Choice of NHS‐Funded Hospital Services in England
利用英格兰医院统计数据，研究患者选择髋关节置换医院的行为，估计考虑患者异质性的需求模型，并演示如何模拟医院合并的影响，对医疗政策制定者评估合并效果有用。
This article examines the choice of hospital for elective hip replacements amongst patients in England, using patient‐episode level data from the Hospital Episodes Statistics records. The article is primarily methodological: we estimate a demand model that allows for heterogeneity across observed patient characteristics and demonstrate how to use this model to simulate the effect of mergers between hospitals. Our article contributes to the empirical literature on hospital choice and provides a novel method for simulating mergers between hospitals with regulated prices. Importantly, in an industry that competes on quality, our demand model estimations also identify important quality dimensions of choice.