Table 1 Definition of the Variables
From: The cost of readmissions in hospitals: the case of the Spanish public hospitals
TYPE | VARIABLE | DESCRIPTION |
|---|---|---|
Var. Quality | R | Rate of readmissions less than 8 days after discharge |
Output | y1 | Weighted sum of discharges for general medicine, psychiatry, tuberculosis, long stay, pediatrics, gynecology, obstetrics, general surgery and others |
Output | y2 | Discharges from intensive care, burns and neonatal units |
Output | y3 | Weighted sum of outpatient consultations (first and successive) and non-admitted emergencies |
Input | x1 | Medical staff (physicians, pharmacists and other graduates) |
Input | x2 | Non-medical health personnel (nurses, midwives, physiotherapists and others) |
Input | x3 | Other non-health personnel |
Input | x4 | Expenditure on pharmaceuticals (deflated, €2016) |
Input | x5 | Expenditure on consumables (deflated, €2016) |
Input | x6 | Number of operational beds |
Input | x7 | Weighted sum (by price) of diagnostic and therapeutic tests |
Var. Complexity | STUDENTS | Number of students in the hospital |
Var. Complexity | CASE-MIX | Complexity variable (cases treated by the hospital in terms of cost per patient at discharge) |
Costs | C | Hospital expenses |
Var. Complexity | H < 100 beds | Dummy variable (1 if hospital has less than 100 beds) |
Var. Control | GDP_1 | Gross domestic Product lagged |
Var. Control | Dt | Dummy variable for each year (15 years) |
Var. Control | Dh | Dummy variable for each hospital (244 hospitals) |