Level-I trauma centre treatment effects on return to work in teaching hospitals.

Background Previous research found a positive effect of Level-I trauma centres on return to work outcomes for patients 18-64 years old who were mainly working before injury. Trauma centres were compared to hospitals that differed on average in characteristics such as size and staffing, among others. Thus, a portion of the effect found could be due to general differences in hospital variables rather than the special characteristics of Level I trauma centres. Comparing Level I trauma centres to other Teaching hospitals provides a more refined test of the effect of these centres on return-to-work outcomes. Methods The National Study on the Costs and Outcomes of Trauma (NSCOT) is the main source of data for our empirical investigation. We used non-linear instrumental variables methods to control for unobserved characteristics and restrict the sample to teaching hospitals.

• Autores: Prada Ríos, Sergio Iván; MacKenzie, Ellen J; Salkever, David
• Tipo de recurso: Article of investigation
• Fecha de publicación: 2014
• Institución: Universidad ICESI
• Repositorio: Repositorio ICESI
• Idioma: eng
• OAI Identifier: oai:repository.icesi.edu.co:10906/78323
• Acceso en línea: http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84905501119&partnerID=tZOtx3y1; http://hdl.handle.net/10906/78323; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.injury.2014.02.025
• Rights: openAccess
• License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/