Document Type
Article
Publication Date
9-9-2011
Publication Title
BioMed Central Psychiatry
Department
Geisel School of Medicine
Abstract
The development of hospital service areas (HSAs) using small area analysis has been useful in examining variation in medical and surgical care; however, the techniques of small area analysis are underdeveloped in understanding psychiatric admission rates. We sought to develop these techniques in order to understand the relationship between psychiatric bed supply and admission rates in Northern New England. Our primary hypotheses were that there would be substantial variation in psychiatric admission across geographic settings and that bed availability would be positively correlated with admission rates, reflecting a supplier-induced demand phenomenon. Our secondary hypothesis was that the construction of psychiatric HSAs (PHSAs) would yield more meaningful results than the use of existing general medical hospital service areas.
DOI
10.1186/1471-244X-11-146
Dartmouth Digital Commons Citation
Watts, Bradley V.; Shiner, Brian; Klauss, Gunnar; and Weeks, William B., "Supplier-Induced Demand for Psychiatric Admissions in Northern New England" (2011). Dartmouth Scholarship. 665.
https://digitalcommons.dartmouth.edu/facoa/665
