Sustainability of Public Finances and the Rising Costs of Long Term Care in the Netherlands
In: Netspar Discussion Paper No. 05/2015-071
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In: Netspar Discussion Paper No. 05/2015-071
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In: Medical care research and review, Band 80, Heft 2, S. 187-204
ISSN: 1552-6801
To improve the quality of nursing home care, reliable estimates of outcomes are essential. Obtaining such estimates requires optimal use of limited data, especially for small homes. We analyze the variation in mortality and hospital admissions across nursing homes in the Netherlands during the years 2010–2013. We use administrative data on all nursing home clients. We apply mixed-effects survival models, empirical Bayes estimation, and machine-learning techniques to optimally use the available longitudinal data. We find large differences in both outcomes across nursing homes, yet the estimates are surrounded by substantial uncertainty. We find no correlation between performance on mortality and avoidable hospital admissions, suggesting that these are related to different aspects of quality. Hence, caution is needed when evaluating the performance of individual nursing homes, especially when the number of outcome indicators is limited.
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In: JHLTHEC-D-23-00309
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In: NBER Working Paper No. w29203
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In: IZA Discussion Paper No. 14745
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