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. 2018 Nov 22;20(4):525–541. doi: 10.1007/s10198-018-1015-x

Table 7.

Effect of the establishing emergency bed capacity within primary care on ACSCs hospital admission: difference-in-differences estimates for specific diagnoses with alternative before and after reform years (cluster standard errors in municipalities are in the parentheses)

Variable Angina Asthma Diabetes COPD Heart failure Atrial_F Epilepsy Ulcer
Reform − 0.005 (0.005) − 0.004* (0.002) − 0.003** (0.002) 0.022*** (0.005) − 0.011** (0.005) 0.004 (0.007) 0.009** (0.004) 0.000 (0.003)
Treat − 0.158*** (0.015) 0.153*** (0.008) 0.003 (0.003) 0.226*** (0.013) 0.370** (0.017) 0.012* (0.009) 0.014 (0.006) 0.068*** (0.011)
Reform × Treata − 0.012* (0.009) − 0.006 (0.005) − 0.002 (0.003) − 0.016* (0.012) 0.009 (0.008) − 0.004 (0.010) − 0.005 (0.006) 0.003 (0.006)
Number of observation 13,110 13,935 14,334 13,721 12,954 14,336 13,871 2715
R-squared 0.45 0.19 0.12 0.26 0.27 0.31 0.21 0.17
Reform1 − 0.004 (0.005) − 0.004* (0.003) − 0.005*** (0.002) 0.027*** (0.006) − 0.012*** (0.005) 0.011** (0.006) 0.004 (0.004) − 0.001 (0.003)
Treat 0.162*** (0.016) 0.155*** (0.008) 0.024 (0.003) − 0.209*** (0.035) 0.025* (0.015) − 0.298*** (0.029) − 0.047*** (0.010) 0.005 (0.015)
Reform1 × Treatb − 0.009 (0.011) − 0.006 (0.007) 0.004 (0.004) − 0.019* (0.014) 0.002 (0.008) − 0.001 (0.010) − 0.005 (0.006) 0.005 (0.009)
Number of observation 9816 10,427 10,724 10,263 6442 10,731 10,340 2042
R-squared 0.47 0.17 0.17 0.28 0.31 0.29 0.22 0.19

All the models are also control for the variables included in Table 4. DID coefficients (i.e. Reform × Treat/Reform1 × Treat) tested against one-sided alternatives

‘*’, ‘**’ and ‘***’ represents significance level at the 10%, 5% and 1% level respectively

aReform = 1 if after Reform includes year 2012–2013; Reform = 0 if before Reform includes year 2010–2011. Treat = 1 if municipality implemented emergency bed by December 31, 2012

bReform1 = 1 if after Reform includes year 2013; Reform13 = 0 if before Reform includes year 2010–2011