Evaluating Organizational Change in Health Care: The Patient-Centered Hospital Model
We develop an ex post evaluation of the performance of hospitals moving from a functional to a patient-centered (PC) organizational model. We suggest a quantitative framework for overcoming some of the challenges in the evaluation of organizational models by taking advantage of the fortunate coincidence of a quasi-experimental setting regarding all the major diagnostic categories (MDCs) in three hospitals of an important region of Italy and of the availability of a unique administrative data set spanning nine years. The results show that both efficiency and effectiveness have significantly increased in the average MDC of PC hospitals. These results have important policy implications, which may also be of great interest to policy makers and hospital managers.

Please send an email to catia.nicodemo@economics.ox.ac.uk if you would like to talk with the speaker
Date: 6 April 2017, 10:30 (Thursday, -2nd week, Trinity 2017)
Venue: Gibson Building, Woodstock Road OX2 6HE
Venue Details: Room 3
Speaker: Dr Stefano Verzillo (Milan University)
Organising department: Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences
Organiser: Catia Nicodemo (University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences. Research Fellow, Centre for Health Service Economics & Organisation)
Organiser contact email address: catia.nicodemo@economics.ox.ac.uk
Part of: Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences Seminars
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Members of the University only
Editors: Dan Richards-Doran, Jessy Morton, Catia Nicodemo