Journal article
On the tension between standardized and customized policies in health care: The case of length-of-stay reduction
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Hospitals increasingly adopt standardized policies as a way to improve the efficiency of health care delivery. One key policy has been to reduce a patient's length of stay, which is commonly perceived as an effective means of improving patient outcome, as well as reducing the cost per procedure. We put this notion to the empirical test by using a database of 183,712,784 medical records of patients in the English NHS between 1998 and 2012, studying the effects of the NHS's policy of decreasing...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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(Preview, Accepted manuscript, pdf, 540.4KB, Terms of use)
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1002/joom.1016
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- Publisher:
- Wiley
- Journal:
- Journal of Operations Management More from this journal
- Volume:
- 66
- Issue:
- 1-2
- Pages:
- 135-150
- Publication date:
- 2019-04-22
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-12-13
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- ISSN:
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0272-6963
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English
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pubs:995604
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pubs:995604
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995604
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2019-09-09
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- Copyright holder:
- Association for Supply Chain Management, Inc
- Copyright date:
- 2019
- Rights statement:
- © 2019 Association for Supply Chain Management, Inc.
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This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available from Wiley at https://doi.org/10.1002/joom.1016
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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