Effect of the Melhor em Casa program on hospital costs

ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE To verify if the Melhor em Casa program can actually reduce hospitalization costs. METHODS We use as an empirical strategy a Regression Discontinuity Design, which reduces endogeneity problems of our model. We also performed tests of heterogeneous responses and robustness. Dat...

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Main Authors: Fábio Nishimura, Aniela Fagundes Carrara, Carlos Eduardo de Freitas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo 2019-12-01
Series:Revista de Saúde Pública
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-89102019000100292&tlng=pt

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