Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/204909 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Papers No. 18-09
Publisher: 
University of Bern, Department of Economics, Bern
Abstract: 
Procedural failures of physicians or teams in interventional healthcare may positively or negatively predict subsequent patient outcomes. We identify this effect by applying (non-)linear dynamic panel methods to data from the Belgian Transcatheter Aorta Valve Implantation (TAVI) registry containing information on the first 860 TAVI procedures in Belgium. We find that a previous death of a patient positively and significantly predicts subsequent survival of the succeeding patient. We find that these learning from failure effects are not long-lived and that learning from failure is transmitted across adverse events.
Subjects: 
Physician behavior
Learning
Failure
JEL: 
I10
I13
I18
C93
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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