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

• Main Authors: Daniel Pincus (Author), Jessica Widdifield (Author), Karen S. Palmer (Author), J. Michael Paterson (Author), Alvin Li (Author), Anjie Huang (Author), David Wasserstein (Author), Lauren Lapointe-Shaw (Author), Adalsteinn Brown (Author), Monica Taljaard (Author), Noah M. Ivers (Author)
• Format: Knjiga
• Izdano: BMC, 2021-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Teme: article
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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...