| The impact of early discharge laws on the health of newborns. | |
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PMID: 18308409 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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Using an interrupted time series design and a census of births in California over a 6-year period, we show that state and federal laws passed in the late 1990s designed to increase the length of postpartum hospital stays reduced considerably the fraction of newborns that were discharged early. The law had little impact on re-admission rates for privately insured, vaginally delivered newborns, but reduced re-admission rates for privately insured c-section-delivered and Medicaid-insured vaginally delivered newborns by statistically significant amounts. Our calculations suggest the program was not cost saving. |
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Authors:
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William N Evans; Craig Garthwaite; Heng Wei; |
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Publication Detail:
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Type: Journal Article Date: 2008-01-04 |
Journal Detail:
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Title: Journal of health economics Volume: 27 ISSN: 0167-6296 ISO Abbreviation: J Health Econ Publication Date: 2008 Jul |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 2008-06-10 Completed Date: 2008-09-30 Revised Date: - |
Medline Journal Info:
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Nlm Unique ID: 8410622 Medline TA: J Health Econ Country: Netherlands |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 843-70 Citation Subset: H |
Affiliation:
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Department of Economics and Econometrics, University of Notre Dame, 440 Flanner Hall, Notre Dame, IN 46556, United States. wevans1@nd.edu |
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Adult California Health Status* Humans Infant, Newborn Insurance Coverage Insurance, Health Length of Stay / legislation & jurisprudence* Medicaid Models, Econometric Patient Discharge / legislation & jurisprudence* Patient Readmission / trends Postpartum Period United States |
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