Table 5.
Results of sensitivity analysis
| Weights on physician recommendation | Admission through emergency room | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Top tertile | Bottom | Yes | No | |
| Measured Hospital Characteristics | ||||
| Driving time | 0.052*** (0.006) | −0.045*** (0.005) | −0.047*** (0.005) | −0.044*** (0.004) |
| Consumers’ perceptions a | ||||
| Reputation | 0.677*** (0.233) | 0.774*** (0.202) | 0.783*** (0.174) | 0.467*** (0.159) |
| Medical services | 0.931*** (0.232) | 0.690*** (0.175) | 0.691*** (0.163) | 0.704*** (0.157) |
| Out-of-pocket cost | 0.330* (0.174) | 0.562*** (0.162) | 0.557*** (0.137) | 0.244*** (0.113) |
| Experiential measures | ||||
| Recent use indicator | 3.578*** (0.289) | 3.142*** (0.259) | 3.091*** (0.214) | 3.356*** (0.190) |
| Individual satisfaction rating | 0.796*** (0.236) | 1.029*** (0.239) | 0.884*** (0.216) | 0.779*** (0.182) |
| Number of choosers (observations) | 315 (5,040) | 322 (5,152) | 417 (6,672) | 547 (8,752) |
| Log-likelihood | −379.67 | −446.88 | −609.27 | −673.07 |
| Pseudo R2 | 0.5653 | 0.4994 | 0.4730 | 0.5562 |
All models include each hospital's teaching/profit status, HQI score, and an interaction term between HQI score and 2005 survey. Standard errors in all models (in parentheses) are bootstrapped with 500 repetitions.
a
These variables are hospital-specific estimates of unmeasured attributes, obtained from the choice model of non-hospitalized people.
*
p<0.10
**p<0.05
***
p<0.01.