Martin, Stephen; Street, Andrew; Han, Lu; Hutton, John - Centre for Health Economics, Department of Economics … - 2014
quality, as measured by in-hospital mortality and 28-day emergency readmission. To do this, we exploit the phased introduction … at different times. We estimate regression models to analyse factors associated with patient survival and readmission for …. We find that the probability of survival improved over time while changes in crude readmission rates varied by condition …