Comparison of health care utilization among patients affiliated and not affiliated with healthcare professionals in China.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Doing "more" in healthcare can be a major threat to the delivery of high-quality health care. It is important to identify the supplier-induced demand (SID) of health care. This study aims to test SID hypothesis by comparing health care utilization among patients affiliated with healthcare professionals and their counterpart patients not affiliated with healthcare professionals.

Methods

We used coarsened exact matching to compare the health care utilization and expenditure between patients affiliated and not affiliated with healthcare professionals. Using cross-sectional data of the China Labour-force Dynamics Survey (CLDS) in 2014, we identified 806 patients affiliated with healthcare professionals and 22,788 patients not affiliated with healthcare professionals.

SUBMITTER: Si Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7713311 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature