Policy Hospital Competition Can Impact Your Health

[Lawpy]

Here’s a useful video:



Major takeaway is when competition falls, rates of mortality and major health setbacks increase.

Thoughts? @VA Hopeful Dr @sb247 and everyone interested

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[deleted480308]

I generally find competing seems to make almost all fields produce at a higher level

 

[SurfingDoctor]

Hmm. The data for congenital heart surgery is the exact opposite. It’s almost is if you can make one size fit all...

 

[Lawpy]

Hmm. The data for congenital heart surgery is the exact opposite. It’s almost is if you can make one size fit all...

Could you post a few references? Just curious

 

[SurfingDoctor]

Could you post a few references? Just curious

There are too many to post. Look up “Regionalization” and “Congenital Heart Disease”

Here, I’ll start you off:

Impact of pediatric cardiac surgery regionalization on health care utilization and mortality - PubMed

Regionalization reduced mortality and cost, indicating fewer complications, but paradoxically increased LOS. Further research is needed to explore the full impact on health care utilization.

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Now, the question is is mortality a good benchmark for the efficacy of healthcare delivery in the first place. That’s highly debatable.