【主讲】北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校副教授卢小愿

【主题】距离，质量，还是关系？心脏病人的转院现象研究

【时间】1月4日，周三，10:00-12:00

【地点】清华经管学院 伟伦楼453

【语言】英文

【主办】管理科学与工程系

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Xiaoyuan Lu, Associate Professor, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill：Distance, Quality, or Relationship? Interhospital Transfer of Heart Attack Patients

【Speaker】Xiaoyuan Lu, Associate Professor, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

【Title】Distance, Quality, or Relationship? Interhospital Transfer of Heart Attack Patients

【Time】Jan. 4，Wednesday, 10:00am-12:00pm

【Venue】Room 453, Weilun Building, Tsinghua SEM

【Language】English

【Organizer】Department of Management Science and Engineering

【Abstract】We empirically investigate the pattern of where heart attack patients are transferred between hospitals. Using 2011 Florida State Emergency Department and Inpatient Databases, we demonstrate the relative importance of three key factors in determining transfer destinations: (1) the distance between sending and receiving hospitals, (2) publicly-reported quality measures of receiving hospitals, and (3) the relationship between sending and receiving hospitals as identified by whether they are affiliated with the same multihospital system. Our conditional logit analysis shows that hospital relationship plays a dominant role in the choice of transfer destinations, compared to distance and quality. This result is robust to three alternative specifications of choice sets using distance ranking, radius circles, and Hospital Referral Regions, and also robust to alternative measures of distance and quality. When using 30-day all-cause readmission rate to evaluate the health outcome of transferred patients, we find that relationship-based transfers are associated with a much worse outcome than distance-based and quality-based transfers. We also find that nonprofit hospitals are more likely to conduct quality-based transfers and less likely to conduct relationship-based transfers than their for-profit counterparts. Our study calls for a reevaluation of current practice in interhospital transfer of heart attack patients—selecting transfer destinations based on quality or distance may potentially decrease hospital readmission rates.

【Bio】Lauren Xiaoyuan Lu is an associate professor of Operations at the Kenan-Flagler Business School of University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Her research interests include global supply chain management, outsourcing and offshoring, bargaining and contracting, healthcare operations, health IT and policy. She teaches operations and supply chain management courses in the MBA and BSBA programs. She also teaches sustainable operations in the UNC-Tsinghua EMBA dual degree program.

Her research work has appeared in Management Science, Operations Research, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, and Production & Operations Management. She is currently an Associate Editor for the MSOM journal and a Senior Editor for the POM journal. She has served as Treasury/Secretary of the MSOM society during 2012-2014. She won the first prize of the INFORMS Junior Faculty Interest Group paper competition in 2009. In 2016, she was selected as a finalist for the Pierskalla Award of the Health Applications Society. In 2012, she won the Weatherspoon Award for excellence in BSBA teaching.

She received her PhD in managerial economics and strategy from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, MS in industrial engineering from Stanford University, MA in biology from Johns Hopkins University, and BS in biochemistry from Nanjing University in China. Prior to her academic career, she worked as a senior engineer at Oracle Corporation in Silicon Valley, where she designed and developed the scheduling modules of Oracle Project Resource Management.