A new study done to examine the behavior of hospital admission and discharge behavior is affected by fluctuations in demand. It found that that on days when hospitals have a high demand, patients are discharged earlier than expected.when compared to those discharged on days when demand is low.
The study was conducted by the RAND Journal of Economics. Rajiv Sharma, Miron Stano, and Renu Gehring used Oregon hospital data to analyze the question of hospital constraint affecting the admission and discharge decisions.
A total of 380,000 records were used by the researchers.
