- Emergency Medical Performance: Why and How Should We Care?
- Lucchese, Elena <1987>
Subject
- SECS-P/01 Economia politica
Description
- This research investigates the effect of Emergency Medical System (EMS) services on patient conditions. In the first chapter of the thesis, I study the causal relationship between the ambulance response time and patient’s severity and mortality rates. I address the problem of endogeneity due to reverse causality by exploiting the hourly amount of rainfall as instrument for the ambulance response time. In the second chapter, I investigate the inefficiency due to the problem of patients’ localization. I perform the analysis at the level of each ambulance mission, and I adopt a difference-in-differences identification strategy to clear the effect of interest by the compounding effect of other unobservables that may correlate with the effect of interest. Finally, in the third chapter I study how the productivity of care providers working in the emergency department changes when the end of shift is approaching.
Date
- 2018-11-28
Type
- Doctoral Thesis
- PeerReviewed
Format
- application/pdf
Identifier
urn:nbn:it:unibo-24010
Lucchese, Elena (2018) Emergency Medical Performance: Why and How Should We Care?, [Dissertation thesis], Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna. Dottorato di ricerca in Economia