讲座题目:Hospital Discharge: Model, Estimates, and Policy Analyses
面向对象:面向全院师生
主讲嘉宾:曹治(博士候选人)
单位:香港中文大学
学科方向:劳动经济学、健康经济学、产业组织理论
讲座时间:2024年6月11日(周二)上午:10:00-12:00
讲座地点:经济学院407
主办单位:华中科技大学经济学院 华中科技大学现代经济学研究中心 华中科技大学创新发展研究中心
摘要:One of the most important medical decisions is when to discharge a patient: it involves physicians and patients, entails information asymmetry, and occurs in dynamic contexts. Moreover, although the physician cares about the patient's interests, her preference regarding the trade-off between the patient's out-of-pocket expenses and health benefits may differ from the patient's. We develop and structurally estimate a model of discharge decisions that incorporates these features. The model allows us to distinguish between the impacts of a patient's financial incentive and a physician's altruistic and financial incentives on treatment and welfare outcomes. Also, it enables us to isolate the effect of preference inconsistency from the effects of the three incentives. We find that all three incentives raise healthcare expense, while preference inconsistency reduces it. Drawing from our structural estimates, we investigate policies aimed at managing overall expenses while enhancing patient and social welfare, without negatively impacting physician revenue.
中文摘要:判断何时让患者出院是医疗中最重要的决策之一:这不仅需要医生和患者的共同参与,还涉及信息不对称,并且发生在动态环境中。此外,尽管医生关心患者的利益,但她在患者自费开销与健康收益之间的权衡上,可能与患者的偏好不同。我们构建并结构性地估计了一个包含这些特征的出院决策模型。该模型使我们能够区分患者的财务激励与医生的利他和财务激励对治疗和福利结果的影响。此外,它还能让我们分离出偏好不一致的效应与上述三种激励的效应。研究发现,这三种激励都会增加医疗费用,而偏好不一致则会减少费用。基于我们的结构性估计,我们探讨了在不影响医生收入的情况下,控制总体费用并提升患者和社会福利的政策。
作者简介:曹治,华中科技大学经济学院2016级本科,香港中文大学经济学博士生。研究方向为劳动经济学、健康经济学、产业组织理论、计量经济学等。