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ProfessorCarolPropper

Business School

Chair in Economics
 
 
 
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414City and Guilds BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Publications

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@article{Kunz:2023:10.1016/j.jue.2022.103472,
author = {Kunz, J and Propper, C},
doi = {10.1016/j.jue.2022.103472},
journal = {Journal of Urban Economics},
title = {JUE Insight: Is hospital quality predictive of pandemic deaths? evidence from US counties},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jue.2022.103472},
volume = {133},
year = {2023}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - In the large literature on the spatial-level correlates of COVID-19, the association between quality of hospital care and outcomes has received little attention to date. To examine whether county-level mortality is correlated with measures of hospital performance, we assess daily cumulative deaths and pre-crisis measures of hospital quality, accounting for state �xed-e�ects and potential confounders. As a measure of quality, we use the pre-pandemic adjusted �ve-year penalty rates for excess 30-day readmissions following pneumonia admissions for the hospitals accessible to county residents based on ambulance travel patterns. Our adjustment corrects for socio-economic status and down-weighs observations based on small samples. We �nd that a one-standard-deviation increase in the quality of local hospitals is associated with a 2% lower death rate (relative to the mean of 20 deaths per 10,000 people) one and a half years after the �rst recorded death.
AU  - Kunz,J
AU  - Propper,C
DO  - 10.1016/j.jue.2022.103472
PY  - 2023///
SN  - 0094-1190
TI  - JUE Insight: Is hospital quality predictive of pandemic deaths? evidence from US counties
T2  - Journal of Urban Economics
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jue.2022.103472
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/97788
VL  - 133
ER  -
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