Impact du volume d’activité sur les résultats de soins à l’hôpital en France
Abstracts
This study contributes to the literature on the link between hospital volume and outcomes of care by exploiting for the first time the French hospital data at a national level. The analysis tests the existence and the strength of the correlation for eight conditions in order to answer the following question: are the results of care systematically better in hospitals when the activity devoted to this care is higher? The results suggest that activity volumes may be a good measure of regulating quality in certain domains, but there would be little additional benefit to centralize hospital activity beyond a certain point.
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JEL Codes:
H51 - Government Expenditures and Health, I11 - Analysis of Health Care Markets, I18 - Government Policy; Regulation; Public HealthReferences
Bibliographical reference
Zeynep Or and Thomas Renaud, “Impact du volume d’activité sur les résultats de soins à l’hôpital en France”, Économie publique/Public economics, 24-25 | 2012, 187-219.
Electronic reference
Zeynep Or and Thomas Renaud, “Impact du volume d’activité sur les résultats de soins à l’hôpital en France”, Économie publique/Public economics [Online], 24-25 | 2009/1-2, Online since 01 December 2010, connection on 29 May 2023. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/economiepublique/8488; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/economiepublique.8488
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