appointments within an acceptable time frame. We exploited longitudinal experimental data to examine waiting times for six elective … favoring private patients. For SHI holders, waiting times remained stable over time (27.5 days in 2014; 30.7 days in 2016; ? 3 … Wartezeiten zugunsten der privatversicherten Patienten beobachtet. Für GKV-Patienten blieben die Wartezeiten über die Zeit …

times. Design/methodology/approach: This study is based on the data from a US children’s hospital, which includes all the … appointments registered during one year of observation. We used the call-appointment interval to establish the wait time to get an … patients tend to miss appointments more often than established patients when the waiting time increases. It was also found that …

(ED). Our feature-rich modelling allows for dynamic updating and refinement of waiting time estimates as patient- and ED …

-quality hospital from a low-quality one. While both effects help reduce the waiting time of the low-quality hospital, they act in … opposite directions for the high-quality hospital’s waiting time. We show that the competition effect on the high …We develop a signalling-game theoretical model to study a policy that publicly reports hospital waiting times. We …

This paper comprehensively studies the health effects of Daylight Saving Time (DST) regulation. Relying on up to 3 ….4 million BRFSS respondents from the US and the universe of 160 million hospital admissions from Germany over one decade, we do …

emergency admissions only, which are reasonably exogenous to the time of admission. Further, we introduce a direct measure for … variation in mortality rates between weekend and weekday admissions. Patients admitted during the weekend exhibit higher in-hospital … probability to be readmitted as emergency cases. -- Hospital quality ; weekend effect ; inpatient outcomes …