25 November 2020 at 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
- Venue:
- This seminar will take place via Zoom - please email shannon.stanwell@monash.edu to register
- Categories:
- Health Economics
Description
Evidence from a policy reform in Portugal
The Centre for Health Economics at Monash Business School invites you to the research webinar 'Does long-term care provision reduce hospital bed-blocking? Evidence from a policy reform in Portugal', presented by Ana Moura from Tilburg University.
Hospital bed-blocking occurs when a patient is clinically fit to be discharged but requires some form of support outside the hospital, which is not readily available. The patient remains in the hospital until a safe discharge is possible, resulting in longer lengths of stay. I study whether long-term care (LTC) provision reduces hospital bed-blocking. Using individual data on emergency inpatient admissions at Portuguese hospitals during 2000-2015, I implemented a triple-differences design. This design exploits variation in the entry timing of LTC providers across regions originating from the staggered introduction of the public LTC Network. It also exploits variation in lengths of stay between regular patients and socially vulnerable patients, who lack appropriate support in the community. I find that the entry of home-care teams in a region reduces the length of stay of socially vulnerable patients by 4 days, without affecting the treatment they receive while at the hospital. Reductions in length of stay upon the entry of nursing homes occur only for patients with high care needs. The beds freed up by bed-blockers are used to admit additional elective patients.
Speaker
Ana Moura is a PhD candidate in Economics at Tilburg University (The Netherlands), in the 2020/21 job market. Her research interests include health economics and applied microeconomics, with an emphasis on the effects of regulation and public policies on the healthcare system. Prior to joining Tilburg University, Ana worked as an economist at the Portuguese Statistics Bureau. Ana holds an MRes from Tilburg University as well as BSc and MSc degrees in Economics from Nova School of Business and Economics.
CHE seminar series
At the Centre for Health Economics, we are working on running as many of our seminars as possible online while COVID-19 remains an obstacle to getting together. As we will be working with experts and colleagues in other parts of the world there will be some movement in the times and days that seminars run to take into account different time zones and availabilities. If you would like to be on our seminar email list, please be directly in contact by email to shannon.stanwell@monash.edu.
Hope to see you there!