Hospital service areas and Medicaid access in Maryland
| Autor: | Joy Basu |
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| Rok vydání: | 1992 |
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Contiguity
Hospitals Rural Geography Planning and Development Hospitals Community Zip code Health Services Accessibility Market area Hospitals Urban Nursing Catchment Area Health medicine Hospital Planning health care economics and organizations Service (business) Marketing of Health Services Jurisdiction Maryland business.industry Medicaid Health Policy Data Collection Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health medicine.disease United States Medical emergency Health Services Research business Hospital service Algorithms |
| Zdroj: | Journal of healthsocial policy. 4(4) |
| ISSN: | 0897-7186 |
| Popis: | The study defines a service area (rather than a market area) of an individual hospital. Based on patient origin data, algorithms have been developed to select zip codes on the basis of their contributions to a hospital's discharges, and their ability to fulfill a contiguity principle along with a dependence criterion. The service area concept is also used to evaluate the performances of hospitals in terms of the access to care for Medicaid patients. The analysis shows that the hospital's performance in serving Medicaid patients does not significantly depend on its location, nor does it matter whether it is the only hospital in its jurisdiction. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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