Effects of hospital funding reform on wait times for hip fracture surgery: a population-based interrupted time-series analysis

Effects of hospital funding reform on wait times for hip fracture surgery: a population-based interrupted time-series analysis

Abstract Background Health care funding reforms are being used worldwide to improve system performance but may invoke unintended consequences. We assessed the effects of introducing a targeted hospital funding model, based on fixed price and volume, for hip fractures. We hypothesized the policy chan...

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Main Authors: Daniel Pincus, Jessica Widdifield, Karen S. Palmer, J. Michael Paterson, Alvin Li, Anjie Huang, David Wasserstein, Lauren Lapointe-Shaw, Adalsteinn Brown, Monica Taljaard, Noah M. Ivers
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-06-01
Series:BMC Health Services Research
Subjects:
Epidemiology
Health Policy
Femur
Fracture Fixation, Internal
Retrospective studies
Ontario
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-021-06601-2

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https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-021-06601-2

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