A recent study shows that admission and discharge decisions of hospitals is affected by the capacity if the hospital. According to the results, when hospitals are faced with high demands, patients are discharged earlier during their "peak" seasons compared to their "low" seasons.
According to the study conducted by Rajiv Sharma, Miron Stano, and Renu Gehring used Oregon hospital, patients are dismissed earlier on days when hospitals face high demand were found using methods that are designed to detect discriminatory behavior without the need to control for differences across patient groups in their health status or care seeking behavior. The study did not find evidence of discriminatory discharge behavior.
It is important that despite the demands hospitals should put the health of their patients on top of their priorities instead of the business.It is necessary to upload high standards of quality health care at all times. hospitals should learn how to strike a balance between managing their business and providing quality health care services.
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