The impact of demonetisation on the utilisation of hospital services, patient outcomes and finances: a multicentre observational study from India.

ABSTRACT:

Background

This study assessed trends in healthcare utilisation in relation to the implementation of an economic policy in India wherein 500 and 1000 rupee notes were demonetised.

Methods

In this ambidirectional observational study of private not-for-profit hospitals, data on hospital outpatient and inpatient numbers, surgeries, emergency department (ED) visits, obstetric admissions and mortality were obtained for pre-demonetisation (September/October 2016), early (November/December 2016) and late demonetisation (January/February 2017), and post-demonetisation periods (March/April 2017) and compared with the control period (2015-2016) from 11 centres (three tertiary hospitals; eight secondary). A Bayesian regression analysis was performed to adjust for seasonal (winter) effe

SUBMITTER: George TK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7493109 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature