TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Gobillon, Laurent
AU  - Milcent, Carine
        TI  - Evaluating the Effect of Ownership Status on Hospital Quality: The Key Role of Innovative Procedures
        PY  - 2012/Dec/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 7082
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp7082
        AB  - Mortality differences between university, non-teaching public and for-profit hospitals are investigated using a French exhaustive administrative dataset on patients admitted for heart attack. Our results show that innovative procedures play a key role in explaining the effect of ownership status on hospital quality. When age, sex, diagnoses and co-morbidities are held constant, the mortality rates in for-profit and university hospitals are similar, but they are lower than in public non-teaching hospitals. When additionally controlling for innovative procedures, the mortality rate is higher in for-profit hospitals than in the two groups of public hospitals. This suggests that the quality of care in for-profit hospitals relies on innovative procedures and that, after controlling for case-mix and innovative treatments, there is a better quality of care in public hospitals.
        KW  - hospital performance
KW  - innovative procedures
KW  - hospital quality
KW  - stratified duration model
        ER  -