Gobillon, Laurent; Milcent, Carine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
exhaustive administrative dataset on patients admitted for heart attack. Our results show that innovative procedures play a key …-teaching hospitals. When additionally controlling for innovative procedures, the mortality rate is higher in for-profit hospitals than in … the two groups of public hospitals. This suggests that the quality of care in for-profit hospitals relies on innovative …