Productivity growth of skilled nursing facilities in the treatment of post-acute-care-intensive conditions.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Health care is believed to be suffered from a "cost disease," in which a heavy reliance on labor limits opportunities for efficiencies stemming from technological improvement. Although recent evidence shows that U.S. hospitals have experienced a positive trend of productivity growth, skilled nursing facilities are relatively "low-tech" compared to hospitals, leading some to worry that productivity at skilled nursing facilities will lag behind the rest of the economy.

Objective

To assess productivity growth among skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) in the treatment of conditions which frequently involve substantial post-acute care after hospital discharge.

Methods

We constructed an analytic file with the records of Medicare beneficiaries that were discharged f

SUBMITTER: Gu J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6474610 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature