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CREATED:20180907T153226
SUMMARY:Elena Lucchese - Università di Bologna
DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:\n\nThe Effect of Ambulance Response Time on Cardiovascular Severity and Mo
 rtality\n\n\nAbstract:\nAmbulance providers devote vast resources to minimi
 zing the time that it takes them to attend the scene of an accident. Howeve
 r, existing empirical evidence reports no meaningful effects of ambulance r
 esponse time on out-of-hospital patient's health conditions. I revisit this
  question using rich and comprehensive administrative data from the Liguria
  Emergency Medical System. I identify causal effects by exploiting variatio
 ns in the amount of hourly rainfall in the municipality in which the ambula
 nce performs the mission. Contrary to previous evidence, I find a large and
  strongly significant effect: a one minute increase in response time (3.6% 
 at the sample average) increases the probability of severe conditions by 1.
 5 percentage points (3% at the average) and increases the likelihood that t
 he patient dies by 0.7 percentage points (17.5% at the average). Finally, I
  estimate the willingness to pay of policymaker to improve the performance 
 of the service given the costs and the benefits involved, and I discuss and
  rank several policies.\n\n\n\n
DTSTAMP:20260405T155353Z
DTSTART:20181025T163000Z
DTEND:20181025T180000Z
SEQUENCE:0
TRANSP:OPAQUE
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