mrussell
Dormant account
"We utilize a unique data set collected on nurses’ strikes over the 1984 to 2004 period in New York State, and match these strikes to a restricted-use hospital discharge database which provides information on treatment intensity, patient mortality and hospital readmission.
"Controlling for hospital-specific heterogeneity, patient demographics and disease severity, the results show that nurses’ strikes increase in-hospital mortality by 19.4% and 30-day readmission by 6.5% for patients admitted during a strike, with little change in patient demographics, disease severity or treatment intensity.
"This study provides some of the first analytical evidence on the effects of health care strikes on patients, and suggests that hospitals functioning during nurses’ strikes are doing so at a lower quality of patient care."
http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/13/when-nurses-go-on-strike/#more-38747
"Controlling for hospital-specific heterogeneity, patient demographics and disease severity, the results show that nurses’ strikes increase in-hospital mortality by 19.4% and 30-day readmission by 6.5% for patients admitted during a strike, with little change in patient demographics, disease severity or treatment intensity.
"This study provides some of the first analytical evidence on the effects of health care strikes on patients, and suggests that hospitals functioning during nurses’ strikes are doing so at a lower quality of patient care."
http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/13/when-nurses-go-on-strike/#more-38747
